Tag: The Ambassadors

Can’t Wait for Comics | Doom Patrol is ‘Unstoppable’ this week

See what’s arriving in comic shops this week from Mark Millar, Frank Quitely, Tini Howard, Sweeney Boo, Matt Kindt, Jean-Denis Pendanx, Cathy Malkasian, Junji ito, Steve Skroce, Stefano Cardoselli and more.

Welcome to Can’t Wait for Comics, your guide to what comics are arriving in comic book stores, bookstores and on digital. This week brings more Dawn of DC titles, an adaptation of the animated Dungeons & Dragons cartoon from the 1980s, and new projects from Mark Millar, Matt Kindt, Cathy Malkasian, Steve Skroce, Curt Pires, Stefano Cardoselli and more.

I’ve pulled out some of the highlights below, but for the complete list of everything you might find at your local comic shop and on digital this week, you’ll want to check out one or more of the following:

As a reminder, things can change and what you find on the above lists may differ from what’s actually arriving in your local shop. So always check with your comics retailer for the final word on availability.

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Slugfest | ‘The Ambassadors,’ ‘Stranger Things’ and more

Check out news and announcements featuring Shazam!, Jeff the Landshark, Chispa Comics, Crash & Troy, and more.

Slugfest is a roundup of cool announcements about projects coming to a shelf near you from comics creators, publishers and more. Hit the links for more information.

Mark Millar will team with six artists for his next project, The Ambassadors — a six-issue miniseries where each issue is set in a different country.

Frank Quitely, Travis Charest, Olivier Coipel, Matteo Scalera, Matteo Buffagni and Karl Kerschl will join Millar on the project, which was announced in The Hollywood Reporter. Here’s the premise:

It takes place in a world in which the superhuman genome has been cracked, and the scientist behind it is a Korean billionaire who builds the world’s first superhuman headquarters in Seoul and alerts the world that she will turn six ordinary people into super-people. This sparks a global competition for people who want to join a team that will be on call 24/7 for superhuman emergencies.

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