Tag: The Muppets Take the Marvel Universe

Can’t Wait for Wednesday | ‘That Texas Blood’ saddles up again in a new miniseries

New comics and graphic novels arrive this week by Chris Condon, Jacob Phillips, Christopher Cantwell, Dennis Menheere, Raina Telgemeier, Gale Galligan, Jim Zub, Jesus Merino and more.

Welcome to Can’t Wait for Wednesday, your guide to what’s coming to your local comic shop this week.

I’ve pulled out some of the highlights for this week 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 check with your retailer to see what’s arriving at their shop this week.

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Marvel announces ‘The Muppets Take the Marvel Universe’

The Muppets will team with Marvel heroes in a one-shot featuring stories by Chip Zdarsky, Pete Woods, Kyle Starks and more.

It’s time to play the music, it’s time to thwip the thwips … it’s time for Marvel and the Muppets to throw down.

The two Disney-owned entities are teaming up for The Muppets Take the Marvel Universe #1, a one-shot coming in September that celebrates the 50th anniversary of The Muppet Show.

The anthology will feature stories by Chip Zdarsky and Pete Woods, Kyle Starks and Mike Henderson, Ashley Allen and Paco Medina, MacKenzie Cadenhead and David Baldeon, Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Adam F. Goldberg, E.J. Su and Áthila Fabbio, among others.

“With the great power of two iconic properties comes great responsibility. I promise to not let down Kermit, Fozzie and Animal the way Spider-Man let down his Uncle Ben,” Zdarsky said. “It’s impossible to overstate how excited I write for Miss Piggy, who I consider to be one of the greatest icons of the last hundred years, a character who speaks to every generation. I also got to write Deadpool. And Pete Woods is turning in the most stunning, detailed and joyous pages. Seeing his take on these characters interacting is a real delight.”

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