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Demon Slayer Funko Pops – The Daily LITG, 26th of May 2021

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Demon Slayer Funko Pops - The Daily LITG, 26th of May 2021
Demon Slayer Funko Pops – The Daily LITG, 26th of May 2021

The world keeps turning, and America is beginning to heal from all the burns. Even if a few scabs need pulling off first.

  1. Funko Breaks the Internet With Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Pops
  2. DC Teases Justice Society Of America with Geoff Johns and Bryan Hitch
  3. Remembering The Best Glitch In Pokémon GO History
  4. The Umbrella Academy Star Elliot Page Styling, Profiling & Smiling
  5. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Trio Signal Season 15 First Day Back
  6. Funko Reveals New Spooky Marvel Comics Pops For Funkoween
  7. DC Comics' August 2021 Solicits Frankensteined (UPDATE)
  8. DC Comics To Restart Batman and Superman Collections From Vol 1 Again
  9. The Bad Guy On The Cover of Detective Comics #27 Finally Gets A Name
  10. Funko Reveals Día de Muertos DC Comics and Gabriel Iglesias Pops

ICYMI: more you may prefer from yesterday.

In case you fancied more LITG about comic books.

LITG one year ago – Magic: The Gathering

Bleeding Cool continued to report from the comics industry shutdown, as it starts to ramp up, but yesterday it was all about Magic The Gathering. With just a little Twin Peaks.

  1. Magic: The Gathering Announces Full Sleeves Secret Lair Drop
  2. Psych Star James Roday on Why Twin Peaks, Bobby Briggs Mattered
  3. Watchmen Creator Damon Lindelof Kicks Us in Our Season 2 Feels
  4. Marvel Comics Cancels Living Vampire, Dark Marvel and Sneaker Variants
  5. What Was All That About Batman Sitting Down in Harley Quinn S02E05?
  6. That New DC Comics Origin For The Joker in Walmart Batman Giant #5
  7. Mahmud Asrar Returns to X-Men, Takes Over From Leinil Yu
  8. Breaking Social Distancing Rules? The Walking Dead Knows Who You Are
  9. Pedro Pascal Talks Community, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Role and More
  10. Comics Folk React to… That Dominic Cummings Press Statement

LITG two years ago – we knew all about Tom King.

Man, we were so on the ball with Tom King coming off Batman, weren't we? And so off about Sheriff Kapoor.

  1. Rumour – Tom King Taken Off Batman? Last Issue Will Be #85?
  2. The Walking Dead Introduces Sheriff Kapoor – a Replacement For Rick? (Spoilers)
  3. The Morning After… The Tom King Batman News Broke
  4. DC Comics Gay Kiss Featured on Marvel Comics #1000 Cover
  5. Wanna See 4 Netflix's Upcoming 'Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance' Photos?!
  6. Batman's Tom King Thanks His Readers For Their Support
  7. Who Is Leviathan? And What Might It Have To Do With Sherlock? (POSSIBLY MAJOR SPOILERS)
  8. What Does Mitch Gerads Know About the Rumored End of Tom King's Batman Run?
  9. A New Wally West Comic From DC to Follow Heroes In Crisis?
  10. George R. R. Martin's Thoughts on 'Game of Thrones' Finale

LITG Events happening today:

  • Comics in Times of Arab Revolutions: Tracing Visual (Hi)stories of Socio-Political Transformations. Speaker: Rasha Chatta (MECAM Fellow 2021). Chair: Friederike Pannewick (Philipps-Universität Marburg / EUME). 4pm UTC.
  • Artreach's last workshop of the quarter. The workshop presentation will be this Wed 5/26 at 7pm PT and the workshops will be held Thurs 5/27-5/28 from 4:30-6:00 pm PT. The topic will be COMIC ART and will be led by Roma Edwards and Coral Utnehmer. 
  • Comics Tips & Tricks: Hair, Clothing & Accessories Online Event by The Creative Living Room. These workshops are designed as part tutorial and part Comics Shop Talk. Illustrator Keville Bowen has themed six separate sessions that will help you refine your comic drawings and learn about comic genres from around the world (kid-friendly). Then try out his tips and tricks while chatting about your favorite series, characters and artists.
    Each session is $10. 10-11pm UTC.
  • Are Comics Literature? Event by Delray Beach Public Library. Dr. Eric Berlatsky will discuss and explore some of the history and formal qualities of comic books, as well as their artistic, aesthetic, and/or literary value. Part of the conversation will explore definitional questions ("What is a comic?" "What is a Graphic Novel" "How are they the same or different?") as well as the elements of comics that make them similar to and/or different from related media like film or literature. The question of the educational value or comics and/or graphic novels will also be discussed. Midnight UTC.

Comic book birthdays today

There may still not be much of a party atmosphere right now. It all depends on which state you are living in. But comics folk are always getting older and still celebrating that special date.

  • Tom Mandrake, artist on The Spectre, Martian Manhunter, Grimjack and Batman.
  • James Kochalka, creator of Superf*ckers

If you are in comics and have a birthday coming up – or you know someone who has – get in touch at richjohnston@bleedingcool.com.

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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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