Here's your weekly roundup of comics news, from a Lumberjanes/Gotham Academy crossover to the abandoned Batman '89 comic:
Deadpool flies the Harry Potter flag
We know you've been lying awake at night, tossing and turning over that burning question: which Hogwarts house would the Sorting Hat put Deadpool in.
Now eagle-eyed fans have spotted that Deadpool is definitely team Hufflepuff.
In Deadpool #7, Wade Wilson goes on a mission of revenge to punch a guy in the face who ruined the end of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince for him. In a flashback, he can be seen wearing Hufflepuff colours during the traumatic event.
"Fun fact: I'm the colourist for that story and originally made him a Gryffindor," said artist Nick Fildari in a Reddit thread. "We went back and forth on a couple rounds of corrections and the editors insisted hufflepuff. That isn't a casual joke. That's deliberate Deadpool canon."
The X-Men kick off the Civil War II tie-ins
Writer Cullen Bunn and artist Andrea Broccardo will be bringing us the four-issue X-Men: Civil War II miniseries, which will apparently pit the Uncanny and Extraordinary X-Men teams against each other,
In traditional Marvel Comics fashion, expect a load more tie-ins to be announced before Brian Michael Bendis and Olivier Coipel's Civil War II #0 lands in May.
Lumberjanes and Gotham Academy get together
Two of the cutest and most original comics on the stands are getting together for a BOOM!/DC crossover in June (via The Village Voice).
The six-issue miniseries will be written by Chynna Clugston-Flores (Blue Monday) with art by Lumberjanes' Rosemary Valero-O'Connell in a story where Gotham's premiere boarding school meets the kids from Miss Quinzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet's Camp for Hardcore Lady Types.
Everything is awesome.
Han Solo comes to Marvel Comics
Marvel has been killing it with its new Star Wars line, which is turning into one of its biggest hits thanks to the popularity of some film or other that was released in December.
Next up is a five-issue miniseries about everyone's favourite scruffy-looking nerf herder from writer Marjorie Liu (Monstress) and artist Mark Brooks (Amazing Spider- Man).
Entertainment Weekly reports that the story will be set somewhere between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back as Han and Chewie find themselves increasingly caught up - and not entirely willingly - in the Rebellion's struggle.
This rejected Batman comic continues Tim Burton's story
Joe Quinones has revealed some art from his rejected Batman '89 miniseries.
He pitched the project with Kate Leth following on from the success of Batman '66 and Wonder Woman '77 - hoping to continue the story that left off after Tim Burton's Batman Returns.
We're just going to sit here for a while and think about what could have been.
