[SPEAKER_00]: Daredevil gets a new creed of tea.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Rocketeer teams up with Amelia Earhart.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maya Kobay publishes middle-grade graphic novel.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is Covec Book Club News for November 17, 2025.
[SPEAKER_00]: 4 months now, writer Stephanie Phillips has been teasing a dream job at Marvel and it looks like we finally know what it is.
[SPEAKER_00]: Starting in March, Phillips will take over Daredevil for Marvel alongside artist Lee Garbett for a new Daredevil number one.
[SPEAKER_00]: In the new series, Matt Burdock is a law professor and being targeted by a new supervillain named Omid.
[SPEAKER_00]: The previous team on Daredevil was solid enough man and Aaron Kooter who wrapped up their run with Daredevil number 25 and September, so there will be about a 6-month gap between runs.
[SPEAKER_00]: Also have known, this marks the second time in almost four decades that a woman has been the main writer on the Matt Murdoch Daredevil title.
[SPEAKER_00]: After Jettie Blake is a bell is running in the 70s and add new setties, a lot of influential run from the 80s.
[SPEAKER_00]: Recently, Erica Scholz wrote an excellent run on Daredevil won without fear.
[SPEAKER_00]: the electric version of the character, as well as Daredevil Unleash Hell, also focused on Electra, another excellent mini series.
[SPEAKER_00]: And of course, you can't have a new number one without so many covers, following Marvel's first experiment with true believers, blind bags, an ultimate end game number one.
[SPEAKER_00]: The publisher will be furthering the grift, sorry gift, with Daredevil Number One, which will feature rare variant covers, ultra rare one of a kind sketch covers, and more.
[SPEAKER_00]: Also solid bit by putting blind bags on a Daredevil title, good one,
[SPEAKER_00]: Daredevil No.
[SPEAKER_00]: 1 hit stores at March 18, 2026.
[SPEAKER_00]: Great news!
[SPEAKER_00]: We found Amelia Earhart, and she's teaming up with the Rocketeer at a new series from IDW titled The Rocketeer, The Island, written by John Layman, with Art by Jacob Edgar, the book is based on a never-before-published outline by The Rocketeer creator Dave Stevens, as the titular hero tries to rescue Earhart only to discover a mysterious island that is full of surprises.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hopefully one of those surprises is a Amelia Earhart skeleton, but I guess we'll see.
[SPEAKER_00]: Michael Babes, genderqueers, one of the most loaded, ad-most band-graphic novels of the past decade.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, the creator is publishing a sort of follow-up with opting out.
[SPEAKER_00]: I see V2, this glass-to-graphic's middle-grade book will feature art by Swatty Lucky, Scree Kumar.
[SPEAKER_00]: And focus on, quote, a seventh-grader, Sachi, who has uncomfortable with the way her body is changing.
[SPEAKER_00]: It also feels left
[SPEAKER_00]: The heavy hide is her classmates begin to pair off with boyfriend and girlfriend.
[SPEAKER_00]: So she doesn't feel much like a girl or a boy, with support from her parents, she comes to realize that she doesn't have to put herself into that category right away, and that she might choose to make different decisions as she gets older.
[SPEAKER_00]: Unlike gender queer, which was a memoir, opting out is fiction, and is aimed at the 10 to 12 age group.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Okobabes work has also appeared in anthologies, this is only the second full-length graphic novel from the writer.
[SPEAKER_00]: It stores on May 5th, 2026 in both hardcover and paperback.
[SPEAKER_00]: For comic book club news, I've Alex Albin.
[SPEAKER_00]: And keep putting out those blind bags, publishers, this is one bubble that can stretch to infinity.
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