WEBVTT 00:00.419 --> 00:02.905 [SPEAKER_00]: DC Marvel crossovers to get collected. 00:03.005 --> 00:04.990 [SPEAKER_00]: Marvel's Cindy goes solo. 00:05.191 --> 00:07.356 [SPEAKER_00]: Boom bites into Vem Pirates. 00:07.898 --> 00:11.627 [SPEAKER_00]: This is comic book club news for May 4, 20, 26. 00:29.157 --> 00:40.896 [SPEAKER_00]: DC and Marvel are keeping the crossover train rolling with two upcoming collections, one collecting all of Marvel's issues and digital stories, the other collecting all of DC's issues and digital stories. 00:41.256 --> 00:45.563 [SPEAKER_00]: Pre-I-CV-2 first out of the gate will be DC's 176 00:45.543 --> 00:50.511 [SPEAKER_00]: page collection titled DC Marvel, The Cosmic Kiss Kaper and Other Stories. 00:50.871 --> 01:00.507 [SPEAKER_00]: It will include Batman, Deadpool, Superman, Spider-Man, as well as the Vertical Scroll, Flash, Fantastic Four, and Supergirl Blade, now in regular page format. 01:00.567 --> 01:04.513 [SPEAKER_00]: That will end on September 8, 2026, and both Hardcover and Softcover. 01:04.493 --> 01:07.258 [SPEAKER_00]: A week later, Marvel will publish Marvel D.C. 01:07.338 --> 01:15.834 [SPEAKER_00]: The Dead of Night and Other Stories, which will include Deadpool, Batman, Spider-Man, Superman, and the digital first Thor's Shazam and its Jeff Aquaman. 01:15.874 --> 01:20.342 [SPEAKER_00]: This will hit on September 15, 2026, also in Hardcovered Softcover. 01:20.322 --> 01:31.481 [SPEAKER_00]: Editorializing a little bit, it seems likely these titles are a way to get around the general confusion the single issues have caused, releasing similarly named books within a short span of each other. 01:31.621 --> 01:41.858 [SPEAKER_00]: And our more stories to come to be collected in subsequent volumes almost definitely. 01:45.415 --> 02:07.795 [SPEAKER_00]: likely hoping to reproduce the overwhelming success of its Jeff Marvel is launching its Symbia, a one-shot collecting the character's digital inventures, including stories from the Infinity Comic by Jacob Shabou, as well as appearances in the Marvel Muts Infinity Comic by McKenzie Kadenhead and Edin Belam, the comic focuses on a hostless Symbia going on adventures throughout the Marvel Universe. 02:07.775 --> 02:16.823 [SPEAKER_00]: You will also include Symbys in continuity appearance in a Bayesian Spider-Man number 11, right before the character appears on the next season of Marvel's Spidey and his amazing friends. 02:17.324 --> 02:25.391 [SPEAKER_00]: Side note, it's very funny that this whole thing started with what if Spider-Man's clothes turned evil back in 1988 and now here we are. 02:25.552 --> 02:34.660 [SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, it's Symbys hit stores on July 8th, 2026. 02:38.504 --> 02:45.614 [SPEAKER_00]: Boom Studios is headed to the high seas with a biting twist for the new series Vampirates, with a Y instead of an I. 02:45.755 --> 03:01.137 [SPEAKER_00]: Burn the beat, the new series is co-created by writer Fred Van Lenty and artist Lucco Pazari and follows a Vampire Empress stripped of her throne who stews away on a pirate ship and works her way back to the top in order to retaker places leader of, get this Vampire Pirates. 03:01.117 --> 03:05.903 [SPEAKER_00]: Van Lettey teases this is a whole world you can lose yourself in called The Night Isles. 03:06.143 --> 03:09.227 [SPEAKER_00]: Meaning there's the potential for spit-offs and more stories to come. 03:09.307 --> 03:12.972 [SPEAKER_00]: Van Pirates number one hit stores on July 8th, 2026. 03:13.292 --> 03:15.675 [SPEAKER_00]: For comic book club news, I'm Alex Zalbin. 03:15.815 --> 03:19.399 [SPEAKER_00]: And I guess I'll have to scrap all that work I did on Piropires. 03:20.220 --> 03:21.522 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh well. 03:21.653 --> 03:23.657 [SPEAKER_00]: Got tips or stories you'd like us to cover? 03:23.897 --> 03:26.903 [SPEAKER_00]: Email us at comic bookclublive at gmail.com. 03:26.923 --> 03:31.692 [SPEAKER_00]: For more comic book news, reviews, and interviews, check out comic bookclublive.com. 03:31.913 --> 03:36.642 [SPEAKER_00]: Listen early and add free on patreon.com slash comic book club.