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By Ryan Shepard Ava "Stay With A Job" DuVernay has announced that she is preparing to launch yet another new show. This time around, shell be partnering with The CW to debut her new show, Naomi. Based on a comic book from Brian Michael Bendis and David F. Walker, Naomi tells the story of a young Black girl rising from a small town and transitioning into a superhero realm. When a force strikes her hometown, she must return home to uncover the source and handle the fallout. " Jamal Campbell...

By Ryan Shepard Ava "Stay With A Job" DuVernay has announced that she is preparing to launch yet another new show. This time around, shell be partnering with The CW to debut her new show, Naomi. Based on a comic book from Brian Michael Bendis and David F. Walker, Naomi tells the story of a young Black girl rising from a small town and transitioning into a superhero realm. When a force strikes her hometown, she must return home to uncover the source and handle the fallout. " Jamal Campbell...

The CW Moving Ahead With Live-Action POWERPUFF GIRLS Series And DCs NAOMI From Ava DuVernay The CW has ordered three pilots straight to series, with The Powerpuff Girls, DCs Naomi, and The 4400 all on the way to the network. With that news comes some freshly revealed story details for the shows! RubyGoldstone | 2/10/2021 The Powerpuff Girls, a live-action adaptation of the classic Cartoon Network series.  Diablo Cody and Heather Regniers ( Veronica Mars, Sleepy Hollow) take on Craig McCr...

Ava DuVernays Superhero Series Based On DC Comics Naomi Gets Pilot Order From The CW ✖ The CW is busy developing the next additions to the network, as they just gave pilot orders to three very different projects, and all hold promise. One of the most exciting is Ava DuVernays superhero drama based on one of DC Comics newer characters, Naomi. DuVernay will be working with Arrow writer and co-executive producer Jill Blankenship on the series, which will put the Brian Michael Bendis, David F. Wa...

Powerpuff Girls Live-Action Series Among CW Pilot Orders, Network Sets The 4400 Reboot Joe Otterson, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail The CW has made a number of orders for the 2021-2022 season, including a pilot order for the live-action “Powerpuff Girls” series. In total, The CW announced three pilot orders and one straight-to-series pickup, with the latter being a reboot of the USA Network series “The 4400.” The other two pilots are for the DC project “Naomi” from Ava DuVernay a...

4400 Remake, Powerpuff Girls, DCs Naomi Moving Forward at The CW The network has also ordered a pilot about nuns from Jane the Virgins Jennie Snyder Urman. The CW is planning for the return of The 4400. The broadcast network has handed out a straight to series order for a remake of the sci-fi series that aired on USA from 2004-07. Additionally, The CW has ordered pilots for a live-action, grown-up  Powerpuff Girls from Diablo Cody and for projects from Ava DuVernay and Jane the Virgin showru...

According to Deadline, the reboot of The 4400 is bypassing the pilot process and going straight to series. The original show ran for four seasons on the USA Network from 2004 to 2007 and focused on a group of 4,400 individuals who had disappeared over the past century and suddenly returned all at once in the present, with no memory of what happened in between and no change in age. The series starred Joel Gretsch — a veteran of other sci-fi series like Taken and V — as well as Jacqueli...

Take a deep dive into comic books with library book club Pioneer Library System For those who have read comic books for decades, or those just interested in learning more about the perhaps unexpected depth of the genre, the Pioneer Library System is offering a discussion group centered on the genre.  Sacred Panels: A Comics Book Club, will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 18. The group will continue into the future with monthly meetings generally scheduled on the third Thursday of each month. Acc...

Let these new and forthcoming titles welcome the changes to come in 2021. Top, L to R: "Milk Blood Heat" (Grove Atlantic), "Just As I Am" (HarperCollins), "We Too" (The Feminist Press), "Four Hundred Souls" (One World/Random House). Bottom, L to R: "This Close to Okay" (Grand Central), "Firekeepers Daughter" (Henry Holt + Co.), "The Echoing Ida Collection" (The Feminist Press), "Love is an Ex-Country" (Catapult). Illustration Credit: Courtesy CLG We will never go back to a time before the deva...

Can a Comic Book Contain the Drama and Heat of Activism? From “The Black Panther Party” By Ed Park Feb. 2, 2021 “Writing this book broke my heart,” David F. Walker admits in the afterword to his ambitious and informative graphic history THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY (Ten Speed, 183 pp., $19.99), crisply illustrated by Marcus Kwame Anderson. Founded in 1966 by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was the most famous exponent of the Black Power movement. Its...