Ten Picks from New York Comic Con 2019

Each year there are countless new shows, movies, books, and other items featured at New York Comic Con. While I can’t enumerate each and every one, here’s a shortlist of my picks for forthcoming things to keep an eye out for, based on the panels and screenings and booths I peeked this year. The Neil Gaiman Library (May 27, 2020) As a Neil Gaiman fan, I’m definitely biased on this one. Sandman has been done and over with for years now (with the release of Sandman: Overture a few years ago, Gaiman officially took a graceful bow out of the universe of Dream and the rest of the Endless). The recent TV adaptation of American Gods started off thrilling but suffered some bumps along the road to a much less impressive second season, and the recent Amazon adaptation of Good Omens was fun but flawed. What’s a Gaiman fan to do now? Volume 1 of The Neil Gaiman Library, which will hit comic shops next May, will feature four Gaiman stories, along with work by such artists as P. Craig Russell, Rafael Albuquerque, Fábio Moon, Gabriel Bá, Shane Oakley, Lovern Kindzierski, Dave Stewart and Nick Filardi. Free Guy (July 3, 2020) Think Wreck-It Ralph, but with Ryan Reynolds, Taika Waititi, Villanelle from Killing Eve (Jodie Comer) and Steve from Stranger Things (Joe Keery). Sound like fun? Well, sure seems like it. In a panel on Thursday, October 3, some of the cast and creators behind Free Guy, coming next summer, introduced the new film. Reynolds plays up his good-guy charm and humor as Guy, a …