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Trump campaign releases letter on his injury, treatment after last week’s assassination attempt
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump and Melania Trump during the final day of the Republican National Convention Thursday, July 18, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally, Saturday, July 20, 2024, in Grand Rapids, Mich. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
A supporter, donning an ear bandage in solidarity with former President Donald Trump after an assassination attempt, makes his way to the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, July 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
FILE - Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, left, is introduced alongside Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, during the Republican National Convention, July 16, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
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NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s campaign released an update on the former president’s health Saturday, one week after he survived an attempted assassination at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
The memo, from Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson, a staunch supporter who served as Trump’s White House physician, offers new details on the nature of the GOP nominee’s injuries and the treatment he received in the immediate aftermath of the attack.
It is the most thorough accounting to date of the former president’s condition since the night of the shooting, which also left one rally-goer dead and injured two others.
According to Jackson, Trump sustained a gunshot wound to the right ear that came “less than a quarter of an inch from entering his head, and struck the top of his right ear.”
The bullet track, he said, “produced a 2 cm wide wound that extended down to the cartilaginous surface of the ear. There was initially significant bleeding, followed by marked swelling of the entire upper ear.”
While the swelling has resolved and the wound “is beginning to granulate and heal properly,” he said Trump is still experiencing intermittent bleeding, requiring the dressing that was on display at last week’s Republican National Convention.
“Given the broad and blunt nature of the wound itself, no sutures were required,” Jackson wrote.
Trump was initially treated by medical staff at Butler Memorial Hospital. According to Jackson, doctors “provided a thorough evaluation for additional injuries that included a CT of his head.”
Trump, he said, “will have further evaluations, including a comprehensive hearing exam, as needed. He will follow up with his primary care physician, as directed by the doctors that initially evaluated him,” he wrote.
“In summary, former President Trump is doing well, and he is recovering as expected from the gunshot wound sustained last Saturday afternoon,” he added.
Jackson said in the letter that, as Trump’s former doctor, he was worried and traveled to Bedminster, New Jersey, where Trump had flown late Saturday after he returned from Pennsylvania, “to personally check on him, and offer my assistance in any way possible.”
He said he has been with Trump since that time, evaluating and treating his wound daily, and would remain with Trump through the weekend, including traveling to Michigan, where Trump held his first rally since the shooting, joined by his new running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance. At Saturday’s rally, the white gauze on Trump’s ear was replaced by a skin-colored bandage.
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Jackson appears to be licensed to practice medicine in Florida, according to a state health department database. Records from the American Board of Emergency Medicine also show that Jackson has a certification in Emergency Medicine, valid through the end of 2025.
A spokesperson for the congressman did not immediately provide a response when asked about the status of his license, and Trump campaign’s did not immediately respond to questions.
Jackson has come under considerable scrutiny. After administering a physical to Trump in 2018, he drew headlines for extolling the then-president’s “incredibly good genes” and suggesting that “if he had a healthier diet over the last 20 years he might live to be 200 years old.”
In 2001, the Department of Defense inspector general released a scathing report on his conduct as a top White House physician that found Jackson had made “sexual and denigrating” comments about a female subordinate, violated the policy on drinking alcohol on a presidential trip and took prescription-strength sleeping medication that prompted worries from his colleagues about his ability to provide proper medical care.
Jackson denied the allegations, claiming he was the victim of a “political hit job” because of his close ties to the former Republican president.
Last year, Trump’s campaign released a letter on President Joe Biden’s 81st birthday from Dr. Bruce A. Aronwald, a New Jersey physician, who said he had been the former president’s doctor since 2021.
Trump’s campaign and federal law enforcement had released little information on his condition or treatment in the days after the the attack, declining to disclose medical records or hold briefings with the doctors who treated him at the hospital.
After a would-be assassin shot and gravely wounded President Ronald Reagan in 1981, the Washington, D.C., hospital where he was treated gave regular, detailed public updates about his condition and treatment.
Trauma surgeon Babak Sarani, who said he has been treating more patients with wounds from AR-15 style assault rifles, said the description in the letter was “exactly in line with what you would expect from a bullet wound.”
While the indirect damage is still usually minor, he said the risk of extensive damage is greater than if another gun were used.
“If a bullet whizzes by your ear from a low-caliber handgun, it’s not a big deal. ... You get a headache or feel dizzy like a bad concussion,” said Sarani, chief of trauma at George Washington Hospital in Washington, D.C. “But if the bullet is from an assault rifle, the energy is bigger, broader, and you’re more likely to develop bruises.”
He added, “in Trump’s case, he got very lucky. The majority of the energy was released in the air. If it had hit him in the head, we would be having a completely different conversation.”
Former Secret Service agent Rich Staropoli said the AR-15-style rifle used by the gunman fires a 5.56 millimeter bullet at such high speeds — over 2,000 miles an hour — that just the air pressure as it passes can cause extensive damage.
“The shock wave alone could have ripped his ear off,” Staropoli said of Trump. “It’s amazing the bullet nipped him” and didn’t do any other damage.
“It’s a one in a billion type of thing,” he added. A fraction of a millimeter closer, “and this would be a different story. It really is incredible the thin line here between just a nick and devastating bodily damage.”
Dr. Kenji Inaba, chief of trauma and surgical critical care at the University of Southern California, said a follow-up by Trump’s physician was appropriate, including a mental health evaluation.
“Clearly any injury, no matter how minor, when there is intent, will be associated with some degree of post-traumatic stress, so this would also be a consideration for his medical team,” said Inaba in an email.
A previous version of this story mistakenly said Jackson’s emergency certification was valid through the end of 2015. It is valid through the end of 2025.
___ Associated Press writers Janie Har in San Francisco and Cedar Attanasio in New York contributed to this report.
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Featuring new titles by leslie jamison, phillip b. williams, sarah ruiz-grossman, and more.
Leslie Jamison’s Splinters , Phillip B. Williams’ Ours , and Sarah Ruiz-Grossman’s A Fire So Wild all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week.
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1. Ours by Phillip B. Williams (Viking)
3 Rave • 2 Positive Read an excerpt from Ours here
“…a vast and rapturous feat of fabulism … This is a 19th-century historical epic created with both a vivacious enthusiasm for folkloric traditions and a deep contemplation of what it means to be freed from the violent machine of slavery in the U.S. … Williams has a voice that soars across each page, breathing life into his dazzling array of characters–the lovers and the malcontents, the queer and the mystical, the brazen and the cautious.”
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2. The Variations by Patrick Langley (New York Review of Books)
2 Rave • 1 Positive • 1 Mixed
“Langley is a mesmerizing guide to Selda’s music and the fantastical world of the hospice, a ‘variously demonized, patronized, scorned, venerated, vilified, and today largely ignored and near-bankrupted institution.’ This is exquisite.”
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3. A Fire So Wild by Sarah Ruiz-Grossman (Harper)
1 Rave • 2 Positive • 1 Mixed Read Sarah Ruiz-Grossman’s list of books for the climate apocalypse here
“As the characters’ paths twine with fervor, Ruiz-Grossman’s engaging tale offers a vivid exploration of modern-day disparities within the timeless and universal search for belonging and self-determination.”
–Leah Strauss ( Booklist )
1. Splinters by Leslie Jamison (Little Brown and Company)
6 Rave • 4 Positive • 2 Mixed Listen to an interview with Leslie Jamison here
“This one is slimmer, less digressive, more focused on Jamison’s singular experience [than The Recovering ]. But it, like its predecessor, makes a particular life ramify more broadly in intriguing and poignant ways … About the bewildering nature of new motherhood, the implosion of Jamison’s marriage, parenting solo, dating as a single mother, coping with illness and lockdown. But it is also about storytelling … Though this well of grief and guilt is not dramatized, it is not unglimpsed. Jamison writes around the hole in her story, and we can feel the gravity of its pull in her presentation of herself … Her ferocious honesty, her stringent refusal to sugarcoat, her insistence on inhabiting and depicting moments in all their evanescence and incandescence make her one of the most compelling and trustworthy memoirists we have.”
–Priscilla Gilman ( The Boston Globe )
2. Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022 by Frank Trentmann (Knopf)
“Terrifically insightful … There is so much telling detail in the story: the fluent legal nonsense, the struggle with authority, the inner psychological conflict, all tacitly overshadowed by the recent memory of the Third Reich … This book runs to 838 pages, but barely a word is wasted. Trentmann is a skillful and unflashy storyteller with flickers of gentle irony.”
–Oliver Moody ( The Times )
3. Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York by Barbara Weisberg (W. W. Norton & Company)
2 Rave • 3 Positive • 1 Mixed
“Riveting … Weisberg reassembles the story with the clear determination to treat both sides equally, and without leering … She cloaks the jagged facts of the case in the soft trappings of their social backdrop to soften their impact. Nevertheless, sharp edges pierce the velvet veil … By letting public and private records reanimate this vivid chapter of the past, Weisberg tells a story that fiction could not touch.”
–Liesl Schillinger ( The New York Times Book Review )
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Fireball streaking across sky at 38,000 mph caused loud boom that shook NY, NJ, NASA says
Residents in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut were shaken by a loud boom this week, leaving them confused over what was happening in the area. Some residents even witnessed a cosmic occurrence in the sky adding to the curiosity and confusion.
"Folks from the Jersey Shore to the West Side of Manhattan reported hearing a sonic boom about 1 hour ago," NYC Councilman Justin Brannan wrote in a post on Facebook Tuesday morning. "I personally spoke with NYC Emergency Management and there is nothing on their radar. USGS says no earthquake. Some say maybe a meteor?"
NASA estimates meteor originated over NYC
Turns out the source of the loud boom and explosion-like sound was a daylight fireball over New York City around 11:17 a.m. on Tuesday, according to NASA Meteor Watch .
More than 40 people from Wilmington, Delaware to Newport, Rhode Island, reported seeing the fireball to the American Meteor Society , with some even posting videos of the fireball flashing across the sky.
NASA Meteor Watch said the meteor originated over New York City and moved west towards New Jersey at a speed of 38,000 miles per hour, based on the eyewitness reports. However, NASA stressed that it is important to note that the trajectory was "very crude and uncertain," given that there was "no camera or satellite data" available to "refine the solution."
Earlier, the space body had said that they "estimate that the fireball was first sighted at an altitude of 49 miles above Upper Bay (east of Greenville Yard)," close to Jersey City after which it moved east at 34,000 miles per hour.
It then descended at a steep angle and passed over the Statue of Liberty before "disintegrating 29 miles above Manhattan," the post added. No meteorites were produced by this event, NASA said.
NASA does not track small rocks
NASA also said that contrary to popular belief, the agency does not track everything in space, though they do keep "track of rack of asteroids that are capable of posing a danger to us Earth dwellers." It added that small rocks "like the one producing this fireball are only about a foot in diameter, incapable of surviving all the way to the ground," and that they do not and cannot track things "this small at significant distances from the Earth."
"The only time we know about them is when they hit the atmosphere and generate a meteor or a fireball," NASA Meteor Watch added.
Military activity
The space body added that military activity was also reported in the area "around the time of the fireball, which would explain the multiple shakings and sounds reported to the media."
However, a Pentagon spokesperson told NBC New York that they were not tracking anything that could be responsible for the reports. The FAA, meanwhile, told the media outlet that only a military aircraft could produce such a sonic boom and referred NBC to the military.
No earthquakes recorded
The United States Geological Survey did not record any earthquakes in the area around the time, dismissing all speculation that the shaking was caused by an earthquake. USGS, in a statement to USA TODAY said that shaking in northeast New Jersey and Staten Island was reported but "an examination of the seismic data in the area showed no evidence of an earthquake."
"The USGS has no direct evidence of the source of the shaking," the statement said. "Past reports of shaking with no associated seismic signal have had atmospheric origins such as sonic booms or weather-related phenomena."
An official of the NYC Emergency Management, Aries Dela Cruz, in a post on X , said that no damage or injuries related to the incident were reported.
Saman Shafiq is a trending news reporter for USA TODAY. Reach her at [email protected] and follow her on X @saman_shafiq7.
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This week’s best new books
Shadow of doubt: a thriller.
Brad Thor (Atria) In the 23rd book of the Scott Horvath series, the Secret Service agent and former Navy SEAL is swept up in international intrigue. A cargo plane surrounded by Russian fighter jets takes off from a distant airbase, a Russian dissident carries deadly secrets and seeks asylum in Norway and an agent in Paris discovers a huge conspiracy.
Things Don’t Break on Their Own: A Novel
Sarah Easter Collins (Crown) A dinner party takes an unexpected turn when a woman must confront her sister’s disappearance on their walk to school 25 years ago. Everyone assumes the little girl is long dead, but her sister knows otherwise.
We Are Experiencing a Slight Delay: (Tips, Tales, Travels)
Gary Janetti (Harper) The humorist — whose wit has helped him garner nearly 1 million Instagram followers — offers up amusing essays on everything from a family cruise on the Queen Mary 2 to eating at a pop-up for acclaimed Copenhagen restaurant (and sometimes server of reindeer penis) Noma.
The Book of Elsewhere: A Novel
Keanu Reeves and China Miéville ( Del Rey) From the late 70s/early 80s vibe of the cover to the plot — an immortal soldier known only as “B.” seeks the help of a black ops group to help him die — this would seem to be exactly the sort of novel one would expect from the star of “The Matrix” and “Point Break.” Miéville, an acclaimed writer and Guggenheim fellow, co-authors.
Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida
Mikita Brottman (Atria/One Signal Publishers) In 2000, a hardworking Baptist man named Mike Williams never came home from duck hunting. It was assumed an alligator was to blame, but then, a few years later Williams’ best friend left his wife to marry his widow — and a more complicated story eventually emerged.
Liars: A Novel
Sarah Manguso (Hogarth) This biting portrait of a marriage between two New York City artists — one a woman who finds her ambitions subverted by being a wife and mother — is drawing comparisons to Noah Baumbach’s “Marriage Story.”
Best new book releases from last week
The bright sword: a novel of king arthur.
Lev Grossman (Viking) The bestselling author of “The Magicians” trilogy reimagines the legend of King Arthur — looking beyond Lancelot and Gawain and giving quirkier characters such as Sir Palomides, the fool Sir Dagonet and Merlin’s apprentice Nimue a chance to shine.
JFK Jr.: An Intimate Oral Biography
RoseMarie Terenzio and Liz McNeil (Gallery Books) Twenty five years after a plane crash claimed the life of Kennedy, his wife and sister-in-law, this book attempts to shed light on just who America’s prince was. Terenzio, his former executive assistant and the chief of staff at his “George” magazine, brings unique perspective and access to the endeavor.
The Striker and the Clock: On Being in the Game
Georgia Cloepfil (Riverhead Books) A professional soccer player — but hardly a star — reflects on playing for six teams in six different countries, the state of women’s soccer and what it means to be a serious athlete. The memoir is written in 90 short installments to reflect the 90 minutes of a soccer match.
Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Shadow
Brian Freeman (G.P. Putnam’s Sons) The latest Jason Bourne book finds the enigmatic secret agent having to confront his past after a woman recognizes him as his former identity, James Webb.
The Au Pair Affair: A Novel
Tessa Bailey (Avon) A hunky hockey veteran (is there any other kind?) who is a single dad develops feelings for his kid’s nanny, a sassy, broke 20-something with dreams of being a marine biologist.
The Anthropologists
Aysegül Savas (Bloomsbury Publishing) A young couple looks at apartments in a foreign city, dreaming of what their life might look like in each potential home. The events that unfold — namely day-to-day life — are ordinary and yet quietly revelatory
Best new book releases from the week of July 7.
Long island compromise: a novel.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner (Random House) Brodesser-Akner follows up her acclaimed “Fleishman is in Trouble” (and its great Hulu adaptation) with a novel set in one of Long Island’s wealthiest enclaves. A businessman is kidnapped, beaten and held for ransom for a week in 1980. Decades later, he and his family struggle with the lasting effects.
This Great Hemisphere: A Novel
Mateo Askaripour (Dutton) This engrossing epic is set in an alternate world, where a young woman who has always played by the rules embarks on an adventure to find her older brother, who is a key suspect in a big murder case.
The Coin: A Novel
Yasmin Zaher (Catapult) A rich Palestinian woman tries to make a life for herself in New York City, teaching underprivileged middle school boys, but then she gets wrapped up in a scheme reselling Birkin purses.
The Heart in Winter: A Novel
Kevin Barry (Doubleday) In 1891 in Montana, an Irish poet named Tom Rourke lives hard, working in the copper mines, drinking and doping. But then he and the new wife of a mining captain fall in love and make a run for it on a stolen horse with gunmen pursuing them.
Madoff: The Final Word
Richard Behar (Avid Reader Press) It’s been three years since the Ponzi-schemer died in a prison hospital. Behar, who visited Madoff several times in prison and corresponded extensively with him via letters and emails, looks to shade his portrait with complexity and humanity.
The Danish Secret to Happy Kids: How the Viking Way of Raising Children Makes Them Happier, Healthier, and More Independent
Helen Russell (Sourcebooks) The latest book to examine how parents in a foreign country are doing it better looks to Scandinavia. Russell, a British journalist and mother-of-three who has spent a decade in Denmark, examines how Danish kids spend hours in nature — no matter the weather — wield axes at a young age, go to special boarding schools as adolescents to learn to live independently and grow up to be some of the happiest adults in the world.
Best new book releases from the week of June 30.
College girl, missing: the true story of how a young woman disappeared in plain sight .
Shawn Cohen (Sourcebooks) With cooperation from her family, Cohen digs deep into the mysterious 2011 disappearance of University of Indiana student Lauren Spierer, offering up new details on the case.
Do Something: Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Gloom of ’70s New York
Guy Trebay (Knopf) The New York Times writer, who was born in The Bronx and raised on Long Island, recalls growing up with a con artist father and being part of the vibrant scene of Andy Warhol’s Factory.
A Happier Life
Kristy Woodson Harvey (Gallery Books) In this novel, a young woman in need of a fresh start heads to North Carolina to pack up the coastal home of her late grandparents, who mysteriously disappeared one night in 1976. Sorting through their stuff challenges what she thought she knew about her family.
Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
Nicole Twilley (Penguin Press) Twilley, a New Yorker contributor, gives a surprisingly fascinating history of refrigeration and how it changed how we eat, drink and live.
Bear: A Novel
Julia Phillips (Hogarth) This fairy tale-esque book is set on beautiful-but-remote San Juan Island off the coast of Washington state, where two young sisters struggle to make ends meet as their mother succumbs to health problems. They work various jobs catering to wealthy tourists, but, then, a bear unexpectedly shows up at their door, upending their lives.
The God of the Woods: A Novel
Liz Moore (Riverhead Books) The latest from the bestselling author of the acclaimed “Long Bright River” is set in 1975. At a summer camp in the Adirondacks, a teen girl goes missing — just like her older brother did 14 years prior.
Best new book releases from the week of June 23.
All the colors of the dark.
Chris Whitaker (Crown) Set in 1975 and an America in turmoil, this serial killer thriller/love story from the bestselling author of “We Begin at the End” is drawing raves. In a small Missouri town, girls are going missing. A local boy steps up and becomes an unexpected hero when he saves a girl from a rich family.
Middle of the Night
Riley Sager (Dutton) A New Jersey man returns to his childhood home where, one night when he was 10 years old, someone sliced open the tent where he was sleeping with his best friend and took the boy. Thirty years later, he’s still haunted by the incident and desperate to find out what really happened that night.
Same As It Ever Was
Claire Lombardo (Doubleday) A woman in late middle age with a comfortable life and seemingly happy family reckons with her blue-collar past, a scandalous affair in her youth and who she’s become in this sprawling, multi-generational novel.
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The New York Times Book Review revealed their top 10 books of the year in a virtual event for subscribers. More best-of-the-year lists arrive. Comedian Rob Delaney’s new memoir, A Heart That Works , gets reviewed and buzz. SFWA Names Robin McKinley the 39th Damon Knight Grand Master. Colm Tóibín will be awarded the Bodley Medal in 2023. Ulrika O’Brien wins 2022 Rotsler Award. Bob Dylan’s autopen flap causes a stir. NYT features Tanya Holland’s California Soul: Recipes from a Culinary Journey West . Plus, Merriam-Webster chooses its 2022 word of the year.
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Awards, news & best of the year lists.
BookPage delivers the Top 10 Books of 2022 .
NYPL released its Best Books of 2022 list.
OprahDaily shares “Our Favorite Books of the Year.”
The Star Tribune shares 56 great books to give and receive for 2022 .
SFWA Names Robin McKinley the 39th Damon Knight Grand Master . Tor reports.
Irish novelist Colm Tóibín will be awarded the Bodley Medal in 2023, and will give the 2023 Bodley Lecture during the FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival.
Ulrika O’Brien wins 2022 Rotsler Award. Locus has details.
Essence highlights the award ceremony for the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize winners .
For commentary on the Bob Dylan autopen flap, see coverage in LA Times , USA Today , and Vulture . Plus, The Guardian considers: “do authors use autopen?”
The Guardian reviews Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius by Nick Hornby (Riverhead): “Their creative force operated at a relentless, virtually industrial pace; Hornby’s tribute to their self-destructive genius is ardent but more than a little fearful.”
Datebook reviews Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood by Jessica Grose (Mariner: Houghton Harcourt): “The picture the book paints of American motherhood stands in stark contrast to the gauzy, Instagram world of parenting bliss, which Grose argues is also making us miserable.”
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USA Today talks with Rob Delaney about writing his latest memoir , A Heart That Works (Spiegel & Grau), after the death of his son Henry.
LA Times talks with Robin Coste Lewis about her new poetry collection , To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness (Knopf).
Shondaland chats with poet Mary-Alice Daniel about her new memoir , A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing: A Memoir Across Three Continents (Ecco), and “fallacies and power of borders.”
Publishers Lunch reports that Astra Publishing House is shutting down its literary journal , Astra Magazine after just two issues.
The New Yorker reflects on “The Year in Rereading.”
Lithub shares 8 new books for the week.
BookRiot highlights new releases .
The Millions has notable new releases for the week .
The Atlantic has 7 books to make you smarter.
CrimeReads recommends November’s best debuts .
ElectricLit provides 7 genre-defying books by women of color.
Lithub shares a personalized booklist from n+1’s November bookmatch service.
Authors on Air
PBS Canvas examines the significance of Merriam-Webster’s 2022 word of the year.
Misty Copeland discusses her new book , The Wind at My Back: Resilience, Grace, and Other Gifts from My Mentor, Raven Wilkinson , written with Susan Fales-Hill (Grand Central), on Q with guest host Talia Schlanger.
A live-action series adaptation of the Hugo Pratt Corto Maltese graphic novel series is in the works . Deadline reports.
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