Welcome back to The Rundown, our daily breakdown on comic news stories we missed from the previous day. Have a link to share? Email our team at either david@multiversitycomics.com or brian@multiversitycomics.com.
– This will likely become a big story, but Capital City Comic Con sent out a rather stupid and distasteful postcard hopefully inspiring people to visit their con through Power Girl’s boob window, and then followed it up with a response to people being upset by insulting the lot of them. It’s all covered by DC Women Kicking Ass, and as someone who works in advertising – particularly social media – for a living, it astounds me how foolish they were in this whole ordeal.
Their response on Facebook is particularly amusing, and according to that, the person who created the piece and made the response on Facebook are no longer part of the CCCC staff. That of course deserves the response of then what happens to whoever assuredly approved it? The printed piece, in particular, wouldn’t have gone out with approval, so to pin it on one person is pretty damn sketchy, if that’s even the case of what really happened.
– Oh hey look, a big ol’ video interview with Chris Pratt, James Gunn and Kevin Feige about “Guardians of the Galaxy” from SXSW. Of course you want to watch this!
– This offer ends today, but ComiXology is offering 100 comics from its Submit program for just $10! Get on it if you want to try out some maybe fantastic self-published comics!
– A rumor went around that Andrew Garfield’s petulance was to blame for Batkid not appearing during the Oscars, but it turns out that not only is that not true (timing issue, more than anything), Garfield backed it up by taking the kid to DisneyLand and offering to bring him as a guest to the premiere of “The Amazing Spider-Man 2”. Andrew Garfield is the best.
– “iZombie” gets a cast member! Not a major one, of course, but hey, it’s that much closer to being real!
– Travis Charest provided a cover for “Starlight” #4, and predictably, it is fantastic. How amazing is he? The only awesome is “really, really amazing”.
– Kim Newman and Maura McHugh will be co-writing the next volume of Mignolaverse series “Witchfinder”, with the mini “The Mysteries of Unland” that is set to arrive in June with art from Tyler Crook.
