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 rundown@multiversitycomics.com.
In case you missed it, “My Favorite Thing is Monsters” won the 2018 Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize, AfterShock announced “Beyonders” from Paul Jenkins and Wesley St. Claire, and Bungie released a tie-in comic for the upcoming Destiny 2 expansion Warmind.
– The soundtrack for Deadpool 2 was announced yesterday, headlined by a new ballad from Céline Dion called, “Ashes.” And yes, there’s a music video featuring the sultry dance moves of the Merc with a Mouth himself, which you can go behind the scenes at Entertainment Weekly. The rest of the soundtrack is just as eclectic, with a new track from Diplo, French Montana & Lil Pump (feat. Zhavia Ward), and previously released songs from DJ Shadow feat. Run The Jewels, Peter Gabriel, a-ha, Cher, Dolly Parton, Air Supply, Pat Benatar, Alicia Morton, Tyler Bates, and Skrillex. The album will be released on the same day as the film, May 18.
– Kids Read Comics has announced the shortlist for the annual Dwayne McDuffie Award for Kids’ Comics, given out at the Ann Arbor Comic Arts Festival in June. The list, selected from over 100 entries, includes:
- “As the Crow Flies,” by Melanie Gilman
- “The Backstagers Volume 1: Rebels without Applause,” by James Tynion IV and Rian Sygh
- “Garbage Night,” by Jen Lee
- “I am Alfonso Jones,” by Tony Medina, Stacey Robinson and John Jennings
- “It’s Treason, by George!” by Steve Hockensmith, Chris Kientz and Lee Nielsen
- “Nightlights,” by Lorena Alvarez
- “Space Battle Lunchtime Volume 2: A Recipe for Disaster,” by Natalie Reiss
- “The Tea Dragon Society,” by Katie O’Neill
- “Where’s Halmoni?” by Julie Kim
- “Witch Boy,” by Molly Knox Ostertag
– Top Cow has announced the winners of the fifth Top Cow Talent Hunt. In the art category, Cecilia Lo Valvo won with Jesse Elliot as the runner-up. For Writing, Levi Fleming came in first, with Stephanie Phillips as the runner-up. Applicants submitted work set in Top Cow’s “Edenverse” (“Postal,” “The Tithe”) and got a paragraph of feedback from the publisher, and then submitted revised entries based on that feedback.
– Tara Ferguson, a former employee of Big Bang Comics in Dublin and member of the Titan Comics marketing team, has launched an independent marketing company for comics, appropriately called Comics Marketing. Ferguson’s company will target creator-owned projects and provide services like working with retailers during ordering periods, getting feedback from them, organizing signings and exclusives, and in general giving advice on how to manage in today’s marketplace.
– Jimmy Kimmel premiered the new trailer for Teen Titans Go! To the Movies, along with announcing that he would be voicing Batman in the movie. Kimmel also got in a dig at costar Will Arnett (who voiced the character in The LEGO Batman Movie), calling him “OLD NEWS.” Teen Titans Go! To the Movies will be in theaters on July 27.
– The MTV Movie & TV Awards nominees were announced yesterday. Black Panther leads the film side with seven nominations, while Stranger Things has six on the TV side. Other notable nominees include Avengers: Infinity War, Wonder Woman, Riverdale, The Last Jedi, The Flash, Legion, Thor: Ragnarok, and Atomic Blonde.
– Cartoonist and government critic Ramón Esono Ebalé is being prevented from leaving Equatorial Guinea because authorities are delaying renewing his passport. Ebalé was acquitted on “trumped-up” charges and released from prison back in March. The charges, and these new delays, appear to be in retaliation for cartoons critical of the government.
– Turkish cartoonist Musa Kart has been awarded the International Editorial Cartoons Prize from Swiss organization Cartooning for Peace. Kart was recently convicted, along with 12 other journalists, of “aiding terrorist organizations,” and sentenced to nearly four years in prison.
– 48 pages of an unfinished, unpublished Thing graphic novel by Barry Windsor-Smith have found their way online (with Windsor-Smish’s blessing, of course). Work was started on the book back in the ’80s, but it’s unclear why it was never completed.
– Marvel has revealed that the mystery character on the cover of July’s “Infinity Wars: Prime” #1 is a new character called Requiem. Few details are known about the character, other than Marvel’s description of them being “Death Incarnate.”
