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, Mignolaversity took a look at April’s releases.
– Via Newsarama, Marvel announced “Danny Ketch: Ghost Rider,” a five-issue miniseries revisiting the ’90s era hero’s time as the Spirit of Vengeance. It will be written by the character’s co-creator, Howard Mackie, with art by Daniel Picciotto (“The Phantom”), and see Ketch become embroiled in a gang war in New York City. The first issue goes on sale May 17, with cover art by Ben Harvey.
– Via The Root, Marvel also revealed the cover for Miles Morales Suspended: A Spider-Man Novel, a new prose novel by Jason Reynolds, featuring illustrations by Zeke Peña. As the title suggests, the book will find Miles being suspended in school, forcing him “to figure out how to save the school and himself, all from a single room.” A sequel to Reynolds’s 2017 novel Miles Morales: Spider-Man, Suspended will be released on May 2.
– HBO Max released the trailer for Harley Quinn: A Very Problematic Valentine’s Day Special. The bonus episode will see Harley Quinn try to make her first Valentine’s Day with Poison Ivy as special as possible, despite her wish for a low-key date; it will also see the return of Michael Ironside as Darkseid. It drops February 9.
– Apple TV+ have acquired the rights to Drops of God, the live-action series based on the manga by Tadashi Agi and Shu Okimoto. An English, French and Japanese co-production, the series follows Camille (Fleur Geffrier), a woman who inherits the world’s greatest wine collection from her estranged father, but to claim it, must prove she’s a greater wine expert than his protégé Issei (Tomohisa Yamashita). The eight-part series will be released sometime later this year.
– Papercutz announced Simon & Schuster will be their new distributor, effective immediately. The children’s graphic novel imprint’s books were previously distributed by Macmillan, and Diamond outside the United States. The move brings Papercutz in line with owner Mad Cave Studios, who acquired the company in August, and whose comics are also distributed by Simon & Schuster.
– Finally, PBS released No Straight Lines, a documentary film from director Vivian Kleiman about the history of LGBTQ+ comics creators, featuring interviews with Alison Bechdel, Jennifer Camper, Howard Cruse, Rupert Kinnard, Mary Wings, and more, including Sina Grace, Maia Kobabe, MariNaomi, and Taneka Stotts. You can watch the feature-length documentary now at the link.
