Welcome back to The Rundown, our daily breakdown of 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, we spoke to Scott Snyder and James Tynion IV about “Justice League Annual” #1, as well as Blue Deliquanti, creator of the webcomics “O Human Star” and “Meal.”
– The A.V. Club published a comics-based preview of Faith Erin Hicks’s new prose novel, Comics Will Break Your Heart. In addition to the comic synopsis, the A.V. Club article includes an excerpt from Comics Will Break Your Heart‘s first chapter.
– If you’ve always dreamed of owning a comic shop, now could be your chance. Retailer Carmelo Chimera is giving away an entire store in Oak Lawn, Illinois, including “the inventory, the fixtures, the goodwill, the customer base, [and] six years of history.” Click over to the Chimera’s Comics website if you want to learn more and enter the contest.
– Writer and artist Mike Grell (“Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters”) plans to revive his creator-owned title, “Maggie the Cat,” according to Newsarama. Grell plans to raise funds via Kickstarer and self-publish the 1996 Image series’s final two issues.
– British DJ Murlo is debuting his first graphic novel alongside his first album. FACT magazine revealed that Murlo’s debut album, Dolos, will be accompanied by a 36-page graphic novel, which Murlo wrote, drew, and colored himself. “Each chapter … corresponds to a different track on the album,” said Murlo, “so this has been a totally new experience for me both musically and visually.”
– Per The Hollywood Reporter, Warner Bros. announced three DC Films for 2021: the animated DC Super Pets will open on May 21, 2021, followed by Matt Reeves’s The Batman on June 25, and James Gunn’s Suicide Squad follow-up (titled The Suicide Squad) on August 6. Deadline confirmed Ben Affleck will not return for The Batman, as it will focus on a younger version of the character, while the Reporter later revealed Gunn is in talks to direct as well as write The Suicide Squad.
– LEGO Batman himself, Will Arnett, will guest star as the Dark Knight on Cartoon Network’s Unikitty!, in advance of reprising his role in The LEGO Movie 2. The episode will debut next Monday, Feb. 4, according to The Beat.
– Director David Leitch (John Wick, Deadpool 2) is now set to direct the movie adaptation of Tomm Coker and Daniel Freedman’s “Undying Love,” according to Deadline. “Undying Love” tells the story of an ex-solider who falls in love with a vampire and must fight his way through the Hong Kong underworld; the film version has been in development since 2012.
– Deadline also reports Scandal‘s Darby Stanchfield will star as Netflix’s in Locke & Key series. She will play Nina Locke, the mother of the three Locke children (played by Emilia Jones, Connor Jessup and Jackson Robert Scott).
– And finally, The Hollywood Reporter continued following the ongoing saga of rape allegations made against past X-Men and upcoming Red Sonja director Bryan Singer. As you likely know, The Atlantic published substantive allegations that Singer has raped teen boys, and Millenium Films CEO Avi Lerner published a statement supporting Singer. The Reporter spoke more closely with Lerner, who plans to keep Singer on Red Sonja, and others within Hollywood.
