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The Rundown: February 10, 2021

By | February 10th, 2021
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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, AfterShock Comics have announced a new series called “Silver City,” while DC Comics announced “Justice League: Last Ride.” We also spoke to “Pantheon” and “DeadEndia” creator Hamish Steele.

"Delver"

– Via Newsarama, the comiXology Originals title “Delver” makes its print debut this fall on October 6, 2021. The announcement continues the partnership with Dark Horse Comics, collecting books originally published serially on comiXology. Written by M.K. Reed and C. Spike Trotman, with art by Clive Hawken and colors from Maarta Laiho, “Delver” follows a family of goat herders who are overwhelmed with unexpected guests, when a magic door appears in their cellar that connects to actual sword & sorcery style dungeons. Soon after the door appears, so do marauding adventurers and treasure hunters (nicknamed ‘delvers’), searching for treasure. “Delver” Volume 1 collects the first five issues of the series, and will coincide with the debut of a second ‘season,’ which is listed on comiXology for a late 2021 digital debut.

– Marvel released a cover teasing a new “Defenders” series. The description says, “Called together by Doctor Strange when Earth faces its greatest threats, the Defenders have always been Marvel’s most eclectic Super Hero team. Who will join him this time?” The cover image, by Javier Rodriguez, shows the first clues to the team lineup, and features Dr. Strange and Masked Raider. With no annoucement of the creative team, check out the cover here, and stay tuned for more details.

– Deadline reports that Disney is shuttering Blue Sky Studios, the $5.9 billion global-grossing former 20th Century Fox animation division that, during its run, churned out 13 feature films, including the Ice Age franchise. The closure of Blue Sky will take place in April, and will affect about 450 employees. Disney will be working with the employees at the Greenwich, CT-based studio to explore open positions at the other internal studios. Production on the Patrick Osborne-directed Nimona, which was dated for January 14, 2022, is being stopped, and the film will no longer be released. Nimona, based on the comic by Noelle Stevenson, had 10 months of production still left to complete.

– CBR reports that the CW has given 2021-2022 pilot orders to the live-action Powerpuff Girls series, and to DC’s Naomi from Ava DuVernay and Jill Blankenship. First announced in August 2020, The Powerpuff Girls reboot “sees the pint-sized superheroes as disillusioned twentysomethings who resent having lost their childhood to crime fighting. Will they agree to reunite now that the world needs them more than ever?” Naomi‘s description states the show “follows a teen girl’s journey from her small northwestern town to the heights of the multiverse. When a supernatural event shakes her hometown to the core, Naomi sets out to uncover its origins, and what she discovers will challenge everything we believe about our heroes.” Keep an eye out for more details as they emerge.

– In more CW news, ComicBook.com reports Superman & Lois has cast Scottish actor Angus Macfadyen as Jor-El, Superman’s biological father. The character will debut in the series’ second episode, which will air on March 2, 2021 on The CW.

Vanity Fair has revealed a first look at Jared Leto’s Joker as he appears in Zack Synder’s Justice League. The Joker wasn’t a part of Synder’s original plans, and was added after Synder got the greenlight for his version of the film. Joker appears in the new film during a sequence set on a ruined Earth, after the alien tyrant Darkseid invades and decimates the planet. Leto’s Joker no longer sports the face tattoos that appeared in Suicide Squad. Zack Synder’s Justice League will be available to stream on HBO MAX on March 18, 2021.

– In an article published by The New York Times, Robert Ito discussed Afrofuturism in comic books and graphic novels. Afrofuturism, whether in novels, films or music, imagines worlds and futures where the African diaspora and sci-fi intersect. Ito points to “After the Rain,” “Infinitum,” Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “Black Panther” run, and “Far Sector” as examples that comics “are particularly well suited for Afrofuturism. Many Afrofuturistic narratives are nonlinear, something that comics, with their ability to move and stack panels to play with notions of time, can convey.” You can read the full article here.

– Finally, via Anime News Network, voice actor Shuuichirou Moriyama passed away from pneumonia on February 8, 2021, in a hospital in Saitama Prefecture. He was 86. Moriyama is arguably best known in Japan and internationally for playing the title role in Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli’s Porco Rosso. Moriyama was born in Nagoya City on July 26, 1934, and had been performing professionally for 63 years. Multiversity Comics sends our deepest condolences.


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