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The Rundown: March 8, 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, Dark Horse announced the graphic novels “Chivalry” and “Creeping.” We also have a preview of this month’s “Dune: House Atreides” #5.

Cover by David Nakayama

– Via Syfy Wire, Marvel announced “Heroes Reborn: Night-Gwen,” a one-shot tie-in by writer Vita Ayala and artist Farid Karami, due out in June. The comic’s version of Gwen Stacy (here, Gwendolyn) will be a vigilante named Nightbird, whose daytime profession is a psychiatrist at Ravencroft Asylum. It will reveal her ties to Nighthawk, and introduce the ‘Heroes Reborn’ version of Jackal.

– Rob Liefeld revealed a number of artists joining him for the fifth and final issue of “Snake Eyes: Deadgame.” They are: Neal Adams, Jerry Ordway, Whilce Portacio, Karl Kesel, Joe Rubinstein, Art Thibert, Philip Tan, Dan Panosian, Dan Fraga, Ed Piskor, Jim Rugg, Tom Scioli, Cory Hamscher, and Chance Wolf. The IDW miniseries, which was penned by Liefeld with former Multiversity alum Chad Bowers, began in July, and concludes next month on April 7.

– Shueisha launched the latest “Fist of the North Star” spin-off manga, “Fist of the North Star Apocalypse Drama Filming Arc.” It imagines the process of filming a live-action Fist of the North Star series, analyzing the drama in front of and behind the cameras. The series began publishing on Comic Zenon on February 26, and was created by Hiroshi Kurao, who previously drew “Fist of the North Star: Elegy of the Ken-Oh/Fist King Army Grunts.” The original “Fist of the North Star,” by Buronson and Tetsuo Hara, is a post-apocalyptic manga series about a wandering master martial artist, who protects the innocent from those who would harm them.

– Kodansha published a Titan-Sized edition of the first volume of “Attack on Titan.” As suggested by the name, the edition is 1.01 meters (3.3 feet) long, 71.5 centimeters (2.35 feet) in width, and weighs 13.7 kilograms (30.2 lbs). At the time of writing, all 100 copies of the Titan-Sized edition (which cost 150,000 yen/US$1,449), have been sold. The “Attack on Titan” manga ends April 9, 2021.

– In further manga/anime news, Netflix revealed the upcoming Shaman King reboot will be released on the streaming service sometime later this year, and that the Way of the Househusband adaptation will be released worldwide on April 8. (You can watch the trailers for the respective series here and here.) “Demon Slayer” creator Koyoharu Gotouge was also honored last week with a New Artist Award from Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology.

– The CW announced that the sixth and final season of Supergirl will premiere on Tuesday, March 30, while Superman & Lois will go on hiatus until May 18. Supergirl will then take a break, and finish its final run after the conclusion of Superman & Lois‘s first season. The channel also announced the CW app will feature extended versions of Superman & Lois episodes, featuring footage cut for time from each broadcast.

Snowpiercer has found its latest series regular, with Chelsea Harris’s character Skyes set to become a permanent fixture in the show’s third season. She will be joining other stars like Daveed Diggs and new addition Archie Panjabi.

– IFC Films have acquired the U.S. distribution rights to upcoming French drama film Paris, 13th District (French: Les Olympiades). The film, directed by Jacques Audiard and based on New Yorker cartoonist Adrian Tomine’s anthology “Killing and Dying,” follows four friends (and sometimes lovers), played by Lucie Zhang, Makita Samba, Jehnny Beth, and Noémie Merlant.

– Indie rock artist Mitski has composed and recorded a soundtrack for the upcoming Z2 Comics release “This Is Where We Fall.” Written by Chris Miskiewicz with art by Vincent Kings, “This is Where We Fall” is a sci-fi western about an astronaut who finds himself in an afterlife inhabited by those who have died from falling. The book is due out May 5, and you can listen to Mitski’s first track, the country-inspired “The Baddy Man,” here.

– Finally, it was revealed the upcoming Space Jam: A New Legacy will, like The LEGO Movie franchise, involve other WarnerMedia properties like Batman and Wonder Woman. Director Malcolm D. Lee told Entertainment Weekly, specifically, that the movie will reintroduce Kath Soucie’s character Lola Bunny “with the Amazons, trying to find greener pastures for herself.” The belated sequel to the 1996 Michael Jordan vehicle — this time starring LeBron James as himself, Eric Bauza as Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, and Don Cheadle as the villainous Al-G Rhythm — will be released on HBO Max and in theaters on July 16, 2021.


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