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The Rundown: March 16, 2021

By | March 16th, 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, Jeff Lemire and Caitlin Yarsky are collaborating on “Black Hammer: Reborn,” and “Immortal Hulk” is spinning out into the pages of the all-new “Gamma Flight.”

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– “Hellboy” is being reprinted as a four-book box set omnibus collection. The collection comes with a new wraparound artwork by creator Mike Mignola titled ‘Hellboy: His Life and Times.’ “Because the four books basically cover Hellboy’s life, I tried to show the arc of his life— his birth, his death, and a bit of his afterlife,” said Mignola. “It is kind of exciting to see those four books in one big, heavy lump.” The box set, collecting ‘Seed of Destruction,’ ‘Strange Places,’ ‘The Wild Hunt,’ and ‘Hellboy in Hell,’ releases September 29.

– Archie Comics will release a series of one-shots to mark Archie Andrews’s 80th anniversary this year, beginning with Fred Van Lente and Dan Parent’s “Everything’s Archie.” The comic, out this June, will see the lovable teenager finally declare “his TRUE LOVE… and it’s a very expensive guitar! So, Archie picks up a few extra jobs to make some cash, what could go wrong?! Spies, TV Execs, tech warfare, nothing in Riverdale will be the same! No place is safe when ‘Everything’s Archie!'”

– Alt-rock band Evanescence are making the leap to comics with their new fantasy anthology series, “Echoes From the Void.” Each issue will adapt different narratives from the band’s songs to the page, as well as other thematically related short stories. The series will begin with a five-issue run, with each issue being 48 pages long. Issue #1, releasing this June, was written by Carrie Lee South and Blake Northcott with art by Abigail Larson and Kelly McKernan, and adapts the songs “Better Without You” and “Wasted On You” from their upcoming album The Bitter Truth. Each issue will retail for US$18.95 as part of a limited 3000-copy first printing.

– Marvel will debut Captain America of the Railways in Christopher Cantwell and Dale Eaglesham, Joshua Trujillo and Jan Bazaldua’s “The United States of Captain America” #1 this June. The character is a member of the LGBTQIA+ community, and the first canonically gay character to use the Captain America moniker. “I really enjoyed designing him, and as a transgender person, I am happy to be able to present an openly gay person who admires Captain America and fights against evil to help those who are almost invisible to society,” said Bazaldua. “While I was drawing him, I thought, well, Cap fights against super-powerful beings and saves the world almost always, but Aaron helps those who walk alone in the street with problems that they face every day. I hope people like the end result!” “The United States of Captain America” will feature a new Captain every issue, celebrating the character’s 80th anniversary in a road trip adventure.

– Kickstarter will be collaborating with the online distributor Bookshop.org, who will serve as a new marketplace for successfully funded books, comics and graphic novels. Bookshop.org will begin by offering a curated collection of comics including “La Voz de M.A.Y.O Rambo,” “21st Century Tank Girl,” “Check Please!,” and more. All profits from Kickstarter’s commission fee will go towards NYC Books Through Bars, a literary charity donating books to incarcerated Americans.

– Brenden Fletcher, the writer behind ‘The Batgirl of Burnside’ and “Isola,” has returned to Twitter after a year dealing with a COVID-19 infection, detailing his experience. “I had to step away from my work, including social media, in order to focus on healing,” he said. “I got infected in Mar ’20, was improving somewhat through June, started getting hit w/ kidney stones in July (15 stones & counting) which caused Covid symptoms to resurface & intensify, vaccine in Mar ’21 finally begun to fully alleviate symptoms.” Fletcher recently received the Pfizer vaccine and is awaiting his booster shot, after which he is hoping to return to comics and his community.

– DC Comics are organizing their very own book club as a collaborative effort between DC Community and DC Universe Infinite. The DC Book Club will run monthly, giving readers access to a free digital comic for them to discuss, with curated Q&As about the book happening at the end of the month. Readers will also vote on the book for each month, beginning with Scott Snyder, Jim Cheung and Jorge Jimenez’s “Justice League: The Totality.” The book club will also include digital perks like wallpapers and printable bookmarks.

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Deadline reports that Kingsley Ben-Adir will be the driving force behind Disney+’s Secret Invasion, starring alongside Ben Mendelsohn and Samuel L. Jackson as the main antagonist. The series, adapting Brian Michael Bendis and Leinil Francis Yu’s comic event of the same name, continues the cloak-and-dagger camaraderie of Talos the Skrull and Nick Fury. It’s unconfirmed whether Ben-Adir will be playing a human, Skrull or Kree antagonist, seeing as those have been the major players in the ongoing Marvel cosmic saga. Ben-Adir is most famous for his recent performance as Malcolm X in One Night in Miami, as well as his TV supporting roles in The Comey Rule, Peaky Blinders and High Fidelity. There is no set release period for Secret Invasion as of yet.

Supergirl has cast a younger Cat Grant for its final season in the flashback episodes “Prom Night” and “Prom Again!” Eliza Helm will portray Grant in her early days at The Daily Planet, still going under the name CJ Grant. The character’s adult self is regularly played by Calista Flockhart, and is the White House Press Secretary, after a career as the Daily Planet Gossip Columnist and founder of CatCo Worldwide Media. The sixth and final season of Supergirl begins on March 30, with CJ Grant appearing in episodes 5 and 6.

– Finally, French cartoonist Aurel’s directorial debut, Josep, won Best Animated Feature at the César Awards (France’s equivalent of the Oscars). The film tells the story of Spanish illustrator Josep Bartoli, who was interned in a French concentration camp after fleeing Franco’s dictatorship in 1939. The movie has been released outside France in the UK, Australia and New Zealand, and you can read our review here.


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