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The Rundown: April 8, 2019

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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, “Sunshine” won the first Irish Graphic Short Story Prize. We also have an exclusive preview of next month’s “Ronin Island” #3.

'Batman Universe' #1

– DC will reprint the originally Walmart exclusive Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman stories in six-issue miniseries (each reprinting two chapters of the 12-issue arcs). Tom King, Andy Kubert and Sandra Hope’s “Superman: Up in the Sky” #1 arrives in direct market stores on July 3; Brian Bendis and Nick Derington’s “Batman Universe” #1 follows on July 10; and Amanda Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti and Chad Hardin’s “Wonder Woman: Come Back to Me” #1 goes on sale July 17. Each series will respectively come with brand new cover art from Kubert, Derington and Hardin.

– BOOM! Studios will publish The Art (and many other mistakes) of Eric Powell, a biography of “The Goon” creator that will showcase “never-before-seen childhood drawings, early superhero test pages, film poster art, and the establishment of Powell’s homegrown publishing house Albatross (Exploding) Funnybooks.” For more on the book, due out October 23, 2019, head on over to The Beat.

– Uncivilized Books has apologized over preliminary subscription box cover art for Craig Thompson’s upcoming comic “Ginseng Roots.” The art for the series, which is ostensibly Thompson’s childhood memoir, depicted two East Asian stereotypes, leading to charges of Orientalism similar to Thompson’s Middle Eastern-inspired graphic novel “Habibi.” Publisher Tom Kaczynski said, “I apologize to everyone for this lapse in judgement and the hurt caused to our community. We also understand that the cover image was not the only concern raised and we recognize these concerns as valid. I am reaching out to a lot of people, members of the community, listening to feedback, and conferring with other folks involved with Uncivilized. Please give us a little time to figure out an appropriate response.”

Variety reports Idris Elba’s role in James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad is being rewritten as a new character. The actor was originally cast in the follow-up as a replacement for Will Smith, had to drop out of returning as Deadshot after a scheduling conflict. The trade paper states that, currently, the only actors expected to return are Margot Robbie (Harley Quinn), Jai Courtney (Captain Boomerang), and Viola Davis (Amanda Waller). The Suicide Squad will be released August 6, 2021.

– British actor and comedian Jack Whitehall (Bad Education) has joined the cast of Fox’s animated Mouse Guard movie, also starring Idris Elba, Andy Serkis, Thomas Brodie-Sangster and Samson Kayo. Whitehall will play Kenzie, who in David Petersen’s comic is a calm staff wielding member of the guard who is often paired with the scalawag Saxson (played by Kayo). Mouse Guard begins motion capture photography in May.

– Amazon Prime released the first trailer for Too Old to Die Young, a crime series written and executive produced by writer Ed Brubaker (“Criminal”) with filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive). The show stars Miles Teller (Whiplash) as a grief-stricken LAPD officer who is drawn into the criminal underworld: it will premiere on the streaming service on June 14, 2019.

– Finally, to mark Shazam!‘s release on Friday, we asked you to name your favorite Shazam/Captain Marvel comic. Jeff Smith’s “Shazam! The Monster Society of Evil” won with 23.3 percent of the vote, followed by Grant Morrison and Cameron Stewart’s “The Multiversity: Thunderworld Adventures” at 21.8 percent, and Jeff Parker and Don Shaner’s “Convergence: Shazam” at 14.1 percent. Thanks again for voting, and be sure in tune on for this weekend’s Reader Poll on Friday.


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Christopher Chiu-Tabet

Chris is the news manager of Multiversity Comics. A writer from London on the autistic spectrum, he enjoys tweeting and blogging on Medium about his favourite films, TV shows, books, music, and games, plus history and religion. He is Lebanese/Chinese, although he can't speak Cantonese or Arabic.

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