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The Rundown: April 21, 2022

By | April 21st, 2022
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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, AWA announced Peter Milligan and Mike Deodato’s sci-fi action series “Absolution.”

Art by Gigi Cavenago

– Image Comics announced “The Magic Order 3” will debut in July. The third installment of Mark Millar’s fantasy series, this time featuring art by Gigi Cavenago (“Dylan Dog/Batman”), will introduce the Asian chapter of the Order, and Sammy Liu, whom Millar states will be “major player in the upcoming live-action Netflix show.” The first issue of “The Magic Order 3” (of six) will be released on July 27, and in the meantime, you can check out Cavenago’s art from the series on his Instagram.

– Image also announced “The Hollows,” a dystopian fantasy comic by writer Chris Ryall and artist Sam Kieth. The one-shot, also releasing July 27, is set in a “near-future Japan, where spectral, once-human husks prey on the unfortunates who couldn’t find salvation in the skyscraper-like trees that now dominate the decimated landscape. A discredited scientist works furiously to find a cure, until a one-eyed orphan girl and her pet, uh, Urp, force him to rethink everything he knows.”

– In an interview with The A.V. Club, Scott Snyder confirmed his upcoming book with Hayden Sherman, “Dark Spaces: Wildfire,” is the first in an anthology series. Each new story will be written by Snyder with a different up-and-coming artist, and there will also be entries from different writers. Snyder commented, “Mark Doyle and IDW saw the vision and have been amazing partners in helping me build this space.” “Dark Spaces: Wildfire” was one of nine original titles announced by IDW Publishing last week, and will begin in July.

– Sony have delayed Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse from its original release in October to June 2, 2023, and given the next installment, Across the Spider-Verse Part II, a March 29, 2024 release date. Co-writer Chris Miller commented the delay would give the production “more time to make it great.” The studio also announced the Madame Web movie, directed by S.J. Clarkson and starring Dakota Johnson, will be released on July 7, 2023, several months after Kraven the Hunter with Aaron Taylor-Johnson bows on January 13.

– In further Marvel news, the company launched a new line of origin stories for newcomers on Marvel Unlimited, titled ‘Who Is…’ The first two installments were “Who is the Scarlet Witch” by Steve Orlando and Rye Hickman, and “Who is America Chavez” by Alex Segura and Carlos Gomez. They also unveiled a new suit and Spider-Glider — designed by Norman Osborn — for Spider-Man, debuting in July’s “Amazing Spider-Man” #7, and a Jane Foster poster for Thor: Love and Thunder.

– Per The Wrap, the animated Netflix series based on Jeff Smith’s “Bone” has been scrapped. The site states the project fell victim to a change in leadership in Netflix Animation, which saw Phil Rynda (the streamer’s Director of Creative Leadership and Development for Original Animation), and several of his staff, being let go this week. Netflix acquired the rights to Smith’s fantasy series in 2019, and news on the project had been subsequently scarce.

– In other Netflix news, the streaming service will release the compilation film Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 Sustainable War on Monday, May 9. The film, assembled from footage of the first season of Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045, is being released in the run-up to season two, which debuts two weeks later on May 23. SAC_2045, a continuation of the Stand Alone Complex series, began in 2020, and sees the Major and her fellow officers turn to mercenary work, after an economic disaster plunges the world into a neverending war.

– In collaboration with the Children’s Tumor Foundation (CTF), Archie Comics introduced their first hard-of-hearing character in the pages of this week’s “Archie Jumbo Digest” #329. In the eight-page story ‘Sounds Like Music’ (written by Alex Simmons with art by Bill Galvan, Ben Galvan, Glenn Whitmore, and Jack Morelli), the Archies meet Grace Alondra, a fan who doesn’t let her gradual hearing loss affect her love of music. The story, which was timed to coincide with NF Awareness Month in May, was designed to teach readers about neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2), which causes (non-cancerous) tumors to grow alongside the body’s nerves, often leading to hearing loss. The comic is available now, and you can read ‘Sounds Like Music’ itself for free here.

Variety reports two sequels to the recent Diabolik remake, starring Giacomo Gianniotti (Grey’s Anatomy), finished filming in March. Gianniotti takes over the role from Luca Marinelli, whose turn as Angela and Luciana Giussani’s iconic thief was released in Italy on December 16, 2021. Directors Marco and Antonio Manetti returned to helm the films, the overseas rights for which were acquired by Beta Cinema. Currently, the distribution rights to the first new Diabolik movie have been sold to territories like Canada, France, Spain and Latin America, but not the US, UK, or Australia.

– Finally, Jeff Lemire shared a teaser for the final “Black Hammer” series. The book, tentatively titled “Black Hammer: The End,” will consist of four issues, feature art by Malachi Ward (“Black Hammer: Reborn”), and be released sometime next year.


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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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