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, the nominations for this year’s Eisner Awards were announced on Friday.
– Kadokawa’s Comic Walker website will launch a manga adaptation of FromSoftware’s video game Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice on May 27. The manga, titled “Sekiro Gaiden: Shinazu Hanbei (Sekiro Side-Story: Hanbei the Undying),” is being overseen by FromSoftware, and illustrated by Shin Yamamoto (“Monster Hunter: Flash Hunter”). Released on March 22, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice follows the Sengoku era ninja Sekiro/Wolf, as he seeks revenge on a samurai clan who attacked him and kidnapped his lord. Hanbei the Undying is a non-playable character who acts as Sekiro’s sparring partner and fight trainer, and the comic will shed more light on the mysterious immortal.
– DC have announced “Doomsday Clock” will be published in two hardcover collections from October. “Part One” will reprint the first half of the 12-part series sometime in October 2019, while “Part Two” will collect the rest in May 2020. “Doomsday Clock,” Geoff Johns and Gary Frank’s sequel to Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s “Watchmen,” began in November 2017, and issue #10 is currently due for release on May 15, 2019.
– Disney XD revealed that the animated series Marvel’s Spider-Man will return later this year, having been on hiatus since August 2018. The show’s second season stopped before commencing its adaptation of the “Superior Spider-Man” saga, and the second half will also see a “Goblin War” unfold.
– The New York Times has apologized for publishing a cartoon of Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump, which they acknowledged contained anti-Semitic tropes. The cartoon, created by award-winning Portuguese cartoonist António Moreira Antune, portrayed the Israeli prime minister as a guide dog leading the blind Trump, but also depicted Netanyahu as having a Star of David on his dog collar, and Trump with a skullcap. The Times said carrying the cartoon – which was published in the paper’s international edition – was an “error in judgment,” and have now removed it from their site. Antune could not be reached for comment.
– On a happier note, the Times published a story on educational comic books published by the Federal Reserve. Did you know the Fed have published more than two dozen comics since the 1950s? The latest, the sci-fi styled “The Story of Monetary Policy,” was published last week.
– Last but not least, Avengers: Endgame opened to a record-breaking worldwide haul of $1.2 billion, beating its predecessor to become the fastest film to gross over a billion. You can read statements from Walt Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige, and directors Joe and Anthony Russo thanking the filmmakers, cast members, fans, and comics creators who have helped make the Marvel Cinematic Universe so successful here.
In honor of Endgame‘s release, we asked you to name your favorite MCU film series. The Captain America Trilogy won with 53.6 percent of the vote, followed by Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1 and 2 at 17.9 percent, and the Avengers films themselves with 16.7 percent. Well done to the Russo Brothers, Christopher Markus, and Stephen McFeely, and thanks again for voting: be sure to check out our next reader poll this Friday.
