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, John Allison and Max Sarin’s “Giant Days” is coming to an end at issue #55, and comic strip artist Ken Bald passed away at the age of 98.
– Bleeding Cool offered word that Titan Comics’s English translation of Les Deux Royaumes’s “Watch_Dogs” comic will finally see print this July. For a preview of the title (which expands upon the world of the 2014 video game), as well as info on Titan’s other July publications, click here.
– Scholastic’s “The Baby-Sitters Club” graphic novels have been so successful that “Baby-Sitters” spin-offs are also getting the graphic novel treatment. According to Publishers Weekly, “The Baby-Sitters Little Sister Book 1: Karen’s Witch” will be the first entry in a new “Baby-Sitters Little Sister” series, adapting the 1990s novels of the same name. “Karen’s Witch” will launch in December.
– Cartoonist Melanie Gillman debuted the cover for her upcoming original western, “Stage Dreams.” The “rollicking queer western adventure” will release in September from Lerner Books, with pre-orders available now.
– The Daily Beast says that the New York Times will no longer publish syndicated cartoons, after an incident involving the publication of anti-Semitic cartoons sourced from CartoonArts. “The cartoon that ran in the international print edition of The Times last Thursday was clearly anti-Semitic and indefensible,” said the Times‘s Head of Communications, Eileen Murphy. “For now, we’ve decided to suspend the future publication of syndicated cartoons.”
– ComicBook.com says a new “Death Note” one-shot is on the way, from original creator Takeshi Obata. There’s no word on what the new story will feature, but it seems that it will release in summer of this year.
– Marvel promoted the upcoming sixth season of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. by showing off a few new cast members and revealing the season six poster. To learn more about Izel (Karolina Wydra), Malachi (Christopher James Baker), and Dr. Marcus Benson (Barry Shabaka Henley), click over to Marvel.com. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. returns to ABC on Friday, May 10.
– And finally, Paramount released the official trailer for the upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog movie, starring Jim Carrey as Dr. Robotnik and Ben Schwartz as everyone’s favorite blue speedster. The movie hits theaters November 8, 2019.
