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The Rundown: May 22, 2023

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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.

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– “That Texas Blood” creators Chris Condon and Jacob Phillips are reteaming for “The Enfield Gang Massacre,” a six-part spin-off set in the 1870s. The comic will depict the clash (first mentioned in “That Texas Blood” #7) that marked the founding of Ambrose County, when Montgomery Enfield’s gang of outlaws found themselves pursued by a veteran Texas Ranger. Condon states, “At its core, this is a story about the truth — how fragile it is — and how whoever wins writes its future.” It will begin on August 9.

– Image also revealed Rick Remender and Max Fiumara’s new sci-fi series “The Sacrificers” will launch on August 2. The ongoing comic, which received a Free Comic Book Day issue this month, is set in a supposed paradise, where five families have made “everything perfect… for the price of one child per household. Now, as that bill comes due, a son expected to give everything for a family that never loved him, and an affluent daughter determined to destroy utopia, who must now unite to end one generation’s unnaturally protracted reign.”

– Massive Publishing will release “The Plot Holes,” a new five-issue series by Sean Gordon Murphy starting in August. The book follows a group of fictional characters capable of moving into other books to alter the storylines. The publisher also announced Overlook, a horror imprint overseen by Cullen Bunn and Heath Amodio; the Black imprint Kingwood Comics; and a distribution deal for Sumerian Comics (formerly Behemoth Comics)’s titles. Massive was founded last year, and its first imprint was Whatnot Publishing.

Disney announced Florida’s Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser experience will close on September 30. The two-day experience, which cost $5,000 per couple, had just opened in March 2022, and allowed visitors to roleplay as passengers on the space liner the Halcyon. It received a number of tie-ins, including Marvel’s “Halcyon Legacy” miniseries, which told stories set aboard the ship spanning the High Republic and New Republic eras, and the LEGO Star Wars Summer Vacation special. Perhaps reflecting on the price, Disney said, “We will take what we’ve learned to create future experiences that can reach more of our guests and fans.” Ticket sales will resume on Friday, May 26.

– BuzzFeed reported on Michel Mulipola, a Sāmoan comic book artist based in New Zealand, who’s worked for Marvel and Disney Animation. The focus was his personal version of a “Marvel’s Voices” cover, depicting the company’s three Pacific Island heroes (Kiwi Black, Mondo, and Loa), to emphasize Pasifika being erased during Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. You can check out what he has to say about Asians and Tagata Moana sharing a month, and his redesigns of the characters, at the link.

ICv2 shares a couple in Florida have been arrested over the theft of multiple comics from the Hall of Heroes Superhero Museum in Elkhart, Indiana. Police were alerted to various stolen items being sold by the pair on eBay, including a copy of “Captain America Comics” #37, and other comics matching those reported stolen from the museum in March. The couple were also selling books stolen from Read More Comics in Brandon, Florida. Together, they’ve been charged with seven counts of dealing in stolen property, two counts of burglary, and two felony counts from another county.

– A tweet by Kendra Wells prompted widespread criticism of Thomas Woodruff’s four nominations at the Eisner Awards, sparking a petition to rescind his name. Woodruff was the longtime Chair of the BFA Illustration and Cartooning Department at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and made his “graphic opera” debut with the Fantagraphics release “Francis Rothbart!: The Tale of a Fastidious Feral” last year. The responses to Wells’s tweet describe Woodruff as a verbally abusive teacher, who discouraged students from taking an interest in comics, and criticized “Francis Rothbart” as a culturally insensitive and appropriative work unworthy of being nominated. This, in turn, prompted several to draw attention to the all-white composition of this year’s Eisner judges.

– Finally, on a much lighter note, James Gunn confirmed on Twitter that not everything was what it seemed with the High Evolutionary in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. Spoiler alert: Gunn verified what some eagle-eyed users spotted, which is that a wide shot of the evacuation at the film’s end included Drax carrying the incapacitated villain to Knowhere. He stated, “It seems silly & hollow that [Rocket]’d refuse to kill him & then leave him on an exploding ship. And, yes, there is a deleted scene. It’s really great actually but it messed up the pacing of the end. But you’ll see it in the extras eventually.” The character’s survival leaves the door open for actor Chukwudi Iwuji to return to the MCU at some point, and possibly wearing a mask closer to that of his comics counterpart.


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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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