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, we got the exclusive on the trailer for Vault Comics’s “Vagrant Queen,” written by Magdalene Visaggio and pencilled by Jason Smith. (The series starts this week.) We also covered the news BOOM! Studios will publish Natalie Nourigat’s second memoir, “I Moved to Los Angeles to Work in Animation,” in December.
– Telltale Games stated the second season of The Wolf Among Us has been delayed to next year. The first season of the game, which is a prequel to Bill Willingham and Mark Buckingham’s Vertigo comic “Fables,” concluded back in 2014. Telltale’s other upcoming games include The Walking Dead: The Final Season, and Game of Thrones: Season Two.
– SelfMadeHero revealed the books they will be released in the US during fall 2018: the full list, which can be read at ICv2, includes graphic biographies of the Ramones and Andy Warhol, as well as Rachael Ball’s “Wolf” (formerly “Wolf Man”), and David Hine and Mark Stafford’s “Lip Hook: A Tale of Rural Unease.”
– Almost immediately after releasing their August 2018 solicitations, Marvel corrected the listings for the “Cable and Deadpool” and “Astonishing X-Men” annuals will be $4.99 and 40 pages long, in line with every other annual out that month.
– Image will publish New Yorker cartoonist and “Y: The Last Man” co-creator Pia Guerra’s recent political cartoons in a single volume, titled “Me the People.” The collection of her work, which tackles Trump and the Republican Party, will be released in comic book stores on October 3, and other book stores on October 9.
– As mentioned in our look back on the first episode, Amazon Prime has picked up The Expanse for a fourth season. The show, based on the sci-fi books by James S.A. Corey (real names Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck), was cancelled by Syfy after three seasons. We’ll be continuing to revisit the show, among many others, as part of our 2018 Summer TV Binge.
– In manga news, the latest Gundam series, Gundam Build Divers, will receive a spin-off comic, “Gundam Build Divers Break,” in the pages of “Gundam Ace” magazine from June 26. The strip will be written by Ryoji Senkinishi and pencilled by Gensui Shiitake, with character designs by Kazuhiro Hara, and ones for the mechs by Takayuki Tanase and Kanetake Ebigawa.
– Meanwhile, Tite Kubo’s “Bleach” will return for a one-shot in the July edition of “Saikyou Jump,” ahead of the live-action film’s release in Japan on July 20. The comic’s story will introduce the Shinigami (gods of death) featured in the movie.
– Last year, George Takei was accused of sexual assault by model Scott R. Brunton. Brunton has now recanted his claim after numerous inconsistencies were found in his recollections. Takei, whose life is being written into an IDW graphic novel by Justin Eisinger and Steven Scott, tweeted “I want folks to know, despite what he has put us [Takei and his husband Brad Altman] through, I do not bear Mr. Brunton any ill will, and I wish him peace.”
– Solo: A Star Wars Story opened with $84 million domestically, with a $65 million overseas amounting to a $148 million total start. The film cost around $250 million to produce following extensive reshoots. In contrast, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story opened to a worldwide total of $239 million ($155 million domestic and $134 million internationally).
– Donald Glover’s Lando Calrissian is your choice for the subject of the next Star Wars Story (after Obi-Wan and Boba Fett), judging by our weekend poll, where he received 43 percent of the vote. Second place went to Yoda at 19 percent, while Darth Maul was in third place with 17 percent of the vote.
