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 spoke to Mark Russell and Scott Godlewski about “The Riddler: Year of the Villain,” which comes out this September. Also, Archie and the gang are headed back to the ‘50s in “Archie 1955,” Brian Michael Bendis and Ryan Sook are teaming up for DC’s “Legion of Super-Heroes: Millennium,” Jordie Bellaire and Drew Moss have a new “Vampirella/Red Sonja” series, and Vault Comics announced that “The Plot” will be the first of their annual Nightfall horror event titles.
— DC announced a new Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy series based off of the events of “Heroes in Crisis,” which completed its run in May. Kicking off this September, “Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy,” created by writer Jody Houser and artist Adriana Melo, will be a six-issue miniseries that takes place within the main DCU continuity. CBR has an exclusive look at the series.
— Dark Horse Comics announced “Alien Colonial Marines: Rising Threat,” created by writer Brian Wood, artist Wether Dell’Edera, colorist Michael Atiyeh, and letterer Nate Piekos. It delves into the formative years of the Colonial Marines and ties into the events of the upcoming video game. Issue #1 of eight goes on sale September 18.
— Ultron is being joined by Machine Man for a robot uprising in a new “Iron Man” arc dubbed ‘The Ultron Agenda.’ It begins this September 18 with issue #16 of “Tony Stark: Iron Man,” and sees Tony Stark, Jocasta, Andy Bhang and the crew up against the robots and A.I. of the Marvel Universe.
— IDW’s canceled “Orphan Black: Crazy Science” comic series is getting a second life, this time in the form of an audio series. “Orphan Black: The Next Chapter” continues the story of Cosima and Delphine, eight years in the future from where the show left off. Actress Tatiana Maslany has signed on to reprise her role for the 10-episode series from Serial Box, available in both audiobook and text formats this summer. Heli Kennedy, who wrote “Crazy Science,” will be one of the writers on the series.
— DreamWorks Animation Television is producing Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, based off of the webcomic created by Radford Sechrist. The comedy adventure and coming-of-age tale stars Karen Fukuhara as a girl in a post-apocalyptic world searching for her family, tagging along a group of other survivors “through a vibrant wonderland of Godzilla-size mutant animals and birds which may look gorgeous but try to kill her.” The series, which has Sechrist as showrunner, will be available on Netflix in 2020.
— Finally, the winner of the latest “2000 AD” Art Stars competition was announced: Chris Skinner, for his take on bounty hunter Durham Red, which will be printed in a future issue of “2000 AD.” Check out his art, as well as the runners up, at Broken Frontier.
