Welcome 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, AHOY Comics is starting up in September, with books from Tom Peyer, Jamal Igle, and a host of other creators, and Image is launching a stoners vs. aliens series, titled “Burnouts,” this Fall.
– TIME Magazine released their video interview with Brian Michael Bendis and holy cow, Bendis’s office looks neat. In the interview, Bendis talks about the mythology of modern superheroes, his own family, and how all that factors into his take on Superman as a father and family man.
– Turkish-American composer Pinar Toprak (Krypton) has signed on to score Captain Marvel. She will be the first woman to compose the music for a major comic book movie. The film is out March 8, 2019.
– Eurasianet has an interesting examination of the budding Kazakh comics scene, including a look inside a comic store and details on some original Kazakh titles and publishers. “In the last couple of years, the situation has changed,” said publisher Orazkhan Zhakup in the article. “Children that grew up with comics have now become adults and that whole scene is shifting really radically.”
– Entertainment Weekly revealed a few different looks at the upcoming Aquaman movie, including the first official images of the film’s take on Black Manta (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), Patrick Wilson as King Orm, and Nicole Kidman as Arthur’s mother, Queen Atlanna.
– Neil Gaiman and co.’s “Sandman” is celebrating its 30th anniversary with brand-new collected editions, featuring new introductions from creators such as Patrick Rothfuss, Kelly Sue DeConnick, and Paul Dini. Each collection will also feature new covers from Dave McKean. The first re-released volume will hit shops in October.
– In other collected edition news, Dark Horse is re-releasing Rick Remender and Eric Nguyen’s “GIGANTIC,” a story that’s essentially The Truman Show for superheroes, late this year, in an oversized library edition that collects all five issues and will retail for $25.
– San Francisco’s Cartoon Art Museum is offering free admission to all fathers (with a paid admission for a child or grandchild) throughout this Father’s Day weekend, according to The Beat. The museum currently features exhibits on the MCU, Jim Starlin, and Congressman John Lewis’s “MARCH” trilogy.
– More details emerged on Tom King and Clay Mann’s “Heroes in Crisis” miniseries (which we reported on yesterday), including info on exactly where and what Sanctuary is, as well as the series’s inciting incident. Newsarama has a round-up of all the new info.
– British comic character (and fictional comics artist) Minnie the Minx is coming to TV, according to Deadline. Beano Studios and Lime are developing an animated series, titled The Magnificient Misadventures of Minnie, that will be aimed at kids ages 8 to 12.
– Just in case you didn’t have enough Teen Titans Go! in your life, DC announced a special $1 reprint of their tie-in comic’s first issue, just in time for the Titans’ upcoming big screen jaunt in Teen Titans Go! To The Movies.
– And finally, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette cartoonist Rob Rogers reported he was fired yesterday, likely as a result of drawing cartoons critical of President Donald Trump (though the official reasoning behind Rogers’s termination was not confirmed).
