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, BOOM! announced new series “b.b. free,” Image and Skybound Entertainment announced “Heart Attack,” and Vault announced “Heist, or How to Steal a Planet.”
– Marvel shared a first look at “Doc Justice and the J-Team,” a new superhero team that will be joining the Marvel Universe later this year. You can watch a video that contains Kris Anka’s first look at the team over on Marvel’s YouTube.
– The Hollywood Reporter revealed that IDW is releasing a new GLOW comic, titled “GLOW vs. The Babyface.” The comic will be written by actress Aimee Garcia (Lucifer, Dexter) and former WWE wrestler AJ Mendez, and illustrated by Hannah Templer (“GLOW”).
– BOOM! Studios announced that James Tynion IV and Werther Dell’Edera’s “Something Is Killing the Children” has been upgraded to an ongoing series, after the first issue sold out at the distributor level last week. You can get in on the ground floor of the now-ongoing series when the first issue hits shops on September 4.
– Via a press release, the Kubert School shared that A Wave Blue World’s VP of Sales, Marketing, and Publicity, Lisa Y. Wu, is joining its faculty. Wu will start teaching at the school when the 2019-20 school year begins.
– Spider-Man: Far From Home will be rereleased with additional footage over the forthcoming Labor Day weekend in the United States and Canada on August 29, reports Deadline. The new footage will comprise four minutes of a newly added action sequence (no word on whether it’s the Iron Spider scene shown in the trailers, which will be used in a new short film on the home release).
– Hellboy’s set to become a professional wrestler, according to Newsarama. Just in time for the Japanese home video release of the recent Hellboy movie, everyone’s favorite paranormal investigator will enter the squared circle alongside Jake Lee and Koji Iwamota of the All Japan Pro Wrestling league.
– The video game adaptation of Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido’s “Blacksad” took home the Gamescom award for Best Action Adventure Game, despite not having released yet. The Hollywood Reporter has that news and more from the awards ceremony that preceded Europe’s largest gaming convention.
– Canadian actor Juan Riedinger (Claws) will play the role of Archie’s nemesis, Dodger, in season 4 of Riverdale. Deadline has more on the casting news.
– Disney announced that the Disney + streaming service will hit Canada on the Netherlands on the same day it premieres in the U.S. (Nov. 12), and it will arrive in Australia and New Zealand a week later. Variety has those details and more on what to expect when Disney + launches later this year.
– And finally, the New York Times has a story on how Pepe the Frog is getting a new lease of life as a mascot for pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong. Creator Matt Furie, who had to seek legal action after the character spent years being misappropriated by online fascists, commented “he thought Pepe would protest alongside Hong Kongers: Pepe is sad just like them.”
