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– Oni Press dropped a surprise “Dream Daddy” comic on comiXology, Google Play et al., the first of five standalone stories being released digitally. For those not in the know, Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator is a video game that allows players to assume the role of a new-to-town single dad, looking to romance other single dads (who range from fitness fanatics to actual vampires). Paste broke the story, including news of the exclusive print version (featuring a cover by “Runaways” artist Kris Anka) available at this weekend’s PAX West.
– DC revealed during a livestream that the DC Universe app will launch on September 15 (aka Batman Day). Tiffany Smith (Jane The Virgin) was announced as the news anchor of the DC Daily show, with other hosts and regular guests announced as including John Barrowman (Arrow), Samm Levine (Freaks and Geeks) and Harley Quinn Smith (Yoga Hosers). They also announced the Titans TV series, which consists of 12 episodes, will roll out weekly from October 12, 2018.
– Inverse and Vulture featured round-ups of the last few days’ anti-Comicsgate reactions. Spurred on by Comicsgaters attempts to take deceased creator Darwyn Cooke’s words out of context and railroad Cooke’s wife, Marsha, as she expressed her husband’s actual beliefs, many more industry pros have begun taking firm anti-Comicsgate stances (as we began detailing in yesterday’s Rundown).
– The Walking Dead director and effects specialist Greg Nicotero has signed on for Todd McFarlane’s new Spawn movie, according to a press release from McFarlane. Nicotero, who worked on the 1997 Spawn film, and his visual effects company KNB EFX will create the new design for Jamie Foxx’s Spawn.
– IDW teased a new Rocketeer series coming this December, with an image showing only the Rocketeer’s empty helmet. PreviewsWorld has the teaser.
– According to Twitter chatter, the latest episode of John Siuntres’s Word Balloon podcast features Marvel Editor-in-Chief C.B. Cebulski saying there are more Chris Claremont X-Men comics coming “very soon,” and that Cebulski is hoping writer/artist John Byrne could be convinced to return to Marvel.
– The Beat shared a ten-page preview of Dark Horse’s “Stranger Things” #1, featuring the beginning of Will Byers’s adventures in the Upside Down.
– Marvel announced they’d remove a reference to the anti-Mormon book CES Letter from subsequent printings of artwork from last week’s “Amazing Spider-Man” #4, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “The art reference … was included without awareness by Marvel of its meaning,” said the company in a statement. “As a policy, Marvel does not permit hidden controversial messages in its artwork.”
– And finally, Alec Baldwin has dropped out of playing Thomas Wayne in Warner Bros.’s in-development Joker movie, citing scheduling issues, says USA Today.
