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, Marie Severin, the co-creator of Spider-Woman, and Gary Fredrich, co-creator of Ghost Rider, have passed away. Also, George Perez is set to illustrate the cover for landmark 2,100th issue “2000 AD;” the CBLDF have appointed a new President; and we have an exclusive preview of “Star Wars” #53.
– CBR.com reports Minions are getting the comic book treatment again at Titan Comics. “Minions: Viva Le Boss” reunites writer Stephane Lapuss and artist Renaud Collin for a third time to helm the series. The press release reads, “The yellow Minions journey through history looking for a truly villainous leader – but are they doomed to be Minions without a master?” The series will be available to order through the September edition of the Diamond PREVIEWS catalogue, with the first issue out in November.
– DC Comics’s “Red Hood and the Outlaws” is getting a new title starting with October’s issue #27. The series from then on will be “Red Hood: Outlaw.” Writer Scott Lobdell shared with Newsarama more light for what’s in store for Jason, saying “without a buddy, Jason is not going to be as light as he has been in the past,” and that “He’s going to be a man of much fewer words and much more violence. Having lost his partners, and Batman, he has a lot of feelings he’s going to keep bottled up.” This isn’t the only change to the series, as from September’s #26, artist Pete Woods will come on board, replacing Dexter Soy.
– The rapper Eminem has teased that he will contribute a song on the Venom movie soundtrack. He released a small clip of the new song on his Instagram account. This isn’t the only time Eminem has collaborated with a Marvel property, having appeared in an in-universe team up with the Punisher in “Punisher/Eminem” in 2009.
– Newsarama have exclusively reported that Diamonds Comics Distributors’s PULLBOX program has been delayed. PULLBOX is a web-based application where customers can place orders and make subscriptions with their local retailer through Diamond. The application was previewed at the Diamond Retailer Summit in April, and should have undergone beta testing in May and seen a wide release in July. Diamond now project beta-testing will begin in September and that it will start rolling out to the public in October. Diamond’s Director of Marketing told Newsarama, “Just like any piece of software as a service in development, as you go through the process you come across a new feature sets you want to add. We encountered a lot of that with our development of PULLBOX, as there were additional things we wanted to give retailers and customers.” PULLBOX is planned go be a free application for customers and a monthly charge for participating retailers. For more information, check out Diamond’s article.
– Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige will be honored by the Producers Guild of America. The guild will present Feige with its 2019 David O. Selznick Achievememt Award, recognizing the producer’s work in motion pictures. The award will be presented at the 30th annual Producers Guild Awards on January 19 in Los Angeles. Feige has produced the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) since 2007, which consists of 20 films at the time of writing, which have grossed $17.6 billion worldwide and counting. PGA presidents Gail Berman and Lucy Fisher, when announcing the honor, stated “What Kevin has accomplished with Marvel Studios is one or the great success stories of this generation. And now with Black Panther and the upcoming Captain Marvel, Kevin has broadened our entire industry’s expectations for what tent pole movies look like.”
– In a press release, Small Comics Expo announced that they will immediately make available $20,000 and launch a legal aid fundraising vehicle to support members of the SPX community who are currently facing a defamation lawsuit from indie publisher Cody Pickrodt. Last week, Pickroft began suing 11 individuals, who accused him of rape, sexual harassment, anti-Semitic remarks and withholding payments of royalties. The SPX will continue ongoing legal aid fundraising to help the defendants in this case. Warren Bernard, Executive Director of the Small Press Expo, stated, “Our community must come together in support of its members who are facing unprecedented challenges, and to defend the kind of community we wish to be.”
– Amy Chu (“Summit,” “Red Sonja,” and “Green Hornet”) has been honored with the 2018 Korea Image Award from the Corea Image Communication Institute. Chu received the award on August 29th at the Ninth Cultural Communication Forum in Seoul, South Korea. CICI’s Korea Image Awards honors are given to individuals who spread a positive image of Korea on the world stage: previous winners include the singer Psy, golfer Pak Se-Ri, and former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
