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 had interviews with webcomic creator Petra Nordlund and writer Vita Ayala.
— Vault is teaming up with GraphicAudio are partnering on an audiobook adaptation of the hit comic “Wasted Space,” created by Michael Moreci and Hayden Sherman. Written and directed by Richard Rohan with audio editing and sound design by Karen Foeke, the adaptation stars Eric Messner as Billy Bane, Duyen Washington as Molly Sue, Henry Kramer as Dust, Karen Novack as Fury, Chris Genebach as The Creator, Jacob Yeh as Rex, Andy Brownstein as Cutter and Richard Rohan as Legion. The project will be released on September 30.
— In a press release, Scout Comics announced a print edition of Trey Walker and Hoyt Silva’s webcomic “Last Stop,” due out sometime this fall. The comic stars the world’s last superhero, Lincoln Adams (Unstoppable), who has to deal with the reemergence of an old enemy and a new shadowy figure, as well as being terminally ill.
— Comic start-up Artists, Writers & Artisans is putting together a Retail Council to advise them in exchange for monetary benefits and early access preview copies. The publisher will launch four titles in March 2020 — “The Resistance” by J. Michael Straczynski and Mike Deodato Jr, “Fight Girls” by Frank Cho and Sabine Rich, “Red Border” by Jason Starr and Will Conrad, and “Archangel 8” by Michael Moreci, C.P. Smith, Snakebite Cortez, and Jeff Deka — and plans to build to six to eight releases per month going forward.
— “One Piece” creator Eiichiro Oda revealed in a YouTube video his desire to end the manga in five years. This isn’t the first time Oda has expressed an impending ending to the series: in July 2016, he described the manga has about 65% complete, and this past January he said that the end was “near” and that the series will be “just over 100 volumes.” Still, nothing is official yet.
— HBO’s Watchmen has an official premiere date: October 20 at 9 p.m. Something of a sequel to the award-winning 1980s comic of the same name, the series depict an alternative present-day America governed by President Robert Redford, where white supremacy picks up where Rorschach left off.
— Netflix announced that it will premiere Daybreak, its new post-apocalyptic series set in a Glendale, CA high school, at New York Comic Con in October. Based on the graphic novel by Brian Ralph, the 10-episode series stars Matthew Broderick, who will be on hand along with other members of the cast for a Q&A following the Friday, October 4 screening.
— Finally, Peter Capaldi is joining the cast of The Suicide Squad, according to an exclusive at Deadline. Deadline also shares some intel that SNL’s Pete Davidson might have a small cameo in the movie, although he’s reportedly still in talks. No details are available yet about either role.
