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 over the weekend, DC gave us the exclusive that Agnes Garbowska, Dan Jurgens, Brett Booth, and Guillem March would be joining “Harley Quinn” #50 on art, which is out this Wednesday. First Second also announced three new books for spring 2019, Image announced the OGN “Jesusfreak,” Alicia Masters and Ben Grimm have set a wedding date for “Fantastic Four” #5 in December, and the winners of the 2018 Ignatz Awards were announced.
– Kicking off, Chelsea Cain gave an interview with Entertainment Weekly about her, her husband Marc Mohan, and Aud Koch’s abruptly cancelled “The Vision” miniseries at Marvel. In the interview, Cain spoke out about the state of the comic book industry and the status of writers and artists, all of whom are freelancers, and revealed that the creative team had been working on the book for the past two years, as Cain was asked to take over the book after Tom King and Gabriel Hernandez Walta’s run concluded. You can read the entire interview here.
– Elizabeth Tulloch (Grimm) will play Lois Lane in this December’s Arrowverse crossover. She will appear with Tyler Hoechlin’s Clark Kent in the three-part event, which starts with The Flash on Sunday, December 9, continues in Arrow on December 10, and finishes with Supergirl on December 11. On Instagram, Tulloch stated “When I started acting, one of my teachers asked me to watch the screen tests for the role of Lois Lane for 1978’s Superman. All of the actresses were terrific, but it was always clear to me why Margot Kidder won the role: she seemed lit from within, full of joie de vivre. Now, at a time when the noble profession of journalism feels under siege, it’s a privilege to join the club of actresses who have played the dogged reporter.”
– The Arrowverse is also adding more Gotham natives, casting Cassandra Jean Amell as Nora Fries. Nora is the wife of Victor Fries aka Mr. Freeze, who will not be appearing yet in the show. Amell will make her debut, across her husband Stephen Amell, in the upcoming Arrowverse crossover with Tulloch, and Ruby Rose as Batwoman.
– Valiant Entertainment editor Danny Khazem has made the jump over to Marvel to join Jordan D. White editing the X-Men and Cosmic Marvel titles. Khazem previously edited the “Eternity” limited series as well as “Quantum & Woody!” and had been with the company since 2014.
– Marvel released a teaser drawn by Bill Sienkiewicz depicting Matt Murdock and a woman who looks like Karen Page in a sunlit field with the caption “The End?” Page has been dead since 1999’s “Daredevil” #5, and the woman in the teaser is wearing the clothes she died in. The teaser says we will learn more this Friday.
– Marvel also announced that previous “Moon Knight” artist Jacen Burrows will be returning to draw issue #200. Burrows left with #198 to work on “an unannounced Marvel project.” “The Life of Captain Marvel” #4 will also see Marguerite Sauvage replaced by artist Erica D’Urso, who joins co-artist Carlos Pacheco on the book. Sauvage will return with #5.
– We got a first look at Joaquin Phoenix in his upcoming Joker film. Director Todd Phillips shared the photo that is captioned as just “Arthur.” The film is not set to tie into the DCEU and will be released on October 4, 2019.
– Entertainment Weekly also revealed the cover to Rainbow Rowell and Faith Erin Hicks’s upcoming graphic novel “Pumpkinheads,” coming out from First Second on August 27, 2019. The book is set to follow two friends, Deja and Josiah, who meet during the autumn every year to work in a pumpkin patch together. The pair are about to graduate high school and are having their last day together. You can check out the cover reveal here.
– “One Punch Man” artist Yusuke Murata announced the upcoming manga adaptation of Back to the Future that he was working on has been canceled. Murata revealed that magazine Kono Manga ga Sugoi! was unable to work out some of the rights issues for concepts that would have appeared in the manga. You can check out concept art for the series here.
– Murals created by Georges Remi, the man who would eventually take the name Hergé and create the comic strip “Tintin,” are in the process of being restored via a campaign by a man named Yves Rouyet. The murals depict scouts doing various activities in an abandoned scout house at Institut St Boniface, a school in the Ixelles area of Brussels. You can read more about this exciting rediscovery of comics history here.
– Before the weekend, we asked which feature on the DC Universe app were you most excited to check out. 34 percent of you chose the new exclusive TV series; 27 percent chose for the comics; and another 27 percent voted for the classic animated TV episodes available on the app.
