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The Rundown: September 30, 2022

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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 interviewed writer Michael Moreci and artist Hayden Sherman about the Kickstarter for their series “Wasted Space.”

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– Dark Horse Comics has announced an English translation of the graphic memoir “Us” from creator Sara Soler will be coming next year. Via Graphic Policy, “Us” features writing and art from Soler, with a translation from its original Spanish coming from Silvia Perea Labayen, and lettering from Joamette Gil. “Us” explores “the struggle between love and uncovering your true self,” following Sara and her love story with Diana as well as telling the story of Diana’s gender transition. The Spanish edition is set for release in just a few days on October 3, but the English language release is set for next year. You can pick “Us” up in 2023 on May 31 in comic shops, and on June 13 in bookstores.

– Ethan M. Aldridge (“The Legend of Brightblade”) has announced their upcoming illustrated prose novel “Deephaven” has been picked up by the HarperCollins imprint Quill Tree. Aldridge posted a short teaser and a first look at the art on their Twitter account. Publishers Weekly posted the full blurb for the middle-grade novel, a gothic horror/mystery series that follows Guinevere ‘Nev’ Tallow as they attend the mysterious and secluded Deephaven Academy, where they must contend with challenges “from the whispered secrets of the students to the ragged thing that stalks the shadowy corridors.” “Deephaven” comes out from the shadows in fall 2023.

Publishers Weekly also carried the news of several other comics acquisitions. HarperCollins picked up the world rights to the middle-grade graphic nonfiction anthology “Drawn to Change the World” by #KidLit4Climate founder Emma Reynolds. The anthology profiles 16 young climate activists from around the world, and features art from Reynolds, Derick Brooks, Natasha Donovan, Teo DuVall, and more. “Drawn to Change the World” is set for publication in summer 2023.

Next, Scholastic/Graphix acquired “Please Be My Star,” a contemporary genderswapped YA rom-com take on Phantom of the Opera from Victoria Grace Elliott. The reimagining follows Erika, a young girl who takes the opportunity to write a play for a boy in her theater class she is obsessed with, finding her own creative voice along the way. “Please Be My Star” takes center stage in spring 2024. Finally, the Macmillan imprint Roaring Brook Press will publish “The Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival,” a middle-grade graphic memoir co-written by survivor Estelle Nadel and Bethany Strout with art by Sammy Savos. The memoir follows Estelle’s once-happy childhood growing up in a small Polish village through its abrupt interruption by the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939. “The Girl Who Sang” is set to release in winter 2024.

– The previously announced Marvel series Armor Wars is being retooled as a film for theatrical release. Via The Hollywood Reporter, the former Disney+ MCU project is being reformatted by screenwriter Yassir Lester, who was previously the head writer for the intended series. Don Cheadle is still set to reprise his role as War Machine for the film. No directors had yet been attached for the show ahead of its planned 2023 production start, and its place on the studio’s release schedule had not been publicly announced. Armor Wars shares its name with the 1987-1988 “Iron Man” story from writers David Michelinie and Bob Layton and artist Mark Bright, which saw Tony Stark’s technology falling into the wrong hands.

– Actress Kelly Reilly (Yellowstone) has signed on to the upcoming Robert Zemeckis graphic novel film adaptation Here from Sony and Miramax. Via Deadline, the film, adapted from the graphic novel of the same name by Richard McGuire, is set to reunite Zemeckis and screenwriter Eric Roth with their Forrest Gump stars Tom Hanks and Robin Wright; Paul Bettany will also star in the film. Both the film and the novel center on a single geographic location in New England, going on an “odyssey through time and memory” as that site becomes the location of a home, and tells the story of its inhabitants and families over generations. Reilly previously worked with Robert Zemeckis on the film Flight in 2012.

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– AMC and Shudder have announced a new video game based on Shudder’s upcoming streaming revival of the anthology series Creepshow. Via ComicBook.com, the game is being developed by the indie horror label DreadXP, the producers of games like The Mortuary Assistant and Sucker for Love: First Date; The Mortuary Assistant’s developer Brian Clarke will serve as the Creepshow creative director. “I’m extremely excited to be a part of such a fun project. I’ve always loved Creepshow‘s format, and the idea of driving the cohesion of multiple perspectives on horror is really compelling to me,” said Clarke. Shudder is currently set to release a new season of Creepshow, based on the original 1982 George Romero film – which was itself inspired by old EC Comics like “Tales from the Crypt” and “The Vault of Horror” – in 2023.

– Publisher Yen Press has announced the new imprint Ize Press, which will be dedicated to the release of English language print editions of Korean titles. Via ICv2, the publisher announced the project at the Yen Press Industry Panel at this year’s Sakura-Con. The popular webtoons “The World After the Fall” and “Villains are Destined to Die” will be the first books published by the imprint, hitting shelves next month on October 25. Those titles will be followed by “The Remarried Empress” and “Tomb Raider King” in November, with “The Boxer” and “My Gently Raised Beast” debuting in December.

– More than 300 authors have signed a letter from the advocacy group Fight for the Future urging publishers to cease practices they say are harmful to libraries. Via Publishers Weekly, Neil Gaiman, Chuck Wendig, Alex Segura, Mattie Lubchansky, Eli Valley, and Lilly Wachowski were among the names to sign the letter, which called out the trade groups the Association of American Publishers and the Publishers Association for “undermining the traditional rights of libraries to own and preserve books, intimidating libraries with lawsuits, and smearing librarians.” The letter is a response to several clashes between publishers and internet freedom advocates, including a lawsuit by several publishers against the Internet Archive, and a lawsuit that blocked a Maryland law that would have required publishers to offer e-book licenses to libraries on “reasonable terms.” The trade associations have pushed back against the letter, calling it “disinformation.” You can read more about the demands of the signatories here.


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