Welcome back to The Rundown, our daily breakdown on comic news stories we missed from the previous day. Have a link to share? Email me at david@multiversitycomics.com.
– Valiant’s Unity #1 is rolling out to staggering sales, eclipsing the debuts of many other first issues of the past couple years. 68,500 is the number for their print run, and a sell out to that degree is astounding. Congrats to everyone involved, and I sure hope that people pick it up, if only because I’d wager this book is returnable.
– Heat Vision looks at some very interesting things DC’s digital head Hank Kanalz had to say about the future of digital comics, namely digital comics on smart televisions and – perhaps most interestingly – the comic equivalent of binge watching experiences you get from Netflix TV shows like Arrested Development and Orange is the New Black. Curious read, and makes me wonder why I prescient guy like Kanalz isn’t doing more to fix the rest of the company.
– A whole lot of Forbes love in this here column, as Forbes took a look at Marvel Films and how they’re defining the modern superhero film – in good ways. It’s an interesting look and, for box office nuts out there, has solid comparisons between the performances of the tentpole flicks Marvel and DC have put together.
– This Dalton Rose gig poster for Hallstrom is totally freaking awesome.
– You know those horrible, stupid bitstrip things on Facebook? Robot 6 covers their creation, and god, I don’t care. I hate them.
– Sergio Aragones created an amazing piece celebrating the history of MAD Magazine. Definitely worth a look, even if you’re not a mad or an Aragones fan.
– Tom Spurgeon looks at the move to Burbank for DC, and as per usual, he provides some very interesting perspective that you don’t see many other places.
