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The Rundown: October 4, 2022

By | October 4th, 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.

ICYMI, we talked to Jeremy Holt about their upcoming literary reimagining “Gatsby.”

Art by Luciano Vecchio

– CEX will publish “Sereno,” a creator-owned superhero series by Argentine writer/artist Luciano Vecchio. Sereno is the Mystic Master of Light, and the guardian of New Teia, a city where magic and science coexist. Despite his duties, Sereno also develops feelings for the male cat burglar Rufián. Issue #1 (of 3) will be released on February 22, 2023, and retail at 52 pages for $5.99. An ashcan copy will also be available for $10 at Vecchio’s table during New York Comic Con this weekend.

– Vault Comics announced “West of Sundown” will become an ongoing series, beginning with its second arc on November 16. Written by Tim Seeley and Aaron Campbell with art by Jim Terry, “West of Sundown” is a horror western that sees a vampire, her thrall, Frankenstein’s monster, and the mad scientist Griffin move to a New Mexico town. The second arc will begin in issue #6, and add the infamous Dr. Aristide Moreau to its cast.

– Kid Cudi’s new animated Netflix special Entergalactic has received a tie-in comic, “Mr. Rager,” courtesy of Dark Horse. The comic chronicles the origin of the eponymous superhero character created by the film’s protagonist (voiced respectively by Keith David and Kid Cudi himself.) It was written by Danny Lore, and features art by Gabriel Guzmán, coloring by Michael Atiyeh, and lettering from Joamette Gil. “Mr. Rager” is available for free now on Dark Horse Digital.

– Per Deadline, Michael Waldron will pen Avengers: Secret Wars for Marvel Studios. The second of two Avengers films planned for 2025, Secret Wars will follow Destin Daniel Cretton and Jeff Loveness’s Avengers: The Kang Dynasty on November 8, 2025. Waldron previously served as head writer on the first season of Marvel’s Loki, and penned the final draft of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, both of which have proved integral to setting up the studio’s Multiverse Saga. He is also currently attached to write Kevin Feige’s untitled Star Wars film.

– In further Marvel news, the studio released the full trailer for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Set to Sampa the Great (ft. Chef 187, Tio Nason, and Mwanjé)’s “Never Forget,” it give us our first full look at Namor in flight, Riri Williams in her Ironheart suit, and the new Black Panther’s costume. Tickets for Wakanda Forever, due out in theaters on November 11, are on sale now. In the meantime, you can also read director Ryan Coogler’s breakdown of the trailer at Entertainment Weekly.

– Viz Media and Disney have partnered to stream Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War around the world. The continuation of the anime, based on the final arc of Tite Kubo’s manga, will stream in the U.S. on Hulu, and outside the U.S. on Disney+. Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War begins Monday, October 10.

– In more Disney news, infamously idiosyncratic Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike has a new horror series, titled Connect, premiering on Disney+ in South Korea this December. Based on a Webtoon series by Shin Dae-Sung, Connect follows a young man whose eye is stolen by organ hunters, and who gains a connection to the serial killer who receives it in a transplant, seeing the terrible things he sees. It is unknown if the series will also be released on Disney+ (or Hulu) in English-language territories.

– On Twitter, Tom Scioli and Alex Milne revealed they were involved in a scrapped Transformers comics series, a ‘Crisis on Infinite Earths’-type saga called “Transformers: Collision Course.” Artwork posted by Milne shows multiple Cybertrons, and characters from the various Generation 1 continuities, Beast Wars, Animated, Prime, Rescue Bots, and Robots in Disguise. Further information courtesy of the Transformers Wiki confirms the series was planned as a way to mark the end of IDW’s Transformers license in style this year, but it was canned because of time constraints. Scioli tweeted he believes the project should be considered “one of the great unmade comics.”

– Speaking of Scioli, he recently embarked on a weekly revisit of Marvel’s Thor comics with Matt Zeoli, titled THORsday Comics. Thus far, the pair have taken a look at Thor’s first appearance in Stan Lee, Larry Lieber and Jack Kirby’s “Journey into Mystery” #83 (1962), as well as Jane Foster and Loki’s debuts. You can check out the series on their YouTube channel, Total Recall Show.

– Finally, did you know a new Popeye comic strip launched at the end of August? Via The Beat, “Olive & Popeye” was created by “Spider-Ham” veteran Shadia Amin with current Sunday “Popeye” comic strip cartoonist Randy Milholland, and explores what Olive Oyl and Popeye get up to whenever they’re not together. Per the official synopsis, the strip seeks to remind readers Olive Oyl debuted in E.C. Segar’s “Thimble Theatre” in 1919, a decade before Popeye was introduced and became the breakout character. You can read the twice weekly series now at Comics Kingdom.


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Christopher Chiu-Tabet

Chris is the news manager of Multiversity Comics. A writer from London on the autistic spectrum, he enjoys tweeting and blogging on Medium about his favourite films, TV shows, books, music, and games, plus history and religion. He is Lebanese/Chinese, although he can't speak Cantonese or Arabic.

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