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, DC unveiled their first event of 2023, “Lazarus World,” at NYCC. We also had an exclusive preview of next week’s “A.X.E.: Eternals” #1.
– Preorders for Cullen Bunn and Sally Cantirino’s “Door to Door, Night by Night” #1 have been so exceptional, that publisher Vault upgraded it from miniseries to ongoing. Vault editor-in-chief Adrian F. Wassel even offered the first copies of the first three issues to anyone who liked his tweet before 5pm. Writer Cullen Bunn thanked everyone who pre-ordered, adding “This is how pre-orders can impact a comic series!” “Door to Door,” which begins next month, will follow the adventures of a group of salespeople who moonlight as monster hunters.
– Dark Horse is teasing a “monstrous” team-up with Monster Forge Productions in 2023. The transmedia company and IP generator will help produce a horror line for the publisher next year. The company released a four-panel comic featuring “Uncle Monster” taking readers on a tour of a haunted house with a Frankenstein-style laboratory. Writer Cullen Bunn expressed his interest in working on the new line.
– Marvel has announced ‘Captain America: Cold War,’ the crossover between “Captain America” titles “Sentinel of Liberty” and “Symbol of Truth,” will begin in April 2023. Marvel calls the book a culmination of the plots in both titles, such as the truth behind Nomad, Sam Wilson’s conflict with Wakanda, and Bucky’s battles with the Outer Circle. The announcement was made at NYCC’s “Captain America: Cold War – A This Week in Marvel Special Event,” hosted by This Week in Marvel hosts Ryan Penagos and Lorraine Cink. Variant covers for next month’s “Captain America & the Winter Soldier Special” were also revealed, showcasing Bucky Barnes’s new costume, designed by Carmen Carnero.
– “Hell to Pay” from writer Charles Soule and artist Will Sliney is due out on November 2. Not only that, but Soule revealed the full title will be “Shrouded College Book 1: Hell to Pay,” and that it will be the first part of an entire multi-series shared universe. The six-issue mini follows a husband-and-wife team tasked with tracking down all 666 of Hell’s coins for the title college. Fans may have seen Sliney’s art streams with colorist Rachelle Rosenberg starting in December 2020, which saw them producing pages for the series.
– Karate Kid and Cobra Kai star Martin Kove has unveiled a “Prodigal Son,” a comic he created alongside Thunder Comics, in time for New York Comic Con. The western comic follows a 12-year old boy who teams up with “the meanest outlaw in the Old West” to track down the gang that killed his family. The book is written by Don Handfield (who developed the story with Kove) and Clay Adams. Rue Silvera provides art. NYCC attendees can pick up an exclusive Red Dead Redemption-style variant cover from former Rockstar Games lead senior artist Stephen Bliss. Kove (with his son Jesse), Handfield, Adams, and Bliss will be at the Thunder/Scout NYCC booth (#2737) on Saturday, October 8, from 12-2pm and 3-5pm. The book can be pre-ordered here.
– Heavy Metal has signed a new publishing deal with startup ecommerce platform Whatnot. Whatnot, which specializes in collectible markets, launched its publishing branch this summer, and will handle distribution for the classic sci-fi magazine (and any associated works, such as the “Crashdown” graphic novel) for bookstores and direct markets. The magazine will also renumber, with its 321st issue releasing as Volume 2, #1.
– Finally, Netflix has released a new trailer for Slumberland, showing us more of the film’s story. It follows Nema, a young girl (Marlow Barkley) who enters the world of dreams with “eccentric outlaw” Flip (Jason Momoa) to find her late father (Kyle Chandler.) The movie, loosely based on Winsor McCay’s “Little Nemo in Slumberland,” is due out on the streamer November 18.
