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 yesterday, BOOM! Studios is launching a new Adventure Time book, “Adventure Time: Marcy & Simon,” Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham are crafting a sequel to their graphic novel “Real Friends” called “Best Friends” at First Second, and Dark Horse are expanding the world of Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy’s The Division video game with “The Division: Extremis Malis.” We also ran interviews with Chuck Wendig, Greg Pak and Jonathan Coulton, as well as Yanick Paquette from NYCC last weekend.
– Kicking off, we got more details on John Ridley’s upcoming DC Black Label book, “The Other History of the DC Universe” which will see its first issue released in January. Alex Dos Diaz will be providing the art for issue #1 which will focus on Black Lightning, while subsequent artists will handle stories featuring Karen and Mal Duncan, Tatsu Yamashiro and Renee Montoya. All issues will also be written in a prose narration by Ridley.
– In more January DC news, an unpublished story Marv Wolfman wrote for the 2006-2009 series “Superman Confidential” is being released as the “Superman 100-Page Super-Spectacular.” With art by Claudio Castellini, Wolfman described the story as one of the best stories he’s ever written. You can find DC’s full January 2019 solicits here, with other fun tidbits like Saladin Ahmed’s upcoming first story for the company in “Mysteries of Love and Space” #1.
– In movie news, Avengers 4 has officially wrapped production with a cryptic teaser image. Chris Evans tweeted a note of gratitude for the completion, which many took to mean his character Captain America would die in the upcoming movie. Evans has clarified this is not necessarily the case.
– In casting news, the upcoming Pennyworth television show, following the early days of Bruce Wayne’s trusted butler, has found their title character and also their Thomas Wayne. Jack Bannon (The Imitation Game) has been cast as Alfred, while Batman’s father will be played by Ben Aldridge (The Devil’s Whore). The 10 episode show goes into production the end of this month, and is being overseen by Gotham producer Bruno Heller.
– The first image from Damon Lindelof and HBO’s Watchmen series was released showcasing a character in a police uniform with some sort of solid yellow mask over their face. Whether this is some sort of motion capture equipment or something else is unclear and causes more questions than answers. The show is a modern day follow-up to Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ graphic novel, and has been greenlit for eight episodes which will arrive sometime next year.
– We now have preview pages of John Carlin and Oriol Malet’s upcoming graphic novel “Mandela and the General” from Plough Publishing House. The book comes out November 4th, and follows the story of secret conversations Nelson Mandela had with Constand Viljoen, a former general in the South African army and leader of the rightwing Freedom Front party. Carlin is a journalist and author of Playing the Enemy which was later adapted into the movie Invictus.
– Black Lightning co-creator Tony Isabella has revealed he has created a new albino character that he hopes to introduce to the DCU if he gets another chance to write Black Lightning or a related book. Tobias White, Black Lightning’s main villain, was an albino in the comics, but was changed in the most recent series “Black Lightning: Cold Dead Hands.” Marvin “Krondon” Jones who plays Whale on The CW Black Lightning, is a black man with albinism, and Isabella has promised him to create a new albino hero.
– Finally, Marvel Editor Jordan D. White has shared a portion of the cover of “Uncanny X-Men” #11, both confirming that the series will continue beyond the ‘Disassembled’ arc, and also implying that Scott Summers is set to make his return from the dead in the upcoming series.
