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, Vault Comics announced the new comic “Wifwulf” by writer/artist Dailen Ogden and co-writers Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing. Molly Ostertag is also serializing her new graphic novel, “Darkest Night,” on Substack as of today.
– Panel Syndicate has dropped the fourth chapter in Ed Brubaker, Marcos Martín, and Muntsa Vicente’s Eisner-nominated digital comic “Friday.” The new 40-page comic kicks off Act Two of the series, with Panel Syndicate’s Twitter asking how the titular lead will go on following the tragic events at the end of the first volume. “Friday” follows Friday Fitzhugh, a former sidekick to a YA detective named Lancelot Jones, who gets pulled back into his orbit by something strange and mysterious coming to their little New England town. Image Comics will be releasing a print volume of the first arc on November 3, but “Friday” #4 is available digitally over at Panel Syndicate’s website.
– Via AIPT, Oni Press is releasing an expanded edition of the comic “Meteor Men” by writer Jeff Parker, artist Sandy Jarrell, colorist Kevin Volo and letterer Crank. The new collection of the comic, which features “20 new pages of story and art interspersed with the original pages,” comes seven years after the comic was originally published in 2014. The series followed Alden Baylor, a young man who becomes embroiled in an intergalactic struggle after watching “the largest meteor shower in human history.” The expanded “Meteor Men” touches down in February 2022.
– Webtoon are partnering with the activist campaign Rewriting Extinction, adapting several of the campaign’s previous comics for distribution on Webtoon’s platform. Via Geek Girl Authority, the partnership will also see the development of a series of new comics by Webtoon creators in support of the projects funded by Rewriting Extinction. Rewriting Extinction is a 12-month storytelling campaign that has united celebrities, activists, indigenous leaders, and storytellers to create dynamic comic stories featuring environmental themes. The project supports seven charities: Born Free, Wildlife Trusts, World Land Trust, Rewilding Europe, Greenpeace, Re:Wild, and Reserva. Webtoon’s adaptations will begin publishing on November 29.
– In further Webtoon news, Wattpad Webtoon Studios has announced it will be developing three film and TV projects based on stories from Wattpad and Webtoon. Via Deadline, the comic project in the bunch is a film adaptation of A. Rasen’s popular webcomic “GremoryLand,” which Wattpad Webtoon will produce alongside Roy Lee’s Vertigo Entertainment. “GremoryLand” follows six friends who are the sole visitors of a new horror theme park, soon discovering that the horrors of the park are both deadly and related to their own pasts. The comic wrapped up with its series finale back in June. Author and playwright Gabriel Bergmoser has been tapped to write the script.
– Rob Liefeld’s “Prophet” will receive a remastered reprinting of the hero’s first solo issue. Via The Hollywood Reporter, Liefeld has tapped a number of artists to contribute to the recreation, including Dan Panosian, Philip Tan, Ed Piskor, Dan Fraga, Marat Mychaels, Jim Rugg, Tom Scioli and Karl Altstaetter, as well as Liefeld himself. The new edition comes shortly after the announcement that Jake Gyllenhaal is set to play the character in an upcoming film adaptation. First appearing in the pages of “Youngblood,” John Prophet is an “anti-Captain America,” a World War II era super-soldier who awakens in our time after being cryogenically frozen for a mission. A facsimile edition of “Prophet” #1 will hit shelves in February 2022, with the remastered edition debuting in March.
– Netflix is developing Revenge Inc., a new drama series based on an original idea that comes from Dark Horse Entertainment. Via Variety, the project is not an adaptation of a Dark Horse comic but was developed as part of their first look deal with Netflix that has included the hit series The Umbrella Academy, as well as the still in-development adaptations of “Grendel” and “Usagi Yojimbo.” The plot details for Revenge Inc. are still under wraps, but Variety reports that writer and director Matthew Arnold (Siberia, Emerald City) will act as the series’ showrunner.
Continued below– The CW has announced its slate of holiday programming, providing a release date for the upcoming one-hour CG-animated special Beebo Saves Christmas, based on the fan-favorite furry god from DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. Via Animation Magazine, the special finds Beebo (Ben Diskin) playing hero after an efficiency-obsessed elf (Chris Kattan) decides that Christmas would run better without Santa Claus (Ernie Hudson). Also featuring the voices of Kimiko Glenn, Yvette Nicole Brown, Keith Ferguson, and Victor Garber, Beebo Saves Christmas airs on December 1 with an encore presentation on December 21.
– IGN has the first look at a new collectible inspired by the 2017 series “Hellboy: Krampusnacht.” The limited-run Krampus model was originally featured as an unpainted miniature as part of an expansion pack for Hellboy: The Board Game, but the new scaled up model is rendered in striking full color. The model is available for preorder from the Dark Horse Direct website ahead of an expected Fall 2022 release.
– And finally, streamers DanTDM, DrLupo, and PaladinAmber got cosmically trolled for the release of the new video game Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy.
