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, Frank Miller teased a “Dark Knight III” spinoff called “The Golden Child” centered around the children of Wonder Woman and Superman. We also posted interviews with Jody Houser, Delilah S. Dawson, and Ben Blacker and Mirka Andolfo from New York Comic Con.
– Kicking off, “2000 AD” is set to honor the legacy of Carlos Ezquerra in the upcoming “Judge Dredd Megazine” #402 in November. Ezquerra, who co-created Judge Dredd and Strontium Dog for the company, died on October 1st after battling lung cancer. The issue will include an extended obituary for the artist and writer, as well reprints of stories from his four decades with the company.
– Fanbase Press is launching a new series called “The Sequels” written by Norm Harper, illustrated by Val Halvorson and Bobby Timony, colored by Deanna Poppe, and lettered by Oceano Ransford. The four-issue miniseries follows a group of directionless adults that went on adventures back in the ’80s and long for that past. The four are given the opportunity to take up that lifestyle again by a mysterious figure. The series launches digitally only through comiXology in February, and will be printed in trade in July 2019.
– A new artist centric comic-con is set to launch in 2019 in Pasadena, California called LightBox Expo. The expo is being spearheaded by Jim Demonakos, founder of Emerald City Comic-Con, and character designer Bobby Chiu, who has an Emmy for his work on Niko and the Sword of Light. You can read more about the con here, and get tickets in early spring for the event September 6-8, 2019.
– Gotham has announced a premiere date for its fifth and final season, which will riff off the “Batman” family storyline from 1999, ‘No Man’s Land.’ The show will premiere at midseason on Thursday, January 3rd, followed by a new episode of The Orville. The show has also increased its episode run from ten to twelve episodes.
– Big Finish has cast Rhianne Starbuck to portray Doctor Who companion Shannon in the audio play Doctor Who: The Comic Strip Adaptations. The series will adapt adventures of the Fourth Doctor from “Doctor Who Weekly” magazine by Pat Mills and Dave Gibbons. Shannon was introduced in that publication in 1980, and was the first non-white companion in any Doctor Who story.
– Warner Bros. has announced that their live-action adaptation of the popular manga “Attack on Titan” will be helmed by none other than IT director Andy Muschietti. The series is written and illustrated by Hajime Isayama, and has become one of the best-selling mangas since its launch in 2009, spawning a very successful anime currently in its third season. A live-action Japanese adaptation of the manga was released in two-parts back in 2015.
– Runaways actor Kip Pardue has been accused of sexually assaulting actress Sarah Scott on the set of television pilot they filmed back in May. When contacted by the Los Angeles Times, Purdue apologized for the first alleged incident, but denied the second.
– While yet to be formally announced, Bleeding Cool is reporting that the new comic book publisher, Artists, Writers & Artisans Inc, founded by Bill Jemas and and Axel Alonso, has creators attached to the company. Grant Morrison, Garth Ennis, J. Michael Straczynski and Frank Cho are all allegedly cultivating lines of comic books or working on projects themselves. We’ll have more news as it comes.
– Finally, artist Tom Fowler shared concept art on Twitter of a cancelled “Tom Strong” and “The Spirit” crossover he was working on at one point with writer Jeff Parker. You can check out the concept art for the book that could have been here.
