Welcome back to The Rundown, our daily breakdown on comic news stories we missed from the weekend. Have a link to share? Email our team at rundown@multiversitycomics.com.
– The numbers for comic sales in October have come in (from Diamond so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ) and Marvel has taken the overall top spot on the charts again. This comes in thanks to “Champions” #1 and “Doctor Strange and the Sorcerers Supreme” #1. However, the top selling comic book, according to Diamond, was Boom’s “Big Trouble in Little China/Escape from New York” #1. Meanwhile, Raina Telgemeier continues to dominate the charts that measure actual numbers but isn’t anywhere to be found on this Diamond list.
– Paramount has released the first trailer for their upcoming remake of the manga and anime, Ghost in the Shell. I know that The Matrix basically ripped off the original film in order to bring itself to life, so I wonder if it’s all coming full circle that it looks like the producers for this film ripped off The Matrix? In any event, the movie comes out March 2017. [Via The A.V. Club]
– Check out First Second’s upcoming release catalogue, including “Demon” Vol. 2 and the next part of Faith Erin Hicks’s “The Nameless City” series. Unfortunately this doesn’t include future volumes of “Last Man”, the manga-inspired French series from Balak, Michaël Sanlaville, and Bastien Vivès, as of now. With the release of “Last Man: The Rescue”, First Second’s contract with Casterman has expired and the publishing houses haven’t moved to renew it yet. More volumes in the series have been released in France.
– Remember when Hayao Miyazaki announced he was retiring following the release of his last feature film, The Wind Rises? And everyone figured this might be the time, considering the dude’s 76 and Ghibli took a break from production to figure out where it wanted to go next? Well, quell your surprise because it looks like Miyazaki is attempting to make another feature film. At the moment, he’s working on a 12-minute 3D animated short for the studio, but has already begun preparing the storyboards for the feature. (Ghibli hasn’t officially green lit the project yet, but Miyazaki believes he “can have it finished by 2020.”) In addition to all this, he was also working on a samurai manga, which will probably never see completion (though the preview pages that’ve been circling around are mad cool).
– Finally, check out this overview of George Herriman’s influential, seminal comic strip, “Krazy Kat.” And then go read a bunch of “Krazy Kat” strips (but avoid that awful awful awful novel) and just marvel at the material.
