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, Marvel Comics announced a new Star Wars miniseries, “Star Wars: Vader – Dark Visions,” and we spoke to Steve Orlando and Riley Rossmo about their new “Martian Manhunter” maxiseries at DC.
– The British Museum in London is set to hold an exhibition on manga, which will reportedly become the largest ever display of Japanese comic books and graphic novels outside of Japan. The Manga exhibit will include artwork from the 13th century, to children’s comics, and horror and yaoi/boys’ love books, as well as Pokémon. The exhibition in London will be held from May 23 to August 26, 2019, and tickets are on sale here.
– The American Film Institute named Black Panther one of the “10 culturally and artistically significant” movies of 2018. Featuring and African setting, fashions, cultures and a mostly black cast, Black Panther is joined by A Star is Born, Mary Poppins Returns and A Quiet Place on this year’s list.
– Lucasfilm announced Thrawn: Treason, the third canonical Star Wars novel by Timothy Zahn starring the Imperial Chiss admiral. The book will be published in the summer of 2019.
– Nigerian multimedia company Peda Studios are set to publish “Under the Sun,” a title that addresses the daily plight of albinos in African society. Supported by the Albino Foundation, the comic is set in a fictional African country where superstition and voodoo thrive, actively affecting the lives of albinos. The comic will become available online on December 15.
– TriStar Pictures has signed Hany Abu-Assad, the director of Paradise Now, Omar, and most recently The Mountain Between Us, for their upcoming “Infidel” adaptation. The Image Comics horror miniseries, written by Pornsak Pichetshote and illustrated by Aaron Campbell, was about an American Muslim woman in a building haunted by entities that feed on xenophobia.
– Moonhead Press have published a new webcomic, “The Mirror,” written by Gerardo Preciado (“Master of the Lords”) and illustrated by Daniel Bayliss (“Big Trouble in Little China/Escape from New York”), which is described as being unintentionally very relevant given current immigration and asylum issues. Interviewed by Newsarama back in February about the project the creators. “The Mirror” can be accessed here..
– The fourth Men in Black film from Sony Pictures apparently has a title: Collider’s Steve Weintraub discovered on the floor of the Brazil Comic Con that it is titled Men in Black International.
– Finally, The Lego Batman Movie director Chris McKay has confirmed on Twitter that a sequel is in the works. In the meantime, Lego Batman will co-star in The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, out February 8, 2019.
