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, Dark Horse Comics is adapting Neil Gaiman’s “Norse Mythology” into an 18-part series. We also have exclusive previews of tomorrow’s “Justice League” #38 and “Teen Titans” #37, as well as Vault’s “Cult Classic: Creature Feature” #3.
– Dennis “Hopeless” Hallum and Emilio Laiso’s long-gestating “X-O Manowar” relaunch will drop in March, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The relaunch is now part of Valiant’s ‘The Year of Heroes,’ which also includes a “Quantum & Woody” relaunch in January and a “Doctor Tomorrow” series in February.
– In political cartoon news, Rome cut ties with cartoonist Mario Improta, following his controversial cartoon comparing the EU to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and Algerian political cartoonists are fearing increased backlash and more arrests after the election of President Abdelmadjid Tebboune.
– The Shi’ar, Brood, and Starjammers will all feature in Jonathan Hickman and Leinil Francis Yu’s “X-Men” this March, according to Newsarama. Marvel’s full solicitations will release later this month.
– Star Trek: Picard has already been renewed for a second season, in advance of next month’s series premiere. Deadline has more on the ongoing voyages of Captain Picard and co.
– IGN posted the first trailer for WB’s Superman: Red Son adaptation, featuring the voice talents of Jason Isaacs as Kal-El, Amy Acker as Lois Lane, and Diedrich Bader as Lex Luthor. You can watch the trailer and learn more about the animated movie here.
– Finally, Netflix has declined to renew Daybreak for a second season. The show, a wry Ferris Bueller-style take on the apocalypse (complete with Matthew Broderick), loosely inspired by Brian Ralph’s graphic novel of the same name, was released on October 24, 2019.
