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– For reasons unknown, DC Comics have cancelled the sequel to Renae De Liz and Ray Dillon’s “The Legend of Wonder Woman.” (The Multiversity Comics #1 Web Comic/Digital First Book of 2016.) According to De Liz, the “sales wasn’t the reason” the book was axed and the recently released hardcover appeared to be doing “optimisitically well.” I guess we can just chalk it up to DC being DC. In any event, I hope they paid her for the pages she did finish before pulling the plug.
– Here are the judges for the 2017 Eisner Awards.
– Todd Allen wonders why stores are hurting and not looking forward to 2017. Short answer: Diamond is the worst.
– George R. R. Martin has announced the third comic in his “Tales of Dunk and Egg” series. “The Mystery Knight” follows “The Hedge Knight” and “The Sworn Sword”, with a script adapted by Ben Avery and art from Mike S. Miller. It will release in early July and will not be appearing in single issues beforehand.
– Rooney Mara and Jonah Hill have joined the cast of Gus van Sant’s Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot. The film is based off the autobiography of John Callahan, a “subversive quadriplegic cartoonist.” Mara and Hill join Joaquin Phoenix in the title role.
– To the surprise of pretty much no one, Gareth Edwards’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story opened at number one this weekend. This despite a sentiment from white-supremacist-neo-Nazis, who refer to themselves as the “alt-right,” that anti-Trump comments from writer Paul Weitz would hurt its box office chances. The movie pulled in $290 million worldwide, placing only second as the all-time greatest December opener. (Right behind Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, directed by J. J. Abrams.) I hope this movie hits the numbers Disney wants because, following Episode IX, I’d rather see stories set all throughout the galaxy rather than more Skywalker sagas.
