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 either david@multiversitycomics.com or brian@multiversitycomics.com.
– Neal Adams, comics legend and writer/artist of the most batshit crazy Batman story ever, “Batman Odyssey,” appears set to write and draw a new Superman story, “Superman: The Arrival of the Supermen.” Whether this is a miniseries or an original graphic novel is not yet clear, but what is clear is this: this will be the weirdest Superman book you’ll read in the next year or two.
– File this under heartbreaking: in Toronto, there will be a statue erected to a 5 year old child who was starved to death by his grandparents. That isn’t usually a topic we would cover at Multiversity, but there is another upsetting element to this story: DC Comics is not letting the Superman logo appear on the statue. The child, named Jeffrey Baldwin, was a huge fan of superheroes, and was to be depicted in a Superman costume. DC has prevented this, and while there are lots of good reasons to protect your intellectual property, this simply isn’t one of them; DC claims their reason is that they don’t want the logo depicted with child abuse, despite the fact that the situation is celebrating a life ravaged by abuse, and using the Superman emblem as a symbol of hope (insert Man of Steel quote here). I wouldn’t be surprised if public opinion changes their minds, but for right now, this is yet another bad PR move on DC’s part.
– The first footage from Season 5 of The Walking Dead has been released, and it looks like what you’d expect from a teaser for The Walking Dead.
– DC has been all about the line-wide variants lately, and October appears to be no different, with horror-film inspired variants adorning the Halloween-season books. While I am not a huge fan of gimmick covers, when you have Rafael Albuquerque, Chris Burnham, and Neal Adams on covers, I’m slightly more interested. The comics journalism juggernaut BuzzFeed got the exclusive reveal of a few of these covers.
– Stephen Amell has been promising a “big” San Diego Comic Con – and now we have some idea of what he was talking about – he will be guest starring, as himself, in the one-shot “Harley Quinn Invades Comic Con International: San Diego.”
– Shonen Jump is a weekly manga that delivers a staggering amount of content each and every week. Usually, a yearly subscription is $25, which is a steal. However, if you use the promo code wsjax2014, you can get it for only $20 for the year. That is literally thousands of pages of content for less than half a buck a week. That’s insane.
– In your obligatory Star Wars: Episode VII news, there are two new cast members, both of whom got the gig at an open casting call.
– And, finally, pick your comedy video poison: a Batman/Metalocalypse mash up, or Ingmar Bergman’s The Flash.
