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.
– This can’t come as a surprise, but “Avengers Assemble,” the Kelly Sue DeConnick-penned ongoing, is ending in March. The book was launched to feature the team from the Avengers film, and quickly became an ancillary title, not really interacting with many other titles (except for a crossover with DeConnick’s other book, “Captain Marvel”). This is a shame, though, as the book has often been really fun, and was a nice outpost for some smaller Avengers stories, especially once Jonathan Hickman turned the main books into a much more bombastic line.
– The script for X-Men: Days of Future Past has reportedly leaked. We aren’t in the spoiler business, but Bleeding Cool has a recap of the opening scene, if that’s your thing.
– New artist on “The Flash,” Brett Booth, says that we have already seen the New 52’s Wally West, and hinted strongly that he appears on the cover to “The Flash” Annual #3. Speculation has begun – is that Wally in the electric looking suit, or as the spray-painting kid in the background? Booth had one quote in this piece from Newsarama that was especially disconcerting to this long-time Wally fan:
I know what some people are expecting, I know what I’d want. He will be different, for one thing, in the old DCU he was Iris’s sister’s kid. She has a brother now, so things won’t be exactly the same. The original Wally was from a different time, a very Norman Rockwell sort of place. That is no longer the case for anyone in the New 52. He will reflect that, I’m sure.
The quote about Norman Rockwell, coupled with the spray painting image, leads me to believe that Wally West is getting the New 52 Billy Batson treatment. What were once nice kids are now “bad” kids with good hearts, a trope even older than the Norman Rockwell images Booth is referencing. I’ll give this a try, but why you gotta make this so hard on me, DC?
– Bleeding Cool asks if 2014 is the year of the $4.99 price point. If it is, those will be books I will most likely not read.
– Our pal Tom Scioli has some great process work for us upcoming “Transformers Vs. G.I. Joe” book on his website.
– And finally, an incredible, fan made, Pulp Fiction edition of the classic children’s game “Guess Who?” “Does he look like a bitch?” Too perfect.
