The Rundown: DC Digital Unveils New Titles, G. Willow Wilson on “X-Men”, and more

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.

– Besides “Wonder Woman ’77”, DC announced two other DC Digital books that will be launching soon in the form of “Mortal Kombat X” and “Fables: The Wolf Among Us”. While both are – in a way – video game spin-offs, it is interesting that the latter is getting a comic given that its parent comic is going away fairly soon. Either way, DC Digital is still pushing strong, which I think is a good angle for them to continue to develop.

– Apparently G. Willow Wilson is taking over “X-Men” at Marvel, if only for the upcoming arc “The Burning World”. Very little was revealed about it, but it’s about time they started getting Wilson some more work after her incredible success on “Ms. Marvel”.

– This piece at Publishers Weekly covers the ICv2 panels at NYCC that featured retailers and publishers talking the state of the business of comics, and it’s a fascinating read with some excellent insight into the changing look of the comic reader and what they want to read.

– At The Walking Dead’s panel this weekend at NYCC, it was revealed that the second half of the season will start on February 8th. Just in time for me to get back from my honeymoon. Thanks, AMC!

– Fred Van Lente teams with Vice to share the “Hidden Language of Comic Book Writers.” It’s a cool little piece, but it’s kind of an amusing title in that it makes comics some sort of lost artifact Indiana Jones is in pursuit of.

– ComicsFix, a Spotify like comics app in which you get unlimited comics for $9.95 a month, announced at NYCC that they’re now partnering with Dynamite to release their books.

– Comics are so hot right now, even People Magazine did a post showing off cosplay from NYCC. We’ve come so far!

– Speaking of. Not that it’s my goal to share articles specifically to rip on them, but there was an article from The Week that is legitimately one of the more stupid and unfounded articles I’ve ever read about the convention scene. A writer who seemingly should know a lot better tries really hard to draw a correlation between the rise of cosplaying and unemployment and an economic downturn, but really, he never gets anywhere close to having evidence to even lightly suggest that. It’s sensationalism and hot garbage, and from studies I’ve read (sources unknown), it’s from a website desperate for traffic from the same people it’s calling unemployed ingrates. Bad form.

– To mirror Zainab Akhtar in her ComicsAlliance article, I don’t care about the toys, but this James Jean Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles piece is my jam.

– This isn’t news, but this cosplayer who mashed up Ronald McDonald with Thor is a god damn saint.