The Rundown: DC Loses Two More Editors, Mark Waid Talks Business of Comics, 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.

– Former DC editorial staff members Katie Kubert and Kyle Andrukiewicz have found new roles at other comic companies pending DC’s big move west, as Kubert mosied onto her former boss Mike Marts’ team over at Marvel (she’ll be working on the X-Books and Guardians world) while Andrukiewicz moved over to Valiant. Both are New York based, as DC is currently, so the moves are unsurprising, but that is the second major loss DC has seen from their vaunted Batline, as both Kubert and Marts left from that line to work at Marvel. These will certainly not be the last losses DC sees, but I have to wonder what kind of impact this is having given the struggle their editorial department is perpetually having even at full strength.

– In CBR’s Sunday Conversation, Paul Montgomery has a very excellent conversation with Mark Waid about the business of comics now that he is a retailer, overdosing on media, why he loves the Flash, his rituals he had as a reader when he was a kid, and much more. It’s a cool interview that finds Waid being pretty open about some very random things.

– Simon Pegg comments on Edgar Wright’s departure from “Ant-Man”, getting a bit into the mind of Wright and saying that – which many would agree with – it’s Marvel’s loss in the long run. Oh Simon, it’s everyone’s loss.

– Over at Bleeding Cool, Rich looks into comments from Tom Brevoort and Peter David made at this weekend’s NYCC: Special Edition about the Fantastic Four.

– In case you were concerned, Bloodshot will be returning to Valiant in a solo title in October, with no re-numbering. No sir, it will arrive with a big ol’ #24 on it.

– San Francisco’s weekly alternative newspaper SF Weekly released an issue was entirely in comic form. Editorials, articles, columns…you name it, they were all comics. I have nothing else to add besides this being very, very cool.

– Finally, Heidi at the Beat is right: the dog Captain America cosplayer WAS the best thing at NYCC: SE.