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 rundown@multiversitycomics.com.
– 20th Century Fox released a new trailer for the upcoming X-Men: Apocalypse. Directed by Bryan Singer and starring James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Oscar Issac, Rose Byrne, Olivia Munn, and Alexandra Shipp, this movie serves as the conclusion to The X-Men of Future Past Trilogy. I’m getting some Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie vibes from this trailer. X-Men: Apocalypse is slated to release May 27, 2016.
– DC has announced a brand new anthology comic series: “Legends of Tomorrow.” Coming March 9th, the series will feature such pairings as Keith Giffen and Bilquis Evely on ‘Sugar & Spike’, Aaron Lopresti and Matt Banning on ‘Metamorpho’, Len Wein with Yildiray Cinar and Trevor Scott on ‘Metal Men’, and Gerry Conway, Eduardo Pansica, and Rob Hunter working on ‘Firestorm’. It’s apparently 80 pages long and will cost $8.
– The great Cate Blanchett is allegedly in talks to join the cast for Thor: Ragnarok. The third Thor movie is right now directed by Taika Waititi, though with Kevin Feige still running rampant, who knows how long that will stick. You can also catch Blanchett in theaters right now in Todd Haynes’s Carol.
– This month’s DC Variant Theme has been the polybagged Harley’s Little Black Book covers, where you could get a cover that’s just the pencils of the piece, the inked lineart, or the full piece. Well, it turns out, DC has been sneaking some original art sketches in these polybags too.
– Take some time and read this retrospective about cartoonist Art Young from Art Spiegelman in Harper’s.
– Oh, Fox also released a trailer for the upcoming Independence Day: Resurgence, starring Jeff Goldblum, which is basically all you need to know. Don’t forget, Titan will be releasing a prequel comic series bridging the twenty year gap as well. Let’s hope it’s more “Pacific Rim: Tales from Year Zero” than “Godzilla: Awakening.”
– Finally, in Webcomics Worth Clicking: “Catalist” by Daniel St. George, Jerome Queval, Matt Rockfeller, and others is one of those experimental yet fascinating things you stumble across. It uses the usual comic format . . . sometimes. The characters can break into song, some sets are animated, and there’s even some minigames thrown in. It’s a nutty, exciting fantasy story starring cats because St. George literally just wanted to use the pun.
If there are any webcomics you’d recommend, let me know in te comments!