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.
– Excelsior Burlesque, a New York City-based troupe who specialize in comic, games, and pop culture based performances, staged a tribute to Neil Gaiman called Enter the Sandman. Paste attended the event (warning: it’s somewhat NSFW) and it makes for an interesting experience. Joseph Gordon-Levitt might still slowly be making progress on the film adaptation, but it’s still cool to see Sandman interpreted into other mediums.
– Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale are one of those creator pairs who just work well together. Sale helps mellow some of Loeb’s more Loebish tendencies while Loeb seems to just want to give Sale anything and everything to draw. In September, they’re finishing their Marvel Colors quartet, with Marvel officially announcing “Captain America: White.” The first issue is 64 pages long, so expect plenty of Sale spectacle.
– Comic Bastards takes a look at the Diamond sales numbers for May, and Boom! Studios cracked the top ten in market share. Marvel took the number one spot because of “Secret Wars.”
– Marvel Studios, though, lost some of their top box office spots this weekend, thanks to the dino stomping action that is Jurassic World. Ending it’s weekend with over $204 million domestically and over $500 million internationally (which is the first time that’s ever happened), it broke out of its cage and chomped on Age of Ultron’s opening. I thought Jurassic World was only okay and certainly not up to par with Jurassic Park, but it’s good to know I’m not the only one who loves seeing dinosaurs stomp around. (Though the best-looking ones still came out in 1993.) Anyway, I won’t be surprised if a new comic tie-in is announced soon.
– UK publishers DC Thomson are rolling out their entire back catalog of comics to Comixology over the next several months.
– First Second has started releasing English translations of Bastien Vives’s manga-inspired French comic “Last Man.” Over at TCJ, Vives has an interesting conversation with Morten Harper about comics, the French publishing industry, and manga inspirations.
– Next year, EA is rebooting their Mirror’s Edge franchise with Mirror’s Edge: Catalyst. In preparation of that, Dark Horse is publishing a tie-in series this September by Christofer Emgard, Mattias Haggstrom, Robert Sammelin, Henrik Sahlstrom, and Erik Persson, who are actual artists on the game.
– Were you as annoyed by those stupid DC on-page ads as I was? Well, Dan Didio doesn’t give a shit. He has some interesting comments over at IGN, hinting that not only will we be seeing more of them, but they soon might make their way to the digital editions of the books. Literally, he says, “We are in the business to have ads in our books.”
– This week in Webcomics Worth Clicking: in honor of her recent Nebula win for her short story, “Jackalope Wives,” I think it’s as good a time as any to revisit her stupendous “Digger.” If you haven’t read it yet, you’re in for a treat.
– And finally, the results are in for the Multiversity Reader Poll. After an in-depth look at reality-based comics this week, we asked which book you thought most deserved the Eisner Award. 45% felt it should go to “Hip Hop Family Tree, Vol. 2.” 20% thought “To End all Wars: the Graphic Anthology of the First World War” deserved the title. “Hazardous Tales,” “Dragon’s Breath,” and “Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant” each received 10% of your vote, while “El Deafo” brought it home with 5%. Make sure to check on Friday again for our next reader poll!
