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.
– Whoopsie, Mutt! It appears that everyone’s favorite Transformers star/Indiana Jones progeny, Shia LaBeouf has red-handedly ripped off Dan Clowes by adapting, without credit, the Clowes story “Justin M. Damiano.” The LaBeouf short film, titled HowardCantor.com, begins with the exact same narration as the comic, and continues to ape it throughout. Shia later apologized via his Twitter account, but you can tell that no one is really ready to call it Even Stevens yet. The film, which debuted online yesterday, is currently password protected.
– In a piece of very nice news, DC has acquired the original artwork for Al Plastino’s “Superman’s Mission For President Kennedy” story, and has donated it to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, which was one of the late Plastino’s final wishes. Nice job on this one, DC.
– Speaking of DC, other publishers (especially Marvel and Image) could learn from their simple interface in the “Comics” section of their website. The new redesign makes it even easier to navigate, with lots of information easily accessible. This is what makes comics journalists happy.
– Skottie Young has debuted his design for this year’s Free Comic Book Day t-shirt.
– You have to see this incredible Batman graffiti for yourselves. For reals.
– The Lego Hobbit game is on its way to release and, hopefully, to my living room.
– And finally, the New Yorker’s Emily Nussbaum really doesn’t like The Walking Dead.
