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.
In case you missed it yesterday, AHOY Comics announced a sequel to 2019s Second Coming titled Second Coming: Only Begotten Son, NBCUniversal is launching the new comics publishing venture UCP Graphic, IDW announced Scarenthood, Genius Brands announced plans for a new Stan Lee Universe, and Tom King and Jorge Fornes are staring deep into some ink blots with the Black Label maxiseries Rorschach.
We also spoke with writer Sara Kenny and producer Dr. Bella Starling on their contributions to the new sci-fi Webtoon PLANET DIVOC-91, as well as with Engineward creators George Mann and Joe Eisma.
Cover by Jakub Rebelka
The previously announced BOOM! Studios graphic novel Origins is being converted into a limited series. The Beat has the exclusive news that the sci-fi book from creators Arash Amel, Joseph Oxford and Lee Toland Krieger will move from its October date. Written by Clay McLeod Chapman, with art by Jakub Rebelka, colors by Patricio Delpeche, and letters by Jim Campbell, Origins finds the genius David Adams, whose inventions caused the destruction of the human race, resurrected into a future one thousand years after the extinction of humanity. The books format conversion follows a similar move last month by the BOOM! Studios book Wynd from James Tynion IV, Michael Dialynas, and Aditya Bidikar. Origins #1 is now set for release in November.
Image Comics and writer Donny Cates have teased a cryptic new Anti-Event for the ages. Via GamesRadar, both Cates and the publisher revealed a teaser for the upcoming series Crossover, which will serve as a reunion between Cates and his God Country collaborators, artist Geoff Shaw and letterer John J. Hill. The trio will be joined on the book by colorist Dee Cunniffe. Superheroes arent myths. theyre viruses and theyre spreading Cates teased on Twitter. Crossover #1, whatever it might be, will hit shelves in November.
Marvels Free Comic Book Day offering X-Men #1 revealed a new series from writer Tom Taylor, artist Iban Coello, colorist Brian Reber, and letterer Joe Sabino. Via ComicBook.com, the announcement for the new series Dark Ages featured the tagline Where were you when the lights went out? A saga of the Marvel Universe. The FCBD issue offered a first look at the series, showing Iron Man, Pepper Potts, and Captain America, as a wave of green energy floats over New York City, disabling all electrical elements in the vicinity including Iron Mans suit. Further details on the series have yet to be revealed, but the book is set for release in Fall 2020.
Collider has the trailer for the upcoming documentary Feels Good Man. The film, which received positive reviews and a Special Jury Award during its premiere earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival, follows underground cartoonist Matt Furie, who battled to regain control of his creation Pepe the Frog after it was coopted to become an unlikely symbol of white supremacists. The trailer traces the larger arc of the film, following Pepes journey as one of the Internets earliest memes to one of its most notorious racist images, and Furies attempts to fight back and change the narrative. Feels Good Man premieres on August 14 on Apple TV+.
The Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo has announced that artist Nate Powell (March) will serve as Special Guest Judge for the MICE Mini-Grant Awards this year. MICE will award 30 small grants of $100 each to the creators of previously unpublished print mini-comics, and Powell will select one winner from among the grantees to receive the $500 grand prize. Applications for the Mini-Grant Awards are open through August 1, and you can find more information at the MICE website.
The cast of Edgar Wrights Scott Pilgrim vs. the World reunited for a 10th anniversary table read this summer, and Entertainment Weekly is set to premiere the video of the event next week on Monday, July 20 at EW.com. The table read, which included stars Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Chris Evans, Aubrey Plaza, Ellen Wong, Kieran Culkin, Mark Webber, Johnny Simmons, Alison Pill, Satya Bhabha, Mae Whitman, Brandon Routh, and Jason Schwartzman, is a benefit for the charity Water for People and a part of Entertainment Weeklys Fandom Week.
The upcoming video game Marvels Avengers has set the dates for its beta release. Via ComicBook.com, the beta will feature three phases beginning in August. On August 7, players who pre-ordered the title for PS4 will receive access to the beta, followed by Xbox One and PC on August 14, and the open beta release on August 21. The full release of Marvels Avengers is scheduled for September 4.
Via TV Wise, Jetpack Distribution has acquired the global distribution rights for the sci-fi animated series NEW-GEN, adapted from the Marvel comic of the same name. The series is set to star Stranger Thingss Finn Wolfhard, and his real life brother Nick Wolfhard, as twins who pull double duty as ordinary teenagers and nanotech enhanced superheroes in a futuristic utopia. Anya Chalotra also stars in the series, which is currently in pre-production.
Read the original:
The Rundown: July 16, 2020 - Multiversity Comics
- What Pepe The Frog's Death Can Teach Us About ... - NPR.org [Last Updated On: February 11th, 2018] [Originally Added On: February 11th, 2018]
- The Truth About Pepe The Frog And The Cult Of Kek [Last Updated On: March 16th, 2018] [Originally Added On: March 16th, 2018]
- Heat Street Apologizes for Saying Pepe the Frog Isn't Anti ... [Last Updated On: March 16th, 2018] [Originally Added On: March 16th, 2018]
- Pep Le Pew - Wikipedia [Last Updated On: September 28th, 2018] [Originally Added On: September 28th, 2018]
- Amazon.com: Pepe Scream: Appstore for Android [Last Updated On: February 20th, 2019] [Originally Added On: February 20th, 2019]
- Zara Loses Its Skirt Over Pepe the Frog - The New York Times [Last Updated On: February 25th, 2019] [Originally Added On: February 25th, 2019]
- An Obituary For The Painfully Misunderstood Pepe The Frog ... [Last Updated On: March 29th, 2019] [Originally Added On: March 29th, 2019]
- Pepe the Frog - Wikipedia [Last Updated On: March 29th, 2019] [Originally Added On: March 29th, 2019]
- I 'stormed' Area 51 and it was even weirder than I imagined - The Guardian [Last Updated On: September 28th, 2019] [Originally Added On: September 28th, 2019]
- What the uncanceling of Pepe the Frog just for HK protests, though tells us about US media - RT [Last Updated On: September 28th, 2019] [Originally Added On: September 28th, 2019]
- How the alt-right co-opted the OK hand sign to fool the media - The Guardian [Last Updated On: October 3rd, 2019] [Originally Added On: October 3rd, 2019]
- The 'OK' Hand Gesture Is Now Listed As A Symbol Of Hate - NPR [Last Updated On: October 3rd, 2019] [Originally Added On: October 3rd, 2019]
- Pepe the protest frog? Hong Kong kids aren't alt-right - FRANCE 24 [Last Updated On: October 3rd, 2019] [Originally Added On: October 3rd, 2019]
- Why Joker is unlikely to inspire real-world violence - Vox.com [Last Updated On: October 16th, 2019] [Originally Added On: October 16th, 2019]
- How Area 51 memes enticed a generation to Naruto run at a military base - The Independent [Last Updated On: November 12th, 2019] [Originally Added On: November 12th, 2019]
- Theater Review: The Slow Launch and Rapid Rise of Dr. Rides American Beach House - Vulture [Last Updated On: November 12th, 2019] [Originally Added On: November 12th, 2019]
- Inside the extreme right-wings plan to take over campus conservatism - Raw Story [Last Updated On: November 12th, 2019] [Originally Added On: November 12th, 2019]
- Hong Kong and Cartoons: Art and Its Influence in the Pro-Democracy Protests - The Bagpipe [Last Updated On: November 12th, 2019] [Originally Added On: November 12th, 2019]
- How Donald Trump Jr. Landed Smack in the Middle of a Right-Wing Civil War - The Daily Beast [Last Updated On: November 12th, 2019] [Originally Added On: November 12th, 2019]
- Trump, Israel and anti-Semitism: How white nationalists are rattling the American right - Haaretz [Last Updated On: December 2nd, 2019] [Originally Added On: December 2nd, 2019]
- Hong Kongers mark half year protest anniversary with huge rally - Capital FM Kenya [Last Updated On: December 13th, 2019] [Originally Added On: December 13th, 2019]
- Our Top 5 Fav Memes From The Decade - 5Why [Last Updated On: December 13th, 2019] [Originally Added On: December 13th, 2019]
- Worst tweet of the decade was the Vita Coco urine tweet - Business Insider [Last Updated On: December 13th, 2019] [Originally Added On: December 13th, 2019]
- Overwhelming illustrations put the internet in your eyeballs - Fast Company [Last Updated On: December 13th, 2019] [Originally Added On: December 13th, 2019]
- Decade list: Top trends and memes - UNR The Nevada Sagebrush [Last Updated On: December 13th, 2019] [Originally Added On: December 13th, 2019]
- White Power Hand Signal Used During Army-Navy Game - West Point, Annapolis Investigating - Jim Heath TV [Last Updated On: December 18th, 2019] [Originally Added On: December 18th, 2019]
- Alexander the Bot: The Twitter War for the Macedonian Soul - Balkan Insight [Last Updated On: December 18th, 2019] [Originally Added On: December 18th, 2019]
- Ive Been Reporting From the Front Lines of the Hong Kong Protests. Heres What It Taught Me About the Power of Art - artnet News [Last Updated On: December 18th, 2019] [Originally Added On: December 18th, 2019]
- From sexting to politics: How emoji evolved this decade - The Next Web [Last Updated On: December 18th, 2019] [Originally Added On: December 18th, 2019]
- The memes that defined the 2010s - Vox.com [Last Updated On: December 18th, 2019] [Originally Added On: December 18th, 2019]
- When the O.K. Sign Is No Longer O.K. - The New York Times [Last Updated On: December 18th, 2019] [Originally Added On: December 18th, 2019]
- The hope of Chanukah - The Spectator USA [Last Updated On: December 26th, 2019] [Originally Added On: December 26th, 2019]
- The Top 10 Memes That Defined the Decade - Highsnobiety [Last Updated On: December 26th, 2019] [Originally Added On: December 26th, 2019]
- We wish we'd written that: STAT staffers share their favorite stories of 2019 - STAT [Last Updated On: December 26th, 2019] [Originally Added On: December 26th, 2019]
- Hide the Pain Harold is the meme of the decade (according to Imgur) - The Next Web [Last Updated On: January 16th, 2020] [Originally Added On: January 16th, 2020]
- Sorry Racist Friend, That MLK Quote You Posted Yesterday Meant Nothing Coming From You - Moms [Last Updated On: January 25th, 2020] [Originally Added On: January 25th, 2020]
- Hong Kong rings in Chinese New Year with protest-themed gifts - Quartz [Last Updated On: January 25th, 2020] [Originally Added On: January 25th, 2020]
- Big premieres in the Big Sky: 149 films at Big Sky Film Fest - Montana Kaimin [Last Updated On: February 13th, 2020] [Originally Added On: February 13th, 2020]
- Sundance: Feels Good Man charts a path of redemption for Pepe - TechCrunch [Last Updated On: February 13th, 2020] [Originally Added On: February 13th, 2020]
- Pepe the Frog - adl.org [Last Updated On: February 13th, 2020] [Originally Added On: February 13th, 2020]
- The 1975s New Meme-Heavy Video Will Make You Feel 1,000 Years Old - Vulture [Last Updated On: February 24th, 2020] [Originally Added On: February 24th, 2020]
- What is the 'boogaloo'? How online calls for a violent uprising are hitting the mainstream - NBC News [Last Updated On: February 24th, 2020] [Originally Added On: February 24th, 2020]
- Civil war talk takes on a life of its own as far-right extremists coalesce around the Boogaloo - AlterNet [Last Updated On: February 29th, 2020] [Originally Added On: February 29th, 2020]
- SXSW Review: 'Feels Good Man' documents the rise of Pepe the Frog - Vanyaland [Last Updated On: March 24th, 2020] [Originally Added On: March 24th, 2020]
- Meme of The Decade - The Banner Newspaper [Last Updated On: March 24th, 2020] [Originally Added On: March 24th, 2020]
- 10 ways to spot online misinformation - The Conversation US [Last Updated On: March 31st, 2020] [Originally Added On: March 31st, 2020]
- AFLW star Tayla Harris and the kick that ignited the trolls - then punted them to the sidelines - The Age [Last Updated On: April 26th, 2020] [Originally Added On: April 26th, 2020]
- How Pepe the Frog Became a Nazi Trump Supporter and Alt ... [Last Updated On: April 27th, 2020] [Originally Added On: April 27th, 2020]
- What Does Pepe the Frog Mean? | Memes by Dictionary.com [Last Updated On: April 27th, 2020] [Originally Added On: April 27th, 2020]
- Boogaloo Extremists, Banned From Facebook, and the Hawaiian Shirt - The New York Times [Last Updated On: July 7th, 2020] [Originally Added On: July 7th, 2020]
- Incels: Alienated Men And Violence In The Digital Age - Rantt Media [Last Updated On: July 7th, 2020] [Originally Added On: July 7th, 2020]
- Drive-In Film Fest Has Debut - Micromedia Publications [Last Updated On: July 7th, 2020] [Originally Added On: July 7th, 2020]
- Qiana Di Bari, Owner of Sale Pepe in Lahaina, On Racism in the Food Business and Why She Feels At Home On Maui - HONOLULU Magazine [Last Updated On: July 7th, 2020] [Originally Added On: July 7th, 2020]
- Inside 'Boogaloo' movement 'armed to the teeth' and calling for overthrow of US - Daily Star [Last Updated On: July 11th, 2020] [Originally Added On: July 11th, 2020]
- What is frog TikTok, and why does it so often cross over with lesbian TikTok? - Metro.co.uk [Last Updated On: July 14th, 2020] [Originally Added On: July 14th, 2020]
- There's a documentary on the way about Pepe the Frog - entertainment.ie [Last Updated On: July 21st, 2020] [Originally Added On: July 21st, 2020]
- Most Googled things by US states over past 10 years including Kim Kardashian, Baby Shark and Fortnite - The Sun [Last Updated On: July 22nd, 2020] [Originally Added On: July 22nd, 2020]
- Disney Plus "Muppets Now" Zoom Video Call With Kermit the Frog And Friends - We Are Movie Geeks [Last Updated On: July 22nd, 2020] [Originally Added On: July 22nd, 2020]
- Pepe the Frog Creator Tries to Reclaim Meme in Feels Good Man Doc Trailer - Rolling Stone [Last Updated On: July 22nd, 2020] [Originally Added On: July 22nd, 2020]
- 'Feels Good Man' Will Try To Save Pepe The Frog, The Innocent Cartoon That Became A Hate Symbol - esquire.com [Last Updated On: July 22nd, 2020] [Originally Added On: July 22nd, 2020]
- What Does The "Pepe The Frog" Meme Mean? | YourTango [Last Updated On: July 25th, 2020] [Originally Added On: July 25th, 2020]
- Trailer for Award-Winning Doc FEELS GOOD MAN Takes Viewers on an Artist's Journey to Reclaim His Creation 'Pepe the Frog' - GeekTyrant [Last Updated On: July 27th, 2020] [Originally Added On: July 27th, 2020]
- How 'Pepe the Frog' went from harmless to hate symbol ... [Last Updated On: July 27th, 2020] [Originally Added On: July 27th, 2020]
- Pepe the Frog - Dictionary.com [Last Updated On: July 27th, 2020] [Originally Added On: July 27th, 2020]
- Muppets, murderers and a new 'Star Trek' are among 10 things to watch on TV - Salt Lake Tribune [Last Updated On: July 31st, 2020] [Originally Added On: July 31st, 2020]
- Young Men, Alienation and Violence in the Digital Age - Fair Observer [Last Updated On: July 31st, 2020] [Originally Added On: July 31st, 2020]
- Muppets Now: Together Again, With a Touch of Amnesia - Rolling Stone [Last Updated On: July 31st, 2020] [Originally Added On: July 31st, 2020]
- Former Overwatch Pro Silkthread Reveals Blizzard Tried To Fine Him $1000 For Pepe The Frog Tweet - Bounding Into Comics [Last Updated On: August 5th, 2020] [Originally Added On: August 5th, 2020]
- How White Nationalists Weaponize Motherhood - The Cut [Last Updated On: August 7th, 2020] [Originally Added On: August 7th, 2020]
- The Hate-Fueled Rise of r/The_Donaldand Its Epic Takedown - WIRED [Last Updated On: August 9th, 2020] [Originally Added On: August 9th, 2020]
- Donald Trump Jr. has a long history of spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories online - Insider - INSIDER [Last Updated On: August 10th, 2020] [Originally Added On: August 10th, 2020]
- Open Air Cinema and Streaming Series Continue at The Loft - Tucson Weekly [Last Updated On: September 12th, 2020] [Originally Added On: September 12th, 2020]
- How Pepe the Frog's Creator Rescued Him From the Alt-Right - Daily Beast [Last Updated On: September 12th, 2020] [Originally Added On: September 12th, 2020]
- You Can't DM People on 4chan: Arthur Jones and Giorgio Angelini on Pepe the Frog Documentary Feels Good Man - Filmmaker Magazine [Last Updated On: September 12th, 2020] [Originally Added On: September 12th, 2020]
- Pepe the Frog Mutates from a Far Right Meme Into a Lovable, Far Gone Figure in Feels Good Man - The Texas Observer [Last Updated On: September 12th, 2020] [Originally Added On: September 12th, 2020]
- An Artist Tries to Save Pepe the Frog From Fascists - Hyperallergic [Last Updated On: September 12th, 2020] [Originally Added On: September 12th, 2020]
- Movie review: New doc chronicles chilling tale of Pepe the Frog - Online Athens [Last Updated On: September 12th, 2020] [Originally Added On: September 12th, 2020]
- Documentary details how Pepe the Frog became the mascot of white supremacy - The State Press [Last Updated On: October 8th, 2020] [Originally Added On: October 8th, 2020]
- Pepe the Frog finds redemption in the Amazon documentary 'Feels Good Man' - Idaho State Journal [Last Updated On: October 8th, 2020] [Originally Added On: October 8th, 2020]
- Ladbrokes Casino bonus: how good is the 2020 welcome offer? - Telegraph.co.uk [Last Updated On: October 10th, 2020] [Originally Added On: October 10th, 2020]