IN JUNE, when a Herblock documentary made its D.C. debut at the AFI Docus Film Fest at the Newseum, Comic Riffs called the project “an elegant and clear-eyed film that provides an inspiring portrait.”

Now, HBO has shown the clear-eyed vision to acquire the film’s U.S. television rights.

Sheila Nevins, the head of HBO Documentary Films, announces today that they’ve acquired the American TV rights to “Herblock: The Black & the White,” which was created by the father-son team of producer George Stevens Jr. and Michael Stevens.

“Herblock” will make its HBO debut on Jan. 27.

HBO previously worked with Team Stevens on 2009’s Obama inaugural concert special and 2011’s “Thurgood.”

Longtime Post political cartoonist Herblock. (Herbert L. Block Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress - . )

WHETHER TALKING of a TV show or a comic strip, it’s not a word you want immediately associated with your creation:

Reruns.

From illness to sabbatical, there are numerous reasons, naturally, why comic creators resort to reruns, In the former case, for instance, Ray Billingsley has allowed repeat “Curtis” strips to run this year while he has recuperated from a reported illness; his feature is scheduled to return with original strips in mid-November. And in the latter case, Garry Trudeau has run “Doonesbury Flashbacks” since June, as he takes a sabbatical to work on his new Amazon Studios show, “Alpha House”; his Pulitzer-winning strip is scheduled to return with originals in mid-November, as well.

Then, though, there is the strange case of “Get Fuzzy.”

United Feature Syndicate launched the strip to quick popularity in 1999, as the tales of single ad exec Rob Wilco and his talk-happy pets (Bucky Katt and Satchel) soon appeared in hundreds of papers. Within several years, creator Darby Conley was receiving praise from his peers — he won the National Cartoonist Society’s Newspaper Comic Strip Award in 2002 — and Stephen King hailed “Get Fuzzy” as “the funniest comic strip on planet Earth.” Several of Conley’s many book collections even landed on the New York Times bestseller list.

But then, more and more, the repeats began to creep in.

That is all especially relevant now, at least to Washington Post readers, because as of next week, “Get Fuzzy” will no longer appear on its comics pages. (The vacated space will be inherited by the Danish strip “Wumo.”)

What gives?

“HANG IN THERE”: Can Bucky and Satchel hold up amid the spate of reruns? (DARBY CONLEY - Universal Uclick )

(BENDIS / CHO / GARCIA - Marvel Comics )

WHETHER WORKING on X-Men or the 2014 film “Guardians of the Galaxy,” Brian Michael Bendis is becoming master of the “big event.”

One of Bendis’ most impactful moments at Marvel, in fact, arrived with the introduction of Morales, the half black, half Puerto Rican Spider-Man who debuted two years ago in Marvel’s Ultimate universe.

Bendis says that Morales is still fun to write, even after the mayhem surrounding the debut died down.

“The only thing I was worried about with Miles, because I had already spent a lot of time with him before [fans] had ever met him, was the audience accepting somebody else as Spider-Man,” Bendis tells Comic Riffs. “I’m hugely relieved that people love him so much.”

THERE’S A NEW OFFERING for Washington Post print readers: Soon, with your breakfast funnies, you can order up the Danish.

Namely, a cartoon-and-comedy duo from Denmark, Mikael Wulff and Anders Morgenthaler, and their new-to-America strip, “Wumo.”

Beginning Monday, “Wumo” — a loosely rendered, single-panel gag strip — will begin appearing on The Post’s funnypages.

“Universal Uclick made a strong case for its new strip,” Post comics producer Donna Peremes tells us of “Wumo,” which the syndicate says has a client list of nearly 200 newspapers.

(The comic will inherit the daily space vacated at week’s end by “Get Fuzzy.” Darby Conley’s strip centering on Rob Wilco and his talking pets “dropped in our polls from 2012 to 2013,” says Peremes, noting that the feature often published reruns.)

“Wumo” first gained regular notice as a webcomic, and launched a decade ago this month as a daily print strip in the Copenhagen-based newspaper Politiken. The strip gradually gained clients in much of Europe; Nov. 4 marks its launch throughout the United States.

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DISTURBIA: A sample of the comic “Wumo,” which hits American shores and lawns next Monday. (Mikael Wulff & Anders Morgenthaler - WUMO.com )

AFTER HOLLYWOOD let its faith in comic-book movies lapse in the wake of the “Batman and Robin”/Joel Schumacher disaster in the late ‘90s, the X-Men saved the day. Director Bryan Singer proved that superhero material, when taken seriously, could make a great movie, and “X-Men” (2000) helped usher in a new era of comic-book cinema.

There have been highs (“X-Men,” “X2”) lows (“X3: The Last Stand”) and successful new beginnings (“X-Men: First Class”). Now, the mutants are making their way back with “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” as the new trailer debuts today.

Here are Comic Riffs’ 5 “X-Men” Takeaway Questions and Answers: