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Monday Trending Topics: Two Kinds Of Endings And One Beginning For Marvel

Published Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:34:48 -0600

Last updated Tue, 08 Nov 2011 09:06:39 -0600

DC may be the current marketshare king, but Marvel took today's mindshare race by sweeping the trending topic comic slots — although not all for positive reasons. It was an interesting Monday for comics news across the board, with one of the industry's most eventful days of digital news ever lurking just outside the top 3.

Most-Read Comic Stories Today:

Now Marvel Cancels Destroyers Series From Fred Van Lente And Kyle Hotz

Two issues may have been fully pencilled by Kyle Hotz. Marvel had announced the mini-series Destroyers a couple of months ago with a targeted promotional campaign. But no sooner had that happened than the book appears to have been cancelled by Marvel.
That's before orders could even have been received on the book. It hadn't even been solicited. Replying to enquiries on Twitter,writer Fred Van Lente tweeted;

The Final Issues Of The Twelve. Honest.

The Twelve, by Joe Michael Straczynski and Chris Weston is not only completed, as Bleeding Cool reported at the end of September. But now Marvel has scheduled it, announced a trade paperback of the first six issues of January, a catch up Must Have volume reprinting issues 7 and 8 for February, and then issues 9 and 10 in February, 11 in March, and 12 in April. Then that's it, done.

Defenders #1 by Matt Fraction and Terry Dodson – A Taster's Menu

This kind of article seemed to be popular for Point One and Fantastic Four #600. So let's do another for the finished Defenders #1. Out in December, this is the last day retailers can order it to guarantee getting it on release day, so it seems opportune. Here are six very non spoilery tastes of what you might be experiencing in December when the book launches.

Most-Read TV/Film Stories Today:

New Stills And (Not Quite) Footage From David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis

David Cronenberg has been out at the Lisbon and Estoril film fest where he held a Q&A; and presented an early rough trailer for his Don De Lillo adaptation, Cosmopolis. A fraction of that trailer has been captured and posted to YouTube.

Star Wars Doesn't Create Psychos, Star Wars Makes Psychos More Creative

Grand Theft Auto made kids shoot at passing cars. Marilyn Manson caused the Columbine High School massacre. Now Star Wars is causing impressionable young nudists to slaughter animals and use them as a sleeping bag.

Liam "Fights With Wolves" Neeson Gets His Glass Knuckles On In New Still From The Grey – UPDATE

A while ago my mind was officially blown by the sight of Liam Neeson strapping broken liqueur bottles to his knuckles in preparation for a toe-to-toe fight with a wolf in the trailer for new action drama The Grey. To celebrate hitting a follower milestone on Twitter, the producers released this brand new still today on the Facebook page for the film.