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Friday Trending Topics: Bendis By Day, Image By Night
Whew. Now that's a busy — and diverse — comics Friday. Start off with an emerging new print comics distribution model (and let me make mention of retail group New England Comic Retailer Alliance's role in the developing ComixTribe story, which I too find fascinating), add a big batch of Bendis X-Men in the middle, and close out the day with a barrage of Image Expo news. That's an interesting day in comics.
And Rich is heading to London Super Comic Convention this morning…
Most-Read Comic Stories Today:
Brian Bendis To Take Over The X-Men Books
We know that Avengers Vs X-Men is meant to have some major changes for the Marvel Universe. Honest, this time. Well, this looks like the first of them.
Another Artist, The Same Publisher, Another Lack Of Payment
Two days ago, I reported that an artist had been in touch with Bleeding Cool over unpaid bills for a comic they'd drawn last year, that now had stopped responding to them. Ten minutes later, after an email from me, the publisher got in touch, offering a payment plan that was accepted.
When Letters Pages Go Anti-Gay
The letters page above has been doing the rounds online, with Christos Gage answering reader concerns over the presence of gay characters in Avengers Academy. It's a long and considered letter, as is the response. But the Bendis Board found another, less considered back and forth from Gen 13 #5 back in the mid nineties. Sent by a Patrick Gleason no less, who would go on to be a professional comic book artist, currently drawing Batman And Robin…
Most-Read TV/Film Stories Today:
Star Trek Set Pictures: Cumberbatch, Spock, Uhura And The Shape Of A Monster… Thing
In case you might consider the following images and information to be spoilers, let's start with the big warning sign.
Joel Kinnaman Is Your New Robocop
The much-coveted role of Robocop in Jose Padilha's reboot looks set to go to Joel Kinnaman. MGM have made him an offer and, honestly, I'll eat my weird titanium helmet if he passes.
Over at The Lord of the Rings Project you'll find Emil Johansson's labour of love, a colossal family tree listing an absolutely ridiculous number of Middle Earth characters and tracing their bloodlines. Because the "Everybody In" view is verging on the confusingly complex, you also have the option to sort by ethnicity with tabs for Dwarves, Hobbits and, essentially, everybody else.
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