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Monday Trending Topics: Joe Mad, Scott Lobdell, Star Wars

Published Mon, 13 Jun 2011 23:39:54 -0500

Last updated Mon, 13 Jun 2011 23:40:06 -0500

DC's hammerlock on the comic book news loosened a bit for the first time in 14 days, as Marvel fans got a taste of the kind of major breaking news they've been waiting for with the announcement of Joe Madureira and Zeb Wells on Avenging Spider-Man. I saw one fan say on twitter that it's just one book in the face of everything that DC has just announced, but remember — we're five weeks out from SDCC. There's probably much more where that came from. And it's quite a start.

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Did The Left Hand Of DC Know What The Right Hand Was Doing?

DC deep a relatively good job of keeping much of the relaunch a secret until release. Some creators have told me that while they knew they were working on an issue 1 relaunch, or a new book, that they had no idea it was part of something bigger till they read it on Bleeding Cool. Some people didn't even know they were on a book until well after the relaunch had started to be announced.

Avenging Spider-Man From Joe Madureira And Zeb Wells from November – Monthly (ART UPDATE)

Zeb added "This is the big super action movie of Spider-Man every month, with Joe Madureira on art… I think we touch on every Avenger in the first issue. Red Hulk is the main guest star, but they're all there."

Scott Lobdell Talks Teen Titans To Bleeding Cool

Christmas week I landed in New York to an email from Bob. I had missed his annual X-Mas party that weekend and figured he just wanted to catch up — it had been years since we spoke for more than five minutes at a time. When I got to DC the next day, I bumped into Jim Lee in the elevator and told him I was there to see Bob for lunch. He said "I know, I'm coming too."

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Eight SFW Shots From Star Wars XXX: A Porn Parody

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Avengers Movie Promotional Poster Debuts At Licensing Expo

Licensing Expo 2011 just opened in Las Vegas and attendee @theonlyesq has given us our first look at a promotional Avengers movie poster debuting there. Looks like a merchandising image rather than an actual movie poster, but a good look at characters and costumes for Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hawkeye, Hulk, and Black Widow — and still very cool.

Star Wars TV Series Has Third-Draft Scripts, Will Shoot In Czech Republic

The best info comes from Rick McCallum, producer of the prequels and the in-development show, in conversation with Czech Position. Recently, McCallum and Lucasfilm shot Red Tails in the Czech Republic, so the question arose about using the same resources and stages for the planned Star Wars show:

VIDEO: The Return To Krypton Scene From Superman Returns

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