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Monday Trending Topics: Marvel Launches A Marvel Family Title, DC Doesn't
Presuming the titles on this list are accurate, you have to wonder just a little bit about that title. Another chapter in the long, strange, sometimes-troubled history of Marvel-titled comics? Another case of Marvel being Marvel? Maybe a little bit of both, perhaps we'll never know.
Most-Read Comic Stories Today:
Images Of The DC Relaunch From Calgary Expo – How The Flash Costume Fits Together (UPDATE)
Amongst images we see just how the new Flash costume will emerge from the ring and fix together. The look at Batgirl. And the new look for Animal Man.
Marvel To Change The Face Of Newsstand Comics
The titles I have so far are Marvel Adventures, Marvel Chronicles, Marvel Classics, Marvel Essentials, Marvel Family, Marvel Heroes, Marvel Icons, Marvel Initiative, Marvel Knights, Marvel Legends, Marvel Milestones, Marvel Power, Marvel Redux, Marvel Select, Marvel Silver, Marvel Spotlight, Marvel Techno and Marvel Wonders.
But I understand how it works, because quarterly they're accountable to their bosses and they look at what worked in the last quarter – "that big crossover with everyone in it? Let's do another one next quarter", you know? And eventually it is so reductive. The event isn't an event if it's happening all the time.
Most-Read TV/Film Stories Today:
How To Make Sure Christina Hendricks Is Wonder Woman – Step One
Speaking on the red carpet for the US premiere for Drive, his latest and I've-heard-greatest, Refn told Vulture that he's already locked on his ideal casting for Wonder Woman herself, and it's Hendricks he wants.
Doctor Who Break In 2012 – All Part Of Steven Moffat's Grand Master Plan
The Private Eye story about Doctor Who production problems leading to a reduced seventh series airing in 2012, seemed to be at least partially, backed up by a BBC report. Which has not sat well with showrunner Steven Moffat.
Read The Script Then Tell Us: Would Robert Smigel's Green Lantern Have Been The Better Option?
Some seven years ago, Robert Smigel was recruited to script a Green Lantern movie. As the creator of The Ambiguously Gay Duo, he had some experience with adventures in domino masks, or at least comical misadventures. As the creator of this –