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Saturday Trending Topics: Geek Girls Got Game

Published Sun, 17 Apr 2011 00:30:37 -0500

Last updated Sun, 17 Apr 2011 00:30:48 -0500

We've had some interesting conversations this week in response to the New York Times' review of the HBO series adapting George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones, instigated by BC guest writers Sarah Louise of Geek Girl on the Street and Kat Rocha of Titanium Rain. I can't help but think that this is the latest sign of the former paper of record disconnecting from a readership it no longer understands. Here is today's continuing news revolution live and in progress:

Most-Read Comic Stories Today:

100 Bullets To Be Collected In Omnibus Volumes

It looks like Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso's 100 Bullets is to be collected by DC Vertigo in omnibus-style volumes from October, the first weighing in at 608 pages.

Moriarty #1 From Image – Orders Due On Monday

I mean, it happened with Nonplayer and Butcher Baker so what hope does anyone have. And it looks like Green Wake is joining the party too.

The Complete Major Bummer From Dark Horse Comics

And our day has come. In July, Dark Horse will publish the complete collection of the series, long denied us by DC. It helps that Arcudi and Mahnke are also a long time Dark Horse comics collaborators, including a sizeable stint on The Mask comic – which is probably how they got the Major Bummer gig in the first place.

Most-Read TV/Film Stories Today:

Is This The Officially Registered Plot Premise For The Man Of Steel?

Yep, it's an expanded version of something we've heard before, a few words from a well discussed "casting breakdown" for the film. I never managed to get my hands on that breakdown, but I know some reputable people who vouched for it existing.

Geek Girl On The Street Reports: New York Times Sets Feminist Movement Back With Game Of Thrones Review

I know, I know, I'm a girl – what reason could I possibly have for wanting to read about and, God forbid, watch a show that is blatantly "boy fiction patronizingly turned out to reach the population's other half?"

Movie Version Of Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns In The Works

Bleeding Cool have heard from multiple sources (enough with the multiples already) that work is underway on a movie adaptation of Frank Miller and Klaus Janson's classic The Dark Knight Returns. As you might have guessed, however, this is to be an animated adaptation, much like the recent All Star Superman or in-the-works Year One.