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Tuesday Trending Topics: Save City Of Heroes

Tuesday Trending Topics: Save City Of HeroesUm, wow… there were a whole lot of City of Heroes players on BC today. Here's what it's about: This week, the superhero avatars of five thousand players of City Of Heroes, the first superhero MMORG and now under threat of closure by owner NCsoft, gathered online for their first Unity Rally. It was a peaceful rally, there was no sign of rioting, though many people present were wearing masks.  Good luck, folks. You certainly are a dedicated group.

Most-Read Comic Stories Today:

Did Amazon Just Spoil Avengers Vs X-Men A Bit? 

And if you want to avoid spoilers for Avengers Vs X-Men #11, I'd avoid reading any newspaper or news site, or Twitter, or anything (aside from Bleeding Cool, and even then, watch out for the forums) until you get to the comics store. Oh and especially 4chan, because I can confirm those spoilers are all correct.

Five Thousand Strong Crowd Rallies To Save City Of Heroes. Kind Of. 

This week, the superhero avatars of five thousand players of City Of Heroes, the first superhero MMORG and now under threat of closure by owner NCsoft, gathered online for their first Unity Rally. It was a peaceful rally, there was no sign of rioting, though many people present were wearing masks.

Last Week's Comics In Twenty-Three Panels 

In today's special: Green Lantern Simon Baz, Peter Cannon Thunderbolt, Judas (!), more from Spidey's annoying sidekick, Deadpool's new powers and the breaking of Lorna Dane.

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Video: Kate Winslet's Original Titanic Screen Test

As Titanic is being released on Blu-ray today, a lot of archive material is creeping out of the cupboards. The most engaging piece I've seen so far is this screen test for Kate Winslet.

Thor 2 Battle Sequence Snaps – Sif, Smoke, Mystery Monsters And All | Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors

Much as we tried to guess who Loki's army were in The Avengers, here in these Thor 2 images we have some more mysterious… things to speculate about.

Independence Day's "Lovable" Sequels Named And 3D-Shamed | Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors

Roland Emmerich doesn't, he says, like 3D one jot. Next summer, however, his original Independence Day is to be reissued in the format – on July 3rd, for "that weekend" of course.

DC At Baltimore – New 52 Writers Told To "Write As If They Were Writing Fan Fiction"

The DC Panel at Baltimore Comic Con marked the first DC panel following the first year of the New 52. Present were Dan Didio, Scott Snyder, Jeff Lemire, and Greg Capullo. The panel started off with DiDio stating that he skipped Baltimore Comic Con in 2011 because he was afraid of the reaction to the New 52. Other than that, the panel ran like most other DC panels I've been to, so I'll share a few of the juicer bullet points:

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Guardians Of The Galaxy Getting Twisted Take From James Gunn Rewrite

No surprise that Joss Whedon is on Team Gunn. Marvel's mighty mastermind* has been talking to MTV about the studio's new recruit and it sounds like he's very excited.

The Secret Surprise Of Amazing Spider-Man #698

It looks like the same will be happening with Amazing Spider-Man #698. The focus is all on Dan Slott and whatever he is planning to do in issue #700 that will make all the fans hate him and force him to go into hiding


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Mark SeifertAbout Mark Seifert

Co-founder and Creative director of Bleeding Cool parent company Avatar Press. Bleeding Cool Managing Editor, tech and data wrangler. Machine Learning hobbyist. Vintage paper addict.
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