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Thursday Trending Topics: Age Of Ultron
The world needs more Ultron, just as much as the world needs more Doctor Doom — which is quite a bit indeed. There's divided opinion on this one in the forum, but since I missed it the first time and I've been a huge Ultron fan since I first put together the classic Avengers run, I'll pick up the FCBD version to get myself acclimated to what the subsequent project is going to be about.
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Are The Marvel Pirated Comics An Inside Job?
David Brothers, in a long and thoroughly thought through post, sets the case that Marvel comics made available for illegal download are sourced from art files coming from Marvel itself. Indeed, he makes the case that someone inside Marvel is leaking, citing pages such as the following with lettering flaws – words from a different page on one, or missing tricky fonts on another.
Nightwing Beats Up The Marvel Universe | Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors
We've had Teen Titans burning down the X-Men mansion. Now we have Nightwing symbolically beating up the Marvel Universe.
We already showed you what the DC Free Comic Book Day retailer customizable version would look like. Now we have the Marvel version, only available to retailers who order vast quantities. It's intended to be used in mailshots or attached inside local newspapers, or given away in mass drives, each copy featuring the details of the shop in question. In this case, Third Eye Comics.
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The DC Nation programming block on Cartoon Network starts on March 3rd, and as well as bringing us various exciting new oddities to marvel at (oops), it will also end the five year hiatus for New Teen Titans.
We swear this photo of Katie Cassidy isn't just here for gratuitous reasons. No, this is the closest we could find to the costume that she'll no doubt be donning in the CW network's pilot of their show based on the Green Arrow comics, which is simply called Arrow. According to Deadline, Cassidy has just been cast in the role of Dinah "Laurel" Lance AKA Black Canary.
It's not that there's just one joke in the Johnny English films, it's that they all hinge on the same thing – a tension between the spirit of absurdity locked inside Rowan Atkinson and the straight-faced, Bond-like spy adventure he has somehow ended up surrounded by.