NS: Inhumans movie canceled, replaced with series on ABC

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Marvel's announcement.

Bleeding Cool article on the BTS politics.

Marvel announced that they will be making an Inhuman series for ABC focusing on Black Bolt and the royal family, with the two-hour pilot premiering in IMAX theaters for two weeks this summer.

This is most likely the final nail in the coffin for the Inhumans movie that was originally announced as being a part of Marvel's Phase 3 movies, before being pushed back.

Off-Topic Tuesday!

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In the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like.

Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat amongst yourselves.

Well, unless you've been living under a rock (You happy, happy person you) you'll be aware of what happened last week. The ramifications of this remain uncertain, but are more than a little unsettling. Stay safe out there (This applies generically, but also specifically)

In other news (and there WAS other news)

The British Government's Brexit strategy seems to be lacking one rather important thing, namely... anything approaching an actual strategy. The united gasps of surprise at this "unprecedented" news would not have drowned out a dormouse with a slight cough.

We had the largest Supermoon in decades which looked super-impressive... if you happened to live in a country not given to Super-cloudy skies and constant drizzle.... thank you British weather patterns.

The supermoon was NOT responsible for the earthquakes in New Zealand which resulted in some loss of life and widespread, and ongoing, disruption and evacuations. If you are a resident there, please be careful!

The complete first wave of LEGO sets for The LEGO Batman Movie have been revealed. As the trailers suggested they're including some wonderfully obscure minifigures, including Calendar Man and Kite-Man from the comics (And Brave and the Bold), The Kabuki Twins from "The Batman" cartoon, and Magpie from "Beware the Batman"... more contentiously perhaps they are also including Tarantula from Nightwing infamy?!?

In other LEGO news, it's been confirmed that LEGO will no longer use xenophobic hate-spewing British rag "The Daily Mail" for their minikit promotions. Which is a relief.

The relentless tide of creative talent that is being lost to us this year is counteracted by the news that Hayao Miyazaki is coming out of retirement (again) for one more film (again). This will be a full length version of Kemushi no Boro, about ‘a tiny, hairy caterpillar’.


And in what I promise is the last piece of LEGO news, the next wave of Dimensions sets hits this week.

Geekdad posted an article about someone sending a fan letter from Madeleine L'Engle (Author of A Wrinkle in Time and others). It's good stuff.

Jay and Miles Xplain the X-Men included something rather special in their latest podcast, a song about the Summers Family Tree... it should come as no surprise that it's 39 verses long and even then is probably the edited version before it was longer than The Edda.

Any good podcast recommendations? I've been giggling myself silly listening to Qwerpline of late.

Inspiration Point: Optimus Prime asks the tough question

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Though they weren't his originally...

( Left without comment or prejudice... well...mostly )

Infamous Iron Man #1

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"Everybody has Doctor Doom misunderstood. Everybody thinks he’s a criminal, but all he wants is to rule the world. Now, if you really think about it objectively, you could just walk up to a police officer and you could say, ‘Excuse me, officer? I want to rule the world.’ He can’t arrest you. It’s not a crime to want to rule the world. It’s unfair that he’s considered a villain. He just wants to rule the world and maybe he could do a better job of it." - Stan Lee

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Flash Gordon: Kings Cross #1 came out this month.

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Like Dynamite's last Flash series, it's written by Jeff Parker.

Unlike Dynamite's last Flash series, it's drawn by Jesse Hamm.

His art's definitely not Evan Shaner's.

( That's not at all a bad thing. )