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Comics Take Over TV In 2014/2015 – Thursday Trending Topics

Published Fri, 08 Nov 2013 11:48:25 -0600

Barely a week goes by these days without another announcement of a DC property heading to TV (iZombie and Hourman being the latest). Marvel looks poised to expand on the SHIELD beachhead with its Netflix announcement yesterday, with hints of more to come. There are increasingly frequent announcements and rumors about properties at Image, IDW, Boom, Dark Horse, Avatar, and others. Now, not everything in development will make it to the screen, but it does look like we're entering a golden age of comic book television.

Most-Read TV/Film Stories Thursday:

New Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist and Luke Cage Shows Headed To Netflix In 2015

Marvel have announced that they will be producing four original series for Netflix, focusing on the characters of Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist and Luke Cage. They'll get thirteen hours apiece, screening through Netflix and, in a slightly Avengers-like fashion, culminate in a grand crossover, The Defenders.

Second Trailer For Robocop – This Is More Like It

In the opening minute of this new Robocop trailer (after the intro by director Jose Padhila, that is), you'll see some of the footage that impressed me most at Comic-Con. We have Samuel L. Jackson as a TV news show host – in so much as these things are news, I'm not sure the US actually has much news TV anymore outside of PBS, does it? – and footage of Robocop-style drones on patrol in the Middle East.

Stephen Colbert On Marvel's New Muslim Superhero – "For Pete's Sake, They're On The No Fly List"

The Colbert Report last night jumped on the Ms Marvel story from the last few days.

Most-Read Comic Stories Thursday:

Those Ten New X-Men/Avengers Variants From Avengers #24.NOW (UPDATE – And The Covers They Are Based On)

Here are the ten new variant covers for Avengers #24.NOW, being distributed in bunches of five to retailers who order enough copies of the standard version of the comic. Each shoes the X-Men and the Avengers swapping places in homages to their famous covers. I'm going to try and line up the originals with as many as I can… why not help out on Twitter, Facebook or in the comments?

Marvel's The Watcher To Die In May 2014?

That's what this very official image seems to suggest…

When Laurie Penny Became An Iron Man Character (Update – Also Abigail Brady)

Laurie Penny is a British author and journalist, She is a contributing editor for New Statesmen and, as her website states "writes and speaks on social justice, pop culture, gender issues and digital politics for The Guardian, The Independent, Vice, Salon, The Nation, The New Inquiry and more."

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