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Tuesday Trending Topics: Will Action Comics #1 Be Readily Available For $2.99 In September?

Published Tue, 17 May 2011 23:56:29 -0500

Last updated Wed, 18 May 2011 02:29:53 -0500

Because that's the book I'd really, really like to see the line held on. But the weirdness of restarting 73+ year old titles aside — and who knows if DC would do that — reboots have been the talk of the town today. On an industry-wide level, they seem to happen in comics every 15 years or so. More or less. Within company superhero lines, they feel increasingly frequent, like those regular Windows service packs that you're never quite sure are doing any good or not. Sometimes, like in Crisis on Infinite Earths, they are memorable and interesting. Other times, less so.

But as @larrymarder reminded us in #comicmarket today. The most effective reboot of all time was instigated by the Flash. Will the post-Flashpoint world hold the same promise?

Most-Read Comic Stories Today:

DC Looking To Relaunch Everything In September

Ten years after the world changed, looks like the DC world will be changing too. Bleeding Cool has already talked about a major renumbering of DC's books post-Flashpoint. And it looks like that will occur the first week of September, across the DCU board, with everything going back to #1.

DC Are Bringing You The Dark

Put on your speculation goggles…. now!

Gene Ha! Exclusive! At DC Comics!

It's been common of late for companies to sign artists exclusively to work for a company and then bellow it from the rooftops. Like an more expensive version of Pokemon, but played across comics news site home pages rather than the schoolyard.

Most-Read TV/Film Stories Today:

Neil Gaiman Talks Doctor Who. Or Types It. You Know What I Mean

As part of a live question and answer session on the Guardian newspaper website, Neil Gaiman talked about the process of writing The Doctor's Wife, the episode that aired last weekend. And there was insight upon insight…

First Trailer For Tintin Brings The Moody

As well as just generally keeping the onscreen faces in shadow or out of focus, the first trailer for The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn goes out of its way to avoid any on-screen lip sync, and then… something odd happens in the last shot. Ah well. I'm sure there will be more footage along soon enough, and we can see the quality of facial performance and mouth animation th

The Muppets Poster Looks A Lot Nicer Now

There's an official online release for The Muppets now, and if you've ever wanted to look at their little floppy legs, your best chance ever has arrived.