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Saturday Trending Topics: Will Neil Gaiman's American Gods Redefine What We Expect From TV?

Sounds like we're at least a year and a half away from knowing for sure, but it's impossible not to be intrigued by the early reports about Neil Gaiman's American Gods tv series with HBO.  Six seasons, a significant budget, "more effects in there than it's been done on a television series", and HBO's rep for doing a job on these things.  Oh, and Neil Gaiman.  They'll get a few extra subscribers for this one, I think.

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Grant Morrison's Superman – The Liberal Activist?

But in February this year, Grant Morrison gave his thoughts about Supermam in an interview where he said;

Those 52 Issue One DC Solicitations In Full…

Who are the Trench? What is the makeup of the JLI? Who is the Gotham Ripper and who is NoBody? Which books are 20 page $2.99 and which are 30 page $3.99? Why not find out with the Bleeding Cool handy dandy 51 #1 September DC Solicitation Checklist.

Enter The DC Relaunch Deadpool!

Fifty-two titles. All monthly. All starting in September. All going day-and-date digital simultaneously – which can need a greater lead time than the printing press. Getting print dates and digital dates to match can be tricky when a publisher is dealing with Diamond on one side and Apple on the other.

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American Gods TV Series To Be "Six-Season, Open-Ended"

All being well, HBO are set to screen a TV adaptation of Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods and the basic vision for the show being shared by producer Gary Goetzman is sounding awfully ambitious.

Shia LaBeouf Says No To Transformers 4 But "Confirms" Indy 5

I know that many Bleeding Cool readers just can't get enough of actor Shia LaBeouf, so here's some quick updates for you to post on your fan blogs. He's made a couple of statements in interviews recently, one saying that he won't be appearing in any more Transformers films, and the other confirming that there's another Indiana Jones flick in the works.

Mini-Peek At The Wonder Woman TV Pilot

But it is a few seconds. Here you go. Wonder Woman, The TV Pilot.

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