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Friday Trending Topics: Alan Moore, Frank Miller, And #OWS

Published Sat, 03 Dec 2011 00:58:41 -0600

Last updated Sat, 03 Dec 2011 00:58:53 -0600

Fridays are typically not the busiest days of the week on the comics internet, because comics publishers generally break major news on Monday or Tuesday. But today we had FCBD, Watchmen 2, and Moore's reaction to Miller. That's a full day.

Most-Read Comic Stories Today:

Free Comic Book Day – The New 52 To The Old Avengers 12.1

Free Comic Book Day have announced the 2012 Gold level of free comic books, that will be available in all participating stores on May the 5th next year.

Alan Moore Reacts To Frank Miller – "We Have Diametrically Opposing Views"

"Well, Frank Miller is someone whose work I've barely looked at for the past twenty years. I thought the Sin City stuff was unreconstructed misogyny, 300 appeared to be wildly ahistoric, homophobic and just completely misguided. I think that there has probably been a rather unpleasant sensibility apparent in Frank Miller's work for quite a long time. Since I don't have anything to do with the comics industry, I don't have anything to do with the people in it."

Watchmen 2 – Nite Owl, The Comedian And More

But it also unearthed a couple of other potential castings from… let's call them secondary sources. An amber light if you will.

Most-Read TV/Film Stories Today:

Any Doctor Who Movie Would Star The TV Doctor And Not Be A Reboot

I don't think the showrunner of Doctor Who could make it any clearer. Steven Moffat just tweeted;

Bat Abed And Dragonfussball On Last Night's Community

"The night beckons, its black fingers curl and uncurl going hey, c'mere."

Clever-Clever Poster For Goddard And Whedon's Cabin In The Woods

The film's script, by Goddard and Joss Whedon is a series of twists on the "cabin in the woods" horror movie tropes. This poster takes that rather literally.