Jeez, really, Marvel? You're going to just go right out there and explore the exact same themes that DC just did with Final Crisis? You couldn't let a couple years go by, first?

Mockingbird? MOCKINGBIRD?!

Wow. If memory serves, Mephisto killed her, right? I guess there is some credence to Mephisto being the next big bad guy in Marvel's next event...

Doctor Who ... 11 days to kick off

Donna is the assistant that goes bad / Daleks are the ones that bring back Rose / oh the rumour mill in the UK is un-ending!

Wonder if we get to see Queen Elizabeth I storyline in this series (haven't heard that anyhting that suggests that is ... but they need to write this one before the current regenerates as QE1 recognised David Tennant's Doctor)

Any other Who fans about?

You know how people hate Lucas, and Christian wassface? That's how i hate Will Ferrel..

Adam Sandler? let hope you never decide one of his flicks is SF, because i hates him worser.

Open Letter to Joe Quesada, Marvel Editor and Chief:
Sorry brah, you ain't gonna win me over with Skrulls.
Until Wolverine appears in a maximum of three titles only, I ain't buying.
Literally.

@EmEwing: There are quite a few of us about these parts. No worries, you will have plenty of company on the Doctor Who posts.

@DeepFriar: NO! WOLVERINE IS MARVEL'S ENTIRE LINE! HE MUST APPEAR IN ALL THE TITLES!

So, if Nightcrawler is suddenly a Skrull and has been for years, then nothing from th....

You know what it's just too damn hard. I'll just close my eyes, pretend it's not happening.

They just fixed the Colossus mess, and now they're going to screw up Nightcrawler? Way to go Marvel... I'm going to go read some more Darkhorse titles now.

@EmEwing: Any other Who fans about?

Baba O'Reilly, baby, YEAH!!!!!

...Oh. You meant *Doctor* Who...

Uhm, yeah. There is just the very faintest of possibilities that one or two fans of that little British SF offering may wander around this humble blog.

*raises suspicious, Tennant-esque eyebrow at you*

@Xithor: In regards to the state of "storytelling" by the editorial boards of the esteemed DC and Marvel Comics companies, the Honorable Member from Chicago refers you to her comment of the previous session:

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(BORED NOW!)
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@braak: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Can't wait for the same thing to happen to The Tick.

@JennaW: The last time I was in a bookstore, I thumbed through the comics, just to see what was up. Imagine my surprise to find that nothing makes sense any more.

BTW, welcome back to the fold. I didn't have time to bake a cake. :)

@JennaW: Well said. It has been a bleak several years hasn't it?

@NefariousNewt:
@Xithor:

That which does not bore me:

-The new Blue Beetle is consistently great
-Wonder Woman is off to a good start with writer Gail Simone
-and I actually think Supergirl has quietly become very good over the past several months

Skrulls...the best thing for that long summer snooze...

Does Shia LaBoeuf have to be in every movie that I want to see? Is he going to show up in The Watchmen next? Maybe they could fit him into the Doctor Who specials next year.

Manhunter is coming back in June.

@JennaW: Ditto on Blue Beetle and Simone's WW. I had heard that Supergirl had stopped being awful, but I didn't dare to hope...

@NefariousNewt: Yeah. Why do I think they're not imitating at all, and actually think they just came up with this idea?

This is why I only really read the Ultimate Marvel comics. At least they learn from Marvel's past mistakes.

I think, in about ten years, things will become so convoluted and confused and messy, that marvel will make the original universe implode for some reason, destroying everything, and then they will switch over to the Ultimate series (which they will mess up as well)

either that, or they will restart the original universe.

I wish there was a way to punch all of Marvel in the face.

I'll go back to my graphic of The Midnighter now.

@Plague: We could get them all lined up for one long stooge slap.

fwhap fwhap fwhap fwhap fwhap fwhap

@Jetts: Doctor Who Specials next year (including christmas special) have already been filmed unfortunately. They finished about a week ago apparently.

@Jetts: *reads Shia's contract*

Uhm, yes. Yes, he does. Paragraph 37, subsection 12:
"...be in every movie that Jetts wants to see."

Bad luck, mate.

Or good? If you're a fan...?

@Emilia: W00t!

2 more weeks! Oh!
Doctor to be boverred!

@EmEwing: Guilty as charged. And by the sounds of it, the Doctor WILL be bovvered, what with her reportedly going bad and all. At least they're doing something new with that character; for the life of me I couldn't understand why they wanted to bring HER back...

@EmEwing: I am going to have to look into these rumors of yours.... Embarrassed that we haven't already featured them.

The only way Secret Invasion could get any worse (or better) is if Stan Lee was a skrull.

@EmEwing specials have not filmed yet. David just wrapped series 4 with teh rest of production wrapping this weekend. In two weeks they start filmed the 2008 xmas special. The next set of specials doesn't start shooting until after summer. Curious about your other rumors.

god my typing is horrid. apologies.

@Charlie Jane Anders: I get most of my gossip from www.sylvestermccoy.com. Although the national newspapers sometimes get it right ... this year the Sun has reportedly got someone on the inside (Who production team or something).

[scifipulse.net] has the spoiler for the filming finishing.

Nostalgia aside, it's not that Land of the Lost was some marvel of realism and quality when it aired ... aye, that's a significant part of the nostalgia, I'd argue. But wouldn't it be nice if it seemed like they were making the tiniest bit of effort? Doesn't it seem like putting Will Ferrell in it is so disrespectful to ... humanity? Why? Aren't there about 5,207 other actors that would have been better? That actually needed a job? That exist for an actual reason? Why does everything have to have that mindless SNLish take even when it was never intended to be ha-ha funny?

I don't know, I shouldnt' say anything... maybe it'll win Best Picture. But you know right now more so than that the sun will rise tomorrow that this movie is already a giant mistake that will suck dirty ass so bad. The thing is, the ingredients they have to work with are pretty exceptional. This movie could be great, but that's clearly not the trajectory.

@jbq: You either love or hate Catherine Tate. I think they need an older actress to play the assistant that goes bad (they'd be more plausible).

Oops just read my last post ... I meant Tate would be that older actress (older than the others)

@EmEwing: FYI sylvestermccoy.com gets all their info from the set reports/spoilers on www.doctorwhoforum.com and adds in a lot of speculation that they deem as fact. i wouldn't trust them for any spoiler/rumor fix.

i think io9 just ate my comment. anyway EmEwing and Charlie Jane if you want rumors/spoilers just go to doctorwhoforum.com. sylvestermccoy.com basically gets all their info from the set reports and spoiler threads there and then adds in their own speculation that they pass off as fact. they really don't know anything. but the set lurkers on doctorwhoforum are incredible.

@modernboy: which other rumours? The one about the Daleks bringing Rose back? If so, it is just a rumour that has not been confirmed ... but accoring to [io9.com] ... the Daleks apparently collapse the universe that Rose is in (for some unknown reason) and because Rose is from this universe - this somehow means her and the others get sucked back into this universe.

@modernboy: I use it for the links mainly (to the other sites) ... but thanks for the heads up.

@EmEwing: my pleasure. i'm a spoiler fiend for doctor who. i'm actually quite excited about the series 4 finale because we know so much about scenes that have been filmed, but we know so little about how the events will unfold. the filmed back on bad wolf bay! with the doctor in both of his suits! so 2 visits to bad wolf bay?? daleks taking over the world? possible pete's world (greenhouse gasses) rose! jack! sarah jane! mickey and martha join torchwood. my head is spinning to find out how it all plays out.

@modernboy: I have heard so many rumours including the Harriett Jones one about being a Dalek ... really don't won't this one to be true but it's the Sun that's leaked the rumour which makes me think that it is true. Cringe worthy!
I'm also looking forward to the new series, especially the "silence in the library" ep as it was written by Moffat (and i'm yet another "blink" fan ... the ending to that ep was genius ... no wonder all the kids in britain voted the statues the scariest (above the daleks) in the annual who monster poll).
I want to see the Agatha Christie ep as well, as I was brought up watching such tv adaptations, and it looks like they've done a good period dress of it. Oh, I want to see it all!
As to all the rumours on who will be the new doctor - who do you want it to be? (i'm unsure about Robert Carlyle - can't picture the doctor the would be).

@EmEwing: the sun didn't leak the harriet jones as dalek supreme rumor. it actually came from a very reliable poster on the doctorwhoforum who i believe has yet to be wrong with any of his posts. so you can take that one as fact for now. he also posted a couple of new tidbits today that have me even more excited. to paraphrase him they simm very possible.

me i want david tennant through series 5. though if this is rose's swan song i may be happy to let him go and start fresh. i almost don't want to see tennant with any more companions because the chemistry he had with billie just can't be replicated. the rumor that paul kaye would take over was one i was kinda keen on. he's a bit of a nutter.

@modernboy: Paul Kaye? Interesting :-) My thought (just because I think it could be intriging to see) - Jason Statham. He has a buzz about him when on screen which could work?!?

I'm hopeless at sources - I go on where i've seen it. So which poster is it (so I know)? They haven't activated my account on doctorwhoforum yet, so i can't get on at the mo. Any more titbits you want to divulge?

Who you fancy for the new assistant in 2010? Short-listed are Georgina Moffet (ep6) or Felicity Jones (agatha ep)? I'd like to see Carey Mulligan on that short list as well. At the mo Carey Mulligan is the one I want, but I'd like to see the relationship between the doctor and georgina moffet as his daughter as his new companion could be an interesting twist for series 5 (although can't quite picture it yet). I think Felicity Jones will have a tough job convinving me cos she's in the agatha christie episode, and there are a number of big actors in that episode.

@EmEwing: Jason Statham is interesting but i think too thuggy and not nearly geeky enough. If there is one thing that every doctor has been from 1 to 10 it's geeky. even 9 though he's about as close to tough guy as we're gonna get.

i definitely can't wait to see how the georgia moffet thing pans out. i'll base my judgment on her as a possible companion after i see her episode. as for carey mulligan i loved her. she's one of my desktop backgrounds.

@modernboy: Are the rumours about a female doctor who during the doctor's next generation true? Or potentially viable? Or is it a multi doctor ep they're going for (or indeed both)?

@codydog: Agreed on both counts. They play the same "character" in every movie.... although it's less movie, more interminably long SNL sketch.

Very little Smallville love going on in here. :(

I don't see any movie with Shia LaBoeuf in it. I can't stand his "acting" and his presence instantly ruins movies for me. Do others not see him as such an anchor for a movie?

Marvel is suffering from too much backstory. The characters have been around too long, so we basically know more about each than we do about the lives of real people we know. It's too much information to make sense at a glance, so it's impossible to jump into comics.

DC is easier. The DC characters start shallow and never really change much. The storytelling is worse, but it's a million times easier to dive into.

Lex Luthor's destroying Nevada? Lex Luthor's evil, seems plausible.

Magneto's destroying Nevada? It was revealed in issue 614 of the New Avengers that there's a concentration camp for mutants hidden within Las Vegas that trained the assassins that assaulted his floating meteor fortress haven for mutants and resulted in two parallel fortresses being built encompassing a broader gray area of tolerance/intolerance for mutant and humankind...etc.

Ah, Shia's not so bad. He was good in Disturbia, a non-entity in Transformers, but that movie wasn't about the humans. I can easily see him in Y, as Yorick is this goofy smartass, especially at the beginning of the series. Who else would you cast?

@MercuryPDX: That's because there's very little to love as of late. So are they referring to Lana as the one to kick the bucket then? Don't know, and really starting to not care.

Especially after that awful Stride episode. Ugh.

"Shia LaBoeuf is definitely the front-runner to play Yorick."

Fuck.