He still looks twelve years old, but we admit it: We can't wait.

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Asked by MTV about the possibility of returning to the show he's literally just left, Tennant said,

Who knows? There's no immediate plans. I'd probably have to move away and let the dust settle and let the new team get established and all that. But there is a bit of a tradition of The Doctor meeting his former selves... It happened with me when Peter Davison, who I watched when I was growing up, suddenly came back and did a scene with us, which was a real thrill for me. [It was] very disorienting, to be faced with this guy who you watched as a kid in the gear - and there he was, in my TARDIS now. It was very odd.

For Tennant's final (for now) Who appearance, "The End Of Time, Pt. 2" airs tomorrow on BBC America. And it'll feature an exclusive five-minute goodbye message from Tennant after the episode airs.

David Tennant On His 'Doctor Who' Mementoes... And When He'll Be Back For A Cameo! [MTV Movies Blog]

It's the moment people have been waiting for since August, finally ending any speculation that something would stop Disney buying up the most successful comic publisher in the western world (Although, as we said at the time, we're not sure if Disney really cared so much about the comics as much as everything that comes - and doesn't come - with it).

The sale comes at an interesting time for Marvel, who are not only ramping up movie production (Thor starts filming this month, Captain America is alleged to start in July, and Iron Man 2 is released this May) but also spending the first four months of 2010 closing out a line-wide storyline that's been running for more than half a decade before launching into a new status quo called "The Heroic Age" that'll reunite the core Avengers for the first time since 2005 and end the various long-running feuds keeping them apart - which sounds just like the kind of iconic, easy to market concept that their new owners would approve of. Most worries about Disney "changing" Marvel or dictating content seem to have been quelled by this point, but nonetheless, it'll be interesting to see if the Marvel of 2011 is an easier fit in the Happiest Place On Earth than the current one...

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A team of psychologists at the University of Hertfordshire, led by Richard Wiseman, asked hundreds of people about their New Years Resolutions and discovered that 78% of those who made them failed at keeping them. The reason? Wiseman explains:

Many of the most successful techniques involve making a plan and helping yourself stick to it... If you do it on the spur of the moment, it probably doesn't mean that much to you and you won't give it your all. Failing to achieve your ambitions is often psychologically harmful because it can rob people of a sense of self control.

The way to succeed, Wisemen advises, is to think small: Break your bigger ambition into smaller, more obtainable goals, reward yourself when you fulfill them, and keep measuring success both for yourself and others. Or just give up and stay the same. It's worked for us.

New year's resolutions doomed to failure, say psychologists [Guardian.co.uk]

Here're 100 of our favorite comic covers from the last decade. We tried to hide our biases slightly by only allowing one pick per series (Otherwise, you'd get a Fables and 100 Bullets gallery, most likely), and limited our choices to books that fall squarely into io9's wheelhouse (Thereby missing such great covers as Ryan Kelly and Brian Wood's Local, many things from DC's Minx line or Jock's Losers covers), but if you're still not getting a visual feast from everything below, we advise you to go and see a specialist immediately.

(Covers are in something approaching alphabetical order, and not in order of how much we love them, before anyone wonders.)

Covers 1 - 10:

Covers 11-20:

Covers 21-30:

Covers 31-40:

Covers 41-50:

Covers 51-60:

Covers 61-70:

Covers 71-80:

Covers 81-90:

Covers 91-100:

We're sure we've missed some obvious choices; tell us what we should've picked in the comments below.

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(To be entirely fair, the Moviefone poll asked "Which actress gave the worst performance?," so for all we know, America en masse may think Fox is a very talented actress who just had a series of really bad days.)

Fox's dual wins were reflected in the movie she won for, as well; Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen managed to win both Best Action Movie of 2009 and Worst Movie of 2009. Well, at least one of those is right.

Year-End Movies Poll Results [Moviefone] (Via)

To begin with: welcome to Indy Comic Book Week. Even though Diamond Distributors aren't shipping new product to stores this week, a collection of small press creators have teamed with a collection of stores nationwide to offer some counterprogramming for the week, from scifi comedy What Planet Is This? to epic mouse fantasy (No, really) The Osward Chronicles. The entire list of books is available on the website, along with a list of participating stores. Go and check it out.

For everyone else, don't think that you're going to be completely devoid of new books. Marvel has a preview of their next big storyline, Origins of Siege, that'll bring you up to speed on recent events and the origins of some of their big name characters.

But DC trumps Marvel with the embargoed sixth issue of Blackest Night. For those following the DC series, you'll know that the last issue ended with a pretty big cliffhanger (SPOILER FOR THOSE READING IN TRADE: Oh, look: Superman, Wonder Woman and countless other DC superheroes are dead after all, and now they're working for the bad guy), so calling this issue "anticipated" is a slight understatement. Here's hoping it offers up more surprises and things going very wrong for the good guys.

Next week: Back to normal, lots of new books and the start of Marvel's Siege, just to make sure that the real Avengers are back together in time for their movie...

The image, sent out by Marvel with only the words "The Year of Spider-Man is 2010," seems to contain at least three different Spider-Man, as well as Arana (AKA Spider-Girl, not to be confused with this Spider-Girl) and the oracular Madame Web. The return of infamous "Spider-Clone" Ben Reilly has been teased for some point during next year's thrice-monthly Spider-series, and Avengers: The Initiative has already featured people not called Peter Parker in the red-and-gold "Iron Spider" costume, so is this a bait and switch or are we going to see multiple Parkers spinning webs at some point in the twelve months to come?

The First Avenger: Captain America is also aimed at a 2011 release (22 July, following Thor's May 20th release date), and Fangoria has let slip that the movie will start shooting in June next year, following Thor's principal shoot, which starts next month. We know that the movie will be directed by The Rocketeer's Joe Johnson and written by the team of Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, probably best known for both Chronicles of Narnia movies, but beyond that, everything's been kept pretty much under wraps.

IMDB's plot synopsis just reiterates the character's origins during WWII, and it's a fair bet to assume that we'll see a lot of period action in Cap's solo movie. In fact, we're wondering if that's pretty much all we're going to see, because his arrival in the present day is so linked to Avengers lore to tell too much of that story without including the Avengers ahead of their own movie, which seems pretty unlikely. We already know that Avengers scriptwriter Zak Penn is a fan of Mark Millar's Ultimates retelling of Avengers history, so perhaps we should prepare for The First Avenger to repeat The Ultimates' first issue, which told the backstory of Captain America leading up to his accidental suspended animation, allowing for the Avengers movie to continue from that point, introducing him (and new viewers) to the characters from all the other movies who'll have teamed up to form Marvel's mega franchise.

Of course, we'll have to wait for casting announcements for the movie to start surfacing, allowing for more detailed and informed guesses as to what we're going to see during the First Avenger - not to mention what timeframe we're going to see it in - but don't be surprised if Marvel's 2011 movie slate will seek to expand the superhero genre in more epic, mythical directions (Thor) and more gritty, realistic "War Is Hell" ones at the same time.