Charmed Discussion – “Midnight Rendezvous”

Every time I check out one of the official WB website pages, I look at the
comments, and wonder what the average age of a poster
is over there. We hit the odd overuse of the shift
key here, but nothing like “i agree i dink der r a
few changes dat cud b made 2 da show, but even now it
is fine as it is mayb dey just nd 2 get a few more
gripin storylines. i cant wate till it coms out on
DVD!!!!!!” from some person in England.

Ender’s Game new writers announced

Anonymous Coward writes, The writers of X-Men 2
screenplay (Dan Harris and Michael Dougherty) have
been hired
by Warner Brothers to write the second draft of the
script. The first draft was written by Orson Scott
Card, based on both Ender’s Game and Ender’s
Shadow.
These guys will also join Bryan Singer
for a 12 issue stint on Ultimate X-Men after
Brian K. Vaughn’s 6 issue run, which starts in May.

Weekly Comics Discussion

As usual, the shipping lists are here.
Today, I’ll be picking up Superman / Batman
, Pulse #1, Daredevil #57,
Exiles #43, Fantastic Four #510,
and (with any luck) Sojourn Vol. 4: The Theif’s
Tale
. Later today, the May order forms will be
up at this
page
. I’ll be adding Astonishing X-Men
to my pull list for sure, and I might pick up an
interesting graphic novel or two if they’re out
there.

Comic Review – “Ultimate Adventures”

The Ultimate entry into the U-Decide initiative
wrapped up in January. The trade paperback
collection of the series was cancelled by Marvel
(presumably due to low interest; the sixth issue of
the series, which was also the last issue, only sold
about 15,000 copies, about 7,000 below the
cancellation mark.) The perpetual lateness probably
hurt it more than anything. (It took 15 months to
ship 6 issues.)
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Big changes in Marvel’s X-Men lines: Joss Whedon new writer

The solicitations text for May’s X-Men:
Reload
event is out.
(The solicitations for all of Marvel’s other titles
is in there, too.) Among the news is a new
Astonishing X-Men series written by Joss
Whedon with John Cassaday art, and (it seems) a
relaunch of New Mutants as New X-Men:
Academy X
. Also launching are a new
Excalibur title (under Chris Claremont and
Igor Kordey) and a new District X title
about some of the less heroic mutants. Claremont is
also returning to Uncanny X-Men, with Chuck
Austen moving to X-Men (formerly New
X-Men
) along with Salvador Larocca.