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– Although I haven’t been following the show itself, given my luck with spinoffs of comic TV shows, I should probably check out this new Mockingbird Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. spin-off called “Marvel’s Most Wanted” that just got picked up for a pilot. It is a little weird that the network doesn’t want to call this show a spin-off when clearly it is a spin-off, but that can be looked at as just semantics at this point. Or maybe using the term ‘spin-off’ means something different contractually than other terms, I don’t know. But it looks like the two headliners, Bobbi “Mockingbird” Morse and Lance Hunter, have a pretty good following on the original show, so that might give this SPIN-OFF some legs to stand on once it has SPUN OFF from Agents, like The Flash. We’ll see…
– Almost a year after his arrest for domestic violence, “Rat Queens” co-creator and former series artist Roc Upchurch reached out to CBR’s Casey Gilly for an in-depth interview yesterday.
– Today’s entry into the “Kickstarter You Should Check Out” is this campaign to put together a graphic novel acting as a combination biography/adaptation of the works of celebrated lesbian writer/traveler/alcoholic/historical figure Jane Bowles. She led a fascinating life, one that writer Katy Rex is looking to bring to the page with the help of Tyler (“Peter Panzerfaust”) Jenkins, June Vigants, Kate Laceur, and more.
– Part of the mindset that guides all physicians in their life-saving work is “First do no harm” (which, incidentally? Not in the actual Hippocratic Oath!). I like to think that the fandom corollary is “Don’t be a dick.” Wil Wheaton backs me up on this. Ignoring that mindset inevitably leads to someone getting hurt; in this case, the owner of the original Goondocks from the 1985 film Goonies. She was open to people coming by her private property and acting like it was the house they grew up in, but once people started acting like it was there house now, and being dicks about it? Down comes the tarp.
– Marvel continues its streak of tweaking DC events and offerings both big and small. First there was the “Fantastic Four” 9-cent issue responding to the “Batman: The 10-Cent Adventure” comic (both issues, the first by Waid & Weiringo and the second by Rucka & Burchett, are fantastic reads, BTW). Then there was the free “Siege” #3 Deadpool variant cover available for only 50 stripped covers of DC books specifically tying into the concurrent ‘Blackest Night’ event. Now this 1:4999 Deadpool variant cover against DC’s 1:5000 Jim Lee sketched “Dark Knight III: Master Race” cover.
