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Still more X-Men: First Class pictures

Another batch of images from the movie, which opens today:

New York Times slideshow looks at cool, mid-centry design of X-Men: First Class sets

A slideshow here shows off some of the painstaking work production designers did to capture the early 60s look of "X-Men: First Class."

Tarzan movie trilogy in the works

Craig Brewer, director of "Hustle and Flow" and "Black Snake Moan," is reportedly set to write and a direct a trio of Tarzan films.

Dial B for Blog returning?!!

Looks like on of my, and many other folks', favorite, funnest comic book history sites is coming back with new stuff in a day or two.

Green Lantern movie featurettes

Here are a couple of shorts videos about the making of the new Green Lantern flick:

Hear BBC radio series on Kinks/Ray Davies

You can still listen to all three parts of "The Davies Diaries," a documentary/portrait of The Kinks and Ray Davies, here.

New pictures of January Jones in X-Men: First Class

The many looks of the White Queen:

Picture: Radio's Superman Bud Collyer

Via Booksteve: A rare shot of radio actor, later game show host, Bud Collyer and a stack of awesome 1940s comics.

Things I'll buy

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #663

Items of note

Citizen Rex HC


DC Direct Heroes of the DC Universe: Blackest Night Black Lantern Batman Bust


Deluxe Planetary/Batman

Superman: New Krypton Vol. 4 (Superman (DC Comics))

Wonder Woman Vol. 1: Odyssey (Wonder Woman (DC Comics Hardcover)


Thor: Thunderstrike (Thor (Graphic Novels)


X-Men: To Serve and Protect

Walt Disney's Comics and Stories Archives Volume 1


Moomin Book Six: The Complete Lars Jansson Comic Strip

Doctor Who boss: No daleks in new season

The daleks are taking a break in the upcoming season of "Doctor Who," producer Steven Moffat confirms.

"We thought it was about time to give them a rest. They are the most famous of The Doctor's adversaries and the most frequent, which means they are the most reliably defeatable enemies in the universe."

Moffat also discussed his use of dramatic cliffhangers at the end of each episode. Last week's episode The Almost People featured a shock twist that will lead into this week's mid-season finale A Good Man Goes To War.

He said: "The only thing that was missing when Doctor Who came back this time was that there weren’t enough cliffhangers. Do you remember in the old days? The music crashing in just as The Doctor finds out... well I love that. Plus it encourages the audience to come back. So we are bringing the cliffhanger back in force."