Pop Culture Roundup Feb. 22, 2006

Some folks want to 86 the new 007.

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Speaking of leading man casting, Will Toale is out and a new guy, Justin Hartley, is in as the TV Aquaman.

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Datajunkie shares some more Virgil Finlay sci-fi art.

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Dial B for Blog has a fresh batch of DC Comics house ads.

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Newsarama is previewing DC Comics' slate of post-"Infinity Crisis" reboot comics--some of which sound pretty interesting. Encouraging is the recruitment of topflight creators such as Kurt Busiek, Walt Simonson, etc., to work on the revamped titles. I'm withholding judgment until I read a few of them.

As I understand it, this "Crisis" event is meant to maneuver DC's mainline superhero titles out of the grim'n'gritty muck they've been stuck in, dispense with confusing continuity and make the books attractive and approachable to new, younger readers. We'll see...

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