Quick updates on a couple titles I've been following... TRINITY: THUMBS DOWN I've completely given up on this series. It started off with a wanna-be super-villain named... and I'm being completely serious here... Convikt. As if the ham-handed name wasn't enough, his accomplice is a scheming muppet. The plot has become hopelessly muddled, and at this point, I think I've stopped caring for good. I don't care about the tarot reader, I don't care about the female gorilla, and I don't care about the Crime Syndicate (the most unimaginative super-villain group on record).

I've alluded to it before, but Dr. Whoosh really did get inserted into the Ghost Board at the last minute. If you don't remember the storyline, click here and read to the end of the arc. There's some pretty important stuff in there. 'Nuff said.

Please join us in congratulating Green Goblin Norman Osborn as Evil Inc's Employee of the Week. Norman has been a loyal villain for decades now. He was one of the very first masked villains on the scene. But in the past few years, he has catapulted his career to stratospheric heights of evil ... and he's done so by removing his mask. Sure, he's not afraid to don the Goblin suit and go toe-to-toe with some charged-up opponents, but Norman has been at his absolute zenith in his Brooks Brothers suit, becoming perhaps one of the pre-eminent forces for bad...

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Rounding up the latest news from the "black capes"... RETURN OF 'VILLAINS UNITED' [DC] As many of us heard at NYCC '08, Gaile Simone is helming another run of The Secret Six, a series she introduced in 2006 that focused on a loosely organized group of B-list villains who rebelled against Lex Luthor's "Secret Society." Longtime readers of this blog will remember that I was absolutely nuts of Simone's work on Villains United. So, I'm super-hyped to see the ads appearing for a new run of the Secret Six. From the NYCC '08 interview, via Newsarama, quoth Ms Simone: It wouldn't...

[CBR] Nikki Finke is reporting at Deadline Hollywood that a federal judge has denied Warner Bros.' motion to dismiss 20th Century Fox's attempt to preclude the production of Zack Snyder's "Watchmen" film, a development that could potentially have immense ramifications for WB in 2009. Read the entire mess.

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