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Thanks Tumblr: We still have to wait until January 23rd for Young Avengers #1, but writer Kieron Gillen is giving us something to cling to on his Tumblr. Under the tag “Meet The Team: Young Avengers”, Gillen is giving a behind the scenes look at each member of the team and what makes him or her tick. Each post even has music. 

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Finally! After months without news on the Y: The Last Man film adaptation, New Line Cinema has appointed a director. Dan Trachtenberg, whom you may know from his live-action Portal short film, will direct the adaptation of the dystopian comic by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra.

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Stuck in production limbo for the past five-years, the big screen adaptation of Y: The Last man may finally come to fruition. Reports in March surfaced that writers Matthew Federman and Stephen Scaia, formerly of the show Jericho, entered negotiations with New Line Cinema to take a crack at writing the screenplay. New Line is apparently quite pleased with the adaptation and has gone ahead and allowed for the producers attached to the film to find a director.

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