• Alex Breckenridge and Whitney Able to star in Dark
• Ryan Reynolds drops out of Highlander

Trailers

• Trailer for Killing Season with Robert De Niro and John Travolta

• Wonder Woman gets a second title for the first time in 61 years

UK TV

• ITV green lights: new series of Birds of a Feather
• Jenna-Louise Coleman, Penelope Keith, Trevor Eve, Rebecca Front, James Fleet et al join BBC1's Death Comes To Pemberley
• Sunday ratings: The White Queen gets 5.33m viewers

• The first two minutes of season two of Copper
• Sunday cable ratings: True Blood returns with 4.5m viewers

New US TV shows

• Amazon green lights: pilot for Bosch
• Disney green lights: Girl Meets World series
• Teaser for Showtime's Masters of Sex

• John Hurt to co-star in FX's The Strain
• Emily Head to star in Bravo's Rita

So normally, around this time, I'd review the latest DC comics that feature Wonder Woman. These usually include Wonder Woman and Justice League, and what with the new super-romance, Superman, as well as various other miscellaneous titles.

Now, reviewing them takes up much more time than it used to and with DC's schedule all over the place, trying to recap them all each month has become harder and harder, particularly since my own work schedule has been all over the place and incompatible with DC's.

More than that, my heart's not really in it. The comics are largely fine (although problematic at times, particularly Injustice: Gods Among Us), but I'm just not loving them anymore and some egregious things have been done since the start of the new 52. So I've decided today that I'm going to stop reviewing them. I'll keep reading them, though, and I might return at some point to reviewing them, since the web stats say this is actually one of the most popular features of the blog.

So let me know if you'd like me to continue, let me know below and if enough people ask, I'll get back to reviewing them. If no one's interested, then TTFN WW.

Ta,

Rob

In keeping with this 'ere blog's slightly unplanned 'pagan week', it's time for the (increasingly belated) monthly round-up of the comic-book appearances of everyone's favourite pagan superheroine, Wonder Woman.

After March's month of face-palming, April proved to be a somewhat better month for our Wondy, with the Amazon princess finally giving Orion the punching he deserved in Wonder Woman #19, going to Lois Lane's house-warming and giving her new secret identity, Diana Prince, its first real outing in Superman #19, and trying to set the world to rights by kicking terrorists' asses with her new boyfriend in Justice League #19. Unfortunately, though, it looks like nothing can save Injustice: Gods Among Us from being facepalm-central.

I'm also adding to the roster of comics: after trying to save my pennies, I've had to play catch up with Justice League of America #1-3, seeing as Diana features quite heavily. Kind of. And all I'll say about that that not-so-illustrious title until after the jump is "What the hell is Catwoman not wearing?"

It's time, once again, for our monthly round-up of all things Wonder Woman in comics. And what a month, because despite the end of the H'El on Earth storyline in Superman/Supergirl/Superboy and the crossover in Batwoman, it's been… well, maybe not momentous, but whatever it's been, I'm not sure I have enough hands for the facepalms required to deal with it all.

Wonder Woman #18 sees the end of the hunt for Zola's baby (finally); Justice League #18 mostly has Wonder Woman alternating between standing around a lot and hitting things; Superman #18 is Wonder Woman-free yet has referenced our heroine rather a lot thanks to the arrival of Orion; and in Injustice: Gods Among Us, it's all out war between the superheroes and everyone else, including each other, with Wondy standing by her man.

Which ones required the most facepalms? I'll give you a clue: it's fortunately the only one where Wonder Woman is literally flirting with Superman over Lois Lane's dead body.

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• Peter Jackson willing to direct Doctor Who for 1 Dalek
• Matt Smith leaving after Christmas??

• Neil Gaiman returns to Marvel, bringing Angela from Spawn along

Film

• Seth Rogen to direct, produce and star in The Interview by Seth Rogen

Film casting

• Ian McShane, Joseph Fiennes, John Hurt, Rebecca Ferguson and Askel Hennie join Hercules
• Gary Oldman joins Child 44
• Maximiliano Hernandez to return for Captain America 2, Alex Pettyfer and Gabriella Wilde to star in Endless Love

• New trailer for Star Trek: Into Darkness

UK TV

• Sky green lights: Mr Sloane, with Nick Frost, and Yonderland…
• …confirms third series for Moone Boy
• S4C to develop more digital content
• Only one in ten TV drama series directors are women
• Clip from Life Too Short special

US TV

• Wednesday ratings: ABC sitcoms hit lows

US TV show casting

• F Murray Abraham to guest on Elementary
• Nadine Velazquez to be a regular on Major Crimes
• Karen Gillan joins NTSF:SD:SUV::, David Anders joins Necessary Roughness
• Bob Newhart to guest on The Big Bang Theory
• A Mary Tyler Moore reunion on Hot In Cleveland
• Kevin Dunn to be a regular on Veep
• Ana Walczah joins Teen Wolf

• HBO green lights: remake of Getting On
• MTV red lights: Hot Mess
• Hallmark green lights: When Calls The Heart…
• …developing My Gal Sunday, Dead Letters
• Fox pushes: Wild Blue
• Showtime developing remake of Hellfjord
• Teaser for AMC's Low Winter Sun
• First look at NBC's Hannibal

• Matthew Wilkas joins NBC's Undateable
• David Wilson Barnes joins AMC's Halt & Catch Fire
• Mamie Gummer joins CBS's Backstrom, Ashley Williams joins ABC's Keep Calm & Karey On
• Luka Jones joins NBC's Holding Patterns, Tonita Castro joins Fox's Dads

Sorry for the slightly later than normal review - I was holding out for Superman #17 and the end of the H'el on Earth storyline (guest starring the Justice League and Wonder Woman), which was supposed to come out this week… but didn't. Guess that'll have to wait until next time.

But February was a bit of a bumper month for Wonder Woman. As well as her own title and the end of the Throne of Atlantis storyline in Justice League, H'El on Earth has seen her show up in Superboy #17 trying to save Superman; in Supergirl #17, she's once and for all proven the inequality Wonder Woman > Supergirl > Superman; her rather dreadful crossover with Batwoman finally comes to an end in Batwoman #17; Injustice: Gods Among Us #5-6 give us a possibly inappropriately flirty, possibly political Wonder Woman; and in Young Romance #1, Supes and Wondy go on another date together, which naturally goes pear-shaped.

Film

• Chris Hemsworth to star in Michael Mann techno-thriller

Comics

• Alan Moore, Art Spiegelman et al to write for Black Mask Studios

UK TV

• ITV developing Cabbage and Pat

US TV casting

• Ben Shenkman promoted to regular on Royal Pains
• Home Improvement's Jonathan Taylor Tomas to guest on Last Man Standing

New US TV shows

• Netflix to make Pablo Escabar drama [subscription required]
• CBS unlikely to order many new shows for the fall
• Virgin Produced developing The Whisky A Go Go

New US TV show casting

• Jason Isaacs to star in CBS's The Surgeon General
• Minnie Driver to star in NBC's About A Boy
• CCH Pounder to co-star in CBS's The Advocates
• Jason Ritter to star Fox's Gavin & Stacey remake Friends & Family
• Dean Norris to star in CBS's Under The Dome
• Madeline Carroll to star in The CW's Blink
• Jake McLaughlin to star in NBC's Believe
• Mike O'Malley to star in NBC's Welcome To The Family
• Meegan Warner and Daniel Henshall join AMC's Turn

• 50th anniversary special to be shot in 3D, shown in cinemas
• A returning classic monster [spoilers]

Film

• Jesse Armstrong to write feature version of his Black Mirror episode The Entire History of You for Robert Downey Jr

Comics

• Geoff Johns leaves Green Lantern after 10 years

Internet TV

• Ratings for House of Cards

UK TV

• BBC1 commissions Atlantis, Death Comes to Pemberley, Breakdown, The Interceptor, Jamaica Inn and Remember Me, recommissions Call The Midwife and Death in Paradise; BBC2 commissions Turks and Caicos and Salting The Battlefield; BBC4 commissions Burton and Taylor
• Life's Too Short to finish with one-hour special featuring Val Kilmer
• YouTube to launch on Freesat
• Trailer for ITV's Lightfields
• Sunday ratings: Mr Selfridge beats the Baftas

US TV

• The CW renews Supernatural, The Vampire Diaries and Arrow
• G4 to rebrand as The Esquire Network
• Sunday ratings
• Sunday cable ratings: The Walking Dead returns to record-breaking series high

US TV casting

• Lisa Edelstein to guest on Scandal

New US TV shows

• Frank Spotnitz to adapt The Man In The High Castle for SyFy
• Warner to Game of Thrones the Wizard of Oz with Red Brick Road
• Trailer for Ray Donovan with Liev Schreiber

New US TV show casting

• Casting on Chuck Lorre's CBS pilot Mom
• Andre Braugher to co-star in Fox's Andy Samberg comedy
• Thomas Kretschmann and Oliver Jackson-Cohen join NBC's Dracula
• Maggie Lawson to star in ABC's Cullen Brothers comedy
• Josh Holloway to star in CBS's Intelligence

Okay, that's just a relatively minor problem compared to some of the other typos in this week's comics. Let's move on to Aquaman #16. I appreciate Mera and Arthur (aka Aquaman) are underwater, but I really don't think that's the effect you're trying to achieve in spelling your main character's name wrong.

And then lastly, we have this in this week's Superman #16. As if to add further insult to the injury of her being described as merely Superman's 'current lover' in the next panel (yet more rebellion by Superman's writers? The suggestion that it's not going to last?), veering away from current DC shorthand ("the living goddess Wonder Woman"), we have Wonder Woman described as 'Prince Diana of the Amazons'.

Prince, FFS.

DC – I know comics are a somewhat juvenile medium, but that doesn't mean you have to spell like teenagers, too. Hire some proofreaders – it's not like there's much text for them to read, so it should be relatively cheap.

• David Bradley to play William Hartnell in anniversary special

Film

• Entourage movie gets the go-ahead

Film casting

• Bradley Cooper to star in The Man From Primrose Lane
• Eva Green and Julia Garner join Sin City 2

Trailers

• Clip from The Dark Knight Returns - Part 2

Comics

• The X-Files to continue in comics

Theater

• Aaron Sorkin leaves Houdini musical

French TV

• Canal+ acquires Hunted, Arte acquires The Hour, TF6 acquires Real Humans

International TV

• Skyfall writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade to write Barbarella TV series

UK TV

• Ripper Street gets a second series
• Channel 4 making Irish ex-pat comedy London Irish
• No more Mrs Brown's Boys until 2014?

US TV

• House of Lies, Shameless and Californication get renewed
• Banshee gets a second season
• Monday's ratings: The Following up, Bones hits season high
• Monday's cable ratings: Dallas returns to series low

US TV casting

• Scott Wolf joins Perception
• Mark Hamill to guest on The Neighbors

New US TV shows

• Fox greenlights: multiple time zone comedy Brenda Forever
• ABC greenlights: thriller Reckless, Ryan Reynolds' PI dramedy Murder In Manhattan, drama Gothica and Big Thunder, based on the rollercoaster ride
• NBC greenlights: Alice in Wonderland sequel
• Starz developing ballet drama

New US TV show casting

• John Schneider cast in OWN's The Haves and The Have Nots, plus casting on Love Thy Neighbor

I might have made a rod for my own back here. Trying to flag up and review every appearance of Wonder Woman each month in DC's various titles seemed quite easy (and cheap to do) when it was just Wonder Woman and then Justice League I had to pay attention to. But this month, as well as those and the continuing crossover with Batwoman, there's Ame-Comi girls, the H'El on Earth storyline that's crossing over Superman, Superboy and Supergirl, and the alternative reality Injustice: Gods Among Us to deal with, too. Blimey. I'll try my best anyway.

This month, we've had the continuation of the New Gods storyline in Wonder Woman, including the return of pretty much every Old God we've had so far in the comics. Justice League sees the continuation of the Atlantean war against the upper world - and the return of pretty much every Justice League member from pre-nu52. Batwoman gets a little bit back on track, even if it seems to have lost the plot with Wonder Woman, and H'El on Earth gets all 'mantic. Isn't that nice?

But why? Why would they put on hipster glasses and bone up on Justice League members and Doctor Who continuity? What's their motive? So far, Teh Internet has been silent on this topic. But now we know. Oh yes, now we know.

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• Rob Liefeld's The Godyssey to be adapted

Film casting

• Patrick Stewart, Carla Gugino and Matthew Lillard to star in Match
• Dylan McDermott to star in Freezer
• Al Pacino joins Brian De Palma's Happy Valley

Trailers

• Trailer for Mud with Matthew McConaughey and Reese Witherspoon

UK TV

• Sky unveils biggest ever drama slate, including…
• …the return of Kylie Minogue to TV…
• …and Dominic Cooper playing a young Ian Fleming
• BBC claims to boost UK economy by £8.3bn
• LoveFilm adds NBC shows
• Blockbuster UK enters administration
• David Threlfall, Russell Tovey et al join What Remains
• Ricky Gervais's Derek press pack
• Merlin's Colin Morgan joins Quirke
• Tuesday's ratings: Yes, Prime Minister starts low

US TV

• Alphas cancelled
• Veep season two teaser trailer
• Tuesday ratings: NCIS gets second biggest ever audience

US TV casting

• Olly Murs to perform on 90210
• Edi Gathegi to recur on Beauty and the Beast
• Bethenny Frankel to guest on The Neighbors

New US TV shows

• MTV developing female buddy comedy
• TNT greenlights Steve Bochco's Murder In The First
• Secret Lives of Wives not going to series

New US TV show casting

• Christina Kirk joins The Gates
• Katie Finneran to co-star in Michael J Fox comedy
• Casting on When The Women Come Out To Dance
• Lance Henriksen to guest on Hannibal