Is Marvel about to match DC with its own company-wide relaunch?

By Dan Roth, Source Blastr.com

While DC’s relaunch has suffered from week after week of controversy, there’s no arguing with the numbers. With several of the new 52 breaking 200,000 copies sold, it seemed like Marvel would inevitably follow suit with a relaunch of its own. Today, it looks like we’re getting the first glimpse of that happening.

Marvel has just announced a one-shot titled Point One that will “set the stage for the biggest stories coming in 2012. Here’s the language the press release uses:

“Point One is a massive one-shot of 64 all-new pages of story by the top creators in the business, setting the stage for the biggest stories coming in 2012. It is the starting point to what’s in store for the world’s most iconic characters and startling events. Point One serves as the launch pad for dynamic new series, the return of fan-demanded characters, and a shocking teaser that will have everyone talking. See how all it comes together in one gigantic epic!”

Point One? Flashpoint? No, those aren’t similar at all.

New Mini-Miniseries Coming For Doctor Who DVD And Blu-Ray

by Brendon Connelly, Source: Bleeding Cool.com

There’s a new Doctor Who miniseries coming our way in November. And by mini, I mean mini.

Written by Steven Moffat especially for the full-series DVD and Blu-ray box sets of this year’s episodes, the five epsisodes of Night and the Doctor aren’t likely to run more than fifteen minutes between them (in fact, we may be lucky if they last ten).

But if the disc-exclusive minisodes in last year’s release are anything to go by, these will be a whole lot of fun.

And whereas last year’s minisodes were just sketches that could have been sandwiched between full episodes, it looks like the five-part Night and the Doctor will have a complete, coherent story of its own – why else be split into five parts?

And it will certainly have it’s own episode of Doctor Who Confidential, A Night’s Tale.