Going out on a limb, I'm calling Marvel's Doctor Strange, with Benedict Cumberbatch as the sorceror supreme, as the most tantalising comic-book prospect of 2016.
Instead, Iran's leaders have chosen open defiance bolstered in no small way by the support they have received from Russia, China and IAEA Secretary General Mohammad ElBaradei, whose rosy pronouncements of Peace in Our Time would be comic if the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran were not so real.
(Comic by Marvel Comics).
Marvel should tread carefully here, for while it might be celebrating the prospect of bringing its comic-book division's best-known property back into the fold, it may not like the baggage that comes with him.
Even then, the talk about courting comic danger had Hicks worrying about his prospects in America.
Possession coughed up cheaply and then compounded by a defensive calamity, a blunder so comic and so ruinous as to eliminate any prospect of a comeback.
The prospect of the summit would be comic ― a Trey Parker and Matt Stone musical number ― were millions of lives, and perhaps ultimately the planet itself, not on the line.
In this adaptation of his autobiographical one-man show, Birbiglia stars as a Matt Pandamiglio -- a struggling comic with severe commitment issues and no real career prospects.
So rather than face that prospect, he's stepping aside to let South African comic Trevor Noah take over the reins.
Fellow comedian Bill Bailey is among those fans excited by the news, writing in the Guardian that it's "like the prospect of a great band getting back together; they're the ultimate comic supergroup.
