from the Comic Hero News staff
There’s a lot that happens in the world of superheroes everyday, and we at Comic Hero News don’t have the ability to write up a full story about everything, as much as we’d like to. So, we bring you Speeding Bullets – for all of those pieces of news that are fired our way that are worth noticing, but don’t merit a full story in their own right.

• The auction to become the name of the lead cop in Mark Millar’s Nemesis closed for $8,400. That’s roughly four times what Dave Lizewski paid to score the name of the title hero in Millar’s Kick-Ass. All proceeds went towards the purchase of a bus to transport handicapped kids at a school in Scotland. Expect to pay roughly twenty grand if you want to score the name of Millar’s next creation.
• Film Score Daily says that Danny Elfman will be providing the score for Michael Gondry’s The Green Hornet, which stars Seth Rogen and Jay Chou.
• IESB.net has the scoop on a review of the new, potentially R-rated The Shadow script, along with the claim that Sam Raimi may not only produce the film, but might actually direct. While I’m actually a big fan of the Alec Baldwin-starring version of the character, the review paints a compelling picture at darker take on the character that goes back to his pulp and radio-drama roots.
• John Wagner, the creator of Judge Dredd, spoke to MTV’s Splashpage and says that the new script offers a much “truer” representation of the character than does the Sylvester Stallone film. In other news, water is wet, and the sun is hot.
• Helen Slater, who played Kara Zor-El in Supergirl has returned to the character, writing a piece inside Supergirl 50. DC Universe: The Source has the word on Ms. Slater’s piece.
• Bluewater Productions, home to many a bio-comic, has announced that Ellen Degeneres will be the feature of their next Female Force installment, and MTV’s Splashpage has a several page preview for you to peruse.
• Director Joe Johnston spoke to Film Journal International a little bit about The First Avenger: Captain America while he was being interviewed about The Wolfman. The interview says:

“We’re in prep,” Johnston says. “Rick Heinrichs is production-designing and we’re set up down in Manhattan Beach [California]. It’s the part of the process that I love the most,” he enthuses. “We have eight or ten really talented artists, and we all just sit around all day and draw pictures and say, ‘Hey, wouldn’t it be cool if we could do this?’ It’s that phase of the production where money doesn’t matter: ‘Let’s put all the greatest stuff up on the wall and [then later] see what we can afford.’” The film, he says at this early stage, will begin “in 1942, 1943″ during World War II. “The stuff in the ’60s and ’70s [comic books] we’re sort of avoiding. We’re going back to the ’40s, and then forward to what they’re doing with Captain America now.”

• The LA Times has a piece with director Sylvain White about why he doesn’t worry about The Losers being compared unfavorably to The A-Team. Of course, it has nothing to do with the fact that The Losers is based on the Vertigo Comics title of the same name by Andy Diggle and Jock, and stars such huge genre stars as Zoe Seldana, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Chris Evans.