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[Editor’s Note: this list was originally published in March 2018. It has since been updated with new entries.]

It’s easy to think of the kind of stories that get told in the comic book world as just one genre or tone, but as seen below, graphic novels, comic strips, and other sequential art have offered up an incredible range of storytelling. And these stories have been inspiring great TV shows for years, even before superhero stories dominated the box office.

There were plenty of options that nearly made the list, like the WB’s “Smallville,” which squandered its early potential after running just a few seasons too long. Because one of the most exciting things about these stories is that there’s a rich variety to choose from.

With editorial contributions from Liz Shannon Miller, Ben Travers, and Hanh Nguyen.

27. “DuckTales” ‘DuckTales’©Disney Channel/courtesy Everett / Everett Collection

Yes, really, “DuckTales” is based on a comic book. Scrooge McDuck and his nephews Hughie, Dewey, and Louie come...

Food Network is teaming up with the NFL for a new primetime competition series that celebrates the art of tailgating.

In the six-episode “NFL Tailgate Takedown,” hosts Sunny Anderson and New England Patriots Hall-of-Famer Vince Wilfork will preside over tailgate chefs going head-to-head in one-hour episodes shot on location at an NFL stadium tailgate just before the big game, with each tailgating duo representing one of the two NFL teams competing that day. The chefs will endure three themed cooking rounds that feature “each city’s authentic tailgate dishes” — like New England lobster rolls and Philly cheesesteaks — for an “epic battle of hometown pride.”

The show’s rotating panel of judges, which includes Kelsey Barnard Clark, Eddie Jackson, Ali Khan and Ian Rapoport, will decide who wins the grand prize each week: VIP seats on the 50-yard line at the game they are competing ahead of, and their own “Yum-Bardi Trophy.

Warning: contains spoilers for the Line of Duty series 6 finale.

Perhaps thanks to the extra half hour of screen time (with seven one-hour episodes instead of five plus a 90-minute finale), or perhaps because there was a genuine sense of threads being tied up as AC-12 went into storage for potentially the last time, there are fewer questions left to answer than usual after Line of Duty series six. The finale gave us lots of certainty, and just a few things still to mull over. After you’ve read our weekly episode review, catch up on the post-finale theories and questions below.

So, Buckells was H all along?

He was bent all along, ever since being part of the corrupt team that investigated the racist murder of Lawrence Christopher. But Buckells only stepped into the shoes of ‘H’ or ‘The Fourth Man’ or whatever you want to call the senior...

Warning: contains spoilers for Line of Duty series 6 episode 3.

Now three episodes in to Line of Duty series six, the questions and theories are piling up. Jo Davidson is clearly up to her neck in it, but she’s not the one pulling the strings. Who is Jo talking to on that laptop? Is it H? What hold does the Ocg have over her, and what might it have to do with that photograph of her mother from episode one? The final four episodes will tell. In the meantime, after you’ve read our weekly episode review, there’s all this to ponder…

Is Det Supt Buckells bent?

In the ‘yes’ corner: Buckells was apparently responsible for bringing Ryan Pilkington onto the team, he used the wrong surveillance order on the Beechwood House raid thereby facilitating the kidnap and murder of Carl Banks, the witness who’d identified Terry as...

Warning: contains spoilers for Line of Duty series 6 episode 2

If you’re left with niggling doubts and unchecked hunches after reading our weekly episode review, we can help. Consider the below a communal evidence wall on which to pin mugshots of potentially bent coppers connected by red string and Post-Its scribbled with question marks. Join us as we delve into this week’s Line of Duty theories and questions…

Jargon of the Week: Reg 15

Stands for a Regulation 15 Notice, or Yellow Notice. It advises an officer that they’re going to be investigated by professional standards and therefore enter Line of Duty‘s interrogation room of doom.

Who is Ryan Pilkington?

Recruited by the Ocg as a child when paedophile pimp Tommy Hunter was in charge, Ryan is the son of an addict mother on the ‘Bog’ or Borogrove Estate in Moss Heath. In series one, he ran errands for the gang,...

Dci Jo Davidson: D for Devious. C for Corrupt. I for I wonder what hold the Ocg has over her. Because that flappy car tantrum was not the act of an ice-cool customer solely in it for the spondulicks. Jo’s a foe in woe. Why? We don’t know.

What we do know is that AC-12’s shade-ar now has a 100% detection rate. Every time it’s pointed at a potentially bent copper, it finds one. The moment Davidson picked up that burner phone from Beardy Blue Van Man, she lost all claim to innocence. Everything now points to her having 1) tipped off the Ocg about Carl Banks running his mouth, 2) bought them enough time to kill him and the Chis framed for Banks’ murder, and 3) used her keys to Farida’s to plant those burner phones and frame her as the leak.

What made Davidson do it, and...

Six series in, and Line of Duty has pinged a Jack-in-the-Box into the audience’s face so many times that we’ve learned to approach new episodes with the vigilant, arms-crossed suspicion of a mum whose teenager wants to have a party. Have you forgotten what happened last time? You can promise whatever you like, son, but ever since that girl got pushed out of that window, we have no reason to believe you.

In this state of high-alert vigilance, Line of Duty fans trust nothing and nobody. Worse than that: we start to listen out for the next loud bang, trying to anticipate where the next shock will come from. That leads, inevitably, to nonsense.

Nonsense like the popular but spurious fan theory last series that Rochenda Sandall’s character Lisa McQueen would turn out to be the secret love child of series one characters Dci Tony Gates and murder victim Jackie Laverty.

This Line of Duty review contains spoilers.

Is this allowed? Somebody please check. Can Kate just leave AC-12? She’s a third of the operation. One of the three pyramids at Giza may as well stand up and walk away. The strawberry from Neapolitan ice cream, silver Olympic medals, degrees 240 – 360 of all circles… could they also just call it a day? Unacceptable. This is AC-12 we’re talking about. 12 as in four times three: the gaffer, Steve and Kate – the corners of the straight-backed, clean-nosed triangle of truth.

No wonder Ted is feeling sore about it. The Super could barely bring himself to look at Fleming’s picture in this series six opener, the sight of those blue, blue eyes prompting him to mutter about loyalty and then change the subject to great wee girl Chloe, AC-12’s newest recruit. Last series’ investigation into ‘H’ clearly left a grubby stain on the unit’s reputation.

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By Shaheem Reid

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Celebrity Favorites: Fat Joe

New York, New York, we back! The New York Knicks gave their fans a healthy helping of hope on Monday when they came to contractual agreement with one of the top stars in the NBA, Amar'e Stoudemire. While in their pursuit of the former Phoenix Sun, the Knicks brass called on none other than a Big Apple King to help with the recruitment: Fat Joe. recently Joe posted a photo on Twitter featuring himself, Spike Lee, Stoudemire, Chris Rock, Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni and others.

"I'm a New York Knick fan, die-hard!" Joe told us. "And we been losing for a long time — like, eight years or something. The Knicks organization called me and said, 'Yo Joe, we're trying to get Amar'e.

'It was a great experience,' the Mc says of bringing Amar'e Stoudemire to his hometown team, in Mixtape Daily.

By Shaheem Reid

Fat Joe

Photo: MTV News

Celebrity Favorites: Fat Joe

New York, New York, we back! The New York Knicks gave their fans a healthy helping of hope on Monday when they came to contractual agreement with one of the top stars in the NBA, Amar'e Stoudemire. While in their pursuit of the former Phoenix Sun, the Knicks brass called on none other than a Big Apple King to help with the recruitment: Fat Joe. recently Joe posted a photo on Twitter featuring himself, Spike Lee, Stoudemire, Chris Rock, Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni and others.

"I'm a New York Knick fan, die-hard!" Joe told us. "And we been losing for a long time — like, eight years or something. The Knicks organization called me and said, 'Yo Joe, we're trying to get Amar'e.