In our second episode of Beyond the Panels, William and Dane talk about Doctor Who, the Oscar film season, and Dane’s trip to Europe.

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Fox has released the first teaser poster for Matthew Vaughan’s X-Men: First Class. The poster is anything mind blowing, but is a nice capper to the flood of First Class news we’ve gotten today. We’ve got the one-sheet for you below:

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It’s back, after being pulled down yesterday MSN has a new higher resolution look at the cast of X-Men: First Class. Not to be outdone, The Los Angeles Times has three new pictures to accompany their set visit article (recommended) that includes our first look at Kevin Bacon as Sebastian Shaw. The above image features the X-Men dressed in classic X-Men colors and shows (from left to right) Michael Fassbender (Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto), Rose Byrne (Dr. Moira MacTaggert), January Jones (Emma Frost), Jason Flemyng (Azazel), Nicholas Hoult (Hank McCoy / Beast), Lucas Till (Alex Summers / Havok), Zoë Kravitz (Angel Salvadore), Jennifer Lawrence (Raven Darkholme / Mystique) and James McAvoy (Professor Charles Xavier). Check out the new set pictures after the break.

In an interesting turn of events, Deadline Hollywood is reporting that Mad Men star and Emmy nominated actress January Jones has taken over the role of Emma Frost in Matthew Vaughn’s “X-Men: First Class”. When we last reported on this, actress Alice Eve had apparently gotten the role of the infamous White Queen, but this exclusive report from Deadline seems to confirm otherwise, saying:

While speculative reports had Alice Eve playing that role, no deal was concluded.

This has me incredibly excited! I thought that Eve was a good fit for the role, but as an avid “Mad Men” watcher, I can confidently say that January Jones can NAIL the cold tone that Emma needs. The report also states that Zoe Kravitz will play Angel and Jason Flemyng will play Nightcrawler’s father, Azazel.

“X-Men: First Class” also stars James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Nicholas Hoult, Jennifer Lawrence, Caleb Landry Jones, Lucas Till, Edi Gathegi, Kevin Bacon, Rose Byrne, and Oliver Platt. The movie is due out next summer and starts production in London in just a few weeks, on August 23.

Welcome to today’s edition of Leftovers! We’ve got a ton of news, so let’s jump right into it:

• In X-Men: First Class casting news, Oliver Platt and Rose Bryne have joined the cast. Platt will play the mysterious “Man in Black” while Bryne will take on the role of Moira MacTaggert.
• Fred Van Lente’s heavily teased Avengers book has been titled: “Dead Avengers” and will spin out of the Chaos War event that launches soon. We’ve included some of the art at the top of the post, but check out this full CBR article for even more details on what looks to be an outstanding series.
• Bill Willingham of Fables fame will write a “Warriors Three” story due out this November. This is the first work the writer has done at Marvel in quite some time.
• The Avengers movie will be filmed in 3D, which is good news for us movie fans.
• CBR has your first look at some of the other “Vampirella” variant covers, including a bloody brilliant cover by Alex Ross.

That’s all the leftovers for today. Did you finish your plate?