COMICS CONTINUUM NEWS -- BRIEFLY ITEMS

* The Dark Knight Rises remained the top movie at the box office over the weekend. The Batman movie easily topped newcomer Total Recall, $36.4 million to $26.0 million.

The weekend box office pushed The Dark Knight Rises' domestic total to $354.6 million.

* Upcoming comic-book movies airing on Fox include: Hellboy at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday and 1 p.m. on Thursday; Hellboy II: The Golden Army at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday and at 12:30 p.m. on Friday; Iron Man on Saturday at 5 p.m. and August 12 at 3 p.m.; and Surrogates on August 12 at 7 a.m.