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One of our favorite parts of superhero-adventure The Middleman is the on-again, off-again romance between the mysterious hero and Lacey, his sidekick’s roommate. But Javier Grillo-Marxuach tells io9 he fought that storyline tooth and nail. So what happened? Spoilers ahead.

For those of you coming to this late, The Middleman was a graphic novel that spawned a television show on ABC Family last year. It followed the adventures of art student Wendy Watson, who takes a temp job that…

(View the rest of the article at IO9 – The Middleman’s Romance With Lacey Almost Didn’t Happen)

The cover of the new “The MiddleMan” graphic novel, presumably this is the one that Javi spoke about containing the scripts for the unaired TV episode….After all, that episode supposedly had DubDub captured, and thus the cover image. And Tyler in the lower right ties it to the TV universe…

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Shout! Factory is releasing this 4-disc collection on July 28th

Now here is the Shout!’s disc-by-disc ‘track listing’ for the 4-disc set, which inlcude our first look at the extras included on these DVDs. Plus we’ve also got a new 3-D look at the package art, too.

Check it out:

Disc 1:

• The Pilot Episode Sanction (with Commentary)
• The Accidental Occidental Conception
• The Sino-Mexican Revelation
• The Manicoid Teleportation Conundrum

Disc 2:

• The Flying Fish Zombification
• The Boy-Band Superfan Interrogation
• The Cursed Tuba Contingency (with Commentary)
• The Ectoplasmic Pan-Hellenic Investigation

Disc 3:

• The Obsolescent Cryogenic Meltdown
• The Vampiric Puppet Lamentation
• The Clotharian Contamination Protocol (with Commentary)
• The Palindrome Reversal Palindrome (with Commentary)

Disc 4 – Bonus Features:

• Deleted/Extended Scenes
• Weekly Javicasts
• The Middleman-ager
• Gag Reel
• Casting Sessions
• The Wilhelm Scream
• Original Opening Title Sequence Animatics
• Original Opening Title Sequence
• ‘The Palindrome Reversal Palindrome’ Table Read
• ‘Scream Ur Luv 4 Me’ Music Video
• Scripts
• A Gallery of Photography by Ralph King

The Middlelan blog has announced that the street date for the MiddleMan is July 28th!

EXCELLENT…

Ladies and gentlemen, we have achieved street date . The…: “Ladies and gentlemen, we have achieved street date. The Middleman dvd boxset from Shout! Factory will arrive in our hot little hands July 28, 2009.”
(Via Middlefan.)