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Emanata: Hi, Kids. Do You Like Violence?

Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.’s miniseries Kick-Ass is, as the cover of the collected edition that came out this week indicates, “now a major motion picture”–or will be when the movie opens in April. Like Millar’s earlier Wanted, the comic book is written like an action movie, right down to the Bondian smart-ass wisecracks its …

Shutter Island Author Muses on Scorsese’s Ghost Tale

Most Martin Scorsese films are ghost stories – no, not paranormal thrillers, but meditations on those memories and nightmares that haunt our psyches. Whether we’re talking guilt, remorse, regret, longing…his films are very much about people struggling to tread water in turbulent seas. Case in point: The Departed, for which he …

What Do Fireflies and Bill Gates Have in Common?

Speaking at TED last week, Bill Gates unveiled his vision for cleaner energy in the future and eliminating CO2 emissions by 2050 with his endorsement of a radically different type of nuclear reactor. He also noted the miracles that occur in nature by bringing out a jar of fireflies. It’s definitely worth the 30 minutes.

Q&A: DC Comics’ Jim Lee, Dan DiDio and Geoff Johns

This morning, it was announced that DC Entertainment’s new president Diane Nelson had named Dan DiDio and Jim Lee as DC Comics’ co-publishers, and Geoff Johns as Chief Creative Officer. TECHLAND spoke to the three new appointees about what comes next for DC.

So Jim and Geoff: are you going to be moving to New York?

JIM LEE: I …

Panel of the Week 2/17/10

Is killing baddies so wrong? Do rats make the best pets? Do Green Lanterns over-exfoliate? What is the best managerial style for international criminal organizations? The answers to these questions in our Panel of the Week!

Invincible #70
A few of months ago there was a debate on the internets about superheros who kill. I come …

Playing Avatar: The Hilarious Na’vi Reenactors, From the Dairy State

I grew up in Wisconsin, and so I know well what a curious, creative lot hails from such counties as Milwaukee, Waukesha, Dade and Eau Claire. There’s a big portion of the state where humor is in short supply. And then there are areas like Madison, where The Onion was founded, where you get some wacky characters who come up with …

What is TWENTYWONDER?

Years back, if you were a member of the Los Angeles comedy-nerd-art-dork-hip-oisie, you would be lucky to receive an invitation to SUPERBALL. SuperBall was the brainchild of Mystery Science Theater 3000‘s Joel Hodgson and his brother Jim, and it was always the party of the summer, if not the autumn as well. Located deep in the deepest …

DC Entertainment Announces Its Superhero Execs

Back in September of ’09, Warner Bros. announced the “creation” of DC Entertainment, a company that would oversee the implementation of all DC Comics properties under the Warner Bros. Entertainment umbrella. In other words, WB created DCE to go after Marvel Studios and seed the DC characters across other mediums. At the time of the …

Techland Screening Room: Time to Set Your Netflix Queue

Every Thursday, the Techland Screening Room digs deep in an attempt to appreciate one of the 50 most important sci-fi titles of cinema’s first century. When we’re not analyzing the films, we’re announcing the next title in the series. We welcome your thoughts, insights, grumblings and epiphanies.

Consider this the official …

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