Starting with Superman #700 – released today – DC Comics’ Man of Steel will give up the jetset lifestyle to walk across America and try and reconnect with humanity, thanks to the efforts of new writer J. Michael Straczynski. But if you’re wondering what makes that any different from his many other attempts to get in touch with humanity, …
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Superman: All the Anniversaries
Superman has been running, under one title or another, since 1939. This week, it reaches its gala 700th issue; here’s a little history of its previous anniversary issues.
July 1948: In Superman #53, the “tenth anniversary issue” (ten years and a month since Superman had first appeared in Action Comics #1, at any rate), writer Bill …
Hollywood Needs A Graphic Designer
Apparently, some people are excited about seeing logos for the Thor and The First Avenger: Captain America movies. Me, I don’t get it. Not because I don’t understand the thrill of seeing something official from these much-anticipated movies, even if it’s just logo artwork, thereby increasing anticipation for anything of real interest …
Up, Up and Away: 10 Non-Superman Supermen
The 32nd Superman Celebration is happening right now in Metropolis, Ill. For the last three decades, the Midwestern town that shares the name of Superman’s adopted city has honored the Last Son of Krypton with parades, costume contests and *gasp* Kryptonite making contests. This year, Noel Neill–who played Lois Lane in the 1950s …
World’s Finest: Batman x Superman
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How Superman Finally Got The Krypton He Deserves
It’s taken more than 70 years, but Superman finally has the one thing he’s always wanted: a home. Today sees the release of Superman: War of The Supermen #4, the final part of a massive, four-year-long arc running throughout various DC Comics titles that has seen his homeworld of Krypton come back to life – and the characters’ creators …
Clark Kent Finally Works Out He’s Superman After Ten Years
It’s taken a decade, but it looks like Clark Kent is finally ready to assume his destiny as a man who wears his underwear on the outside with the news that Smallville‘s tenth season is to be its last.
The CW series has been on the bubble since creators Al Gough and Miles Millar left at the end of its seventh season along with …
Vivid Entertainment Announces Vivid-Superhero String of Adult Films
I’ve done my best to avoid publishing anything on this at all costs, but Vivid Entertainment (yes, the porn folk) have gone too far. I’m not sure how they got a hold of my e-mail address but I’ve received half a dozen notes about Batman XXX: A Porn Parody, which I’ve ignored. A few minutes ago I received another note announcing …
The Daily Dose
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the Web:
IMAX & Warner Bros. sign up for a 20-picture deal: Today, Warner Bros. announced that it will release 20 films into IMAX theaters over the next three year. The list of planned releases so far is below, but note something interesting: We won’t see …
Charlie Sheen is Lex Luthor: How Will Superman Ever Beat This Hairdo!
Every superhero needs his villains, and we’ve alread learned that the upcoming Superman reboot is going to feature two baddies: Both Lex Luthor and Brainiac.
Well today Christopher Nolan dropped another bombshell: Just as he reached out to Heath Ledger to shake up the popular conception of the Joker in the Batman franchise, he is now …
The Techland Interview: Peter Molyneux on Obama, Superhero Fights and Fable III
When I met with Peter Molyneux at GDC this year, he discussed superhero battles that could never happen, tattletale weapons that you’ll be able to sell online and how his upcoming game Fable III will make players feel like President Obama. The respected designer behind the blockbuster Fable franchise likes to talk. That loquaciousness …
The Man of Steel Syllabus: Christopher Nolan’s Superman Movie Homework
The Last Son of Krypton may have finally found his own Superman. An article over at The Los Angeles Times confirms the rumors that have swirled for the last month or so that Christopher Nolan would be sitting in the director’s producer’s chair for Warner Bros.’ reboot of the Superman movie franchise. While we’re sure the DC …