Christopher Nolan has revealed the title of his third Batman movie, but he’s not so eager to give away what it’s about just yet. Nolan told the LA Times’ Geoff Boucher that the follow-up to The Dark Knight will be called The Dark Knight Rises, and that it will “use many of the same characters as we have all along, and [introduce] some …
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Comics on Our Pull List
Here are some comic books (and one hard cover) that are dropping today. I can’t promise great reads in all of these but there is something about each one that I’m intrigued by. Here I use ‘intrigued’ in the voice of a typical Bond villain, swivel chair and unnerving grin are implied. Come back tomorrow for some deep, deep, insight from …
Avatar 2 And 3 Confirmed For 2014, 2015
Fox has announced that James Cameron’s next two movies will be Avatar 2 and Avatar 3, with production beginning next year and the release of the movies planned for December 2014 and 2015, respectively. The news is surprising only insofar as it means that Cameron won’t be involved in Sony’s rumored 3D Cleopatra movie starring Angelina …
The Hobbit To Stay In New Zealand
It’s finally official: The Hobbit will stay in New Zealand after all.
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key made the announcement yesterday after a second day of talks between government officials and Warner Bros. executives. Despite earlier statements about refusing to engage in a cost competition, the agreement between the two parties …
My Favorite Zombie: Gwen Dylan from “I, Zombie”
To celebrate the premiere of The Walking Dead on AMC this Sunday, we here at Techland will be picking out our favorite formerly deceased monsters across comics, games, film and other media. The zombie myth’s been around for centuries and has been reinterpreted almost as much as vampire lore. At their most basic, though, zombies represent …
70 Years of Frankenstein Comics
Victor Frankenstein’s monster, stitched together from pieces of dead men, is a great visual creation–although the way we imagine him to look often has more to do with Boris Karloff’s appearance in the 1931 Frankenstein movie than with Mary Shelley’s description in her 1818 novel. He’s appeared (usually identified simply as …
Analyzing Chuck: Can Images Strike Fear?
If you tuned into Chuck last night, not only would you finally see Chuck and his mom Linda Hamilton together, you would have realized that the mad scientist that was wreaking havoc on this episode was none other than Robert Englund, aka the original Freddy Krueger.
While Englund looks like he could be someone’s nice old grandfather, …
Hobbit Talks May Change New Zealand Forever
The fight to keep The Hobbit in New Zealand may be getting more intense, but there’s a limit to how far it’ll go, according to New Zealand Prime Minister John Key. Key spoke to reporters before today’s meeting between the government and Warner Bros. executives and told them “I’ve made it quite clear (to Warner Bros.) if it comes to a …
Win a Signed Copy of the True Blood Comic and A Bottle of Blood
We ran an interview with True Blood comic book writers Mariah Huehner and David Tischman. Now here’s your chance to read the comic book for yourself and satisfy your True Blood craving before the next season comes around.
We’re giving away three copies of the IDW’s True Blood comic book (Con Exclusive #1), signed by illustrator David …
Panel of the Week
Each installment of Panel of the Week I pull some of the best scenes from last week’s comics (released on 10/20) and put them up for all to see and make snarky comments about. Come back tomorrow to see the featured pull list just in time to hit your Local Comic Shop for lunch.
Batman and Robin #15
Frazer Irving has, I think, carved …
Today’s Twitter Theater: Back To The Future In 140 Characters
If you’re looking for Twitter to provide you with a reason for its continued existence today, you could do worse than the Twitter reenactment of Back To The Future that’s happening at 5pm EST today. Yes, if you’re following all of the characters from the movie on Twitter, then you too can get 140-character updates as if the movie was …
Robert Kirkman Talks Walking Dead Weekly
If this weekend’s premiere of AMC’s The Walking Dead makes you wish you could catch up with Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard’s original comic version, but you can’t quite justify spending the money on the first collection sight unseen, don’t worry. Come January, Image Comics will be releasing The Walking Dead Weekly, a …