Well, okay, it’s an imaginary story. But Rob Liefeld, creator of two of Marvel’s last two big hit characters Deadpool and Cable (Someone, please: Prove me wrong), really has started work on a webcomic based on the idea that, between Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection, Earth was invaded by zombies, and apparently not as some kind of …
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A Brief History of Vampire Comics
There weren’t a whole lot of vampires in American comic books before the early ’70s. Oh, there’d been a stray blood-sucker or two in the Golden Age, but comics tended to use them sparingly, and the original version of the Comics Code, in 1954, forbade the depiction of vampires (and other horror staples like zombies and werewolves) …
New Star Wars Movies? Don’t Hold Your Breath
Is George Lucas planning a new Star Wars movie trilogy, to take place after Return of The Jedi? It depends on who you listen to. Last week, IESB reported the rumor that Lucas was planning on three new movies to follow the 3D re-release of the six existing movies, a la the prequel trilogy that followed the mid-90s release of the original …
Uwe Boll Has Killed Superhero Movies
Okay, he hasn’t done it yet, but I’m confident that the Alone In The Dark and Bloodrayne auteur’s next project, Blubberella, will do the job. Twitch has the news – what little there is – about Boll’s next movie, which centers around an overweight superheroine and has the tagline “The first female fat superhero… She will kick major ass …
Top Ten Monday Tech Deals
It’s Monday! Time for some handpicked gadget deals.
Apple 11.6-inch MacBook Air: $979 (MacMall)
If you’ve been drooling over the recently-released 11.6-inch MacBook Air but insist on waiting for its $999 price to drop, it already has. Not a whole lot, but $20 is $20, and it features free shipping and no tax, which could actually be a
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Zombie Crawl: The Walking Dead’s Steven Yeun on Being Glenn
The Walking Dead premieres on Halloween, and we can’t be more excited to see some zombie action on the small screen. We’ve got tons of exclusive interviews from the upcoming series for you guys this week, so stay tuned to find more about the series.
Recently, we caught up with Steven Yeun who plays Glenn in the show. He talked about …
New Comics for 10/27/10
This Wednesday the 27th is no different than any other Wednesday. New comics will appear on racks all over the country and I will be there to buy a few too many of them. Here’s a list of new comics coming out this week. Give it a once over and see if anything talks to you.
(A ♠ marks my projected pull list.)
Marvel
Amazing …
Adventures in Social Engineering: Why I Turned Down $10k and an Honorary Degree
“Social engineering,” the fancy term for tricking you into giving away your digital secrets, is at least as great a threat as spooky technology. We all know (right?) about the scam emails that inform you of a surprise inheritance or lottery win. Recently I came across a surprising variation: a scam that deliberately targets folks who …
Steven Spielberg To Take On The Robopocalypse
Director Steven Spielberg might be going the drama route with his upcoming War Horse, but it seems he’s heading in a sci-fi vein right after that. Deadline reports that Spielberg has signed up to do Robopocalypse, Drew Goddard’s adaptation of the Daniel H. Wilson upcoming novel about a robot vs.human fight for survival. (No, this isn’t …
Green Lantern’s Movie Homebase Revealed
Warner Bros has released concept art from next year’s Green Lantern movie, letting fans and those of us more prepared to be critical get out first chance to see what Green Lantern Corps home planet Oa will look like on the big screen. And the answer is apparently… rocky?
Don’t get me wrong, it doesn’t look bad, exactly. It’s …
Your Next Movie Reboot: Hellraiser
You can’t keep a good cenobite down. Well, you probably can, considering that whole “Hell is down below” thing, but what I’m referring to is the fact that, five years after the last Hellraiser movie, Dimension Films are trying (yet again) to resurrect the horror franchise.
The Hollywood Reporter has the news that Patrick Lussier and …
Hobbit Casting Confirmed
Now that Warner Bros has finally confirmed The Hobbit movie adaptations, and Peter Jackson has finally confirmed that he will, as expected, direct the movies, it’s time for the confirmation of the last everyone-knows-it’s-true bit of information about the much-anticipated fantasy project: Martin Freeman is Bilbo Baggins.
Freeman …