For the purists who think that Star Wars peaked with The Empire Strikes Back and turned into a showcase for toys and merchandise, you’re not alone. In fact, the producer of both Star Wars and Empire, Gary Kurtz, is one of those who agrees with you, and he’s told the LA Times’ Hero Complex blog all about it.
Kurtz is quoted as …
This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up talking about what we picked up. This week, Douglas Wolk, Lev Grossman, Mike Williams and Graeme McMillan discuss The Unwritten, Vol. 2: Inside Man and Ultimate Avengers 3 #1.
DOUGLAS: As a series, The Unwritten has never quite done it for me, even though it’s …
With the release of “Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World” imminent (it’s tomorrow!), Techland’s staff has been chatting pretty much constantly about how totally into it we are. Here’s what Steve Snyder, Lev Grossman, Douglas Wolk, Graeme McMillan and Evan Narcisse have to say about it.
STEVE: Am I the only one taken aback by the critical …
Mimoco has announced its Series 6 Star Wars flash drives. There are four new ones, all based around The Empire Strikes Back and running between $30 and $90 depending on capacity.
Choose from Yoda, Hoth Luke, Snowtrooper, and the very awesome Wampa. Aside from holding your files, the drives come preloaded with character-specific desktop
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Plenty of people use Gmail without really leveraging some of the more advanced features. Here’s a quick list of 10 useful tricks that don’t require any advanced hacking or wizardry. Enjoy.
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If you’re heading to Orlando this weekend for Celebration V then you might want to drop by Lego and help build a mystery eight-foot tall, 15-foot wide mural. Those of you who help out the Lego Master Builder will get one of 10,000 limited edition white Boba Fett minifigs. On top of that, Lego and Lucasfilm’s “The Empire Gives …
Marvel released the following image today, accompanied by ordering information for Amazing Spider-Man #641, which goes on sale next month:
The original solicitation for the issue goes like this:
This is it! The startling conclusion to ONE MOMENT IN TIME! How did the world REALLY forget Peter Parker was Spider-Man? And what does
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Oh no! The Warehouse crew are falling apart and the show’s turning into a much more generic thriller… or is it? Yes, this week’s Warehouse 13 was a mindgame about a mindgame. Here’re 13 Mindgamey thoughts about it.
1. Pete Has A Terrible Taste In Music. I can’t be the only one who, when the show cut from Pete yelling that it was on …
When news broke earlier this month that NBC had finally jumped on this latest installment of the vampire bandwagon, I died a little inside. The studio, now synonymous with kicking Conan to the curb and giving David Hasselhoff a career boost as a human clap-o-meter, has purchased spec script Zombies Vs. Vampires, written by Jake In …
My first association with Star Wars is nearsightedness. I came to it a little bit late; I’ve never been a big movie person, and I was probably too young to see the original movie when it came out. By the spring of 1978, though, I’d heard so much about it–through my schoolmates, but also thanks to my obsession with Pizzazz magazine–that …
Verizon Wireless and Motorola’s third Droid device launches tomorrow but it’s up for pre-order now. To satiate your gadget appetite until then, VZW has released the fury of Derek upon us all. Watch as this Basking Ridge hooligan walks you through the features of the Droid 2.
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One of the highlights of Comic-Con, as far as we’re concerned, was the Sunday-morning “Techland Presents: Comics and Digital Piracy” panel, featuring comiXology’s CEO David Steinberger, manga expert Deb Aoki, and manga editor Jake T. Forbes, with Techland’s Douglas Wolk moderating. Aoki has posted a transcript of the entire panel over at …
