New comics Wednesday is two short days away. Are you ready? Do you know what big hitters are having milestone issues this week? Do you know what brand new titles are debuting? Get your act together, reader. Here is the list of titles shipping on Wednesday. Unbelievable.
(♠ Denotes the projected pull list)
Marvel
Age of Heroes #1 …
This first teaser trailer is just that – a tease. Void of any actual footage of upcoming film The Social Network, the trailer gives the impression that David Fincher’s Facebook origin film is more Kramer vs. Kramer than Ivy League go get ’em flick. Look at those descriptors: Punk, Genius, Prophet, Traitor, Billionaire? Where I’d give …
We’ve waited months for another glimpse at upcoming Tron: Legacy, but so far Disney’s been extremely conservative with any new clips – at least in the U.S. An IMDB commenter claims that new footage debuted at Cinema Expo Amsterdam, and while it’s hard to verify the truth to it, it is interesting. (See the IMDB posting here.)
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This just in from the “It’s about time” department: Marvel Entertainment have announced a new division that will concentrate on television, both live-action and animation. And heading it up is a man with a background in writing superheroes for both comics and TV: Jeph Loeb.
Loeb has been appointed Executive Vice President, Head of …
Last week, Superman hit #700; this week, it’s Wonder Woman‘s turn to reach a double-zero landmark, with #600. Here’s a quick history of the amazing Amazon’s anniversaries.
November 1950: Sensation Comics, which was effectively to Wonder Woman what Action was to Superman or Detective was to Batman, hits its 100th issue. “Wonder Woman, …
Another Monday, another ten hand picked gadget deals for you to peruse while you fight the urge to dig into your actual workload. Some notable deals this week include an incredible price on the 13-inch Acer Timeline ultraportable at just $400, some good video game-related discounts, and a smattering of low-priced GPS systems. Enjoy.
Seattle’s HIllel Cooperman explains why adults love Legos and I just about spewed coffee all over my screen.
Airbender week: It’s finally here.
For fans of the TV series, for fans of the great visual stylist M. Night Shyamalan, it’s the movie we’ve been waiting years for.
Even those who have been disappointed by recent Shyamalan projects must concede that the guy knows how to put iconic images on the television screen. The terrified …
Driving down Los Angeles’s lovely Pico Blvd., I saw that The Last Airbender billboard had been defaced thusly:
It immediately brought to mind the a billboard I’d seen for Iron Man 2, which had been similarly altered:
To my thinking, each billboard looks much, much, cooler with the spray paint addition. The giant posters …
The guys at Blendtec have done it again. The blender making, gadget smashing Will It Blend? videos are back with a timely grinding of Apple’s new iPhone 4. By now, you’re probably familiar with the viral videos, which have featured tech’s most popular gadgets being ground to pieces. For many fanboys (or poor writers), watching a gadget …
AMC’s The Walking Dead production blogging has really piqued my interest in all of the behind the scenes work that goes into creating a modern zombie film/TV show. A few weeks ago, AMC posted a video of its Zombie School, an undead finishing school for actors and extras chosen to be featured zombies for the show. It looked incredible. …
Science has done many truly wonderful things in the past, but little measures up to the sight of Oscar, the British cat with bionic legs. Yes, that’s right: the cat with bionic legs. Oscar lost his back legs in a combine harvester accident, but the skills of Dr Noel Fitzpatrick meant that he was able to jump about at random like every …
