There have been rumors floating around for a few weeks that Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman’s long-out-of-print Marvelman/Miracleman comics are either closer to republication than they’ve been in a while, or further away. (Arguably, the recent kerfuffle over the “Medieval Spawn” case is just the latest set of aftershocks from the Marvelman …
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Every Lightsaber Appearance From Episodes I-VI
YouTuber Landstrider spent six hours compiling every on-screen lightsaber ignition in order of each movie’s release. Retractions were cut in reverse order.
Kudos to you, Eric.
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Star Wars: Legacy To Get a Six-Issue Sequel
Those who have been lamenting the end of John Ostrander and Jan Duursema’s Star Wars: Legacy comics series with this month’s #50 need rend their garments no longer: MTV’s Splash Page has reported that Ostrander and Duursema are preparing a follow-up six-issue miniseries, Star Wars: Legacy–War. Duursema claims that they’ve conceived of …
The Daily Dose
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the web:
Shark Fact Of The Day:
Orcas are the only natural predator of the great white shark, but humans are the worst threat to this species, which has finally earned government protection in many of the areas in which this species is found.
Up Front:
New …
Droid X To Get Froyo In September
A discussion about issues with Exchange over at Motorola’s support forums has revealed a tentative release date for Froyo for the Droid X. According to Motorola employee Matt, Droid X users will get the Froyo (Android 2.2) update in early September.
A fix for this will be included in the upgrade to Android 2.2 scheduled for
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Spot the Gadgets in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
In honor of Star Wars Month, I volunteered to painstakingly watch all six Star Wars movies and compile a list of gadget-like devices I spot in each one. I can promise you I will miss a few and I won’t know what some of them are supposed to be called, but I’ll be damned if I don’t watch all six episodes of one of the greatest film …
Hands-On: Shattered Dimensions Spins Spider-Man’s Web Across Multiple Realities
Peter Parker’s been absent from game consoles since 2008, when Spider-Man: Web of Shadows came out. That all changes when the latest Spidey title from Activision hits later this year; the publisher showed it off in NYC this week and I had a chance to press on the buttons in the wall-crawler’s new video game.
Dan Slott–who’s taking …
BlackBerry Torch: What Do You Want To Know?
Our BlackBerry Torch review unit is in. Anything you want us to check out?
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Is Green Lantern’s Third Movie Already Being Planned?
The first movie hasn’t even finished shooting yet, but already rumors are flying about that Warners are planning a Green Lantern trilogy, with each movie to be released a year apart, Lord Of The Rings (or Twilight)-style. Bleeding Cool is reporting that shooting for the second Green Lantern movie will begin before the first has been …
Panel of the Week 8/4/10
Welcome back to Panel of the Week where we choose some of the best scenes from this week’s comic books. This week we have monotone vigilantes, an angry Thing, a helicarrier precursor, big pun, and a new twist on ninja demon summoning. Let’s blow your hair back.
Daredevil Black and White
There are two flavors of Daredevil the …
The Clone Wars Gunship Nose Art
While watching “Landing at Point Rain” (Season 2 Episode 5) last week in one of the Lucasfilm Animation theaters at Big Rock, I noticed that all the Republic gunships had nose art reminiscent of the nose art on bomber planes during World War 2. Below are 20 different pieces used in The Clone Wars series.