Will TRON: Legacy live up to all the hype? Who knows. But I learned three big things from the packed TRON party Friday night inside Flynn’s Arcade on Sixth Avenue in downtown San Diego. For starters, Disney is banking some major coin on the TRON future. Second, even if the movie is a disappointment we’ll have at the very least five …
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Comic-Con: Harry Potter and Co. Return, With Blood on Their Hands
“How about Harry F’in Potter!”
That was how Zack Snyder put it a couple minutes after thousands of the Comic-Con faithful checked out the very first footage from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Saturday afternoon. Potter was the lead-in to Snyder’s hallucinogenic Sucker Punch screening (a whole lot more about that later), and …
Comic-Con: Eisner Awards Liveblog
11:38: And we’re done! Go forth and celebrate.
11:32: The final category of the evening, Best Continuing Series, goes to “The Walking Dead.” Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard are both here to accept! I keep saying it, but it’s really, really nice that “The Walking Dead” and “Scott Pilgrim,” the two big stories of the weekend, are both …
The Daily Dose
Friday, July 23, 2010
Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the web:
Up Front:
JJ Abrams Talks The Genesis Of Super 8 [Slash Film]
Gadgets:
Samsung Offering Galaxy S Phones To Frustrated iPhone Users [Wired]
Video: Motorized Couch Banned From BYU [Buzzfeed]
Mad Men Style Revamped For The Personal Computer [
In Brightest Day: Warner Bros. Announces Green Lantern Video Game
In these days of transmedia entertainment, it shouldn’t be a surprise that a wold-be summer blockbuster movie is getting a video game to go with it. Still, since it’s Comic-Con, Warner Bothers Interactive Entertainment’s seen fit to release teaser art for Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters.
Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters
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Comic-Con: From Saw to Drive Angry, the 3-D Hard Sell is On
Right before hopping a plane for Comic-Con, I was on vacation with my family, and I found myself engaged in a vigorous debate about the value of 3-D.
Most people said they were sick of the whole fad, and I kept telling them that I had been in the same boat, until I sat down to see Avatar last December.
(More on Techland: Comic-Con: …
Comic-Con: So Why Exactly is Hawaii Five-O Here?
Just a couple hours ago, I wrote about how celebrating Star Wars Day today at Comic-Con allowed us to look beyond all the crass industry hype and remember, just for a day, the experiences back in 1977 and 1980 that galvanized a whole generation of sci-fi nerds.
Well now, only a couple minutes later, I find myself scratching my head …
Origins: Tommy Tallarico Provides Comic-Con’s Gloriously Geeky Game Soundtrack
In “Origins,” creators talk about their formative experiences with comics, movies, games and the things that influenced them to pursue lives of professional geekery.
With all the sweaty madness and queuing that accompanies Nerd Prom each year, a concert with thousands of fellow nerds doesn’t sound like much of an oasis. But, Video …
Comic-Con: Video Walk-Through of the Scott Pilgrim Experience
Right across the street from Comic-Con is the Scott Pilgrim Experience–a little pavilion where you can get silkscreened Scott Pilgrim or Sex Bob-Omb T-shirts, check out the Scott Pilgrim video game, hear DJs and bands, have a flipbook made of yourself fighting, or get autographs from the movie’s cast, director Edgar Wright, and/or Scott …
Comic-Con: Oh Star Wars, We Could Never Stay Mad At You
Today is the annual “Star Wars Day” celebration at Comic-Con – and a poignant one at that. It was 20 years ago (make that 30 years ago) that The Empire Strikes Back hit theaters – check out our look at the first draft of the film’s script, which originally included a Chewie-Wampa brawl! – arguably better than its predecessor, proving …
The Guy Who Hates Comic-Con Goes to Comic-Con, Part IV: Adam Warlock Is Dead
I’ve spent the entire day so far in panels. I present to you my scattered impressions:
The Power of Myth
On it: Amber Benson, Esther Friesner, Thomas Greanias, me, Les Klinger, Seanan McGuire, Michael Scott, and Thomas Sniegoski
The take-away: Michael Scott, the Nicholas Flamel guy, knows a lot about myth. And has a dreamy Oirish …
Comic-Con: All Hail the Fractured Fun of Bill Plympton
Oh, the tender and twisted animation of Bill Plympton: How I love the way he skewers reality.
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(More on Techland: The Techland Guide to Having a Good Time at Comic-Con)
I’ve long been an admirer of the work by this Portland native – the way his low-tech sketches seem to …