While I was in San Diego…

April 26, 2006 by Chris Mosby · Leave a Comment
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I am down at the Microsoft Management Summit (www.mms2006.com) this week and I found a place I was never expecting…

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/mozbe/detail?.dir=cf41scd&.dnm=43b8scd.jpg&.src=ph

Unfortunately Superman and Batman weren’t in. I thought I heard a low flying plane while i was taking this, but I couldn’t see anything.

The one sad thing was that Marvin, Wendy, and the Wonder Twins were outside picketing unfair treatment of sidekicks. I tried to take a picture of them, but they sicked Wonder Dog on me. Luckily that dog is about 300 years old in dog years, or he would have caught me.

“Star Trek” franchise set for 2008 revival: report | Reuters.com

April 21, 2006 by Chris Mosby · Leave a Comment
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Now this is good news…

“Star Trek” franchise set for 2008 revival: report | Reuters.com

“Star Trek” franchise set for 2008 revival: report
Fri Apr 21, 2006 3:12 AM ETLOS ANGELES (Reuters) – More than three years after the
last “Star Trek” movie crashed at the box office, the venerable
sci-fi franchise is being revived by the director of the
upcoming “Mission: Impossible” sequel, Daily Variety reported
in its Friday edition.

The as-yet-untitled “Star Trek” feature, the 11th since
1979, is aiming for a fall 2008 release through Paramount
Pictures, the Viacom Inc. unit looking to restore its
box-office luster under new management, the trade paper said.

The project will be directed by J.J. Abrams, whose Tom
Cruise vehicle “Mission: Impossible III” will be released by
Paramount on May 5. Abrams, famed for producing the TV shows
“Alias” and “Lost,” will also help write and produce.

Daily Variety said the action would center on the early
days of “Star Trek” characters James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock,
including their first meeting at Starfleet Academy and first
outer-space mission.

The paper described “Star Trek” as Hollywood’s most durable
performer after James Bond, spawning 10 features that have
grossed more than $1 billion and 726 TV episodes from six
series.

The 10th film, “Star Trek: Nemesis,” bombed at the box
office on its December 2002 release, earning just $43 million
in North America. Last year, Viacom-owned broadcast network UPN
pulled the plug on the low-rated series “Star Trek: Enterprise”
following a four-season run.

NEWSARAMA.COM: DC PREVIEWS FOR APRIL 26th

April 21, 2006 by Chris Mosby · Leave a Comment
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Looks like more good stuff from DC next week

NEWSARAMA.COM: DC PREVIEWS FOR APRIL 26th

DC has released several preview for titles shipping Wednesday, April 26th, including Action Comics #838 and Blue Beetle #2

ACTION COMICS #838
Written by Geoff Johns & Kurt Busiek
Art by Renato Guedes
Cover by Terry Dodson & Rachel Dodson
Part 4 of the 8-part “Up, Up and Away” reveals secrets from the past as
well as the present! Neutron and Radion strike, Luthor’s scheme is
unveiled, and a mystery from space rears its ugly head!
On sale April 26 • 32 pg, FC, $2.50 US







BLUE BEETLE #2
Written by Keith Giffen & John Rogers
Art and cover by Cully Hamner


The exciting new series written by Keith Giffen & John Rogers with
art by Cully Hamner continues! The new Beetle had enough to deal with
in the increasingly strange and dangerous days following the Scarab’s
appearance. Now he’s made his way home from the Infinite Crisis to
discover a totally changed world!
On sale April 26 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US ?





NEWSARAMA.COM: INFINITE CRISIS #7 COVERS PREVIEW

April 21, 2006 by Chris Mosby · Leave a Comment
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Oh my…

NEWSARAMA.COM: INFINITE CRISIS #7 COVERS PREVIEW

Over the last seven (or so) months Newsarama’s been bringing you the
premier of both the Jim Lee and George Perez covers to each issue of Infinite Crisis. The last several months we’ve waited until the color versions were available, but this time around, with Infinite Crisis #7 being the series’ last issue, we thought you might like to see both covers as soon as they were available.

So here
they are, in the their full black & white glory. You might want to
save viewing them until you have enough time to take them all in…

For readers with the bandwidth and monitors, here are larger size (750×1110) versions of each image.

  • JIM LEE version
  • GEORGE PEREZ version
  • Comic Book Resources – DC COMICS SOLICITATIONS FOR PRODUCT SHIPPING JULY, 2006

    April 19, 2006 by Chris Mosby · Leave a Comment
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    More info at the link below..

    Comic Book Resources – CBR News – The Comic Wire

    DC COMICS SOLICITATIONS FOR PRODUCT SHIPPING JULY, 2006

    by Jonah Weiland, Executive Producer

    Posted: April 17, 2006
    DC Comics
    has provided CBR News with their solicitation text and cover images for
    comics and product shipping in July of 2006. Discuss these
    solicitations here on CBR’s DC Comics forum and tell fellow fans what you plan on picking up.

    DC Solicitations – Last Six Months

  • Product Shipping June, 2006
  • Product Shipping May, 2006
  • Product Shipping April, 2006
  • Product Shipping March, 2006
  • Product Shipping February, 2006
  • Product Shipping January, 2006
  • Out this week – GREEN LANTERN: NO FEAR

    April 18, 2006 by Chris Mosby · Leave a Comment
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    Another great story from Geoff Johns, as Hal Jordan returns!

    To find out how Johns brought Hal back to life, and explained his evil past, check out Green Lantern: Rebirth in hardcover or trade paperback. I highly recommend this as one of the best Green Lantern stories ever!!

    You can order Green Lantern: No Fear now at Amazon.com

    DC Comics

    GREEN LANTERN: NO FEAR
     
     
     
      » View Larger Image
    Written by Geoff Johns; Art by Carlos Pacheco, Ethan
    Van Sciver, Darwyn Cooke and others; Cover by Alex Ross
    A new hardcover collecting GREEN LANTERN #1-6 and
    GREEN LANTERN SECRET FILES #1!
    Hal Jordan is back from
    the dead — now watch as he re-establishes his life as a pilot.
    Standing in his way, though, is one of the deadly Manhunter
    androids followed by the Shark.
    DC Universe | 176pg. | Color |
    Hardcover | $24.99 US
    | ISBN 140120466X
    On Sale April 19, 2006

    Comic Book Resources – BLADE, STARDUST, SAILOR MOON, X-MEN 3: APRIL 17TH COMIC REEL WRAP

    April 17, 2006 by Chris Mosby · Leave a Comment
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    Comic Book Resources – CBR News – The Comic Reel

    BLADE, STARDUST, SAILOR MOON, X-MEN 3: APRIL 17TH COMIC REEL WRAP

    by Hannibal Tabu, Staff Writer

    Posted: April 17, 2006
    BLADE

    The new Spike TV live action series has made a new foray on to the web, launching a website for one of the “vampire houses” that will be featured on the show.

    STARDUST

    Creator Neil Gaiman made a post on his blog
    saying, “The wall of people-who-have-been-cast in ‘Stardust’ at
    Pinewood now includes on it Mr Peter O’Toole, Miss Billie Whitelaw and
    Mr Ricky Gervais. It starts shooting on location in Skye next week. I
    don’t know if having the multitudinous readers of a blog concentrate on
    making sure the weather in Skye is as unseasonably clear, warm and
    sunny as possible starting next Wednesday will do any good, but it
    couldn’t hurt. (I won’t be there, alas, although Skye is possibly my
    favourite place in the world, whatever the weather.)”

    SAILOR MOON

    According to Moviehotties.com,
    the scourge of the streets is looking at sliding into a schoolgirl
    skirt and kicking some butt. We now pause for requisite cleanup of any
    drool that may have occurred during the reading of this alleged news
    item.

    X-MEN 3

    IGN’s FilmForce has an article
    about how filmmakers focused on the Danger Room for this mutant minded
    movie. “It was pretty important,” said production designer Ed Verreaux.
    “This time, when we went in to the studio, we said ‘We really want to
    have this! This is an X-Men thing!’ We changed it a little bit because
    we wanted to open it up, otherwise you don’t see as much of the room as
    you would have seen. The first set, it was really just sort of ‘a
    space.’ Not much room. But now [the actors] are doing a bunch of stuff
    and they’re actually all in the space.” (emphasis theirs)

    Meanwhile, Zak Penn described the process of writing the film to Comics Foundry.
    “Simon and I were hired separately to write two separate ideas. The
    studio and the production had all these things that needed to have
    done, partly because of availability, partly because of whatever. It
    was a whole long list of things that had to be done in this movie. Some
    of them were story points, by the way, I will admit that. Me and Simon
    (Kinberg) got together and said, ‘Given this, what’s our vision?’ And
    we both agreed. ‘That’s what you want to do? That’s what I want to do
    too.’ And when Matthew Vaughn came in, we basically all got together
    and talked about what we wanted and he said, ‘That sounds great; that’s
    what I want to do. If you can show me 30 pages of that by tomorrow, I
    won’t quit the movie. But otherwise I don’t think we have time to make
    the movie.’ So Simon and I looked at each other, and we’re both
    screenwriters in our own right — we’re not writing partners — so we
    said let’s try it. We sat down and instead of writing 30 pages, we
    wrote 80 pages, and we did it in six days.”

    Finally, IGN has been helpful enough to collect all of the trailers for the film in one convenient place. What a swell bunch!

    Y: THE LAST MAN

    CHUD is reporting
    that comics writer Brian K. Vaughan is working on the screenplay for
    the adaptation of his Vertigo work. “Yeah, I’m really in the loop. In
    fact I would upgrade it from development hell to development limbo,
    maybe,” he said. “I am actually writing the screenplay right now for
    ‘Y: The Last Man;’ they’re letting me take a shot at it. It’s been
    really good. The input I’ve gotten so far has been really positive.”

    LEGION OF SUPER HEROES

    Comics Continuum
    notes that April Winchell is providing the voice of President Winema
    Wazzo in the upcoming animated series. In the series, President Wazzo
    is the mother of Phantom Girl and doesn’t approve of the Legion.

    I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS

    Here’s where you get in
    on the action. Did you see a link we didn’t catch? Have you snuck into
    a closed movie set, and have inside data? Maybe your cousin is dating
    somebody who knows something, and they had to tell you? Whatever it is,
    we wanna know it all — fire off an email
    and let us know whether you want your name used or your contributions
    to geekdom to go down anonymously. Broadcasting live from Los Angeles,
    this is novelist/karaoke host/all-around lunatic Hannibal Tabu
    saying thanks for your time and indulgence, and [tagline sent back to
    development hell until something hipper can be dreamed up].

    Comic Book Resources – BOYS IN GREEN: GIBBONS TALKS “GREEN LANTERN CORPS”

    April 15, 2006 by Chris Mosby · Leave a Comment
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    I can’t wait till this starts up, the limited series was really good. You can read the rest of the story at the link below.

    Comic Book Resources – CBR News – The Comic Wire

    BOYS IN GREEN: GIBBONS TALKS “GREEN LANTERN CORPS”

    by Dave Richards, Staff Writer

    Posted: April 14, 2006
    This June, when DC Comics ongoing “Green Lantern Corps” series begins, writer Dave Gibbons and artist Patrick Gleason will be jumping ahead “One Year Later” and be taking readers many light years away from Earth and into the farthest corners of the galaxy. CBR News spoke with Gibbons about his plans for the Guardians’ elite force of emerald clad
    ring slingers.

    “Green Lantern Corps” #1 picks up one year after the events of the “Green Lantern Corps: Recharge“>Green Lantern Corps: Recharge” mini-series and in the intervening time, life on the Corps home world has changed. “Life on Oa is very different. Oa is very different,” Gibbons told CBR News. “Following the attack by the Spider Guild in ‘Recharge,’ the Guardians realized that just to have a naked little planet floating there in space was maybe a little foolish. So, they’ve taken steps to fortify it. Just how, you’ll see in the first issue and I wouldn’t want to spoil it.”

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    NEWSARAMA – BUSIEK & NICEZA: BACK IN ACTION

    April 15, 2006 by Chris Mosby · Leave a Comment
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    I just might have to keep reading Action Comics if Busiek is writing it…

    Read the rest of the story at the link below.

    NEWSARAMA – BUSIEK & NICEZA: BACK IN ACTION

    BUSIEK & NICEZA: BACK IN ACTION
    So ? who?s the team handling Action Comics come July?s issue #841?Well?the previously planned ?new? team for Action is still coming, but still, there is a new team for Action in July.

    Who?

    Someone old and someone new?

    For three issues, #841-#843, Kurt Busiek (co-writer of the currently running ?Up Up and Away!? arc in Superman and Action)
    and Fabian Nicieza will join with artist Pete Woods for ?Back in
    ACTION,? a storyline picking up after the events of ?Up Up and Away!?
    As an aside, the Action gig places Busiek on two Superman
    titles for the summer, as July marks the debut of the writer and Carlos
    Pacheco as the regular creative team on Superman.

    We spoke with the writing team for some insight on the pairing and the story.

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    Comic Book Resources – GHOST RIDER, 30 DAYS OF NIGHT, 300, X-MEN 3: APRIL 14TH COMIC REEL WRAP

    April 15, 2006 by Chris Mosby · Leave a Comment
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    Comic Book Resources – CBR News – The Comic Reel

    GHOST RIDER, 30 DAYS OF NIGHT, 300, X-MEN 3: APRIL 14TH COMIC REEL WRAP

    by Hannibal Tabu, Staff Writer

    Posted: April 14, 2006
    GHOST RIDER

    According to Vancouver 24 Hours,
    “Nicolas Cage, Peter Fonda and Sam Elliot were making the fantasy flick
    Ghost Rider south of the border, but Vancouver has been chosen as the
    location for last-minute reshoots.” By “south of the border,” of
    course, they meant “in Australia.” Oh, Canadia … anyhoo, “Ghost
    Rider” is scheduled for a February 16, 2007 release.

    30 DAYS OF NIGHT

    Director David Slade told Zap2It
    that filming of the Steve Niles adaptation will probably begin in July.
    “There is a degree of responsibility to Ben Templesmith’s artwork,
    which will be reflected in the production design, absolutely,” Slade
    said. “There were three drafts written before I came to this project,
    and I believe that Brian’s draft is the most faithful to Steve Niles’
    writing, and Steve has been in the loop.”

    300

    Warner Brothers has updated the official official website with a new item in the production blog, as well as new concept art.

    X-MEN 3

    Director Brett Ratner is quoted by USA Today
    giving high praise to Ellen Page as Kitty Pryde. “She’s the most
    chameleon-like actress I’ve ever met,” Ratner told the publication.
    “She’s a shy person, until she wants to become something else.”

    “The thing I like about
    acting is being able to lose yourself completely in someone else,” Page
    said. “I’m not that comfortable when I get recognized.”

    Meanwhile, MSN Video has posted a behind-the-scenes look at the production from last December, speaking with actress Famke Janssen, producer Ralph Winter and director Ratner himself.

    Finally, the XVerse has the possibly spoilery plot summary of the novelization of the film.

    JUSTICE LEAGUE

    Comics Continuum
    has a boatload of screen captures and quotes from story editor Dwayne
    McDuffie about this Saturday’s time travel-centric episode.

    SMALLVILLE

    Recent episodes made mention of a Project Mercury blog, and those wacky kids at the network went ahead and made it a reality complete with a video clip about the quest for the good professor.

    Meanwhile, our pals at Kryptonsite have both the TV Guide and network description of the May 4th episode “Oracle,” as well as high resolution screen captures of next week’s episode, “Mercy.” Finally, rival site Devoted to Smallville has the actual trailer in Windows Media format.

    THAT’S A WRAP

    Here’s where you get in
    on the action. Did you see a link we didn’t catch? Have you snuck into
    a closed movie set, and have inside data? Maybe your cousin is dating
    somebody who knows something, and they had to tell you? Whatever it is,
    we wanna know it all — fire off an email
    and let us know whether you want your name used or your contributions
    to geekdom to go down anonymously. Broadcasting live from Los Angeles,
    this is novelist/karaoke host/all-around lunatic Hannibal Tabu saying thanks for your time and indulgence, did you catch the fresh comics reviews yesterday, and [tagline sent back to development hell until something hipper can be dreamed up].

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