Category: News

An Early Winter for a Game of Thrones?

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The HBO series A Game of Thrones, based on the book series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin may come to a premature end. Frank Doelger, one of the show’s producers, indicated to Rolling Stone “I would hope that, if we all survive and if the audience stays with us, we’ll [...]

Kevin Conroy Accidentally Announces Fourth Arkham Game

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Today, Batman fans learned a very important lesson: if you’re an iconic voice actor, make sure you know what games you are in and when they are announced before you discuss them.   Last weekend at Dallas Comic Con, Kevin Conroy said that he would be returning to voice Batman in the new Arkham Origins [...]

Whedon’s Avengers Sequel Grows with Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver and…Black Panther?

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Instead of leaving us all speculating on the possible inclusion of the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver appearing in Avengers 2, Joss Whedon pretty much confirmed their appearance in the movie. In an interview with IGN, he had this to say when asked about his statement regarding the brother/sister duo: “You know, they had a rough [...]

A Day At The Motor City Comic Con

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Mid-May in the Motor City means just one thing, the Motor City Comic Con! The line, when I arrived on Sunday, was around the building at the Suburban Collection Showplace. The nerds were as brightly colored as their sugary candy namesakes. You could feel the energy in the crowd. The excitement that only a true collector [...]

J.J. Abrams directs Star Wars Episode VII

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A whole lot has gone down since late last year, primarily George Lucas selling Lucasfilm which includes but not limited to the rights to Indiana Jones and of course Star Wars to the Disney Empire who paid an incredible $4.05 billion dollars. Immediately Disney announced the making of the long speculated and continually denied Episode [...]

IDW Continues To Grow

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IDW, otherwise known as Idea and Design Works, is growing again. As I reported on April 30th, in an article entitled IDW Joins The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund Team, IDW is trying to make 2013 a banner year for the company. Just weeks after joining the CBLDF, the reported #4 U.S. comic book publisher, [...]

5 Comics Not To Miss This Week

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Two women who share a face either stand together or die together, the final chapter starts of a fan-favorite amateur, a world changing decision is made, another world changing decision is made, and almost assuredly no decision is made.  No, this isn’t the breakdown of what’s going on next season on American Idol; we’ve gone through this week’s comic releases [...]

DC Comics and Target Create Justice League Merchandise

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In our increasingly mass media world, everything needs a tie-in. Having seen Iron Man 3 this past weekend, I can’t begin to explain the vast amount of corporate tie-ins that appeared in that one movie, let alone in just one scene. I have in the past may have ranted a bit about how corporate owners [...]

Geek God Joss Whedon Finally Joins Twitter

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  If you’ve noticed the web sites you visit running a little faster today, there’s a reason: Joss Whedon has officially joined Twitter, and everyone who’s ever seen a movie is dropping whatever they’re doing and running to Twitter to follow him.  Only three tweets in, the Man himself already has almost fifty thousand followers.  Many [...]

The Bones That Would Become Doctor Strange

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In recent interviews Kevin Feige, President of Production at Marvel Studios, has been talking about Doctor Strange, The Master of the Mystic Arts. Feige, the front man for the recent successes coming from Marvel properties including Captain America: The First Avenger, The Avengers, and most recently Iron Man 3, gave all of us a possible [...]

Nerd Bytes: News and Notes

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Nerd Byte: J.J. Abrams recently announced that John Williams, who composed the music for all six previous Star Wars Movies will do the same for Episode VII.  Williams also composed the music for such classics as Superman, Jaws, the Indiana Jones films, Jurassic Park, Schindler’s List, Saving Private Ryan, Lincoln, and the first three Harry Potter films. As you can tell from this list, Williams is [...]

Arrow is #1 at CW…Who’s Next?

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Arrow, the television series based on the Green Arrow character from DC Comics is nearing the end of its first season and is officially the network’s #1 show! Not surprising, the show is actually pretty good. Creators Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, Andrew Kreisberg have woven a tale about an every-man hero in a dark and dangerous [...]

Earth 2 Batman: Who’s Behind The Cowl?

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  Earth 2 will be getting a new Batman, but who will don the cape and cowl and carry the mantle of the Dark Knight? Everyone is being very hush-hush, of course, but that is not going to stop Bat-Fans or Earth 2 fans from speculating. James Robinson has been slow-playing the readers for months. [...]

C2E2, New podcast, and a Rather Dashing Kickstarter!

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  First published in Fandomfest blog 5/6/13 Things are rocking and rolling at the fandomfest offices after we got back from C2E2!  Fandomfest rocked the con and made appearances and contacts with several celebs, writers and artists at C2E2. Yours truly was busy as Ash in a Pokémon gym at the gaming room, but I also got to talk [...]

The Clone Wars Isn’t Done Just Yet

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Depending on what Star Wars camp you’re in you either love or hate the Clone Wars. The animated TV series takes place between Episodes 2 and 3 of the Star Wars Saga and charts the three odd years of the intergalactic civil war that played a pivotal role in Darth Sidious’ plan for ultimate domination. [...]

Nerd Bytes – News And Notes

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   Nerd Byte: 5/4/13 was Free Comic Book day, as if you didn’t know. Eleven years to the day after the inaugural event in 2002, which was one day after the opening of the first Spider-Man movie. It was intended to be a day for retailers to draw in new customers, especially the kids who will drive the [...]

Are Quicksilver and The Scarlet Witch in Avengers 2?

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Because it just wouldn’t be a sequel without more characters, it seems that Joss Whedon might be adding the brother/sister duo of Wanda and Pietro Maximoff, better known as the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver respectively, to the cast of Avengers 2. While on the red carpet for the Iron Man 3 premier in Los Angeles, [...]

Startling News From The Man Of Steel Movie

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The hits just keep coming for Superman fans as reports of changes to the established mythos in Man of Steel have them all a twitter, literally. It started months ago as rumors started escape the studio from various outlets.     We heard reports that the actor playing Superman is British. He is a Brit! Henry [...]

5 (Free) Comics Not to Miss This Week

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Normally, this post would have been a lot earlier in the week, with some sort of snarky intro  kind of hinting at the comics I had picked to be the best reads for the week. However, this being the week of Free Comic Book Day (and Cinco de Mayo. That’s it. No other special “days” happening this [...]

Are Wolverine’s Days Numbered At Marvel Comics?

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The word is out and it’s not good for Wolverine. July could be the beginning of the end for one of the most popular characters in Marvel Comics. A story arc entitled “Killable”, beginning with Wolverine #8 from Paul Cornell and Alan Davis, will have Logan losing his healing factor. The question is, does this mean the end [...]

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