NEWS: Jim Lee, the Baltimore Orioles, and Baltimore Comic-Con Team-Up Comic book super star, Jim Lee, will help kick off the 9th annual Baltimore Comic-Con at Oriole Park at Camden Yards Friday, September 26th. Jim will throw out the first pitch before the Orioles meet the Toronto Blue Jays and then sign autograghs for fans at the ballpark to help awareness for the weekend convention next door. CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS (PDF)
HARVEY AWARDS HOST: KYLE BAKER, James Robinson, David Mack, Mike Oeming, Tom Raney, Frank Cho, Barry Kitson, David Finch, Geoff Johns, Darwyn Cooke, Robert Kirkman, Howard Chaykin, Tim Sale, Ramona Fradon, Amanda Conner, Michael Golden, Jimmy Palmiotti, Mark Waid, Jim Shooter, Ron Garney, Adam Hughes, Eric Powell, JG Jones and MANY MANY MORE!!!
JUST ADDED: Andy MacDonald, Nick Cardy, Richard Starkings, Boom Studios, Walt Simonson, Paul Storrie, Mike Hawthorne, Mike McKone, Guy Davis, Taki Soma, Gene Colan, Chris Ivy, Mark Morales, Alex Robinson ALSO: Jeff Kinney, author of Diary of a Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book (Saturday Only)
There is a new, really cool looking video game on the horizon, sporting some familiar faces from Gotham City.
Those fans disappointed with no THE DARK KNIGHT video game tie-in are about to be rewarded with something much cooler. I have here some screen shots from the impending video game.
Of course game play will determine the fun factory here but I like the design (though the "regular" characters look a bit fake in the face) for all the Gotham baddies. KILLER CROC looks amazing, no pics of RIDDLER but his cell is scary looking, and of course there is THE JOKER.
This has the chance to be a very cool game. I hope they really do BATMAN justice here. He himself looks like a cross between the new movie version and the comic where the costume is concerned. When I play BATMAN he's totally going kick the holy hell out of CROC there. I'll lend him my awesomeness.
Now don't get me wrong, I like the new "Detective" RIDDLER in the comics but creepy, deranged, obssessed Riddler in Arkham is going to be so much fun.
The cell here is offsetting and I'm hoping for a survival horror type style setting for the game ala RESIDENT EVIL because I love playing those games late at night. How cool would it be to have Gotham's Villains to give me the creeps for REAL?
I'd like it even better if the Riddler narrated the game. That would be ridiculously fantastic. Every step a Riddle, every turn full of questions. Wow. They should let me write these games.
Illustrator Brian Murray posted some images he did for GREEN LANTERN co-screenwriter and possible director, Greg Berlanti. Whether or not they end up as definitive designs for the film is anyone's guess. If it's greenlit though, I'd say at least the prelimiary ideas are right on the money. Here are some.
You can check out these designs as well as other works by Murray over on his site. If you look in the Illustrated section there is a pretty cool JUSTICE LEAGUE picture.
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July 26, 2008 - Today at its DC Universe panel, Executive Editor Dan DiDio announced plans to radically expand that universe. Though books like Flash: Rebirth, Batman RIP and Final Crisis are always important, DiDio announced that the Archie and Milestone superheroes have been acquired and will be incorporated into the DCU.
The Archie heroes will find their way to their DC home courtesy of J. Michael Straczynski (JMS). JMS plans to bring them over one at a time through new origins in Brave and the Bold. In the series, JMS will use two issues to tell each origin and follow that up with a standalone issue. He'll then repeat that formula to bring heroes such as The Shield and The Fly into the core DCU canon.
JMS also mentioned that these will be the genuine articles, not cousins or any distant relatives. He also mentioned he always loved those characters when he was younger.
While on the topic of bringing new characters into the DC Universe, DiDio announced more acquisitions. Milestone heroes will be heading to the DCU. Amongst those joining the universe will be Static, who is headed to the Teen Titans. The Milestone Universe was originally an independently-owned imprint at DC. It appears as though Dwayne McDuffie will be steering this integration, but McDuffie was unable to make the panel so further details are forthcoming.
Longtime fans of superheroes will be very happy with two announcements made at Saturday's DC Universe panel - Not only will J. Michael Straczynski be responsible for bringing the 1960s Archie Comics superheroes back into comics since the 1990s Impact line, but Dwayne McDuffie will also bring Static and the other Milestone characters back.
The Archie heroes - The Shield, The Web and The Jaguar and many other characters with a definitive article in front of their names - will return under the guidance of JMS in the Brave And The Bold series, which will take its time in reintroducing the franchise, giving each character a two-part origin followed by one issue solo story: "It's a great opportunity," said Straczynski of the chance to revive an entire franchise.
The Milestone characters - created by Dwayne McDuffie, Michael Davis and Denis Cowan in the early '90s to reflect a more multicultural society than the traditional whitebread heroes - have been trapped in publishing limbo since for the last decade, even with the successful Static Shock cartoon that ran from 2000 - 2004. Now McDuffie gets to bring the characters back, and into the DC Universe, in the Justice League of America series... except for Static himself, who's going to join the regular line-up for Teen Titans.
These moves are part of a very definite decision on DC's part to diversify their line: "We're looking to expand the DC Universe," explained DC Executive Editor Dan Didio. When asked what would be next, Didio explained that if he could get his hands on Hanna-Barbera characters like Space Ghost, The Herculoids and The Galaxy Trio, he'd be very excited. Grant Morrison was more adventurous: "Marvel's next!"
Really getting sick of this fucking phishing shit!!!
You may be aware of this already, but for those who are not... If you get an email with " NO SUBJECT" and they are asking you if you are aware of your pics being posted on some other site, it is a bullshit fucking phishing ploy to hack your profile. They use a pic resembling an account that's a friend of yours to lure you in. Do not respond or go to the site as they will ask for personal info ( and may have already gotten your IP address and other such info).
This site had some issues with that not too long ago was one of the reasons I'd backed off for a while as did quite a few others. That must be one of the reasons why Facebook blew up so big. Please share this w/ others and help stomp out phishing whenever it occurs.
And to any potential or current phishers/hackers and other such deviants out there, ... God, get a life!!! Shit's hard enough without you fucking things up for everyone else. Use your so-called "knowledge" for something useful in the world.
Some sample msgs received:
"has anyone told uu your my spaace picture is all over getemset . com"
"has anyone emailed you to let you know your myspace photo is all over dinaserv . com "
Okay, I just got a "message from a friend" on myspace that informed me my myspace pics were all over the website "getemset.com." I went to the website and ... answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080717150558AA7eKzw - 39k - Cached - Similar pages
CBR Videos: Michael Turner, Method Man, Tori Amos & more
In addition to the Wonder Woman animated trailer, here are some choice videos host by Comic Book Resources. Witness video featurettes of the upcoming Black PantherBET animated series, features with Method Man, Tori Amos, and some other sneak peeks. The standout feature however is one of the final interviews done with the recently past Michael Turner. If you watch no other video, watch that one. The good go so fast (and so young).
Now don't get me wrong, I like the new "Detective" RIDDLER in the comics but creepy, deranged, obssessed Riddler in Arkham is going to be so much fun.
Longtime fans of superheroes will be very happy with two announcements made at Saturday's DC Universe panel - Not only will J. Michael Straczynski be responsible for bringing the 1960s Archie Comics superheroes back into comics since the 1990s Impact line, but Dwayne McDuffie will also bring Static and the other Milestone characters back.
