The NEW Oddest Advertisement Ever

This popped up on the right hand column of Facebook that usually just alerts me that hordes of young, sexy girls are looking for 36 year old men right now.

Update: Turns out Pig Men caused the economic collapse. The advert isn't so odd now.

Flash and Green Lantern Rings Coming for Brightest Day

From the DC Blog -

With a purchase of 10 copies of THE FLASH #1, retailers may order FLASH PROMOTIONAL RINGS. THE FLASH #1 and the FLASH PROMOTIONAL RINGS are scheduled to arrive in stores on April 14.

With a purchase of 10 copies of GREEN LANTERN #53, retailers may order GREEN LANTERN PROMOTIONAL RINGS. GREEN LANTERN #53 and the GREEN LANTERN PROMOTIONAL RINGS are scheduled to arrive in stores on April 21.

I personally will be lined up for a Flash ring...because it's AWESOME. Will I wear it in public? No. I still like to date women.

AC/DC & Iron Man 2 Join Forces. New Footage!

Columbia Records will release the album "AC/DC: Iron Man 2" on Monday, April 19, 2010. "AC/DC: Iron Man 2" features 15 classic AC/DC songs selected from 10 of the band's studio albums, ranging from 1976 to 2008. - Marvel.com

Jon Favreau Becomes a Mandalorian for Star Wars: Clone Wars

Jon Favreau is a 'Clone Wars' Mandalorian Separatist @ Y! TV

Smallville: Absolute Justice Teaser Overload

First, the official CW trailer and next, the new Canadian SKYtv trailer which shows WAYYYYY more than we should be seeing. DAMN SPOILERS!!! The 2 hour movie airs Friday, February 5th. Now all you Welling fanatics can hush up about him being in a movie.

More Prince of Persia Toy Pics Surface

We've been taunting you with these for over a month and now, McFarlane Toys lets loose their sales department with some more marked up pics making all the characters look badly tattoo'd! Fun times. Pictured from the 4 inch line is Desert Dastan, Zolm (Lead Hassansin) and Setam (Human Porcupine Hassansin). This wave features 12 points are articulation...which makes up for the 6 inch preposed ones which appear to have next to no articulation at all. In the 6 inch line we have Warrior Dastan, Desert Dastan, Zolm and Ghazab (Double Bladed Halberd Hassansin.)



































If you recall the stories we posted HERE and HERE, we mistakenly thought McFarlane was finally getting with the times and giving us some well articulated ACTION figures. Turns out those were the 4 inch figures. This begs another question. We had some images of sharp, awesome looking figures which we assumed were 6 inch and softer sculpts which we thought the 4 inch, since you lose detail as you scale down, unless you are Hasbro or Zizzle (Pirates of the Caribbean.) Now that we know they are all 4 inch, it is more likely that the sharper sculpts were of the 2-ups (larger prototypes) and the softer were actual production pieces. We aren't saying the final pieces will look that soft, but they may. If anyone is capable of putting out a 4 inch line with great sculpting, it's certainly McFarlane. Toyfair is looming, so I guess we'll find out soon enough!

New AT-AT Pic? UPDATED!

WELP I was wrong. Sources have said this is the genuine article.

I'm going to have to debunk this one. The average floor tile is 16 inches by 16 inches. Now look at the picture closely...


My AT-AT is 20 inches high. Now look at the depth of this piece. It doesn't look big enough to hold everything we talked about here. The design seems a little different from the one in my hands right now, but not significantly different enough to be the beast we are waiting for. Hey, if it is the genuine article, I'll be the first to say I was wrong but for now, i'd say this is not the droid you are looking for.

Thanks to ACTOYS.net for the look!

NEW Last Airbender Character Posters

Also known as AVATAR: The Last Airbender. I find it funny that that's the name of the show but they gave up the main title for the giant blue cat movie. I find it double funny that the two main characters aren't the slightest bit Asian, as they are in the cartoon. At any rate, here's the eye candy, posted today by Yahoo Movies with little fanfare and zero info.



If you haven't watched the cartoon yet, you owe it to yourself. It's playing in heavy rotation on Nicktoons and the season DVDs are cheap enough. This is the best cartoon series ever created with more drama, laughs and wow moments than any film out there. Since the series has ended, you can watch the whole thing straight through. Start today!!

The Last Airbender hits July 2nd, 2010.

5 Seasons of LOST...In 10 Minutes

For all my UK Chavs:

With the hotly anticipated sixth and final season of LOST launching on February 5th, Sky1 HD is proud to announce LOST REDUCED – a specially created ten minute play from the widely acclaimed Reduced Shakespeare Company.

The celebrated comedy theatre troupe have condensed all five seasons into a fast paced flight through the story of the Oceanic plane crash survivors. The world premiere is to be held in London on Thursday 28th January, performed for an intimate audience of competition winners. The production will also be filmed for internet broadcast as well as on the Sky Platform’s Anytime service.

Conceived by Brothers and Sisters Creative for Sky1 HD the proposal was warmly received by the Reduced Shakespeare Company who quickly agreed to write and perform LOST REDUCED. Austin Tichenor, co-author of Lost Reduced with Reed Martin enthused “We are all ginormous fans of Lost. We’ve followed every twist and turn in the labyrinthine plot since the very beginning. Being trusted to reduce the first five seasons to just ten minutes is a humongous responsibility. All the years we spent poring over Oceanic Airline flight manifests and arcane theories of time-travel will not have been in vain. We can’t wait to see the final season! Damon and Carlton will explain everything!”

“Yeah, sure they will,” grumbled Martin.

Martin and Tichenor are managing partners of the Reduced Shakespeare Company and will perform Lost Reduced with long-time company member Matt Rippy.

Co-creator and executive producer Damon Lindelof and executive producer Carlton Cuse have praised the idea and granted permission for the production to go ahead.

Sophie Jones, Controller of Marketing, Sky1 HD, Sky1, 2 & 3 says: “When Brothers and Sisters brought this idea to us it immediately leapt out as far too good to pass up and we swiftly commissioned the script. We feel this offers a really unique interpretation of LOST that will delight both the dedicated fans and bring everyone right up to date in advance of the season 6 launch. We’re enormously grateful that executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse along with ABC Studios have given the project their blessing.“

Tickets will be given away to fans through a series of online competitions and radio promotions. If you didn’t win tickets through the RSC’s guessing game on Twitter, there’s still a chance. Email your name, contact number and the email address of your plus one to lostonsky1@sky.com.

The winners will then be selected and notified if they have received tickets on Tuesday 26th January.

LOST REDUCED is written and performed by the Reduced Shakespeare Company with the project overseen by Sophie Jones and Brothers and Sisters Creative for Sky1.

The final season of LOST launches on Sky1 HD and Sky1 on Friday 5th February at 9pm.

Sundance 2010: Alan Tudyk Talks Firefly, Spin-off Comic by Patton Oswalt

While interviewing Alan Tudyk for his latest project, the comedy horror flick Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, Dread Central’s team of Heather Wixson and Brian Smith thought they’d take the opportunity to talk with Tudyk about Joss Whedon’s "Firefly". WHO WOULDN'T?! I personally told her to walk in the room and after he says hello, yell "I'm a LEAF IN THE WIND!!" At any rate, clicky the Alan and dive on in.

More Retro DC Figures On The Way

This time we get word from Takara/Tomy about two new 1/6th scale (12 inches of kapowing plastic to you nubes) pieces you will probably start lining up for nowwww.

Joker and Batman come in a retro 80's looking style. This appears to be more of a comic look on the outfits and styling. Head, gloves, and shoes/ boots are all plastic with the body being semi soft with a wire frame. Basically, they are bendies with cloth outfits on. Joker's head is ball jointed. Joker's upper shirt area and walking stick, and Batman's belt also appear to be plastic. Joker's stick also MIGHT be molded to his hand. Both are due out in February. No word yet on who might send them over to the states.

MORE Iron Man 2 Minimates for C2E2

Action Figure Xpress shows off their new Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo Exclusive Iron Man 2 Battle Tactics Minimates Set!

Quick decisions and spontaneous tactics are necessary on the battlefield, factors this exclusive Battle Tactics Minimates box set definitely possesses! Featuring the master strategist Nick Fury, Racetrack Tony Stark and Battle Damaged versions of both the Mark VI Iron Man and War Machine - this C2E2 exclusive set delivers the stars of Iron Man 2 as you've never seen them! Each Minimate stands two inches tall and includes 14 points of articulation plus removable and interchangeable parts and accessories.


For those not hitting Chicago for the event, not to worry. AFX will be holding some product back for online customers, so keep watching and be ready to pounce!

Alicia Masters: "The Marvel Universe is a Cold, Cold Place"

Alicia Masters. Blind daughter of the Puppet Master. Girlfriend to The Thing (so, admittedly, a mineralphile). Like Rick Jones, a reoccurring human character in a not so human Marvel Universe and often, its moral compass. It came as no surprise when the character was included in the Fantastic Four films (re-imagined as a hotter black woman) and soon after, integrated into the Frenchimation smash hit, Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes (as a slightly less hot black woman..with one profound difference.) Tapping into the emotional depth of a blind woman who loves a man and his rocky bits all the same, the creators felt that such a woman would be profoundly sensitive and sought to find a way to convey this visibly in her animation. The results are quite striking.


To our knowledge, this is the first female character on Nicktoons to display her special sensitivity in such a manner, on television and the internet...and probably the DVD. Congratulations to the courageous creators of this monumental piece of pop culture history. I suppose Rosa Parks never imagined the day when a black woman would be the first to proudly display her nipples in a children's animated show.















Bravo.

Editor's Note: We suggest those interested in seeing this episode do so very soon. TV Guide has you covered.

Legion Review

In the beginning God created light and the heavens and the earth and the little fuzzy animals and human beings. On the 8th through the 2,000th days, humans created tax shelters, beer helmets, crack cocaine, Armani dog carrier handbags, the “dirty sanchez” and Showgirls. By the 2,600th day Heidi Montag had turned herself into a blow-up doll with a heartbeat and super blinking action. God had had enough. Having lost faith in the human race, he sends his angels down from heaven to wipe us from the planet. The angel Michael refuses to end his love affair with the hairless monkeys (us), so he speeds down to Earth to head off the attack and attempt to save the human race. Apparently our fate rests in the small, chubby hands of an unborn child. Wait. What??

A young unwed, orange-skinned chain smoker is about to give birth to the savior of humanity. Before the angel arrived, her only protector was a boy named Jeep. I wish I were kidding. Was his momma named Toyota? Oooooo snap. Jeep Hanson (Black), born inexplicably with the only Southern accent in the film, lives with his twitchy, grumbling father Bob (Quaid) at a diner/gas station in the middle of nothing ... the perfect staging ground for THE APOCALYPSE!! How do we know it’s the Apocalypse? They say it on the radio ... and the radio never lies.

At any rate, God sends his “dogs of heaven” to smite the human race, but instead of the host of angels cutting people to ribbons, they posses the weak-minded, which makes their head do that shaky Jacob’s Ladder thing, turns their eyes black and makes their teeth pointy. WHYYYYYYY?! They then drive out to the Paradise Falls Diner, park their cars and attack the building for three minutes. Never has there been a more ineffectual, collective baddie in a film. You’ll get one token angel in Gabriel (naturally), and that’s all she wrote.

Legion proceeds to offend your eyes and ears for the next 100 minutes, making the ordeal feel like three hours, no doubt using angel magic. Half the movie is ridiculously predictable, complete with a gun-packing, rap-blasting Tyrese, British sounding angels and the punk rock possessed. The other half is so wildly unpredictable, and yet badly written, that you’ll either cry for mercy or laugh your head off. As the story drudges on, offering zero scares and an achingly confusing plot, there’s a sudden shift in perspective, making the previous storyline pointless. What you are left with is a sort of Bible thumping Terminator-esque fiasco begging for sequels that, God willing, will never come. Even a scene of frantic angel Kung Fu can’t save this madness.

Acting performances vary GREATLY. Quaid seems to have been told to play a curmudgeony old man who just gave up the drink. That’s the only reason I can see for this crinkly faced, lurching performance. We all know the man can act and does it very well. There’s no excuse for this. He may as well have not been in the film at all. Black has been set to “brood” and allowed little else. Bettany is believable enough for his part, but no amount of acting ability can change the words coming out of his mouth. There’s no coming back from bad writing. That’s really all you need to know. Palicki’s pregnant Charlie character may be unsympathetic and Tyrese can attempt to act his ass off while playing the most horrific stereotype you could imagine, but they can’t change the way they were written. It’s a complete disaster.

The cinematography of Legion strives to be epic but amounts to a collection of pretty paintings. An oncoming cloud of ... something. An angel stretching its wings toward the heavens. An army of the possessed waiting in the mist. These are striking images by themselves, but when we string them together, project them forward and fold them into the plot, they are pointless and fleeting reminders of what could have been. Was I wishing they’d handled the plot differently? No. The plot makes very little sense and is highly unoriginal. It’s the visual of an angel taking flight that begs further exploration. Maybe by the third film we will have seen the all-out angel on human war the premise promised. It would take a major miracle for that to happen after this train wreck hits the screens.

It is unclear where the creators of Legion went wrong. Was there once a coherent film that was cut to hell by the editor’s axe? Did they start with a deeply dramatic screenplay and rewrite it into typical American action/horror drek? Does it matter? The finished product is shockingly bad. If countless angles of people firing guns with spent shells clinking to the ground is all your heart yearns for, then Legion may be your ideal Saturday night. Hoping for anything more is an exercise in futility. Spare yourself the agony.

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