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SDCC 2010: ‘Thor’ and ‘Captain America’ Posters

Posted: 20 Jul 2010 09:02 PM PDT

San Diego Comic-Con 2010 hasn't officially started yet, but Marvel is getting itself a nice head start.

Released today are the images for two concept art mini-posters, to go along with Marvel's self-proclaimed "blockbuster double header" movies. (Very bold, these movies had better be awesome!) One is for Thor, and the other for Captain America: The First Avenger.

They are both pretty sweet. I've been trying to decide which one I like best, and I guess I'd have to say the Captain America one.

Do you like them? Do you want one for your own? Well these beauties will be handed out at the Marvel booth (#2329) at the convention, which starts tomorrow for preview night, and Thursday for the official start. If you want one, you should hurry over as soon as the convention opens. I would not expect these to last long. Not making it to SDCC in sunny San Diego?

Click on the images below and you can pretend you got one. Enjoy! [...]

Microsoft Kinect Officially Priced + New Arcade Console

Posted: 20 Jul 2010 05:06 PM PDT

We have a couple of announcements out of Microsoft today. We have expected for a while that the motion controller, Kinect, would run $150. Well that was confirmed by Microsoft today. The controller would come with Kinect Adventures. Kinect launches November 4th.

Also announced today is an arcade version on the redesigned Xbox 360. This will run one penny shy of $200. It's actually not a bad buy. It's the same console as the $300 version, built in wifi, wireless controller, the whole bit. Difference is there is only 4 gigs of flash memory as opposed to a 250 gig hard drive. The new arcade console launches August 4th.

The best deal is the Kinect with Arcade bundle. Basically smash the above two paragraphs together and you get what's in this bundle. This bundle launches same day as Kinect, November 4th [...]

Sam Raimi Adds Futuristic Wyatt Earp Movie To Directing List

Posted: 20 Jul 2010 04:10 PM PDT

Spider-Man and Evil Dead director Sam Raimi is adding another project to his growing list of things to do.

Once it was revealed that Raimi would no longer be needed for Spider-Man 4, he was able to concentrate on other potential gigs including one based on the popular MMO game World of Warcraft and a new take on The Wizard of Oz called Oz: The Great and Powerful. Now the director is adding one more to the pile, and it will be called Earp: Saints for Sinners.

The movie will be based on the comic book mini series of the same name from Radical Publishing. It tells the story of famed old west lawman Wyatt Earp...only in a way not historically known to us. This version of the story takes place just a short time in the future where the economy has crashed, the world has gone to hell, and we live in something resembling a post-apocalyptic wasteland. [...]

DVD Review: Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Vol. 7

Posted: 20 Jul 2010 10:56 AM PDT

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Vol. 7
DVD
Starring Dave Willis, Dana Snyder, Carey Means
Cartoon Network/Adult Swim
Release date: June 1, 2010

For the first three or four seasons, I was addicted to Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Hell, I even saw the Aqua Teen movie in the theater. Twice. But then I kind of fell off and missed a bunch of episodes, so this Vol 7 DVD set of the show is the first with episodes that I haven't seen before. I watched this trying to find out if the show had regained whatever it was that I loved about the earlier seasons.

There are a lot of good episodes on this set, but I still think the show has lost whatever it was that made me love those first few seasons. I don't know if I'm just tired of the humor, or if the jokes are just over used, but there just aren't as many quotable lines as there used to be. There are still some good episodes, including the return of Dr. Wongburger, and an episode with Hitler returned as a balloon.

Also included in this set is the live-action episode featuring T-Pain, H. Jon Benjamin, and contest winner Dave Long as Carl. The live-action episode was a great experiment, but I don't think it worked out as well as I hoped it would. It's really just not that funny, other than being even more absurdist than the show normally is [...]

Comic Review: Green Hornet: Year One #4

Posted: 20 Jul 2010 07:33 AM PDT

Green Hornet: Year One #4
Written by Matt Wagner
Art by Aaron Campbell
Cover by John Cassaday
Dynamite Entertainment
Price: $3.99
Release date: July 2010

When I was a kid and the FX Network first started they would show the classic episodes of The Green Hornet and I would watch every single one of them. I looked up the Green Hornet back then. Well now our favorite green hat hero and trusty sidekick have their own comic series, Green Hornet: Year One.

I love this series because it tells the origins of these two characters and how they first started fighting crime in the streets of Chicago. Green Hornet: Year One #4 focuses on not only the Green Hornet and Kato taking on the mob in Chicago, but on Kato's origin as well.

The issue was written very well by Matt Wagner and brings light to some of the questions I had about Kato when I was a kid [...]

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