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• eBook Deal: 3 Science Books By Dava Sobel For $.99 Each
• Buy An Xbox 360 250GB Holiday Value Bundle, Get $75 Credit
• Book Review: Marjane Satrapi’s ‘The Sigh’
• Community’s ‘Inspector Spacetime’ Poster By Sam Spratt
• Check Out This ‘Spawn’ Preview Art Coming To Multiverse Magazine
• Read the Long Out-of-Print ‘Blade Runner Sketchbook’ Online
• Comic Review: Princeless #1-2
• ‘The Lion King Rises’ Merges ‘The Lion King’ With ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Trailer
• First Look At The Time Machine From ‘Looper’
• Celebrate J.R.R. Tolkien’s 120th Birthday With A Toast
• Watch Spider-Man Rescue Anderson Cooper From The Green Goblin
• Exclusive Excerpt From ‘Spartacus: Swords and Ashes’
• Fourth ‘Paranormal Activity’ On Its Way
• Watch The Trailer For The Juan Diego Solanas Sci-Fi Film ‘Upside Down’

eBook Deal: 3 Science Books By Dava Sobel For $.99 Each Posted: 04 Jan 2012 05:50 AM PST The ebook deal of the day over at Amazon today is three top-rated science books by Dava Sobel for only $.99 each (that's 94% off the list prices). - Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time - A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos - Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love Note – this deal is valid only for today, Wednesday, January 4, 2012, until 11:59pm PST [...]

Buy An Xbox 360 250GB Holiday Value Bundle, Get $75 Credit Posted: 04 Jan 2012 05:14 AM PST The video game deal of the day over at Amazon today is a $75 credit when you purchase an Xbox 360 250GB Holiday Value Bundle, which includes Fable 3 and a digital code for Halo Reach. Add the item to your cart through the main sale page to ensure you get the promotional credit. Note, this deal is valid only for today, Wednesday, January 4, 2012, until 11:59pm PST while supplies last [...]

Book Review: Marjane Satrapi’s ‘The Sigh’ Posted: 03 Jan 2012 07:36 PM PST The Sigh Hardcover Written and Illustrated by Marjane Satrapi Translated by Edward Gauvin Archaia Entertainment Release date: November 8, 2011 The English translation of Marjane Satrapi's The Sigh was released back in November and I had the good fortune of getting a review copy of this amazing fairy tale. The Sigh tells the story of Rose, whose merchant father promises to bring back gifts for her and her two sisters from an extensive trip overseas. After much anticipation, the girls are delighted when he finally returns home bearing the requested gifts --– all except for Rose. Her father had not been able to find the seed of a blue bean that Rose had asked for. In her disappointment, Rose lets out a deep sigh, which unwittingly summons the mysterious eponymous creature to their door [...]

Community’s ‘Inspector Spacetime’ Poster By Sam Spratt Posted: 03 Jan 2012 06:42 PM PST Remember Inspector Spacetime, Community's parody of Doctor Who? Yeah, it's awesome, I know. Now, artist Sam Spratt has created a great Inspector Spacetime poster featuring Community's Danny Pudi and Donald Glover, with the tagline: THE QUESTION, CONSTABLE, ISN'T WHERE BUT WHEN! Check out the full poster here below [...]

Check Out This ‘Spawn’ Preview Art Coming To Multiverse Magazine Posted: 03 Jan 2012 05:25 PM PST Todd McFarlane Productions is signing its seal of approval on the brand new Multiverse Magazine with a bundled special preview of Spawn, Haunt, and much more in the inaugural issue of the comics industry magazine. 2012 marks the 20th anniversary for both Image Comics and Todd McFarlane Productions, and to start the celebration they are offering this special deal for the magazine in February that also coincides with The London Super Comic Con and Image Comics Expo, which will also celebrating the company's anniversary. Todd McFarlane and his creator-owned series, Spawn, have been a mainstay for Image Comics for the entirety of its 20 year time span, so of course it will be one of the primary focuses of the company's celebration [...]

Read the Long Out-of-Print ‘Blade Runner Sketchbook’ Online Posted: 03 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST The Blade Runner Sketchbook was first published in June 1982 by Blue Dolphin Enterprises around the time the Ridley Scott-directed futuristic film noir Blade Runner was released in theaters. The book was chock full of production and concept art, including sketches by "visual futurist" Syd Mead and even the director himself. Soon after Blade Runner's uneventful theatrical bow (and shortly before the film was resurrected as an influential cult classic), this beautiful tome went out of print. Surviving copies are scarce and the book was never reprinted even after the movie was granted an elaborate 25th anniversary DVD and Blu-ray release. But an enterprising Blade Runner fan has recently uploaded the complete text and photos of The Blade Runner Sketchbook to Issuu. You can read the book in its entirety here below [...]

Comic Review: Princeless #1-2 Posted: 03 Jan 2012 03:00 PM PST Princeless #1-2 Written by Jeremy Whitley Art by M. Goodwin Colors by M. Goodwin Action Lab Comics Release Date(s): #1: November 9, 2011; #2: December 7, 2011 Cover Price: $3.99 Princeless is a four-issue miniseries written by Jeremy Whitley and drawn by M. Goodwin. The series is a play on the conventional fairy tale genre in which the princess is always rescued by the handsome prince. In Princeless, those conventions are thrown out the window and are refocused and shifted a bit. The princess in this story, Adrienne, believes that these typical fairy tales are a bunch of lies. She feels that no one should have to wait and be rescued by a prince. So, when she turns sixteen she decides to be the rescuer rather than the rescued [...]

‘The Lion King Rises’ Merges ‘The Lion King’ With ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Trailer Posted: 03 Jan 2012 02:00 PM PST Over the past few weeks three of the most anticipated films of 2012 saw their trailers premiere to mostly rapturous receptions. A few days ago someone was inspired to create a Alien/Prometheus mash-up trailer. The clip worked perfectly because those two movies are genetically linked at the story and visual levels. Before that the first trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was reedited into something infinitely superior to what the studio put out. Thus it was only a matter of time before the well-received second trailer for The Dark Knight Rises got its own fan edit. Some genius decided to take the soundtrack from the trailer and mate it with clips from Disney's 1994 animated blockbuster The Lion King. You can watch the final product here below [...]

First Look At The Time Machine From ‘Looper’ Posted: 03 Jan 2012 01:00 PM PST Looking forward to 2012 and what it offers cinema-wise, and a few films jump out at you. Very few are quite as exciting as the upcoming Rian Johnson film, Looper. Now, while we aren't really all that sure as what we should expect visually, we do know a bunch about this project. Following the story of a group of hitmen who get their orders from the future and travel back in time to make their hits, the Looper stars Bruce Willis and is slated to hit on September 28, 2012. And now, we finally know how our leads will be traveling back in time [...]

Celebrate J.R.R. Tolkien’s 120th Birthday With A Toast Posted: 03 Jan 2012 11:56 AM PST January 3 marks the birthday of J.R.R. Tolkien, author of the beloved The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings books. Born in 1892 in Bloemfontein, South Africa, today would have been the author's 120th birthday. In celebration and remembrance of the man who put the word hobbit into our everyday vocabulary, Tolkien fans around the world today will raise a glass and toast "The Professor" at 9pm [...]

Watch Spider-Man Rescue Anderson Cooper From The Green Goblin Posted: 03 Jan 2012 11:00 AM PST On New Year's Eve this past weekend, Spider-Man villain Green Goblin abducted Anderson Cooper during CNN's live show at Times Square. Thankfully, our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man was able to swing in and rescue Cooper! Watch it all unfold in the 4 1/2-minute video here below [...]

Exclusive Excerpt From ‘Spartacus: Swords and Ashes’ Posted: 03 Jan 2012 09:50 AM PST Titan Books has released Spartacus: Swords and Ashes, an original novel that tells a new story of blood, sex, and politics set in the world of the arena from the television series Spartacus: Blood and Sand, in paperback and for Kindle. The novel by J.M. Clements came out today, January 3, 2012, and thanks to Titan Books, we have an exclusive excerpt, which you can read right here below. Take a read from Spartacus: Swords and Ashes and let us know what you think! [...]

Fourth ‘Paranormal Activity’ On Its Way Posted: 03 Jan 2012 09:00 AM PST It's simple math, guys and gals. Take a franchise that makes millions of dollars and costs tens of dollars to make, and you have cash cow that makes one hell of a profit. That's why we are getting this. STYD is reporting that Paramount is set to put a fourth film in the Paranormal Activity into motion. Nothing more is known yet, but with a Halloween 2012 release date obviously in the wings, details are going to be coming hot and heavy over the next couple of weeks [...]

Watch The Trailer For The Juan Diego Solanas Sci-Fi Film ‘Upside Down’ Posted: 03 Jan 2012 08:01 AM PST Looking for even more sci-fi to fill up your life? Well, with a cavalcade of films set to bow this year, 2012 is the year of the sci-fi film. And one of the most intriguing pieces, Upside Down, has just gotten a brand new trailer. Watch it here below. Upside Down, starring Kirsten Dunst and Jim Sturgess, the film follows the story of a futuristic, Romeo and Juliet-like pair of star-crossed lovers who live in literally two different worlds. Think of it as Another Earth, just more romantic and likely much more impressive [...]

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