(1) The B Is Back: My favourite miniature figures company, Killer B Games, producers of the legendary Galactic Adventures In The Fourth Dimension Of The Forbidden Zone (GAFDOZ) range, is up and running again after an extended hiatus caused by computer problems.(2) Prepare To Be Cybered: Download Blood Of The Cybermen, the new, free Doctor Who game from the BBC, featuring the 11th Doctor and Amy Pond.
(3) Sarah Jane's Adventuring Again: Story titles for season four of The Sarah Jane Adventures have been confirmed.
(4) Geek Chic For The Ladies: Cool women's Star Wars clothes from Ashley Eckstein, actress and voice of Ahsoka Tano in Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
(5) Hastings Joins The Battle For Your Comic Cash: Entertainment chain Hastings is opening 127 direct marketing comic stores across the US.
(6) Drink This In: True Blood gets a fourth season, starting Summer 2011.
(7) Stranger Danger: Filming commences on Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides starring Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow.
(8) Fright Night Gets Date: The Fright Night remake (in 3D) debuts on October 7, 2011.
(9) Strange Days: Marvel Studios assigns writers to Dr Strange movie project.
(10) Robot Taekwondo... Need I Say More? South Korea will be hosting robot taekwondo bouts this October at the Korea International Robot Technology Exhibition - with over $147,000-worth of prizes up for grabs.
(11) Third Nipple Not Included: A limited run of 1,000 duplicates of Francisco Scaramanga's 'Golden Gun' from the James Bond movie, Man With The Golden Gun, will be available in September.
(12) Get The Gen On Meg's Dream Role: Megan Fox clearly can't get enough comic book goodness on her CV and wants to play superhero Sarah Rainmaker from the Gen 13 series.
(13) Any Last Words: Topless Robots' winning 'Tweets From The Death Star'.
(14) Exclusive Action: Paul Cornell talks about his exclusive contract with DC and his plans for Action Comics as the title heads towards issue 900.
(15) Setting The Record Straight: Bruce Timm responds to misinformation about the future of DC's animated superhero movies - he has projects for the next two years at the very least already!
(16) Ghosts In The Street: Britain's long-running soap Coronation Street may be about to feature its first supernatural storyline - with the rumoured return of Vera Duckworth, who died two years ago, to haunt her husband, Jack!
(17) Superman Could Be Visiting Your Town: Having been absent from his own titles for a year, Superman is now to spend a year 'walking across America' in Grounded... and he could be visiting your town, thanks to this bizarre promotional idea! Is this the best way to celebrate DC Comics' 75th anniversary? I have mixed feeling about this storyline, but it is being written by J Michael Straczynski, which has to be good, right?
(18) Lost Isn't Over: A couple more details of the 11-minute Lost epilogue which will be appearing on the DVD release.
(19) More Superhero For Your Money: Apparently Marvel is considering filming short superhero flicks (about 10 minutes duration) to go in front of their regular movies to introduce new characters to the film-going public. I sincerely hope this comes to pass!
(20) So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish: Humans are going to be extinct within 100 years, according to eminent Australian scientist Professor Frank Fenner.
Nothing about Matt Smith joining Orbital on stage for their version of the Doctor Who theme at Glastonbury?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfJ1Qjdg_MY
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You beat me to it... that was going to get its own entry later on ;) It was too late last night to slip it in this morning's rundown!
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ReplyDeleteThe Blogtor Who clip is a bit longer, better quality, and has more of Matt Smith's introduction:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJaZMCoNO6k
(3) Oooh, ominous last title.
ReplyDelete(10) How long until Cylons?
(17) Was that sarcasm?
(20) Ridiculous. Unless the planet blows up, there's no way 100 years is enough to whittle us all down.