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The Daily Geek May 10, 2012 - Dinklage, Meat Man, Air Bud and Fan Art!
Posted 5/10/12 10:06 am EST by Eddie Wright in Daily Geek
[Exclusive] Matt Pizzolo's Second "GODKILLER" Mini Gets a Quartet of Homage Covers
Posted 5/9/12 5:36 pm EST by Charles Webb in Comic Books, News
The followup to the indie comic/illustrated film hybrid makes nods to movies and music with a set of four covers.
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Exclusive: Comic Apps Get Creepy With "Lenore"
Posted 5/9/12 5:00 pm EST by MTV Geek in Apps, Comic Books
Lenore, everyone's favorite undead little girl, has truly made the big-time: she's now a comic book app. And it only took twenty years.
Roman Dirge's twisted creation Lenore is now available digitally on ComiXology and iVerse for the first time. Titan Comics is releasing both the remastered colour editions of Lenore Volume 1 #1-4 (‘Noogies’) and Volume 2 #1-4 (‘Swirlies’) on May 9 -- so you get a freaky flashback to her earliest stories, and then a bloody taste of her latest adventures.
Lenore completists take note: Volume #1, #5-13 will appear on ComiXology and iVerse in the next two months, as well as same-day digital editions of all forthcoming Lenore comics when they hit the comic store. So read up on the original "strange girl" on the iPad, iPhone, Android devices and Kindle Fire starting today. Read More...
Blu-Ray Review: "Shock Labyrinth 3D"
Posted 5/9/12 4:30 pm EST by Charles Webb in Horror, Movies, Reviews
Director Takashi Shimizu's Shock Labyrinth represents a couple of new challenges for the filmmaker behind The Grudge (aka Ju-on in their native Japan) series of movies: there's the technical issue of going from modestly-budgeted horror movies (with some games and TV work scattered about) featuring low production values but high on atmosphere to making a modestly-budgeted horror movie that will also be in 3D. Then, there's the fact that Shock Labyrinth is Japan's first attempt at the whole amusement park ride-turned feature thing that Disney blazed the trail for with Pirates of the Caribbean and The Haunted Mansion—the exhibit in question which gives the movie its title is a famous haunted house at a Japanese amusement park.
And it's in serving multiple masters here—technology and the license—that Shock Labyrinth occasionally stumbles, delivering an intriguing premise with frequently bizarre imagery, undercut by technical limitations and a thin plot.
The movie features a group of friends Ken, Motoki, and Rin—who are reunited after Ken moved away following the death of his mother. Motoki is dating Rin, who is blind, and has more or less served as her protector since they were children, while she has harbored feelings for Ken that as a kid he was perhaps too dense to notice. Upending their reunion is the arrival of Yuki, another childhood friend who disappeared ten years earlier, obviously disturbed, claiming to have escaped from somewhere. Is she some kind of mental patient? Is she even Yuki? Why can't the three of them remember precisely what happened to her or even the circumstances surrounding her disappearance.
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IDW Reviews: "Frankenstein Alive, Alive!" and "Trio"
Posted 5/9/12 4:00 pm EST by Valerie Gallaher in Comic Books, IDW
Today I'll be reviewing two new comics from IDW hitting stands this Wednesday: Frankenstein Alive, Alive! #1 and Trio #1.
Steve Niles and Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein Alive, Alive! is a must-read for any fan of the old Marvel horror comics and Creepy magazines. It's as atmospheric and gloomy as hell (you can almost smell the mist and gently rotted flesh), but paradoxically also carries a great deal of hope -- for this time around, the Monster has found a home, a job, and friends. Working at a circus freakshow, he has scored the monster movie equivalent of a comfortable civil service job. But will things remain so relatively peaceful for the creature? Read More...
Hellboy's Mike Mignola Premieres A New Motion Comic... And Then Sends Hellboy To Hell [Interview]
Posted 5/9/12 3:30 pm EST by Alex Zalben in Comic Books, Dark Horse
Today, Felicia Day's Geek & Sundry channel - along with Dark Horse Comics - premieres a brand new motion comic based on Mike Mignola's most recent Hellboy storyline, The Fury. And you should definitely go and watch it, particularly if you've never read the book before... But Mignola won't be there with you. As we found out in a spirited conversation with the creator, Mignola prefers to give his blessing on Hellboy products, and then leave them to their own devices. Read More...
The Simpsons Go Gaga for Lady Gaga in New Promo
Posted 5/9/12 3:09 pm EST by Eddie Wright in Animation, TV
"I'm half monster, half Armenian."
Earlier this week we showed you a peek at Lady Gaga in full Simpsons mode, but now we've got her in motion from a promo for The Simpsons season finale airing Sunday, May 20 on Fox.
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Exclusive First Look At Retro Video Game-Themed "Star Wars Insider" Cover
Posted 5/9/12 2:30 pm EST by MTV Geek in Star Wars
The official Star Wars magazine, Star Wars Insider, has given MTV Geek an exclusive first look at their alternative cover of their upcoming themed issue celebrating 30 years of Star Wars video games! Read More...
Battle Arena Otaku Fight! Fight!: Only Two Remain!
Posted 5/9/12 2:00 pm EST by Charles Webb in Anime, Manga
This is MTV Geek's Battle Arena Otaku Fight! Fight! A tournament-style, knock-down, drag-out, free-for-all, battle royale featuring your favorite anime, manga and Japanese pop-culture characters! Each arena match-up will be posted and voted on by you, the MTV Geek reader, and each winner will advance closer and closer to becoming the supreme reigning champion of the Battle Arena Otaku! Who will take the top spot? There's only way to find out…FIGHT! FIGHT!
Roleplayers Assemble! Marvel Heroic RPG Event Books and Supplements are Coming
Posted 5/9/12 1:13 pm EST by Matt Morgan in Hobby Gaming, Marvel
Things can't get much better for Marvel fans. The Avengers just smashed box office records, Avengers vs X-Men is topping the comic book charts, and the newly released Marvel Heroic Roleplaying game has been a hit among RPG players. To capitalize on this whirlwind of superhero success, publisher Margaret Weis Productions has prepared a steady stream of Marvel Heroic Roleplaying content, starting with the Civil War story arc.
The Daily Geek May 9, 2012 - Sendak, Super Crouch and Troma!
Posted 5/9/12 12:11 pm EST by Eddie Wright in Daily Geek
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Marvel And Benefit Cosmetics Present "First-Ever Beauty-Inspired Comic Book Hero"
Posted 5/9/12 11:19 am EST by Valerie Gallaher in Comic Books, Marvel
Move over, Black Widow and Wonder Woman...there's a new superheroine in town! Marvel Custom Solutions -- the custom publishing wing of Marvel Comics -- and Benefit Cosmetics are teaming up to present what they describe as "the FIRST EVER beauty-inspired comic book hero." SpyGal, whose special abilities include "pore-zapping," will star in her own comic book, exclusively available at Benefit Cosmetics counters. Acclaimed comic creators James Asmus and Phil Noto are on board to bring the adventures of SpyGal to life.
30 Episodes of "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers" Backflip Their Way Onto DVD in August
Posted 5/9/12 11:00 am EST by Charles Webb in News, TV
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Season 1 Volume 1 is on the way from Shout! Factory August 21st, presenting the first half of the show's 60-ish episode first season with a suggested retail price of $19.93.
This is part of a dual-release strategy by U.S. publisher Shout! Factory which will see them release the original Power Rangers' seven season run across a 40(!)-DVD collection starting in July. That set will include:
All 145 original episodes from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Seasons One, Two and Three, plus the ten-episode series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Alien Rangers. It then continues on with Power Rangers: Seasons Four – Seven, featuring all of the original 183 episodes spanning the seasons entitled Power Rangers Zeo, Power Rangers Turbo, Power Rangers In Space and Power Rangers Lost Galaxy. In-depth bonus content includes: a retrospective featurette on the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers phenomenon, brand-new interviews with members of the cast and the creative team and much more!
In an effort to provide avid collectors with an exclusive first-to-own experience, fans will have the first opportunity to collect upcoming box sets through a Time Life direct-response television and online campaign. Shout! Factory has teamed up with Time Life to make Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Season One 6-DVD set and the 40-DVD collection of Power Rangers: Seasons One – Seven directly available to fans starting July 30, 2012 through Time Life’s direct-response on-air TV campaign, as well as online.
If you're maybe not into the who 40-disc brick thing (but really, you know you are), you can pick up the second half of season one when Shout! Factory releases it this fall. The releases mark 19 years of Power Rangers on TV (well, at least in their dubbed and edited form), with five plucky teens challenged by the villainess Rita Repulsa.
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Bakuman Ending, New Rurouni Kenshin Coming in Shonen Jump Alpha
Posted 5/9/12 10:30 am EST by alversob in Manga
The final chapter of manga-about-manga Bakuman will run in this week's Shonen Jump Alpha, but the gap it leaves will soon be filled by a reboot of the classic series Rurouni Kenshin.
Bakuman, by the Death Note team of Takeshi Obata and Tsugumi Ohba, follows the adventures of two aspiring manga creators, Akito Takagi and Moritaka Mashiro. Akito is the writer and the one who gets things started by recruiting Moritaka to help, and their life is made easier by having access to the studio of Moritaka's uncle, a once-successful manga creator who mysteriously died young. Bakuman is more than just a high-school manga, however; it follows Akito and Moritaka for years, from their first attempts to win a manga contest through several levels of success, as they juggle several series at once and deal with different editors. Read More...
Interview: Tim and Eric Are Not Making Comedy For Their Moms
Posted 5/9/12 10:16 am EST by Charles Webb in Interviews, Movies
"All the moments in the movie are made for us, and we didn't make this movie for our moms." This is from Eric Wareheim who, with his other half, Tim Heidecker make up the comedy duo Tim & Eric, when I asked him about whether embarrassment factored into anything the two of them commit to the screen now. Based on what the two get up to in their first feature together, Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie, both men seem comfortable enough in their own skin to frequently show a decent amount of it, while letting the oddity of the film's many jokes which hover somewhere between the scatological and the bizarre simply go where they go.
It's this tendency to structure their comedy (or anti-comedy, depending on where you're sitting) that has earned them a healthy amount of fans and detractors, thanks to their Adult Swim series Tom Goes to the Mayor, followed by Tim & Eric's Awesome Show Great Job!, and most recently Check It Out featuring frequent collaborator, John C. Reilly, with commercials and music videos sprinkled in between. Billion Dollar Movie continues their streak of deeply unglamourous productions with attention to grotesque detail, this time stretched out across a feature involving the duo as inept filmmakers whose first film is a billion dollar flop that they hope to repay by taking over a decrepit, wolf-infested mall.
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