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Stuart Freeborn has passed away, at the age of 98. He was the “creature effects artist who brought Yoda, Chewbacca, the Ewoks and countless other Star Wars aliens to life.” May he rest in peace.

Robin Sachs' dogs are looking for a new home.

Massive search fraud botnet seized by Microsoft and Symantec

Siegel and Shuster attorney to court: It’s over

Comic Con International’s Tax Documents Reveal Organizations Assets, Cost of SDCC.

Warren Bernard’s Citations and Fredric Wertham Documents.

Abandoned Love: How Do We Get Wonder Woman Back From Being a Mod?

Neal Adams’ Amended Cover For The London Super Comic Con

Final Series Of Being Human Announced.

Being Human Series 5 Trailer

‘Merlin’ co-creator Julian Murphy on series’ emotional conclusion

Matt Smith to star in Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut How To Catch A Monster.

Ann Nocenti Talks Katana, Kurasowa and the Changes She’s Seen in Comics

Hindi Superman: 1987.

What The End Of Death of the Family Could Bring To Batman Comics.

Alfred Pennyworth: Where Do I Start?

Great Moments In Comics History: World’s Finest #153.

The Bat Signal: Layman & Fabok Rule the Roost in Detective Comics

Greg Berlanti's Storyboard Pitch For Green Lantern.

Paradise Island Concept Art Surfaces For David E. Kelly’s Wonder Woman.

The Uncanny X-Men Revolution: Cyclops

Is Venom In The Amazing Spider-Man 2?

Farscape Rewatch: Season Two Overview, Season Three Primer

Do zombies experience consciousness?

Bryan Cranston And Elizabeth Olsen In Talks To Join Legendary's Godzilla.

TV Legends Revealed: Ernie Hudson Lost The Ghostbusters Cartoon Role?

Stay Puft Marshmallow Man Fridge Decal.

Super Mario Busters Perfectly Mixes SMB with Ghostbusters

Who Should Play Young Han Solo?

Who do you LEAST want to play Young Han Solo in the new Star Wars spinoff?

The Star Wars Sequel That Never (Quite) Was: Splinter of the Mind’s Eye

Top 20 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Movie WTF Moments.

How The Definitive Movie Scare Got Grossed Up Into A Tiresome Cliché

TR Interview: Jeffrey Combs.

New Star Trek: Into Darkness Images From Entertainment Weekly.

Here’s an Ask Me Anything from William Shatner.

It’s No Coincidence That Your Favorite Characters Are Now Winter Storms

Charles Band Vidcast 02.07.13 - Valentine's Day, Wizard Video VHS, Grindhouse, Etc…

Dark Shadows News: April California Shadows Events Announced.

10 Movies That Should Become Spinoff TV Series Right Now

Why Americans Became Obsessed With Ninjas.

Stargate SG-1: Unleashed Seeks to Revive SG-1 As An Interactive Adventure

Junk Food Dinner #146: Alien (1979), Not Of This Earth (1988), and I Come In Peace (1990). Skip to 36 minutes in, if you only want to hear the movie discussions.

Pulp Nightmare: Pulp Commentary—Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997)

The Shut Up And Watch This Podcast, Episode 78: Super Hero Taisen (Commentary)

Hey Kids, Comics Podcast:Volume 2, Episode 6: Happy Birthday Superman, Part 1

Smodcast: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 Commentary Track With Kevin Smith And Marc Bernardin.

Mission Log Podcast #27: Episode 27—The Alternative Factor.

The Yuletide 2012 Tag Set is now open for public review. Ghostbusters did make the cut, as “Ghostbusters - All Media Types.” I don’t believe I saw The Super Dictionary, so I’ll just nominate it next year. Here’s a discussion of the fandoms listed in Other Media. Fandom Primer Post (aka Pimp Your Fandom).

Stained Glass Window Style Fantasy Illustrations By Jian Guo.

Why Gotham Central Should Be The Next Batman Franchise.

Godzilla Script Gets Rewrite, Casting To Begin Soon.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3D Perspective Street Art.

An 11-year-old boy has discovered one of the most exquisitely preserved wooly mammoths ever.

31 Days of Horror: Dracula/Let The Right One In.

Gift Guide: Slasher Voodoo Dolls.

Castle’s intro in the style of Firefly.

The Line It Is Drawn #109—Comic Book Characters and the Works of Shakespeare. My favorite would have to be Deadpool and Deathstroke’s Comedy of Errors. Closely followed by Luthor’s Shakespearean Ray.

Comic Book Legends Revealed #387.

Top 10 Best Movie Sequels.

Pop-culture losses we most regret.

Secrets Behind The X-Men: Jean Grey’s return in X-Factor resulting in the destruction of Cyclops' character, the death of Madelyne Pryor and a premature wedding?

Rutger Hauer Joins True Blood.

Footage From Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 To Preview At NYCC.

First look at the cast of Hitchcock.

Official Artwork For That Other Hitchcock Drama, The Girl.

4 Memorable Soap Opera Alien Invasions. The Gemini Twins mess on Days of Our Lives gets a mention.

There’s going to be a Hungry Hungry Hippos movie.

10 geek movie cameos that didn’t make the final cut. I didn’t know that Eugene Levy was deleted from a scene in Ghostbusters II.

Amityville house back on the market, blood not included.

Merlin: The Costumes of Season 5.

7 Completely Insane Golden And Silver Age Superhero Origins.

From Cracked: 6 Movie Mysteries The Characters Should’ve Solved Way Sooner.

Best Art Ever (This Week) October 5th.

30 Things We Learned From The Monster Squad Commentary.

12 Gut-Wrenching Scenes That Are Practically Gore-Free.

20 Weird and Wonderful Performances As The Devil.

Retro style print for the first Ghostbusters movie.

From Think Geek: Brain Candle.

Bleeding Cool interviews William Shatner.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Reveals Four New Banners.

Mission Log Podcast #9: Episode 9—Miri.

Nerdist Writers Panel #58: ‘Why Aren’t More People Talking About These Awesome Shows?’

Now Playing Podcast: The Cabin In The Woods (2012)

Movie Issues Podcast: The Addams Family and Addams Family Values.

Dutch court rules linking to photos is copyright infringement.

The Dark Knight Rises—And Goes Back To Sleep.

Dark Knight Returns Part 1: David Selby On Voicing James Gordon.

Here’s the poster for the Halloween re-release.

Tarzan Never Dies, Part II: Will There Ever Be A Great Tarzan Movie? One NSFW image (specifically, a nude Bo Derek, in Tarzan The Ape Man) is in the article.

DC Nation Returns With New Episodes And Shorts On September 29th.

Fan Favorite DC Cosplay of Dragon Con.

6 Filmmaking Tips From Monty Python.

Rare Raiders of the Lost Ark Posters You May Have Never Seen.

Revisiting Star Trek TNG: Encounter At Farpoint.

George Takei, The Best Driver In The Galaxy.

The Saloon—Doctor Who: A Town Called Mercy teaser.

Doctor Who Rogues Gallery: Davros.

Outdoor TARDIS Shower Invigorates, Regenerates.

Grumpy Old Fan: Relaunch round-up, part 2.

Godzilla Stomps Into Theaters On May 16, 2014.

Trailers From Hell: David DeCoteau on The Devil’s Rain.

From Think Geek: Warehouse 13 Phoenix Medallion. Warehouse 13 Tesla Artisan Hero Prop.

Heroes In Need: Villains Edition.

From Cracked: 5 Terrifying Implications of Surviving a Horror Movie.

Marvel now owns Miracleman…the trademark.

Brian Blessed joins the cast of CBBC’s Wizards Vs. Aliens.

Drew Goddard Talks Secrets and Sequels for 'Cabin in the Woods'

Best Art Ever (This Week) 9/14/2012.

Comic Book Legends Revealed #384.

Deadpool vs. Gangnam Style. Bane dances through, too.

Cocktails With Stan Lee, Episode 6 Season 2: Lou Ferrigno.

Nerdist Writers Panel #55: Jonathan Katz and Tom Snyder.

Movie Issues Podcast: Radioland Murders (1994). I may have been one of the only people to see this movie in the theater.

Nerdist Podcast: Michael Dorn.

BitTorrent Tries To Appease Users By Making Torrent Ads Optional.

The trailer for Robot Chicken’s DC Comics Special.

The Official Poster For The CW’s Arrow.

The Line It Is Drawn #102—A Tribute To Joe Kubert.

15 Kids Comics That Have Deservedly Been Forgotten.

Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 229: JLA #95.

The Legal View: Legal manuevering on both sides as judge cancels Superman hearing

Shatner Returns As The Priceline Negotiator.

Seth Green joins the cast of Delete, a new four-hour miniseries from the writers of Stargate SG-1.

Interview with Gail Simone on Leaving Megalopolis.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste joins the cast of Robocop.

David Alpay joins The Vampire Diaries.

Stan Lee On His Favorite DC Character, Marvel Movies, And More.

Cocktails With Stan Lee: Nathan Fillion, Extended Cut.

Superhero Origins: Martian Manhunter.

The Cinefiles: Terry Gilliam, Part 1.

Colin Morgan discusses the upcoming fifth season of Merlin.

Life Outside The TARDIS: Alex Kingston.

Comics, Everybody! The History of Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers).

The First Frankenstein Movie Was Made In Edison’s Bronx Studio…In 1910.

10 great tear-jerker geek TV episodes. Personally, I would remove Buffy’s The Gift from that list, and slip in The Body.

Io9’s Giant Guide To Fall’s Must-See Science Fiction And Fantasy TV.

The Revolutionary Technology That Turned Rebecca Romijn Into X-Men’s Mystique.

Bane Window Art. For those that can’t make out the words, it says “When the car has been washed, you have my permission to drive.”

Comic Book Legends Revealed #380.

Now Playing Podcast: Casino Royale (1967)

Movie Issues Podcast: Stay Tuned (1992)

Aurora Shooting Victims Wore Batman Shirts To Gunman’s Court Hearing.

Chewbacca’s Head Sells For $172,000.

Arrow: New Promotional Images. Deadshot will be played by Michael Rowe.

The CW President Mark Pedowitz Offers Updates On Battle Royale, Supernatural, The Selection, And More.

Watch: Wil Wheaton and William Shatner’s Dueling Narrations For NASA’s New Mars Rover.

Tom Hardy’s screen test for Star Trek: Nemesis.

DVD, Blu-Ray Details Revealed For Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows.

Interview With Aaron Ashmore of Warehouse 13,

You Have The Power…To Save He-Man.

Live Action Masters Of The Universe Movie Going Forward, Jon M. Chu In Talks.

The episodes in the next MST3K set are: Robot Holocaust, Operation Kid Brother, Kitten With A Whip, and Revenge Of The Creature.

Mondo’s poster for The Goonies.

What comic book character should do infomercials?

From Cracked: 5 Villains Who Went Out Of Their Way To Screw Their Own Plan.

Stan Lee’s Rants: The Olympics.

The trailers for Skyfall.

Which Sci-Fi Shows Had The Best Endings?

Movie Ghostbusters With Real Ghostbusters Suits.

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1 Trailer.

When We First Met—A Bunch Of Catwoman Firsts.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer: The Movie Turns 20. Whedonesque discusses it here.

The Wolverine Casting Call: Time To Play The Viper.

You can stay in the motel room that was the Mars’ apartment on Veronica Mars.

How We Would Cast A Neil Gaiman Biopic.

Steven Moffat on the Doctor Who film.

New Line registers Hobbit movie titles.

10 Upcoming Science Fiction And Fantasy Remakes (And Why They May Not Suck)

We Hate Movies Podcast, Episode 69: Twister (1996).

Horror Etc Podcast, Episode 258: Book Club 5 (Part 1).


I’m reading the novelization of The Dark Knight Rises, and hit this moment. I don’t think this comment (to Blake’s question of how he always seemed to know exactly where his friends were) from Batman was in the film, but it should have been.

( Beneath the cut for spoilers from me about the film’s ending, even if the excerpt doesn’t give away anything. )

Mary Tamm has passed away, at the age of 62, following a battle with cancer. May she rest in peace. She played the first incarnation of Romana. I don’t believe I’ve ever actually watched anything of her episodes.

Demonoid Goes Down, Sort Of.

Google Talk Is Down. How Are You Coping With The Great Gtalk Outage of 2012? I’ve never used it before, and don’t have a clue about it--but I know there are some who likely use it a lot.

Extremely Dark Knight.

Batman’s Gotham City Map: What Does The Dark Knight’s Home Really Look Like?

How Much Would It Cost To Be Batman?

Where Was The Joker In The Dark Knight Rises? Mild spoilers for the film, and a quote from the novelization.

5 Essential Women In The Batman Universe. Leslie should have been included.

The CW’s New Slogan: TV Now.

New BBC Drama Trailer.

Grant Morrison, on being named a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire,and whether the honor makes him feel more chivalrous.

Werewolf: The Beast Among Us Trailer.

TARDIS Shed Guarded By A Dalek.

Ursula K. Le Guin: Still Battling The Powers That Be.

Maddie Hason and Alice Evans join the cast of Grimm.

Once Upon A Time Adds Lancelot. He will be played by Sinqua Walls.

The Hobbit: An Exclusive Look At Gollum Before And After.

Third Hobbit Movie: How? What? When? Why?

An interview with Len Wiseman, regarding the Total Recall remake.

J. Michael Straczynski Believes In Ghostbusters 3; Has Working Script Idea. This needs to happen.

First Behind The Scenes Footage From The Carrie Remake.

Exclusive Clip From William Shatner’s Get A Life.

Check Out Five New Character Portraits From Frankenweenie.

Marvel’s Multiple Movies: A Crowded House Of Ideas?

From Cracked: The 6 Craziest Superman Stories Ever Written (Twice).

Restoring The 1931 Bela Lugosi Dracula: Video Feature.

Secrets of the X-Men: Interrupted Romance With Colleen Wing.

Fringe Season 5 Production Halted.

Interview with Dan DiDio and Jim Lee, Part 1.

How Prometheus Should Have Ended.

Pulp Nightmare Podcast: Santa’s Slay Commentary.

And a meme, taken from othercat:
Let's do that thing where you give me a fandom I know nothing or very little about and I try to tell you about it.

House Passes CISPA. Obama Administration Issues Threat To Veto CISPA As-Is. From here, it goes to the Senate. Some of those in the House that voted against it only did so because they didn’t think it went far enough.

The Non-Geek’s Guide To CISPA.

FTC Hires Ace Prosecutor For Google Antitrust Case.

Dimestore Dames spotlights Snowbird.

New viral images of Spider-Man’s web-shooters from The Amazing Spider-Man.

Star Wars MST3K Reviews Firefly T-Shirt.

Avengers pre-sales numbers smash all other Marvel movies combined.

Chris Roberson, marketing, and the Silver Age.

MTV Sets Premiere Date For Teen Wolf Season 2.

Fringe has been renewed for a fifth, final season of 13 episodes. Whedonesque discusses the news here.

What fandom did for Doctor Who.

Director James McTeigue Talks The Raven.

10 Comic Book Characters That Didn’t Debut In Comic Books.

Explore Vampire History In A New Dark Shadows Featurette.

20 New Images From Dark Shadows Are Here.

The Wolverine To Shoot In Japan.

Is there really a New Mutants movie in the works? Will it be announced at Comic Con? While I doubt it, that would be wonderful to see. Even if everything with Illyana would take multiple movies to cover.

Joe Dante on The Haunted Palace.

The Ringu Ghost Throws A Mean Curve.

New international poster for The Amazing Spider-Man.

An Imperial CAT-AT, for Jedi kitties only.

The Japanese trailer for Snow White And The Huntsman.

New spot for Brave, due to air during the NFL Draft.

Comic Book Legends Revealed #364.

John Romita Jr. will try to draw for 50 hours straight for charity.

Polymer clay skull ring.

Ray Stantz Costume To Be On Display At Museum Of Natural History. The exhibit will also include the leather jacket worn by Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade, and the whip used in Raiders of the Lost Ark, the tunic and sash worn by William Shatner as Kirk in Mirror Mirror, and numerous other items.

Buffy vs. Aliens For Free Comic Book Day?

Film Sack Podcast: Cherry 2000.

MPAA filter censors legit torrent files on Isohunt.

Found via meret: Tell ISPs: Don’t Cut Off Your Users.

What books make you cringe to remember?

Starship Sofa has podcasted Neil Gaiman’s novelette The Truth Is A Cave In The Black Mountains.

One man spent 7 years and $121,000 to build a working Akira motorcycle. He has chosen to put his services to good use, by riding it across Japan to help raise money for children with austim.

Jim Hinson’s original pitch to CBS for The Muppet Show.

Ask Chris #100: The One Hundred Question Spectacular.

DC Comics launches a new He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe comic in July.

From Newsarama: The 10 Greatest (Previous) Avengers vs. X-Men Battles.

Topless Robot Caption Contest: William Shatner Wearing A Proton Pack.

Weekend Discussion Thread: “Graduate Level” Episodes.

1988: Excalibur Special Edition Alternate Cover. There’s not much of a difference, aside from shading, and the text.

Great Bookends.

This week, the Film Sack Podcast looks at Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo.

Today’s movie for Schlock Treatment is Conan The Destroyer.

What we lose when we lose video stores.

10 times Doctor Doom’s dignity went down the toilet. Yes, his defeat at the squirrels of Squirrel Girl makes #3.

Universal is rebooting The Mummy again, with Jon Spaihts as writer.

Brand new clip from The Cabin In The Woods.

Preview issue #9 of IDW’s Ghostbusters.

Biff’s stealing the TARDIS!

10 signs that the movie you’re watching is from the 80’s.

Phoenix: The Untold Story—The Dark Phoenix Tapes.

Steven Moffat’s audition script for the new companion.

Supernatural changing showrunner (and likely renewed).

Rarest and most expensive Garbage Pail Kids cards ever made.

In 1940, The Franklin Institute announced Armageddon as an April Fool’s joke.

New DC Nation clip, this time starring Animal Man.

Early look at Mattel’s upcoming Hot Wheels 1:43 scale DeLorean time machine.

I Am Legend was named vampire novel of the century by the annual Bram Stoker Awards.

Comic Book Dream Casting. William Shatner as Green Lantern—odd, but funny.

New Amazing Spider-Man clip.

Did you know pinball was once declared illegal?

Rainbow Unicorn Pegasus Cake.

Prometheus offers five new images.

Disney and Marvel announce Captain America sequel for April 2014.

Exclusive video clip of Christopher Lee in The Wicker Tree.

The first official Hobbit shirts.

One year, we had to deal with an insane swarm of ladybugs covering the houses. Another year, mosquitoes. This year? Crane flies. They look like the mutant offspring of dragonflies and mosquitoes, but they won’t hurt you. They live ten days, and die—in that time, they mate (when they can fly in a straight line) and lay hundreds of eggs. Actual Size. (Almost. I saw a few that large, but they’re usually not much larger than your hand.)

I was surprised to see that I received a virtual LJ gift for Valentine’s Day from a random passerby. So thank you for the glass heart, Blood. It was appreciated. Looks like they’re for everyone that wrote Jack/Rose/Doctor for betterwiththree at some time or another, given the note.

A warning for those that use Chrome when downloading movies or anything else: “Google has also added some new security functionality to Chrome. Every time that the user downloads a file, the browser will compare it against a whiltelist of known-good files and publishers. If the file isn't in the whitelist, its URL will be transmitted to Google's servers, which will perform an automatic analysis and attempt to guess if the file is malicious based on various factors like the trustworthiness of its source. If the file is deemed a potential risk, the user will receive a warning.”

The Dark Knight Rises food truck is touring New York, as part of a Toy Fair promotion.

On March 15th, the novelization of Shada will be released.

SFX lists Sci-Fi And Fantasy’s 14 Greatest Romances. Wash/Zoe make the list, along with Willow/Tara. whedonesque discusses the list here.

Mattel is finally making the Back to the Future Part II hoverboard—minus the hovering, of course.

Here’s the trailer for William Shatner’s one man Broadway show.

The extended international trailer for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, with a bit more in the way of dialogue and new scenes.

Diamond announces the retailer Olympics.

The best (and weirdest) science fiction toys from Toy Fair 2012.

Here’s the newest image from Dark Shadows.

New promo for Being Human, season 4.

New poster for The Hunger Games.

Dimestore Dames spotlights Namorita.

Jack the Giant Killer is being pushed back to a release date of March 2013.

New trailer for Snow White And The Huntsman.

Marc Webb says a trailer for be released for The Amazing Spider-Man within the next month.

Fandom nominations for not_primetime are just around the corner. A list of the fandoms that are considered megafandoms, and therefore not qualified.

terror_scifi begins discussing The Dark Crystal on the 24th.

After 14 years, William Shatner will no longer be the spokesperson for Priceline—they plan to kill him (well, his character) in a fiery explosion.

First image from the upcoming game Doctor Who: The Eternity.

The 9 Most Upsetting Characters From MST3K Movies.

Yuletide sign-ups are open until Sunday. Your Dear Yuletide letter links should go here. I’ve finished with the signing up process for Yuletide. I put that I was willing to write: My Best Friend Is A Vampire, Fright Night, Ghostbusters, The Last Unicorn, and Back to the Future. And for my Bucket List where I would be willing to write any character, I picked The Addams Family (1991), Shrek, Van Helsing, and The Librarian. At the last second, I decided not to include Big Trouble In Little China.

William Shatner has a PSA on how not to deep fry a turkey—it’s called Eat, Fry, Love.

The original Fright Night is available for pre-order on Blu-Ray.

The 10 Greatest Batman Villains Of All Time.

Den of Geek talks about the things that could go massively, hysterically wrong with a Doctor Who movie. “Nicholas Cage as the Master” would be a scary choice, for all the wrong reasons.

First official image from the Doctor Who Christmas special. Here are Children In Need promo pics.

A single page from John Byrne’s original Death of the Phoenix art sold for $65,725.

Preview for the next episode (Lamia) of Merlin.

Alex Kingston on last night’s The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson.