Artwork from something called “Marvel Apes”, which was teased at today’s “Cup ‘O Joe” panel:

Hmmm… That looks strangely familiar. Where have I seen that before?

Oh, I remember now:

It’s been almost 11 years since the release of Portishead’s last album. Their new album, Third, finally drops April 29th. Here’s the new single, “Machine Gun”:

If the rest of the album sounds that good, it’ll make the ridiculously long wait worthwhile.

FUCK YEAH! Gail Simone and Nicola Scott are launching a Secret Six ongoing series!

It’s day two at the NYCC, and thus far, Marvel has been severely underwhelming in terms of big announcements. DC, on the other hand, has been kicking my ass with news. First, there was the announcement of a Power Girl ongoing with the thoroughly awesome Amanda Connor on art; now, it’s a Secret Six ongoing by Gail Simone and Nicola Scott. The previous Secret Six minis are my favorite works by Simone, and given the group’s relatively low profile since the last one, I didn’t think we’d be getting a new mini-series, let alone a monthly title. Now if only DC Direct will get off their keisters and make a Catman action figure… and a Deadshot that doesn’t look anorexic…

DC announces ongoing Power Girl series

FINALLY. Here’s a series I can definitely get excited about. I’m not much of a Power Girl fan, so the idea of a monthly series starring the character doesn’t really do a heck of a lot for me. But I have been waiting years for Amanda Connor to choose a regular, monthly assignment, so the subject really doesn’t matter to me. This is an automatic purchase.

After 19 years since it’s release in 1989 someone has finally decided to secure the rights to produce a movie based of the original movie and manga. DreamWorks has finally secured the rights to adapt the Japanese manga and anime series Ghost in the Shell into a 3D live-action feature film. But it seems they weren’t the only ones who were chasing after the rights to produce a film based off the animated movie. Both Universal and Sony were also in discussions to secure the rights, till Steven Spielberg stepped in personally and took matters into his own hands.

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The  April issue of Kadokawa Shoten’s Newtype magazine has officially announced that an Eureka Seven movie has been approved for production by Studio Bones. Kenichi Yoshida (Overman King Gainer), and special effects director Yasushi Muraki (Ah! My Goddess: The Movie, The Skull Man) will reportedly return to animate the new movie with new mecha and character design. And reportedly a new form of story telling for the plot/story of the Eureka 7 movie. Although the creators are promising a new Eureka Seven story it will still feature Renton and Eureka from the original tv series.

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Click the Newsarama banner for direct access to complete and continuous coverage of the New York Comic Con! We’ll try to post some links to top stories over the weekend, and perhaps offer some “Con Job” analysis. Newsarama already has video interviews with Dan Didio covering James Robinson on Justice League, Legion of 3 Worlds, Final Crisis, Batman: R.I.P., and more.

Read for yourself here and here. Earlier this week, we got attacked by a meteorite, and then it was covered up with some lame story about National Guard airplanes. I suppose that’s because they don’t want people driving up to Tipton trying to get superpowers or unleash a zombie apocalypse or something.

Here’s a joke that only Birdsong and Troy will get: when the quakes happen at work, it really only feels like George Weliever is walking by.

A couple of days ago, I got back from vacation, so my internet access time was somewhat limited. So yesterday as I browsed all my favorite sites (one being sescoops.com…even though sometimes I feel like I’m playing Galaga with the pop-ups) and I learn that ECW has a new announcer to replace Joey Styles. His name is Mike Adamle. I have never heard of him before, so I begin the google search. A handsome enough guy, though reminds me a tad of William Regal. Anyroad, I read articles about him and how he’s known for fudging lines and being out of touch with the product. Adamle also has a very hefty price: around $300,000 a year. Though the reasoning of the switch is interesting to me. Apparently, Joey Styles made the announcement that he will be the “head of WWE.com”. Though according to PWInsider.com WWE employee Brian Kalinowski will still be in charge of WWE.com, however Styles will assume a “managing editor” role, similar to what Michael Cole used to do.

So here’s the problem I have: they promoted some high-price nitwit and just replaced one of the greatest play-by-play announcers of our generation. Michael Cole used to be an announcer and run the site…so, couldn’t they have just had Styles do both, give HIM the raise, and fire some no-namer? I mean, that would save the company a little bit of money and frees up Adamle’s time to do whatever he wants.

PWInsider.com also notes that while Styles may be gone from tv airings, he will continue to attend the weekly SmackDown & ECW tapings. Along with that, he will also attend WWE RAW every night and will be sitting in on meetings with WWE’s creative team. Management wants Styles to be aware of upcoming storylines and know what to emphasize on the website.

Though with this youtube video made by Burngun50, I’m thinking it will only be a matter of time before Styles returns.

That was painful to watch, and I blame neither candidate for it, really, the Republican OR the Democrat.
The less people see of that performance by ABC News, the better.

So…the pope is in the U.S. That’s cool. But all I can think about is the fact that I don’t believe Jesus ever intended us to worship his holy name in the Washington Nationals baseball stadium.

Maybe I’m just old fashioned.

I also wish we had a pope who didn’t look like the evil leader of the Galactic Empire.

“Batman: Gotham Knight” is an animated collaboration between six different artists/writers who will be using Japanese Anime for the animation. The animated movie takes place in between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. It is going to be similar to another movie project that attempted the same type/style/art and directing called “The Animatrix“. I wasn’t the biggest fan of the Animatrix movie since some of the short stories were brilliantly done while others were just plain mediocre. A few of the Japanese animation companies that will work on the segments will be Madhouse, Studio 4*C, & Production I.G. (Of Ghost In The Shell fame.)

The movie will be directed by Bruce Timm, co-creator and producer of Batman: The Animated Series and he will be collaborating between six different writers, which are: Josh Olson, David Goyer, Brian Azzarello, Greg Rucka, Jordan Goldberg, and Alan Burnett.

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I found out a couple of weeks ago that my first foray into comics, ‘Breakfast’, is going to be reprinted this summer in NEGATIVE BURN #20 from Desperado Publishing.


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