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Man, superheroes have gone through the wringer lately. First, Italian artist Giuseppe Veneziano opened a controversial show that features superheroes behaving badly. Also, Kevin Smith wrote an in-canon comic of Batman peeing his pants. Yes, you read that right. More »
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A long time ago, Nicolas Cage started a fan war when he was selected to play Tim Burton's Superman in the final adventure of the Man Of Steel. Now test pictures have leaked of the actor in the blue suit. More »
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Zombies, morally-grey former-supervillains and indie cartoonists giving Megan Fox more personality than she deserves — This week's haul of comics offers up a cornucopia of things to crave, including your second chance to read the best SF comic in years. More »
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After the cathartic experience of last week's election, the comic industry is obviously looking to move onto new beginnings this week, if the raft of new series is anything to go by. We have supernatural forensic teams, superheroine envy, a beautiful art book and even a comic version of a novel that will make many of you happy amongst this week's New Comics We Crave. More »
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A guy who's seen Watchmen twice has some news for you about the movie's ending. And that same guy, Kevin Smith, spilled the beans a bit about the structure of the new Star Trek movie. Meanwhile, Roberto Orci told the fans which robots won't be showing up in Transformers 2, and what Soundwave's alt mode won't be. There's also a super-spoilery new video about Sarah Connor Chronicles. And the spoiler floodgates are opening on the new James Bond movie after its first showing. Plus there are some decent spoilers about Life On Mars, Heroes, Fringe, Chuck, Eleventh Hour, Knight Rider, Sanctuary, and Smallville. Which one of those shows features a bikini-clad car-washing girl? It's a spoiler! More »
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He's getting raunchy with Zack and Miri Make A Porno, and then political with Red State, but then Kevin Smith is planning on getting futuristic. The cult director has written a draft of a script for an unnamed space comedy about the relationship between a father and son, and the Weinstein Co. is interested in producing. It'll be Smith's most expensive film to date, says Smith: "The moment someone steps out of the spaceship, it's going to cost a little more." After flirting with scifi themes in his previous movies and scripting an unmade Superman film, Smith will finally be able to put his stamp on the genre. But will he be able to put his tangled relationships into a future culture that's believable enough to make us laugh? [Hollywood Reporter] More »
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We've already told you about DC's Joker graphic novel by 100 Bullets writer Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo, a book that Azzarello calls "brutal... the most violent thing I've ever written." With two weeks to go until its release, the first four pages have been released online to give fans of The Dark Knight a chance to see what happened after the Joker got released from Arkham Asylum - and that's just the start of a series of comics set to capitalize on the success of Christopher Nolan's blockbuster to be released over the next few weeks. More »
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While Will Smith's Hancock may have failed to kill the superhero trend in movies this summer, we think we've identified the actor who stands the most chance of being the unwelcome nail in this genre coffin - Seth Rogen. It's not enough for him to be writing and starring in the upcoming Green Hornet movie. Now he's being prepped to appear in a future Kevin Smith scifi superhero movie. When will the madness end? More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5047053&view=rss&microfeed=true Clerks director and all around geek aficionado Kevin Smith saw what we can only assume was the rough cut of J.J. Abrams' Star Trek. On KROQ’s Kevin and Bean radio show, Smith crowed about viewing a nameless movie where stars were treking. But more importantly he loved Chris Pine as young Kirk, which should put many a Trekkie mind at ease. [Trek Movie] More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5041171&view=rss&microfeed=true Just announced during the DC Nation panel, Kevin Smith will be writing a three-issue Batman miniseries, Batman: Cacophony, starting in November. The miniseries will bring Onomatopoeia, the villain from Smith's Green Arrow run, into the Batman universe, as well as featuring appearances from the Joker and other more familiar Bat-Villains. When Smith, known for his late and unfinished Marvel comics, was told that the series starts in November, he laughed and said "Good luck." Nonetheless, the series is planned to run through January 2009. More »
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Kevin Smith is admittedly a fan of science fiction (io9 spied him at the William S. Paley Festival's Battlestar Galactica event in Beverly Hills), and his love for Star Wars and comic books is pretty well-documented. However, other than his Flying Car short film, he hasn't directed anything down that road. Once his film load lightens, however, he plans on making Ranger Danger and the Danger Rangers. We've just learned more about the project. More »
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