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Insects, Nazis, and the Gulf War in New Showtime Series
Showtime is bringing in The Exterminators, courtesy of a just-announced adaptation of DC Comics' horror series from the Vertigo line. In a strange moment of the circuitous nature of media, Vertigo's The Exterminators actually started life as a pitch for a TV show by writer Simon Oliver before being turned into a 30-issue series about ex-con Henry James' experiences working for Bug-Bee-Gone, an exterminator company run by his stepfather. It sounds dull until you learn about the possibly-mystical mysterious box with some connection to insects, Nazis and the Gulf War More »
wall-e
You can visit the desolate world of Wall-E, this summer's animated movie about a trash-compacting robot, in an upcoming xBox game. Judging from these early screen shots, it looks like the Wall-E game may do too good a job of capturing the robot's loneliness and the toll of time on his robotic circuits. You'll be able to explore 10 other worlds in the game, but if they all look like this we'd probably have to commit robo-suicide to stave off the inevitable boredom and insanity. Minor movie spoilers after the jump
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Become A 700-Year-Old Trash Robot
You can visit the desolate world of Wall-E, this summer's animated movie about a trash-compacting robot, in an upcoming xBox game. Judging from these early screen shots, it looks like the Wall-E game may do too good a job of capturing the robot's loneliness and the toll of time on his robotic circuits. You'll be able to explore 10 other worlds in the game, but if they all look like this we'd probably have to commit robo-suicide to stave off the inevitable boredom and insanity. Minor movie spoilers after the jump
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