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beginning with some fan favorites requested by you./p /blockquote pThe YouTube blog announces that
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as I can watch them on my iPhone from time to time, I'm happy. Specially since I'm in my Star Trek
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Midway revealed today the special Kollector's Edition of Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe. Watch a
video that takes you from start to finish through Alex Ross' painting of the Kollector's Edition
removable print.
features
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battles against the Krawl
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Play as Jeena on missions where her puzzle-solving skills are needed
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system
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As a new menace threatens the galaxy, Planetary Patrol officers Rallen and Jeena must excavate,
awaken and evolve a new team of Spectrobes and take them into battle to save the universe from
destruction.
As the implications for the taxpayer of the government's £400bn bank bail-out filtered
through to the public consciousness this week, it seemed the capital was finally falling out of
love with its masters of the universe
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style="cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 3px;" align="right" border="0"If you're a
comic enthusiast then you've probably heard of uber-artist Alex Ross. If you're also looking
forward to getting span style="font-style: italic;"Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe/span (a
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you'll be glad to know that Midway has tapped Ross' talents for the game's collectors
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title="cover of the game"box art/a for span style="font-style: italic;"Mortal Kombat vs DC
Universe/span's special North American Kollector's Edition. The box will also come with a removable
print designed by Ross, bonus video content, and a copy of the 16-page comic by John Tobias
announced at a href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/comic-con/6456" id="tag" title=""Comic-Con/a.brbrspan
style="font-style: italic;"Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe/span is currently scheduled for a November
2008 release. The Kollector's Edition (they really love spelling things with a 'K', don't they?)
carries a US 69.99 price tag.brbrhr style="width: 100 ; height: 2px;"brspan style="font-weight:
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videos of some sort. But just look at that cover!?br /br / pAnd if that isn't enough to relieve
your wallet of an extra $10, the emKingdom Come/em artist's work will also be included as a
seperate, removable print, which you can watch come to life in the video above while waiting for
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It's a
necessary milestone in game development, but really, most of you couldn't give a rat's arse about
99% of games that "go gold". It just means the game's one step closer to hitting the market then
never being bought by you. But Gears of War 2, hey, that's different. Loads of you are planning on
buying it. So know that the game has now, to quote the vernacular, gone gold. Sleep easy.
”Gears of War 2” Goes Gold
Marcus Fenix and Delta Squad move closer to saving humanity when the highly anticipated sequel
launches worldwide on Nov. 7
Microsoft and Epic Games, Inc. announced today that ”Gears of War
2,” the blockbuster action sequel to the five million unit selling
original, has gone gold.
”After two years of pouring our heart and passion into ‘Gears of
War 2,’ the team is immensely happy with what we’ve
created,” said Epic Games design director Cliff Bleszinski. "This is
Epic’s best work yet, and we can’t wait to see the response from fans and newcomers to
the series alike.”
”Gears of War 2” tells the story of humanity's last stand against
the nightmarish, underground Locust Horde, and is the follow-up to one of the most popular Xbox 360
games in history. ”Gears of War 2” is rated
”MA15+” by the Australian Classification Board and will be
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the Limited Edition.
With just 28 days until the worldwide launch on Nov. 7, fans can immerse themselves in the
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”Gears of War 2” Video Documentary Series
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”Gears of War” Comic from DC/Wildstorm
The ”Gears of War” ongoing comic book series, written by comic
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began its six-story arc this week. The first story arc bridges the gap between the original game
and ”Gears of War 2,” plus introduces a new gear, Jace Stratton!
The first issue is now available.
”Gears of War: Aspho Fields” Novel from Random House/Del Rey
Written by New York Times best-selling author Karen Traviss, ”Gears of War: Aspho
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Des nouveaux screenshot de Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe s'attardent aujourd'hui sur deux
combattants à la capillarité contrariée, à savoir les toujours
sympathiques Lex Luthor et Baraka. C'est l'occasion ou jamais d'assister à des duels
toujours aussi improbables contre Kitana et le Joker, histoire...
Attendu pour le 21 novembre prochain sur notre territoire, Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe s'offre ce
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This is the one-hundred and seventy-sixth in a series of examinations of comic book urban legends
and whether they are true or false. Click here
for an archive of the previous one-hundred and seventy-five. Click
here for a similar archive, only arranged by subject.
Let’s begin!
COMIC URBAN LEGEND: The writers of New Mutants had to re-write a finished comic book at
the last moment because Marvel decided not to publish the original story, which involved a gay
student killing himself.
STATUS: True
In 2003, Nunzio Defilippis and Christina Weir debuted their new Marvel series, New Mutants, which
introduced brand new teenage mutant students of Xavier’s, while using the slightly older
original members of the New Mutants (primarily Dani Moonstar) as their mentors.
Another of the New Mutants, Xi’an “Shan” Coy Manh, was also an instructor at
Xavier’s, and in a plot designed for issue #8, parents of students at Xavier’s would
complain when Shan is seen kissing another woman during Parent’s Day.
One of the students, Victor Borkowski (Anole) would protest his parents’ outrage by
revealing that he was, in fact, gay himself!
Anole
His parents would not react kindly to this, and when he turned to his two best friends (Josh and
Julian) for support, they would shun him as well, leading to him killing himself in the next
issue.
Josh and Julian, respetively
Besides being a powerful message about what intolerance can do to people, the storyline was
designed to redeem a character who was introduced in the first storyline. Josh Foley was a
mutant-hater who realized he was a mutant himself. Ostracized by his jerk friends, Josh is taken
in at Xavier’s, and slowly began redeeming himself. Still, he clearly did not the best
outlook on life (as seen by him being best buds with a jerk like Julian), and when he learns his
friend Victor is gay, he shuns him. It is Josh who discovers Victor’s dead body, and it is
the major impetus in Josh becoming a good guy. It would also cement Julian’s character as
being a true jerk.
In any event, the two issues were written, drawn, colored, etc. - then a snag happened.
Everyone at Marvel liked the story, and loved the suicide story.
A key player in the story was Northstar, the first openly gay superhero at Marvel and still
Marvel’s highest profile homosexual. As a fellow teacher at the school, he would be the one
to comment on Shan’s struggle with the parents’ reaction to her. He would also be the
one to bring his own haughty point of view to the notion of a kid killing himself over being
rejected when at a school for outcasts.
We finish up Issue 12, and are starting to hear rumblings from Marvel. Issues 8 & 9 are
drawn, Issue 8 is colored and lettered and going to the printer. But there’s finally a new
guy at Marvel to replace Bill Jemas. And his mandate is to be less controversial. So a gay
student killing himself is not a story he wants to see in his young-reader friendly book. Now, we
can’t blame them for that - if they want the book young-reader friendly, a suicide story
isn’t right for it. It’s simply bad timing - their definition of the book is changing
after a story is already all but done.
So ideas are sent to us for ways to soft-pedal this story. Can we eliminate the lesbian kiss that
sets off the parents? (The answer there is no, because without it, the story has no starting
point) Can we not show the kiss, maybe have it happen off panel? (we tell them that’s a
cop-out, so they opt to show it in silhouette only) Can Northstar never mention he’s gay?
(This one threw us off, because he’s been out of the closet for a decade). Eventually we
seem to defuse the situation (by silhouetting the kiss - the other stuff didn’t happen,
thankfully), and go about our business.
So we head home for Thanksgiving, and get the news - the issue has been stopped at the
printer’s. It was printed, but they don’t know if they’re going to distribute
it. Marvel is deciding what to do.
We put in a call to our editor. Then one to Quesada. Then one to the publisher. No-one can tell
us what happens next.
This mystery lasts from Thanksgiving to Christmas. We have a family trip with my family to Italy.
Before leaving, we try to get answers. Nothing.
So we go to Italy after Christmas. And we’re there through the New Year. And on New
Year’s Eve, we have a conference call with our editor. They’re pulping the issue, and
skipping Issue 9 entirely. They’ll publish Issue 10 as Issue 8 and so on. We point out that
in Issue 10 Josh has switched cliques and kids are reacting to a suicide. Maybe we can try
something else.
So we convince them to let us write a new story, set during the Parents Week backdrop we’d
had for the suicide story. We’d write it based on the artwork we had from Issue 8 & 9,
and piece together a script to cover Josh’s transition and David and Josh making peace.
Then we’d excise the suicide references from previous scripts, and put in new pages there.
So that’s what we do. We spend New Years Eve in Venice not enjoying the city or the night,
but instead taking apart two of our scripts and making one Frankenstein-like construct of dead
script-parts. The result is what was ultimately published as Issue 8.
While that is unfortunate, in a way, it almost had a happy ending.
First of all, Anole turned out to be a real fan-favorite, and he has been appearing in the books
more and more regularly since then, which wouldn’t have happened if he was, you know, dead.
In addition, Julian became a popular character, too. Look! He even got to make time with
Wolverine’s clone!
If they had turned him into a homophobic jerk, that likely would not have occurred.
So while it is definitely a pain what they had to go through, it ALMOST worked out for the best.
Almost.
Thanks to Jonathan Nathan for suggesting this one, and of course, thanks to Nunzio Defilippis and
Christina Weir for the information. Check out their website here.
COMIC URBAN LEGEND: There was a popular song in the 60s of a guy whistling a song about
Batman.
STATUS: False (at least in the way we look at it)
Talk about serendipity!
Okay, so last week I featured the story of a Jan and Dean album about Batman, so a reader named
Rudy wrote in to ask the following:
I was just reading your column about the Jan & Dean Batman album, and that reminds me of
another mid-1960s Batman-related song. I don’t recall the name of the guy, but it was a guy
whistling about Batman. That’s all I recall - can you find out anything about it? Thanks!
Well, Rudy, you remember correctly, just not in the way you’re thinking.
Whistling Jack Smith had a hit song in 1967 with the tune “I Was Kaiser Bill’s
Batman,” an all whistling song which reached the Top Twenty on the Billboard singles
charts.
However, the term “Batman” in this instance is not, in fact, referring to the
superhero.
According to the Random House Unabriged Dictionary (courtesy of dictionary.com), a batman is:
a soldier assigned to an officer as a servant.
So here, in the song, the singer is referring to being the batman for Kaiser Bill.
The song is a reference to a popular military song in Germany during World War I, where the
soldier who is the batman to Kaiser Wilhelm was able to avoid having to serve in combat.
The serendipitous part of this to me is not just that the Jan and Dean legend prompted
Rudy’s e-mail. but just yesterday, in the pages of Trinity, the DC Universe is currently
dealing with Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman vanishing as if they never existed.
So some characters (who still remember Batman vaguely) run into Alfred, who is an archeologist in
this universe. And when a character mentions Batman, Alfred gives the “officer’s
servant” defintion!
That’s a pretty cool coincidence!!
Here’s a YouTube performance of Whistling Jack Smith (which apparently is a stage name for
someone - no one seems to be sure who, as the guy in the video apparently is just lip syncing the
whistling)
Thanks to Rudy for the question and thanks to various music sites for the info! And thanks to
Kurt Busiek for making it all serendipitous!
COMIC URBAN LEGEND: Jor-El was not named in the comic books until 1945, and it was not
even in the pages of Superman or Action Comics!
STATUS: True
Two things should be cleared up first.
1. In the pages of Action Comics #1, a scientist is said to be sending his child to Earth to
survive the destruction of his planet.
2. In the Superman comic strip, in 1939, Jor-El is first named. He also popped up in an episode
of the Superman radio show.
So Jor-El was named period right after Superman appeared, and it was courtesy of Jerry Siegel and
Joe Shuster.
However, while Krypton got a mention in Superman #1, Jor-El would not be named in the Superman
comic book for a DECADE!! Specifically, with the Tenth Anniversary issue of Superman, the famous
Superman #53, which details, as you can see on the cover, the origin of Superman.
Soon afterward, the classic Superman #61 was released, which is where SUPERMAN learns of his
heritage for the first time (it’s also the first appearance of green kryptonite in the
comic books).
Man, it doesn’t even merit the cover of the issue? Harsh!
In any event, surprisingly, while Jor-El was not named in the Superman comics until 1948, he
appeared in More Fun Comics #101, a full three years earlier, in the first appearance of Superboy
in 1945!
Note that Superboy not only did not get the cover, he did not even merit a MENTION on the cover!
Here’s the page from the issue…
Trippy!
Thanks to John McDonagh, who, I just noticed, sent me this one EXACTLY two years ago today! Even
trippier!!!
They chose to announce their latest product in the Halo universe in Japan - a market which has
bought 170K worth of versions 1,2 and 3. What's up with that? I grill the Bungie boys about their
marketing plan, the details of Halo 3: Recon and what they're taking home from TGS.
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and reject those that you are not interested in
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turnhere
It's a
necessary milestone in game development, but really, most of you couldn't give a rat's arse about
99% of games that "go gold". It just means the game's one step closer to hitting the market then
never being bought by you. But Gears of War 2, hey, that's different. Loads of you are planning on
buying it. So know that the game has now, to quote the vernacular, gone gold. Sleep easy.
