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Graphic Breakdown: THE TWILIGHT CHILDREN, OUR EXPANDING UNIVERSE, SKYDOLL: DECADE & More!

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Hello. My name is Lenny Schwartz. I am a playwright and screenwriter from Rhode Island and New York. Welcome to my second week reviewing comics.

I guess I didn't burn any bridges last week and the higher ups at Forces Of Geek are okay with my reviews.

Either that or they are building a lawsuit. Either way this is very exciting.

Let's get started!


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ARCHER Sets Up Shop in Los Angeles

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Written by Erin Maxwell

The seventh season of FX Network’s Archer sees the one-time gang of spies-turner-failed drug smugglers turning their sights to the City of Angels as the show continues to poke and prod ‘80s territory with the nostalgia stick.

The latest adventures of the hard-drinking, butler-abusing ladies man Sterling Archer takes the blue eyed lady killer (well, he’s really an equal opportunity killer) into Magnum P.I. territory. The Adam Reed created toon moves from the drug-fueled squabbles that centered the sixth season to send-ups of ‘80s style detective series.


Last week, the FX Networks releases the season seven trailer, which was a shot for shot remake of the Magnum P.I. opening credits. From the iconic red Hawaiian shirt to Tom Selleck’s oh-so-manly moustache of power, the homage to one of the greatest detective shows of all time offer a quick peek of what was to come for the upcoming season of Archer; More ‘80s tomfoolery.


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THE PATH TO JUSTICE: Day Versus Night

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The Path of Justice reviews the final Batman v Superman trailer, along with a look back at the film’s legendary source material, Frank Miller's graphic novel, The Dark Knight Returns.

The final trailer Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice dropped yesterday, and it’s perfect in every way! Not only does it show that the marketing is now clearly on the fight we’re paying to see, it also primarily focuses on Batman. Sounds kind of unfair considering he shares the marquee with Superman. Nope, and I’ll tell you why.

We’ve already seen what Superman brings to the table as a character in Man of Steel. This trailer gave us our first real peak at what kind of Batman we can expect. He was the supreme fighting machine in every way imaginable, and it was awesome!


Batman blocking Superman’s punch is the money shot of the trailer. The look of disbelief on Henry Cavill’s face absolutely sells this moment to the highest magnitude. It tells us that %$#@ is about to go down and that March 25th can’t get here fast enough!


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Gaming Is Good For You...Seriously!

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I regularly write about the positive effect that games have had on me over the years and I could spout the usual hand-eye coordination argument or make reference to the 'video games saved my life' article I previously wrote, but there are so many other things that gaming gifts to the world.

I want to highlight these less talked about positives, for example, they could even benefit your cat. And we all know how much the Internet loves cats. More on that later.

First, I want to talk about the effects of ageing.

Image: Shutterstock

Forget your day creams, your night creams, your in-between creams and your 50 glasses of water a day (really please do forget, you can actually drown yourself with too much water), the key to slowing down the ageing process comes in a non-aqueous form.

Gaming is linked to increased cognitive function and continued game playing can actually create lasting improvements in the brain. This is because most video games consist of problem-solving, puzzles and utilise your memory regularly. It's the same reason that the elderly are encouraged to do crosswords and daily Sudoku puzzles.

I hope I'm still gaming at this age

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DST Offers New York Toy Fair 2016 Sneak Peek!

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Check out some of the new items that will be on display at the Diamond Select Toys booth (#4907) at New York Toy Fair!

Pre-orders will open later this month, so check with your local comic shop, or your favorite online retailer! Find a store at comicshoplocator.com!



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The Final Fantasy For THE LEAGUE Arrives on DVD With Unrated Episodes, A Gag Reel & More!

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Score this Father's Day with The League Final Season DVD on June 14

Shenanigans ensue for the last time as Taco, Ruxin, Pete, Jenny, Kevin, and Andre make their final attempt to win the elusive Shiva trophy in season 7, the final season, of The League.

To be a fan of The League, you don't need to know much about fantasy football, or sports at all. You just need to have friends that you hate. The ensemble comedy follows a group of old friends in a fantasy football league who care very deeply... about beating each other for bragging rights.

The League was created by the husband-and-wife team of Jeff Schaffer (Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld) and Jackie Marcus Schaffer (Disturbia, Eurotrip) who serve as executive producers and directors. The series is produced by FX Productions.

The League features an ensemble cast of rising actors/comedians. Stephen Rannazzisi (Breaking Dad) is “Kevin,” a happily married father and commissioner of the league. Katie Aselton (The Sea of Trees) plays “Jenny,” Kevin’s wife and his better half - especially when it comes to Fantasy Football. Mark Duplass (Togetherness) plays “Pete,” the perennial league champ who is struggling to become an adult. Jon Lajoie (Let's Be Cops) is “Taco,” Kevin’s little brother, a part-time musician and full-time stoner with little interest in fantasy other than hanging with his buddies (whom he struggles to remember). Nick Kroll (Kroll Show) plays “Ruxin,” who believes he is the smartest of the group but can't figure out how exactly the other guys are screwing him over. “Andre,” played by Paul Scheer (Fresh Off the Boat), has continued to be the punching bag of the group since their high school days – a fact that hasn’t changed despite the fact he is now a successful plastic surgeon.


The League: The Final Fantasy Special Features

  • Extended and unrated episodes
  • Gag Reel
  • Alt Nation
  • Taco Tones
  • Deleted Scenes

Peter J. Tomasi's SUPER LEAGUE is Coming!

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Last month DC Comics revealed that Peter Tomasi would pen eight issues of "Super League," spanning SUPERMAN, BATMAN/SUPERMAN, SUPERMAN/WONDER WOMAN and ACTION COMICS over April and May of 2016.


Check out a recap of all upcoming "Super League" issues, including selections from May's top-secret solicitations and the interiors of SUPERMAN#51 by artist Mikel Janin (@mikeljanin) after the jump!


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POINT BREAK Arrives on Blu-ray 3D Combo, Blu-ray Combo, or DVD on 3/29; Own It Early on Digital HD on 3/15!

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Witness the incredible stunts and gravity being defied when Point Break arrives onto Blu-ray 3D Combo Pack, Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD and Digital HD. The film is replete with the most daring athleticism ever seen in a motion picture. The action adventure feats were performed by elite athletes representing the world’s best in class in big-wave surfing, wingsuit flying, sheer-face snowboarding, free rock climbing and high-speed motorcycling.

In Alcon Entertainment’s fast-paced, high-adrenaline action thriller Point Break, a young FBI agent, Johnny Utah (Luke Bracey), infiltrates a cunning team of thrill-seeking elite athletes – led by the charismatic Bodhi (Edgar Ramirez). The athletes are suspected of carrying out a spate of crimes in extremely unusual ways.

Deep undercover, and with his life in imminent danger, Utah strives to prove they are the architects of this string of inconceivable crimes.

Point Break stars Édgar Ramírez (Zero Dark Thirty, The Bourne Ultimatum, Carlos the Jackal) as Bodhi, and Luke Bracey (G.I. Joe: Retaliation, November Man) as Johnny Utah, along with Teresa Palmer (Warm Bodies), Delroy Lindo (Sahara, Gone in Sixty Seconds) and Ray Winstone (Noah, The Departed), under the direction of Ericson Core (Invincible).


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HARRY POTTER Play Getting Published, SAGA Cat Comes Home, EXORCIST Comes To TV & More!

UFOs and You(Tube)

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Written by John Teehan

I love me a good conspiracy theory. And there are so many to choose from!

UFOs, government-sponsored weather control, chemtrails, lizard people, mole people, Illuminati, Freemasons, Priory of Sion, government surveillance, New World Order, Area 51, Agenda 21, various "truther" conspiracies, false flags, ever-popular assassination theories, Vril Society, the light bulb conspiracy, Celestial Seasonings (yes, the herbal tea company!), Trilateral Commission, time travel, fluoride, Bilderberg Group, Opus Dei, Bohemian Grove, and the nefarious eight buns/ten hot dogs consumer manipulation conspiracy.

And that's barely scratching the nutty surface. What's particularly beautiful to a conspiracy theorist fan like me is that the Internet has gone a long way to boosting the signal for these theories' adherents and promoters. The truth is getting out there--if you call that truth. Personally, I'm not a believer, but I'm a fan of believers--kind of like how some people collect serial killer trading cards. I have a strange fascination with the lengths some people go to make their mundane lives more interesting, or to explain a sometimes confusing world.

I could go on and on about why conspiracy theories happen and why they're so popular--and getting more popular by the day, but this intermittent series on conspiracy theories is going to be broken up into thematic parts, and will particularly focus on those theories that have some nice, full, wacky YouTube videos to tell "the whole story" for your entertainment.

This entry, in honor of the current X-Files revival, will look at my personal favorite flavor of grand conspiracies. Buckle up and clench your butt.  We're looking for UFOs.


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FOUR OF THE APOCALYPSE: Lucio Fulci Makes a Bloody Western

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Written by Generoso Fierro

One of the more amazing experiences that Lily and I made had our recent visit to Rome was a visit to Cinecitta, the famed Italian movie studio that was built by Mussolini in the late 1930s to save the fading film industry which not only produced propaganda films during the early years of fascism, but also created many popular narrative films, including those of directors such as Raffaello Matarazzo. Unfortunately, the studios were bombed during the final months of World War Two, the damaged buildings and sets became home to thousand of displaced refugees for a few years before being revived as a functioning production studio during the Neo-Realist period.

This Neo-Realist era would subsequently turn into the golden age of Cinecitta with the rise of Italian directors, Frederico Fellini, and Bernardo Bertolucci. as well as the studios becoming the place to shoot sword and sandal films by not only Italian auteurs but also famed American directors like Joseph L. Mankiewicz who shot his epic, Cleopatra which starred Elizabeth Taylor there in 1963.

As the 1960s rolled on, the studios began to crank out numerous Italian or spaghetti westerns. a fact that shouldn’t be lost on anyone who reads my site as I have reviewed several rare titles within the genre over the last few years.

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DC ENTERTAINMENT Reveals More of March's Polybag Variants

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As reported last week, DC Entertainment announced that our ongoing monthly themed variant cover program for March would showcase variants for ten of DC Comics’ most popular Batman and Superman titles. The variants are to be polybagged with a Batman v Superman theme, concealing stunning cover artwork by the comic industry’s most talented artists!

March’s Batman v Superman polybagged comics will follow a format similar to December’s Harley’s Little Black Book variant program, where three different versions of each variant were printed in equal quantity. All ten upcoming Batman v Superman comics will also have three versions, but this time they’ll be published in full color, fade and character spotlight.

What’s that look like? After the jump check out Martin Ansin's variant cover to ACTION COMICS #50 and Kevin Maguire's variant covers for BATMAN/SUPERMAN #30!


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ARCHIE Announces Return of It's Horror Line!

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Archie Comics returns with AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE #9
and SABRINA #5 -- and a look toward the imprint's future

Archie Horror springs back to life this May, as the critically acclaimed and genre-defying CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA and AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE series return to comic shops with brand new issues and more to come.

After much anticipation, writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and artists Francesco Francavilla and Robert Hack bring ARCHIE HORROR back from the brink.

The spotlight turns to Reggie, the instigator behind the zombie apocalypse that now threatens the entire planet, in AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE #9. Aguirre-Sacasa and artist Francesco Francavilla take us back to the fateful night that started everything and ask the question: is redemption possible for Reggie Mantle? Find out on June 1st when AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE #9 returns to comic shops.

CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA #5, with raw and macabre artwork by artist Robert Hack, continues to pit the teenage witch against the deadly manipulations of Madame Satan. Still reeling from the fallout of her botched baptism and the fate of her boyfriend, Harvey Kinkle, Sabrina faces her toughest challenge yet in the form of the Witches Council. Issue #5 hits comic shops on May 18th.

"There’s no excuse for late books, just apologies," said Aguirre-Sacasa, promising additional issues of AFTERLIFE and CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA are in progress.

"We know how much these books mean to you—so thank you, thank you, thank you for sticking with us through thick and thin."

After the jump check out the full solicitation information as well as some fantastic first look pages!


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Win THE BLOOD STRAND by Chris Ould

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Having left the Faroes when he was three years old, Jan Reyna is now a British murder squad police detective, and the Islands are completely foreign to him. But he is drawn back when his estranged father is found unconscious in an isolated spot, a shotgun by his side and someone else’s blood in his car. Then a man is found washed up on a beach, a shotgun wound in his side, but signs that suffocation were the cause of death. Is his father – who has suffered a massive stroke and is unable to speak – responsible for the man’s death? What about his half-brothers, and the signs that one of them may have been blackmailed? Jan falls in with local detective Hjalti Hentze, a man after his own heart, but as the stakes get higher and Jan learns more about the truth behind his mother’s flight from the Faroes, he must decide whether to stay and learn more, or forsake the strange, windswept Faroe Islands for good. 

Arriving in stores and e-tailers on February 15th, we're giving away three copies of the book courtesy of Titan Books!

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OLD SPICE: Smell Legendary, Feel Fresh

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Old Spice pitchman Bob Giovanni is here to share the stink-scrubbing power of the new Old Spice Hardest Working Collection's Dirt Destroyer body wash, truly delivering Legendary Protection for Legendary Men.

To confidently stand behind the Hardest Working Collection’s preeminent performance credentials, and with no regard for odor’s dumb feelings, Old Spice is going back to the brand’s performance roots and relaunching its 1-800-PROVE-IT money-back guarantee. If consumers use the Hardest Working Collection and the products do not sufficiently drop-kick dirt and odor, they can call 1-800-PROVE-IT for information on how to receive a full refund.


Flex your finger muscles, and check out the Old Spice YouTube page for more of their latest #smellegendary videos!





When I Met VANITY...

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Written by DJ Crystal Clear

It’s 1986, and I’m working at Tower Sunset (For all you kids out there, I’m talking about the world famous Tower Records Flagship store on Sunset Boulevard, right at the beginning of the infamous SUNSET STRIP).

It was a really great job - I worked in the Art Department, putting my Art Institute Of Philadelphia’s Graphic Design degree to good use. Sometimes I’d hang out or work the floor in the main shop, or in the Video Store (where I was originally hired) and in the Classical Store too.

Anyway, celebrities of all kinds would come there to shop or hang out - some would just wander in without an entourage, some would call ahead, some would ask us to let them in after hours...David Lee Roth used to hang out in the Video Store often (he lived down the street);  I met Michael Jackson (who would sometimes come in costumes), Prince (Jerome drove them there in a, wait for it...little red corvette), Whoopi Goldberg (I babysat her daughter), blah blah blah, it was really groovy.

One afternoon, I was hanging out in the video store, talking with a Manager there named Kevin. We were goofing around talking about some new album or something, and he wanted to show me the stuff he bought across the street in the record store, so we went into the back office to give it the once over.

While we’re talking, a clerk comes back and says, “Hey Kevin, Denise is here to see you.”

Now, I really didn’t pay that much attention to the name he said because I was looking at new records. Kevin made the waving motion that meant, “Yeah, tell her to come back here.”

I put the records down and sit in a big chair while we’re talking. I see a figure walk in the door out of the corner of my eye, and see a fur coat in the doorway. It’s a floor length chinchilla/mink mix and I’m thinking, “This is a crazy looking fur coat that is super expensive” and I look up from the floor (why isn’t this kooky broad wearing shoes?) and get to the woman’s face - HOLY SHIT IT’S VANITY! I sit there, gobsmacked.


Kevin says, “Hey Denise, what’s up?” She smiles. “Oh yeah, this is Crystal. She’s a great artist we just hired, she’s cool, say 'hi!'”

She stands there smiling at me. Her eyes look glassy, her hands are in the pockets of the coat. Floor length fur coat. I’m in West Hollywood.

It’s July.

It’s 89 degrees outside.

I stand up and our eyes meet. The manager says, “Crystal, this is...”

I blurt out, “VANITY!”

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THE BIG SHORT Debuts on Blu-ray Combo Pack March 15th

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NOMINATED FOR FIVE ACADEMY AWARDS INCLUDING BEST PICTURE,
BEST DIRECTOR AND BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

CHRISTIAN BALE, RYAN GOSLING, STEVE CARELL AND BRAD PITT
STAR IN THE UNBELIEVABLE TRUE STORY

“One of the most absorbing and entertaining films of the year” (Mara Reinstein, Us Weekly), director Adam McKay’s “witty, smart, sharp and funny” (Scott Mantz, “Access Hollywood”) masterpiece THE BIG SHORT arrives on Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD and On Demand March 15, 2016 from Paramount Home Media Distribution.

Nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Christian Bale), Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Editing, THE BIG SHORT also was named one of the top 10 films of the year by The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly, Us Weekly, the American Film Institute and many more.

Based on the best-selling book by Michael Lewis, THE BIG SHORT details the true story of four outsiders who risked everything to take on the big banks during the greatest financial fraud in U.S. history. Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling and Brad Pitt deliver career-best performances in “the most wildly entertaining must-see movie of the year” (Toni Gonzales, Fox-TV).


THE BIG SHORT Blu-ray Combo Pack with Digital HD is packed with over an hour of bonus content. Go behind the scenes with Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell and Christian Bale as they talk about their characters and the real people in this unbelievable true story, then discover the facts behind the gripping events as author Michael Lewis and the filmmakers discuss how the most incredible heist of the century was pulled off. Plus, catch five deleted scenes that were not shown in theaters and hear director Adam McKay reveal the challenges he faced in bringing the book to the screen.


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Win EXTRACTION on DVD Starring Bruce Willis, Kellan Lutz and Gina Carano

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Golden Globe and Emmy winner Bruce Willis (Die Hard) stars in the pulse-pounding action-packed Extraction.

Packed with enough pulse-pounding action scenes to keep audiences on the edge of their seats, Extraction follows one man’s quest to rescue his father from international terrorists. From the producers of Lone Survivor and Escape Plan, the film also stars Kellan Lutz (The Twilight Saga franchise), Gina Carano (Fast & Furious 6), D.B. Sweeney (Taken 2), Dan Bilzerian (The Equalizer), Olga Valentina (The Frozen Ground), Lydia Hull (Empire State), and Tyler J. Olson (Jarhead).

When a terrorist group kidnaps retired CIA field operative Leonard Turner (Bruce Willis), his son Harry Turner (Kellan Lutz), a government analyst who has been repeatedly turned down for field service, launches his own unsanctioned rescue operation. While evading highly skilled operatives, deadly assassins, and international terrorists, Harry finally puts his combat training to the test in a high-stakes mission to find his father and to stop a terrorist plot.


And we're giving away three copies!

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Double Feature Movie Show: INNOCENCE LOST

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The other day, I watched a movie that was almost the exact opposite of my favorite movie of all time.

One is black, the other white.

One is present day, the other 1959.

One is inner city, the other is small town.

But, strangely enough, they have the same theme at their heart.


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