Marvel Announces New Invincible Iron Man Comic
Today at the Special Edition: NYC comic convention during their Next Big Thing panel, Marvel Comics announced that writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist David Marquez will be the new creative team for Invincible Iron Man, an ongoing series that will launch after this summer’s Secret Wars event. Also of note: Tony Stark is the man in the can.
Bendis and Marquez previously teamed up on Ultimate Comics Spider-Man (featuring Miles Morales), All-New X-Men, and Guardians of the Galaxy. Marvel Comics Editor-In-Chief Axel Alonso told us earlier this week that they wanted to elevate Iron Man’s comics to the same popularity level as the movies, so putting two of their top creators on his new book certainly backs that up.
Here’s an Early Look at Forza Motorsport 6
A trio of Forza Motorsport 6 screenshots have surfaced online, showcasing the game's weather effects and nighttime driving.
The images were posted on Japan's official Xbox website, which touts the game's "breathtaking graphics" and expansive collection of over 450 cars. Here's the first screenshot, which provides a look at the racer's rain effects.
Hunger Games: First Mockingjay Part 2 Photos Revealed
The first official photos of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 have been released, highlighting the series' three lead characters.
In a trio of posts on the film's official Facebook page, we get an early glimpse at what's in store for Peeta, Gale, and Katniss in the final film in Lionsgate's highly successful franchise. Here's a look at Katniss, bow in hand, alongside a firearm-equipped Gale.
Game of Thrones: Who’s Left to Hate?
Warning: Feature contains story spoilers for all of HBO's Game of Thrones up until this point.
Not only did last Sunday's "Harhome" give us one of the most riveting and frightening action set pieces Game of Thrones has ever produced, but it ended things with a tense, dramatic "Come at me, Crow!" stare down between Jon Snow and a menacing icy overlord known as the Night's King.
That huge battle breathed new life into the season while also bringing to the forefront a new arch villain. Not that we hadn't seen the Night's King before, but this massacre saw him making a huge play for power. He was out for wildling blood, not off in some remote White Walker Walley World zapping babies into snow zombies.
DC Gives a History of LGBT Heroes and Villains
With June being LGBT Pride Month, this week's episode of DC All Access featured guest-host Jase Peeples (entertainment editor of The Advocate magazine) giving a history of the publisher's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender heroes and villains.
Some notable highlights:
- DC's first gay character -- the ever-controversial and flamboyant Extraño
- The GLAAD-award-winning Green Lantern story where Kyle Rayner stood by his newly outed friend
- Renee Montoya, who was outed by Two-Face before becoming the new Question
Landmark Team Shifting Focus to EverQuest Next
Daybreak Games is shifting its development priorities from one MMORPG to another. The developer formerly known as Sony Online Entertainment will focus on more important tasks and systems for EverQuest Next, resulting in less updates for Landmark.
According to a blog post on the Landmark site, the changes will not move EverQuest Next's release window up.
"As the team has wrapped up the various pieces related to the wipe and the bugs associated with it, we have been shifting our focus and resources over to work on the highest priority tasks and systems that will be used in EverQuest Next," Senior Producer Terry Michaels said. "While we do this, we're working in areas with high amounts of creative risk. This means that while we know what we want to do, we know it will take an unknown amount of iteration, tweaking and sometimes drastic direction changes to get these in game and working the way they need to."
Rules Changes Come to Capcom Pro Tour Events
Capcom has made an amendment to the rules for qualifying for this year’s Capcom Cup, featuring Ultra Street Fighter IV.
If the top four or more finishers at a Capcom Pro Tour premier event are already qualified for Capcom Cup, the automatic qualifying spot will be eliminated and then added to the leaderboard qualifiers, according to Capcom.
The old rules stated the automatic bid goes to the next player in the standings who had not already qualified for Capcom Cup. Sixteen qualifiers would come from premier events and 15 qualifiers would come from the top players on the leaderboard. One spot is reserved for last year's Capcom Cup champion, Yusuke Momochi.
5-25-77: Star Wars Fan Movie Finally Coming Out
It's been a long time -- "a long time..." -- since we heard anything about Patrick Read Johnson's autobiographical indie film 5-25-77. The title, of course, is a reference to the exact date that Star Wars came out in theaters, which is primarily what Johnson's film centers around.
Shot in 2004 and set in 1976, the film follows Pat Johnson (played by a gangly John Francis Daley), a small-town movie geek whose advance screening of the yet-to-be released Star Wars changes his life forever. You can check out the trailer below, which was first posted online roughly a decade ago:
Alas, outside of a couple test screenings (most notably at Star Wars Celebration IV back in 2007), 5-25-77 never saw the light of day... until now.
Power Rangers Movie Will Be ‘Mature but Still Playful’
Shortly before the Power Rangers movie was pushed back to 2017, we learned that Dean Israelite (Project Almanac) was set to direct the film, penned by screenwriters Zack Stentz and Ashley Miller (X-Men: First Class, Thor).
This week, I got a chance to speak with Israelite about the home video release of Project Almanac (more on that soon!), and I was able to ask him a few Power Rangers questions.
Obviously, the filmmaker couldn't say much about the story (which is still under lock and key at Lionsgate), but he was able to talk about the film's tone, which he described as grounded and mature but also "completely playful." He also revealed how he actually got the directing gig and when we might start to see casting announcements.
Star Wars Cosplayer Sparks School Lockdown
A man walking around Lynn, Massachusetts, showing off his stormtrooper outfit was arrested after he unintentionally caused a nearby school to briefly lock down over security fears.
The principal of the Brickett Elementary School was about to dismiss classes for the day when she spotted a man in a costume carrying what appeared to be a gun near the school grounds.
George Cross, 40, "was arrested on charges of disturbing a school and loitering within 1,000 feet of a school," according to Salem News.
The principal suspected the gun was plastic, but as Lynn Police spokesman Lt. Rick Donnelly explained, "the way things are today, you can't have that."