Kaiju Big Battles Online

BRAIN: Forget the WWF! This is real wrestling entertainment. You can now watch some Kaiju Big Battles at Hasbro's site.

Artist Profile: Carlos Huante

ZED: Check out the art of Carlos Huante, an ILM artist like Ryan Church, excellent mutated creature digital drawings and paintings.

Bruce Campbell Talks Evil Dead Remake

BRAIN: Bruce Campbell was asked about a remake of the Evil Dead. This is what he had to say...

"We don't really talk about [another] sequel too much 'cause Sam is too busy right now. It would all be kinda moot. But I think we're gonna do a remake. It'll be a whole new story, though. It won't be with Ash. It'll be the evil book, and it'll affect a whole new group of people in a different situation. More like a reinvention. A lot of people, they got really crabby on the Internet when they first heard that type of stuff. But, we would never do anything to insult them. The trick is to take that premise - and we think it's a scary premise - and use some cool modern day FX… so we won't have green garden hoses in the shots. We wanna make a flat out, scary-ass, un-rated horror film."

A for V

ZED: V for Vendetta was awesome! In Britain in the very near future, under the hitleresque rule of the chairman played by John Hurt, a modern day Guy Fawkes makes decisive strikes against the government and those who "created" him. Without giving too much away, I will say I was very pleasantly surprised. Natalie Portman is great as the vehicle we use to discover some of the protagonist's inner secrets. It's based on the comic that came out a while ago by alan moore.

DVDs Out Tuesday

BRAIN: Season One of Batman Beyond and The Justice League are out tomorrow. Looking around the sale adds it looks like Best Buy has the best prices on them. $17.99 for Batman Beyond and $27.99 for The Justice League.

The Slanket

BRAIN: Another Why didn't I think of this? Ever been sitting on the couch with a blanket over you and you can't turn the channel? Or want to play some video games and keep your arms warm? Now you can with the slanket.

Super Skrull

BRAIN: I love this cover of Annihilation: Super Skrull #1 by Gabriele Dell'Otto. It will be out in April.

Spidey Finally Snaps

A guy with a Spider-man mask rips off some expensive comics. Check out this surveillance video.

Happy Birthday Kurt Russell

BRAIN: We love you...

More Zombies

BRAIN: Second printing cover for Marvel Zombies 4. I hope they include all of these alternates and more sketches in the trade when it comes out. You can se the other covers here and here.

New Bond With New Bond Chicks

BRAIN: I dig the one on the right.

ZED: looks like he gets both...I would dig that.

Who Wants To Be A Superhero?

BRAIN: Applications are now being accepted for Stan Lee and The SciFi Channels's reality show Who Wants To Be A Superhero? All you’ll need is an original idea for a Superhero, a killer costume, and some real Superhero mojo. The winner gets immortilized in a comic. What do you say Zed? Think we can whip up some costumes for DragonFlier and Torq?

Ultimates 2 #12

BRAIN: Marvel has released this art from Brian Hitch for Ultimates 2 #12 available in June. They claim that Hitch will have every hero in the Ultimate Marvel Universe fighting to free the United States of America. I can't wait for this. Brian Hitch and Mark Miller will be sorely missed on this title.

Dreams Shattered

BRAIN: Last month we saw some pics from Toy Fair 2006 of Star Wars original trilogy characters illustrated in the fashion of Genndy Tartakovsky. Sometimes vendors slip and display things at conventions that haven't been announced yet. Both Zed and I were really hoping that this meant that there was going to be more Cartoon Network Star Wars cartoons in the same style as Clone Wars. It's pretty disappointing to find out that this is not the case. Gentle Giant, the maker of the maquettes, is just tooning out characters in that fashion because the original maquettes for Clone Wars sold so well. What a drag. I would give my left nut to have an original trilogy cartoon as cool as Clone Wars. If they can make a cartoon that cool out of the prequils story line, I can't imagine how cool it would be to see Han and Chewie in the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs... Oh well. These things still look great and I'm seriously considering the Princess Leia and R2 one. StarWars.com has the story.

xbox to ilife

ZED: Null River Software has a cool little shareware app that allows you to use a mac with the xbox 360 instead of a media center pc, it allows you to access your iphoto pics and itunes through the xbox 360 on your HDTV it's fifteen bucks and it's awesome, it will not allow you to customize playlists, you need to do that through itunes, but with one my powerbook running in the background I have instant access to all my tunes and pics! The 360 is becoming quite the hub of my entertainment setup, next I will acquire the logitech xbox harmony remote which will run everything with one click for dvd watching, tunes, game playing etc...I'm out of allowance, but that is coming next. Zed is very pleased.

A Year of Superman

BRAIN: Warner Brothers has a pretty cool trailer of the Superman franchise that ends with a look at Superman Returns. They are releasing a ton of Superman DVDs throughout the year and it gives dates for everything.

The Fantastic 4, Um, I Mean The Fantastic 2...

BRAIN: There is a one shot Fantastic Four coming out called A Death In The Family where they state that Sue Richards, The Invisible Woman, will die. And in fact, Joe Quesada in an interview with Newsarama said that actually 2 of the Fantastic Four will die, and stay dead... "Karl Kesel has created one of the best told in one FF stories in a very long time, and yes, unfortunately, there will be a death in the FF family and it is all in continuity. But here's some Joe Fridays breaking news that the solicits don't tell ya, and remember, you heard it here first: two of the FF die, not just one. Gone, goodbye, nevermore." I guess we'll see how long they stay dead. So many superheroes die and come back that it's not really shocking anymore.

Civil War Trailer - Not Great

BRAIN: Marvel has made a trailer for Civil War. Could be better. There is also an seven page excerpt in the new Wizard (#174) that actually helps explain events leading up to the event. The trailer looks like it was made by someone who had a 15 minute crash course in Flash.

SLiTHER

BRAIN: Looks like Michael Rooker may have another home run on his hands. Have you seen the newest trailer? OMG! This looks so wonderfully bad. I haven't been this excited for a movie in a long time. It also stars the captain from Firefly.

Artist Profile - Jack Davis

BRAIN: Jack Davis is one of the first artists I could recognize and still one of my favorites. You have seen his stuff all over the place; cards, comics, magazines, albums, movie posters and cartoons in Playboy and Esquire. I personally love his monster stuff. He seemed to be the go-to guy for many years if you need something creepy. Most kids in the 60's and 70's will recognize him from Mad Magazine. He also did many of the crazy Tales From The Crypt covers too. He's great and here is a very small sampling of his awesome work.