Greetings dear readers,

This week finds the writer in much the same state as last week. We’d say we’re surprised, but let’s be honest – my immune system goes to pieces so fast people get hit by the shrapnel.

Now, we know that last weekend saw the San Diego Comic Con and we’ll be covering that a bit later. We’ll begin with the news that wasn’t from Comic Con.

First off, there’s something I never thought would happen: Harrison Ford was reunited with Chewbacca. Just watch it, you’ll thank me. Secondly, there’s a tiny teaser for The Avengers, that starts with the final scene from Captain America. Spoilers etc… In unrelated news, George Lucas has lost a lawsuit against prop designer Andrew Ainsworth, who designed the original Stormtrooper armour and has been selling replicas.

Brent Spiner was very confused when confronted by fans at Texas Comic-Con recently, the Wonder Woman pilot has found its way online and Ohio drivers will soon have Superman on their license plates. There’s some new Hunger Games pictures, a Harry Potterthemed wedding and Marvel has won it’s lawsuit against the Jack Kirby estate. There’s a shiny new Batman fan film, The Last Laugh and author Paul Sammon has posted a four part history of the 80's Conan films.



There has always been and always shall be, a Batman

The Wolverine has a villain, Tyra Banks talks up her new fantasy novel and there’s plans for a Scanners TV show. There’s more pictures from Dredd (I like the armour) and Chris Judge has been cast in The Dark Knight Rises, which leaves us with two questions: who’s he playing and will they say ‘Indeed?’

There’s more Stargate: Extinction, Frank Darabont has left The Walking Dead and the original opening for Superman Returns has hit the internet. That cost 10 million dollars… There’s a red band trailer for Tucker and Dale vs Evil (Hey, that’s Alan Tudyk!), Star Trek 2 won’t be shooting till January and Robert Zemeckis may direct Here There Be Monsters. I’m just hoping he doesn’t use that creepy motion capture he loves…



Awwww, ain’t that sweet.

HBO has promised it won’t cancel Game of Thrones early and a fan has made the show’s characters in Lego, there’s the first official stills from Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance and a poster of the real Captain America.

We’ve some new posters for Breaking Dawn and The Muppets, audio tapes from Batman: Arkham City have surfaced and there’s plans for Tales from the Crypt to return to TV! Doctor Who has a UK return date, Marvel Studios has the rights to Blade and The Punisher again, while Marvel Comics has launched a new rewards scheme for retailers: Destroy 50 DC comics and get a variant Marvel cover. Stay classy there…



“Well, I died, and turned into a Roman. It's very distracting.”

Lastly, there’s the first trailer for the movie Battleship, based on the board game. Before you ask, no, the line “You sunk my battleship” isn’t in the trailer. If Liam Neeson doesn’t say it in the film backlit by an explosion just before he punches something, then I ain’t going.

Now once again we come to the annual nerdvana that is the San Diego Comic Con. 150,000 people crammed into the San Diego Convention Center and all talking about nerd stuff. It’s more geek than you can poke a stick at, or as Roy and HG might say, where too much nerd is barely enough!

We’ve pictures and video of some of the cosplayers and a look at some of the dodgier advertising efforts this year, as well as the more awesome ones. That giant Smurf is the stuff of nightmares, while the TARDIS burritos were genius! Meanwhile the much talked about DC Comics reboot protest fizzled out while there was issue at their panel, with a young woman asking why there wasn’t more female writers.

We’ve video of numerous panels: you can watch Game of Thrones, Ghost Rider 2, Total Recall, The Amazing Spider-Man (Andrew Garfield’s love letter was adorable), Tintin and Fright Night, while Jeffster! rocked out at the Chuck panel. There’s also a rundown on upcoming rundown that includes details on Pacific Rim and the Mass Effect movie.



If your heart doesn’t melt when you see that, you have NO SOUL.

We’ve the first trailer for Knights of Badassdom (Hooray!) and Steven Spielberg announced Jurassic Park 4. While Marvel didn’t have much presence (Their booth was used by as an autograph table by the stars of Castle at one point and Molly Quinn, who play’s Castles daughter in the show, showed up dressed as Captain Mal.) they did have some new Avengers posters: Thor and Nick Fury, the other Avengers and the Hulk. Speaking elsewhere at the con, Avenger’s director Joss Whedon talked how he wants to write a strong openly gay male character.

There’s clips of the deleted scenes from the Star Wars Blu-Ray box, more footage from Rise of the Apes and a trailer for Avatar: The Legend of Korra, along with good news for Doctor Who fans, with Karen Gillan confirming she’ll be back next season. Hooray!



With our powers combined, we are CAPTAIN GALLIFREY!

There’s the a teaser for the movie H, the first pictures of the cast of Snow White and the Huntsman and some more Fright Night clips. I know some people are still grumbling about it, but Chris Sarandon approves, so why not you? We’ve some Thundercats clips, a description of both the Immortals footage that was screened and the Poe trailer, a poster for The Walking Dead season 2 while Eureka’s Christmas episode will be animated.

Project Runway has analyzed superhero’s outfits, there’s the True Blood sizzle reel that played and the first clips from the new Doctor Who episodes episodes. There’s a deleted scene from Lost (That proves they weren’t making it up as they go) and Wil Wheaton has said that Eureka has better technobabble than Star Trek: the Next Generation. Dave Filoni talked about Clone Wars season 4 and the Locke and Key pilot was screened.



"Stop! Thunder Hammer time."

There’s concept paintings for Robert Rodriguez’s remake of Fire and Ice (He’s also finally working on Sin City 2), a trailer for Zelda: Skyward Sword, DC announced there’s to be an animated Dark Knight Returns and a Voltron movie is on the way!

And last and certainly not least is word that a MacGyver comic was announced… Swiss army knife? *check* Roll of duct tape? *check* Mullet? *check.* Let’s rock…

Quote of the Week:
The Joker: "See, there were these two guys in a lunatic asylum...and one night, one night they decide they don't like living in an asylum any more. They decide they're going to escape! So, like, they get up onto the roof and there, just across this narrow gap, they see the rooftops of the town, stretching away in the moonlight...stretching away to freedom. Now, the first guy, he jumps right across with no problem. But his friend, his friend daredn't make the leap. Y'see...y'see, he's afraid of falling. So then, the first guy has an idea...He says 'Hey! I have my flashlight with me! I'll shine it across the gap between the buildings. You can walk along the beam and join me!' B-but the second guy just shakes his head. He suh-says... he says 'What do you think I am? Crazy? You'd turn it off when I was half way across!'"
Batman: The Killing Joke

Remember, the Shadow knows...