Local Heroes Comics in Norfolk, Virginia will be featuring acclaimed comic writer Jason Aaron (Wolverine, Ghost Rider, Scalped, and Punisher) will be signing autographs on February 20th from 3-6pm! I’ll definitely be there…will you?  Directions can be found at their official site.

Oh, and to help encourage you to catch up on your Jason Aaron goodness, they’re offering a pretty sweet deal:

Aron, Paulie, Wayne and Jonathan chat about truck wrecks, comic book movies and tv shows, and all the while Wayne maintains a positive outlook.

• Planet Hulk on DVD
• Smallville “Absolute Justice”
• Blackest Night Update
• Siege Update
  • Siege #2
  • Siege: Embedded #2
  • Invincible Iron Man #23
• Red Robin #9
• Justice Society of America Annual #2
• Cable
• Ultimate X #1
• Milestone Forever #1
• The Defense of Spider-Man
• What if We Were Writing Spider-Man?

Stay tuned after the credits for the announcement of  our UNWRITTEN contest winners.

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Ready for another awesome edition of VIDEO GAME MADNESS!  This week, I remind you about the awesomeness that is Dante’s Inferno (with a little chat about the Animated Epic), show you some goodness from The Grinder and LA Noire, and we get our first glimpses of….Sonic The Hedgehog 4?

Check out these stories (and more) after the jump!

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While my buddy Gary and I were at the Dallas Comic Con last week, Booster Gold and I teamed up.  Rip Hunter tasked us with the mission to travel back in time to smother Grant Morrison in his sleep before he could write Final Crisis and Batman and Robin.

As you’ve no doubt observed, we were unsuccessful.

While we weren’t the most effective crime fighting team - for what Morrison does is surely a crime against God and nature – we found we’re extraordinarily effective at hanging with the boys and rockin’ the ladies.

Booster’s decided to come live at my house.

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This marks the return of the Justice Files in a new, smaller, semi-regular format. Instead of ranting for pages about something I’m going to give a quick synopsis of what it is, where I found it, and why I like it. Link to a song or YouTube video then leave you to decide if you like it. The shorter format should help me churn out more of these then I have been.

The video isn’t an official one, its actually made by a friend. Remember that you’re watching for the song, not the cute girl. Without further ado may I present Wasted State of Mind by …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead.

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That’s right.

I’m in this month’s episode of The Variants in a critically acclaimed turn as Customer #6.

Super.  Star.

Like Charisma Carpenter, I now charge for my autograph.

This is an excellent episode.  It is easily my favorite thus far of the series (and not just because I’m in it).  The hot tub scene is hysterical.  I am a bit puzzled that I wasn’t included in this shot, but I’m sure I’m being reserved for some kind of Sharon-Stone-Like-Leg-Crossing action for the season ender.

BTW, I am totally stealing Richard’s customer service training for my next staff meeting.

And what a joy it was.  You wouldn’t want to live there, but it’s certainly worth an hour and twenty minutes of your time.  Planet Hulk is the newest animated feature from Marvel’s Direct-to-DVD line of animated films.  There have been seven in total, and five have actually featured the Hulk – Ultimate Avengers 1 and 2, Hulk Vs., Next Avengers, and now Planet Hulk.

The last Marvel feature (which actually was Hulk Vs., I think) was fun, if uneven.  Does the new feature, based on one of the most acclaimed Hulk stories of recent times, live up the the tale it adapts?  Check out my review after the jump!

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Casey nearly jumped out of her skin at the unexpected voice. She turned and saw Cerberus there. The Bull Mastiff took two steps into the kitchen. He held himself up straight and then his flesh rippled, the air blurred around him…

He leaned back on his hind legs, and grew into a dog-man.

Casey should have been prepared for this by now, but somehow she wasn’t. She watched the dog’s transformation in mute astonishment.

He stood an enormous six and a half feet tall, thickly built with a barrel chest. His clothes — which appeared from nowhere — were blue jeans, black cowboy boots, grey sweatshirt.

His body was distinctly human in form, but his head was more dog than man.

“Hello, Casey.”

“Hello, Cerberus,” she managed, a bit unsteadily. “Are you a gazillion years old too?”
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Well, actually, the show is Spartacus: Blood and Sand, and it started January 22nd on Starz, which I actually do not normally get.  I’ve seen a ton of advertisement for the new Spartacus show, and yeah, it essentially looked like a low budget 300 rip off, but is it ever really a bad thing when get quality gladiatorial combat graces your television screens?  I think not.  And the promise stylized ultra-violence intrigued me.

The show stars Andy Whitfield (from who the f*ck knows….oh wait, he’s the dude from Gabriel!) as the title’s namesake, an unnamed Thracian who goes to war, with the support of the Romans, against those stupid Greeks.  But, as Romans are wont to do, he’s betrayed, and he and his naked hot wife are taken captive by the Romans, where he’s made into a gladiator (with the hopes he’ll die quickly), and she’s sold into slavery.

Sure, it’s a little cliche, but it’s almost forgiveable for the fact that  it’s a remake of the original Spartacus (with Kirk “The Man” Douglas), which is the gladiator film that everyone rips off from anyway.  Of course, this new Spartacus manages to rip off every Spartacus rip off to come since, so you get a rip off of rip offs that’s actually a remake of the original.  If that makes any sense.

Anyway, full review after the jump.

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Given that Marvel has started releasing individual images of each Avengers team member, I’d venture to say that the previously released Heroic Age teaser may not be the team after all.

Today, Marvel has annouced that the first official member of the new Avengers team is none other than CAPTAIN AMERICA!  Not only is it Cap, it’s actually Bucky Cap, which I guess officially answers the question of who will wield the shield.

Also officially announced is the artist on the new Avengers title – none other than John Romita, Jr.!  I am officially excited for this title!