About Stephen Schleicher

Stephen Schleicher began his career writing for the Digital Media Online community of sites, including Digital Producer and Creative Mac covering all aspects of the digital content creation industry. He then moved on to consumer technology, and began the Coolness Roundup podcast. A writing fool, Stephen has freelanced for Sci-Fi Channel's Technology Blog, and Gizmodo. Still longing for the good ol' days, Stephen launched Major Spoilers in July 2006, because he is a glutton for punishment.

ART APPRECIATION MOMENT OF THE DAY: Carter Johnson

Many of you may know Scott Johnson of Frogpants, LLC – he’s the person behind the Frogpants Network of podcast (which distributes Critical Hit and our Munchkin Land podcasts), runs a number of sites including Extra Life, and is a great artist.  His youngest daughter is still in high school, but is showing a lot of promise as an artist, and one can tell Scott has had a very positive influence in his kids.  Carter shared her take on the Futurama cast, and we’re sharing it with you… after the jump.

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TOYS: Extremis Soldier revealed in new Iron Man 3 Minimates

Diamond Select Toys has released images of the Iron Man 3 Minimates, that features Tony Stark in the Mark 42 armor, and a few other surprises that the company isn’t revealing completely… yet.

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KICKSTARTER: My Little Pony artist launches campaign for World of Gloomvania toys

The undead/creepy/bizarre toy craze has been going on for over a decade, and now that toys like Ugly Dolls, The Living Dead Dolls, and Mattel’s Monster High dolls are going strong, creators are looking for the next big thing. “My Little Pony” storybook illustrator Gayle Middleton, who in 2005 redesigned Hasbro’s Littlest Pet Shop toy line, thinks she may have found it, and is Kickstarter to launch the new line.

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MOVIES: Planes teaser trailer arrives

Like Wrech-It Ralph, people are going to be super confused about Planes. While it is a spin-off from Pixar’s Cars, it is not a Pixar movie, but rather a movie from Walt Disney proper.  While you don’t want to bruise egos and companies, after watching the teaser trailer, most viewers are probably not going to care either way.

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Major Spoilers Week in Review for March 17, 2013

The older I get the faster time seems to fly by. I think it has something to do with time lived divided by time period measured… or something like that – this is a comic and pop culture website, not a mathematics and psychology website. In any case, this week flew by, and even now I look back at the week that was, and wonder how we managed to get so much done.

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Major Spoilers Death of the Week: Death, death, and oh yes, DEATH!

We’ve been thinking a lot about death lately – the ending of something that could be the beginning of something else; a time to remember the good times, and the hope that the person has moved on to something better. But comics don’t treat death as a permanent thing. For years readers have seen death become the revolving door in comics; a gimmick, a ploy to part the reader with the money, a sensational event that can be sensationalized across the pages of the few surviving mega newspapers across the country. In short death seems to have lost all meaning for the comic book reader.

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