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This Thursday, May 3rd, Valiant and IGN are partnering for a one-of-kind online experience, VALIANT LIVE: X-O MANOWAR #1, direct from New York’s own Midtown Comics! Moderated by IGN Comics Editor Joey Esposito, the inaugural VALIANT LIVE panel will be bringing the convention experience to comics fans far and wide with live streaming video and real-time audience Q&A on May 3rd from 8:30-9:15 PM EST (5:30-6:15 PM PST)!
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Atari, Inc., one of the world’s most recognized videogame publishers, has teamed up with IGN and Scion to bring the Champions Online™ Character Creator Contest to gamers everywhere, giving them the chance at winning a brand new customized Scion! Cryptic Studios, the award winning developer of Champions Online, has created a custom character creation client to give players a chance to experience the power of total customization. Create the ultimate hero in Champions Online and you can win a brand new Scion – customized to reflect the individuality of your hero!
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I generally don’t run Marvel press releases without heavily editing the content to strip out the unnecessary bits, but this one about Deadpool had me chuckling enough to run the entire thing.
I like the second to last sentence in this quote from the IGN interview with grant morrison. It sounds like he’s finally figured out what fans want in their Batman stories.
IGN Comics: It sounds like that goes back to what you were trying to do with Final Crisis, where you cut out all the quieter moments and just got down to “the drums and the bass”, as you called it – the meat of the story.
Morrison: Yeah. I went to see Crank: High Voltage when we were in Los Angeles. I had just watched that, and I thought everything else just looks like slow motion, really. I wanted to get that effect into the comics as well. To me that was just a great action film, and every action film after is going to have to try and move at that speed. I really wanted to get that into Batman and Robin. Again, the stories are really easy. There aren’t big multi-layered Gnostic parables this time around. Like I said, it’s like a really bad trip cartoon. [laughs]
We’ll see if it holds true in the series, although I’m still not sold on Quietly’s art for the series.
Journeyman star Kevin McKidd to IGN that he’s still in the running to play the golden haird Norse god in Marvel’ls Thor.
McKidd stressed that the part that he’s up for is indeed that of Thor and not a supporting role. This contradicts what McKidd told us last year when he suggested that Thor might be played by a younger actor and that he would be up for a different role instead.
I like McKidd, and loved Journeyman. I could see Kevin play Thor, and think he might be a better choice than those featured in a recent Major Spoilers Poll.