Well, looks like Dark Horse is getting more cash from me than I thought – among the Spring 2006 releases is Tag & Bink Episode I – Revenge of the Clone Menace.
TV News: Lost, VMars, Aquaman
Lost is back tonight, monster and all. Mr. Eko is the focus of tonight’s episode, but if you’re not quite caught up, tune in early for a clip show.
Lucy Lawless gets around. First Battlestar Galactica, now Veronica Mars. (Sadly, no Mars tonight – it’s back in two weeks.)
Broadway’s Will Toale will be Aquaman. Or you may have seen him as the “Briefs Model” in Uptown Girls. That’s more than enough cred for the WB.
The People love Sith
According to starwars.com, Revenge of the Sith won two People’s Choice awards: Favorite Movie: Drama and Favorite Movie.
See the full list, and a quote from Lucas, at MTV.
Episode 3 has also earned four nominations from the Visual Effects Society.
Comic News
Amazon has a preview of Dark Horse’s long-delayed Comics Companion, which looks a bit like The Essential Chronology for your more comic-oriented fanboys.
Of more interest to CJers is a Rogue Squadron Omnibus. (via TFN)
Be neighbors with Lucasfilm
You can rent housing in The Presidio, former army base, current national park, and home to Lucasfilm’s Letterman Digital Arts center. The park doesn’t get government funding, so renting space to businesses (LFL has a 99-year lease) and regular folks (1000 households) in San Francisco’s tough retail market is how they balance the books.
Expanding Fandom
TV shows are expanding – blogs, mobisodes, video games, books… Nothing new to Star Wars fans, but what about our brethern in other fandoms? Fanthropology asks. My answer? Flame wars. Lots and lots of flame wars.
Can the Man of Steel Steal Hearts?
In an attempt to try to keep enticing viewers to the latest installment of the Superman curse, er, movie, Warner Brothers dropped off some new pictures to ComingSoon.net.
Is the new Superman causing any hearts to start fluttering, yet?
One has to wonder if they’re even thinking this will make a splash in the US, since the official site is only for international audiences. (There is a US site called Blue Tights, but it doesn’t appear to be official. Maybe they’re trying to do a OneRing.net type of thing?)
My manwich!
Matt Groening and folks are in talks to bring the Futurama back from the dead. Long overdue, folks – long overdue. If syndication and endless nights of Adult Swim have taught me nothing else, it’s that the already-resurrected Family Guy just doesn’t hold up for multiple viewing, while Futurama just gets better and better. Plus, their Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory riff was actually funny.
ROTS novelization (digitally) bigger than Jesus!
According to the International Digital Publishing Forum, the Revenge of the Sith script was the best-selling eBook of 2005, beating, among others, The Da Vinci Code, Michael Crichton, and the Bible.
Happy Robanukah!
Wired’s 50 Best Robots Ever takes on both real and fictional examples. R2-D2 is #19. (via SFSignal.)