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Warlord! Warlord! WAARRLOOOORD!

Comic Book Resources has got a lengthy, in-depth interview with Mike Grell about his new, upcoming WARLORD series!! Including a look at the first 5 covers!!

I didn't think I could possible be more excited, but I just may be!!

Hopefully now we'll get a proper Warlord action figure!!

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V returns!

A year or so ago, V creator Kenneth Johnson was hard at work on getting a sequel to his original V mini-series off the ground. He even wrote a novel, V - The Second Generation, which was published in February of 2008. Plans for the TV event were eventually scuttled.

But now, while Johnson has been pushed aside (again, as he was for V: THE FINAL BATTLE and V: THE SERIES), Hollywood Reporter has announced that ABC has green-lit a pilot for a new V series.

Although I believe it's disingenuous to exclude Johnson from the mix, when you consider it was the original mini-series that most people love and remember and not the follow-ups... Being the hypocrite that I am, I'm so excited about the possibilities of this new series. I just wish it was a continuation rather than a do-over (probably) in name only. I want me some Jane Badler as Diana!!!

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Cigam semoc ot Ellivllams

TV Guide reveals that Serinda Swan has been cast as Zatanna in an upcoming episode of SMALLVILLE.

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X-Men the animated series on DVD!

from Newsarama:

The legendary Fox animated series, X-Men, is finally coming out on DVD through Walt Disney Home Video. The first two releases, simply entitled Volume 1 and Volume 2, have street dates of April 28. Both collections have suggested retail prices of $23.98. Volume 1 is two disks and times in at 368 minutes. The second is also two disks and times in at 391 minutes.

Read more...

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ULTIMATE WOLVERINE VS. HULK #4
Cover by LEINIL FRANCIS YU

Coming in April!!

Legion. Smallville. Tonight!!*

Don't forget to watch Smallville tonight on the CW! The Legion of Super-Heroes pop in from the 31st century to help Clark against Doomsday, Brainiac and the Persuader!!

Here's a clip:

*"Tonight" being relative. If you're reading this on any other day than January 15, you missed it. Look for a repeat or pick up the DVD set. ;-)

Legion. Smallville. January 15 2009.

Just a friendly reminder: Don't forget that the Legion of Super-Heroes will be appearing on tomorrow night's Smallville!!

Alexz Johnson as Saturn Girl, Calum Worthy as Lightning Lad
and Ryan Kennedy as Cosmic Boy. With writer Geoff Johns.

The Heroes are Coming in 2009

On January 15, the Legion of Super-Heroes travels back 1,000 years to visit Clark Kent in Smallville.

On May 1, learn the secret origins of Wolverine!

X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE HD

The LEGION hits SMALLVILLE in January

At the end of this week's Smallville we got the preview for the next episode, which won't air until January 15. But it does afford us our first glimpse of the Smallville-ized Legion of Super-Heroes (if you don't blink)!

Here are some quality screencaps from KryptonSite (Your Source For Smallville News and Information):

Alexz Johnson, Calum Worthy and Ryan Kennedy as
Saturn Girl, Lightning Lad and Cosmic Boy.


Legion villain: The Persuader!

Don't be fooled by this quasi-Batman-looking character after "New Legends" flashes across the screen. This is actually a scene from a past episode where Ollie Queen dressed up in a red and blue outfit so Clark could convince Jimmy that he wasn't the "red and blue blur" running around Metropolis.

Legion of FOUR Worlds

If you think that FINAL CRISIS: LEGION OF THREE WORLDS is the only place you can catch Geoff Johns playing around in the 31st century -- you'd be wrong.

According to Newsarama, later this year he'll be playing with those toys on a TV screen near you...

There's also a video interview with Johns at Comic Book Resources!

Making the leap...

PERRY WHITE
first appeared in THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN radio show on February 14, 1940 before appearing in print in SUPERMAN #7 (Nov/Dec 1940).

JIMMY OLSEN
first appeared in THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN radio show on April 15, 1940 before joining the Superman comics mythos in SUPERMAN #13 (Nov/Dec 1941).

HARLEY QUINN
first appeared in BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES on September 11, 1992 before making her DC Comics Universe debut in BATMAN: HARLEY QUINN in October of 1999.

CHLOE SULLIVAN
first appeared on the television series SMALLVILLE on October 16, 2001 before making the leap into comics in SUPERMAN #674 (on sale March 12, 2008).

Read about Chloe's big move into comics at Newsarama.

The Wonderful World of Mike Grell

Honestly, I cannot remember what I was doing or looking for or where I was (website wise) when I clicked on a link to Mike Grell's website, but, damn, I'm glad I did.
Here is the news:

I didn't realize that DC was using past Legion artists to do variant covers for the "Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes" arc running in ACTION COMICS. But they are. And Grell is doing the variant cover for ACTION 671. Here's the art from his website:
The original artwork is also (as I write this, anyway) available for sale at Catskills Comics. You can also request Mike Grell commissions from Catskills.

Mike drew a four-generational Green Arrow cover for the 2007 Pittsburgh Comicon. He included Justin Hartley from Smallville. How cool is that!?

And finally: You can read an all-new JON SABLE: FREELANCE graphic novel at Comicmix.com! They have issues of older Mike Grell books (like BAR SINISTER & SHAMAN'S TEARS) online, too!

Tom Welling in Smallville

Just for the heck of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK7Cy4_ZLAA