Posts tagged with ‘san diego comic con’

“Red Sonja and the Wizard”: Lost footage from Comic Con, 1978

In the seventies, Red Sonja writer Frank Thorne and Wendy Pini used to perform a show, “Red Sonja and the Wizard,” at comic conferences. No record of these legendary shows were thought to have survived, however—until this film, shot by an audience member at 1978’s San Diego Comic Con, surfaced on YouTube.

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Storyboard of Ant Man test footage from San Diego Comic Con

During this year’s San Diego Comic Con, Marvel showed off a short clip of some test footage for the Ant Man movie they’re working on. It was to a closed audience, but once guy remembered every second and when he got home, made this little storyboard of what he saw.

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Neil DeGrasse Tyson explains which Star Trek Enterprise ship was the best

Forget anything about Star Wars versus Star Trek… here’s NDT explaining which version of the Enterprise is the best and why.

Every Comic-Con ends with one of the event’s most popular panels, the Starship Smackdown, in which 12 spacecraft battle it out for sole supremacy (based not on armament or shielding, but, usually, whose captain is best with the ladies). This year, it came down to—astonishingly and agonizingly—the USS Enterprise NCC-1701 (1960’s television series) vs. the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-A refit (original motion pictures).

Fuck bitches up with DragonBall Z for Kinect

I’m not really big on DragonBall Z, but if you are, here’s a look at the upcoming DragonBall Z game for Xbox 360 Kinect. It’s over 9000 or something.

First clip from the Marvel Avengers tie-in short film ‘Item 47’

With the Blu Ray release of The Avengers will be a short film called ‘Item 47’ about an ordinary young couple who come across one of the alien rifles left behind after the battle at the end of The Avengers and decide to go on a crime spree.

From SDCC, watch the entire Firefly 10th anniversary reunion panel

If you’re a big fan of Firefly and you get emotional easily, you might want to watch this one alone. The whole crew got back together for San Diego Comic Con and it’s a little moving.

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From SDCC, check out this trailer for the game ‘Marvel Avengers: Battle for Earth’

In Battle for Earth, coming out this fall, The Avengers take on pretty much everyone, including bad guys like Dr. Doom that Marvel doesn’t have film rights to. Could be a lot of fun or it could be sort of shovelwaretastic.

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