It’s the third and final day of Wizard World LA, and… well, not much to talk about.

• CBR has an interesting interview with comics veteran Peter David on the “3 act structure” of writing. It’s actually a really good read, even if you’re already familiar with the methods he describes.
• CBR also has a great interview with Simon Furman regarding the upcoming Spotlight: Galvatron (with Guido Guidi on art), like how Galvatron ISN’T a rebuilt Megatron, or how his nemesis is mostly Ultra-Magnus (?), and how you shouldn’t expect Unicron to show up… outside of the upcoming Beast Wars: The Ascending book.
• Diamond Select Toys has announced an upcoming Dr. Strange Minimate, from what Minimate Headquarters suspects could be a Defenders line.
• Toy News International has images of DC Direct & Art Asylum’s 6th wave of Minimates, featuring “Battle Damaged” Wonder Woman & Cheetah, Bizarro & Supergirl, S.T.R.I.P.E. & Stargirl, and Sgt. Rock & Blackhawk. Images mirrored below:
  

Fwooshnet has gotten some pictures fresh from Hong Kong of the second wave from Hasbro’s Marvel Legends series. If you click on any of the images at that link, you will be brought to the gallery. The wave consists of eight figures, each coming with a piece to the Build-A-Figure for this wave, The Blob.

• She-Hulk (Upper Torso)
• Asgardian Armor Thor (Head)
• Ultimate Wolverine (Lower Torso)
• Yellowjacket (Right Leg)
• Quicksilver (Left Arm)
• Xorn/Magneto (Left Leg)
• X3 Jean Grey (Right Arm)
• X3 Juggernaut (Hands)

Variants for this wave are supposed to include:

• Green Quicksilver
• X3 Dark Phoenix
• Yellowjacket (there is only a slight coloring difference here. see below.)

You can see pictures of them here. I made some compairson photos of the variants below. The standard pictures come from Fwooshnet’s gallery linked in this post. Variant Photos come from wizarduniverse here.

It would be fair to say I’ve been mean to Sony in the past year. It would be more fair to say I’ve been mean to them for the 5 years before that. Ever since the PS2 killed my beloved Dreamcast, Sony has been on my bad side. But something changed.

Theres always been a slew of games I’ve wanted to play on Sony systems. Though I picked up a GameCube and an Xbox, it was pretty clear I was missing a LOT by not grabbing the other console. With the PS3 losing exclusives and the Xbox 360 so far ahead this time, I thought maybe I’d made a solid choice and wouldn’t be missing much. Now it looks like I’ll be missing a lot.

Watch the trailer for Ratchet & Clank. Even if graphical advances are all Insomniac has to offer in their newest game, the advances are significant. And it just looks fun.

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