Today Marvel Comics held a press conference to announce their new big event for 2011, Fear Itself. This is the first event for Marvel since they took a break from large series-spanning events with the Heroic Age earlier this year. The main Fear Itself series will be seven issues and will be written by Matt Fraction with art by Stuart Immonen. Little was announced about the actual details of the event other than it will “reflect the real world and what happens when despair becomes the norm and whether heroes fall to fear or stand up” and is “The Marvel heroes vs the God of Fear”.

A prologue to Fear Itself will start in March featuring Captain America and is written by Ed Brubaker with art by Scot Eaton. The main Fair Itself series will start in April.

The Fear Itself press conference and trailer can be viewed after the jump.
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Since the alphabet is the building block of our language, the Powet Alphabet is the building block of what makes us geeks.

Yoda is a pretty cool guy. At first look he’s a gross looking green 900 year old hermit but in reality he’s a gross looking green 900 year old Jedi Master hermit! He is kind of the extreme personification of a wise old man in that his wisdom and age are both beyond anything a human could conceivably achieve. I guess this happens when you teach Jedi for 800 years.

Let’s take a look at Yoda throughout history as we follow him through his various appearances first in the real movies, then in the shitty movies. First let’s look a bit behind the scenes at how he works and what he’s about.

Yoda is a puppet controlled by the great Frank Oz. Check out this outtake of Frank fubbing a line:
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A week from tonight, Santa makes his rounds to all the little boys and girls of the world. To that end, I got a triple shot of cheap gaming goodness for those of you struggling with last minute shopping ideas, so click ahead for some great stocking stuffers!
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Direct Link: Famicom Dojo Season 2: NEC Turbo Booster and CoreGrafx

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Our next Training Exercise, and last Famicom Dojo of 2010! Happy Holidays, Dojo Disciples!

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Its time for another Matty-pocalypse! Holiday Edition. Up for purchase this month is MOTU Classics Buzz Off featuring lots of new tooling, a JLU 2-pack featuring Darkseid and a brand new Kalibak. Matty will also have two new offerings in the 12 inch scale, Superman and his movie nemesis, Zod. Each will be sold separately with cloth outfits and plenty of accessories!

Remember to use this page to order your items!

Some additional images appear after the jump. For more, go to MattyCollector.com ahead of the sale.
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aDam and I went on a bit long about Fringe, since aDam had JUST caught up to seeing the show from the beginning, and we barely had a chance to talk about it since the season started. Spoilers ahoy!

Direct Link: Powetcast 45.5: Fringe Season 3 (So Far)

Miss the main episode? Take a listen here!

Direct Link: Powetcast 45: Friendship is Magic

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First announced at New York Comic Con in October, not much has been talked about X-Men: Destiny because of all the other higher profile Marvel games to come out recently and more on the way (Marvel vs Capcom 3, Spider-man: Shattered Dimensions, The X-Men Arcade Game, etc). The story for the game will be written by one-time X-Men scribe Mike Carey. Beyond that really isn’t clear. The teaser is really just that. A tease. It looks like there will be many playable characters, but its not apparent in what capacity. We’ll find out more as Fall 2011 approaches ever closer!