Recent days have brought us a wave of revelations concerning the toy line(s) from Mattel for the upcoming Green Lantern movie.
The first figure that surfaced is a Toys R Us exclusive preview figure. Much like Star Wars preview figures, this figure will be available well in advance of the movie’s June 17, 2011 release. It will be a 4 inch limited edition figure with stand and will go for the ridiculous sum of 24.99 according to TNI.

 

Read on about more upcoming Green Lantern Corps. toys.
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Marvel Entertainment announced today that it has promoted Axel Alonso to the position of Editor-In-Chief. The position was formerly held by Joe Quesada, now the Chief Creative Officer. Quesada held the position since 2000 and was the second longest serving Editor-In-Chief at Marvel behind only Stan Lee, who served from 1945 to 1972.

Press release after the jump

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Tonight, Saint Nick will go about his rounds and deliver presents to all the good boys and girls. Tomorrow however, you’ll most likely be getting together with family. And we all know how much families hate each other, to the point where they want to beat the ever living shit out of one another. So instead of beating down your loved ones in real life, why not check out these games that let you do it in the video game world?
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What happens when you mix the Earth-holiday of Christmas with Larfleeze, the greed-based Orange Lantern?

An assertion as to why this character is awesome.

Bake some up today! Then eat them all yourself.

Happy Holidays!

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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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!

Since the alphabet is the building block of our language, the Powet Alphabet is the building block of what makes us geeks.

In 1994, Marvel did nothing short of the unthinkable. They killed Professor Charles Xavier, the founder of the X-men. They didn’t stop there. They destroyed the X-men as we knew them, throwing the Marvel Universe head first into a universe where one of the X-men’s greatest adversaries was in control. Everything that we thought we had known was wrong, and now, over 15 years later, the effects are still being felt throughout the Marvel Universe. Welcome poweteers, to the Age of Apocalypse.
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Conan’s new show is filmed on the Warner Bros lot, and that means he’s on the same campus where DC Entertainment is run. In this bit from his December 9th show, Conan sits down with Warner Bros Animation Creative Director Peter Girardi to grill him about some of the less awesome characters from the DC Universe.

Conan then joins Bruce Timm, character designer from Batman The Animated series and producer of many DC animated works that came after (Including the upcoming Green Lantern series). Timm takes direction on turning the host into a character worthy of joining the DC Universe, The Flaming C.