Marvel’s Iron Man will be making his cinematic debut May 2nd, 2008. We mentioned a while back that Jon Favreau will be directing. From the press releases, it sounds they’ll be changing his origin a bit from the original. It sounds like the direction they’re going sets up a pretty good replacement origin, though. Judgement will be made in May of 2008!

He-man.org has announced that the original He-man series will be seeing its next DVD release in September with Season 2 Volume 2. This volume will complete the series allowing for 2007 to bring us The New Adventures of He-man. While not the favorite series of the fandom, its good to see that more than just the original series is coming to DVD.

There are a number of statues coming from Diamond Select on the horizon in addition to the Age of Apocalypse busts we posted yesterday. First and foremost, I’m extremely pleased to say that Colossus of the X-Men is getting a new kick-ass Marvel Milestone statue reenacting the cover of Uncanny X-Men issue 122. The item description of their page talks about a motorcycle which is clearly the wrong info, so I wouldn’t go by most of it. It appears the statue will retail for about US$ 175. I’m not normally one to get excited over a statue, but I make exceptions for Colossus and his total kick-ass-ness.

Next up is the Dark Phoenix Saga: Phoenix Medium Statue. Phoenix is displayed in her red costume with flame detailing around her. She measures 14″ tall and is limited to 3000 pieces. Each base is hand numbered and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Considering this is a Phoenix statue, Dark Phoenix no less, I would have liked to have seen a LOT more flame. The statue will be retailing for about US$85.

The Green Goblin will also be added to the 5″ line of Marvel Icon Busts retailing for about US$45. A Ghost Rider movie bust is also on its way for about US$60 limited to about 5000 pieces. A replica of Wolverine’s Astonishing X-Men mask is being made available in a special display case. The mask should retail for about US$89.99 and is limited to 1000 pieces.

Cover from UncannyXmen.net

After a week delay in it’s release we finally get the much anticipated first book of the Gargoyles comic. There’s not much to say about this as it’s pretty much just a retelling of half an episode of the TV show. Waiting for some new material which we should be seeing in book 3 according to some liner notes in this issue. Still I managed to put together a 6 minute review so do enjoy it!

Check out this page for some older info on the book and some samples of what the art looks like.

I don’t make a habit of watching G4, but I caught a little bit of an old show about the history of the NES, and during the commercial break, they were advertising floor coverage of San Diego Comic Con, not unlike their floor coverage of E3.

Anyway, they said on July 21st (or sometime that week) they’ll have some kind of major announcement about the Transformer movie. Phil Bond sarcastically remarked its probably just the trailer, but considering Dreamworks put that big truck on the floor last year, theres still a chance they’ll do something to surprise us.

New Super Mario Bros. is selling 20 units every minute in the US. Thats 1 every 3 seconds, up from 1 every 4 seconds earlier in the month. Wow.

The DS Lite has moved over 136,000 in the first 3 days, far outpacing the orignal DS launch.

Diamond Select Toys are continuing their line of busts in commemoration of the 10th Anniversary of the Age of Apocalypse storyline from Marvel Comics. They have chosen Weapon X as next in the line followed by Phoenix and Psylocke. I was hoping more of these busts would be based upon Joe Madureira’s character designs, but it seems Art Asylum doesn’t agree. Weapon X is, however, based on art by Chris Bachalo, another artist that I am a fan of. Although, I’m not so sure how representative this bust is of his art though.

  

According to this article, Futurama is returning to Comedy Central. Fox will supposedly get the chance to air new episodes first, but most likely will not. The primary voice actors signed this week sealing a deal for 13 more episodes. Katey Sagal broke the news on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, which was later confirmed by sources of Don Kaplan of the New York Post.

We heard rumors of this before, but they were quickly quashed.