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The weekend is almost here. What are folks doing during the weekend?

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IGN – Is This the Real Reason Why George Lucas Sold Star Wars Now? -It’s Obama’s fault!

MTV Geek – [Op-Ed] Are You Familiar With His Work? A Short Defense Of James Gunn’s Stupid List – An interesting read.

IGN – Christopher Nolan on the Ending of The Dark Knight Rises -An interesting take. Clear what he was going for, just not sure it was the best way to go about it.

MTV Geek – Batman To Get His Own Board Game In 2013 – I want!

 

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Talking Comics – All-New X-Men #2

ScienceFiction.com – Arrow #1

Talking Comics – Bedlam #2

CBR – Chew #30

Examiner – Superman #14

CBR – Thor: God of Thunder #2

Comic Geeks Dominate the People’s Choice Awards

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The nominations for the People’s Choice Awards hit this week and geeks dominated the awards show including 3 out of 5 slots for favorite movie. This award show is a bit different in that anyone can vote, unlike secret crazy ballots like the Academy Awards. So, exercise your ability to and cast your vote today. Comic book related properties had 29 nominations out of 81 slots (not counting music, comedies, etc.) with entire categories dedicated to movies based on comic books. Not bad.

Here’s the standouts…

Favorite Movie:

  • The Amazing Spider-Man
  • The Avengers
  • The Dark Knight Rises
  • The Hunger Games
  • Snow White and the Huntsman

Favorite Movie Actor:

  • Channing Tatum
  • Johnny Depp
  • Joseph Gordon-Levitt
  • Robert Downey, Jr.
  • Will Smith

Favorite Movie Actress:

  • Anne Hathaway
  • Emma Stone
  • Jennifer Lawrence
  • Mila Kunis
  • Scarlett Johansson

Favorite Action Movie:

  • The Amazing Spider-Man
  • The Avengers
  • The Dark Knight Rises
  • The Hunger Games
  • Men In Black 3

Favorite Action Movie Star:

  • Chris Evans
  • Chris Hemsworth
  • Christian Bale
  • Robert Downey, Jr.
  • Will Smith

Favorite Face of Heroism:

  • Anne Hathaway
    The Dark Knight Rises
  • Emma Stone
    The Amazing Spider-Man
  • Jennifer Lawrence
    The Hunger Games
  • Kristen Stewart
    Snow White and the Huntsman
  • Scarlett Johansson
    The Avengers

Favorite Movie Franchise:

  • The Avengers
  • The Dark Knight
  • The Hunger Games
  • Madagascar
  • Spider-Man

Favorite Movie Superhero:

  • Andrew Garfield
    as Spider-Man
  • Chris Evans
    as Captain America
  • Chris Hemsworth
    as Thor
  • Christian Bale
    as Batman
  • Robert Downey, Jr.
    as Iron Man

Favorite On-screen Chemistry:

  • Emma / Andrew
    The Amazing Spider-Man
  • Jennifer / Josh / Liam
    The Hunger Games
  • Kristen / Chris
    Snow White and the Huntsman
  • Rachel / Channing
    The Vow
  • Scarlett / Jeremy
    The Avengers

Favorite Cable TV Drama:

  • Burn Notice
  • Leverage
  • Pretty Little Liars
  • The Walking Dead
  • White Collar

Favorite Sci-fi/Fantasy Show:

  • Doctor Who
  • Once Upon a Time
  • Supernatural
  • The Vampire Diaries
  • The Walking Dead

Favorite New TV Drama:

  • 666 Park Avenue
  • Arrow
  • Beauty & The Beast
  • Chicago Fire
  • Elementary
  • Emily Owens M.D.
  • Last Resort
  • The Mob Doctor
  • Nashville
  • Revolution
  • Vegas

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So, did folks go to the comic books shop? Did you get anything good?

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IGN – Batman ’89 Sold More Tickets Than The Dark Knight Rises -Interesting statistic.

Examiner – Mark Waid’s Thrillbent Website Hacked -Doh!

Robot 6 – Rob Liefeld walks off three DC titles ‘to preserve my sanity’ -Awe…

 

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CBR – Batman Incorporated #3

IGN – Before Watchmen: Doctor Manhattan #1

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New comic book day is tomorrow, what’s everyone excited for?

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IGN – Jim Carrey May Join Kick-Ass 2 -Um, k.

Comicvine – Millar Confirms Joe Carnahan On ‘NEMESIS’ -It’ll be an interesting movie for sure.

IGN – Dark Knight Rises Passes Dark Knight Overseas -Still not sure what the end number will be.

ICv2 – Record-breaking Gen Con -One of my favorite shows of the year.

 

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CBR – Hulk: Season One

Read Comic Books – Revival #2

CBR – The Shade #11

The Dark Knight Stops Rising, Drops to Third

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Dark Knight Rises Teaser PosterTwo movies kicked The Dark Knight Rises from it’s perch at top of the box office. The movie in it’s third week dropped to third place behind two new movies, The Bourne Legacy and The Campaign. The fourth Bourne film opened in first place with $40,265,000, The Campaign was the runner up with $27,440,000 and The Dark Knight Rises added $19,540,000 to it’s total.

The Dark Knight Rises dropped 45 percent and brought it’s domestic total to $390.2 million. It needs another $17 million to move into the second place for the year.

The movie with a $250 million budget has earned $835 million globally.

There’s a chance the movie will get some more legs behind it, but it’ll probably come up short of The Dark Knight, putting it in second place as far Batman movie earnings.

Obama’s Favorite Part Of The Dark Knight Rises

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She’s spectacular. I got a chance to see Batman, and she was the best thing in it. That’s just my personal opinion. – President Obama

The President in Geek has weighed in on his favorite part of The Dark Knight Rises at a fundraiser fundraiser hosted by Anne Hathaway, Aaron Sorkin, and Joanne Woodward. We know the President is an admitted fan of Spider-Man and Conan. I want his opinion on those two recent reboots!

(via Flavorwire)

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It’s new comic book day, what’s everyone getting?

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Chud – Joss Whedon Signs For The Avengers 2 -Nice.

Spinoff Online – Hulk TV Pilot Is Just Waiting For Writer, Guillermo Del Toro Teases – I want this to happen so bad.

MTV Geek – BBC To Make Documentary On Aurora Tragedy With Unfortunate Title ‘The Batman Shootings’ – This seems like a horrible idea and beyond exploitative.

Bleeding Cool – Scenes Revealing Bane’s Origins Were Cut From The Dark Knight Rises -Could be interesting.

Kotaku – The Justice League Can’t Fight Their Way Out of This Terrible Video Game – Another game I don’t need to play.

 

Around the Tubes Reviews:

ComicVine – Archer and Armstrong #1

ICv2 – Battle Beasts #1

IGN – Gambit #1

Electronic Infatada – Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me

Comics Alliance – Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer

Poisoned Rationality – Polterguys Volume 1

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