In chicks I’d kill to make out with who’ll be appearing in a comic book movie news, Olivia Munn is set to appear in the Iron Man sequel.

From /Film:

Back in April, Attack of the Show co-host Olivia Munn revealed on Twitter that she has been cast in two upcoming movies: One is the upcoming Steve Carell/Tina Fey comedy Date Night, and the other is some project that she was working out for but wasn’t “legally” allowed to publicly discuss yet. It turns out that she has a role in Jon Favreau’s Iron Man 2. No word on how large of a role she might play. I assume that she’ll probably be in one or two scenes, possibly as a television announcer. Munn said on Twitter that her role is “definitely” bigger than her one minute appearance in Rob Schneider’s Big Stan.

Olivia then tweeted:

slashfilm took a guess at my role in iron man 2 and i am not playing a reporter. but that’s all i can say.

Oh shit, it’s time to fuck up some robots on your iPhone in The Terminator game from Dark Horse and Big Head Games! It’s basically just a run and gun top-down shooter. Think along the lines of the old Capcom game Mercs.

This game’s only gonna’ $.99 cents for the first three days of release and a free downloadable second installment is coming later down the road.

Speaking of Terminator on your iPhone, you can also check out The Terminator: Death Valley comic on your iPhone for free for a limited time.

Hit the jump for a trailer of the game in action. More »

So it looks like we’ll be getting Guitar Hero 5 this fall. This entry to the series mixes things up by letting you create your own combination of instruments to make up your band. If you’ve always wanted a band with two drummers and 3 bassists, well, here ya’ go. Oh, and any songs that you downloaded for GH: World Tour automatically carry over into GH5.

Bands include Kings of Leon, The Rolling Stones, The White Stripes, Santana, Vampire Weekend, Tom Petty, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan plus 30 other bands that have never been featured in a rhythm game before. I’m hoping for something heavy like The Acacia Strain, but it’s not likely.

There’s also two new modes: Party Play which lets players jump in and drop out of songs seamlessly and Rock Fest which features five new competative multiplayer modes online on locally. Oh yeah, and the entire set list is playable from the get-go. It’s about goddamn time!

I haven’t played a Guitar Hero game since GH2, but I’m pretty pumped for this.

New songs include:
The Rolling Stones – Sympathy for the Devil
Bob Dylan – All Along The Watchtower
The White Stripes – Blue Orchid
Santana – No One To Depend On (LIVE)
Vampire Weekend – A-Punk
Tom Petty - Runnin’ Down a Dream
Johnny Cash – Ring of Fire
Kings of Leon – Sex on Fire

Barbara Thorson is the weirdest little 5th grader you’re likely to ever come across. All the kids at school think she’s crazy, even her family thinks she’s crazy, but her guidance counselor is trying her best to help her out. She even suffers a punch to the face and an assault with dead animals in the process!  Barbara’s the type of chick that wears bunny ears, talks to fairies, carries a heart-shaped purse with a hammer in it, and plays Dungeons & Dragons. Oh yeah, she also finds, hunts, and kills giants. More »

Dark Horse Entertainment and Universal Pictures just announce the live action adaptation of the Dark Horse Comics miniseries The Secret.

From the official press release:

Scott Milam, who wrote the forthcoming remake of the horror classic Mother’s Day, has been signed to write this adaptation. Milam’s other projects currently in development include Bedlam for RKO/Twisted Pictures, Ab Tak Chhappan for Paramount Vantage with Jinks/Cohen producing, and Karnival at Rogue with Michael Zoumas producing.

The Secret tells of a group of high-school seniors who play a silly prank, only to see it backfire when one of their friends vanishes without a trace.

Mike Richardson, president and founder of Dark Horse, and writer of the comic on which the film is based, will produce for Dark Horse Entertainment alongside Scott Stuber, who will produce for Stuber Productions. Pam Abdy and Jared Pfeifer will oversee the project for Stuber Productions with Keith Goldberg and Chris Tongue overseeing for Dark Horse Entertainment.

Universal’s Senior Vice President of Production, Scott Bernstein, and Creative Executive Dave Targan will oversee the project for the studio.

“Scott is a terrific writer and we’re excited to be working with him on this project,” said Richardson. “The story is full of scares and surprises and goes places no one will expect.”

Hrmm… a bunch of highschool kids play a prank gone wrong? Sounds groundbreaking. Considering the trade’s only $11 on Amazon, I guess I’ll pick it up out of curiousity.

Speaking of zombies, I totally forgot that The Walking Dead Compendium Volume 1 came out today! This 5 lb., 1088 page book collects issues #1 through #48 of the most epic zombie tale ever written. It typically retails for $59.99, but right now it’s only $37.79 on Amazon!

My comic book collecting habit got a bit out of control a few years ago ($300 a week, no lie) so I quit cold turkey. The last issue of The Walking Dead that I remember reading was issue #31, so I might buy the compendium to re-read the old stuff and catch up on what I missed. Shit, I could sell my first issue of Walking Dead and buy like three Compendiums, but I’m a stingy comic hoarder who likes to let his rare shit gather dust in boxes.

Image via Boing Boing

Although there’s no official word that the Riddler will even appear in the next Batman flick, it’d be nice to see the Batman vs Riddler dynamic on screen. Batman is known for his extraordinary deductive reasoning skills, but the Riddler’s are way better. Imagine it — he’s always 10 steps ahead! He could be painted as the millionaire playboy villain to Bruce Wayne’s millionaire playboy hero. Seriously, gimme’ some credit. The foundation rules so far. All it needs is the perfect actor to play the Riddler.

Jeff - freaking- Goldblum.

His acting style would be perfect for the gig. Imagine his offbeat, stuttered lines being delivered as he plays the eccentric, smooth-talking, obsessive-compulsive Edward Nigma. Jeff Goldblum’s the only actor that could portray ego-maniacal confidence and a desperate obsession driven by a tortured past.

Admit it, you want this to happen just as much as I do.

Who do you guys think would make a good Riddler? Let me know in the comments.

This July, Marvel Comics will launch Marvel Divas: a mishmash of Sex And The City and iconic super heroines from the Marvel universe.
Here’s a quote from the series writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa trying to pitch the story to potential readers via his MySpace blog:

“In the series, they’re an unlikely foursome of friends—Black Cat, Hell Cat, Firestar, and Photon—with TWO things in common: They’re all leading double-lives and they’re all having romantic trouble… there’s definitely that ‘naughty’ element to it, but I also think the series is doing to a deeper place, asking question about what it means…truly means…to be a woman in an industry dominated by testosterone and guns. (And I mean both the super hero industry and the comic book industry.) But mostly it’s just a lot of hot fun”

Most of us are merely cringing by now, but apparently some feminists have their panties all in a wad about how this seems sexist. This is what Joe Quesada, president of Marvel, had to say about the issue:

If you’re [a] Marvel reader and truly feel we’re sexist, then why are you reading our books? Now, perhaps you’re not a Marvel reader, then if that’s the case, I’m not quite sure what you’re criticizing if you don’t read our books?

…The cold hard reality of publishing and trying to sell our books to as many people as possible, so here’s an example of what happens more often than you may think here at Marvel. From time to time, we’ll be launching a title that doesn’t focus very heavily on the super heroic. From time to time I’ll get a cover sketch and it doesn’t have a costumed hero or villain on the cover, what we internally refer to as a “quiet cover.” On those occasions, more often than not, I ask my editors to direct their cover artist to give me at least a first issue cover with the characters in costume. Why? Because it will help launch a book that will most likely have trouble latching onto a large audience. We want to give every title the best possible chance to be successful. Marvel Divas is no different and that’s why you’re seeing our strong female leads in their super hero personas. Let me try an example outside of comics. I’m a huge fan of Pink, I really dig her music and love her voice. Love her or hate her, I would say that she’s an amazingly strong and intelligent female performer and song writer in the pop genre. In many of her songs she even criticizes the over sexualized female pop stars of the day and their over the top videos. But when you look at Pink’s CD covers, while she’s looking strong and like she’s looking like she’s having fun, she’s also looking really sexy. The reason is simple, she’s trying to grab people’s attention and sell some albums. Comics are no different and as much a part of the entertainment business as any other medium, and the cold hard truth is that if we were to launch Marvel Divas with a “quiet cover,” I guarantee you the book would be canceled before it hits the shelves. That’s it in a nutshell, I could sugar coat it for you and give you a million other reasons that would sound plausible, but that’s not what I do.

God dammit, Pink! Wait… I mean… thank you Pink! Thank you for giving J. Scott Campbell a reason to draw what I can only describe as the sexiest Black Cat picture imaginable.

[Via io9]

When I spotted this at my local comic shop, I debated between X-Men Noir and Daredevil Noir, but Wolverine seems like the most logical character to pluck from the Marvel universe and drop into a noir setting. I mean, how bad could they really screw it up? More »

… in only 8 minutes. The footage is sped up so that you only have to watch for about 2 minutes. Lucky you.

Since I was big into comics in the 90’s, Jim Lee (creator of WildC.A.T.S., StormWatch, co-founder of Image Comics) will always be a huge inspiration to me. It’s always been a secret dream of mine to draw at least one comic in my lifetime and videos like this one are great fuel for inspiration.

[Via Robot 6]

Frank Castle and Slim Shady have joined forces is what I can only describe as the most retarded comic book crossover in recent memory. A hit has been put out on Eminem and The Punisher is out to save him, but they both get caught by the bad guy and Eminem chainsaws the bad guy up a the end. That’s it.

This comic was so bad that I’m glad it was a digital comic that I didn’t have to actually pay for it. Some standout terrible moments where when Eminem is pistol-whipping the Punisher while saying “you don’t wanna’ fuck with shady cuz Shady will fuckin’ kill you” and there’s a scene where the bad guy is saying “hi, my name is… my name is…” in between firing shots off. It’s all so silly and dumb and kind of annoying, but if you wanna’ give into your curiosity, you can read it here.

Greg and Lou have been saving up for years to buy Wolverine’s mutant  power. One of them even sold his house! Unfortunately, Wolverine has two powers: his claws and his healing ability. Greg and Lou settle for his claws, but they really should have went with the healing power.

[Via /Film]

Batman’s a little strapped for cash these days and has to sell some of  his old shit. Like a pair of Batsocks… which look a lot like regular socks. He needs money for hookers at the Ramada Inn and delicious Arby’s roast beef sandwiches, but who doesn’t these days?

[Via /Film]

Today’s the 25th anniversary of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and there’s news that everyone’s favorite heroes in a halfshell are getting a reboot in 2011.

From /Film:

Legendary Pictures will be producing the film, and co-creator Peter Laird is on board as executive producer. Laird says that the new movie “will remain true to the spirit of the original comic books. ” Laird mentions that the new movie might also use a new face replacement technology, which would allow the turtles to be much more expressive.

I may have been in the minority, but I actually liked the recent CGI TMNT, mainly because it had the original voices of the Turtles. Hopefully the original voice actors make a return for the new reboot.

Like most kids my age at the time, I got a large chunk of my Batman fix from Batman the Animated Series as opposed to the actual comic books. I dinstinclty remember my heart racing in my chest the first time that I ever saw Bane and how he threw Batman around like a rag doll. To this day he’s ony of my top favorite Batman villains of all time and I’m pumped as hell at how badass they made him look in Arkham Asylum.

Does anybody else plan on getting this when it comes out?