Animated Comic Movies

DC Comics.DIRECT TO VIDEO


Superman/Batman: Apocalypse ( September 28, 2010)




All Star Superman (Spring, 2011)

Green Lantern: Emerald Knights

Batman: Year One

Green Arrow (Short)   (November 9)*

Superman/Shazam!: The Return of Black Adam (Short) November 9*

DC Comics.TELEVISION

Young Justice (Cartoon Network) 2011




Green Latern: The Animated Series (Cartoon Network) Fall 2011

Marvel Comics.DIRECT TO VIDEO

Thor: Tales of Asgard

IronMan: Anime (G4) 2011




Wolverine: Anime G4 (2011)




Marvel Comics.TELEVISION

Avengers (Disney XD) Fall






Ultimate Spiderman (Disney XD) 2011

Image Comics.TELEVISION

Firebreather (Cartoon Network)





* Keep checking back for trailers and release dates when available.

Quick Hits Neopolitan

Some quick recommendation:

Astonishing Xmen Xenogenesis #1 by Warren Ellis and Karee Andrews:
  This books is amazing, the art it's stunning and at the end you can see the script and realize that half the things in the page are just out of Kareen's imagination and are not in the script at all, I think the genius of Warren Ellis is to be able to choose great artists.

Justified (FX Network) if you are a fan of good things in general watch this show is like a 13 hour long Cohen Brothers movie full of great dialog, interesting quirky characters and a long overarching story that makes it all worth watching, they even have a character that you can see Steve Buchemi playing but they kill him right away. It's based on a book so I suspect all the good bits of dialog are from there. Hollywood pitch: The Wire meets Gunsmoke!
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Lost
Caprica

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Lie to Me

Rescue Me

MadMen

White Collar
Weeds

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Ugly Americans 

Futurama †

Simpsons

South Park
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American Dad

The Cleaveland Show
Shut Up, Stand Up

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Louie †The Sarah Silverman Show
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It's Always Sunny in  Philadelphia

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Ben10: Ultimate Alien
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Obama's Plans For NASA: Mars By 2030, $6 Billion Budget Increase Today - Nasa - io9

Earlier today, President Obama spoke at the Kennedy Space Center, outlining the future of the US space program, including a $6 billion budget increase and plans to go to Mars. Here are highlights from his speech.

Constellation program definitely canceled

The President's speech focused on restating his position that the United States would not fall behind other nations, and that new initiatives would help to strengthen and reorganize NASA with a set of new goals, objectives and achievements that would keep the U.S. at the forefront. According to the President, he is 100% behind NASA and its future. In his administration's views, this is best done by reexamining the environment in which NASA operates, as well as the specific challenges that the agency faces. The loss of the shuttle, competition from other nations, US assistance with the ISS and the current economy are all contributing factors, and with that in mind, several changes were in order.

He spoke about the canceled Constellation "humans on the Moon" program, noting that independent committees found that the project was far over budget and behind schedule, and that its continuation would cut deeply into spending for other initiatives, hurting the space program overall. While the future of spaceflight and the U.S.'s future in spaceflight is in question even beyond the Constellation program, his speech did go towards looking at how the US should proceed.

Despite speculation, there was no indication that the Administration is moving to reimplement specific elements of the Constellation program. NASA will, however, continue to operate the Orion capsule as an escape vehicle.

A heavy lift rocket for 2015, plus research funds

Obama did announce that the U.S would begin designs for a heavy-lift rocket that we would begin building by 2015 - two years in advance of what had been planned for Constellation - which would be used for deep space exploration and travel beyond the moon. Obama specifically noted that NASA would revise older models. (This could mean that the Ares-1 rocket would be used in part for these plans.) Also in the plans for the future are major new initiatives for research into new means of propulsion, ships for longer trips, as well as investments to support such programs, with the eye towards adding new jobs to the Florida area. (The president promised 40 million dollars in economic development money for Florida to offset job loss from the Space Shuttle program shutdown.)

Shooting for Mars and the Asteroid Belt

Obama also set out several goals for these programs, bypassing the Moon and saying that he wanted to send astronauts to asteroids for the first time, and by 2030, to Mars itself. While his speech didn't resonate as President Kennedy's 1961 speech before a joint session of Congress, it did set forth a very ambitious agenda, one that will likely become the cornerstone of future space ambitions: the U.S. will look beyond past achievements, and look towards building upon its accomplishments of the past by looking to other planets, scientific endeavors and technology to remain ahead of the rest of the planet.

He also refuted the criticism that the using private contractors as a major component of U.S. space ambitions would weaken the country's lead in space, noting that private industry has always had a major part in NASA's history, as far back as the Mercury program that launched the first people into space.

One of the main points that he also addressed was looking to implement a strategy for NASA, one that has long-term ambitions towards remaining in space - the aforementioned trips to asteroids, Mars, and no matter what he says, a return to the Moon. The recognition of the strategies that worked for the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs is a good one, as well as the recognition that technology needs to be invented, tested and put into place as part of a larger plan. Obama, despite criticism to the contrary, seems to have ambitions to keep the United States in the forefront of reaching orbit.

Short term goals

While he outlined some fairly impressive goals, he left unspoken the short term goals for NASA reaching space, particularly when the Space Shuttle would be decommissioned (a decision, he noted, that was made 6 years ago, not 6 months ago), and when US astronauts would be put into orbit. Currently, the plan will be to pay other countries to bring astronauts into space, which seems to be the major point of concern for most following the issue. The President did note in passing the Falcon 9 rocket, built by Elon Musk's SpaceX company, which could potentially help in the short term. He did speak to major new projects to be funded to develop a plan for the Florida region to help spur growth of a space transit industry, something that he gave a concrete date for: August 15th. The intent here is to help spur the growth of the supporting industry for some of these major plans for the upcoming future.

Obama noted that his new budget for NASA would create 2500 new jobs, and "potentially 10 thousand more jobs across the country."

The President signed off by noting that he wanted to see the advances in space become something greater than the achievements of the Apollo program, something that will use Apollo as a stepping off point: "I chose to believe that is the beginning."

Watch President Obama Discuss NASA's Future, Live At 11:50 PDT

Send an email to Andrew Liptak, the author of this post, at JediTrilobite@gmail.com.

via IO9

X-Woman Could Forever Change Human History

X-Woman Could Forever Change Human History: "Today's news about X-Woman, an unknown hominin that coexisted with Neanderthals and our species 30,000 to 50,000 years ago, suggests that at least four different forms of humans were in Europe and Asia after Homo sapiens migrated out of Africa. ..."
  

Do These Images Point To Proof Of Life On Mars? [Mars]

via io9 by Graeme McMillan on 1/4/10

New satellite images of Mars may challenge the theory that the planet was too cold to sustain water on the surface, suggesting instead the existence of 20km-wide lakes along the planet's equator. But what does this mean for Martian history?
A research team led by Dr Nicholas Warner from Imperial College London (University College London also participated) analyzed images sent back from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and believe that they've found evidence of lakes from a period previously believed to be full of subzero nothingness, as Warner explains:

Most of the research on Mars has focussed on its early history and the recent past. Scientists had largely overlooked the Hesperian Epoch as it was thought that Mars was then a frozen wasteland. Excitingly, our study now shows that this middle period in Mars' history was much more dynamic than we previously thought.

The team reached its conclusions by comparing images of depressions on the surface of Mars with landscapes from Alaska and Siberia, leading them to believe that - despite previous theories to the contrary - the Mars of three billion years ago must have included running water on its surface. If true, then this could offer new areas of exploration for those looking for evidence of life on Mars, as the lake beds would have been potential habitats for microbial lifeforms. Alternatively, it might be evidence that we should start preparing Adelaide Brooke for a space mission forty-nine years from now.

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A review... it has been a while since I actually sit down to write a movie review so apologies if I am a little rusty. First the "elephant" on the room, why bias? Well James Cameron stole my idea, wait I know what you are thinking I don't mean to say that him or one of his minions were spying in my window when I designed Nhulluz nor that he saw my character designs online and thought: wow if I put half a billion dollars into this it may pay off! What I mean is that he probably reached on that collective consciousness soup that we all share and fished it out with a rusty spoon. In any case if reports of him being working on this are true I probably stole it from him, the point is he did the movie first and I did the comic (The Caerulean Dream) before his movie was out so we are even right? So I will address what is similar and what is different in between so bare with me if you don't care.

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The Review, spoilers wise if you haven't seen the movie go see it and then come read the review I am not going to hold back on juicy details I think there is enough out there so you can make a decision on to see or not to see on you own, when in doubt: "eyeball it".

This is a great movie, Cameron's first accomplishment is burring the mystical "Uncanny Valley" there is no such a thing in this film, every CGI character is full of life and personality if you just wake up from a comma and were no up to date on FX you will think they are real aliens. The 3D  is gorgeous, I felt with other movies that it was only a two dimensional separation between foreground and backgrounds there is very little of that in here, to the point that you forget you are watching a 3D movie and you are just seeing that world. Characters Design wise here is were most of the overlap with The Caeruleas is first, you guessed it thy are blue but, they are also: tall, slender, agile, they have big round eyes, hair looks kind of like dreadlocks (they are really not), flat noses, long fingers, ear shape, etc. Differences: my characters have 5 fingers with two thumbs on each hand, they don't have feline eyes they are more like goat eyes, their mouths are bigger with complex jaws, their hair is not really hair but this thick chunks that grow out of  their scalps, their body type varies a little more than the Na'vi, also all their joints are bendable in 360 degrees make them excellent climbers and jumpers in a way that is very different to humans. In other character designs notes I find it odd  that all the animals in this world are constructed in a very different way, with four front legs but the Na'vi are not, I think the main reason for this is practical as an avatar how can a human control four arms? Having said all this the designs are outstanding, they convey their personalities their faces are different enough from each other that you can recognize them (most of the time), you can see how a human could trade with out blinking.The flora and fauna are very interesting, you can see were the base animals came from but they are not oversize versions of them, I really like the land sea-horse, the flora is probably nicer looking and more diverse than the fauna but more familiar to us too. The flying creatures shape was very similar to the ones in Starship Troopers but different enough up close. The world itself is outstanding, great balance and landscapes, this is another similarity with The Caeruleans their world is a low gravity moon in a gas giant system. I was expecting a little more variety on the other tribes habitat but there was not much time to explore it.
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Plot wise I found it the weakest point of the movie, I will skip the comparisons with Dances with the Wolves, The Last Samurai and District 9 but there is plenty. Even when trying to show a point of view different from their own I think american directors can not stop themselves from putting the all american boy in the middle, it is being self center when you have to be both the hero and the villain? or just narcissistic? A good way of putting the lack of originality on the story is to say that is a mix of Battlestar Galactica and Princes Mononoke. I think the biggest challenge when creating an Alien spices is how to handle it, do you base it on a long lost culture, do you just go east or you skip the creative process on based on you own? It's hard the risk you take when you base it on a lost or heavily genocided culture is to make a mockery of their belief system in this case being: so the Na'vi are similar to the native Americans but all their "crap" about being connected to their land is true. Please don't quote me on that with out a context. I guess the Na'vi are more spiritual than The Caeruleans but they share the reverence for balance and nature in The Caeruleans is based on practicalities of survival something we could learn from. The acting is the other bright start in this movie, it's what helps smash the uncanny valley and bring the story together, the way they talk, body language and guttural reactions give them a personality package that is not rooted on language or references but in the gut reactions that we all feel making it different from ours but still keeping us connected to it. I smell an Oscar or too... oh wait that is just my feet. I hope Cameron makes a bunch of this movies and leaves the humans out of a couple of them, you really don't need them. And when the Holo-decks becomes a reality I know this will be their Minesweeper. Awesome movie in the near future when I get around to make a proper Caerulean Movie I may consider hiring the young  Jimmy Cameron to do some doodles for me he seems to know what he is doing, go see it so he can keep making his movies till then and thanks for reading my ramblings let me know if you have an opinion.