If the movie was like this, maybe it would have been a bigger hit.

HT: Topless Robot

This Week’s Stack: Usagi Yojimbo #143, American Vampire #23, Bulletproof Coffin: Disinterred #1

Week in Geek:

* Chronicle hits theaters Friday! So naturally we spend a lot of time talking about The Blair Witch Project.

* Matthew Vaughn signs on for X-Men: First Class 2!

* Game of Thrones Season 2 trailer premieres! Winter is coming!

* Stephen Amell is playing Green Arrow in a CW pilot… Will it hit a bullseye?

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Plus, Alex invites Pete into the woods with him, and occasionally the guys get around to discussing comics.

This Week’s Stack: Wolverine #300, Heart #3, Batwoman #5, Severed #6

Week in Geek:

* Walking Dead gets a 16 Episode third season!

* Marcus Nispel is directing a Hack/Slash movie, but Pete wonders if it will be funny like Conan The Barbarian.

* Joss Whedon says Steve Rogers is the “focus” character in The Avengers, and we’re looking forward to finally getting a big budget Captain America movie.

* Chronicle’s Josh Trank is the front runner to direct a Fantastic Four reboot; will Alex nab the role of Invisible Woman?

* Rob Liefeld says there’s eight minutes of actual Deadpool movie footage!

* Garth Ennis is writing The Shadow, which is not an adaptation of the Alec Baldwin movie.

Meanwhile, Justin and Alex try to out ’90s-reference each other, and Pete finally learns where cheeseburgers come from.

This Week’s Stack: Terminally Illin’ #1, Swamp Thing #5, Animal Man #5, Wolverine and The X-Men: Alpha and Omega #1

Week in Geek:
* Marvel is launching ‘Avengers Alliance’ a Facebook game, which may or may not have Jarvis harvesting beets in the backyard of Avengers Mansion.

* Thor 2 is filming this Summer!

* Marvel launches Avengers vs. X-Men: Versus, which gets rid of all that pesky dialogue.

* The Star Wars TV show is called Star Wars: Underworld and is probably about trade negotiations.

This Week’s Stack: The Flash #4, Haunt #20, Captain America and Bucky #625

Week in Geek:
* Bane’s Voice Getting Edited in The Dark Knight Rises?
* Simon Pegg Says He’s Too Old For The Boys, We Tell Him He’s Young at Heart
* DC’s Purple Lady Is Named Pandora

Alert to LA comics fans!

A new “Creating Comics” class series is starting on Monday, November 28th at Meltdown Comics!

Learn how to write and draw comics and create an eight-page minicomic that you’ll distribute and sell nationwide, or write a short comics script so you can find an artist to pair up with! It’s 14 weeks- like a semester of college but costs less than a continuing ed. class!

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There are a lot of creative people looking for a boost through Kickstarter and other fundraising sites. This one caught my eye because it’s a seasonally appropriate (or, depending on how you look at it, inappropriate) thing and because the folks involved have interesting track records, so…

Once upon a time, people loved newspaper comic strips. Then, they stopped loving newspapers, period, and the world largely forgot that comic strips exist. That’s unfortunate, because there are some cartoonists trying different things with the art form as it withers away. Ed Power (writer) and Melissa DeJesus (artist, worked on Tokyopop’s Sokora Refugees) created a comic called My Cage that ran in newspapers in 2007-2010, and it spoke to young, frustrated creative people, being the story of an aspiring writer stuck in a soul-sucking office job. Oh, and it was drawn in a manga-inspired style and all the characters were animals, since humans had gone extinct, and their society was pretty much just like ours, including animal versions of celebrities, replete with animal-related pun names. It was set in Zoo Jersey (rimshot) and the main character, Norman T. Platypus, was a huge fan of Kevin Smith (in the strip, a sloth).

Needless to say, it didn’t last. Newspapers prefer talking animals that don’t suffer from existential angst and have a pet amoeba and obsess over Kevin Smith movies.

But Ed and Mel have another project, and it’s actually moving forward. Santa vs. Dracula is a 175-page color graphic novel about… well, the title is pretty much self-explanatory. Let’s just say Dracula shows up at the North Pole with an army of celebrated monsters and wants Santa’s ability to invade people’s houses, and you can imagine the rest. Ed describes it in the video as if Michael Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer did a Christmas special. The project’s well along the way, and it’s headed for release for the 2012 holiday season.

So, why are they asking for money now? Melissa can’t make it her primary work and get it done in time for the publisher’s schedule for the holiday in 2012 without some income to supplant the money she’d make doing freelance art in the same time frame. They aren’t looking for a massive amount, either — just $9,500, and they’re over halfway there with a deadline of November 27th. And the way they’re raising money is creative: They’re planning to produce a special edition first printing of the graphic novel for donors and other bonus items at certain levels. One buck gets you a thank you on their website, five bucks gets a PDF of the book plus bonus material, ten bucks adds a couple of greeting cards, fifteen bucks gets an 11×17″ mock movie poster, and copies of the first edition start at the $20 mark (signed at $25, with a sketch inside the copy at $35, with a Christmas tree ornament at $50). Give ‘em $300 or more and you get a cameo drawn into the book, either as a vampire or as an elf.

Click here for the Kickstarter page, where there’s more information, some artwork from the book, and a blog about the project’s progress. If you’re interested, help ‘em out.

Think nerd fashion only comes via anime costumes and graphic tees? So did I, but French fashion designer André (JUST André) got his latest inspiration from DC Comics. No, I’m not talking spandex or capes. Although capes are ALL the rage this fall (seriously: see here). But André has dedicated his new shoe collection exclusively to Wonder Woman and Catwoman. I’ve always thought Wonder Woman was particularly hot and bad ass, but not sure I would come off the same way walking down Sunset Blvd. in her thigh highs. If you think you can pull it off, start converting your cash because this is for European nerdists only. What do you think? Would you wear these superhero shoes?

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