Marvel Reveals ‘Avengers X-Sanction #1’ Cover. Bail. Bail Out.

I don’t care for Jeph Loeb, or Ed McGuinness, so I’m not really excited for Avengers X-Sanction #1. In fact the entire ordeal feels like some self-parody run amok. Marvel’s released the first cover for the event and – wowzers – not so good.

Hit the jump to check it out.

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‘The Dark Tower’ Movie and TV Project Back On. HBO Gets The Show.

The Dark Tower  wunder-project is back on! It lives again. Courtesy of budget cuts and such. Not only is it back on, but HBO is snagging the television rights.

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‘Diablo 3’ Still Getting A Spit Shine, No Release Date. LORD HURRY.

Diablo 3. Where are you, my good friend. I need you.I need you inside me, filling me with diabolic warmth and ephemeral seed. It appears you’re still being worked upon, getting coats of polish. Mechanisms refined. We must wait. We must! So it seems.

Here’s some info to tide us over.

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Ed Brubaker Writing ‘Criminal’ Film Adaptation For Director David Slade. Noir Swoon.

Are you in on the Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips noir awesome train that is Criminal? If not you need to rectify that. For those of us who dig on the franchise there’s dope news. The glorious comic book noir is getting the big screen treatment, and Eddie Brubaker is helming the project himself.

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Rumors: ‘Grand Theft Auto V’ Set In Los Angeles, Has Multiple Playable Characters.

Now that it’s announced and we have some time between now and the trailer reveal next week, it’s time to partake in some good old fashioned GTA V rumor mongering. Shall we?

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We May Have Found An Earthlike Exoplanet. No Seriously. This Time Frreals.

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It used to be pretty fucking fantastic when we would “find” an “Earthlike” exoplanet. These days they seem to come in droves. Yawn! Ho-hum! Whatevs. However the concept of “Earthlike” is pretty fucking rubbery. However  HD 85512b may totally be “Earthlike” in a somewhat sensical way.

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Variant Covers: Wolverine’s Drunk And Beast Is Wearing A Red Wig

We’re shortly enclosing on the witching hour, the feast of October. The  ephemeral  time where the membrane between the expired and the wind-sucking melts before our eyes, unleashing torrents of evil and scares upon us. That ain’t the half of it either, dude. Motherfuckin’ candy up in the bitch and rotten teeth and syringes in the bags of your children. It’s dangerous out there! Stay inside. Read some funny books.

This is Variant Covers. The rags I’m stoked on this week. Share your pull-list after the spiel ends.

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Fear Fest: Ape-ocalypse. G’damn Dirty Super Intelligent F**kers.

OCTOBER 25th, Ape-ocalypse

“It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.”
-H.L. Mencken

Today’s fear has been on my mind since I saw Rise of Planet of the Apes a few weeks back. I’m not going to take specifics from the film beyond the concept, but for posterity’s sake, I did enjoy it.

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Video: Dude Builds Legos Rig To Get ‘Gears of War 3’ Achievement. Boss Mode.

Let’s be honest. Developers have begun creating sadistic achievements in order to push whores for the old gamer score into ridiculous tasks. Such measures deserve a geek one-up, and so a dude build a contraption out of Legos to conquer one in Gears 3.

Hit the jump for info and video.

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iTunes Creator Working On Apple HDTV. Steve Jobs Bio Blah Blah.

Everyone’s been blathering about the Steve Jobs biography that’s been churned out with stunning rapidity, and all the juicy bullshit in it. One of the factoids that’s continue bouncing around the churning machinery and noise tunnels is that of a purported Apple HDTV.

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