Feed your head, Bones! FEED YOUR HEAD! (Video by Star Crossed Girl, via Great White Snark)

Since DC's Batman/Superman: Public Enemies DVD movie came out yesterday, according to standard operating procedure, so did a preview for their next animated movie, Crisis on Two Earths. The preview video is up above, but it only contains a smattering of animation and a great many talking heads -- plus, since it's from MTV, it's very likely you'll have to sit through a horrible Music News clip before the preview starts (I did. Bleh). So I took it upon myself to list everything you need to know from the preview.
• It is not based on any particular storyline, but is inspired by several.
• It does indeed feature the Crime Syndicate.
• James Woods is voicing Owlman.
• Billy fucking Baldwin is voicing Batman. Either someone at DC lost a bet, or someone has a terrible sense of humor.
• Chris Noth is voicing Earth-2's Lex Luthor. It's a pretty good match, actually.
• Long-time DC cartoon casting and voice director Andrea Romano believes in aliens.
• Owlman is totally emo. (Via The Blu-ray Blog)

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io9 is reporting that Codex Pictures, the guys that did all those Bionicle DVD movies for Lego, will be making a CG DVD movie based on Warhammer 40,000 called Ultramarines. Here is literally all the info available on the project from the official site:

The moment fans have been waiting for is finally here... for the first time, the Warhammer 40,000 universe will be realised in a feature-length movie on DVD.

Ultramarines is a 70-minute sci-fi thriller that will use CGI and state-of-the-art animation production techniques. Games Workshop is delighted to be working with UK-based production company Codex Pictures, who have the momentous task of bringing the Warhammer 40,000 universe to the screen.

Yeah... not much info. But I still thought you guys would want to know instantly.

Warning: Once you've watched this video, you can never un-watch it.

Obviously, after Bert-san and Ernie-sama taught the poor man ridiculous English against his will, they raped the poor man to death. It's clearly the only scenario that makes any sense. (Via Warming Glow)

Have you ever wondered what if the Martians in H.G. Wells' seminal science fiction novel The War of the Worlds hadn't been huge pussies and were immune to colds and other Earth diseases? (No? C'mon, asshole, work with me here.) Well, Joe Pearson did, and he's directed this independent, full-length animated feature set 15 years after the original story, as humans have gotten organized and begun to fight back using captured Martian tech. It's called War of the Worlds: Goliath, and it features bi-planes and blimps and steampunk and some odd-looking 2-D animated but some awesome-looking CG. Although most independently produced animated films are terrible, doomed, or terrible and doomed, I'm digging both the premise of Goliath and the quality work that clearly went into it. The movie is due in 2010; goodness only knows if it'll make it to theaters, but I'll keep you posted. Thanks to D. Smith for the tip. (Via First Showing)

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Answer: VERY.

I can't even imagine all the women you'd get wearing this thing. Hell, probably not just women -- you'd open the door in the morning, start to walk outside, and you'd be assaulted by women, men, pets, Dreadnoks, woodland creatures, and probably a few snake men, too -- all trying to get some of that sweet, sweet Commanding Cobra of yours. If you think your libido can handle the stress, it's $80 over at Buy Costumes. (Via Beaucoup Kevin)

​Warning: Spoilers for the upcoming Predator movie -- titled, uh, Predators -- ahead. You've been warned.

Maybe Predators have 7th grade English classes, or maybe its 9th. I don't know. All I know is that they've also been forced to read Richard Connell's famous short story "The Most Dangerous Game," and have decided to adopt it as their own. Apparently, the upcoming Predators movie (written by Robert Rodriguez)  will be about a group of badass humans abducted and dropped off at a Predator hunting lodge/game reserve, where -- surprise! -- the Predators hunt the shit out of them.

Latino Review says the script also has Predator falcons and Predator hunting dogs, which assuming they don't look like tiny Predators but their own individual alien species could be cool. LR also says there's some kind of super Predator, which they have dubbed" Black Super Predator," which sounds kind of racist but makes me secretly hope its a Predator in a pimp outfit or something. If you want more details on the humans, I suggest heading over to /Film.

Okay, see if you can wrap your head around this. In order to promote their Spider-Woman motion comic, currently available on iTunes, Marvel released a video to G4 yesterday featuring clips from the comic. Now, it wasn't just any video, but a music video, using said Spider-Woman clips. That's not the weird part; actually, I think I've discovered I like Marvel's motion comics -- probably anybody's motion comics, actually -- better as fodder for music videos than actual motion comics. Here's the weird part: The music used in the video is actually called "Watch Your Step"... a.k.a. "Spider-Woman's Theme"... by some guys named Dan Phillips and Anna Abbey... who are apparently part of the Marvel Music Group.

I hope I'm not alone in saying "The fuck?!" What the fuck is Marvel doing generating mediocre pop/rock? I don't mind the song, actually, but I don't understand who is currently employed at Marvel to make music, or more specifically, why. Wouldn't it be better to, you know, ask to borrow one of the songs of one of the Marvel-loving bands Marvel interviews periodically? Marvel gets a little band name recognition, the band gets a little more exposure for their song? As opposed to trying to make faux Top 40 hits on their own?

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Dan Phillips is a pseudonym for Joe Quesada's brother or something, isn't it? Have I exposed the mystery?

This is, shockingly, not a trailer for a live-action Paperboy movie. It is merely a video illustrating the fact that if you're a newspaper delivery boy and YOU'RE A TOTAL FUCKING DICK, your actions will have consequences, likely for all involved. Oh, I'm kidding. No one reads newspapers any more. Thanks to everyone who sent this my way.

​By Rob Bricken and Matt Wilson

Thirteen weeks ago, DC began a bold new experiment: Wednesday Comics. If American comics aren't your domain of nerd-dom, here's the deal -- in order to recapture some of the glory of the old serialized newspaper comic strips (specifically, when they were huge and legible), DC released a a 12-issue weekly series which contained 156 separate strips, each one getting one full page in each issue. Obviously, Wednesday Comics contained Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman stories, but also lesser known characters like Metamorpho and the Metal Men. Wednesday Comics ended last week, and shockingly, Rob actually read all of them. So he thought he's do something a little special -- make a Daily List that was also a review of the project. Because Rob is still pretty much a moron regarding U.S. comics, he called in The ISS's Matt Wilson for the heavy lifting. Here now are the best and worst stories of DC's Wednesday Comics, and what we thought of the project over all.