Nerdlebrity News

§ If you're wondering wondering what happened to the Pepper-kisses-Iron Man's-helmet scene from the IRON MAN 2 trailer that was nowhere to be found in the movie, Gavok's Iron Man 2: The Deleted Scenes has a lot of answers by comparing the novelization of the movie (based on an early version of the screenplay) to the finished version: The most obvious removal is the scene of Pepper kissing Tony’s helmet and throwing it out the aircraft as he tells her, “You complete me!” ...Maybe it’s just me, but I can’t help but think that the combination of that scene would have led to a big wave of racial awkwardness if left unchanged. ...In a comic book store, if you're focusing primarily on periodical comics, and that's still a significant portion of everybody's business, every single week you're getting somewhere between 60 and 100 comics that aren't interchangeable the way chocolate ice cream is with another ice cream. ...A few images from the Conan set in Bulgaria have leaked out , and apparently ancient CImmeria has been dressed to look like Camden, New Jersey. § A New Zealand newspaper takes umbrage at the way J.

Cartoonist/reality star Nick Simmons issued a statement yesterday regarding being caught redhanded lifting images from Bleach and other very well known manga: “Like most...

UPDATE: A few places are reporting that the "Nick Simmons" who showed up at a Facebook page called Calling for legal action against Nick...

§ Michael Fleming has a juicy item on proposed Captain America casting, with a bunch of candidates and word of director Joe Johnston clashing...

The music-comics connection continues with WIRE HANGERS, a miniseries written by Alan Robert, bass player for Life of Agony and front man for Spoiler...

Tatiana Volosozhar and Stanislav Morozov of Ukraine in the Pairs Short Program on Sunday, 2/14.

We might as well just set up a direct link to Deadline Hollywood, since they're breaking all the news these days.... § Although generally a...

At least one nerdlebrity is picking Wizard World over the Hall of Fame. On his blog, former wrestler "The Honky Tonk Man' explained why...

The Diff'rent Strokes Curse strikes again. Brangelina, please....don't let the magic die! We need you! Isn't one broken heart enough?

All sorts of mini news bits on various comics movie projects this morning. ¶ John Malkovich has replaced John C. Reilly in RED, the...

Dear, dear Gerard Butler fans around the world are in mourning or denial after the wide distribution of holiday beach photos of the...

And the first shall be last! Jonathan Ross was a comics-loving nerdlebrity LOOOOONG before it was fashionable. Granted, he's better known in the...