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From Marvel: Beginning January 30th, MySpace Comic Books will feature a special promotion for Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips series CRIMINAL for an entire week, providing a unique new showcase for the acclaimed crime comic that won Best New Series in the Eisner Awards. During each day of this...

EA Sports, who has correctly predicted the Super Bowl winner for each of the past five years using its “Madden” football video game to simulate the contest, today predicted the Patriots as the winners of the big game.  From EA:   January 31, 2008—Today, EA...

The Eisner-award winning “Y: The Last Man” finishes its 60-issue run today.  Writer Brian K. Vaughan, who became a writer for television’s “Lost” in part due to the success of “Y,” says it’s been difficult to say good-bye to his characters. “It’s been weird because...

Marvel editor Tom Brevoort was nice enough to respond to a few of my questions about the new Captain America. Look for extended coverage of the New Cap in Friday’s Weekend Look. Matt Price: When Captain America has been at his most relevant, he’s often reflected the United States of...

Over at Newsarama, a conversation with Dan Didio yielded this tidbit about my favorite Starman. “2008 will see the return of James Robinson to the DCU in a very strong and positive way, and with James coming back, I can only hope that Jack comes back with him.” Not to get all fanboy...

GameDaily has a report in which EA asks Fox News to correct its recent misleading story about the game “Mass Effect.” The vastly misinformed FOX report claimed that “Mass Effect” contains full digital nudity (it doesn’t) and graphic sex (it doesn’t) and that it’s for the Xbox...

I received an e-mail this morning reminding me of the Oklahoma City-based Bat Blog, which has been doing a good job covering the reaction to Heath Ledger’s death, as well as more lighthearted topics like Batman toys and merchandise.  The blog also points out an upcoming at least partially...

<SPOILERS AHEAD!>  Captain America is back — and this time he’s brandishing a firearm. The famous red-white-and-blue patriot was killed in “Captain America” No. 25 last March.  In Wednesday’s issue, “Captain America” No. 34, Captain America’s former teen...

Having looked at the web site, “North World” seems to me to be a “Scott Pilgrim” type for the fantasy set, and should be pretty funny!  From Oni: This spring Oni Press is picking up the sword and shield and heading out for adventure with NORTH WORLD, BOOK 1: THE EPIC OF CONRAD,...

Protecting the Earth from otherworldly incursions is the mission of the secretive Torchwood Institute. This more adult spin-off of “Doctor Who” from the British Broadcasting Corp. is executive-produced by Russell T. Davies and Julie Gardner; Davies spearheaded the popular 2005 revamp of...

Marvel Comics and Lionsgate have signed interim deals with the striking Writers Guild of America, the Associated Press reports. While Marvel is a smaller studio, this allows them to move forward on upcoming projects including Captain America, Thor, Ant-Man, and The Avengers. As of March,...

Create an all-new theme park empire with “Thrillville: Off the Rails.” The LucasArts video game sequel is similar to the original “Thrillville,” in which the gamer reinvigorates Uncle Mortimer’s amusement parks by training staff, adding attractions, setting prices, schmoozing guests...

Upper Deck informs Nerdage that the first Yu-Gi-Oh! trading card game sneak preview of 2008, featuring the new Phantom Darkness booster pack, will be this weekend.  The sneak preview will start at 9 a.m. Sunday at Game Headquarters,1620 J SW 89th.  Each player will...

“Torchwood” Season 2 kicks off on BBC America Sunday night, with James Marsters (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”) appearing as Jack Hart. Eve Myles, who plays police constable-turned-special Torchwood agent Gwen Cooper,  talked about Marsters, and about Season 2. MATT: What...

Stuntman Dick Durock performed in hundreds of television shows and movies, but he’s best-known for his role as the hulking monster Swamp Thing, which he portrayed in two movies and a television series. The television series “Swamp Thing,” based on the DC Comics character, arrived on DVD...

It doesn’t seem like this is going to be a huge surprise, unless there’s some kind of swerve coming, but Marvel says it’s time to find out… just who is Jackpot?  “Amazing Spider-Man” No. 550 is on sale Feb. 13.

Kyle Roberts and I discuss the explosive conclusion to “X-Men: Messiah Complex” on this week’s podcast.  We also cover “Iron Man” 25, “Star Trek Alien Spotlight: Borg,” and “Teen Titans” No. 55.

Marvel gets some interesting product placement promoting the 4th-season premiere of “Lost.” Seems like this is a good opportunity to energize the base audience, as there’s bound to be decent crossover between “Lost” watchers and Marvel Comics readers. Press release provided to me by...

Working on a possible fun Nerdage idea… if you have a moment, post your favorite superheroes here, or mail a list to me at mprice@oklahoman.com .

Linked via the Comic Reel, Kids’ WB has posted a new “Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes” video, featuring the team taking on Imperiex.