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Marvel's Black Panther Star Chadwick Boseman Succumbs To Cancer At 43

Marvel’s Black Panther Star Chadwick Boseman Succumbs To Cancer At 43

Chadwick Boseman, the actor who played King T’Challa in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Black Panther has passed away at the age of 43, after a four-year battle with colon cancer.

His death was confirmed via his official Twitter account: “It is with immeasurable grief that we confirm the passing of Chadwick Boseman.”

According to the statement, Chadwick was diagnosed with stage 3 colon…

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#FanFilmFriday: Batman: Dead End

This week's #FanFilmFriday entry is the renowned Batman: Dead End! Premiering in 2003, this fan film sees #Batman chasing down an escaped Joker, but in a twist, they encounter #Predators and #Aliens! #fanfilm

This Batman fan film rose to prominence at a time before social media was widespread – which meant that it earned buzz the old-fashioned way: through sheer awesomeness that spurred word of mouth.

Batman: Dead Endwas produced by Sandy Collora and premiered on July 19, 2003 at the San Diego Comic Con. With a production budget of just $30,000, the film sees Batman chasing down an escaped Joker,…

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#FanFilmFriday: Order 66 (2020)

This week's #FanFilmFriday, "Order 66" shows what happened to #Jedi Knight Nim Rosaan when his Clone Troopers receive the order. #StarWars #fanfilm

This amazing short fan film was produced by Cinematic Captures. It tells of what happens to Jedi Knight Nim Rosaan and his contingent of Clone Troopers when they are called back to Coruscant as the Outer Rim sieges come to an end. As they return from a brief scout of the farming world ‘Lah’mu’, the Clone Toopers new orders…

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#FanFilmFriday: Avengers Endgame As A 1960s TV Cartoon

#FanFilmFriday: Avengers Endgame As A 1960s TV Cartoon

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has been a gargantuan model of success today, capping off with Avengers: End Game, which broke numerous box office records, including becoming the highest-grossing film of all time.

All this, however, began with Marvel comic books.

So it’s always a delight to see what’s typically been depicted in modern day, cutting-edge, graphics be rendered in classic retro…

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Show of Confidence? Jim Lee Tweets Behind The Scenes Clip Of Upcoming DC Fandome

Show of Confidence? Jim Lee Tweets Behind The Scenes Clip Of Upcoming DC Fandome

Following the bloodbath at DC Comics that was just announced this past Monday, former-Publisher-now-Chief-Creative-Officer Jim Lee has just tweeted a behind-the-scenes clip of the upcoming 22 August virtual event DC Fandome.

The clip reveals how Lee came up with the concept of the Fandome and shows him sketching the DC Trinity – Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman. Check it out:

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Avatar Creators Depart Netflix Live-Action Series: "Things Did Not Go As We Hoped."

Avatar Creators Depart Netflix Live-Action Series: “Things Did Not Go As We Hoped.”

When Netflix announced that it was making a live-action adaptation of the amazing Avatar: The Last Airbender Series WITH the animated series original creators – well, the reaction was basically… bananas. Finally – the interwebs cried out – we will have something that washes away the stain that was M. Night Shymalan’s The Last Airbender. Unfortunately, in yet another hit by the year 2020, Bryan…

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SUPERHISTORY: Indonesian Artist Photoshops Comic Book Superheroes Into Historical Photos

We love this Indonesian artist's SUPERHISTORY project; photoshopping #comicBook #superheroes into historical photos!

When he started this project, Indonesian artist Agan Harahap‘s SUPERHISTORY– at first glance – seemed like a tongue-in-cheek play on the sombre realities of war. After all, how are you supposed to react when you see Spider-Man alongside American soldiers engaged in street skirmish along Avenue de Paris during World War II; the Hulk joining Afghan resistance fighters returning to a village…

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#FanFilmFriday - The Rocketeer 20th Anniversary

Watch this great animated #fanfilm featuring The Rocketeer this #FanFilmFriday!

We were recently geeking out over The Rocketeer, a superhero character that first appeared in 1982, but was stylised as an homage to classic heroes from the 1930s. His civilian identity is Cliff Secord, a stunt pilot who discovers a mysterious jetpack that allows him to fly and become the titular “Rocketeer”. His adventures are set in Los Angeles and New York in the late 1930s.

In our geeking…

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Watch: 1941 Superman Cartoon Upscaled To 4K With Machine Learning

This YouTuber upscaled classic cartoons to 4K with #machinelearning #tech. Watch what he did to a 1941 #Superman #cartoon episode, as well as 1980s trailers for #Macross and #Akira! #comicbooks #comics #anime #manga #DC #DCComics

Check out this episode of a 1940s Fleischer Studios Superman cartoon episode, “The Bulleteers,” which has been upscaled by YouTuber Jose Argumedo using Waifu2x. It looks amazing and is comparable to many other remastering attempts, despite being completely done with machine learning.

Waifu2x is an image upscaler that uses deep convolutional neural networks: a kind of machine-learning approach…

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Watch For Free: All 1940s Superman Cartoon Episodes

Watch for free: All 1940s #Superman #cartoon episodes - the Man of Steel's first animated cartoon appearances! #DC #DCComics #comicbooks #superheroes

Superman, arguably the world’s most iconic comic book superhero, was created writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster and first appeared in Action Comics #1, published April 18, 1938. It was just a few short years later that Superman made his first appearance in animated shorts or cartoons, produced by Fleischer Studios in 1941.

There were a total of 17 episodes, each 8-10 minutes long. The…

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#FanFilmFriday: Where Are They Now?

#FanFilmFriday: "Where Are They Now?" by Steve Cutts - what happens when our favorite #80s #cartoon characters are older and past their prime. #fanfilm

This week’s fan film is a weird mix of melancholic humor as we learn about what happens to our favorite 80s cartoon characters now that they’ve grown older and are past their prime.

Told from the perspective of Jessica Rabbit (from Who Framed Roger Rabbit?), the film by Steve Cutts also shows what has since happened to He-Man and Skeletor, the ThunderCats, and Garfield. Along the way we also…

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#FanFilmFriday: Dark Jedi (A Star Wars Fan Film)

Check out this week's #FanFilmFriday film: Dark Jedi, a #StarWars #fanfilm with cool parkour-influenced fight choreography!

Dark Jedi is a Star Wars fan-film starring parkour YouTuber Urbanamadei and Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker stuntwoman Marie Mouroum . It’s set in 6909 BBY during the Second Great Schism that divided the Jedi into dark and light sides, on the planet Corbos. We like it because the parkour-influenced fight choreography is pretty badass!

Check it out:

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#FanFilmFriday: Empire Strikes Back Uncut

Following last week's #FanFilmFriday entry, this week's entry is: #EmpireStrikesBack Uncut! Another celebration of the #StarWars geekdom, this version of ESB is the full film remade by fans, 15 secs at a time!

Following this previous entry for #FanFilmFriday, we thought you’d enjoy The Empire Strikes Back Uncut; the follow-up to the epic Star Wars Uncut, the 2010 fans remake of the entire original 1977 film by George Lucas.

Helmed again by film director Casey Pugh, ESB Uncuttake the same approach: fans from around the world claimed 15-second scenes from the full Empire Strikes Back film to be…

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Pokémon Go Creators To Develop Settlers of CATAN Augmented Reality Game

#PokemonGo creators @nianticlabs is developing a #SettlersofCATAN #augmentedreality #smartphone #game!

Niantic, creators of the Pokémon Go augmented reality (AR) smartphone game, has revealed in a blog post that it is developing at least 10 new AR games, one of which will be based on the massively popular boardgame Settlers of Catan!

Niantic is calling the game CATAN – World Explorers and has already set up an official websitefor the game. Typical of AR games, players will need to explore…

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Taiwanese Pokémon Go Grandpa's Next Evolution: Bicycle Holding 64 Smartphones

Check out #PokemonGo Grandpa from #Taiwan's next evolution: playing on 64 smartphones at once! #Pokemon #gottacatchemall #pokemonfans #pokemongofans

You might remember Chen San-yuan from Taiwan, who became famous for playing Pokémon Go at a level far greater than you: where lesser mortals play on one or two devices, the senior citizen has been playing an ever-increasing number of smartphones. He previously made the news for modifying his bicycle to initially hold 11, then 30, and then 45 smartphonesto play the augmented-reality game that…

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Geek Up The Walls Of Your Home With This New Lego Art Sets

#Geek up the walls of your home with this new @LEGO_Group Art sets featuring portraits of #StarWars' #DarthVader, #Marvel's #Ironman, #TheBeatles, and #AndyWarhol's #MarilynMonroe! #Lego #Legoart

Lego has announced a new Lego Art set series for adults, so you can now geek up the walls of your home with pop culture posters that celebrate Star Wars, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Beatles, and Marilyn Monroe.

The company said that it is “Designed for adults who pride themselves on their love of pop culture,” and are aimed at adults who are looking for a way to relax and destress. You…

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Check Out Early Images From “Aya And The Witch“ Studio Ghibli’s First-Ever CGI Anime

Check out these early images from “Aya And The Witch,“ @StudioGhibli's first-ever CGI #anime! #StudioGhibli #animefans

Studio Ghibli – the world renowned anime studio which brought us the classics like My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle and more – recently shared early images from its upcoming project, Aya and The Witch; its first foray into computer graphic imagery (CGI) animation. 

Directed by Goro Miyazaki, son of Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki, the project adapts E…

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