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Prepare to fall (with style) in love with an awesome custom figure. An enterprising fan has retooled Hasbro's 6" War Machine from Iron Man Armored Avenger Legends Series line to Star Command specifications. But just what do you call a fusion of Pixar's Buzz Lightyear and Marvel's War Machine...

Movies: Behold, the righteous cinematic CG beak of Green LanternTomar-Re. Speaking of Green Lanterns: The Ohio Department of Transportation is using regular green lanterns to protect its snowplows in bad weather. From what I know of Ohio's winters, they'll need 'em...

Ever since news broke last year of the Walt Disney Company's acquisition of Marvel Entertainment, fans of the House of Ideas/Mouse have hoped to see a Marvel-based project to come out of Pixar Animation Studios, itself acquired by Disney some years before...

Music: The Eels reveal the cover to their new album... by indie artist Adrian Tomine! (The Beat) Movies: How are all the X-Men film projects coming along? Pretty well, according to this summary. The new Wolverine movie will focus on the anti-hero's adventures in Japan and his relationship with Mariko Yashida; "Deadpool" will mercifiully be ignoring what happened in "X-Men Origins: W

So, the "Astro Boy" trailer is out, and I can't pretend to be happy about this totally misconceived Pixar knockoff. You'd think that the most famous manga of all time might be a pretty good candidate to become, say, an amazing anime movie by Miyazaki rather than yet another iteration of the "Toy Story" CGI, but apparently you would be wrong...