Let’s all check out what DC and Warner has to offer this summer. Coming direct to DVD is Green Lantern: First Flight.

The story focuses on how Hal Jordan becomes the Green Lantern. With him in the story is his own personal Yoda, senior Lantern, Sinestro and the plot thickens when Hal discovers that Sinestro is part of a conspiracy threatening the whole Green Lantern Corps.

The DVD is set to launched July 28, 2009 in the US and will be available as a special edition 2-disc version on DVD and Blu-Ray™ Hi-Def and as a cheaper single disc DVD. But who wouldn’t want the special ed?

View the trailer over at Newsarama.

I’d have to say that the geek in me likes Star Wars especially tconhe first trilogy with Luke and Obi Wan and Han and Princess Leia and the Ewoks. I still have that nasty habit of doing impressions of Darth Vader saying “Luke, who’s your daddy?” just to disturb people. Sad to say, even Mace Windu didn’t do the prequel any justice. Hayden Christensen really ruined the whole franchise with such crappy acting.

Anyway, since we wont have another set of three movies set after the one, the franchise has decided to fill in more storyline blanks with the a new set of 3D animated features dubbed, Star Wars: The Clone Wars. This is to be differentiated from the Clone Wars 2D run on Cartoon Network (which was a treat on its own though it really sucked to see that the animated version of Anakin still had a huge amount of influence from Hayden’s crap).

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The Japan Foundation Manila and SM Supermalls, in cooperation with the Embassy of Japan, present the 10th Asian Cartoon Exhibition with the theme “Asian Environmental Issues.” The traveling exhibit features 77 works produced by 10 leading cartoonists from Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines. For more information, call the Japan Foundation at 811-6155 to 58.

Source: Komik News Now

The Japan Foundation Manila and SM Supermalls, in cooperation with the Embassy of Japan, present the 10th Asian Cartoon Exhibition with the theme “Asian Environmental Issues.” The traveling exhibit features 77 works produced by 10 leading cartoonists from Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines. For more information, call the Japan Foundation at 811-6155 to 58.

Source: Komik News Now

The Japan Foundation Manila and SM Supermalls, in cooperation with the Embassy of Japan, present the 10th Asian Cartoon Exhibition with the theme “Asian Environmental Issues.” The traveling exhibit features 77 works produced by 10 leading cartoonists from Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines. For more information, call the Japan Foundation at 811-6155 to 58.

Source: Komik News Now

With all the new Transformers brouhaha with the impending release of the live-action/CGI movie (sure, Optimus Prime will be cool again), here’s news for Transformers fans. They’d be doing another animated run called Transformers: Animated which will launch on the Cartoon Network by fall in the US. This would be the newest installation on animated Transformers since they’ve turned Optimus into a butt-scratching cyborg ape in Beast Machines.

Well, I wasn’t a fan of Beast Machines, probably it lost the novelty of the ee-oh-oh-ee-ee transformation sequence. Grimlock has got to be one of my favorite Transformers. Anyone cried when Optimus died in the old animated movie?

I say that it might be akin to the Beast Wars/Beast Machines series with former co-writer Marty Isenberg now taking editorial helm for this project. Die-hard Transformers fans were pretty much irate for what they did in Beast Machines. But I hope things will turn around with the inclusion of Matt Youngberg (Teen Titans, The Batman) as supervising director.

Rumors have it that it’ll have a futuristic setting. Optimus will be there (as a damn firetruck!?!) and his nemesis Megatron will be there too. Maybe he’ll be a fire hydrant so that he and optimus can play with their hoses or something. Woops. Sorry, my bad. But what the heck, Americans often do a lousy job turning Japanese novelty to mush. Remember that crappy Mask Rider series with Dex and a little teletubby?

Maybe this isn’t sugoi after all.

Source: ICv2

I hope my pal, Direk Mike Rabanal sees this:

The poster is a little blurry. But the contest runs from Feb. 26 to May 4.
For more information or for submission of entries, please contact: laurette.farr@educationnz.org.nz

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Here’s the link to New Zealand Educated Philippines website. You might want to see the contest’s Terms and Conditions. You can even enter online via this form.

The poster image now links to a larger file.