Dark Crystal Returns to Comics

It's been awhile since I've done a blog post, but I had to post about this. Went to Books-a-Million today and picked up The Dark Crystal: Creation Myths, and A Game of Thrones. This is the second time a prequel comic has been made for the Dark Crystal in the last few years. The first, Legends of the Dark Crystal, was published by Tokyopop and only ran for 2 volumes. Unfortunately it was never finished due to Tokyopop shutting down their manga publication business in the US.

The story in Legend of the Dark Crystal took place shortly after the Crystal was broken and corrupted. This new comic from Archaia takes place prior to the Crystal becoming corrupted. Archaia also has a Jim Henson's The Storyteller comic. It seemed to be a collection of stories by different artists. I'll probably pick it up next paycheck.

I've been hearing a lot about A Game of Thrones, so decided to pick it up. Any book that can spawn a TV show, two video games, and a board game must be good right? Plus I have a friend who's read it and said it was a good read.

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Three for the Price of One

Went to Best Buy this week and they had this 3 pack of PS3 games for 29.99. The included games were Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Tomb Raider Underworld, and Mercenaries 2: World in Flames. Uncharted is 29.99 by itself, so I basically got the other two games for free. Also all proceeds from this 3 pack will be used to fund programs and opportunities for America's youth by the Entertainment Software Association Foundation. If you haven't gotten Uncharted yet, but have been considering it, I suggest seeing if your local Best Buy has this pack. Not only do you get 2 free games, but your donating to a worthy cause. More information on how the ESA uses the proceeds can be found at http://www.theesa.com/foundation.

I also picked up Tangled on Bluray which is an awesome movie. And according to The LA Times is Disney's Final Fairy Tale for the foreseeable future. They believe the target audience of young girls is to small to warrant making any more for now due to "The Princess and the Frog" not doing well. I just think the Princess and the Frog wasn't that good a movie. At least not compared to some of their other fairy tale themed movies. What are your thoughts on the subject?

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Disney Transformers Crossover

Tomy/Takara will be releasing a line of Disney Transformers. Cool Japan Toys has some pictures of the Mickey Mouse as Optimus Prime toy. Mickey transforms into a superdeformed version of the G1 Optimus. You can check out more pictures at Cool Japan Toys.

Picture from Cool Japan Toys


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King Mickey Figure

Just saw this for pre-order at Animenation. It's King Mickey from Kingdom Hearts 2.


The Kingdom Hearts games are 2 of my favorite PS2 games. The way they mixed the Disney and Square-Enix universes without making it a kiddy game was really cool, and it introduced me to the music of Utada Hikaru. This figure is from Play Arts, who are also making Sora and Riku figures. The figures are fully poseable with up to 20 points of articulation. I'm seriously thinking of pre-ordering this, because I liked how Mickey got to kick butt in Kingdom Hearts. He looks really cool to.



Are you a fan of the Kingdom Hearts games?

Picture from Animenation.

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