Nerdy News for Tuesday, May 3, 2005

Here is the cover to first issue of All Star Batman and Robin by Frank Miller and Jim Lee (click to expand). Nice work, very good combo of Miller and Lee in the costume, but what the heck is his rope attached to? He's clear above the friggin' city!
Take a look over here at Newsarama for more details as well as the alternate cover with the Boy Blunder. Over at Silver Bullet Comics All the Rage column, they report that JMS wanted the Gwen Stacy's kid to have been fathered by Peter Parker instead, but the editors didn't want Peter to be pushing forty--so Norman Osborne (Green Goblin) got to shag Gwen retroactively. Why use that as an excuse, aren't all the people still faithfully buying comics a bunch of aging boomers? Yahoo's news section gives more credence to the rumor that XBox 360 will moving into media hub territory. Over at Dark Horizons, the new director of X-Men 3 reports that he dislikes CGI and mustache twiddling. Finally, here's an interview with a man who should really star in the FLASH movie, Michael Vartan, who has an uncanny resemblence to Barry Allen in the Carmine Infantino days. For now, he's stuck between JLO and Jane Fonda. Nuff said.