The first of our announcements as we COUNTDOWN TO COSMIC-CON is that we will be selling, for the very first time, tees in kids’ sizes! 3 BRAND NEW DESIGNS at that! Quantities for the other womens’ tees are dwindling, so if you’ve ever had your eye on a shiny “Sitting Pretty” Venus shirt, or the “YAY MARS” design, this may be one of your last chances to get one.
Milky Way and the Galaxy Girls will be at booth #4834. I will be there most of the time to sign books for anyone who’d like to purchase. If you would care for an original autographed drawing of you favorite gGirl, I’ll be doing that on Saturday (time yet to be determined) along with my husband, Craig McCracken, who’ll be doing sketches of his creations, The Powerpuff Girls and Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends.
Check back tomorrow. As we continue the countdown, we’ll be revealing the shirt designs!!
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After wowing TV audiences with a cutting-edge, animated look at “a galaxy far, far away,” Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Complete Season One is coming to DVD and high-definition Blu-ray Disc November 3 from Lucasfilm Ltd. and Warner Home Video.
Live the adventures again and again, and dig deeper into the first season of The Clone Wars with a comprehensive look behind-the-scenes of the popular animated series. Uniquely packaged with an exclusive 64 page production journal, the four-disc set contains all 22 episodes from the groundbreaking first season — including seven extended Director’s Cuts — as well as companion featurettes for each episode. And exclusive to the Blu-ray disc, The Jedi Temple Archives provides in-depth access to an extensive database of creative materials.
“I’m a longtime Star Wars fan, and the same’s true for a lot of the guys working on the show,” said supervising director Dave Filoni. “And as a fan, I know that Lucasfilm can be pretty secretive. They’re famous for it. But we’re all so proud of the work that’s gone into The Clone Wars, and we wanted to share some of our production tricks, and open up the vault and reveal our efforts. You’re going to get unprecedented access, to see the nuts and bolts of our series — from concept to finished animation.”
Created and executive produced by George Lucas, the first-ever TV production from Lucasfilm Animation explores the tumultuous time between Episodes II and III of the live-action saga, expanding the scope of Star Wars beyond anything seen in the feature films. With the fate of the galaxy hanging in the balance, the heroes of the Republic — including the valiant Jedi Knights and their loyal clone troopers — fight bravely to repel the attacks of the evil Separatists and their droid army.
“The live-action saga was just the beginning. The universe is vast, and there are so many more stories to explore beyond Anakin’s fall and redemption,” said Lucas. “The scope of the war gives us the perfect vehicle for a weekly series, allowing us to look at how the conflict has affected the farthest reaches of the galaxy, including characters, creatures and races we only glimpsed in the feature films. Animation has allowed us to visualize the worlds and characters of Star Wars in all new ways.”
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Complete Season One will be available November 3 for the suggested retail price of $44.98 for DVD and $59.99 for Blu-ray.
Special Features:
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Complete Season One is presented in widescreen with English, Spanish and French 5.1 DTS audio and English, French and Spanish subtitles. Bonus features include:
Seven Director’s Cut Episodes: “Rising Malevolence”, “Shadow of Malevolence”, “Lair of Grievous”, “Rookies”, “Storm Over Ryloth”, “Innocents of Ryloth” and “Liberty on Ryloth”.
22 Episodic Featurettes that go behind-the-scenes with Supervising Director Dave Filoni and crew about the making of each episode.
Spectacular 64 page production journal that includes early sketches, artist notes, and concept art from each episode from Season One.
Blu-ray Exclusive – The Jedi Temple Archives: An extensive database exploring test footage, early concept art, 3-D character and object turnarounds and early animation. The Archives is a rare look at the assets in various stages of creation for The Clone Wars, with a wealth of surprises and never-before seen moments sprinkled throughout.
Synopsis:
As the Clone Wars sweep through the galaxy, the heroic Jedi Knights — including Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Jedi Master Yoda and padawan Ahsoka Tano — struggle to maintain order and restore peace. But despite the best efforts of these brave protectors, more and more planets are falling prey to the sinister forces of the dark side…
Star Wars: The Clone Wars features the voices of Matt Lanter (90210) as Anakin Skywalker, Ashley Eckstein (That’s So Raven) as Ahsoka Tano, James Arnold Taylor (The Spectacular Spider-Man) as Obi-Wan Kenobi and Tom Kane (Wolverine and the X-Men) as Yoda.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Complete Season One
Street Date: November 3, 2009
SRP: DVD $44.98, Blu-ray $59.99
Total Episode Run Time: 484 Minutes, Featurette Run Time: 146 Minutes
MPAA Rating: TV-PG
Closed Captioned: Yes
If you are at Comic-Con in San Diego next week and would like to meet the cast of The Guild and get info on Season 3, there’s kinda no way you can avoid us! We’ll be everywhere! As a handy guide we’ve made this blog post so you can find us somewhere each day!
Xbox Live and Microsoft, our sponsor, has arranged for our panel to take place on:
Friday at 10:30am-11:30am in room 5AB.
We’ll be screening TWO videos, so you won’t want to miss it, I promise, we will be showing something that people are going to get excited over!
We’ll be signing a special promotional poster afterward in the Xbox booth from 12pm-1pm, and after that we’ll be doing Game with Fame from 2-3pm, so come play with us! What a treat to promote the show and play video games, ha! 🙂
We have our OWN booth this year (#4417) shared with Jamie Chambers, who is premiering the new Supernatural RPG game! We will be selling Season 1 and Season 2 DVDs, t-shirts from Jinx.com (including brand new designs!) and a variety of cast photos that you can get signed! There is at least one signing scheduled with the cast for each day, check the times below.
For signing times with the cast in The Guild booth, we are asking that you please purchase one item from the booth, even if you are bringing something to be signed. We are still an indie production and have a lot of expenses related to renting the booth and cast travel, etc. We greatly appreciate your supporting our independent show and enabling us to attend conventions like this! As always, you can get your Comic-Con Souvenir program signed for free per Comic-Con regulations.
THE GUILD COMIC-CON SCHEDULE:
WEDNESDAY, July 22
* 6pm – 8pm — Cast signing in Booth
THURSDAY, July 23 (SANDEEP’S BIRTHDAY)
* 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. — Cast signing in Guild Booth
* 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. — Cast signing in Free Autograph Area (may get your souvenir booklet signed for free) — Table AA8
FRIDAY, July 24
* 10:30-11:30am — Panel (room 5AB)
* 12:00-1:00pm — Cast signing in Xbox Booth.
* 2:00-3:00pm — Game with Fame in Xbox Booth!
* 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm — Cast signing in Guild Booth
SATURDAY, July 25
* 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. — Cast signing in Guild Booth
* 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. — Cast signing in Guild Booth
SUNDAY, July 26
* 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. — Cast signing in Guild Booth
Are you the Kwisatz Haderach? You might be! Better safe than sorry, right? Might as well pick one of these t-shirts up and make sure the world knows you are a sci-fi messiah whose organic mental powers can bridge space and time. T-shirt guaranteed to make your name a killing word.
Hatley Nature invites you to “get clothes to nature”. Best known for their pun-based animal designs, such as “Making the Moose out of Life”, humour is an integral part of this French-Canadian company, a fact made quite evident in the story of Hatley Nature’s origins:
Growing up in the small town of Hatley, the Oldland boys loved running naked through the woods. But the day came when Chris, Nick and Jeremy had to leave Hatley and enter the real world where public nudity just wasn’t understood. To be accepted, the boys combined their love for nature with comfortable clothing and the Hatley line was born.
Joining Hatley Nature’s all-age “punny” critters are three playful lines of clothing and accessories for children: Aliens, Mermaids, and Wild Pirates.
Aliens Kids Lunch Tote
The Aliens designs are reminiscent of elementary school class assignments to draw what outer space might look like. There’s an Aliens pajama set, onesie, raincoat, rainboots, umbrella, back-pack, and the adorable Aliens Kids Lunch Tote. The lunch tote features the same all-over print that most of the Aliens items do, with friendly aliens of all sorts shaking hands with astronauts, flying saucers through the stars, and bearing banners that spell out “take me to your leader”. Such optimistic depictions of interstellar peace do Star Trek proud. The dark blue canvas has a contrasting orange trim and light blue handle, and the zipper, which wraps around three sides of the bag and has two zip pulls for easy access, is a matching light blue. The tote is well-padded to protect its contents and keep them insulated, and has an elastic, velcro-tabbed strap to secure drink containers. There’s even an inner pocket to put mission notes for your little space explorer.
Mermaids Messenger Bag
The Mermaids collection, sporting phrases like “Sea Princess” and “Catch of the Day”, includes a swimsuit (naturally!), reversible sun hat, onesie, pajama set, and the Mermaids Messenger Bag. This roomy bag is bursting with pockets of various sizes — three outside and three within the main compartment, one of which zips up — to store sunscreen, keys, snacks, and other day trip necessities, as well as the interesting bits of flotsam usually collected on walks along sandy shores. It’s the perfect beach bag for fantasy enthusiasts who adore the movie Splash and always keep a lookout for signs of merfolk when near the ocean. The aqua-coloured fabric has an all-over print of starfish, seashells, and mermaid silhouettes, with an embroidered starfish on the front flap, dark blue trimming, and a solid blue liner. Made of soft cotton canvas, the messenger bag is machine washable… just remember to securely tuck the adjustable shoulder strap inside the bag first, as it has two large, antique-finished buckles on it that could damage a washer if allowed to bang about like loose anchors. A magnetized snap closure ensures that none of your valuables will be lost at sea.
Wild Pirates
Searching for a treasure trove that Captain Jack Sparrow would have envied as a child? Then plunder some booty from the Wild Pirates. Pint-sized swashbucklers have pajama sets, t-shirts, and a onesie, hoodie, raincoat, rainboots, and umbrella to choose from, while the Pirate Sport Tank and Pirate Girly Tee are loot for teens. (Hopefully adult buccaneers will eventually get a few selections, too.) The Wild Pirates line dips into a vast pool of nautical imagery, so everything one would expect to see in a pirate design is represented: tall ships, Jolly Roger flags, skull & crossbones, treasure chests, gold coins, kegs, anchors, peg legs, hook hands, and swords. Cute animals wear typical pirate crew attire, but the Jolly Roger is made more kid-friendly with a fuzzy bear face replacing the usual skull. Arrr!
Order directly through the Hatley Nature website, or one of their associated Retail Shops. For all the latest news and special offers, follow Hatley Nature on Twitter and Facebook, and sign up for their newsletter.
We just wanted to let everyone know that we’ve started rolling out Season 2 of The Guild on YouTube today, starting with Episode 1!
The one thing we’ve missed from our awesome Xbox/Microsoft distribution is comments, so we’d love to hear what you think of the season! Also, if you could Rate and Favorite the video it will help new people discover the show. We appreciate those extra clicks!
Thank you so much for supporting our independent web series. 🙂 We’re excited to be launching a new season just around the corner, more information will be released next week. Also we will be posting our full Comicon Schedule later today or tomorrow, so be sure to check back so you can fit us in your busy schedule!
Yes, it really is the beloved Jane Austen novel, with all-new scenes of giant lobsters, rampaging octopi, two-headed sea serpents, and other biological monstrosities.
Following in the grand tradition of the Globe & Mail and New York Times bestseller Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters features even more tentacled mayhem, as well as fifteen black and white illustrations. Available on September 15 … It’s survival of the fittest — and only the swiftest swimmers will find true love!
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
By Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters
Published by Quirk Books; September 15, 2009
Paperback, $16.95, 344 pages
ISBN: 978-1-59474-442-6
That’s right folks, there are TWO Neil contests you can participate in!
The first: Go join the Legend of Neil Facebook page if you haven’t already (why haven’t you?) and then get all of your friends to do it, because once we get 4,000 fans we’ll post a set of trivia questions, and the first three people to answer all of the questions correctly will win a free t-shirt! Fo’ realz! Of course, if you can’t wait, feel free to get your own at the Store.
The second: Comic-Con is right around the corner, and for you LoN fans who will be attending, this contest is for you! Wear your Legend of Neil shirt to Comic-Con and track down either Sandeep or Tony (GPS device optional), and the first 250 fans to do so will receive a Comic-Con exclusive limited edition prize! In addition to that awesomeness, each prize will be numbered and we will hold a lottery (location TBD) where you can win a genuine prop from the show!
Depending on how deeply you like to dig into Wikipedia, you may or may not know that July is a month of geeky celebrations and events. We have cool shows like OSCON and Comic-Con and holidays such as SysAdmin Day and Pi Approximation Day, but we also get to celebrate some important birthdays of those that helped shape the geeks we are today. Three of those birthdays were celebrated just a few days ago — Erno Rubik, Patrick Stewart and Harrison Ford all share July 13 as their birthday. Now that’s a momentous day! And speaking of momentous birthdays, our very own 10 year birthday is approaching very soon! Be on the lookout for specials, contests, and general geeky shenanigans coming up in August while we celebrate 10 years of geeking out with you.
Nearly a year after it happened, I’m finally able to post the full video of the Elfquest panel that ran at the 2008 San Diego Comic-Con International Expo. Right now, the entire 49-minute video is on Veoh.com; you may need to download a viewer to stream it to your computer, or you can download the full file and view it at your leisure. It’s not on YouTube yet as they don’t allow anything longer than 10 minutes; I’m working on that. However you view it, though, it’s a lot of fun and gives you the entire show, including the Elfquest slide presentation leading up to the question-and-answer segment.
