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"Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog" Web Series - Blu-Ray - Available for pre-order ! (you save 30%)

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Conceived as an "online miniseries event" during the 2008 writers' strike, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog is a 42-minute musical romp that bears the distinctive stamp of Joss Whedon. Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother) plays the title character, who video-blogs about his twin goals to join the Evil League of Evil and to woo the fair Penny (Felicia Day, of Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Web series The Guild), a woman he met at the local laundromat. Dr. Horrible is foiled on both fronts, however, by his arch-nemesis, the self-absorbed superhero Captain Hammer (Nathan Fillion, Whedon's Firefly).

Dr. Horrible was written by Whedon, his brothers Zack and Jed, and Jed's fiancee Maurissa Tancharoen, and the songs were written by Joss and Jed (who also produced, orchestrated, played, etc.) with some lyrics by Tancharoen. (Jed and Tancharoen have backup singing roles.) The offbeat, off-the-cuff humor is laugh-out-loud funny, and just like Dr. Horrible wants to take over the world, the songs will take over your head : they're engaging ("My Freeze Ray"), stirring ("My Eyes"), and sweet ("Penny's Song"). "So They Say" is particularly evocative of Jonathan Larson's Rent, but as with Joss Whedon's musical episode of Buffy, "Once More with Feeling," the influences are diverse. It's hard to imagine a better cast. Harris, who's sung Sondheim on Broadway, is a great lead and clearly the best singer, Day is completely charming, and who better than Captain Tightpants to play the pompous superhero ? One could argue about the ending, and the independent budget shows, but Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog is a complete hoot for people who enjoy musicals with quirky humor. Plan on watching it multiple times.

Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother) stars as Billy, A.K.A. Dr. Horrible, a budding supervillain whose plans for world domination continually go awry. His two goals : getting accepted into the Evil League of Evil, and working up the guts to speak to his laundromat crush Penny, played by Felicia Day (The Guild). The only thing standing in his way is Captain Hammer, Billy s superhero archnemesis played by Nathan Fillion (Firefly, Castle). With one big score, Billy could get into the E.L.E. and earn the respect of Penny, but only if he can keep her away from the dashing Captain Hammer...

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Sex advice from Whedonverse fans

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What have any of Whedon's shows taught you about dating ?

That it's deadly and the person you're with could become someone else at the drop of a hat. The more you love someone, the more likely they will become possessed, chopped in half, shot, have someone else's demon spawn, or land the ship safely, but die anyway.

What is the best reason to date a Whedon fan ?

Open-minded kinkiness abounds.

A friend of mine asked me to be part of a threesome with her and her boyfriend. I'm up for it, but what can I do to make sure things don't get weird afterward ?

Leave. The best thing you can do is remember that no matter how much fun you have during the threesome, immediately after it's Couple Time. They asked you there to enhance their relationship with each other, not with you. Go and have fun, but know where you stand and make a graceful exit.

Let's say someone asks you to do something you're not into in the bedroom ; what's the best way to let them down gently ?

Tell them you're so hot for them right now that you don't want to risk the moment on something you're not sure about. Then immediately redirect their attention with some lovely thing you're doing that you both know you enjoy. Bring up Thing You're Not Into at a less vulnerable time, without being judgmental.

There are times when, instead of sex, I'd just like my partner to go down on me. How can I assure them that I'm not trying to say they're bad in bed ?

Bad in bed ? Reassure them that they are the Going-Down Master, which requires much greater skill.

It's that time of the month for my girlfriend. I don't really want to go there, so to speak, but she really wants to. Is there a middle ground that can be reached here ?

If she wears a pad, touch through clothing. If she's a tampon user, here comes some fun — outside stimulation with a hand or a vibrator. Hopefully she will concede to no oral sex so you don't end up like Carrie at the prom.

I need to know : Spike or Angel ?

Faith. Dream big.

Neil Patrick Harris - "Dr. Horrible 2" Web Series - He thinks it will be a movie

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Zack Whedon - "Terminator" Comic Book - Issue 1 - Available for pre-order ! (you save 20%)

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The year is 2029. It's the year that John Connor, leader of the Resistance, sends Kyle Reese to 1984 to save Sarah Connor from a T-800 with a grudge.

But before all of that happened, Kyle Reese was just another man fighting to survive in a world overrun by a technology that had taken on a life of its own and annihilated civilization.

Who was Kyle before he met John Connor and was thrust through time to face off with a T-800 and fall for a waitress with a destiny ? And who were his comrades in arms ?

In this three-issue series we'll meet Kyle Reese and his closest allies as they take on T-600s, T-800s, and HKs, in a world where there is little in the way of food, water, or hope.

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"A world without love" - an essay on family in Angel

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As the television series Angel ended its fifth and final season, the only character left from the opening episode of the first season was the title character, Angel. Compare that to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the show which spun off Angel : Buffy, Giles, Xander and Willow were present in the first episode of the first season and in the last episode of the seventh season. Is the attrition rate in Angel mere coincidence, caused by the vagaries of the entertainment industry, or is it the byproduct of a theme of the show—a theme that clearly differentiates this series from its parent ?

In my essay, “Love Saves the World : the Nontraditional Family in Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” published in Seven Seasons of Buffy, I argued that in the original series a major theme is the self-made family Buffy creates, and that it is the love between the members of that nontraditional family that makes it possible for them to triumph repeatedly over evil—even when evil resides within one of their own.

When Angel first began in 1999, it appeared in the opening episodes that Angel would build a similar family in Los Angeles. After five seasons, however, we see that not only did it not happen, but that it was never intended to happen. Not only can Angel not create a stable nontraditional family—he always has a team of helpers, but they change over time—but when he is given a real, blood-related family (through the machinations of evil law firm Wolfram & Hart, an inauspicious beginning if there ever was one) the result is high tragedy that first echoes and then surpasses the Greek tragedies of Sophocles and Aeschylus.

The Darla-Angel-Connor-Jasmine arc runs for three years, from the first raising of Darla in “To Shanshu in L.A.” (A1-22) to the annulment of Connor's history as the doomed child of two vampires in “Home” (A422), surely one of the most ambitious story arcs any television show has ever attempted.1

Reading the commentaries on the Internet, I am surprised that fans do not seem to have noticed the theme of incest in the arc, especially taking into account Cordelia's involvement. Darla is Angel's “sire,” that is, the vampire who turned him into a vampire. Angel is Drusilla's sire. When Wolfram & Hart bring Darla back as a human woman and Angel refuses to turn her, they get Drusilla, who persists in calling Darla “Grandmother,” to sire Darla.

Angel is seduced by Darla, formerly his sire (mother), now his granddaughter. Little wonder the act does not bring him happiness— upon wakening afterward, he has his epiphany in the episode of the same title, abandons Darla and his flirtation with evil and attempts to return to Angel Investigations. (His return recalls not Greek tragedy but the parable of the Prodigal Son : he asks to return not as the boss, but as an employee.) His turn towards the light is too late, however—Connor's life, unbeknownst to either parent, has begun.

Meanwhile, the second season diverts into the Pylea arc (“Belonging,” A2-19 ; “Over the Rainbow,” A2-20 ; “Through the Looking Glass,” A2-21 ; “There's No Place Like Plrtz Glrb,” A2-22). These episodes, which might appear to be just comic wheel spinning to fill the nine months that must pass before Darla can be brought back, underscore the “failed family” theme of Angel and foreshadow the trouble to come. Pylea is Lorne's home dimension. We learn, while there, that he left Pylea largely because of the rift between him and his family—he is an embarrassment to them, especially his mother. In Pylea they rescue Fred, who joins Angel Investigations and proves to be the only one in the group with a loving, functional family. In “Fredless” (A3-5), Fred's parents appear—and when Fred is ashamed to see them everyone assumes they must have mistreated her, showing what everyone else's home life has been. This is the sole example in the series of unconditional love of parents for their child in a normal family. It reassures us that, outside at least, there is a world where loving families exist. Not for Angel, however : only two episodes later, Darla appears, pregnant with Angel's child (“Offspring,” A3-7).

Angel Investigations has been trying to determine the meaning of a prophecy concerning the imminent arrival of a being who will have a profound impact on the world. At the time it seems the subject of the prophecy is the impossible child of two vampires, and the phrase “there will be no birth, only death” is played out as Darla, experiencing love for the first time in her existence, stakes herself, sacrificing her life to save her child's. (Love on Angel seems always to mean sacrifice.) No sooner does Angel have his son than the revenging Holtz, whose family Angel destroyed when he was Angelus, seeks to take the child.

Note that Holtz did not begin as an inherently evil person. He made an enemy of Angelus because he was a vampire slayer (small “s”), which in the Buffyverse is ostensibly a heroic occupation. Angelus did not simply kill all of Holtz's family, but turned the man's beloved daughter into a vampire, forcing her father to kill her. Angelus made the classic mistake of leaving Holtz nothing to lose.

As Holtz stalks Angel and the baby he names Connor, Wesley discovers another prophecy : “The father will kill the son.” When Angel begins to be attracted to Connor's blood, Wesley fears the worst. What Wesley doesn't know is that Wolfram & Hart have spiked Angel's blood supply with a sample taken from the baby. (The allusion is to another Greek tragedy, Medea, in which Medea cooks up the children she had with the man who cheated on her and feeds them to their father.)

Not knowing why Angel craves his son's blood, Wesley takes the child to protect him—and walks right into a trap. Holtz takes the child and departs into another dimension where Angel cannot reach him. There, for sixteen years, Connor regards Holtz as his father and is brainwashed with the pure hatred Holtz still feels for Angelus. Holtz never does understand the difference between Angelus and Angel—or else he does not care. He believes that Angel cannot possibly raise a child to be anything but a monster. The irony is that through the pact Holtz made in order to have another chance at Angelus, as well as through the force of his own desire for revenge, the boy does indeed become a monster.

Even though Angel eventually finds out why Wesley took Connor (the machinations of Wolfram & Hart again—the Senior Partners function in the story much as the Greek gods used to, manipulating humans to work out their plans), he does not forgive Wesley until well after Connor and Holtz return. With that return the pre-ordained tragedy continues on its course.

Angel and Cordelia have been slowly but obviously falling in love. Angel has good reason to fear such an event, but Cordelia is not Buffy, especially after she chooses to become part demon in order to prevent her visions from killing her. When Connor returns, Angel and Cordelia work together to try to win the boy's love to his real father—Holtz, of course, has taught Connor only about Angelus, not Angel.

By the beginning of season four, however, we are much less certain of Cordelia's motivations. When she inexplicably returns from the higher planes, she has amnesia—and when her memory is restored at the end of “Spin the Bottle” (A4-6), it is not the Cordelia we know, but an entity set on working out its own plans. It could be argued that it is not until after Cordelia becomes pregnant that she is possessed by the creature we come to know as Jasmine, but I find her behavior to have been erratic from the start, and as Skip explains to Angel later that season in “Inside Out” (A417), “Nobody comes back from paradise.” Angel, however, does not pick up on these behavioral cues—by “Long Day's Journey” (A4-9), he is far more concerned with what Cordelia is doing with Connor. Angel knows that the woman he loves has seduced his son, but not why.

This betrayal has a greater feeling of incest than any earlier playing with who sired whom among the vampires. Just before she “ascended” in the season three finale (“Tomorrow,” A3-22), Cordelia was on her way to tell Angel she loved him at an appointment at which Angel was planning to tell Cordelia that he was in love her. And images such as the one at the end of “Dad” (A3-10), where Angel and Cordelia lying facing one another on Angel's bed withthe infant Connor between them, have reinforced in the viewer's mind that Cordelia is the only mother Connor actually knew. Not to mention that although he spent sixteen years growing up in a hell dimension, to Cordelia Connor was a babe in arms less than a year ago. If he had stayed in this dimension to grow up, Cordelia would certainly be old enough to be his mother.

In “Soulless” (A4-11), Angelus taunts Connor (who would not know the Oedipus reference, so it is purely for the audience) by saying, “Doesn't it freak you out that she used to change your diapers ? I mean, when you think about it, the first woman you boned is the closest thing you've ever had to a mother. Doing your mom and trying to kill your dad. Hm. There should be a play.” The play, of course, is Oedipus Rex, but Angel's family is more dysfunctional than Oedipus's ! Oedipus didn't know the man he killed was his father (in fact, as all he did was hit him with his crutch, he probably didn't even know he had killed him), and there was no premeditation in his act. It was a simple, clean blow, and Laios got off easy by dying in the road. Connor, on the other hand, plotted vengeance against his father. He intended for Angel not to die a clean death, but to go slowly insane, trapped eternally at the bottom of the sea. Oedipus did not know that Jocasta was his mother when arrangements were made for him to marry the widowed queen, but Connor knew exactly who Cordelia was and took great pleasure in winning the woman Angel loved away from his father.

The culmination of all this anguish is the birth of Jasmine, the fully grown progeny of Cordelia and Connor, grandchild of Angel and Darla. In the episode “Inside Out” (A4-17), Angel learns from the demon Skip that virtually everything that has happened for the last several years has been manipulated by a higher power to bring Jasmine into being.

Jasmine is a far more interesting villain than the usual run of vampires, demons and other beasts. She is a beautiful woman whom everyone, male and female, automatically loves. People willingly do anything she asks. She does not appear either ugly or powerful, like the typical monsters. Only those who mingle their blood with hers can see her for what she truly is—that dysfunctional family theme again : When the blood of Jasmine is joined with the blood of someone else the result is not love, not progeny, but hatred and death.

In the end, Connor vanquishes his “daughter,” but his and Angel's relationship cannot be repaired. Angel is forced to make a devil's bargain with Wolfram & Hart to alter history. As a result, Connor is no longer the child of two vampires—to everyone but Angel, that timeline never happened.

There are clear reasons within the Angel mythic structure that this arc could not end in reconciliation between father and son. It is not An-gel's soul that prevents him from creating a loving family, but the curse that came with it. (Spike now also has a soul, but no curse with it—and Spike, soul or not, easily integrates into family wherever he goes.) Angel cannot build a family based on love—at least one that lasts—because love is the one emotion truly forbidden to him : His curse dictates that if he experiences happiness, he will lose his soul, and for Angel happiness has constantly been represented as bound up with love. It is the physical manifestation of his and Buffy's love, giving into it, that undoes him the first time. When the Shaman they hire in “Awakening” (A4-10) walks Angel through the process of attaining true happiness in order to loose Angelus for questioning, we see Angel's concept of love has grown in complexity—he must have not only Cordelia's affections, but also Connor's forgiveness and his family intact (Wesley and Gunn working again as a team)—but it is still love, if familial rather than romantic, that is the key to Angel's happiness.

But that fantasy was only that—a fantasy. In Angel's world, people don't come together in a crisis—they break apart. Bonds fail. Angel's whole history has been a series of partings : first from Darla, Drusilla and Spike, then from Buffy, and all of his demon fighting resources cannot save Doyle, or Cordelia, or Connor, or Fred.

If we look at the opening credits of every Angel episode, we see a graphic representation of Angel's eternal isolation. Yes, there are some changing shots of Angel interacting with the cast of each season, but the end of the montage never changes. Our final image of Angel remains that dark silhouette walking away from us into the night. Angel alone.

Juliet Landau - "Take Flight" Documentary - David J Video Interview

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The Dr Horrible Comic Book App for your iPhone

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"Buffy : Season 8" Comic Book - Issue 33 - Available for order !

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Buffy Season 8 is gearing up to the most exciting reveal yet ! Acclaimed novelist and comics writer Brad Meltzer (The Book of Lies, Identity Crisis) continues his pivotal story arc ! The Slayer army has suffered heavy losses throughout Season Eight and faced all kinds of threats new and old, but the one mystery connecting it all has been the identity of the Big Bad : Twilight. In this issue, Buffy finally confronts Twilight one on one, setting the stage for Twilight's unmasking in Buffy #34 !

Acclaimed novelist and comics writer Brad Meltzer (The Book of Lies, Identity Crisis) continues his pivotal story arc ! The Slayer army has suffered heavy losses throughout Season Eight and faced all kinds of threats new and old, but the one mystery connecting it all has been the identity of the Big Bad : Twilight. In this issue, Buffy finally confronts Twilight one on one, setting the stage for Twilight's unmasking in Buffy #34 !

Brad Meltzer, series artist Georges Jeanty, and executive producer Joss Whedon up the stakes as Buffy's most epic season yet races to a climax !

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"Buffy : Season 8" Comic Book - TPB Issue 6 "Retreat" - Available for order !

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Buffy Season Eight Volume 6 showcases the first retreat of the Slayer legion. Vampires have solid footing at the top of the totem and Slayers have been crushed to the bottom — in short, no one likes Buffy anymore . . . least of all this season's mysterious Big Bad, Twilight, who is hot on her magical trail !

Now that it's the world against Slayers, Buffy must find a way to return the status quo to . . . status quo — and keep her girls alive long enough to do it ! Enter Oz, the only person/werewolf Buffy knows who is down with the suppression of magic, and can take the Slayer army off of Twilight's magic-specific radar.

With Oz's assistance, the Slayers and Wiccans try to become "normal" through meditation and hard labor — although, not everyone sees the advantage of being magicless, namely, Willow, Giles, and Andrew. And they could be right. After all, is a peaceful life for a Slayer even possible ?

o Oz appears in Buffy Season Eight !

* Collects issues #26-#30 of the ongoing series.

* The first three volumes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight have combined to sell over 220,000 copies !

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Amazon sale : Up to 53% off on Joss Whedon shows

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Enver Gjokaj - "Previously on Point Dume" Web Series - Io9.com Interview

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Alyson Hannigan - Back to her car - March 11, 2010 - Paparazzi - Good Quality Photos

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Nathan Fillion - "Castle" Tv Series - Paley Event - Whedonopolis.com Video Interviews

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Joss Whedon - CBR's ECCC 2010 : Dark Horse Panel Report

Webmaster — 2010-03-19T19:44:22Z

Senior Editor Scott Allie quickly greeted his audience and proceeded to helm a solo discussion for a full room of fans on Saturday's Dark Horse Comics panel at last weekend's Emerald City ComiCon. He lept right into the meat of the company's announcements with a confirmation that Dark Horse will soon conclude "Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Eight." Issue #34 will be out at the beginning of April followed on time by issue #35. After that, they will take a break and issue #36 will hit stands sometime in September where Joss Whedon will conclude the writing of the final five-issue arc.

In the break between "Buffy" issues #35 and 36, there will be a one-shot centered on Riley the purpose of which will be to explain a lot of the plot developments that have recently happened in "Season Eight." In addition to "Riley," Dark Horse will be publishing a "Serenity" story called "Float Out" written by Patton Oswalt. It will take place immediately after the "Serenity" movie and deals with Wash's death. This is the first comic to push beyond the movie.

After "Float Out," Dark Horse will release a Joss Whedon story called "Sheppard," which details the backstory of Sheppard Book, "one of the most requested storylines from Serenity fandom" Allie explained. The crowd applauded loudly, before Allie took some questions.

"Will there be a follow up to 'Buffy Season Eight' ?” asked a fan. Allie confirmed that Joss Whedon will executive produce the follow up to the series, but it is unconfirmed as to whether or not he will be writing. Dark Horse is not sure, in light of "the developing scope of the series" if it will be called "Season Nine."

Later, Allie noted that on July 17, the Browncoats (the "Firefly" fan club) will host "Can't Stop The Serenity" at Seattle's Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI). "Can't Stop The Serenity" is a fundraising event for Equality Now, a charity that Joss Whedon has been affiliated with for some time. "Serenity" will be shown on a big screen at the event. "It's as though 'Star Wars' was treated as 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show,'” said Allie. Dark Horse recently donated artwork by Jo Chen to the Browncoats for their event. For a full schedule of their events, check their website www.BrownCoats.com.

"Will there be a 'Turok' series ?" someone else wondered, to run in conjunction with Dark Horse's upcoming relaunch of the Gold Key characters hitting on Free Comic Book Day. The response was yes, and the characters of Solar and Magnus will be featured in upcoming Dark Horse releases. The world will be re-envisioned by the writers and artists including Jim Shooter.

"Will you be doing any Dr. Horrible comics ?" pressed another Whedon fan. Yes, Allie promised, and Zach Whedon is writing it. He is also currently working on a "Terminator" series that starts later this month. Andy MacDonald is the interior artist for that series.

Allie soon moved to a planned presentation on future Dark Horse projects. Mac Walters, writer of the video game "Mass Effect," is working with John Jackson Miller on an ongoing series for the hit adaptation. The series will follow the second game, Allie explained. And speaking of Miller, long time "Star Wars" writer is currently working on "Star Wars : Knight Errant," a series about a young female Jedi. He is also writing a novel, published by Del Ray, of the same title. The comic book series will be released first followed by the prose book. The two are not adaptations of each other, rather separate stories. There will be a follow up comic series after the book.

LeVar Burton of “Reading Rainbow" and "Star Trek" fame and the so-called “Thinking Man's Chuck Norris” is writing a new series on "MySpace Dark Horse Presents." “Does anyone remember MySpace ?” joked Allie. This year for Free Comic Book Day, Dark Horse will release a lot of kid friendly material on MySpace from creators like Scott Morse, Andy Watson and Art Balthazar.

In the world of Robert E. Howard comics, Allie will continue writing "Soloman Kane," and the company will release a new "Kull" series this year. The world of "Conan" will also expand considerably in the next year.

Robert Rodriguez's upcoming feature film "Predators" will be adapted into a comic. Normally the secrecy surrounding Hollywood releases makes comic tie-ins difficult. However, Rodriguez was very forthcoming and cooperative with the idea and shared a lot of his information with Dark Horse, Allie explained. Before the release of the film, Dark Horse is publishing six weekly comics through June and the beginning of July that tell the back story of the characters. The first week of July there will also be a 64-page prequel book followed by a sequel released a week after the movie.

"Hellboy," as done in a collaboration between Mike Mignola and Duncan Fegredo, will move into its final story arc in 2010. According to Allie, the actual character of Hellboy will "change." There is a new "Lobster Johnson" miniseries called "Burning Hand" in the works as well.

In the world of manga, the focus is on the popular creative collective CLAMP for the near future with several classic projects on tap including Dark Horse's release an omnibus of "Cardcaptor Sakura."

Cover to the first issue of Dark Horse's "Predators" prequel.

Dark Horse will be releasing original stories by prose author Janet Ivanovitch called "Troublemaker : An Alex Barnaby Adventure" which will be told over a series of graphic novels with art by Joelle Jones. It will come out in a full color hard cover edition.

Allie mentioned how next year is Dark Horse's 25th anniversary, and they will be making bigger and more announcements. There focus will be on their big titles like Conan and Hellboy.

Eric Powell will be tied up with the animated adaptation of "The Goon" by Blur Studios for a while, Allie said of the popular horror/humor title. Before he creates more "Goon" issues, he will launch a "Buzzard" monthly mini series and a new monthly "Billy the Kid" series. There will be back ups of "The Goon" in the "Billy the Kid" issues.

New issues of "The Umbrella Academy" will be held up as writer Gerard Way is recording a new album with his band My Chemical Romance. He is also slated to release "The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys" before he gets back into "Umbrella Academy" as Allie explained that "Killjoys" is about "taking reality apart in the form of a punk rock road trip." "Hotel Oblivion" is the title of the new "Umbrella" series.

More audience questions followed. "Will there ever be a 'Boba Fett' comic ?" someone inquired. Allie said that there is certainly a desire to do a comic based on that character. "Darth Vader and Boba Fett are the easiest characters to sell."

Eric Powell's "Buzzard."

"Are there any plans for more 'Serenity' character one-shots ?" said another fan. It is possible that there would be a Mal and Zoe one shot, but nothing definite at this point, Allie explained.

In response to a question about the web comic "Axe Cop," Allie touted it as "really cool" and "crazy" but refused to comment further. "Axe Cop" is written by five year old and drawn by his older brother.

"What about a 'Dollhouse' comic ?" another Whedon fan wondered, but despite discussions between Allie and Whedon, Joss is "averse" to a comic series.

"Concrete" artist and author Paul Chadwick, who happened to be in the room, announced that he is currently working on a new story.

Dark Horse is also looking into motion comics, Allie revealed. To date, they have been unimpressed with current personal devices as a medium for viewing comics. Though they have been hopeful about Apple's ipad. So far, they have released comics on the iPhone.

"Buffy The Vampire Slayer" Tv Series - Opening Credits In Charmed Style - Watch The Video

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Marc Blucas - "Animals" Movie to be released in DVD

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Nathan Fillion - "Castle" Tv Series - Top Quips From Paley Salute

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Spent last night in Beverly Hills at the Paley Center for Media, which had a screening and panel discussion to celebrate ABC's comedy-mystery hit "Castle."

The episode shown was the first part of the two-parter — airing Sunday and Monday — featuring guest-star Dana Delany as an FBI agent who helps NYPD Detective Kate Beckett (Stana Katic) and her crimefighting consultant, mystery novelist Richard Castle (Nathan Fillion), track a serial killer obsessed with Nikki Heat, Castle's fictional character based on Beckett.

Moderator for the evening was "Dancing With the Stars" host Tom Bergeron, who's guest-starring in an episode of "Castle" called "The Late Shaft" (shooting this week, airing April 12), playing a late-night host, with Fred Willard as his sidekick and Bill Bellamy as his rival.

Bergeron was pretty spoilery about his role on the show (out of respect for those not present, I'll leave those bits out), but from his detailed questions about "Castle" episodes, he's either a dedicated fan or was incredibly well-prepped.

I was on set for filming of several of the scenes in part one of the two-part episode and wrote a feature story — watch this space for that later in the week. And, you can click here for a little preview story I did for Zap2it with Delany and Fillion.

The episode was a hoot and delighted the audience (who were pretty pumped to start with), and the panel spanned the "Castle" world with Fillion, Katic, Molly Quinn (who plays Castle's daughter, Alexis), Susan Sullivan (who plays Castle's mother, Martha), Jon Huertas and Seamus Dever (who play Beckett's cop underlings Esposito and Ryan), Tamala Jones (medical examiner Lanie Parish) and Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Capt. Roy Montgomery), show creator Andrew Marlowe and producer/director Rob Bowman.

I did a lot of interviews on set, so expect much "Castle" goodness to roll out in the future.

In the meantime, here are some quippy highlights from the evening ...

Fillion on reading for the role while wearing a pink polo shirt for "Desperate Housewives" : "Stop looking. I'm this guy. Ignore this (shirt). I'm really cool."

Quinn on Fillion and Castle : "He's so much like Castle in real life. Susan's a little more classy (than Martha)." Sullivan : "I'm more classy."

Dever on Fillion and his "Firefly" character, Mal Reynolds : "'Firefly' was great, but he's more fun than that. He's not a harda—." Fillion : "He's not a harda—, with a hard a—." Jones : "I have a habit of grabbing Nathan's butt." Fillion : "What happens in the morgue, stays in the morgue."

Dever on his close relationship with Huerta : "I'm going to help him install his floors next week." Bergeron : "Get a room, you two."

This theme persisted. When a question came up about sexual tension, Marlowe said, "Between Ryan and Esposito ?"

More on topic, Marlowe said : "She (Beckett) plays him (Castle) like a fiddle," to which Katic replied, "I think there's nothing sexier than swordplay." Eyebrows all the way up, Fillion said, "Wow."

Marlowe said that "Castle" hadn't yet received word on a season-three pickup, but he remained "hopeful."

The conversation turned to Twitter, on which @NathanFillion has well over half a million followers (some of which Jones admitted attempting to poach).

Bergeron commented that he had seen Quinn tweeting in the green room, to which she replied, "That was actually my first tweet !" Quipped Bergeron, "There's so many lines I won't use right now." "She's 16, Tom, 16," cautioned Dever.

Also, as Fillion pointed out, "Castle Twitters, and he follows me."

Sullivan recalled reading for the part, and being a lady "of a certain age," she didn't want to look down, so she briskly ordered the seated Fillion to rise. That, she said, "got me the part."

Bowman then talked about first recognizing Katic's acting abilities, "She was throwing it back at Nathan. She had a lot of moxie, great attitude ... we work on that sometimes." Then he admitted, cautiously, that Katic had "more than I expected."

Bergeron complimented Fillion on his girly scream (which can be heard in this Sunday's two-parter opener), to which Fillion replied, "Turn the hero into a goofy guy and touch the man's feminine side."

Fillion then recreated the squeal on command.

Talking about her relationship with Fillion, Quinn nearly teared up, saying, "He's really just like a second dad to me, because my dad's back in Texas."

Bowman explained how quick pacing and a lot of fast talking allows the show to pack 55 pages of script into 42 minutes of air time. For those not familiar with the length of TV scripts, that's like stuffing a size 10 foot into a size 8 shoe.

Also on display in the episode are copies of Castle's newest book, "Heat Wave," which comes out in paperback on July 27. Supposedly the next book is titled "Naked Heat," which caught Katic by surprise (apparently Beckett doesn't know yet either).

"Angel : Aftermath" Comic Book - Issue 32 - Available for pre-order ! (you save 20%)

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As more vampires start running around Hollywood, Connor and crew must figure out a way to stop the carnage and deal with his little merry band of demon girls. Meanwhile, Angel has it out with his captors, before learning that things really can get weirder than he thought.

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Amy Acker - "Human Target" Tv Series - Mark Valley Iesb.net Interview

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Mark Valley is a versatile film and television actor, who is known equally for his comedic roles as for his dramatic performances. Known to audiences from this work on Fringe, Boston Legal, Keen Eddie and Pasadena, among others, he is currently playing Christopher Chance on the Fox action-drama Human Target.

Based on the popular DC Comics graphic novel, the full-throttle series is centered on a unique and mysterious private contractor/security expert/bodyguard hired to protect those in need. For Chance, each job is about one thing - saving his clients' lives. When there is an unusual or imminent threat that can't be solved through "normal" means of protection, he is hired to completely integrate himself into his clients' lives and become the human target. Assisted by his business partner Winston (Chi McBride) and hired gun Guerrero (Jackie Earle Haley), Chance puts himself directly in the line of fire, as he races against time to save his client.

In a recent interview, show star Mark Valley talked to IESB about how much fun he has making the action series and gave a few hints as to what fans can expect for the rest of the season.

Q : How much more of Christopher Chance's history will viewers get to see this season ?

Mark : The next episode, "Baptiste," is going to explain a little bit more about Chance's past. Not much about his past with women, but it's going to show more about his past. It's a very intense episode. Lennie James from Jericho has come on to play Baptiste, who used to work together with Chance, at one time, and they've become arch nemeses. He is probably the most talented assassin who's still out there working for hire. He and Chance come to blows in the episode called "Baptiste" and also in the finale.

Q : What else is in store for the season finale ?

Mark : Well, in the season finale, Baptiste comes back. Amy Acker shows up and plays this one character who is very pivotal in Chance's past, in that she was the catalyst for his ultimate change into becoming Christopher Chance. Lee Majors is in that episode. Armand Assante plays Chance's old boss. That was fascinating. There are a couple of major confrontations there. He's an interesting guy and a wonderful actor, and I'm just really excited that he's on the show. And, Jackie Earle Haley and I have our first fight, even though it takes place in the past. You can see the roots of their relationship and why they have such a trusting bond.

Q : What other guest stars can viewers expect to see in the second half of the season ?

Mark : There's this litany of beautiful, talented women that have come on the show. Grace Park is in an episode called "Corner Man." Moon Bloodgood is in one. Leonor Varela was in "Sanctuary." She just came in and completely took on the character of this ex-revolutionary, who lives down in South America and who is an ex-lover of Chance. She was just fabulous. And, Emmanuelle Vaugier comes back in "Baptiste." She's still an FBI agent, and Chi, Jackie and I figure out a way to enlist her help. Also, Autumn Reeser comes back as well. She has a recurring role on our show, and she was in the show about the building that blew up. She comes back to help us out.

Q : Will your lovely wife, Anna Torv, be guest starring, at any point ?

Mark : Oh, Fringe just got picked up for another season, so probably not. You'd have to ask her, but I'd think she's probably pretty busy with Fringe.

Q : When did you realize that you had lightning in a bottle, with the chemistry between you, Jackie Earle Haley and Chi McBride ?

Mark : I got the script first and I was the first one cast. I think we all realized that we had something pretty amazing when we were shooting the pilot in downtown Vancouver, at the very end of the episode. It wasn't the end of shooting, but it was the end of the episode. The three of us are rarely together in any episode, but in this instance we were. We were getting ready to set up a shot and we were all sitting in the back, in our chairs, and the three of us started talking, as actors do, and just realized, "My God, we all come from completely different places, in terms of parts of the country and experience in the industry and so forth, but the three of us just clicked." The thing that I liked about both of them is that I was just really curious about them and wanted to get to know them better and thought both of them were really interesting. The three of us had that feeling about each of us, which is cool and rare. And, I think that shows up on the screen and makes viewers wonder, "How did they meet up ? How did they come together ? What is their history ?"

Q : Was part of the attraction of this show the fact that you get to do a different type of story, with every episode ?

Mark : Yes, that's what attracted me to it. It was obvious that each episode was going to feel like a movie. It was going to be a lot of work with the director, putting a show together in pretty intense circumstances. And, it's something that hasn't really been done in a while, if not ever before.

Q : How much of a daredevil do you allow yourself to be ? What are some of the more outrageous adventures that you've taken ?

Mark : I haven't quite done as much of that as Chance has. I'm a little more into taking calculated risks. I like to mountain climb and, the better prepared you are, the safer it is. I don't just run out and climb a mountain with a T-shirt on. That would be kind of foolhardy. There are some inherent risks with mountaineering, but I generally like to be well-prepared. I have parachuted. I did it in the Army, and I also did it, trying to get my certification to parachute down in Paris Island. I did it a few times, and that was pretty exciting, but for the most part, I'd say that now the biggest risk I take is probably, every once in a while, forgetting to put my seatbelt on. That's about the limit of it right now.

Q : How much has your military training helped you with acting, especially with this show ?

Mark : It's funny because they lay out all these weapons and they talk about the ammunition and its effectiveness, and we worked with weapons in the Army, but it's actually something you can pick up pretty quickly. I'd say there are other aspects of it that are similar. The hand-to-hand fighting, I learned a little bit of in the Army. And, boxing and wrestling, and that sort of thing. But, for the most part, it's working as team under extraneous circumstances with a limited amount of time to get something done. That's probably the biggest experience I got from the Army that applies to this job. We're really making a movie in eight days, and that's an awful lot of work that has to be done. So, it's that teamwork and camaraderie that I experienced in the Army, that seems to be showing up again here in this show.

Q : So far, Chance has had cases in L.A., Canada, the Russian Embassy, an airplane and South America. Is there anywhere in particular that you'd like to see him travel next ?

Mark : I would like to see Chance go to Paris. I'd like to see him go to London. We do go to London in one episode. What else ? Africa would be an interesting place. There are all kinds of places he could go. Somewhere down South, maybe Texas. I'd love to do an episode that was a quasi-Western, in some way. That would be interesting. There's Vietnam and all these other places in Asia that he could go. There's things going on in China. That would be interesting. You name it. There's the second season. Also, the cool thing about this cast and the writers we have is that maybe they could even write an episode that takes place inside a contained area, like the airplane episode. We really didn't go anywhere for that. That all took place inside the fuselage of an airplane. Maybe we'll do something like that again as well.

Q : What were some of the acting challenges you found, when you first stepped into this role ?

Mark : It's funny, when I first read the script, it is based on a comic book character and there are certain things that comic book characters can get away with that regular actors can't really do, that's that believable. One is to hold a pose for a long period of time, like to look concerned as if you're in a comic book. It had the feel of a comic book, so there was a challenge of trying to find a way to bring a real person into that. It wasn't written in any sort of hyper-reality. John Steinberg's writing has a very casual thing that can exist in it, so it's not that hard to do it because it's not complete melodrama. The biggest challenge was reading it and enjoying it, like it could have been a comic book, and then thinking, "Okay, wait a second, this is me now ? How am I going to do this ? It's hard to explain, but that was a challenge, along with picturing all the other people who could do better at it and thinking, "I'm going to do this ? Wait a second. I think the guy in the comic book looks better." But, I'm enjoying it.

Q : How have you seen Chance grow and develop in the episodes you've shot, so far ?

Mark : Well, personally, the way I've grown is that I've become much more comfortable with some of the action and fighting scenes, and the way Chance's relationship with the other characters is starting to become a little bit more clear. His relationship with Jackie and with Chi is becoming a little bit more clear to me. I'd say that Chance is starting to come to terms with his past. He made a big change in his life about 6 to 8 years prior to the present, and the reality of why he made that choice and the repercussions that it's going to have is starting to come back to him, so essentially his baggage is starting to arrive. And, Chance is having to open up some old wounds and some old changes that he went through, just to see exactly how that affects him now.

Q : Do you feel like Human Target has found its groove ? Was there a particular moment for you, when you felt like it really clicked ?

Mark : I think when it really clicked for me was probably the episode "Rewind," where we didn't have a lot of locations and we didn't have a lot of big set pieces going on. It all took place in an airplane that was broken down, and Chi and I were in the same location shooting, which was cool. I think that episode ended the pace that we came up with and that we realized we could work at. It was the second or third episode we did. The pace that we came up with and the shorthand that we all developed with the crew, the cameras and the actors was pretty amazing. And then, we realized, "Oh, wow, this is what we can do. We can make a movie in eight days." That was probably the one point where I realized, "Oh wow, we've got something here."

Q : Did you have a vision for what you expected the show to be, when you first came on board, and has it lived up to that ?

Mark : I didn't have a pretty clear vision of how it would be. I'd been on shows before that have been new and, with this one, not only is the show new, and Chi and I are new to this genre, even the show runners are new to this. So, I went into it with an open mind, thinking how it would come together was going to be exciting, and it has been. It is a collaboration where everybody's influence is heard, felt and reacted to, and the end product is something that everybody feels a part of. I think it's exceeded any expectations. I'm not quite as exhausted as I thought I would be.

Q : How do you balance the comedy and drama on the show, particularly in your performance ?

Mark : I really love to fine the light moments. A lot of it depends on the scene and the person you're working with, and where the jokes can come in or where it seems appropriate or not appropriate. And, of course, there's the way the scene is written as well. Maybe it's my background on a soap opera, where there were no jokes at all. It was all just complete melodrama and I wanted parts of it to be funny, so I just remember searching and combing through the script and saying, "Well, there's this moment or that moment." I was just so hungry for something to be funny that I developed a perceptive eye for it.

Q : What's it like to play a lead character when you don't have all the pieces of the background ? Is that more difficult for you ?

Mark : It's definitely easier to have some of the pieces. It's definitely somewhat of an advantage to have a little more of an idea because, as actors, we do create characters and things in our imagination, but ultimately we're an interpretive artist and we're interpreting what the writers have created. Some people will say that doesn't matter. They think, "If it's not in the script, it doesn't really exist, so don't make a big deal about it." But, television is a little bit different. It would be nice to know ahead of time because then maybe I could plan a scene or have that in mind, if this might have happened before, but it's pretty exciting to find it out as you go along, with the rest of the viewers. So, not only are you working on a show and acting in it, but it's also fun to be experiencing it as a viewer and finding out things as they reveal themselves.

Q : Did you model Chance on any particular character or actor ?

Mark : There's this coterie of characters that I've played that I could draw on for Chance to use. Sometimes I have and sometimes I haven't done that, to any meaningful effect. Sometimes I think, "How would I act, if I were in these circumstances, and if I could be whoever I wanted to be ? How would I deal with it ?" I use that. I could go back and watch Die Hard or Indiana Jones and you see certain moments that could influence the character. Or, watching Lee Majors on The Six Million Dollar Man. You never really know because here are so many different influences. I base it, in some ways, on a friend of mine that I knew when I was in the Army. I knew one guy who had this attitude. Those are things that go into the mix when I first start building a character, and then it gets on its own feet and moves along.

Q : Have there been any particular scenes that didn't come across quite the way you thought they would ?

Mark : No, but there was a scene that did probably come off the way I thought it would, which is the one with the spider in the back of the wagon. I didn't think it was funny when we did it, and I don't think it's funny now. I just don't think the spider gag worked. Other scenes that have turned out differently was the one with Jackie Earle Haley that I had the other night, where there's a real important flashback to a scene between Chance and Guerrero, where they're almost fighting each other to the death, and you find out a lot about their past and that relationship. That scene ended up being much more intense, but moving than I imagined it to be.

Q : Is there any particular topic that you would like for your character to delve into, in a future episode ?

Mark : I think what the writers are coming up with is fine. I like getting a script and getting a fresh idea laid out on the desk, and I just dig into it and take it from there. I'd say no, there's really nothing that I'd like Chance to do. Maybe a little more jujitsu instead of all this kicking and punching. Maybe a little more wrestling. Oh, and I want to learn how to fly a helicopter. That would be interesting.

Q : Because the show is very different, how much of the comics did you actually read, in preparing for the role ?

Mark : I read about four or five of the original DC comics, and then I read all of the Vertigo graphic novel ones.

Q : Do you think the master-of-disguise aspect is ever going to make an appearance ?

Mark : Nobody's ruled it out. Nobody's left it out there. I know John Steinberg's attitude was like, "Let's start the show where you get to know the central character, before we start dressing him up and having him come out as Dabney Coleman." That was his idea. Chance does have an aptitude with languages and my theory with that is he doesn't use any more than is necessary. He doesn't wear a mustache or glasses, or anything if it's not really necessary, and he doesn't really become that other person unless it's absolutely necessary to do that. He's been able to get away with it by playing somebody close to them or somebody near them because those rubber masks can get really warm. So, that was an adaptation, but that doesn't rule it out. I look sort of like Thomas Jane. If that show on HBO doesn't work, I could be him from a distance.

HUMAN TARGET airs on FOX

Michelle Trachtenberg - "Mercy" Tv Series - Ifmagazine.com Interview

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Exclusive Interview : MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG PUTS ON HER SCRUBS FOR 'MERCY'

The actress talks about playing a nurse on the NBC series, researching the role and the Gail Berman/BUFFY connection

Most hospital shows focus on the doctors. NBC's MERCY puts the spotlight on a team of nurses at a New Jersey hospital and films on location in the East Coast state. The youngest and most inexperience nurse, Chloe Payne, is played by Michelle Trachtenberg. Ironically, Trachtenberg is arguably the most seasoned actor in the cast, as she's been performing since she was six years old, guest-starring in an episode of LAW & ORDER. She had the title role in the feature film HARRIET THE SPY and caught the attention of genre audiences as the heroine's younger sister in the final three seasons of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER. More recently, Trachtenberg has made waves in recurring roles on HBO's SIX FEET UNDER as a diva and on GOSSIP GIRL as the trouble-making Georgina Sparks. She talks about her new gig and its connection to one of her old jobs.

iF : You've gone from audiences watching you grow up onscreen in real time on BUFFY to playing a college-age person on GOSSIP GIRL and then being a professional on MERCY. Is this a comfortable progression for you ?

MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG : It's a true age progression. I'm about to be 25 this year and Chloe, my character on MERCY, is 25. So it's actually quite natural. I've kind of played true age all my life. Sometimes I play a little older.

iF : Did you study any aspect of nursing before taking the part on MERCY ?

TRACHTENBERG : Not really before. I mean, I read some online blogs that nurses do, because I wanted to focus less on the medical aspect of it and more on the emotional toll that nurses have to endure. So we have medical experts on set who take us through the procedures and everything and it's a crash course right before each scene, because to be perfectly honest, I'm never going to remember a few months of medical training. It's not my chosen profession, so we have people on set at all times, making sure we don't mess up.

iF : What struck you most about what you found on the blogs ? Was there anything that was helpful in playing Chloe ?

TRACHTENBERG : Well, there are certainly different dynamics of how a nurse accepts a patient's death. Some try to completely disassociate themselves from their patients ; others care too much. Chloe definitely is the one that cares too much. So they just talked about the different repercussions when you do care, because there's so much stuff involved in the medical field. But there's also life, too, so they try to focus on the positive. Definitely death affects Chloe, but with every new patient, that's arguably focusing on the positive, because she is moving on and is trying to help others. So there's a mix of [emotions] and she's moving into the E.R., so there's definitely going to be a lot asked of her emotionally.

iF : What appealed to you about the project, the theme or working with executive producer Gail Berman, or … ?

TRACHTENBERG : Gail Berman's extraordinary. She's been a part of my life for over ten years now, from BUFFY, of course [when Berman was the executive at Fox television involved in the series].

iF : Do you read the BUFFY comics at all ?

TRACHTENBERG : I don't [laughs]. I was fourteen when I started [working on BUFFY], I'm twenty-four now, so Berman has definitely had a major role [in Trachtenberg's career arc]. That was initially why I read the script [for MERCY] to begin with, because I actually wasn't really looking to join a television program again. I was very happy being a recurring [player] on GOSSIP GIRL, but Gail has exquisite taste in material. Also, [MERCY creator/executive producer] Liz Heldens came very highly recommended, so I was really attracted to the fact that it was a show about three women that were steering the ship.

iF : How is filming in New Jersey ?

TRACHTENBERG : It's really nice to be on the East Coast. I think it's good to shoot a show where it's actually set. That rarely happens. Probably the only downside is that, when it's snow on the ground in the show, it's really snow on the ground and it's freezing.

iF : Any other projects going on ?

TRACHTENBERG : Yeah. I did COP OUT with Bruce Willis as well as Tracy Morgan. I play Bruce's daughter.

iF : Do you get to do more comedy in that ?

TRACHTENBERG : Yeah. The character is not necessarily comedic, but it is a comedy. I don't actually know what landed in the movie, because there was a lot of improv that was very funny.

iF : How is it being part of a cast of MERCY's size ?

TRACHTENBERG : We actually feel like a pretty big cast and we each are given equal attention within every episode. So no one ever feels like the odd man out. They take great care [to give the characters something to do].

The Bronze is one of 19 classic movie/TV bars

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THE BRONZE, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Technically, Sunnydale's hottest nightspot wasn't so much a traditional bar — for one thing, Buffy, Willow, and Xander weren't legally able to partake of alcoholic libations until 'round about the show's sixth season. But with its industrial warehouse vibe, penchant for presenting of-the-moment musicians (Michelle Branch, Nerf Herder, Aimee Mann), and insanely comprehensive insurance plan that covered literally dozens of demon attacks, the Bronze was the perfect place for the Slayer and her buds to unwind AND kick evil's keister. —Adam B. Vary

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer : Tooned Up Faith" Maquette - Available for order !

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Electric Tiki Design presents Faith, the latest 'Tooned Up' maquette in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series. Faith arrived in Sunnydale after the death of the slayer Kendra. Initially an ally to the Scoobies, Faith is lured to the dark side by the Mayor. The Faith Maquette, inspired by the episode 'Revelations,' features our heroine, leaping and ready for battle, supported only by her left arm. She comes with two right hands (one holding a stake and the other her jackal knife) and also sports her trademark tattoo. Based on original animation designs by Tracy Mark Lee, Faith is approximately 8" tall and is hand-cast in high-quality polystone and hand painted to exacting standards.

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Nicholas Brendon allegedly tazed and arrested in Venice, California

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'Buffy' Star Dazed, Tased, Busted

Nicholas Brendon"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" star Nicholas Brendon fell short in the slaying department a few hours ago, after he allegedly swung at a couple of cops, and then went on a misguided foot chase.

Law enforcement sources tell TMZ they received a call that a drunk man was causing a commotion in Venice, CA. When police responded, sources say Brendon took a swing at cops.

We're told Brendon then beat a hasty retreat — in vain, because Jaafar isn't the only one who has a taser.

Brendon was tased twice, subdued and taken to a hospital.

He's currently being booked for felony vandalism — for allegedly damaging some property during the fracas.

Latest Dollhouse props for auction

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Jane Espenson - "Game of Thrones" Tv Series - She writes an episode

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A "Battlestar"-"Buffy"-"Game of Thrones" connection ? Be still my nerd heart !

HBO has confirmed that Jane Espenson, a "Caprica" executive producer who has also penned scripts for "Dollhouse," "Battlestar Galactica," "Buffy" and a host of other cool shows, is one of the writers for the TV adaptation of "Game of Thrones," which was recently greenlit by HBO. Espenson will write the sixth episode of "Thrones'" first season as a freelancer.

GOT Also writing single episodes of the drama : Bryan Cogman, a script coordinator for the show, who'll pen the fourth episode of the season, and George R.R. Martin himself. Martin, of course, wrote the book series on which "Game of Thrones" is based and has been closely involved in the project since it was announced. Martin is one of the show's executive producer and a former writer for TV show such as "Beauty and the Beast" and "Twilight Zone."

The rest of the 10-episode first season of "Game of Thrones" will be written by David Benioff and Chicago's own D.B. Weiss, the team who scripted the pilot and have overseen the television adaptation from its inception.

The pilot for "Thrones," which stars Lena Headey, Sean Bean, Jennifer Ehle, Peter Dinklage, Jason Momoa and Mark Addy, was shot last fall. Production resumes in Northern Ireland in June and the series is expected to debut in the first half of 2011. People are being hired for various production jobs now, so if you live in Northern Ireland, this is your chance to be a set decorator or "standby chippie," whatever that is.

As always, for more news regarding "Thrones" and Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" book series, be sure to check out Winter Is Coming, Westeros and Tower of the Hand. Here's a link to all my previous "Game of Thrones" coverage.

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Amber Benson - "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" Movie - She stakes rumors

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In the seven years since Buffy the Vampire Slayer has been resting in peace, there has been quite a buzz of resurrecting the series on the big screen.

On The Red Carpet caught up with actress Amber Benson, who played Tara Maclay on the show to ask if the rumors of a Buffy movie were true.

“I've heard that they are going to do a film, possibly,” she said. “But they're not going to use Joss Whedon, or any of the characters that he kind of created on the TV show. That they're going to do like a reboot of the original movie. And I am like it's not really Buffy without Joss. So I wouldn't be in unless he was in.”

Buffy & Angel Figurine Coll Mag #3 Spike - Available for pre-order ! (you save 20%)

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The third issue in the smash hit Buffy & Angel collection features one of the most popular characters from the Whedonverse, Spike ! Otherwise known as William The Bloody, Spike was a key character in both Buffy and Angel.

The lead figurine stands 4' tall, and features Spike wearing the classic red leather jacket he took from former Slayer, Nikki Wood, whom Spike killed on the New York subway in 1977 !

The fact-filled magazine accompanying the figure features everything you need to know about Spike from television through the Dark Horse and IDW comics since the shows' departure.

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Enver Gjokaj - "Previously on Point Dume" Web Series - He joins the cast

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Scott Allie - "Whedonverse" Comic Books - ECCC 2010 - Watch The Video

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Christina Hendricks in The 12 Hottest Redheads of All Time

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"Angel : Aftermath" Comic Book - Issue 31 - Released today !

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While Connor tries to get his devoted army of demon soldiers under control, a new player steps up, and Illyria decides not to take Angel's continued absence lying down. Meanwhile, Eddie Hope finds out that being a force for justice has some major consequences.

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Felicia Day - About her career - Afterellen.com Interview

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If the average TV fan were to pass Felicia Day on the street, most wouldn't recognize the woman who has been crowned the queen of the internet. Thanks to her award-winning web series, The Guild, and a starring role in Joss Whedon's web musical Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, Day's share price has been rising within new media circles. The same, however, cannot be said of success when it comes to traditional media, despite national commercials and a role in perhaps the two best episodes of Fox's critically acclaimed Dollhouse.

AfterEllen.com talked to writer-actress Day, who created and The Guild as an alternative to being typecast as the “best friend”/secretary all the time, about playing gay on Dollhouse, coming back from the dead a la Buffy in Dr. Horrible II, how Codex, her on-screen alter-ego in The Guild may not have a clue when it comes to her own sexuality and what's next for the series' resident same-sex couple Riley and Venom.

AfterEllen : The Dollhouse series finale, “Epitaph Two : Return,” included a nice tip of the hat to the lesbian community when your character, Mag, came out. What'd you think of that when you read the script ?

Felicia Day : Yeah ! That was interesting. I was all for it, I was like, this seems absolutely right. It was funny because it wasn't mentioned in “Epitaph One,” so as an actor, I had to wrap my head around that — having established the character because I had a bit of an emotional connection with the guy who died in the first part, so I thought it deepened the subtext there. I had to re-wrap my head around it. But the cool this is that I was attracted to (Dollhouse and Dr. Horrible writer-actress) Maurissa (Tancharoen), who is a great friend of mine — but also beautiful ! It really wasn't that hard ; it didn't fall outside the realm — she's just a person. She could be attracted to anybody.

AE : It was great that it continued the Dr. Horrible connection.

FD : It was, “OK, this is awesome !” She's a really good actress and such a great writer, too. I'm always so impressed with her because she juggles so many things at the same time. I'd love to work with her in any capacity in the future.

AE : She's writing for Spartacus now, too.

FD : Yeah, she and (husband) Jed Whedon (Joss' brother) are on Spartacus right now and they're probably having a really good time. I lent her a couple of books because I love Roman and Greek history as well — but all like the racy bits. I'm obsessed with the seedy side of history, so anything with like a torture implement or a weird sexual things in it is probably on my shelf ! [Laughs] But only historical, I don't know why !

AE : Any chance we'll see you on Spartacus ?

FD : That shoots in New Zealand, so I would kill to be on a show like that, even just a small part but it's problematic that there's a 17-hour plane flight. They tend to hire actors down there, unless they're huge regulars. They're actually my favorite kind of shows, so to be on something like that would be a dream.

AE : Season 3 of The Guild introduced Michele Boyd as Riley, who hooked up with Venom in the finale. Where will that story line pick up in Season 4 ?

FD : I'm still working out story lines right now, but I get wedded to characters. The problem is — and it's not really a problem &mdsah; but I love writing these supporting characters. Like Dina — Bladezz's (Vincent Caso) sister — was only supposed to have one line in the first season and was actually supposed to be a late-20s, trashy girl and I met his real-life sister, Tara, and thought, “This is the funniest kid I've ever met,” so I'm just going to rewrite the part for her so I could bring her back because he brings so much to the table as actor and helped me develop the character.

It's the same thing about Michele : That character was one that I didn't really know what to do with and she started as an antagonist to me, just kind of a one-episode girl. Then I had the idea to bring her back and she's fully formed as a much more interesting character that there's so many more things I can play with her. It's just a question if I have room for her. Michele is a fantastic actress and I'd love to work with her again.

AE : The scene in Season 3 where she starts giving you a backrub is pretty gay.

FD : [Laughs] Yeah ! I mean, it wasn't subtle ! I've alluded to that a few times with Codex. I think there's a few times in Season 2 ; there's a whole monologue where she says that she went out for dinner with somebody and it wasn't until she had her hand halfway up my leg that I realized something was up and Codex was going out with a gay woman. I've alluded to Codex being confused and not opposed to that in the past. I think she's the kind of girl who went through college intellectually thinking, “Well, I don't know (about her sexuality).” [Laughs] So I've kind of dropped hints here and there and actually in one of the drafts I wrote, the kiss at the very end (of Season 3) was Michele kissing Codex, but I thought that wasn't a direction I wanted to go.

Then I had the idea to pair her and Venom up, which I thought was perfect : The characters compliment each other ; they're very dysfunctional and not very representative of everybody in the world. But for these few characters, it doesn't feel like a huge leap to pair them up in the end. I'd love to see their home life ! [Laughs]

AE : AfterEllen readers would, too !

FD : Oh good ! Maybe we'll see a spinoff then ! [Laughs]

AE : It'd be great to see more of those two in Season 4.

FD : It's definitely in the back of my mind. We just have very limited time in five to eight minutes, so I want to get as much funny and as many of the great characters in as I can.

AE : With the success of “Date My Avatar” do you have plans to promote Season 4 with another great music video ?

FD : It's kind of hard when you set the bar that high if you think about that you need to be as good as that. There were so many elements that went together in that video and at the same time it was kind of a whim. … We always do an extra video for every season ; I just wouldn't want to do a pale version of the “Date My Avatar” video. After I get the season done, we'll focus on that. I have a couple of ideas, but we're not going to imitate that.

AE : The first of three Guild comics comes out March 24. Any plans to continue it beyond that ?

FD : It depends on how it does. I'm a new comic book writer, so we'll see if people get the comic. I definitely had to reinvent the way I tell stories, especially for the show for the comic format. It makes me appreciate comic book writing even more, because you have so little room.

At the end of the day, I ended up with something I'm really proud of. I'm really happy with how it came out, and I think fans will be, too, because it doesn't interfere with the web series story line. So if they enjoy it, I would definitely be open to doing more of them.

AE : So it's a completely independent story from the web series ? It's not a bridge story ?

FD : That's what I didn't want to do because I feel like that narrows the audience a little. It requires you to have watched the show and then remembered everything that went on during the show and that's fine, and maybe in the future that's a good idea, but for the first comic I wanted to be able to introduce the show ; I'm not going to assume that everybody has watched my show. That's why I held off agreeing to do this for Dark Horse for like a year.

Then I got the idea where I knew how to tell the story in a way that would represent how Cyd Sherman becomes Codex in The Guild form. It really is a story about somebody who is lost in life who finds fulfillment and also a love letter to video games.

I think online gaming has this perception that it ruins people's lives. But I also think the reverse is true ; we live in such a huge society and some people are adrift and can't really connect with people face to face or they don't know where to find people who have the same interests. Online, you connect with people over a passion or a topic vs. being circumstantially next to them physically or seeing them and saying, “I like the way that person looks,” as the way to talk to them. That doesn't represent people.

That's why I'm really proud of my show, because if you look at our cast, they're different ethnicities and at the same time, different ages. I think that's what's beautiful about the online world in that people are connecting past these preconceived notions that we think when we see somebody. Even I do it when I see somebody who is a certain race or a certain age and I'll think that I won't have anything in common with them, but they could be my best friend online if you never met them face to face. That's why I love my show and I love the internet.

AE : I think that's what AfterEllen really does, too.

FD : Yeah. I don't know if we're meant to live with billions of people on this Earth with the way that we've developed as small societies and that's what I think the Internet provides : small societies that you can really feel an emotional connection to where you feel like the world is tangible and you have real connections with people. It's weird because it's online, but maybe it's just an evolution of technology.

AE : Joss Whedon has talked about a Dr. Horrible sequel and perhaps a movie. What can you tell us about that ?

FD : I know that since Dollhouse ended, it's definitely a priority for him and the crew. I don't know if I'll be included, but I hope so.

AE : Any shot our beloved Penny will pull a Buffy and come back from the dead ?

FD : [Laughs] It's hard because I'm a writer and I know how it is to love an actor and try to figure out how to work them in, but I really have to think of the story. I've actually gotten some really cool fan art in the past of Penny in a vat of liquid, Ghost Penny, Robot Penny — which I really like because that could be cool makeup— Zombie Penny, Franken Penny, all this really great fan art. It's really cool what people come up with.

AE : Has The Guild helped you break free of the best-friend character stereotype ?

FD : [Laughs] Not really ! I actually auditioned for three or four secretaries this pilot season. But it's fine. At the end of the day I'm doing something that's much more fulfilling than doing that. It's just two different worlds. I have had other opportunities open up because writers are more aware of me than executives or producers and casting directors. I've actually had writers write me parts, which is awesome.

Felicia Day will be signing copies of "The Guild" #1 at a special cocktail party at Golden Apple Comics in Los Angeles (7018 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90038) on Friday, April 2 from 6-9 p.m. Admission is free.