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Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars trilogy, will be voicing the Joker in the upcoming animated film version of Batman comic The Killing Joke. He’s contributed his vocal talents to the role many times in the past, including the Justice League TV series (2002-06) and the Batman: Arkham Knight video game released earlier this year.
But Hamill is a bit of a joker in real life as well. Autograph expert Steve Grad posted these 24 mostly-hilarious Hamill-autographed cards to his Facebook page on Wednesday. Enjoy:
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July 29, 2015 •
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German design studio Karakter does concept art for HBO’s Game of Thrones series, and they’ve posted some of the images they made for season 5 on their website karakter.de. In these images we see the vast spaces that give the series its epic feel and models for the creepy Wights. Note:
July 20, 2015 •
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Less than a month ago, we gave the classic UK spy-action TV series The Avengers a mention because one of its stars, Patrick Macnee, who played John Steed, died aged 93 in his California home. A happier reason, this time around, to indulge our Mrs. Peel fetish — today (July 20) is Diana
July 18, 2015 •
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The paintings of Rob Gonsalves, the “Master of Illusion,” are inspired by the trickery of M.C. Escher and surrealism of Rene Magritte. Gonsalves says on his Facebook page: A childhood of daydreaming and drawing has evolved into a career of making paintings that are primarily a
July 17, 2015 •
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Long ago, in a galaxy fa– wait, that’s not it. Long ago, in internet terms, WatchMojo.com made a video about the fighting style of Star Trek‘s Captain Kirk — played, of course, by William Shatner. It’s over six minutes long and if you have the time for such a thing,
July 1, 2015 •
Comics, Heavy Metal News, News, Popular, Top News
José Quintero’s cover art for Heavy Metal #275 (also available in Spanish, in limited quantities, as Metal Pesado #1) is drawing rave reviews. The beautiful woman, warriorlike, serpent gadgetry perched on her shoulders (with USB and iPhone chargers dangling), roses in her palms, human
June 27, 2015 •
Games, News, Popular
The latest creation of industrial design studio KEM Studio is one of those why-didn’t-w-think-of-that things that will end up on the wish list of every gamer who makes sweet dough and lives in a swank pad. Really, that plastic XBox/PS controller is just so… juvenile. Straight outta Toys
June 26, 2015 •
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Story via Portland Monthly: Toby Froud, the baby in the striped PJs from the movie Labyrinth, grew up, moved to Portland … and premiered his own fantasy puppet film Lessons Learned on Saturday in collaboration with Jim Henson’s daughter, Heather. He might not have been raised by Goblin King
June 19, 2015 •
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As we said earlier today, some big Jack Kirby Heavy Metal news. Here you go: Before the King of Comics’ debut in the pages of our hallowed (and now humbled) magazine, we present this mind-blowing artwork in a series of limited edition blacklight prints! Barry Geller & Jack Kirby’s “LORD
June 18, 2015 •
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Edward Gorey wrote over 100 books, and created his own goth-ish, quasi-Victorian aesthetic—despite only having left the United States once in his life. Before becoming well-known as an author in his own right, he worked for a few different publishers, doing cover art or art direction for novels
