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Marvel’s ‘Thor’ is coming to the big screen next summer, and ET’s own Kevin Frazier is exclusively with the hammer-wielding Norse god himself, Chris Hemsworth! Plus we get our first look at Anthony Hopkins as Odin and Idris Elba as Heimdall!

I was always a little bit skeptical about the Captain America movie based purely on the superhero’s costume. I mean, lets face it, if you’ve seen the Matt Salinger Captain America movie, you know how ridiculous swash buckler boots look. These images look realistic and the costume concept seems to be based more on the Ultiamtes version of Cap, but I have a feeling we’ll see “Stars and Stripes” at one point in this movie. Cant’t wait to see some Red Skull concept art!

As for Thor, what makes these images interesting is the fact that it’s the first time we’ve seen movie Thor holding the legendary hammer Mjolnir.

Idris Elba (The Wire, The Office, The Losers) answered a few of questions regarding his role as The Bifröst Bridge Gaurdian, Heimdall in the upcoming Thor movie.

How is your Roque different from the comic book?

Elba: Roque in the comic book is white and I’m black.

I didn’t even know that.

Elba: Yeah, I didn’t know either but it didn’t matter. There was no reflection on that in the screenplay but I definitely used Roque in the comic book as my skeleton to build my Roque. So I stayed as true as I could to him. The scar was the only physical attribute that I took from the comic book and applied to myself. Other than that, I just used his personality, his persona in the comic book to make my Roque.

Is this a recent development that you can make a change like that?

Elba: Yeah, casting now is taking definitely a more open-eyed approach to it. I was cast in Thor and I’m cast as a Nordic god. If you know anything about the Nords, they don’t look like me but there you go. I think that’s a sign of the times for the future. I think we will see multi-level casting. I think we will see that and I think that’s good.

With Thor do you look at the comic books or Nordic mythology?

Elba: I looked at the comic books actually because Heimdall, he’s a very central character and I wanted to reflect him as he is in the comic books.

What do you look like in Thor?

Elba: [Laughs] I look like how he’s designed, man. I can’t say but he looks phenomenal.

Do you get to do any cool action in that?

Elba: Yeah, I do, yeah. I can’t say, brother, but it’s really, really cool.

Source: Latino Review

When I first got into comics, I used to love the “What if” series; it would always explore the road not travelled and somehow resolve itself in less than 18 pages. The series has long been cancelled and now is reduced to a series of one-shots.
Well guess who’s back? The team that brought us fanboy favorite “Old Man Logan” and “Civil War” have returned to answer the question, What if “Batman” was the Joker? After being pushed back a couple of weeks, this New Comic Wednesday (March 23, 2010), Nemesis #1 will hit stands for a low a price of $2.99. As Master P would say; make sure you pick up two copies, one for home and one for the…. variant cover!

More footage here…

More Stan the Man from “Big Ban Theory” (continue reading…)

prototype, it looks bananas! Sigh, the nerd pr0n shelf continues to grow. More pics here at ActionFigurePics.com

-Charles Pr0nson

Norman about to catch a bad one? Siege just got a bit more interesting

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Like any Marvel nerd, of course I pre-ordered. Did I get my codes? Nope, same goes with all the other stores in my area. They actually had no idea what I was talking about, kind of funny considering I was standing next to this thing.

Image courtesy of  Marvel Strange Tales #1

Marvel has released the first image of the new Whiplash character design, created by Marko Djurdjevic (X-men, Thor) for an upcoming mini series. Is this the look and concept we can expect from Mickey Rourke’s character in IM2?

Very reminiscent of the art style used in the Metal Gear Series.