Courtesy of Kid Robot, set yours up here.

I’ve been watching this sculpt from Nerd One as it delevoped from concept to prototype and I’m really jazzed to see how cool it came out in its first production colorway.  This version of Steregon is an exclusive for this year’s Wonder Festival in Japan (which was yesterday, I believe).

Anywhoo, I really like everything about this guy from the concept to the pose to the super cool texture/ paintjob combo.  If you want more info on him, check out Nerd One’s official site here, and kudos to you if you can read any of it!

With the news coming out last week in regards to Bendis’ and Romitas Avengers book, there have been many questions in regards to what the other titles may be if any. Well, Marvel announced today the second Avengers book entitled Secret Avengers. This book will be written by Ed Brubaker, who has been doing a fantastic job with Captain America and had a brilliant run on Uncanny X-men previously, and will be drawn by Mike Deodato who currently is the artist on Dark Avengers. Now with the Secret Avengers book being announced we get a teaser image of the first roster member, who this is can be anybodies guess as the image is blacked out but I’m going with Venom for the hell of it.

Spoilers for Ghostbusters 3 in this Bill Murrayinterview

While doing promotion for the upcoming film The Wolfman, director Joe Johnston spoke about his upcoming gig of directing The First Avenger: Captain America. As reported by CHUD, via Aintitcool, Johnston confirmed that the villain for the upcoming film will be none other than The Red Skull. This was pretty much a guarantee considering the movie takes place during WWII, but it is always nice to have 100% confirmation. On top of that new though, is that The Invaders will play a very substantial role in the film as well, being featured in “the whole second half of the film” according to Johnston. The Invaders were a group of heroes consisting of Namor, The Human Torch (the original not Johnny Storm), Toro, Bucky, Cap and many other rotating heroes. Basically they were The Avengers of that time period. What will be interesting of course is what heroes will be featured in these Invaders. If Namor is there it would be a perfect way to set up his solo film or even have him find Cap frozen in ice at the end of the movie, setting up the Avengers movie for 2012. With all this news, we should be hearing casting confirmation for Cap, Red Skull and many other characters soon as The First Avenger: Captain America is set to be released on July 22nd 2011.

Due to a slight delay in the book’s hardcover release, Chicago Comics and Challengers have rescheduled their joint “Strange Tales” party and signing from February 13th to March 6th.

This event should be one of the coolest in recent Nerd history, and will be totally worth the wait. Plus there will be beer. Nerd City will see you there.

With the announcement earlier this week that Brian Michael Bendis and John Romita Jr would be the creative team for one of the Avengers books that will be coming out after The Siege, Marvel has continued to release promo images of The Avengers by Romita. So far all the art looks great, but really JRJR can’t do wrong in my book, but what is interesting is a new teaser image by Brian Hitch that features Hawkeye. We have a Hawkeye design by JRJR so speculation still continues in regards to who will be on what teams and what creative teams will be handling each Avengers book. So speculate away, until then enjoy the great art of Romita and Hitch below.

All images courtesy of Newsarama.

As reported by Kotaku, Rare will have a playable version of the hit N64 game Perfect Dark at the Xbox Gaming Summit in San Fransisco next week. Perfect Dark for Xbox Live has been highly anticiapted by the gaming community ever since it was rumored over a year ago. What will be great about this is the game will run in full 1080p and 60fps, and of course will have online multiplayer. Looks like I can add this to the list of games that would make me want a 360, but that isn’t going to happen anytime soon. Unfortunately, with Microsoft owning Rare and the James Bond rights being held by another company right now there is little hope that we will ever see an updated Goldeneye for the Wii….but one can hope. Below you will see the original N64 screen shot followed by the new screenshots detailing the upgrades to the game. Images courtesy of Kotaku and for more information visit the official Perfect Dark site right here. No official release date has been set for the game yet.

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Sorry Max, but this post isn’t about that New Moon.

My Plastic Heart in New York will be the place to be this evening for the opening of this year’s New Moon: Interpretations of the Chinese Zodiac show.  It promises to be a great show with an amazing lineup of artists. In case you hadn’t picked up on it by now, all of the pieces in the show will be Chinese zodiac-themed.

Opening reception is 6-9 p.m. tonight.

For more info, check out My Plastic Heart’s official site here.

Glass Hat is the new show opening at the always awesome Gallery 1988 Los Angeles that will feature artists from the “Grass Hut” collective. It opened last night, but will run until Feb. 26th. It will feature artwork and customs from Grass Hut artists like Nerd City favorite Le Merde, Bwana Spoons, Martin Ontiveros, Apak, Justin “Scrappers” Morrison and Arbito, and also feature friends of Grass Hut Shanggs, Shawn Wolfe, Gargamel, David Horvath, Kiyoshi Nakazawa and John Black.

Sorry that I totally missed giving the “heads up” on last night’s opening.  But I really think this one is going to be worth checking out.

For more info, go to the official G1988 site here.

For more info on all things Grass Hut, check out their official blog here.

Holy Shit! It’s fucking official:Tim Seeley’s “Colt Noble and the Megalords“, Nerd City’s first-ever web comic, is being released in print from Image Comics this Wednesday, February 10th!

In celebration, the night of the release, @ 5-7 p.m., Challengers Comics is hosting a signing and party with the man himself, Tim Seeley, and it is highly, highly probable the Nerd CIty boys will also be making an appearance (After swinging by Chicago Comics first, of course.)

COLT NOBLE and the MEGALORDS from AndThankYouForFlying on Vimeo.

No matter your local comic shop, go out and support Tim and Nerd City by picking up a copy of this awesome, awesome book. Seriously, this is one of the most exciting moments in Nerd City history.

Well, here’s another time waster. If you’ve ever wanted Robin to say something to Batman that would result in him being smacked, now’s your chance to make it happen! The link below is for a Batman and Robin comic panel generator. Have fun.

http://www.batmancomic.info/

This year EA Sports is teaming up with Doritos to allow the fans to choose who will be on the cover of next years Madden game. The three choices are Drew Brees (QB for The Saints), Reggie Wayne (WR for The Colts) and Jared Allen (DE for The Vikings). What is great about this is besides allowing the fans to choose, is that a defensive player is a voting choice. Not since Ray Lewis on Madden 05 has a defensive player (well Troy Polamalu was on the Madden 10 cover with Larry Fitzgerald) been the sole player to possibly be on the cover. What I now ask of all you nerds out there is to go to the official voting site (right here) and vote for Jared Allen. My guess is that Drew Brees will get this, but if we all work together we can do our best to get Jared Allen the cover that he rightfully deserves. Next to Scott Pollard, Jared Allen is the most interesting man in sports. So please help me and Jared out and do your part by voting. And according to Diddy, if you don’t vote you die. For more information on Jared Allen you can visit his official site.

Back in September, SEGA began teasing us with vague references to a new “old school” game called Project Needlemouse. Once announced diligent nerds scoured the internet for any clues on what this could be, uncovering design art very similar to the old Sonic games. Throughout the next months SEGA continued teasing us by unveiling random Sonic related character names crossing off a few everyday until it was revealed, officially, that the new game would be starring Sonic. Of course at that time SEGA didn’t tell us anything about how the game would look or play exactly, leading many of us to believe it would be a 2D style game with 3D graphics. Well today SEGA has confirmed 100% that Project Needlemouse will not only be a new Sonic game (as it was stated back in September) but will be a direct sequel to Sonic and Knuckles giving us Sonic The Hedgehog 4. The gameplay is exactly what most people, myself included, were looking for and that is old school 2D gameplay with fancy new graphics. Sonic 4 is scheduled to be available for download this summer on the Wii, PS3 and xbox 360.