It didn't take me long to figure out 'Aliens' was going to be a whole different ball game. Throwing out the long orchestral tension of the first movie and favouring something completely different. This was going to be an action-packed monster movie, and not a suspenseful horror like the first. I can completely see where Cameron was coming from and I call for a round of applause for the way he expanded the mythology to be hella entertaining.

“There are certain rules that one must abide by in order to create a successful sequel. Number one: the body count is always bigger.” - Randy, Scream 2. 

And if the body count is bigger the cast has to be bigger! Enter the marines, the 'Aliens' equivalent of a red shirt. I couldn’t wait to see just how each and every one of them was going to meet his or her demise. This one petrified me...

The introduction of Newt and the rising stakes of Ripley not only having to save herself but having to save the poor little orphan white girl was a stand out plot device. Not that I actually cared, I just cared that Ripley cared. I was against Newt from the moment she came out with, “We'd better get back, 'cause it'll be dark soon, and they mostly come at night... mostly.” How about you stop barking orders little girl and start talking like a normal person?!

“Number two: the death scenes are always much more elaborate - more blood, more gore - *carnage candy*.”
 

Point and case: the marines meeting the aliens for the first time. Holy crap! Guns, fire, explosives - all helpful when you're NOT fighting an enemy with acid for blood! How exactly do you kill an alien without getting hurt?  The only effective way so far is by tricking them into getting sucked the hell outta your spaceship.

“And number three: never, ever, under any circumstances, assume the killer is dead.”

I've seen 'Scream 2' enough times! I should have listened to Randy… but I didn't. When new android dude, Newt (who I would have left behind) and Ripley were safe I actually got off the couch to take my pizza box back to the kitchen. I had no idea that still to come was possibly the best fight scene I have ever seen. Transformer Ripley VS. Alien Queen.

Did I enjoy Aliens? Immensely – but I don't know which one I loved more? Let me know what you think guys. Alien or Aliens? Leftovers* for the best comment…

*There may or may not be leftovers.

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Alien.

The second I say that word out loud electric blue light blowing up the White House comes to mind. That is quickly followed by an image of Will Smith as the Fresh Prince only because it's hard for me to picture him as anyone else. You say that word to someone 10 years my senior and they will start to re-enact something bursting out of their stomach! So why doesn't that pop straight into my head? Well, two things; I'm a child of the nineties, and to be honest (and I'm ashamed to say this but)  I've never actually seen any of the 'Alien' films.

It’s true. I'm sorry! It's just one of those freak accidents. BUT! I long to rectify my mistake...

Over the next four nights I'm going to be devouring one Alien film at a time, (I'm discounting the two Alien Vs. Predator films because I don't think they actually count. Plus I'm ashamed to say this, but I have seen those two) starting with the original, 'Alien.' I wish myself good luck, and hope to capture the special something you may have had yourself when seeing these movies for the first time. I also hope that from this day forward when someone makes an Alien franchise reference, I don't just think of Family Guy.

2 hours later.

I had no expectations of 'Alien'. I didn't know what it was going to be about and to be honest, thought I was going to get a little distracted by how dated things were going to look. How wrong I was. 'Alien' is a completely compelling film. From the first scare at the 5 minute mark I was hooked. I call it a scare because I wasn't sure if the sound of the beeping computer was meant to make the audience jump or if I just had the television up too loud. Either way it worked. There I was, heart racing, being sucked right into a film that for me was full of mystery. 

What I love about the film is that it just kept changing the rules. As soon are the crew onboard Nostromo (along with the audience) knew what the danger was, the film would throw the curve ball at you. That's the wonderful thing about having an enemy that organically grows and evolves; you keep the audience on the edge of their seats.

SPOILER: (it's been 30 plus years, deal with it if you haven’t seen it!) Ash / Bilbo Baggins is a ROBOT? If someone had have made me make a list of the things I expected in this film, a robot would have been at number one thousand. It was a great little sub-plot and surprisingly grounded the film in real evil. The fact that a corporation put a robot on board to ensure the return of an alien life form, even if it meant putting the crew in danger.

I beg of you lazy kids of the nineties, watch the film! To everyone else, I get it now! And all of a sudden that game of charades all those years ago makes perfect sense. 



Tell me this, is it as enjoyable the second time round? Or the 10^th in some people’s cases I’m sure! I cannot wait for tomorrow night to see what happens when James Cameron adds an 'S' to 'Alien.'

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Nothing much has happened to the writer this week, with the tiny exception of his second wedding anniversary…  He also proved just how horrifyingly cute he and his wife can be, as they managed to get each other the same gift! (The unisex version’s out of stock before you say anything)

We start this week with DC Comics announcing they’re bringing a well-known character out of the closet, with the original Green Lantern, Alan Scott being rumoured to be it. We can but hope it’ll be done with the appropriate level of tact and not as a cheap gimmick. The reaction’s been pretty positive, but sadly there’s always an exception: bigot protest group One Million Moms (Who don’t have anywhere near that number) are calling for a boycott of both Marvel and DC over the issue. (I’m hoping it fails as spectacularly as their boycott of Archie Comics did.)

Why boycott Marvel as well you ask? That would be because X:Man Northstar popped the question to his partner recently, with the wedding due next issue. Here’s hoping it isn’t invaded by super villains and that Stan Lee and Jack Kirby can get in! J

Amidst all this, there’s been an event (hopefully) no-one can complain about. When 4 year old Anthony D'Allessandro refused to wear his hearing air, saying superheroes didn’t wear them’, his mother Christina wrote to Marvel asking if there were any. Marvel responded that Hawkeye’s hearing had been destroyed but, realizing this wasn’t enough, created a hearing impaired hero, naming the character after Anthony’s hearing aid. Try and criticise that!

There’s a new Arrow trailer (Hey, that’s Paul Blackthorne!) and details of the Blu Ray and DVD of The Avengers.  We’ve the first look at The Walking Dead’s Michonne and Peter Weller will voice Batman in the animated version of The Dark Knight Returns (There’s a few pictures from it here ), which will be a two parter.

Batman does not tell jokes, yet jokes about Batman are consistently funny. Odd that.

Legendary action star Jackie Chan (Is there a bone that man hasn’t broken?) has quit action movies. Fair enough, the guy’s 58 after all. Oh wait, turns out he just won’t be making as many of them and that was a mistranslation. All’s well that ends well!

Bad news everybody! Creator and show runner Dan Harmon has been fired from Community. The reasons are vague and Harmon’s statement didn’t help things. Combined with the fact that Chris McKenna (The last of the original writers) is leaving as well means things don’t look good. A memo to the cast about the situation has been leaked - we’ll keep you updated.

There’s been more bad news on that front, with Sanctuary being cancelled. Fans have already begun complaining about it, but creator and star Amanda Tapping was predictably classy, complete with a Douglas Adams reference! There’s been some good news though, with the cancellation of Dog the Bounty Hunter. For those of you who’ve not seen the show, it’s about a man best described as a life support system for a mullet.

I suppose *sunglasses* every dog has his day…

Aliens: Colonial Marines has also been pushed back to 2013, but we’ve found a couple of things to tide you over. The Meat and Potato theatre in Utah is staging a puppet version of Aliens (If Hudson freaks out like Kermit that will be the best thing ever) and there’s a free ebook telling the story of Alien, from the point of view of Jones the Cat.

We have the official synopsis for Pacific Rim, Noel Clarke has written a British superhero movie and Paramount have held GI Joe: Retaliation back 9 months, with the official reason being it’s now being converted to 3D, which has been confirmed by The Rock himself. ENOUGH WITH THE 3D! Couldn’t you just say ‘We can’t compete with The Avengers and want to release our movie when more than 3 people will see it?’ I’d hate to be at Hasbro at the moment – the movie was due out in about 5 weeks…

Marvel may finally be moving ahead with Ant-Man (Can he please not be a jerk like the Ultimates version?), you can check out some of Frank Frazetta’s Lord of the Rings illustrations and there’s fan art of Nikola Tesla and HP Lovecraft as paranormal investigators. If there’s some way to add Robert E Howard I’d consider it perfect.

Trust me, Ant-Man’s the least strange thing that’s has crawled out of Hulk’s nose …

You can watch the new Doctor Who mini episode, which was written by an 11 year old for the Script to Screen competition the BBC ran earlier this year, Chris Hemsworth doesn’t think the person we saw in the Avengers post credits scene will show up in Thor 2, though he hasn’t seen the script yet, and from the “Yeah, that’ll happen” department, DC Comics hope’s Alan Moore will be open minded about Before Watchmen. And people call me an optimist…

There’s a trailer for the new Sinbad series and just what did Karen Gillan steal from the TARDIS on her final day of shooting? The soundtrack for The Amazing Spider-Man has a few big spoilers, there’s a new True Blood trailer and there’s early plans for an Exorcist TV series. Edgar Wright’s adaption of Kolchak: The Night Stalker has a writer, Mass Effect 3 is getting an extended ending and you can watch the speech Neil Gaiman gave to the Philadelphia University of the Arts. 

There’s a tiny detail about the Doctor Who Christmas Special and a more than a bit freaky promotion for Prometheus was set up in the Paris subway system. We’ve the first 10 minutes of Teen Wolf season 2, there’s some more Avengers concept art, here and here, Damon Lindelof has finally explained the Lost finale and a puppet Eleventh Doctor has been having adventures in New York.

I’m a puppet now. Puppets are cool.

Here’s something I’d be you didn’t expect to read: a prequel to Hook, about Lost Boy Rufio, is on the way, with the actor who played him, Dante Basco, producing. If it’s not called Bangarang something is very wrong… Disney have pulled the plug on a live action Snow White thanks to John Carter’s under performance, Gary Oldman has joined the Robocop remake and an American judge has recommended banning the XBox 360.

There’s some behind the scenes footage of Defiance, SyFy’s new TV show/MMO cross over, 2 new Prometheus trailers and Ryan Reynolds has been linked to a remake of Highlander, which strikes me as being as bad an idea as an English language remake of The Killer, or Tom Cruise being part of a remake of The Magnificent Seven. Wait, those are true as well? *ticks box* That’s another sign of the End Times…

The play test kit for the next edition of Dungeons and Dragons has been released, there’s a preview of John Scalzi’s new book, Redshirts, about the crew of a starship whose crew die in mysterious ways on away missions and we’ve a new picture of The Lizard from The Amazing Spider-Man. There’s video talking about the monsters of the Doctor Who game The Eternity Clock and a researcher is claiming that exposure to young adult novels is teaching kids to swear. They didn’t do that to me, unless you count all the swear words I learnt from dictionaries.

That’s my kind of lawn ornament!

There’s some more Iron Man 3 casting, a new red band trailer for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and an amusing Grand Theft Auto modification: Grand Theft R2. We’ve a new Total Recall trailer and The Walking Dead will simulate a zombie apocalypse during Comic Con this year. Isn’t that just the final day of con before everyone’s had caffeine and/or bacon?

There’s the first video from season 3 of The Walking Dead, JK Rowling has pleaded with fans to not buy owls as pets, but sponsor them at bird sanctuaries and Mads Mikkelson is in negotiations for a part in Thor 2 – there’s no word on who he’ll play, but rumour has it The Enchantress will be the villain thus making Skurge(AKA The Executioner) a likely choice.

Another viral video for Prometheus has surfaced, this one about Charlize Theron’s character, there’s the first clip from Total Recall, some new Dark Knight Rises posters and video from Superman vs the Elite. We’ve a trailer for the Marvel Heroes MMO and Marvel have also released a new line of superhero themed jewellery. While the Punisher gear is pretty tacky, the Thor earrings are awesome.

Bless you Stan Lee. Don’t ever change.

Daniel Radcliffe has been linked to a version of Pinocchio that will be done in stop motion and directed by Guillermo Del Toro (I knew that would get your attention…)  we’ve a trailer for the game 007 Legends: Moonraker and an update on Sherlock season 3. Indie rock band The National have recorded a version of The Rains of Castamere for the Game of Thrones season 2 soundtrack, there’s the first trailer for the French film Holy Motors, about a man who lives multiple parallel lives and stars Kylie Minogue, and there’s another plethora of Dark Knight Rises promotional ads.

We end this week continuing our tradition of finishing up on something lovely! Artist Ron Miller wanted to do something to celebrate his wife Judith’s recent victory over cancer, but he decided to do something a little different. With both Ron and Judith being fans of pulp art, he created art of her as a pulp heroine battling giant robots! That’s one of the most romantic things I’ve seen in a long time…

Quote of the Week:

This week’s quote’s in honour of the writer’s anniversary, given the he feels it perfectly sums up his marriage.

(A giant robot is rampaging through the city)

Lucius: Honey?

Honey: What?

Lucius: Where's my super-suit?

Honey: What?!

Lucius: WHERE IS MY SUPER-SUIT?!

Honey: I, uh, put it away!

Lucius: Where?!

Honey: Why do you need to know?!

Lucius: I need it!

Honey: Nuh-uh! Don't you think about runnin' off and doin' no derring-do! We've been plannin' this dinner for two months!

Lucius: The public is in danger!

Honey: My evening's in danger!

Lucius: YOU TELL ME WHERE MY SUIT IS, WOMAN! WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE GREATER GOOD!

Honey: "Greater good"?! I am your wife! I'm the greatest good you are ever gonna get!

The Incredibles

Remember, The Shadow knows…

That's right readers, we're back from our plague enforced break and raring to go! Outside of being ill, the writer's been planting the seeds of geekdom by trying to convince his 3 year old godson that Doctor Who is cooler that Thomas the Tank Engine. It hasn't worked yet, but there's time…

Be warned though, we've got a lot to cover today (Especially in the world of television) so you might want to grab a bite to eat and a drink. Are you comfy? Then let's begin…

Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg will be filming The World's End (The third in their 'Blood and Ice Cream' trilogy that started with Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz) this year, Joss Whedon has written an open letter to his fans, while Disney has confirmed an Avengers sequel . Shocked, gambling, winnings etc. In further news about the film, Whedon's not sure if he'll direct the sequel, adoptees have called for a boycott over a line of Thor's and shawarma sales are booming.

The Tintin sequel will have a new character in Professor Cuthbert Calculus, there's two new pictures of Red Dwarf season 10 and a fantastic Doctor Who scarf. There's a plethora of clips from Snow White and the Huntsman, another Amazing Spider-Manfeaturette, Sissy Spacek has given her views on the Carrie remake (She starred in the original for those who didn't know) and Sam Raimi's suing a production company trying to make their own Evil Dead film. Meanwhile, in the 'could be very good, but could also be very bad' department comes word that Peter Berg still wants to make Hancock 2.

That's responsible parenting – keeping it in the pack means it's worth more!

The first draft of Tron 3is complete, there's a four minute preview of The Amazing Spider-Man and a London woman is selling Doctor Who corsets. A new viral video for Prometheus has surfaced, with Noomi Rapace's phone call being observed by the Yutani corporation and in news that shouldn't surprise anyone, it's legal to kill Bigfoot in Texas.

James Cameron has hinted at a fourth Avatar film (Shouldn't he hurry up and make 2 and 3 then? He's not getting any younger…) which would seem to indicate he's not doing Battle Angel Alita anymore. There's the launch trailer for the Game of Thrones video game, a new Doctor Who webisode will air on the 24^th and Karen Gillan really wants to appear on Community. Internet, let's make this happen! #AmymeetsAbed

There's instructions on how to make your own superhero heels and Ned Stark desserts, the first trailer for Elder Scrolls Online and in memory of the late Maurice Sendak (Author of Where the Wild Things Are) comes Where the Wild Avengers Are. There's a short clip and a behind the scenes feature on the new Wallace and Gromit short, the script of Catching Fire is getting a rewrite and fan speculation about casting is stirring up yet more racism. Oh, what a brave new world, that has such people in it…

Thorgi, the barking Avenger!

We've some lovely Game of Thronestravel posters for your next trip through Westeros, while Celtic punk band Irish Moutarde has covered The Bear and the Maiden Fair from the book series. We've a red band trailer for the 'average guys against aliens' film Neighbourhood Watch, which is now called The Watch, while the long awaited 'gamers summon a demon' film Knights of Badassdom still has no release date.

Leonard Nimoy wanted to play the villain in Star Trek 5 (Wouldn't that mean he'd have played the director?), there's a map showing how much of London is buried beneath the Earth and the first picture from Do No Harm, a modern version of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Will it be better than Steven Moffat's Jekyll? All signs point to no and we say that with absolute authority, because Jekyll was wet your pants in fear brilliant, whereas US adaptions of UK shows are almost universally steaming piles of poo.

Peter 'Robocop' Weller has given come cryptic hints as to his part on Star Trek 2 and Tom Wilson, better known as Biff Tannen from the Back to the Future films, gets asked about the films a lot. Instead of getting grumpy about it, he simply had a business card made up. There's a look at the video game Artemis, which let's you and 6 friends be the bridge crew on a starship, some more Iron Man 3casting news and a proof of concept trailer for an animated version of the Ring of the Nibelung, which can only mean one thing…

What, you were expecting something else?

There's a look at the new genre shows on the ABC and TNT networks, while you won't have to complain about Fox cancelling your favourite sci fi shows this year, as they don't have any! (Well, barring Fringe but that's in it's final season)

Tricia Helfer mighthave something to do with Blood and Chrome, the new Hulk TV show could be on air as early as next year, some of the folks behind Falling Skies have admitted they might have written themselves into a corner with last season's cliffhanger and Alcatrazhas been cancelled. The Care Bears are getting a new series, while the Punisher and Jessica Jones won't be.

There's the first look at Revolution, the new show from JJ Abrams and Eric Kripke, you'll need to change what country you're in to watch the first episode of Tron Uprising, we've the first look at Chris Meloni on True Blood, Leonard Nimoy has unretired for the Fringe season finale and in news that made me do this, Communityhas been renewed!

CBS have picked up Elementary, the American adaption of Sherlock and released a trailer for it. Yes, Steven Moffat is still tetchy about it. The Walking Deadis casting, a Dalek impersonator was on Britain's Got Talent and we've part of a teaser for Clone Wars season 5. The CW channel have picked up both the Beauty and the Beast remake and Arrow (Here's the first clip from each show) along with renewing Nikita, there's the first trailer for True Blood season 5 and NBC have commissioned a new show called Blackbeard.

Amen to that.

We've the first teaser poster for and a press release about Sin City 2 (3D. Really?), which appears to confirm it's being directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller along with a new clip from Brave, which appears to have some spoilers in the soundtrack. There's some casting news on Red 2, the first picture of Scarlet Johansson in Under the Skin, the trailer for Assassin's Creed 3 has been unlocked by fans and we've some pictures of the Doctor and Amy Pond playing with themselves.

We have the short film Spoiler, a post zombie apocalypse cop film and a trailer for Argo, based on the true story of a fake science fiction film that helped get 6 American diplomats out of Iran in 1977. In Lego news, the next video game will be the Lord of the Rings, while fans have assembled both the Nine Circles of Hell (Based on Dante's Divine Comedy) and what daily life on Hoth must be like. Lastly in this bit, an American man is seeking $26,000 to build World 1-1 of Super Mario Brothers. Hey, I know worse ways to spend that kind of cash…

Contagion 2 is being planned, there's the first picture of Lena Heady in Dredd, Neil Marshall is set to direct Dracula and the Last Voyage of Demeter while UK chain Sainsbury's appear to be using some dodgy marketing to convince people to buy the 1990 Captain America film. On that topic, movie merchandising has gone one step further (down the toilet), with a Watchmen toaster and an incredibly sad looking Batman trying to sell Mountain Dew.

Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made!

SyFy US have announced their summer line up and its grim reading. There's some highlights (New season of Warehouse 13, Alphas and Face Off), but that's offset by the premiere of such gems as Insane or Inspired? , which is people talking about internet videos. Amber Benson, how badly did you need work? Almost everything else premiering is ghost based - there's season 2 of Paranormal Witness, Jack (Son of Ozzy) Osbourne and a friend on the Paranormal Highway, along with Haunted Collector and School Spirits. Destination Truth returns for another season of finding nothing and we can't ignore the channel's new original movies, such as Jersey Shore Shark Attack (No, it's not the JS cast being attacked by sharks. I'm sad as well) and Bigfoot, which features a Brady and a Partridge. And yet there's still no word on a fifth season of Sanctuary!

They've also announced a raft of new shows in development and as you may have guessed, not one is set in space! Among them are Divas of Dress Up, following 6 female cosplayers (Yep, that won't be pandering to a male audience in any way...), Fan Girl/Fan Boy Project (I'm guessing it's a working title) which is from a producer of Jersey Shore, Toy Traveller, about a guy who travels the world seeking rare toys (Isn't that what Ebay is for?) and two shows (Master Control and Stranger than Fiction) that resemble a live action version of the comments section on YouTube. And humanity's top of the food chain how?

There's the first clip from Prometheus and yes, Lance Henriksen will cameo in the film. Henriksen has also said a Millennium movie has a good chance of happening, which is nice. Professor Curt Connors is looking for interns, the damage bill inflicted on New York in The Avengers has been calculated and there's some pictures from the new Arkham City DLC, Harley Quinn's Revenge.

And it's still less creepy than Twilight…

An audition tape for Game of Thrones season 3 was leaked, Ridley Scott has said Blade Runner 2 will have a female protagonist and there's an Atomic Weapons Museum in Las Vegas. No, we don't know if there's a Major Kong Ride, but until there is, I'm not going! Steven Moffat has clarified that River Song is bisexual, Matthew Modine (Who's appearing in The Dark Knight Rises) has said Batman could beat up Iron Man while Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie are planning something. Make of that what you will…

From the "No, that won't annoy people at all' department comes word that the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency has added unskippable anti piracy warnings to all new American DVD's and Blu-Ray's. Yes, the combined length is a mere 20 seconds, but that's not the point. The point is I've just legally purchased something and you're yelling PIRACY IS BAD at me!

In further news that makes me want to burn things, the PBS channel cut a combined 24 minutes (8 minutes each episode) from season 2 of Sherlock to make room for commercials. I'd love to throw around terms like heretical, but money grubbing and disrespectful come more to mind. I understand you only have so much airtime and need commercials to pay for the show, but couldn't you just extend the time slot? What goes through the minds of the people who make these decisions? Do they think Network was a 'how to' guide?

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The Lobo movie has a director, The Rock, AKA Dwayne Johnson, could be playing a DC superhero and if you've ever wanted to combine Monopoly with the Cthulhu Mythos, you'll want to play The Doom that Came to Atlantic City. Fan theories are racing around the internet about how could return, Orson Scott Card said most of the Ender's Game movie wasn't based on his book but it'll look great and there's a pretty spoilery looking Prometheus poster.

We end this week with a crowning moment of awesome, that being the story of how a five year old geek (and his mother) got to meet the Avengers. Warms the heart and brings a tear to the eye...

Quote of the Week:

Hyde has been shot repeatedly, and is covered in blood)

Hyde: Look at that... Look what you did... This was CLEAN ON THIS MORNING!

Jekyll

Remember, The Shadow knows...

ADAM BALDWIN – Chuck’s John Casey, Serenity & Firefly’s “man called Jayne”, star of Full Metal Jacket & many voice-credit including Superman/Clark Kent in Superman/Doomsday and the current Transformers Prime

VERNE TROYER - he ‘completed us’ as Mini Me in Austin Powers and guarded Gringott’s as
Griphook the goblin in Harry Potter

NOAH HATHAWAY - beloved character Atreyu in the 1980s favourite The Neverending Story and Boxey from the original Battlestar Galactica

ELISABETH RÖHM – Brainy bombshell from Angel (Detective Kate Lockley), Heroes (Lauren Gilmore), and Law and Order (ADA Serena Southerlyn)
 
JOHN VIENER - voice-over actor (and writer/ producer) of Family Guy, as well as voicing characters on The Cleveland Show, American Dad and many more.


Further, as part of the ongoing 10th Anniversary celebrations in June, Supanova is once again hosting some of the original guests from the first ever Supanova in 2002:
 
YVONNE CRAIG - from the Golden Age of television, Adam West’s original Batgirl

DAVID MACK - critically acclaimed comic-book illustrator and creator of the Kabuki series

STEPHANIE NADOLNY - voice of DragonBall’s young Goku and DragonBall Z’s Gohan.
 

They join already announced guests from:
 
FILM/TV:

CHRISTOPHER LLOYD - the legendary Emmett ‘Doc’ Brown from Back to the Future

HAYDEN PANETTIERE - Heroes’ indestructible cheerleader, & passionate activist seen in The Cove
 
CALLUM BLUE - British star of The Tudors and Dead Like Me, and Zod in Smallville

COLIN CUNNINGHAM - USAF Major Paul Davis in Stargate SG-1; plus Falling Skies & Sanctuary

MERCEDES MCNAB - This ‘Scream Queen’ is best known as Harmony from Buffy & Angel
?NATALIA TENA - Harry Potter’s heroic ally, Nymphadora Tonks, and currently starring in Game of Thrones
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ANIME/CARTOONS/GAMING:

JENNIFER HALE – videogame superstar Hale voices characters in Mass Effect, Metal Gear Solid, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

VIC MIGNOGNA – popular star of Fullmetal Alchemist (Edward Elric), and Dragonball Z (Broly)
 
 

AUTHORS:

CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI - Author of the Inheritance Cycle: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, & Inheritance.
 

 
COMIC-BOOK CREATORS:

JIM CHEUNG – British illustrator renowned for his work on Marvel Comics’ Scion, New Avengers: Illuminati, Young Avengers, and Avengers: The Children’s Crusade
NICOLA SCOTT – Illustrator of Earth 2, Birds of Prey, and Teen Titans
 
PLUS Seattle’s own fabulous Nerd Rock band, KIRBY KRACKLE