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Giveaway: Scar 3D on DVD!

Want to grab the Scar 3D DVD including 2 pairs of 3D glasses? This is the place!

You already grasped that ComicsOnline reviews all the best in horror and now you can win Scar 3D before it even hits the stores. Now you have a stab at winning your own copy for free! This DVD contains both 2D and 3D versions of the film as well as two sets of the classic magenta/cyan glasses you’ll need to watch it.


the town sherriff is a stand-up guy

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Anime DVD Review: FLCL (Fooly Cooly), The Complete Series

 

 

It’s not a tumor!

Finally, finally the brilliant OVA (Original Video Animation) from the creators of Neon Genesis Evangelion is available in a single DVD or Blu-ray format, loaded with juicy extras!  FLCL or Fooly Cooly follows young Naota in awkward flirtations with his brother’s ex-girlfriend, as he suddenly encounters a guitar-slinging alien girl named Haruhara Haruko, her sentient yellow Vespa, and a slew of robots Naota must fight.  Luckily, he has the aid of Canti, a TV-headed humanoid bot that sprouts from Naota’s own noggin.  All this madness is brought to you in glossy, vivid animation with a bangin’ soundtrack. 

Giveaway: Tron 2-Movie Blu-ray Collection (Contest Ended)

UPDATE: Contest has ended. Winners will be notified shortly. Check back soon to ComicsOnline for more giveaway opportunities!

Want to win the 5-Disc 2-Movie Collection which includes TRON: Legacy on 3D Blu-ray, 2D Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital Copy and TRON: The Original Classic on 2D Blu-ray?

As you may recall from our Best of 2010 ComicsOnline Podcast, Tron: Legacy was our overall favorite movie of 2010 and now you can win this deluxe set for free.

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Movie Review: Sucker Punch

 
 
What happens when you put five incredibly hot (and scantily clad) women against Steam-Powered-Mechanical-Zombie-Nazis, Dragons, Monsters, Robots, and Stone Samurai Warriors? You get Sucker Punch, the newest spectacle from Director Zack Synder (300, Watchmen). This new visual endeavor starts off as a slow-going intro to a psychadelic music video (enter: Jefferson Airplane’s ‘White Rabbit’, just in case the audience wasn’t aware that they should be on a hard-and-fast acid trip), crescendos into a dystopian first-person-shooter (ala Bioshock), and ends with a half-hour attempt to tie fantasy and reality together in a satisfactory ending.

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Book Review: The Wise Man’s Fear plus interview with Patrick Rothfuss!

By Brenda Waldrop

Patrick Rothfuss follows up his wildly successful first novel “The Name of the Wind” with this superb telling of “day two” in Kvothe’s story.

To say that “The Wise Man’s Fear” was one of the most superb pieces of literature I’ve had the pleasure to read in some time would be an understatement.  Every one of just under 1,000 pages is suffused with such incredible detail that the reader is instantly whisked away into Kvothe’s world of Sympathy and music, treachery and betrayal, friendship, love, and madness.  The pages practically turn themselves, and if like me you have a day job that requires your presence, you’ll find yourself suddenly realizing that sleep is overrated!

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Anime DVD Review: Disgaea, The Complete Series

 

Don’t feed the penguin, Dood!

The Netherworld has never seen a small demon with such large ambition!  Prideful and power-hungry, Laharl, son of the former overlord, is determined to claim his deceased father’s throne and rule not only the demon world, but the realms beyond.  At Laharl’s side is a polar opposite pair of gals:  the demon Princess Etna and angel trainee Flonne.  Throw in a trio of Earth Defenders and endless winged-penguin Prinnies for one odd and hilarious anime adventure!

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Anime DVD Review: Black Butler, Season One

 

According to our new arrival, life is more than mere survival.

He cooks.  He cleans.  He kills.  The debonair Sebastian may not be Mr. Belvedere, but to his young and fragile master Ciel Phantomhive, he is certainly one hell of a butler.  For Sebastian’s array of talents are not exactly God-given.  Sebastian is an akuma shitsuji:  a devil butler. 

FF in Fan Fiction

Check out one of the write-ups in today’s Woot-off:

http://www.woot.com/blog/viewentry.aspx?id=16574

You don’t know what a woot-off is? It’s where Woot sells one product at a time until they sell out, then they move on the the next item, while all the while everyone just wants to buy a Bandolier of Carrots or a Box of Chorizo. If that doesn’t make sense yet, maybe you better read all about the great deals they have.

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Blu-ray Review: Due Date

Due Date, the newest film from Director Todd Phillips (The Hangover), is now available on Blu-ray.  Due Date reunites Phillips with Hangover star Zach Galifianakis, and adds Iron Man himself, Robert Downey Jr, to his newest comedic endeavor.

Can Patrick Rothfuss and Nathan Fillion Revive Firefly?

photos courtesy Patrick Rothfuss

By Brenda Waldrop

Patrick Rothfuss, author of the international best seller “The Name of The Wind”, and the highly anticipated sequel, “The Wise Man’s Fear”, to be released March 1st, 2011, recently posted an “Open Letter to Nathan Fillion” on his website, suggesting they team up to bring back Firefly!

Ok, it’s a bit more complex than that; in the letter Rothfuss mentions a recent interview Fillion gave to EW.com where he quotes Nathan as saying:

“If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to Firefly, make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet”

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DVD Review: The Superhero Squad Show: Quest for the Infinity Sword- Volume 3


Hero up, Squaddies!


By Morgan Barrett


The Superhero Squad Show  is an action-packed, family-friendly show (with a kick-ass theme song) full of Marvel’s classic superheroes and villains. In Volume 3 (now available on DVD), the greatest heroes unite in search of the missing fragments of the Infinity Sword. The show is full of nutty characters and witty humor as the world’s greatest superheroes prevent Dr. Doom and his hysterically evil minions from completing the Infinity Sword.


Volume 3 features everything from silly love spells to mayhem at Mutant High.

2 for 2/22 Tuesday Giveaway! Disney/Ghibli Blu-ray and DVD!

In honor of 2/22 2sday, We’re giving away 2 prize packages, each with 2 Blu-rays!

Disney and Studio Ghibli are releasing 2 of their classics 2 weeks from 2day! Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind on Blu-ray/DVD combo, and Tales from Earthsea on DVD are available for pre-order by clicking either of the 2 box images below, but now you can win them 2!