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Last week we focused on Ghostey‘s chibi versions of Team Who. Today we focus on a nerdtacular mashup that was too much to resist. From left to right we have: The 11th Doctor, {…} from the unfamiliar(yet appreciated Deviant artist vert-is-ninja, The Piemaker from the brilliant, yet canceled(thanks Fox)Pushing Daisies, Barney Stinson from How I Met Your Mother(a show that baffles us by its continued existence), and your new God and ours Castiel from Supernatural.

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Those of you already tuned into the geek webs already know that TV’s Eric Kripke(SUPERNATURAL) is rumored to do a Sandman series for HBO.

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Now comes word that Warner Bros. TV is acquiring the rights to Neil Gaiman’s Sandman from sister company DC Comics.

A Little Back Story on the Graphic Novel
The much loved vertigo series The Sandman by Neil Gaiman revolves around Dream, Lord of all Dreams. He goes goes by many names: Morpheus, Oneiros, The Shaper, The Shaper of Form, Lord of the Dreaming, The Dream King, Dream-Sneak, Dream Cat, Murphy, Kai’ckul and Lord L’Zoril to name a few. Dream’s name and appearance varies according to the person, or being, observing him.

The neatest trick of The Sandman graphic novels is that Morpheus is the main character but he does not appear that often in his own book. We, the audience, get to follow a delightful cast of damaged, aka damn interesting, people as they encounter The Dream King at various stages of their lives. It’s worth noting that usually these stages are the worst moments of their lives. Such is the way of stories.

The Lord of Dreaming is not omnipotent and he is the only powerful anthropomorphic personification of an aspect lording over the lives of humans. Dream is a member of the family of seven called The Endless. His siblings are: Destiny, Death, Desire, Despair, Destruction(The Prodigal), and Delirium(formerly Delight).

A HBO series based off these books has the chance of raising the bar for television to unbelievable heights. It also has the chance to stink on ice. The Sandman has been in movie development hell for decades. Less creative minds have have been attached, written scripts and, thankfully, not succeeded in pulling a Shyamalan.

Seriously, we read those old scripts. They made Jon Peters Superman movie ideas look like Dostoevsky.

While we adore what Eric Kripke has done for SUPERNATURAL, the fanboy in us secretly hopes The Suits won’t get this TV series off the ground.

The Endless by Deviant Artist T-Head

l-r:Desire, Despair, Destruction(in back), Dream, Death, Delirium, Destiny

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Synopsis
The Winchester boys finally get a chance to fight demons without budgetary constraints.

What We Learned:
Thirty-four seconds is not enough.

Why We’re Gonna Watch:
SUPERNATURAL is a guilty pleasure. Watching what is essentially The Hardy Boys with Demons grow and flourish over the years has been a treat. It makes us wonder where the Nancy Drew with Ghosts counterpart has been hiding. Unless that’s what Buffy the Vampire Slayer has been all along.

When’s it coming?

Warner Home Video will ship Supernatural the Animation on Blu-ray and DVD in Japan in two boxes on January 12 and April 6, 2011.

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It’s Thursday and we’re missing Supernatural.

Yuya Uchida (Soul Eater’s Dr. Franken Stein, Naruto Shippūden’s Rinji) will dub the role of Sam, while Hiroki Touchi (Trinity Blood’s Abel Nightroad, Bokurano’s Kokkpelli) will dub the role of Dean. Both actors dubbed these same roles for the live-action version in Japanese.

Also, we haven’t talked anime in a while. It’s nice to solve a problem of two birds with one stone.

At the Rising Con Spain 2010, Jensen and Jared confirmed the project and that they’d seen and approved the artwork for Sam and Dean. They also said they would voice the first couple of English language episodes.

• * Supernatural Anime website
• * See also Doujinshi
• * Jensen talks about meeting Yuya Uchida and Hiroki Touchi who voice Sam and Dean in Japan by Nitoj2

The Winchester brothers (Sam and Dean) will be designed to look like the original actual actors (Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki). Sub characters: e.g. John, Bobby, Mary, Jessica etc. will be designed in a completely new way to give fresh impression. Enemies (Creatures, Demon and Ghosts) will be given a cool design taking full advantage of Japanese anime expression.

When’s it coming?
January 2011.

via Supernatural wiki

Trends are a hard thing to capture even before the Internet LOL’d at cats committing crazy antics. Now that Twitter is “famous” insanity barely describes the random “trending topics” that rear their ferret-y little heads from day to day. What was going to be a post about mis-aimed religion transformed into a post about TV influencing the series of tubes fodder – again.
Because Lucifer Knows That Twitter is Devilish

screencap via @superwiki

In a nutshell, SUPERNATURAL is: The Hardy Boys fighting real ghosts and demons. Over the years it’s gone from battling things that go bump in the night to parrying with full fledged demons. Last season turned all that upside down by introducing angels into the mix. It was just a matter of time before Lucifer Morningstar would enter the fray to raise the stakes to apocalyptic levels. This is exactly what happened last Thursday at 8 PM CDT.

Supernatural fans began trending the Twitter hashtag #luciferiscoming, to build interest in this long awaited season premiere. This digital roots tactic was successful but because some people jump to conclusions before having the facts tied down, all hell broke loose. Only not literally.

After #luciferiscoming and #supernatural got to first and second position on the trending topics list. Despite fans posting links to Supernatural sites, some other Tweeters were unaware of the reason for the #luciferiscoming tag and thinking Satanists were at work started responding with messages about Jesus and God.

A full blown religious conflict broke out when Rapper Puff Daddy (@iamdiddy who has over a million followers), unaware of the context of #luciferiscoming, started a #Godishere tweet in retaliation. Twitter stopped posts with tags including both God and Lucifer from appearing in trending topics. Fans continued to use #supernatural and #inkripkewetrust, and both also reached high on the list.

Just before the show aired Misha Collins joined the game, suggesting fans used #PDIDDYISSCAREDOFHISTV.

And this is how actor Misha Collins became our new favorite person on Twitter.

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