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The numbers are in and WATCHMEN starts fast and ends at a jaunt, while David Faustino shares the future of his STAR-VING series, we predict what will be in your bag from the comic shop this week, PERRY BIBLE FELLOWSHIP hits hardcover and Mike Gold reviews the Watchmen reviews.

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Dakota Fanning is about to go all Volturi on your ass.

The 15 year old actress is set to sparkle– literally– in Summit Entertainment’s movie The Twilight Saga: New Moon, the sequel to its Twilight film, according to People.com.  Fanning will take on the role of Jane, a particularly evil vampire in the guise of a sweet young thing who is a member of the Volturi sect of vampires. 

Principal photography for New Moon is scheduled to begin in Vancouver later this month, with the release date close behind on November 20, 2009.  New Moon is shooting back-to-back with The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (June 30, 2010), the third movie in the saga that is based on Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight books.

With warmer weather on the horizon and the promise of many interesting theatrical releases in the coming year, people are beginning to make plans to gather with friends for dinner and a movie. If you have been making these plans, you have probably noticed that many of your friends are bowing out for the dinner portion.

One of the most important social rituals for people is the shared meal, yet in these financially difficult times, it is becoming more and more difficult to afford the luxury of dining out or even ordering in.

But don’t write off feasting with your friends just yet. Instead, consider making a meal at home.

Whether you are gathering at a friend’s house to have an anime marathon, getting together at a pal’s apartment before that preview screening of a hot new movie, or meeting up with friends at a convention to which you have a free pass, there are things you can make yourself for a fraction of the cost of restaurant, movie theatre or convention food.

Some of the easiest things you can do when having guests for dinner is to have a taco night, where everyone either chips in toward the total cost of food or brings one of the components for making tacos (shells, meat, beans, cheese, salsa, peppers, lettuce, tomato, etc.). Even if you are making food for a game group that consumes vast quantities of food, when all is said and done, you will have spent less and eaten better than if you had ordered out or picked up fast food. And even if you are not concerned about eating healthier snacks, you can certainly see the value in spending the same amount on a huge batch of homemade cookies as you would have spent on one standard sized store bought package.
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Happy Watchmas, everybody! Today’s list of quick items:

• In an alternate universe, Rick Marshall Megan Fox is doing both the Jonah Hex movie and is attached to star in Fathom, based on the comic from the late Michael Turner. As you can see from the picture, inspired casting. (Go ahead, ask me what I’m doing reading LesbianGeek.com. I dare you.)
   
• The Secret Origins of Watchmen (and the history of Charlton Comics), including interviews with ComicMixers Dick Giordano and Frank McLaughlin.
   
• Why Watchmen’s Alan Moore Hates the Movie Industry (And Who Can Blame Him?)
  
• Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources has started Slash Print. Yep. It really is coming, folks.

Anything else? Consider this an open thread.

On this day in 1970, Brian Alvey was born in Falls Church, Virginia. After a misspent youth working for professional gamblers, he straightened up and started building web sites in the early days of the World Wide Web, performing back-end wizardy for everybody from Business Week and TV Guide to e-publishing pioneer BiblioBytes. Not content with computer work, he was also the art director for Cybersurfer magazine and The Silicon Alley Reporter.

Most recently, he cofounded Weblogs Inc., the folks behind Engadget, Cinematical, and TMZ.com; he was the chief architect of Netscape; and he’s started up a little company called CrowdFusion which does all sorts of neat stuff. And with all of that, he’s still found time to help run ComicMix.

Happy birthday to him and to his lovely wife Niki, who shares a birthday with him as they share so many other things.

This is the weekend where everyone is talking WATCHMEN, so why shouldn’t we? Meanwhile, J.J. Abrams apologizes for STAR TREK, Bud Bundy is a star on the internet and FATHOM will be a Fox.

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The opening of "The Art of Watchmen" at MoCCA last night was incredibly packed, with a lot of energy and anticipation in the room– even more than knowing you’d be allowed to see the Watchmen movie before almost everybody else would– there was a sense of backstage magic about, seeing so many of the stages of what was going on, from the earliest concept sketches to the original cover art for all twelve issues to the raw cover color work, to the mock-ups for the movies and the harsh black and white pictures of Clay Enos’s Watchmen: Portraits
book.

Clay’s here at left, including the picture of him in the book. Other attendees we got to photograph included Paul Levitz, Peter Sanderson, Steve Saffel, and Danny Fingeroth.

See more pictures after the jump. And if you can, go see the show.

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