Even though the film only has a director and one actor confirmed so far, has no finished script and hasn’t even started shooting, it already has a release date locked down. To what lucky film am I referring?

According to Variety, it’s the next chapter in the Terminator saga, known by the rather long title Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins. The film, helmed by Charlie’s Angels‘ McG and starring Batman Begins‘ Christian Bale, has now become Warner Brothers "tentpole" Memorial Day weekend release hitting theaters on May 22nd, 2009. It will be the fourth installment in the Terminator franchise after 2003’s Terminator: Rise of the Machines, and is still in the process of casting but is expected to start shooting May 5th in New Mexico.

This latest Terminator, part one of a planned trilogy, tells the story of an older John Connor (Bale) who leads a ragtag band of nuclear holocaust survivors in a desperate battle to stop the evil defense computer Skynet from finishing the job it started and wiping out the rest of humanity. Sounds interesting.

LEGO’s coolest product now hits the comic stores – in two formats, no less. We’ve got the story, plus:

— EA and Image offer up some Dead Space

— Candyland, Battleship and Magic – all headed to the theaters

— A new week means another brand-new trivia question and another chance to grab an exclusive Graham Crackers Comics variant by e-mailing us at: podcast [at] comicmix.com

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Many of the writers who made the original Buffy: The Vampire Slayer TV series so popular have moved on to other things and been very successful. One such Buffy alum who has done particularly well for himself, especially lately, is Drew Goddard — who, after exiting Buffy, went on to write for Angel, Alias and Lost.

More recently, he transitioned to features, writing the screenplay for J.J. Abrams’ monster movie Cloverfield, as well as its sequel. Even though he’s hard at work on Cloverfield 2, Goddard isn’t forgetting his roots and is, according to Dark Horse Comics Editor Scott Allie, taking on a four-issue arc for the Buffy: Season Eight comic book.

Goddard’s arc for the comic, called Wolves at the Gate, will not, as you might expect from the title, feature the Buffy gang fighting wolves. Instead, Buffy and Co. will travel to Japan to take on an ancient group of vampires bent on world domination with the stakes, according to Allie, "staggeringly high this time."

The first issue of Goddard’s arc goes on sale March 8th.

The comics blogosphere is spreading the word quite effectively about the current situation of Rachel Nabors, who’s facing a dental bill of up to $25,000 to correct a serious jaw problem.  Nabors, a Friends of Lulu Kim Yale award winner, doesn’t have any health insurance.  As Theresa Tschetter notes, Rachel "has her own business… She works for a subsidiary of MSNBC. Did I mention she’s only 22? She’s balancing school and a full-time job. She’s a very energetic and determined person. And this cost will be out of pocket for her." 

Leigh Dragoon and other Friends of Lulu members are spearheading a campaign to help defray these costs; if you donate more than $25, you’ll receive a Dragoon-designed t-shirt.

Thanks to the results of a similar word-of-blog campaign, Rikki Simons reports that his mother-in-law Dyane (Dee) Blackford, who had gone missing in the Glendale, CA area, has been found!  Rikki’s wife Tavisha is the co-creator of the ShutterBox books from TokyoPop.  Rikki and Tavi are one of the most creative couples I know, having burst upon the scene about a decade ago with their colorful and clever comic Ranklechick and his Three-Legged Cat, and we rejoice in their good news!