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Is it June yet?

In my madness, I’m waiting for the Buffy TPBs. The sane amongst us will rush out today to pick up Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 #14: Wolves at the Gate.

The Scoobies’ mysterious new foes have obtained a powerful instrument that may destroy everything that Buffy has worked so hard to build. Acclaimed screenwriter, Drew Goddard (Lost, Cloverfield) continues his fun-filled romp through Tokyo with Wolves at the Gate part 3.

Writer: Drew Goddard
Artist: Georges Jeanty
Cover Artist: Jon Foster
Inker: Andy Owens
Colorist: Dave Stewart

I’ll just be here working on this Willow jigsaw puzzle.

Every month on the 6th, you can see a new, behind-the-scenes video on the Watchmen movie site. This month, costume designer Michael Wilkinson describes some of the difficulties faced when costuming a movie that spans several decades.

The clip focuses on the gargantuan task of costuming all those extras, but toward the end we get a glimpse of The Comedian, Silk Spectre, Ozymandias and Rorschach.

Remember, kids, this is your last chance to dress up as Rorschach for Halloween before everyone else is doing it next year.

Watchmen opens March 6, 2009.

[Via The Official Watchmen Movie Site]

I kid, I kid. As long as there are no more Jean Grey / Phoenix stories (for at least a decade or two), I’m there.

If X-Men: Evolution didn’t completely turn you off of X-Men cartoons, check out this trailer for Wolverine and the X-Men, coming to Nicktoons in 2009.

Was there anyone not in that trailer? Even the Hulk and Mojo made cameos.

When the series starts, expect to see:

• Wolverine - (Voiced by Steven Blum from Cowboy Bebop)
• Professor X
• Cyclops
• Beast
• Storm
• Kitty Pryde
• Iceman
• Nightcrawler
• Angel
• Colossus
• Emma Frost
• Forge
• Sammy Paré / Squidboy
• Jean Grey
• Tabitha Smith / Boom Boom
• Pyro
• Dust
• Magneto
• Quicksilver
• Scarlet Witch
• Rogue
• Avalanche
• Blob
• Kamal
• Domino
• Mystique
• Sabretooth
• Toad
• Juggernaut
• Lorna Dane/Polari
• Abraham Cornelius
• Senator Robert Kelly
• Col. John Wraith

What do you all think? Tired of the X-Men or can’t wait for more?

[Via /Film]

In this week’s Compound-Raiding Edition (or “compund” if you like typos):

• Takashi Murakami
• Speed Racer
• I Am Legend
• Doctor Who: “Partners in Crime”
• Battlestar Galactica: “Escape Velocity”
• Lost: “The Shape of Things to Come”
• Stuff We Read: DMZ

We mentioned a couple of videos in this episode.

Inochi:

It’s Not a Compound:

Our NY Comic-Con spectacular-palooza-thon episode is now up at AfterElton.com. We recorded it last week, so adjust the temporal references accordingly!

In this episode:

• Headlines: Gay Metalheads Rejoice; Superheroes’ Domestic Partners, Whedon Alumni Update; Manazons
• NY Comic-Con: The Sexual Orientation Game; Tim Fish; Sticky Pages panel on gays in comics
• Stuff We Read: (Young Bottoms in Love; Justice Society of America)
• Stuff We Watch: (Battlestar Galactica: “The Ties That Bind”; Torchwood: “Exit Wounds”; Reaper: “Rebellion”)
• Review: Milo Ventimiglia plays gay in Cursed
• New addition to the Gallery of Gay Action Figure

Be sure to read Marc’s review on AfterElton. We also posted some of our photos on our Facebook page. If you were at Comic-Con, post your photos too!