Here's a Christmas present for those of you who have logged on to my blog on this merry day.

It's the lovely Leona Lewis singing the Avatar music single I See You.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

From the man who brought us Jay and Silent Strike Back, Dogma, Clerks II and Zack and Miri Make a Porno. Kevin Smith directs brings his first studio film to the big screen with a script by the hilarous Cullen Brothers, Cop Out (originally A Couple of Dicks).

Two longtime NYPD partners on the trail of a stolen, rare, mint-condition baseball card find themselves up against a merciless, memorabilia-obsessed gangster. Jimmy (Bruce Willis) is the veteran detective whose missing collectible is his only hope to pay for his daughter's upcoming wedding, and Paul (Tracy Morgan) is his "partner-against-crime" whose preoccupation with his wife's alleged infidelity makes it hard for him to keep his eye on the ball.

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Part One was an excellent build up. It read like the Bat-Family do Die Hard. Part Three deflated towards the end, but this was sheer brilliance. Never before have the characters of Tim Drake and Jason Todd been contrasted so effectively.

Tim really is the true heir to Bruce's Dark Knight legacy, but is still far to young to take on such a mantle. Their showdown towards the end of the issue was great and ends tragically for the young Drake.

It's just a shame that Part Three wasn't as good. So well done Tony Daniel!

You're my comic of the year.

DIRECTOR James Cameron isn't a name that rings true to many people.

He directed Terminator I &II, Aliens True Lies, wrote Rambo First Blood: Part Two and was responsible for the Titanic.

After that successful period he fell from the spotlight for most of the 2000s as he began a fifteen year journey into producing the decade's most beautiful film.

Starring Sam Worthington and Sigourney Weaver, Avatar tells the story of wheelchair bound ex-marine Jake Sully and his adventures as a Navi throughout the tropical world of Pandora.

Jake digitally controls his Navi - a cross between a cat, monkey and zebra, blue and three times the size of human - through the Avatar computer programme from a pod in the marine base on Pandora.

Sully soon becomes part of a corporate plot to exploit Pandora's natural resources and works to gain the Navi's trust. He soon finds himself in a struggle between his duty as a marine and his love for his new life as a Navi.

The world of Pandora took the CGI team a reported two years to get out from the drawing board and onto the big screen. And it shows.

The planetary jungle is absolute eye candy. Everywhere on screen you'll find at least a dozen different flower designs, countless animals and thousands of different colours.

The story is interesting, although it is nothing that hasn't been done before. It bares strong similarities to Dances with Wolves, The Last Samurai and even the Matrix but bringing a disabled main character really helps it stand out.

Worthington is fine, as is Weaver but stand out performance mentions go to Stephen Lang as the grizzled Colonel Quaritch and Michelle Rodriguez as Zoe Saldana as the proud Navi, Neytiri.

If you like the sound of it, see it in 3D or in an IMAX Theatre to fully appreciate it.

Despite the 12A rating, some of the film is very violent and even includes a questionable inter-species sex scene. It also runs in a 163 minutes, so it's probably best to leave the restless kids at home for this one.

Was it worth the estimated half a billion dollar price tag? Well that remains to be seen. As of this article going live it has internationally pulled in somewhere over 230 million dollars.

Avatar is out now in theatres across the country.

Reuters published this article today suggesting that some of the Japanese work which Van Gogh followed was considered a precursor to Manga.

The piece also mentions the potential in Europe for manga books. While the continent is a lucrative market for comic book publishers, it is all difficult to break into with alll the translation work that goes into each release.

Manga has been around here for a little over 20 years now. My first experience was the brilliant Guyver and then I fell in love with Dragonball Z as a youngsters. Other favourites of my own included Samurai Pizza Cats which ran on Channel Four.

Ahh the good old days...

-R

This is it guys, the trailer Marvel fanboys have been buzzing about.

Action packed or what eh?

Check out Google News for the latest.

And come back next week for a preview and more news!

- R

Well we knew it was going to happen sooner or later, but Rocksteady are working on a sequel to this year's massively successful Batman: Arkham Asylum.

But what's interesting is that there's a poster of Uncle Sam, with his face toren off.....a indication of Two-Face perhaps? This would be surely a good way to pick up from the last game, as we hear the villain referenced on the radio at the end of the last game.

And the Joker himself returns, looking very much like the Heath-Joker...dark eyes and all.

Check out www.arkhamhasmoved.com for all you bat-related info.

The Playstation Network has this week launched a line of digital comics for the PSP.

Teaming up with IDW Publishing and Marvel/Disney, gamers can now download old favourites such as Astonishing X-Men, G.I Joe, The Amazing Spider-Man, World War Hulk, Transformers and even Wallace and Gromit.

I've got a PSP myself and will be giving this a blast. Only thing is that you need the latest version of PSP firmware to read the comics.

Books are typically 20-30 pages long and are priced between one and two dollars (60p and £1.20).

Head on over to PSP.us to see the full catalogue.

The Playstation Network has this week launched a line of digital comics for the PSP.

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Teaming up with IDW Publishing and Marvel/Disney, gamers can now download old favourites such as Astonishing X-Men, G.I Joe, The Amazing Spider-Man, World War Hulk, Transformers and even Wallace and Gromit.

I've got a PSP myself and will be giving this a blast. Only thing is that you need the latest version of PSP firmware to read the comics.

Books are typically 20-30 pages long and are priced between one and two dollars (60p and £1.20).

Head on over to PSP.us to see the full catalogue.

Superman's new origin story is due out in Graphic Novel form on September 7, 2010, according to Amazon.com.

Penned by Michael Straczynski, Superman:Earth One will be an all new take on Big Blue's early days in a whole new continuity free from constraints of current DC comics.

Head on over to the Source blog for DC's line on the upcoming super book.