WHITNEY MATHESON of USA Today blog Pop Candy got the scoop from DC Comics: Damon Lindelof, executive producer of “Lost,” will write the intro to Brad Meltzer’s Justice League of America hardcover, which is slated to come out on June 7.

Here’s an excerpt from her blog entry:

Do you like Lost? Do you like comics? I just got a scoop from DC Comics that the introduction for Brad Meltzer’s forthcoming Justice League of America hardcover will be written by Lost executive producer Damon Lindelof. Yay!

“I met Damon at the super-geek-happy-clubhouse (first rule of the super-geek-happy-clubhouse — there is no super-geek-happy-clubhouse),” Meltzer told me via e-mail yesterday. “Damon is one of the kindest, nicest people around, so I just begged and cried and held tight to his ankle until he said yes.

GOOD news: Nintendo has promised to boost Wii production to cope with the huge demand for the gaming console.

Here’s an excerpt from the Associated Press story:

“We must do our best to fix this abnormal lack of stock,” Nintendo President Satoru Iwata told reporters. “We have not been able to properly foresee demand.”

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By Alex Villafania, hackenslash Reporter
INQUIRER.net

ON WEDNESDAY, ABS-CBN Multimedia treated a few gaming journalists to a preview of War Rock, their new online first-person shooter game created by Korean firm Dream Execution Technology.

The event took place at the popular gaming cafe Station 168 in Tomas Morato, Quezon City. With War Rock Philippines still in closed beta stage, what ABS-CBN Multimedia showcased was the original Korean version, meaning all of the text was in Korean. Luckily the game marshals already knew how to tweak the game so 16 players teamed up to battle each other.

It is said that the game plays much like Counter-Strike, which it does since it has all the elements of CS: two groups teaming up to kill each other, either as a counter-terrorist or terrorist. But at first glance, War Rock closely resembles the more popular Battlefield series. As such, the main goal is to either capture the flags of enemy territories or wipe out foes.

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THIS is so cool!

Got this teaser of Challenge of the Super-Duper Friends from Filipino comic book artist Jonas Diego, whose company made this animation.

According to his e-mail, the animation, which is a tribute to those Saturday morning cartoons we watched when we were kids (well, when I was a kid, anyway, heh) and portrays several US presidential candidates and politicians as the Super Friends, took a month to create.

Here’s the YouTube clip of the teaser. Go to the site to sign up for the world premiere.

AS many people are discovering, Nintendo’s Wii console is proving to be a good way to burn some calories.

Just don’t forget that, as with any form of exercise, you have to take precautions to avoid injuries.

Here’s an excerpt from the Agence France-Presse story:

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