The DC animation wagon of quality just keeps on trucking with the latest offering Batman: Year One, adapted from Frank Miller's seminal comic of the same name. Not long to wait now as it'll be released in the US 18th October.

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Welcome back to another edition of your weekly guide to what’s hot in your local library. It seems our beloved leaders are still at each others throats, and Bones shows no signs of admitting he’s wrong (Go Team Daredevil).

I’ve decided to make this weeks as fair as possible, and so have decided to review a book from each camp. To make things even more equal both books are written by the same man, the legendary Frank Miller.

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Batman vs Al Qaeda. Simple idea, quite possibly completely inappropriate. So if you're Frank Miller and you want to tell this story what do you do? Well, you go see some of your film studio buddies who just happen to be moving into the comic book business and pimp the idea to them, albeit with a completely new and different hero to Batman. Meet The Fixer in Frank Miller and Legendary Comics' Holy Terror:

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Here at Sidekick Central we're big fans of Frank Miller's essential Batman: Year One so you can imagine how much will power it took not to mess in our pants when we saw this trailer...just watch it and you'll know what we mean.

Welcome to a new set of posts from Old Man Bones, an older gentleman with a passion for all things Geek, he also happens to be my Pops - Bones

Browsing through the internet (what's new), my ears suddenly pricked up and my head swiveled like Linda Blair, towards the TV. What had caused this you may ask .....Darth Vader of course ! VW cars have very cleverly used music from "Star Wars" to target gentlemen (maybe a few ladies as well) of a certain age to watch their advert. Although I have no intention of buying a new car from any manufacturer in the near future, the tingles that ran down my back on hearing this music, ensure that I'll watch the advert as long as VW continue to use it.
That got me thinking of other film music (or original sound track, as it's now called) that could cause an emotional reaction from me. So here is my top 10, in no particular order of memorable Sci-fi/Fantasy/Comic OST's, (limited to original composers, so no Iron Man, sorry Ozzy)....!

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Link: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/batman-year-one-lines-up-179942

Earlier in the year at Wondercon DC animation god, Bruce Timm, announced that the next animated Batman project they were working on was Frank Miller's Batman: Year One. Yesterday, The Hollywood Reporter not only unveiled these two shots from the production but also announced who would be voicing the various characters; Bryan Cranston as Jim Gordon, Ben McKenzie as a youngish Bruce Wayne/Proto-Batman, Eliza Dushku as Selina Kyle/Catwoman and Katee Sackhoff as Detective Sarah Essen.

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