Since its existence first came to be known, Clerks, Mallrats, and Dogma director Kevin Smith‘s turn from comedy to horror, Red State, has been a popular topic.

At first, the script for the movie was said to be so incredibly messed up that no studios wanted anything to do with it, but eventually we found out that someone was willing to take a fitting leap of faith on it, and since then Smith has been setting his cast and filing the movie.

Now comes the very first trailer…of sorts. It’s really more of a preview — one step below a teaser trailer — but shows enough to be well worth your time. It’s not an understatement to say you’ll likely be shocked at how the movie looks. This is so insanely far from anything we’ve ever seen Kevin Smith do, you can’t help but want to see more, no matter what your feelings toward his other films may be.

You can see the preview trailer for Red State now by clicking on over to the other side!

Artist Chris Schweizer was commissioned to draw the cast of the NBC comedy Community and decided to draw them as Marvel’s Avengers.

It’s a really great illustration, so if you’d like to download some wallpapers of it, visit Schweizer’s site for the downloadable versions, available in several sizes.

What do you think of this drawing? Which character do you think came out the best?

By The Dude Dean

Last November 17, I saw a storm coming, and I started Save Stargate Universe on Twitter and Facebook. Last Month SyFy moved Caprica and Stargate Universe from Friday night to Tuesday night because Wrestling was more important than Sci-Fi. SyFy really didn’t market this change, but I saw it for what it was. First Caprica got the axe and within one month both shows were canceled so that SyFy Channel would have more programming room for Wrestling.

In the last week the growth of Save SGU has been strong and steady. We are now over 4200 strong. But now, we’ve got to go to the Dark Side of the Force for some help. Two days ago, I came up with the idea to Wish @DarthVader a Merry Sithmas after seeing a tweet from him poking fun at SyFy.

As Christmas draws near, plenty of holiday-related goodies are making their way around.

Today we have for you a brief but very cool little video from the talented folks over at 39 Degrees North, a motion graphics studio from Beijing. The short is a video Christmas card adaptation of the Neil Gaiman poem, Nicholas Was…, and it mixes his dark words with equally dark yet truly beautiful animations.

You can see the video by clicking on over to the other side, and we highly recommend you do just that if you love Mr. Gaiman and fantastic animation work.

A Festivus for the rest of us!

Time to get out the aluminum pole for the Airing of Grievances and the Feats of Strength.

Happy Festivus, everyone!