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Space travel: 10 out-of-this-world destinations

Traci Lords beats Pixar to ‘Mars’
We already know that Pixar is working on John Carter of Mars, a big-screen adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ pulpy Barsoom tales that began with A Princess of Mars. But with a planned release of 2012, who knows if we’ll ever see it — especially if they make it a Christmas Day release, which would put it mere days after the Mayan apocalypse. Never fear! Asylum, the industrious folk

Atomic events: Animefest in Mesa, Chew signing in Chandler
Atomic Comics in Mesa will be hosting an Animefest from 10 a.m. to close on Saturday, Nov. 28, at Country Club Drive and Southern Avenue. There will be a cosplay contest with free pizza for those who dress up, anime on a big screen all day, raffles for prizes and more events. For more information, call (480) 649-0807 or click on the poster below to go to the event’s website. The store’s locations at C

Religious fanatics see ‘Resident Evil’ as the new D&D
A group of clergymen in the United Kingdom has demonized Capcom’s Wii game Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles for glamorizing violence (yawn) and promoting the occult. “If we dabble in this area we open ourselves to influences and put ourselves at risk. I would regard any encouragement for children to be drawn into this behaviour with extreme horror,” the Rt. Rev. John Godda

LEGO ending Bionicle toy line, but not closing the book
LEGO is ending its popular Bionicle toy line after the next release in January, according to a post on Wired’s GeekDad blog. Next summer the company will launch a “new, more flexible buidlable figure property” from the creators of

‘Resident Evil 5′ goes for the Gold
Capcom recently announced that an “alternate edition” of Resident Evil 5 would be available to U.S. gamers via Xbox LIVE and PlayStation Network because Americans demanded it come via download rather than a new game disc, even though that meant they would have to hang onto that disc for a while longer and not sell it or trade it in. Now they’re backpedaling a b