Viper Comics’ miniseries “Villains” has recently been picked up for the silver-screen treatment by Universal Pictures, according to a report by The Hollywood Reporter. “Villains”, by Adam Cogan and Ryan Cody, is about a young man named Nick Corrigan, a down-on-his-luck loser with no job, no prospects, and a mean temper, who can’t stand his city’s local hero The Flying Ace. Nick finally finds purpose in his life when he discovers a secret about his elderly next-door-neighbor, Charlie Cobb. He was formerly a notorious super-powered villain known as The Hardliner, and Nick blackmails his way into an apprenticeship in super-villainy under Cobb, but having no idea what the original Hardliner…

Transformers fansite Transformer World 2005 is reporting not only that the giant Decepticon robot known as Devastator will be appearing in “Transformers : Revenge Of the Fallen”, the sequel to the 2007 live-action blockbuster, but also on the specific components, as the giant robot is actually made up of several Transformers combining into a single robot that will tower over the others on-screen. The segments are: A red O&K Terex RH400 hydraulic mining excavator, a yellow Caterpillar 992G wheel loader, a green Caterpillar 773B dump truck, a silver Mack cement mixer, a red Komatsu HD465-7 articulated dump truck, a beige Caterpillar D9L bulldozer, and a bright yellow Kobelco CK2500 truss…