TALKING HAMILL

And no, I don't mean some Luke Skywalker STAR WARS trading card. This is going to be a veritable Mark Hamill trading card!

It will be released April 23 as part of the 2008 Donruss Americana Celebrity Cuts and it will look like this:




Additionally to this individual card, Mark will be featured on two more cards. He'll be on a Stardom Combo Signature Card with Dave Prowse and on a Stardom Quad Signature Card with Dave Prowse, Carrie Fisher and Billy Dee Williams.

For extensive information on the entire card set and on ordering visit the website of the Donruss Trading Card Company.

I so want those!

Mark is endorsing Barack Obama as the Democrat's candidate for the presidential election later this year. Wednesday, April 9 Mark was at Point Park University in Pittsburgh to speak for Mr Obama after Anthony Daniels had inducted several robots, C-3PO among others, into their Robot Hall of Fame.

Here are a couple of video clips:



This also included a Question & Answer session and Mark signed autographs after his speech.

There are lots of images of the event, too.

On Flickr check the albums of users bryanearl, msprout and radder86.

If you happen over any more photos, let me know.

Mark is embarking on a huge new voiceover project titled NEW-GEN.

After a six-issue comic book series launching April 9, NEW-GEN will branch into motion pictures, television series, toys, merchandising and video games.

Mark voices Gabriel, the leader of the new generation of super heros.

A teaser is availabe here or via the official website www.new-gen.info.

Mark will also be celebrity judge of the NEW-GEN Challenge which will kick off April 18, 2008 at the New York Comic-Con upon NEW-GEN's official launch. Winners will be announced July 24-28 at Comic-Con San Diego. This might mean that Mark will actually be at Comic-Con, but there's been no official word on that yet.

Citing Mark:

"Watching NEW-GEN™ evolve from a fascinating idea into a fully-realized, beautifully rendered comic book universe has been a real thrill for me. Fans of science-fiction/fantasy owe it to themselves to give NEW-GEN™ some serious attention!"

Read the full press release at Comics Bulletin.