This issue features in-depth articles on:

Disney's John Carter, the first live-action collaboration between Pixar and Disney.

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, as Pixar's Brad Bird directs the fourth and most ambitious of the M:I films.

The Adventures of Tintin, as Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson present an animated take on the classic graphic novels of Belgian creator Georges Remi -- a.k.a. Herge -- combining several Tintin tales into an origin story realized by performers on motion capture stages, and then brought to life in stereographic computer animation by Weta Digital and Giant Studios.

Red Tails, producer and co-writer George Lucas' dream project dedicated to the Tuskegee Airmen of WWII, realized in convincing and dynamic visual effects shots by Industrial Light & Magic.

This came from the collection of Steve Sherman, a writer,artist, puppet-maker, puppet-performer, and avid collector. Steve worked as Jack Kirby's assistant, at Filmation, and Sid and Marty Krofft, before forming his own company Puppet Studio in 1984 contributing to "Pee-Wee's Playhouse", "Men in Black 1 & 2", "Mighty Joe Young", "Muppets" and numerous other TV series and feature films.