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I've shown off my City of Heroes character Princess Pop, but what about the other part of the game, "City of Villains", wherein you can create your own supervillain to cause mayhem? Well, my main character there is a high-flying fellow called The Aero-Ace!

His backstory is that he was previously a member of the jetpack-wearing criminal gang known as the "Sky Raiders", but when they got their hands on a new advanced prototype jetpack, he decided to take it for himself and become a freelancing mercenary, or "freebooting sky pirate" as he prefers to call it.

He considers himself a modern-day Robin Hood, stealing from the rich and giving mostly to himself, with his preferred targets being private jets owned by billionaires, and military bases where he can grab some new gear, such as his cool beam rifle.

When he's not out pirating, he likes to relax in more casual clothes, grabbing a drink or two at the Pocket D.

Oh, and just as with Princess Pop, the costume colors are very much a deliberate choice (in case the pun-tastic name didn't give it away).

Here's another screenshot, just because I think he looks so cool when he's out flying.

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Solar System playlist

Look up!  It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s....the Solar System playlist.  Click play here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-iHPcxymC18LD_V5saMr7QzWS1Q3VAU6 

What’s out there beyond our own planet? A mystery at every turn. Mercury to Pluto. The Sun and the Moon, even Phobos gets a mention here. So come by the Neptune Towers and enjoy this Solar System playlist.

SOLAR SYSTEM

001 Amorphis - Far From The Sun 002 The Beatles - here comes the sun   003 Swans - Song For The Sun 004 Mastodon - Once More 'Round The SunStiff Little Fingers 005 Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun 006 Isaac Hayes - Driving In The Sun 007 Tom Petty - dark of the sun 008 DREAMTIME - Sun 009 Circus Diablo - Red Sun Rising 010 Tiamat - The Sun Also Rises 011 Covenant - Bringer of the sixth sun 012 Agoraphobic Nosebleed - hung from the rising sun 013 Alice in Chains - When the Sun Rose Again 014 Lindemann - Children Of The Sun 015 Paradise Lost - Return to the Sun 016 Popol Vuh - Morning Sun 017 Spiritual Beggars - Blood Of The Sun 018 Queens Of The Stone Age - My God Is The Sun 019 TREMENTINA - Kisses in your eyes (Almost Reach The Sun ) 020 Voivod - Divine Sun 021 Blues Pills - Little Sun 022 Neurosis - Enemy of the Sun 023 Extol - Behold The Sun 024 Septic Flesh - Infernal Sun 025 Lamb of God - Straight For The Sun 026 Ensemble Economique - Red For The Sun 027 Black Sabbath - Under The Sun 028 Jesu - Opiate Sun 029 Orchid - Into the Sun 030 The Young Gods - Kissing The Sun 031 Iron Maiden - brighter than a thousand suns 032 Swans - I Am the Sun 033 Therion - Son Of The Sun 034 Sun Ra - Sun song 035 Pink Floyd - eclipse 036 Mike Patton - Eclipse Of The Sun 037 Bonnie Tyler - Total eclipse of the heart 038 God Is An Astronaut - First Day Of Sun 039 Elton John - Don’t let the sun go down on me 040 Eddie Fisher - Sunrise, Sunset 041 Hopscotch Songs - The Planets of our Solar System Song 042 Michael Schenker Group - Blood Of The Sun 043 Iron Maiden - total eclipse 044 Solefald - Sun I Call 045 Man or Astro-Man? - Antimatter Man 046 Kreator - when the sun burns 047 Creedence Clearwater Revival - bad moon rising 048 George Harrison - beware the darkness 049 Heretoir - To Follow The Sun 050 Cat Stevens - Moonshadow 051 Hypocrisy - Adjusting the Sun 052 Rush - Between Sun & Moon 053 Manfred Mann - blinded by the light 054 Sevendust - Black Out The Sun 055 Sunbeam Sound Machine - Real Life 056 Bill Withers - Ain’t no sunshine 057  Gwar - They Swallowed the Sun 058 Katatonia - Ghost Of The Sun 059 The Beatles - I’ll follow the sun 060 Sammy Hagar - little eclipse/sunshine 061 Stevie Wonder - you are the sunshine of my life 062 Pink Floyd - fat old sun 063 Sun Ra - Sunology 064 Mystic Sunship - out there 065 Cream - sunshine of my love 066 Diesto - High As The Sun 067 Sunwølf -  SOlar 068 Kyuss - Molten Universe 069 Moonspell - Shadow sun 070 Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets 071 Therion - An Arrow From The Sun 072 Candlemass - The Killing Of The Sun 073 Xandria - Kill The Sun 074 Morgoth - Drowning Sun 075 Primordial - Wield Lightning to Split the Sun 076 Lake of Tears -When My Sun Comes Down 077 Jackie DeShannon - Where Does The Sun Go 078 Peter Criss - Down With The Sun 079 Walker Brothers - The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore 080 Devin Townsend - Midnight Sun 081 Sigh - Midnight Sun 082 Black Label Society -  Dark Side of the Sun 083 AMORPHIS - Moon and sun 084 Cynic - Moon Heart Sun Head 085 Sun Ra - Planet Earth 086 David Lynch - Sun Can't Be Seen No More Sarah No More 087 Opeth - Moon Above, Sun Below 088 The Eternal - A Quiet Death of The Sun 089 High On Fire - The Sunless Years 090 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Third Stone From The Sun 091 Bruce Dickinson - Navigate The Seas of The Sun 092 Voivod - Mercury 093 Melechesh - Of Mercury And Mercury 094 Gustav Holst - Mercury, the Winged Messenger 095 Clutch - Mercury 096 Soilwork - Mercury shadow 097 Satyricon - Mental Mercury 098 Moonspell - Moon in mercury 099 Poisonblack - Mercury Falling 100 Alejandro Jodorowsky, Ronald Frangipane & Don Cherry - Venus (Vond) 101 Boney M - Nightflight to Venus 102 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Subway To Venus Nihal Chahdi 103 The Nefilim - Venus Decomposing 104 Electric Wizard -Venus In Furs 105 Popol Vuh -  Venus Principle 106 Bananarama - Venus Venus Mosquera 107  Apocalyptica -  The Shadow of Venus 108 Archgoat - Sodomator Of The Doomed Venus 109 Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio - Phosphorus Ascending Anthem of Venus 110 Gustav Holst - Venus, the Bringer of Peace 111 Billy Idol - Venus 112 Boyd Rice - Between Venus and Mars 113  Dee D. Jackson - Venus, the goddess of love 114 Therion - Dark Venus Persephone 115 T-Rex - Venus loons 116 Television - Venus 117 Paul McCartney and Wings - Venus and Mars & Rock Show - 118  Theatre of Tragedy - Venus 119 David Bowie - Space oddity 120 The Byrds - Spaceman 121 To-Mera - Earthbound 122 Borknagar -  Inherit the Earth 123 Devin Townsend - Earth 124 William Shatner - Planet Earth 125 Clutch -  Earth Rocker  Jen Rocker 126 DEVO - Planet Earth 127 Misfits - Earth AD 128 Les Baxter - Earth light 129 Louis and Bebe Barron - Come Back to Earth with Me 130 Tristania - Tender Trip on Earth 131  Joseph Arthur & The Lonely Astronauts -  Lonely Astronaut 132 Voivod - Target Earth 133 Samael -  Son of Earth 134 Billy Preston - Space race 135 Alice Cooper - Last Man On Earth 136 Agalloch -  ...and the Great Cold Death of the Earth 137 Deep Purple - space truckin 138 Steve Miller Band  - space cowboy 139 Crowbar -  Liquid Sky And Cold Black Earth 140 Jesu - Mother Earth 141 Devin Townsend - Earth Day 142 Animals as Leaders -  Earth Departure 143 Amorphis -  Enchanted by the Moon 144 Goatsnake -  House of the Moon 145 Elton John - Rocket man 146 Cramps -  Rock On The Moon 147 The Stranglers - Rok It To The Moon (Bonus Track) 148 Frank Sinitra - fly me to the moon 149 Blood Ceremony - Drawing Down the Moon 150 Elvis Presley - flaming star 151 Les Baxter - The other side of the moon 152 In Flames -  Moonshield 153 Ozzy Ozbourne - bark at the moon 154 Fields Of The Nephilim - Moonchild 155 Iron Maiden - Moonchild 156 Blue Oyster Cult - stairway to the stars 157 Voivod -Moonbeam Rider 158 The Black Crowes -Black Moon Creeping 159 Grand Magus - Silver Moon 160 AC DC - next to the moon Craig Norman 161 Manilla Road - fires on Mars James Daniel danke 162 Alejandro Jodorowsky, Ronald Frangipane & Don Cherry - Marz (Esla) 163 Entombed A.D. - Down To Mars To Ride 164 Grateful Daed - dark star 165 Orange Goblin -  Return To Mars 166 Ascension of the Watchers - Mars becoming 167 Styx - come sail away 168 Faith No More - Woodpecker From Mars 169 Kreator -  Mars Mantra 170 The Misfits -  Mars Attacks 171 Gustav Holst - Mars, the Bringer of War 172 Judas Priest - invader 173 Electric Wizard - Priestess Of Mars 174 Queen - Flash Gordon 175 Stone Temple Pilots - First Kiss On Mars 176 Hoodoo Gurus - mars needs guitars 177 War Of The Worlds ~  The Eve of the War 179 Noble Jackals, Penny Dreadfuls and the Systematic Dehumanization of Cool -  Mars Needs Women 180 Alice Cooper - Might As Well Be On Mars 181 Total Recall Jerry Goldsmith - First Dream (Total Recall) 182 Laibach -Mars On River Drina 183 Lantlôs - Neige de Mars 184 The Misfits -  Teenagers From Mars 185 Voivod -  Phobos 186  2001_ A Space Odyssey Theme Song (Also sprach Zarathustra) 187 Covenant -  Planetary black elements 188 Killing Joke -  Asteroid 189 Kyuss - Asteroid 190 Alejandro Jodorowsky, Ronald Frangipane & Don Cherry - Jupiter (Clen) 191 Blues Pills -  Jupiter 192 Samael -  Jupiterian Vibe 193 Earth Wind & Fire - Jupiter 194 Tumbleweed - Jupiter  Aje Morris 195  The Cure - Jupiter Crash 196 Devin Townsend -  Jupiter 197 Gustav Holst - Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity 198  Celestial Season - Jupiter 199 KATAKLYSM - EMBRACING EUROPA 200 David Bowie - I Took A Trip On a Gemini Spaceship 201 Isao Tomita - Space Fantasy 202 The Misfits -  Lost in Space 203 Gwar - Lust In Space 204 Alejandro Jodorowsky, Ronald Frangipane & Don Cherry - Saturn (Sal) 205 Älgarnas Trädgård - Rings Of Saturn 206 Electric Wizard - Saturn Dethroned 207 Les Baxter - [ Saturday night on saturn 208 While Heaven Wept -  Saturn And Sacrifice 209 Ash Pool -  On The Rings Of Saturn Adam And Eve Conceive Cain 210 Scott Kelly -  Saturn's Eye 211 Gustav Holst - Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age Ximenenes Y. Zeroth 212 Samael -  Born Under Saturn 213 The Devil's Blood -Everlasting Saturnalia 214 Stevie Wonder - Saturn 215 Circle - Saturnus Reality 216  R.E.M. -  Saturn Return 217  The B-52's - There's A Moon In The Sky (Called The Moon) 218  Fu Manchu - Saturn III 219 National Geographic Space Kit - The Eerie Sounds Of Saturn 220  AYREON - To the Solar System 221 Voivod -  Meteor 222 Alejandro Jodorowsky, Ronald Frangipane & Don Cherry - Uranus (Berg) 223  Klaatu- Anus Of Uranus 224 Arcturus -  Kinetic 225 Gustav Holst -  Uranus, the Magician 226  Cathedral - Suicide Asteroid 227  Movie Moment - Contact (First Contact) OST 228 Alejandro Jodorowsky, Ronald Frangipane & Don Cherry - Neptune (Axon) 229 Lisa Gerrard - Neptune 230 Neptune Towers - To Cold Void Desolation 231 Fu Manchu - Neptune's Convoy 232 Altar of Plagues -  Neptune Is Dead 233 Lenny Breau -  Neptune 234 Gustav Holst - Neptune, the Mystic 235  Darkthrone - Neptune Towers. 236 Neptune Sounds - Celestial Love Songs (NASA Voyager Recordings) 237  Jimi Hendrix - Valleys Of Neptune 238 Vista Chino -  Planets 1 & 2 239  DEATH - Vacant Planets 240 Black Sabbath - Planet Caravan 241 ZZ Top -  Planet of Women 242 Alejandro Jodorowsky, Ronald Frangipane & Don Cherry - Pluto (Lute) 243 Alchemist - Brumal - A View From Pluto 244 B 52s - Hallucinating Pluto 245 Charlie Hunter - Astronaut Love Triangle 246 YES - Arriving by UFO 247 Ramones - Zero Zero UFO 248  Jefferson Airplane - Have you seen the saucers 249 saxon - watching the sky 250 Devin Townsend -  Planet smasher 666 Voivod - Moonbeam Rider Hit play: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-iHPcxymC18LD_V5saMr7QzWS1Q3VAU6

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People, January 6

Cover: Friends Forever -- Courteney Cox and Jennifer Aniston and Lisa Kudrow -- Inside Their Lives Now 

Page 3: Chatter -- Harry Hamlin on Lisa Rinna, Jamie Foxx, Charlize Theron, Jason Derulo, Kate Beckinsale, Joe Alwyn on Taylor Swift 

Page 4: 5 Things We’re Talking About This Week -- Mariah Carey rules Christmas, Wakanda is open for business, LaCroix adds a sweet new flavor, Kim Kardashian West had to photoshop her holiday card, Kumail Nanjiani got ripped 

Page 6: Contents 

Page 8: StarTracks -- Kelly Clarkson and The Voice winner Jake Hoot, Kelly and husband Brandon Blackstock and John Legend and Chrissy Teigen and Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani 

Page 9: Jennifer Lawrence and Cooke Maroney visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Josh Duhamel on the beach in Hawaii, John Boyega and Daisy Ridley at the London premiere of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, President Barack Obama plays golf in Hawaii 

Page 10: Inside the palace Christmas lunch -- Prince William and Princess Kate and Prince George and Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, Prince Harry as Santa 

Page 11: Stars on Set -- Milo Ventimiglia and Lonnie Chavis shoot This Is Us, Scott Eastwood filming Cash Truck, Kaley Cuoco on the set of The Flight Attendant, Anna Kendrick and Scoot McNairy film Love Life 

Page 12: Spreading Holiday Cheer -- Celine Dion, Kate Hudson and boyfriend Danny Fujikawa and kids Rani Rose and Ryder and Bingham, Rebel Wilson in Aspen, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Josh Peck and James Corden and Charlie Puth and Zach Braff form Boyz II Menorah 

Page 13: Family Time -- Malin Akerman and mom Pia in Stockholm, Pete Wentz and son Bronx, StyleTracks -- sequins -- Kelly Marie Tran, Olivia Wilde, Elizabeth Hurley, Carrie Underwood, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Kelsea Ballerini 

Page 15: Inside Princess Beatrice’s wedding plans amid her dad Prince Andrew’s scandal 

Page 16: Teresa and Joe Giudice split after 20 years 

Page 18: Heart Monitor -- Kevin and Danielle Jonas happy anniversary, Miley Cyrus and Cody Simpson heating up, Lana Del Ray and Sean Larkin going public, Jodie Turner-Smith and Joshua Jackson married 

Page 21: Ryan Seacrest gets ready for New Year’s Eve, Susan Sarandon -- my life as a grandma 

Page 23: Channing Tatum is single again, Jenna Dewan gets ready for baby 

Page 24: Pierce Brosnan’s sons Dylan and Paris take center stage 

Page 27: Stories to Make You Smile -- Gary Sinise treats more than 1000 kids of fallen soldiers to five days at Disney World 

Page 31: Passages, Why I Care -- Katy Perry joined forces with Amazon and Boys & Girls Clubs to fulfill Christmas wishes 

Page 33: People Picks -- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 

Page 34: Clemency, One to Watch -- You’s Victoria Pedretti 

Page 35: The Golden Globes, Dare Me 

Page 36: Uncut Gems, Deputy, Taylor Swift -- Beautiful Ghosts, Q&A -- Madeleine Stowe 

Page 39: Books, Star Picks: What We’re Reading -- Matthew Rhys, Olivia Culpo, Justin Hartley 

Page 40: Cover Story -- Friends Forever 

Page 46: New mom Heidi Broussard murdered and her best friend Magen Fieramusca arrested 

Page 50: Billy Dee Williams proves he’s just as suave as ever 

Page 52: Next Generation Leaders -- hero kids to the rescue 

Page 57: The Bachelorette’s J.P. Rosenbaum’s terrifying health crisis

Page 60: Double Talk -- Steve Martin and Martin Short 

Page 65: Instagram stars Ava and Leah Clements fighting to save their dad 

Page 66: Taron Egerton rocket to stardom 

Page 69: Winter TV Preview -- Dan Levy readies for farewell of Schitt’s Creek 

Page 72: Jane Levy’s musical awakening in Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist 

Page 87: Second Look -- Ken Jeong and Rick Schwartz and Jenny Slate and Kristen Schaal 

Page 88: One Last Thing -- Rashida Jones

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Donald Glover Says Playing Lando in 'Solo: A Star Wars Story' Is a 'Highlight' of His Life (Exclusive)

Donald Glover says he's truly living a dream he's had since he was a young child, watching Star Wars with his dad.

While Solo: A Star Wars Story is, ostensibly, a film about the beloved roguish smuggler Han Solo in his younger years, one of the most anticipated performances comes from Glover as a youthful Lando Calrissian -- and for the acclaimed Atlanta star, getting cast in the iconic role was something truly special.

"There's a lot of stuff going on [in my career], but this is definitely a highlight," Glover told ET's Cameron Mathison at the star-studded red carpet premiere of Solo at Disney's El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood on Thursday.

"My dad, he really grew me up on [Star Wars], so like this is an apex of a lot of feelings, so it's great," said Glover, adding that getting to see the film finally hit screens across the country "really is a dream."

"I would have never thought I'd be able to be a part of it," he explained. "Like, as a child, I used to play with the toys, I used to watch the movie. I had a VHS of it that my dad ripped from a laserdisc. I'm speaking gibberish to anybody born after 1987, but it was pivotal for me."

"To be a part of this family and to be able to play young Lando, a hero of mine, you know, it's stuff dreams are made of, so I feel really blessed," he added.

Glover also addressed the season two finale of Atlanta, which also aired Thursday night, and admitted that he doesn't usually watch his show when it airs on TV.

"I don't even really watch the episodes when they air anymore, I just go on Black Twitter and just see, like, what people are saying," Glover said. "I like watching through the people. It's way more fun because you get everybody's take on it."

Hours before the red carpet premiere kicked off, Glover was down the street from the El Capitan Theatre, sitting down on Jimmy Kimmel Live! where he shared a few more insights on his experiences getting cast as Lando and preparing for the role.

"I told my agent, I was like, 'If they're making a Han Solo movie, Lando's gotta be in it and I want to be Lando,'" Glover recounted for Kimmel. "And to his credit, and I appreciate it, he was like, 'I don't like your odds.' Which was awesome, because I was like, 'I'm gonna get this.'"

After signing on to play the character, Glover said he reached out to Billy Dee Williams -- who originally played the character in The Empire Strikes Back in 1980 -- to meet up and talk about the famous fictional figure.

Glover admitted that he'd gotten the idea after learning that co-star Alden Ehrenreich, who plays Han, had met with Harrison Ford to get a better grip on playing the iconic scoundrel.

"I met him here [in L.A.], because I had already heard that Alden met [Harrison Ford], and I talked to him, and he did all this research and they talked about it a lot. So I wanted to come in and do that too," Glover recalled.

"So I came in with all this stuff, I was like, 'Maybe Lando's from this planet, maybe his family's rich,' just all these maybes and questions that I had, and I just lay it all out there," he continued. "And, I don't even think he was looking at me when he said it, but Billy's like, 'I don't know, just be charming, man.'"

"It taught me a valuable lesson: Don't over think this," Glover added, laughing. "Just be cool."

Glover then had a special surprise in the works for those who came out to watch Kimmel's show, which he revealed when asked about who he was planning on bringing to the big premiere later in the evening.

"I got a few people, a few family members. But there's still a few seats open," Glover said, before looking up at the audience with a coy smile. "Anybody wanna go?"

"Well you can't just take one or two members of the audience, it wouldn't be right," Kimmel said over the wild yelling from the crowd. "It's like gum, you have to have some for the whole class."

"Well, I'll take all of you guys, if you all wanna go," Glover responded, to a roaring cheer from the studio audience. It's hard to beat that when it comes to getting an unexpected surprise during a late night talk show taping.

Check out the video below to hear more from Glover about how much fun Solo is, among the pantheon of Star Wars films.

Solo: A Star Wars Story rockets into theaters May 25 -- almost exactly 38 years after the premiere of The Empire Strikes Back, where fans first met Lando Calrissian and he became an indelible pop-culture figure.

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