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Tissa David has passed away, at the age of 91, due to a brain tumor. May she rest in peace. She was a master animator who worked for five decades—most notably, she drew Raggedy Ann and Andy.

Dropbox Competitor Adds BitTorrent Support.

Pond Life: Part Two. The Doctor really needs to learn to knock before entering their bedroom…

12 Brilliant Doctor Who Cliffhangers. Utopia should have been listed.

Here’s the cover for the Radio Times Doctor Who Special.

Fantastic Fangirls Q&A #168: Who would you cast in a Justice League film?

Off My Mind: Looking at the New Justice League of America Roster.

The Disaster That Was The 1997 Comedy Pilot For The Justice League of America.

The Great Alan Moore Reread: Tom Strong, Part 1.

Book Tower or Book Wall? The Choice Is Yours.

Best Cosplay Ever (This Week): August 27th. Batgirl and Bizarro look fantastic.

Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 240: Batman #458.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The First Teaser For The Girl.

P:R Approved: Jeremy Love’s Super Skrulls.

Erik Larsen to leave Supreme with issue 68.

The Man of Steel In Nolan’s Shadow.

The Dark Knight Rises Analysis: Why One Plot Twist Did Not Ruin The Film. Expect spoilers.

DC Nation: The Bat Man Of Shanghai.

Zubatman: The Animated Fan Teaser Trailer.

10 Reasons The Next Batman Movie Should Be Batman Beyond.

Exclusive First Look At Mondo Poster The Batcave.

Image of the Day: Incredible life-sized, 500 lb Darth Vader cake.

Morgan Freeman and Elizabeth Banks Get Turned Into Lego Minifigs.

Fan Expo: Stan Lee Talks Hollywood, Spider-Man’s 50th Anniversary.

Stan Lee’s Rants: Dragon Con 2012.

A new trailer for Rifftrax Live: Birdemic.

Kerry Callen’s more realistic cover for Amazing Fantasy #15.

Alex Segura Returns To DC as Executive Director of Publicity.

An interview with Jack Kirby, from February of 1990.

Review: Dark Shadows by Marilyn Ross.

About All This Robocop Business…

Jim Lee reflects on a life in art—and the art of life.

Anika Noni Rose joins the cast of Elementary for an episode.

What went on at the Sherlock Masterclass.

Random Roles: LeVar Burton on Tiger Woods, Geordi La Forge, and reviving Reading Rainbow.

You Want Horror? You Got It! The Fall 2012 Horror Movie Guide.

The new Ninja Turtles screenplay has leaked and may be worse than we feared.

Once Upon A Time, Season 2: Full Promotional Image of Mulan.

A sneak peek of the next issue of the Ghostbusters comic.

From Cracked: 5 Toy Recalls That Everyone Should Have Seen Coming.

Brave Blu-Ray Bonus Features.

Unauthorized Evil Dead 4 Is Not Going To Happen.

Watch the alternate opening to The Avengers.

Excerpt from Hope Larson’s graphic novel adaptation of A Wrinkle In Time.

Horror Etc Podcast, Episode 262: Hellraiser Retrospective (Part 3).

We Hate Movies Podcast, Episode 73: Rock 'n' Roll High School Forever (1991).

Third annual Read Comics In Public Day is August 28th.

Demonoid Starts Redirecting To Ads And Malware.

PublicBitTorrent And OpenBitTorrent Trackers Return.

Doctor Who Series 7 Trailer.

How Is Doctor Who Good For Science?

Publicity image released for Asylum of the Daleks.

The Dark Knight Rages.

12 Gotham Newspaper Headlines During The Dark Knight Rises. Massive spoilers for everything in the movie, so proceed at your own risk.

Comic Influences On The Dark Knight Rises.

Dark Knight Themed Home Theater For Only $2 Million.

Memos from Nick Fury.

Excelsior! A Tribute To Stan Lee.

Futurama Hypnotoad Vinyl Figure.

Brian Hibbs pays tribute to Bob Wayne.

Christopher Eccleston joins Thor: The Dark World as Malekith The Accursed.

10 Worst Comic Book-Based Movie Performances Of All Time.

SDCC 2013 Online Badge Pre-Registration Announced.

Bryan Singer Confirms X-Men: Days of Future Past, Suggests Connection To Other X-Men Films.

5 Reasons Why The Next X-Men Movie Should Be Days Of Future Past.

Caroline Dhavernas joins the cast of Hannibal for the lead role of Dr. Alana “Al” Bloom.

Archeologists Uncover Maya Temple of the Blood Drinking Sun God.

Trailers From Hell: Josh Olson on The Howling.

Ghostbusters 3 Loses Bill Murray, Can We Move On Now?

The 10 Worst Cartoons Spawned By Video Games. The only one on that list I ever watched was Darkstalkers.

3D Glasses For The Hobbit Revealed.

Redesign Rewind: Best Of Marvel’s Timeslip.

Brian Posehn writing the new Deadpool series?

Children’s chemistry sets used to contain cyanide.

10 Foods You Crave—And Why You Crave Them. I never craved ice when I was near death from anemia, but I know others who did get that one.

How It Should Have Ended: Skyrim.

Dracula vs. Frankenstein managed to get a Blu-Ray release.

MacGyver Comes To Comics.

Lynn Cohen joins the cast of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

Dimestore Dames spotlights ‘Glittering’ Goldie O’Gilt.

Why Remakes Are One Of Our Greatest Achievements As A Civilization.

The Line It Is Drawn #100—100th Issue Celebration.

First Photos From Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing.

Fantastic Fangirls Call For Staff Writers.

Prime Time Madness 2012 is live.

Official poster for Dredd.

From Think Geek: Lego Star Wars Darth Vader Desk Lamp.

Hitchcock's Vertigo ousts Citizen Kane as greatest film of all time

Nerdist Writer's Panel #49: Women on TV.

San Diego Comic Con, Tragedy, and the Family of Fans: A Handful of Thoughts. Warner Bros. Will Donate Portion of Dark Knight Rises Proceeds To Aurora Shooting Victims.

DC Comics Postpones Batman Incorporated #3 For A Month Over ‘Content That May Be Perceived As Insensitive.’

The Dark Knight Rises Opens To $249 Million Worldwide.

The Dark Knight Rises: bringing Batman full circle. As this article discusses all three films in their entirety, there are massive spoilers.

Christopher Nolan’s goodbye to the Batman franchise, as can be read in the foreword to The Art and Making of The Dark Knight Trilogy.

Warning: Serious Rootkit Virus Spreading In LJ Comments. I’ve been getting a lot of those in long-unused RPG related journals, as well as ancient posts in a few dead LJ groups. I just report the bot, and never click.

CCI: Fringe Stars And Producer Thank Fans In Their Final Panel.

Official: Jena Malone Is Johanna Mason In The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

The Hobbit Production Video #8.

Second Look At Anthony Hopkins In Character As Hitchcock.

Nerdist Specials On BBC America This Saturday.

Watch a 60 Second TV Spot From The Possession.

From Cracked: The Horrible Truth Batman’s ‘Secret’ Identity. Have the sound turned up to catch the little “Wheeee!” from Bruce in the background. Don’t read the comments until you’ve see The Dark Knight Rises, due to a short rant about the film.

Blakes 7 Reboot On The Cards.

Spider-Man’s Amazingly Bizarre Media History, Part 2.

Watch the full length trailer for Man of Steel, so far only spotted at Comic Con. It could be removed any minute by an annoyed Warner Bros., so watch while you can.

Stan Lee’s Rants: Gwen Stacy vs. Mary Jane.

Dark Horse’s Scott Allie talks Buffy books, possible Firefly comics.

First look at Japanese Dark Shadows Blu-Ray set.

Laurence Fishburne To Become Agent In Hannibal Series.

Total Recall Action Featurette.

An interview with Dave Sim.

An interview with Grant Morrison. The biggest news would be that he reveals his time on Action Comics comes to an end with issue #13, and his departure from Batman Incorporated with issue #12.

Sir Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter Interviewed.

Superheroes With Top Hats.

Anthropology Panel At ReaderCon.

7 Great Morally Dubious Characters of Sci Fi TV.

10 Civilizations That Disappeared Under Mysterious Circumstances.

How do you feel about retcons in comics?

Cast photos for season 2 of Grimm.

New batch of set photos for Once Upon A Time.

The Blu-Ray For The Raven Is Loaded With Features.

The Ten Sweetest Moments Of Comic Con 2012.

Elvira For President.

New Images of Gemma Arterton, Saoirse Ronan In Byzantium.

We Hate Movies Podcast, Episode 68: Reign of Fire (2002)

Two True Freaks Podcast, Episode 274: Something Wicked This Way Comes Commentary

Now Playing Podcast: The Dark Knight Rises (2012). In the first few minutes, they mention that the podcast is dedicated to the victims in Aurora. The editor of the podcast’s fiance’s friend was killed in the theater.

Caroline John passed away on June 5th, at the age of 71. May she rest in peace. She played the Third Doctor’s companion, Dr. Elizabeth Shaw. She also played Mrs. Carnac in an episode (The Dying Detective) of the Jeremy Brett version of Sherlock Holmes, and was Stella’s Mother in the 1989 version of The Woman In Black.

Google Will Pay Nothing To Oracle In Copyright Case.

Nintendo Power Gloves For Superheroes.

Daria reruns will air on MTV for six weeks starting in August.

Happy birthday, Jaws. Watch Two Clips From The Upcoming Blu-Ray.

Fan Art: Ghostbusters vs. Beetlejuice.

Jurassic Park 4 Has Found Its Writers.

The Line It Is Drawn #95—Ray Bradbury Tribute: Comic Characters in Science Fiction Stories.

Four New Character Images From Frankenweenie.

Looking back at 1990’s Captain America.

Everybody Wants To Rule The World: 10 Superheroes Who Tried.

The CBLDF will premiere a new shirt for Heroes Con.

Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection Coming To Blu-Ray.

Alice In Wonderland Transit Map T-Shirt.

The Unsinkable Meets The Unbelievable In Aliens vs. Titanic. Yes, really.

Giant Lego men dissected by Jason Freeny.

Iconic Planet of the Apes Scene Recreated in Lego.

Hans Zimmer Will Officially Be Scoring Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel.

Digital manga service to shut down, pull books from cloud.

Space Music: Joel Hodgson Talks Riffing, MST3K, and Film Scores.

Review: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

Snuffed Out, Too: More TV Series That Were Gone Too Soon. Finally, a list that remembers Women of the House.

The 25 Most Awesomely Melodramatic Archie Comics Covers.

Donald F. Glut’s Spider-Man Fan Film From 1969.

Ask Neal Stephenson anything.

Metal Men Film In The Works From Men In Black’s Barry Sonnenfeld.

Confirmation: Hobbit Trailer #2 is not new material.

MPI Home Video Comments On Jonathan Frid’s Passing. Dread Central remembers him here.

That time Dick Clark mistook Batman and Robin for a singing duo. Seriously, that man never aged.

Rapidshare Publishes Anti-Piracy Manifesto For Cyberlockers.

ISPs have to identify alleged pirates, EU court rules.

LJ has reverted to the previous format for LJ cuts—meaning the scissors are gone.

The AV Club reviews The Moth Diaries—it gets a D+.

First look at Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock.

The sonic screwdriver is now real.

Night of the Living Dead to get CG motion capture makeover.

Parting Shot: Unusually Realistic Dinosaurs Dressed As The Avengers.

Classic Paintings, Comic Book Style.

Mondo Posters For The Avengers.

Nominations are open over for the Not Prime Time Ficathon.

Four new clips and a featurette for The Raven.

An exclusive clip from With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story.

A sneak peek of the cover and plot for Dark Shadows #10.

The UK Poster For Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

Remember when Spider-Man, Superman, and Batman teamed up to fight an alien wizard in India?

DC Comics Women—The Shadow Of Their Past.

J.M. DeMatteis shares a movie treatment he did of Daredevil, back in the 90’s.

American Horror Story Season 2 Setting Confirmed, More Season 1 Actors Coming Back.

10 Marvel Supervillains Who Became Superheroes.

Chris Roberson Quits DC Comics.

Where’s Jason?

New Iron Man and Thor spots for The Avengers.

Experience the eldritch horrors of H.P. Lovecraft’s relationship advice.

A promo image for Brave.

The Game of Thrones drinking game.

The Wolverine to film in Sydney, Australia.

What It Means To Be A Geek.

Sci-Fi Villains Raise Money For Women’s Charity—The Daleks Race.

Quikster is a terrible name, so Netflix bought DVD.com.

Google Maps Quest View turns your commute into an RPG.

New promo for The Avengers, showing a little more when it comes to Loki’s warriors.

Avengers and the Marvel Movies: Kevin Feige speaks with SFX.

A very rare behind the scenes of Buffy, from the filming of Helpless.

British actress Charity Wakefield has signed on for the Munsters reboot, for the role of Marilyn Munster.

8 Bit game covers for Psycho, The Birds, and North By Northwest.

The Rifftrax for Mesa Of Lost Women is available on April 3rd.

Weekend Discussion Thread: Dinner and a MST3K Episode Night.

Another featurette for Snow White And The Huntsman, showing day eleven of filming, in the throne room.

From Cracked: The 5 Most Clearly Cursed Expeditions Of All Time.

Smaug The Golden?

A fourth tv spot for Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows.

The Dark Knight Rises trailer, made out of Lego.

Top 10: Fantasy Worlds In Film And Television.

Bad Movie Fiends Podcast discusses Surviving The Game (1994). Afterwards, they go off into a discussion of The Hunger Games and The Muppets.

Schlock Treatment focuses on Maximum Overdrive.