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Meteor explodes over Russia, injuring hundreds.

W. Watts Biggers has passed away at the age of 85. May he rest in peace. He was the co-creator of Underdog.

The Pirate Bay: We will sue copycat site for copyright infringement

TV Tango lists 282 Movies, Marathons and Specials on TV for President's Day Weekend 2013

The Hub Airs 8-Hour Animaniacs Marathon On President’s Day.

Today in ‘Hey, this still exists’: The You’ve Got Mail website.

Seven Science Fiction/Fantasy Martyrs Who Give Saint Valentine a Run for His Money

The Best Of Both Worlds In Theaters April 25th.

Exclusive set picture from An Adventure in Space and Time

Doctor Who News: BBC Books Announces April Releases.

18 Bad Guys Who Were Way Too Easy to Defeat

Harrison Ford Will Return As Han Solo In ‘Star Wars: Episode VII’

The Battle of Hoth is being fought in this man’s living room.

Fantastic Fangirls: Lupercalia. They’re listing great werewolves in pop culture, including Oz and Rahne Sinclair.

Jason Mamoa has reportedly been offered the role of Drax in Guardians of the Galaxy.

Secrets Behind The X-Men: Upstarts, High-Lords and Armageddon: The artists and the editor took control of the X-Men's destiny.

Abandoned Love: Whatever Happened to Peter and Mary Jane’s Baby?

Felicity Jones officially joins The Amazing Spider-Man 2, but which character will she play?

Amazing Spider-Man #700 Third Printing Gets A New Cover.

Joe Simon - With Great Power Extended Interviews

Peter Dinklage is the Villain of ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ (But Who Will That Be?)

Cast This: Justice League.

Inker Jonathan Glapion exits Batman

Interview: Greg Capullo Talks Batman

Image of the Day: Early History of Dick and Babs #4

Secret Batman Incorporated Storyline Leaks Via Twitter

Favorite DC Couple: The Case For Harley And Ivy.

Alan Moore, Ben Templesmith, And Steve Niles Help Launch Black Mask Comics.

Comic Book Legends Revealed #406.

The Mummy Gets A New Writer, On Track For 2014 Release.

Hannibal gets a premiere date: April 4th.

Oddities of Toy Fair ‘13

From Cracked: 6 Huge Movie Plot Twists That Caused Even Bigger Plot Holes.

Criterion’s Catalog Free on Hulu All Weekend

The AV Club’s Watch This: Death Becomes Her casts Bruce Willis as the helpless rope in a tug-of-war

Some Beautiful Concept Art from Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim

Dynamite Launches D’N'A Battlestar Galactica Series In May

The Sword in the Stone Hand: The Arthurian Trends in Hellboy

5 Great Alien Invasion Movies.

Weekly Sketch Up—February 15th.

Best Art Ever (This Week): February 15th.

Mission Log Podcast #28—Episode 28—The City On The Edge Of Forever.

Smodcast: Grant Morrison: Bat Bard.

Retroist Podcast, Episode 131: Batman The TV Series.

Mike Hopkins has passed away, at the age of 53, due to drowning after falling out of a raft while on a river. May he rest in peace. He won an Academy Award for his work on Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. He worked on Return To Oz, Blade Runner, Heavenly Creatures, Time Bandits, the 2005 remake of King Kong, Peter Jackson’s Dead Alive (AKA Braindead) and The Frighteners, and much more.

Peter David suffered a stroke while on vacation. There is an update on his current condition here. Best wishes to him for a speedy recovery.

Jonathan Frid remembered.

SearchFreak’s Top 12 File-Sharing And Copyright Events of 2012.

Fandom Stocking: Volunteer Time.

What Counts As ‘Horror’?

Editorial: A Note On The Current State Of Horror Television.

27 Science Fictions That Became Science Facts In 2012.

Most Overlooked Movies of 2012: Cabin In The Woods, Bernie and More.

Your Last Injection Of Great Cosplay For 2012.

The Hellboy Memorial Awards: Comics Alliance’s Best Comics of 2012, Part 4.

The best superhero and mainstream comics of 2012.

The best graphic novels and art comics of 2012.

The Coolest And Wrongest Spoilers Of 2012.

The Most Baffling Pop Culture Moments of 2012.

A New MegaSpider Image To Close Out 2012.

Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 365: Starman #80.

Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 366: Doom Patrol #63.

When We First Met—The Cast Of Sandman.

Handmade Silver TARDIS Necklace.

Superman on TV: December 31st-January 6th.

From Cracked: 4 Insane New Year’s Celebrations From Around The World.

Lost Girl—Season 3—New Poster.

Man stuffs Denny’s entire Hobbit menu down his Hobbit-hole.

A Massive, Interactive Chart Of All Of Zeus’ Offspring and Affairs.

First Hansel And Gretel: Witch Hunters TV Spot.

Atop The Fourth Wall: The Next 15 Screw-Ups Of Atop The Fourth Wall

Skyfall Passes $1 Billion Worldwide.

Marvel Readies Amazing Spider-Man #700 2nd Printing.

10 Science Fiction TV Characters We Hope Will Die In 2013.

Sonequa Martin-Green is joining the cast of Once Upon A Time.

The Shut Up And Watch This Podcast, Episode 73: Ghostbusters II (1989) Commentary.

Film Sack Podcast, Episode 145: Predators (2010)

Now Playing Podcast: New Year’s Evil (1980)

Grant Tilly has passed away, at the age of 74, following a battle with kidney and prostate cancer. May he rest in peace. He played Toth in an episode of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.

Major networks suing to stop free streaming.

SOPA is Dead, says MPAA Boss. All that means is SOPA is shelved, CISPA isn’t, and there could always be another on the horizon.

Believe It Or Not: This Is What Four Feet Of Hail Looks Like. It hit Texas yesterday.

Livejournal added a new way to create LJ cuts with Release 91. There’s now an icon of a pair of scissors. xylodemon has an override code here.

When Rorschach Proposed To Deadpool. Seen at Anime Boston Con—he said yes, by the way.

Dimestore Dames spotlights Alison Blaire/Dazzler.

Carrie set for March 15, 2013 release.

The Best Meta Horror Movies Of All Time. Night of the Comet makes the list—having seen it at least ten times courtesy of it being played relentlessly on Logo, I’m glad for that. I’m also happy to see the original Fright Night (which I never saw until a couple years ago—finally found the sequel earlier in the year) make the cut.

Get up close and personal with the USCSS Prometheus.

Mad-X-Men

The 10 Best Comedic Science Fiction Films According to Ryan Britt. Ghostbusters is ranked #1, with Back to the Future a couple down.

A Star Wars Nursery.

Watch 20 minutes of behind the scenes footage of The Avengers. Another featurette is here. And you can find a scene between Thor and Captain America here.

Marvel’s The Avengers Red Carpet World Premiere, in its entirety.

Why you should be glad you’re not a Vulcan.

When Serious Actors Become Action Stars: A Guide.

Sin City: A Dame To Kill For Is Moving Forward.

Paul Feig walks us through Freaks And Geeks (Part 5 of 5).

The world’s most isolated cave is home to 4 million year old “superbugs.”

Dark Horse to publish Spike, Willow spin-off projects.

Full trailer for Looper.

UK trailer for Dark Shadows.

New Dark Shadows photo.

Captain America’s movie shield fetches $20,100 at auction.

The reboot of The Flintstones has been put on hold due to Seth Macfarlane’s schedule.

The Simpsons is not located in Oregon after all—Matt Groening was misquoted.

The Hobbit needs extra elves.

From Cracked: The 5 Creepiest Disappearances That Nobody Can Explain.

IDW has announced another Jericho comic.

Watch Dr. Strange (1978).

yendi’s Friday the 13th movie reviews.

Behold, the 2001: A Space Odyssey Lego Sets That Never Existed.

Japan claims the most expensive one-bedroom on Earth.

IDW and DST bring back classic Battle Beasts.

The Avengers, the Argonauts, and the History of the Team-Up.

Ask Chris #101: The Riddler.

New Russian trailer for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

The Lovecraft Anthology, Vol. 1: A Graphic Collection of H.P. Lovecraft’s Short Stories.

The AV Club interviews Drew Goddard about The Cabin In The Woods.

View the top ten lists of horror films chosen by the likes of Clive Barker and Emily Booth, over at Time Out.

DC Comics is passing the rights to distribute their books and graphic novels from Titan Books, over to Diamond.

The Monster Squad turns 25.

New pictures from WonderCon 2012.

Top Five Crazy Creepy Magicians.

Retroist Podcast Episode 107: He-Man And The Masters of the Universe.

Al Ross, cartoonist for The New Yorker, has passed away at the age of 100. May he rest in peace.

Variety is up for sale.

To cash in on the Dark Shadows movie, they’re selling nail polish. The four colors include: Decades of Dysfunction, Buried Alive, Grave Mistake, and Mysterious Curse. For those that wonder, mysterious curses involve a shade of purple when they aren’t turning someone into an undead creature of the night.

Two new tv spots are out for Dark Shadows. Here’s the first. Here’s the second. Behind the scenes photos.

First tv spot for Snow White And The Huntsman.

How to claim your free $5 of print comics through Marvel.

Ten minute featurette for Wrath of the Titans.

Ten more images from The Avengers. And a new featurette is here.

The Hunger Games made an estimated $155 million opening weekend alone.

Medieval monks complained about their jobs in the margins of ancient manuscripts.

Zombie mall promises movie-style undead battle.

The BBC has renewed Being Human for a fifth season.

You have a second chance to purchase tickets for Comic Con: March 27th. The hotel reservation system will open on Thursday at 9 AM PT.

Five days left to sign up for the Finish-A-Thon.

Batwoman wins GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic Book.

Here’s the new season seven teaser trailer for Doctor Who. Read an interview with Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, and Arthur Darvill at BBC’s Official Doctor Who Convention.

World’s Finest Interviews Young Justice Lead Character Designer Phil Bourassa.

10 Nerdtastic DVD and Blu-Ray Exclusives That You May Have Missed.

Clive Barker discusses his recent illness which resulted in a coma, his recovery, his current dog’s health (and late pets), and various books.

Chris Claremont’s dream X-Men movie involved James Cameron as director, with Bob Hoskins as Wolverine, and Angela Bassett as Storm.

A Farewell To SoapNet, Home of Time-Shifted Soaps. The transition to Disney Junior began on the 23rd. For those who still have access to SoapNet in April, you can watch Veronica Mars. Given that it was showing One Tree Hill when I checked a few minutes ago, I still have SoapNet. No idea how long that could last, though.

Art from the Lucasfilm Willow cartoon that never was.

Behind the scenes of Comic Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope.

Top 10 Worst Movie Monsters.

Criminals Target Megaupload Users With Fake Settlement Demands.

This is the actress who will be the Doctor’s next companion—since some might feel the name of the actress is a spoiler, try not to hover over the links if you wish to avoid that. Also, there are a few vague spoilers involving Amy and Rory’s fate in several of the links, so be aware. Is it just me, or does she vaguely resemble Lucy Hale? (Kept writing Sarah Vale, so thank you x_project and canadiandiamond!)

Nine Dark Shadows movie character posters. The cover of Fangoria features Barnabas.

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows has grossed $529 million internationally.

Eddie Izzard is in final negotiations to play Grandpa in the Munsters reboot.

First look at Toby Jones as Alfred Hitchcock and Sienna Miller as Tippi Hedren in The Girl.

The Twilight Zone Mystic Seer Replica.

Dimestore Dames spotlights Nightshade.

The newest title from Rifftrax is Frankenstein Island.

Trailer for Battlestar Galactica: Blood And Chrome.

A featurette showing the behind the scenes creation of the Chimera for Wrath of the Titans.

Anthony Stewart Head has joined the cast of Percy Jackson And The Olympians: The Sea of Monsters, in the role of the centaur Chiron. He replaces Pierce Brosnan. whedonesque discusses it here.

From Cracked: 6 Psychotic Punishments Doled Out By Famous Superheroes.

8 Times Comics Creators Became Comic Characters.

Steven Moffat denies those rumors about Benedict Cumberbatch as the Master.

First images of Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu as Holmes and Watson on the set of Elementary.

Gene Wolfe and Neil Gaiman on a merry-go-round. No, really.

Cover and details for Star Trek: TNG/Doctor Who #2.

How Juan Carlos Fresnadillo will de-cheese his Highlander reboot.

Now Playing Podcast discusses The Death of the Incredible Hulk.

AOL has fired their instant messaging team—so now AIM apparently only consists of support staff. AIM is the only messaging program I use.

Say goodbye to the printed version of Encyclopaedia Brittanica.

Buford, Wyoming is up for auction.

Another trailer for Battleship.

The first trailer for Dark Shadows debuts this Thursday on The Ellen Degeneres Show. Here’s a quick snippet from her preview trailer, along with some screengrabs. The website for the movie has launched.

New stills from Wrath of the Titans.

New poster for The Hunger Games.

Chris Hemsworth presents new footage from Snow White And The Huntsman. You can find three mini-featurettes here.

Drew Goddard’s SXSW festival diary. whedonesque discusses it here.

junetide is open for sign-ups.

Hamie Mohd’s artwork of Wonder Woman.

Hobbit pub accused of copyright infringement.

Sherlock’s Mind shirt.

The TARDIS ring.

Geek Pop Reinterpretation. Includes Darth Vader hugging a unicorn.

Stjepan Sejic’s art of He-Man vs. the forces of Skeletor.

Is this the alternate origin story in Zack Snyder’s Superman?

The Now Playing Podcast discusses The Trial of The Incredible Hulk.

Ardath Mayhar has passed away, at the age of 81. May she rest in peace. She wrote over forty novels spanning various genres, some under one of several pseudonyms.

Lina Romay has passed away, at the age of 57, following a battle with cancer. May she rest in peace. She was the wife of Jess Franco, and appeared in many of his movies (and was considered his muse). I’ve checked, and (since many of her movies were) none of the images featured in the articles would be considered unsafe for work.

Harry Turtledove agreed to spoil the end of his War series for a terminally ill fan who would never get to read it.

New trailer for Wrath of the Titans.

Another trailer for The Raven.

The weird history of Wonder Woman in tv, movies, and beyond.

From Newsarama: 10 Infamous Comic Book Prequels.

IDW’s solicitation for Ghostbusters #9.

From Buzzfeed: 48 Pictures That Perfectly Capture the 90’s.

There are four days remaining, for anyone wishing to sign up for San Diego Comic Con.

There’s a new, exclusive Evil Dead 2 Ash figure.

Top Nine Bizarro Moments of Superman Casting.

New promo image for The Amazing Spider-Man.

It looks like Brian Bendis will be taking over the X-Men books.

Watch the Green Goblin kidnap Anderson Cooper on New Year’s Eve

Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark has broken Broadway box office records.

Steampunk Greek Goddesses

The Batman Ceiling Fan.

Sideshow Collectibles’ latest Comiquette? Illyana Rasputin/Magik. They’ve done a fantastic job on that one.

The comic book episode of Moffat and Gatiss’ Sherlock we never got to see.

The BBC trailer for the next episode of Sherlock—The Hounds of Baskerville.

The trailer for Alcatraz.

Watch John Barrowman perform the theme songs to the 70’s Wonder Woman and the Spider-Man cartoon.

Fright Night (remake) bloopers.

Emma Caulfield as a blind witch in Once Upon A Time. whedonesque discusses it here.

Dimestore Dames discusses Mia Dearden.

10 Great Love/Hate Relationships From Science Fiction And Fantasy. The Doctor and the Master made the list.

A new tv spot for The Woman In Black.

Promo for the upcoming season of Being Human—the US version.

In a recently released clip, Anthony Stewart Head was interviewed about Merlin at San Diego Comic Con. No spoilers.

New featurette for Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.

MGM plans to make a live action Where’s Waldo movie. Odd. Easiest way to do it is to have him spotted before the opening credits. Thus, it’s the world’s shortest movie, and it can end right there.

Proton Charging is looking for new editors.

From College Humor: Batman Chooses His Voice.

Sneak peek of Justice League Doom.

A Hannibal Lecter tv series (written by Bryan Fuller) is headed for NBC.

Both Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller have been nominated for Best Actor for the stage play of Frankenstein.

Footage of Tom Baker visiting a school in 1978.

The 10 Most God-Awful Movies About Greek Mythology.

There are now DC Comics license plates…only available in Australia.

Some details of the Wonder Woman pilot have been leaked. So she’s now the CEO of a company, pining for Steve Trevor “like Carrie for Mr. Big,” singing show tunes along with the radio, being goofy, wacky and awkward? Um, no. Like I said before I even knew this bit, I think I’ll sit this one out. Please, please don't let a dancing baby ever pop up on this show.

The Cape has been cut back from an episode order of 13 episodes, to 10 episodes, due to low ratings. whedonesque discusses it here.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is in talks to join The Dark Knight Rises. No word on what character he would end up playing.

SFX has Before They Were Famous. There’s Ryan Gosling in Young Hercules, Heath Ledger in Roar, Amy Adams in Smallville, Carey Mulligan and Andrew Garfield in Doctor Who, and others.

Peter Jackson has left the hospital, and will continue his recovery at home.

Casting has begun for the Dark Shadows movie. Reportedly, Bella Heathcote is in talks to play Victoria Winters, while Jackie Earle Healey could be playing Willie Loomis. Victoria is now a waitress, rather than a governess.

The Scary/Funny History of Horror Comedy.

Over at doctorwho, there’s a question about who would do what if everyone in the series went to go see The Rocky Horror Picture Show. I can picture the Ninth Doctor brooding in the corner, while simultaneously keeping an eye on Jack. Who would be dressed as Rocky. I can picture Martha surprising everyone with the fact she is a closet Rocky Horror fan, and knows every word in the movie. I can see Donna surprising people (especially the Tenth Doctor, who would be in awe) by flawlessly doing the Time Warp.

Today’s Halloween related poll over at polloftheday was asking what your favorite Halloween songs are. Mine are Thriller, Bad Moon Rising, the Ghostbusters theme (of course), and The Monster Mash. If I Put A Spell On You is the same song that was sung in Hocus Pocus, then I love that one, too.

Mom’s been going through some old pictures she found, and we found a picture of me the final year I went trick-or-treating, when I was either 7 or 8. I was a pirate, without the fake earring, since it pinched too much. I’m standing in a yard filled with fake tombstones, made by a neighbor. All the names on it are people in her family that were still alive...and Dracula.

We also found a picture of White Cloud, the day she came to us as a kitten. And another taken one month before she was killed—so now we know how long she was here. About 3 years--we hadn’t been sure until now. We found various other pictures of her, all of her asleep. Which is pretty much the only thing she ever did.

( Beneath the cut, I answer five questions from Azriona, for a meme. )

As there are Trunk-or-Treats being done at four different churches, as well as a fall festival at another church, I don’t expect to see any trick-or-treaters. I actually haven’t seen any trick-or-treaters in this part of the street in 2 or 3 years. How many do people on my friends list normally get?