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Spider rain wasn’t so strange. Those with a massive fear of spiders probably shouldn’t watch the video. I’d say being stuck there at that particular moment in time would be my own nightmare.

Kentucky Experiences Real-Life ‘Birds’ Terror As Millions Flock To Small City. Instead of spiders, a city a short distance from here is getting this.

Saturn Award Nominees. Whedonesque reacts to The Avengers and The Cabin In The Woods being nominated here.

CCI Issues Statement Regarding Registration Technical Issues

X-Men Sequel Days of Future Past Teased for SDCC 2013

How one man’s lies almost destroyed the comics industry

Stan Lee’s Rants: Pennies.

CBR News interviews Brian Michael Bendis

DC Announces Venditti, Fialkov, Jordan and Giffen on Green Lantern Titles

DC Histories: Vibe.

Kyle Higgins Talks Nightwing’s Big Move Out Of Gotham

Image of the Day: Best BTAS Screenshots #3

Top 10 Most Terrifying Toy Commercials Of The 80’s—Part 2.

Rachelle Lefevre Joins Under The Dome

Kirk Ward joins the Zombieland series as Tallahassee

An Adventure in Space and Time: TARDIS designer cast

Bruce Campbell Wants To Buy You An Evil Dead Tattoo

Proton Pack To Be Given Away At Retro Con 2013.

The Sandman Re-Read: Fables and Reflections.

Eileen Davidson Returning To Young And The Restless.

Random Roles: Jeffrey Combs on Re-Animator’s endurance, playing H.P. Lovecraft, and more.

Oz The Great and Powerful—Behind the Scenes

Oz The Great and Powerful Extended Sneak Peek

Horror Etc, Episode 287: Long Live The New Flesh

Now Playing Podcast: A Good Day To Die Hard (2013)

Comic Issues #106—Spoiler Alert.

Geekfest Rants, Episode 128: New York Toy Fair 2013—Part 1

Film Bin Podcast: Outland (1981)

U.S. And Russia Announce Online Piracy Crackdown Agreement.

The Best of Rifftrax Live In Theaters January.

Christmas With Rifftrax: Santa’s Village of Madness (Sample).

James Marsden - With Great Power Extended Interview

Happy Holidays From Stan Lee.

The opening scene of Doctor Who’s The Snowmen.

Weekend Discussion Thread: Christmas Movies/Specials That Should Be Riffed (Round 2)

The Power List: 22 People Who Supercharged Science Fiction And Fantasy In 2012.

Sir Ian McKellen’s favorite Hobbit scene didn’t even make it in the movie.

Fan Art Fridays: Danny Hellman’s ‘Strange Santa’ Illustrations. Santa as Van Helsing—odd crossover.

Awesome Art Picks: Joker, Spider-Man, Darkseid And More.

Kristen Stewart Confirms Return For Snow White And The Huntsman Sequel.

The New Writer of Batgirl Is…Gail Simone.

ABC exorcises 666 Park Avenue from its schedule.

Leverage Cancelled, Series Finale To Air December 25th.

Addictive TV series you can mainline right now to escape the holiday blues.

I Love Ya But You’re Strange—Batman And Plastic Man Have A Buttlegging Christmas.

Geek Gear: Batman ‘Harley Country’ Shirt.

Illyana Rasputin, as drawn by Art Adams.

Oh, the world didn’t end yesterday? Nutcracker Galactus will take care of that.

Ghostbusters-Inception Mash-Up Is Why The Internet Was Created.

Christopher Lee has just released two heavy metal Christmas covers.

Bad Movie Fiends Podcast #156: Christmas Rush (2002)

Smodcast: Paul Dini: The Dini Dossiers: Part 4. They’re discussing holiday-themed episodes of Batman: The Animated Series and Justice League Unlimited.

Livejournal sent me a notice saying that the x_meggan Paid Account expires in 5 days. Even though I used those tokens to renew it. Even if it says the extra icons are renewed until sometime in 2013. We’ll see if the LJ tokens actually worked in 5 days, then. If not, I’ll just end up going through and deleting icons when I have the time.

Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 323: Shadow of the Bat #47.

Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 324: Martian Manhunter #4.

The Dark Knight Rises: The Extras Review.

Batman Vs. Judge Dredd Stories Being Republished For The First Time In Over 20 Years

Atop The Fourth Wall: Brave And The Bold #54.

P:R Approved: Christopher Duran’s Starfire.

Comic Book Casting: The Deathstroke Movie.

Superman on TV: November 19-25th.

The Secret of Crickley Hall author James Herbert reveals his tips for writing horror.

Trailers From Hell: Joe Dante on Teenagers From Outer Space.

Nick And More: Thanksgiving Week Marathons And Special Programming

From Cracked: 6 Happy Movie Endings That Actually Ruin The Hero’s Life.

Another Pushing Daisies Alum (Raul Esparza) Joins NBC's Hannibal in Pivotal Role

Amazing H.R. Giger-Themed Mouse.

Scream Factory Releasing 80’s Classics On Blu-Ray.

Stephen King’s Debt To Horror Comics.

Kristen Stewart signs on to Snow White And The Huntsman sequel.

Best Cosplay Ever (This Week): November 19th.

Original Calvin and Hobbes Page Sells At Auction For More Than $200,000.

Film Sack Podcast #140: Con Air (1997) Commentary.

Current Yuletide Word Count: 5293, and still going. A little more needs to be added to the start.

Sherman Hemsley has passed away at the age of 74. May he rest in peace. He is best known for his roles in The Jeffersons and Amen. While I’ve never seen either show, I do remember him from a cameo in Love At First Bite...as well as a starring role in an utterly terrible movie (which for some reason I rented maybe seven times in the 80’s) called Ghost Fever.

Christian Bale visited victims of the shooting in the hospital. Kudos to him.

Uninsured Aurora Shooting Victim’s Medical Care Could Exceed $2 Million, Friends Launch Campaign To Help.

Before Rises, The Ten Best Batman Movies.

The Comics That Helped The Dark Knight Rise.

Bat-Cat Comment-A-Thon. Naturally, expect spoilers for The Dark Knight Rises.

The Final Bell Rings For Weekly Reader, A Classroom Staple.

Syfy’s Booster Gold TV Pilot Script Nearing Completion.

Brian Michael Bendis discusses his plans for All New X-Men.

CCI: Producers Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic Talk Teen Titans Go.

SDCC: The Grimm Experience.

Full Specs And Artwork For Snow White And The Huntsman: Extended Edition Blu-Ray/DVD Release.

First concept art from The Wolverine reveals what’s next for Logan.

Enrique Breccia’s Wolverine design for the unpublished The Last Wolverine Story.

Bizarre reasons parents gave for not letting you see a film.

FX To Recast, Reshoot Powers Pilot.

NBC Orders Dracula Series, Already Announces New Count. It’s Jonathan Rhys Meyers.

Promo Video, New Poster, and Image Gallery for Phil Nichols’ Frankenstein Stage Play.

40-foot Voldemort to battle army of Mary Poppins at the Olympics. There’s a headline you don’t normally see...

Which Of These Insane Sci-Fi Things Will Actually Happen At The Olympics?

An interview with Darwyn Cooke.

A Rod Serling tribute is coming to California.

7 Ways The Internet Sucked In The 1990’s.

Crazy Credits. Buffy gets two spots on the list, as well as one honorable mention.

Comics Alliance Reviews X-Men (2000), Part One.

First Full-Sized Look At The New Munsters In Mockingbird Lane.

The Doctor makes the cover of Entertainment Weekly.

Malibu Comics—A Look Back At 20 Years Of Independent Innovation.

Horror Etc Podcast, Episode 257: The Dark Knight Rises. There are massive spoilers, as well as a brief discussion of the tragedy in Aurora. There is also a brief discussion of plot points in The Amazing Spider-Man.

Sladen Autobiography To Get Paperback Edition.

ACTA Crash-Landing In The EU.

CISPA—time to kill this sucker.

Interview: Charlize Theron on Ridley Scott’s Prometheus.

From Think Geek: Doctor Who TARDIS Beach Towel.

Geek Pride Day Pin Fonts Revealed.

Fandom Overview: The Hunger Games.

The Dark Knight Rises: The History of Bane.

Tom Holland opens his archives for the fans.

The Amazing Spider-Man: New Extended TV Trailer.

10 Most Quotable Movies For Geeks (That Aren’t Star Wars Films).

The various covers for Angelique’s Descent around the world.

Win a trip to San Diego Comic Con (if you live in the U.S.)

Watch Two Clips From Teen Wolf Season 2.

Doctor’s Eleven Shirt.

I Love Ya But You’re Strange: Time Traveling Theodore Roosevelt Versus Time Traveling Hitler.

International Space Station Gets A Screening Of The Avengers.

Tina Majorino Joins True Blood.

Lego Lord of the Rings Teaser Trailer.

20 Facts About The Thing That Might Leave You Suspiciously Eyeing Your Dog.

Stargate Cake.

6 Weird Things About Muppet Babies.

Why Star Trek V: The Final Frontier Deserves More Respect.

Magnificent Merida From Brave Cosplay.

Deadpool Bust Bank.

The Nerdist reviews Snow White And The Huntsman. Io9: The awesome terribleness Of Snow White And the Huntsman. SFX review.

The Original Opening Scene To John Carter.

Comic Book Legends Revealed #369.

Terror Transmission, Episode 69: An American Werewolf In London (1981).

Livejournal has transferred over everyone to the new Scrapbook. I was unable to find any page numbers as I checked through—you can really only see them in Firefox, I’ve found, while everything else is fine in IE. Everyone should check and make sure their pictures haven’t been rearranged, as I’ve found some icons I had saved were moved into a different gallery. I’m putting them back in the correct location as I find them.

Megaupload Wins Crucial Evidence Disclosure Battle With U.S. Government.

Alex Mitchell’s Squirrel Girl design.

A Bicycle Built For Eleven Doctors.

There’s a Stephanie Brown/Batgirl webseries called Batgirl Spoiled in the works.

Elementary Errors By Council See Campaigners Win Battle To Save Sherlock Creator’s Home.

One Year Later: The Best of DC’s New 52.

More On The Exorcist Stage Play In Los Angeles.

Sam Claflin interview: Snow White And The Huntsman, Pirates of the Caribbean 5, Hammer Horror.

Whatever happened to kid sidekicks?

James Frain joins the cast of Grimm.

Image of the Day: Behold the genius of the Iron Man iron.

New Slimer iPhone 4 case.

Halloween 4 and 5 are coming to Blu-Ray.

What we want to see in The Amazing Spider-Man.

Sir Terry Pratchett won the 13th Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. As part of his prize, he will have a pig named after him.

18 Amazing Cakes Inspired By 18 Great TV Shows.

Benedict Cumberbatch and Steven Moffat visit Marvel Comics.

New details about upcoming Dark Shadows audio dramas from Big Finish.

8 Famous Computers With a Pathetic Amount of Power.

The Zombie Tarot Deck.

Whatever happened to the original cast of Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers?

Cerebus Kickstarter Smashes Records.

From Cracked: The 7 Most Terrifying Archaeological Discoveries.

8 minute blooper reel for The Muppets.

How do you really know what time it is?

Comic Book Day: A Bone To Pick With Jeff Smith.

A lovely book-shaped shelf with a terribly awkward name.

No Exorcist TV Miniseries.

Cardbox TARDIS t-shirt.

Zombie Star Trek t-shirt.

The 10 Worst Board Games Based On Movies.

Bizarro Back Issues: Spider-Man Beats Venom With Beach Nudity.

Sign-ups end this Sunday for the Highlander Chronicles: 20 Years Later ficathon.

The SFX Factor TV Titles Sequences: And The Winner Is…

Horror Etc Podcast, Episode 248: Slasher Films, Part 1.

Now Playing Podcast: Batman Returns (1992)

Hook’s Rufio is getting his own movie. Let’s hope it’s called Bangarang.

Disney halts development on revisionist Snow White film The Order Of The Seven.

Greg Rucka on why he writes strong female characters.

Prometheus Yields Two More TV Spots.

Snow White And The Huntsman: Interactive Trailer.

Why we so desperately want Snow White And The Huntsman to be good.

Finding Grayson: R.J. Jamison on the bio of one of Dark Shadows’ leading ladies.

David Selby cast as Commissioner Gordon in animated Batman: The Dark Knight Returns movie. Peter Weller will provide the voice of Batman.

Matt Smith does motion capture for Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock.

Marvel creates new superhero for hearing impaired fan.

The Rock Playing Lobo?

Geek Pride Day is Friday, May 25th.

From Think Geek: Redshirts Card Game.

New title from Rifftrax: Prisoners of the Lost Universe

Random Roles: An Interview with Robert Picardo.

New character posters for The Dark Knight Rises.

Amy Acker: The Nerd Appropriate Interview.

Doctor Who Dinosaurs.

The first trailer for Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby.

Prose Discussion: The Dunwich Horror, by Lovecraft.

Back to the Future book covers.

Flashback to hype surrounding the wedding of Spider-Man and Mary Jane.

Comic-Con International will resell 5,000 one-day passes for the July 12-15 convention.

Nate Bellegarde’s Hipster X-Women.

A webcomic about Snowflame, a real DC Comics supervillain who gained his powers from cocaine. I know who this guy is, thanks to Linkara at Atop The Fourth Wall.

10 Epic Villains Who Were Supposed To Be One-Offs.

American Horror Story Season 2 Set In The ‘60’s.

The First TV Spot For The Total Recall Remake.

Happy 28th Anniversary To Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

New set pics from The Hobbit.

Ghostbusters Window Decal.

Now Playing Podcast: Batman (1989).

Horror Etc Podcast, Episode 247: Herschell Gordon Lewis--The Godfather of Gore.

CBS released a three minute fall preview for Elementary, along with an official blurb. It seems a little too much like CSI for my tastes. I may watch the pilot to be certain, once it's aired.

Fangoria Legends Presents: George A. Romero.

A call to include Ghostbusters in the National Film Registry.

How to make your own PKE Meter out of a vintage shoe polisher.

Looking back at Dario Argento’s Suspiria.

Care Bears Getting a CG Animated Revival on The Hub This Summer.

New image from Arrow.

The first image from the CW’s Beauty and the Beast—the one starring Kristen Kreuk.

The CW has released clips from Arrow and Beauty and the Beast.

Chris Hemsworth on Snow White, Thor 2, Avengers 2, and Star Trek 2.

Toonami returns May 26th on Adult Swim.

48 Things That Will Make You Feel Old.

Trailer: A Look At Lionsgate’s The Possession. Those that don’t care for horror movies focusing on possession may wish to avoid watching this trailer before going to bed. I, on the other hand, think it looks interesting.

Official Timeline of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Spider-Man Flashback: Nicholas Hammond, reeling in the years.

Ten Major Marvel Characters Who Have Never Been Avengers.

In Berlin, a library is devoted to comics.

From Cracked: 6 Absurd Movie Plots You Won’t Believe Are Based On Reality.

Laurence Luckinbill Talks Trek V, Sybok And Career, Part 1.

Rejected Watchmen Products.

New Backstage Dark Shadows Movie Pictures.

The SFX Factor: Vote For The Greatest SF And Fantasy TV Opening Titles Ever.

Empire of the Ants Gets Korean Screen Adaptation.

A new international poster for Prometheus.

How common is your birthday?

How To Tell From A Trailer That A Movie Is Going To Suck.

A Guide To Japan’s Studio Ghibli.

Liam Neeson to Star In A Walk Among The Tombstones.

Film Sack Podcast #117: Flatliners (1990).

Tony DeZuniga passed away early Wednesday, at the age of 79, as a result of a stroke, heart failure, and brain damage. May he rest in peace. He was the co-creator of Jonah Hex and Black Orchid.

10 Things You’ll See In Almost Every Tim Burton Movie.

10 Fictional Scientists We Wish Were Real.

Joss Whedon picks top 10 Buffy episodes for an all day Logo marathon on May 19th.

Confirmed release dates for Ghostbusters Ongoing #’s 9-11.

The Ghostbusters Tour of New York.

An interview with Piers Anthony.

Hugh Dancy Talks About NBC’s Hannibal.

According to TV Tango, if you have Chiller, there’s a Dark Shadows marathon (original series) tomorrow.

Ain’t It Cool News’ video review of Dark Shadows. Blog of Dark Shadows invites people to post their responses to the film. I love Io9’s brutal reaction.

Dark Shadows brought in just $550,000 at midnight screenings this morning. Understandable, given the reviews—but ouch.

Yahoo Movies interviews the original actress to play Victoria Winters—Alexandra Moltke-Isles.

ABC has renewed Revenge and Once Upon A Time for second seasons, while Castle will also get another season.

Random Roles: Jackie Earle Haley.

Pop culture mysteries, and whether we want the answers.

Archaeologists Find Oldest Known Mayan Calendar.

The surprisingly complicated legacy of Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee.

10 Avengers Comic Stories That Could Make The Perfect Sequel.

Stephen King reveals the plot of his Shining sequel. Dan will be “aided by a prescient cat.”

Praised Zombie Script Maggie Bites Into A Cast.

A clip from Superman Vs. The Elite.

Gremlins 2: The New Batch: Little, Green, Brilliant.

Behind the scenes video for Snow White And The Huntsman.

The Fairy Tale In The TV Age.

MGM Plans To Adapt Ray Bradbury’s From The Dust Returned.

On May 14th, at 1 PM EST, PBS will host a live chat with Mark Gatiss.

Casting Crowley And Aziraphale For Good Omens. A list that could come in handy for those in RPG’s.

Two International Posters For Prometheus.

R2-D2 Rain Barrel.

Way More Than You Ever Wanted To Know About Animaniacs.

A new image of Bane from The Dark Knight Rises.

Tom Wilson answers all of your Back to the Future questions in one handy postcard.

First look at J.H. Williams’ cover for Batwoman #12.

Remembering James Isaac (1960-2012). May he rest in peace.

Bob Stewart has passed away, at the age of 91, of natural causes. He was credited with creating The Price Is Right, Password, To Tell The Truth, and Pyramid. May he rest in peace.

Maurice Sendak has passed away in the aftermath of a stroke, at the age of 83. May he rest in peace. The author was most famous for writing Where The Wild Things Are.

Digby Wolfe, creator of Laugh-In, has passed away at the age of 82 following a battle with cancer. May he rest in peace.

Dimestore Dames spotlights Sandra “Moonday” Hawke.

Scientists Solve Mystery of Ireland’s Moving Boulders.

Tumblr Sued For $5 Million Over Pirating Users And Employees.

Lara Parker on the Dark Shadows movie.

Variety And Others Review Dark Shadows. Needless to say, they are not rave reviews.

Exclusive: Chloe Moretz On Exploring Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows.

Rewind: The Enduring Thrills of the Gothic TV Soap Dark Shadows.

Sir Ian McKellen performs live at Stratford.

The Top 20 Most Underrated TV Shows of the 90’s.

Sherlock’s second season premiere delivered solid ratings on PBS. Bethbethbeth has a list of the cuts made to that airing.

Sign-ups end tonight for the Not Prime Time Ficathon.

Fan Recreates The Avengers Weapons Using Lego Bricks.

Michael Grade interviews Steven Moffat.

Game of Thrones Tarot Art Challenge: The Finalists.

Death In Fantasy Fiction: Why It Makes Us Rage. You’ll find spoilers for Buffy, Firefly, The Avengers, and Game of Thrones.

The Case For Genre.

From Cracked: 5 Geek Fantasies You Won’t Believe You Can Buy.

7 New Actors Join Disney’s Maleficent

Black Widow movie will focus on the heroine’s origin.

Amazing Spider-Man: New Promo Images.

Bob McLeod’s artwork on Uncanny X-Men #151-152.

Personalized Star Wars Carbonite Figure At Disney.

Community Likely To Return For Abbreviated Season 4.

More People Cutting Their Cable Subscriptions.

Exclusive: Seth Grahame-Smith Updates Us On Pride And Prejudice And Zombies.

Free Geek Pride Day Pins.

Everything I Need To Know About Life I Learned From Veronica Mars.

The final one-sheet for Snow White And The Huntsman.

Princess Leia hoodie with attached hair buns.

We Hate Movies Podcast, Episode 57: The Glass House (2001).

Ernie Hudson has undergone emergency surgery, after suffering an abscess on his hip, and will be hospitalized for at least 7-10 days. Best wishes to him for a speedy recovery.

Lara Parker believes the new film respects the old series, and mentions how Jonathan Frid was the last time she saw him, as they filmed their cameo. A compilation of Dark Shadows colleagues paying tribute to the late actor—they include: Kathleen Cody (Hallie Stokes), Jerry Lacy (Reverend Trask), Lara Parker (Angelique), Chris Pennock (Jeb Hawkes), Kathryn Leigh Scott (Maggie Evans), Sharon Smyth Lentz (Sarah Collins), James Storm (Gerard Stiles), Sy Tomashoff (scenic designer), and Marie Wallace (Eve/Jenny/Megan Todd).

Dimestore Dames spotlights Irene Adler (Destiny).

Supervillain Schemes That Ought To Have Worked.

Best Iron Man Cosplay Ever.

Mark Gatiss gives up some details of the first episode of Sherlock season 3. Spoilers for the final episode of season 2 , if you haven’t already seen that one.

Benedict Cumberbatch is “startlingly aware” of the Sherlock/John Watson slash fanfic that’s out there for the series because Martin Freeman showed him a few, and is flattered.

Supernatural Secured For Eighth Season, The Vampire Diaries Back For Fourth Season.

BBC Commissions New Zombie Show Called In The Flesh.

From Think Geek: Dragon Ear Wrap.

Here’s Lifetime’s new logo. I think it looks awful.

Samuel L. Jackson on his “master manipulator” Nick Fury.

Mondo’s final Avengers poster premieres.

Watch the brand new trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man.

An interview with Marc Webb.

Jonathan Nolan on slow burns, full circles.

Four new pieces of Ghostbusters fan art worth checking out.

Slimer plushie.

The Physics of The Hulk’s Jump.

Neil Gaiman Shares His Reading Habits.

10 Free Comic Book Day Releases To Watch For.

New Banner Artwork and One-Sheet for Lionsgate’s The Possession.

Trailers From Hell: Eli Roth discusses the trailer for The Birds. David DeCoteau discusses the trailer for Demonoid: Messenger of Death. The trailer for the latter may not be entirely safe for work, due to a bit of nudity at the beginning.

The CW’s Green Arrow series considered a lock for pick up.

Jamie McKelvie’s Captain Marvel.

Doctor Who Void Stuff Vision Shirt.

From Ghostbusters to GCB, the many roles of Annie Potts.

Gateways To Geekery: The Avengers.

Lawsuit Breaks Out Over Evil Dead 4, Raimi Versus Award Pictures.

They finally made a real lightsaber.

Prepare for the Supermoon, the biggest, brightest full moon of the year.

When A Kickstarter Fails.

Now You’re Baking With Portals

Hot Toys Reveals Thor’s 1/6 Scale Figure.

Showtime has renewed The Borgias for a third season.

Dish Network drops all AMC networks—which also include IFC, Sundance, and WeTV.

A new promo for Snow White And The Huntsman, as Snow White’s lost in a dark forest.

Comic Book Legends Revealed #365.

Finally, something in English about the Scrapbook issue. Tags are being removed, everything will be compiled into one gallery--I needed those tags, it was how I kept track of everything. The whole format worked fine for me before, I never had any issues with it.

Comcast Praises Voluntary BitTorrent Crackdown Agreement.

How to get the old Gmail back.

The brand new trailer for The Dark Knight Rises.

The Silliest Complaints By British Moviegoers.

We might see a new Hulk from Marvel in 2015.

The Great Alan Moore Reread: From Hell, Part 2.

When We First Met: The Evolution of Red And Green Kryptonite.

Major Star Trek Sequel Spoilers Confirmed. If you don’t want to know the character Benedict Cumberbatch will play, or who might have a possible cameo, you’ll want to avoid this.

Scott Lobdell To Take Over Superman From Jurgens And Giffen.

Egon Bobble Head.

Real Ghostbusters t-shirt design.

New character posters for Snow White And the Huntsman.

An interview with Ty Templeton.

From SFX: 20 Things We Love About Angel.

50 Greatest Friends And Foes Of Spider-Man: Supporting Cast #1-3. Villains #1-3.

The Nerdist gives an overview of the Trailers From Hell website.

From Cracked: 5 Movie Apocalypses That Would Defeat Themselves.

The 5 Weirdest Avengers Plots—Ever.

Dark Shadows Movie Media Round-Up. A sequel is already under consideration. The latest issue of Screem has two Dark Shadows covers—one with Quentin, Angelique and Barnabas from the original series, and one with three images of Barnabas from the new movie. I’ll be looking for the former.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles chalkboard art for the Illinois coffee shop Expresso Royale.

Gaiman settlement cost Todd McFarlane $1,100,000.

House of Dark Shadows available from Amazon digitally.

A reboot of Van Helsing is on the way…with Tom Cruise attached to star in and produce the latter.

Chemistry Tea Set.

Sign-ups are open for the Not Prime Time Ficathon.

Last year’s Rifftrax Live: Jack The Giant Killer is now available on DVD.

Make sure you stay all the way through the end credits, because there is a second end credits sequence.

The 30 Nerdiest Mad Magazine Covers.

We Hate Movies Podcast, Episode 56: The Philadelphia Experiment II (1993).

Now Playing Podcast: Captain America: The First Avenger.

Comcast appears to be having some serious problems. Long stretches of time when it looks like the internet’s down, or having temporary hang-ups. I can’t watch anything on Youtube or Blip, since it never loads—or if it starts to, it will constantly buffer. A call to customer service seems to think it’s on my end, when I seriously doubt that. Their server keeps dying if anyone tries to check e-mail. (Except for a brief window this morning) Earliest they can bother to check around and see if there’s something messing up is Saturday afternoon, around 11 AM-1 PM. Maybe.

To watch the trailer for The Dark Knight Rises, I had to use Download Accelerator Plus, since it kept trying even when the connection dropped out. So I watched a fuzzy quality version of the HD trailer, but at least I was able to see it.

(Yahoo is insane, because it’s been working for me at times, even when Comcast wasn’t, in certain windows of time. So I can keep tagging back in the Genosha logs. Watch the confusion!)

House Passes CISPA. Obama Administration Issues Threat To Veto CISPA As-Is. From here, it goes to the Senate. Some of those in the House that voted against it only did so because they didn’t think it went far enough.

The Non-Geek’s Guide To CISPA.

FTC Hires Ace Prosecutor For Google Antitrust Case.

Dimestore Dames spotlights Snowbird.

New viral images of Spider-Man’s web-shooters from The Amazing Spider-Man.

Star Wars MST3K Reviews Firefly T-Shirt.

Avengers pre-sales numbers smash all other Marvel movies combined.

Chris Roberson, marketing, and the Silver Age.

MTV Sets Premiere Date For Teen Wolf Season 2.

Fringe has been renewed for a fifth, final season of 13 episodes. Whedonesque discusses the news here.

What fandom did for Doctor Who.

Director James McTeigue Talks The Raven.

10 Comic Book Characters That Didn’t Debut In Comic Books.

Explore Vampire History In A New Dark Shadows Featurette.

20 New Images From Dark Shadows Are Here.

The Wolverine To Shoot In Japan.

Is there really a New Mutants movie in the works? Will it be announced at Comic Con? While I doubt it, that would be wonderful to see. Even if everything with Illyana would take multiple movies to cover.

Joe Dante on The Haunted Palace.

The Ringu Ghost Throws A Mean Curve.

New international poster for The Amazing Spider-Man.

An Imperial CAT-AT, for Jedi kitties only.

The Japanese trailer for Snow White And The Huntsman.

New spot for Brave, due to air during the NFL Draft.

Comic Book Legends Revealed #364.

John Romita Jr. will try to draw for 50 hours straight for charity.

Polymer clay skull ring.

Ray Stantz Costume To Be On Display At Museum Of Natural History. The exhibit will also include the leather jacket worn by Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade, and the whip used in Raiders of the Lost Ark, the tunic and sash worn by William Shatner as Kirk in Mirror Mirror, and numerous other items.

Buffy vs. Aliens For Free Comic Book Day?

Film Sack Podcast: Cherry 2000.

Mac Flashback Attack Began With Wordpress Blogs.

Trove of 500 fairy tales discovered in Germany—will Disney option the Turnip Princess?

Syfy confirms it now has the pilot script for Booster Gold.

An Unexpected Connection: Peter Jackson and J.R.R. Tolkien.

Hobbit To Preview At CinemaCon.

50 Greatest Friends And Foes of Spider-Man: Supporting Cast #’s 25-16.

Johnny Depp Explains The Look of Tonto In The Lone Ranger.

The Near Mint Avengers #1 Which Was Almost Thrown Away.

Spider-Man, Batman, Huntsman—A Nerdy Summer Movie Preview. The only one I plan to see this year is The Dark Knight Rises. I’m not an Avengers fan (and don’t like a single actor in that movie).

Valiant Entertainment debuts a new logo.

Scorpion Releasing Brings Mortuary To DVD.

Lego Darth Vader Lamp.

Dalek Cake

George Takei looks back at his career.

An Embroidered George McFly.

The Piranhaconda Looks...Well, Like a Piranhaconda

Another Avengers clip, this time with Bruce Banner and Black Widow.

Dan DiDio and Jim Lee address Chris Roberson’s DC departure.

Comic Alliance reviews Spider-Man: The Secret Wars (1997).

Yogi Shot First

Read two pages of the original pitch for Eureka.

The Greatest Movie Ever Podcast discusses Monster Dog (1984).