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It’s Hourly Comic Day.

The Words and Deeds Love Meme closed to new comments yesterday—kate_nepveu has decided to continue it here.

Emerald City Comicon website hacked.

How was the encore presentation of Rifftrax Live: Plan 9 From Outer Space?

RiffTrax Live: Birdemic is now available as a VOD—this is a sample.

Peter David is going home early. Best of luck to him for a speedy recovery.

The Line It Is Drawn #124: A Punderful Tribute To Peter David.

Comic Book Legends Revealed #404. This week, all the legends relate to the 60’s Batman television series.

95 Specials, Movies & Marathons to Watch on TV on Super Bowl Sunday -- Instead of Super Bowl XLVII

'Puppy Bowl IX': Catch a preview of Sunday's action

Super Bowl Teaser Spot For World War Z.

Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Art Print.

Matt Smith And David Tennant Are In The Red Nose Day 2013 Trailer.

Phantom comics reissue keeps early masked hero alive

Terry Pratchett and other fantasy authors score at this year’s ALA Awards

Who’s Got A Spare Half Million For A Detective Comics #27?

JLA Profiles: Geoff Johns Approaching Hawkman In A New Way.

9 intriguing details from Burton’s newly leaked Superman Lives script.

Small Screen Survivors: TV Shows That Lived On As Comics.

Mark Millar On X-Men: Days Of Future Past – Sentinels And Kitty Pryde Fans Won’t Be Disappointed

Best Art Ever (This Week): February 1st.

Ask Chris #139: An Extensive Discussion Of Batman Punching Animals

Jim Lee - With Great Power Extended Interviews

AV Club Q&A: Pop culture too extensive to start.

Vintage Horror Cinema: Thomas Edison’s Frankenstein.

Ellen Muth will guest star on Hannibal, playing a character named Georgia.

New Bates Motel Teaser.

Critics’ Roundtable: The Vampire Diaries.

10 of the Most Bizarre Fairy Tale Adaptations.

Lifetime picks up Witches of East End.

Sabrina Carpenter joins Girl Meets World.

Replica Ghostbusters Proton Pack.

Read Harrison Ford’s original script notes from Raiders of the Lost Ark

Mondo’s Lost Boys Posters.

James Horner will be scoring the Ender’s Game adaptation.

Jack The Giant Slayer Set Visit: Interview Highlights.

NBC’s Do No Harm Scores Lowest Rated In-Season Premiere Ever.

Spiral staircase inspired by a whale’s spine.

Guillermo Del Toro’s 'Pinocchio’ Is Not Fossilized Just Yet.

Byzantium - International Trailer

Smodcast #24: Beverly Hills Bat: The Dark Knight Returns Pt. 2 Panel at The Paley Center. The panel includes Bruce Timm, director Jay Oliva, writer Bob Goodman, Andrea Romano, Ariel Winter, and Peter Weller.

Saturday B Movie Reel #97—Tasmanian Devils.

Movie Issues Podcast: Black Dynamite (2009)

Retroist Podcast—Episode 130—Yars’ Revenge.

Rusty Mills has passed away due to organ failure as a result of colon cancer. May he rest in peace. He worked as art director, director, animator, and producer for various shows, including: Animaniacs, Tiny Toon Adventures, Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman, Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night, An American Tail, and Pinky And The Brain.

Reinhold Weege has passed away at the age of 63. He was the producer, writer, and director of several shows, including Night Court and Barney Miller. May he rest in peace.

Terry Pratchett: Sex, death and nature. He gives an in-depth discussion of his Alzheimer’s and future plans, for anyone who wishes to skip this one.

What if Norman Rockwell illustrated scenes of Gotham City life?

In ending its gaming-themed programming, G4 was rumored to become either an Esquire or GQ channel. Esquire it is.

The Abandoned An’ Forsaked—Did Iceman Really Lose His Powers During The House of M?

The next movie for Svengoolie is Ssssss.

ABC Passes (Again) on Pilot Adaptation of BBC's Only Fools and Horses

Part 2 of The One Ring.Net’s Interview With Richard Armitage.

JM DeMatteis To Co-Write Phantom Stranger

Commentary Track Stars: Independence Day (1996) Commentary.

Greatest Movie Ever Podcast: Trollhunter (2010)

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Rusty Mills has passed away due to organ failure as a result of colon cancer. May he rest in peace. He worked as art director, director, animator, and producer for various shows, including: Animaniacs, Tiny Toon Adventures, Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman, Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night, An American Tail, and Pinky And The Brain.

Reinhold Weege has passed away at the age of 63. He was the producer, writer, and director of several shows, including Night Court and Barney Miller. May he rest in peace.

Terry Pratchett: Sex, death and nature. He gives an in-depth discussion of his Alzheimer’s and future plans, for anyone who wishes to skip this one.

What if Norman Rockwell illustrated scenes of Gotham City life?

In ending its gaming-themed programming, G4 was rumored to become either an Esquire or GQ channel. Esquire it is.

The Abandoned An’ Forsaked—Did Iceman Really Lose His Powers During The House of M?

The next movie for Svengoolie is Ssssss.

ABC Passes (Again) on Pilot Adaptation of BBC's Only Fools and Horses

Part 2 of The One Ring.Net’s Interview With Richard Armitage.

JM DeMatteis To Co-Write Phantom Stranger

Commentary Track Stars: Independence Day (1996) Commentary.

Greatest Movie Ever Podcast: Trollhunter (2010)

Lucille Bliss has passed away, at the age of 96. May she rest in peace. She was the voice of Smurfette from 1984-1989 in the Smurfs tv series, as well as all of the 80’s specials. She may also be remembered for doing voicework for one of the stepsisters (never knew they had names, but she was Anastasia) in Cinderella. She also had roles in numerous other Disney and Hanna-Barbera titles.

Margaret Nicholas has passed away, at the age of 82. May she rest in peace. She directed the 80’s Transformers, The Glo Friends, Inhumanoids, Moon Dreamers, Potato Head Kids, Fraggle Rock, My Little Pony n’ Friends, The Addams Family (the 1992 cartoon) as well as many, many other shows. For X-Men fans, she was the animation director for Pryde of the X-Men.

Skype Disables Password Resets After Huge Security Hole Discovered.

Exclusive: Larry Blamire and Cleve Hall To Produce The Lost Skeleton Walks Among Us And More.

Scarecrow Video’s VHS Art New Wave Exhibition Revives Video Store Weirdness.

Terry Pratchett Leaves Discworld To His Daughter.

Lost Girl sets its return date, gears up for season 3.

Sandman box set is out.

February Start Planned For The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

Asgardian Storm, as drawn by Mike McKone.

‘GIF’ Named America’s Word of the Year.

The Only Fridge That’s Bigger On The Inside.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle house development appeal upheld.

Warner Bros. Launches ‘For Your Consideration’ Awards Campaign For The Dark Knight Rises.

David Tennant interview.

Children In Need: Publicity Photo.

Personality Quiz: Could You Survive As The Doctor’s Companion? Looks like I would survive unscathed.

From Think Geek: Doctor Who Bathrobes.

Hero Complex interviews Bill Willingham about Fables.

P:R Approved: Jason Ho’s Sons Of The Bat.

Full Trailer For Oz: The Great And Powerful.

Joe Biden’s 1993 Cameo on Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego.

The House That Jack Built.

DC Histories: Eclipso.

Michael Uslan’s 1980 choice for Joker up for sale.

Perfectly Gruesome Evil Dead Nike Air Foamposite Pro Sneakers.

Watch Rare Home Movie Footage of Boris Karloff’s Frankenstein In Color.

The Iron Cyberman.

First Look At Thor: The Dark World Villain Malekith and Army of Dark Elves Via Set Photos.

10 Bizarre Death Rituals From Around The World.

A live Twitter chat with Jane Espenson today at 7 PM PDT.

Rick Baker To Be Honored With Star On The Hollywood Walk Of Fame.

New TV Spot For The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

Secret Circle Creator Heads To ABC With Fantasy Drama Saga.

Hitchcock Clip #2.

Hitchcock Clip #3

The Forgotten Flix Podcast: Back To The Future (1985).

Now Playing Podcast: Die Another Day (2002)

Comic Issues Podcast #92: Darth Mickey

Geek Fest Rants, Episode 114: Blade Runner, 30th Anniversary.

Saturday B Movie Reel #86: Ghost Storm (2012).

Weinberg’s House of Horrors: Episode 11: Night of the Living Dead (1968).

The Holiday Wish List meme is going around again. I’ll probably just let it pass, since I can’t think of anything. I’ll just wait until Fandom Stocking opens.

Yuletide Update and Clarifications, Part II.

Copyright Scofflaws Beware: ISPs to Begin Monitoring Illicit File Sharing.

The Quiet Death of the Canadian Internet Surveillance Bill.

Court rules book scanning is fair use, suggesting Google Books victory.

TV Tango has updated their list to Halloween On TV: 269 Halloween-Themed Movie Marathons, Episodes & Specials on TV In October 2012.

31 Days of Horror: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre/House of 1000 Corpses.

31 Days of Horror: The Fog/The Mist.

MTV Geek’s Frightful Faves: The Gate (1987)

Rare Halloween Videos: Grampa Munster’s Silly Scaries (1988), More Silly Scaries (1989).

Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness: 80’s Rerun: Poltergeist

NBC To Air Mockingbird Lane As A Halloween Special. I’ll have to remember to watch that one.

The Best Horror Movies To Watch On Youtube For Free.

10 Thrift Store Friendly Comic Book Halloween Costume Ideas.

The Wolverine: First Glimpse of Silver Samurai.

Comixology adding a submission site.

The official trailer for Hitchcock.

How Red Dwarf blends sitcom with sci-fi in just 10 smegging episodes.

Expectation of Endings.

Storylines Lost.

Artist Kris Anka and Writer Sam Humphries On Uncanny X-Force Fashions.

500+ 90’s X-Men Animation Cels Hit The Auction Block December 1st.

How Grant Morrison’s 7-Year Batman Epic Is Becoming The Ultimate Definition of Batman.

Molly Shannon joins the cast of Hannibal.

Shailene Woodley In Talks To Play Mary Jane Watson In The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels To Cheer You The Frak Up.

10 ‘Grim and Gritty’ Superhero Makeovers.

Walter Koenig interview: Star Trek, Babylon 5, J.J. Abrams’ reboot, and graphic novels.

Captain Robert April, You’re Doing It Wrong: Objectivism, Climate Control and Diane Carey’s Final Frontier.

Ian McShane joins American Horror Story: Asylum.

Bryan Hitch Confirms Existence of Scott Snyder’s Man of Steel.

This Batcave made of 20,000 Lego bricks is fit for Bruce Wayne.

Nightwing Cosplay.

NYCC 2012: Jim Lee Unveils A Batman Inspired Car.

Robot Chicken: That’s Bane.

Robot Chicken: Two-Face.

The Strangest Real-Life Graves In The World.

The Weird, Weird History Of TLC.

Do You Listen To DVD Commentaries?

Scott Allie and artist Juan Ferreyra collaborated on a drawing of Hellboy hanging out with Edgar Allan Poe at a bar.

2012 Top 100 Comic Book Runs #90-86.

How It Should Have Ended: The Zombie Song (Extended Version).

Dynamite Acquires License For NBC’s Grimm.

Dan Slott Reveals That Spider-Man And Mary Jane Will Get Back Together - But Peter Parker Is NOT Spider-Man.

Alien Queen Barbie Mash-up.

Spooky Delicious Pizza.

Horror Poster Redux: Mondo’s Beautiful Take on John Carpenter’s Halloween.

Tales From The Crypt Pinball Machine.

The Line It Is Drawn #110—Comic Book Characters, Batman: The Animated Series Style.

Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 285: X-Men Annual #6.

The New Evil Dead Logo Springs Forth.

‘New’ JRR Tolkien epic due out next year.

Arrow Lifts CW Ratings, Most Viewed Show On The Network In Three Years.

30 Dynamic Duos of Daytime Soaps (25-21). Barnabas and Julia (from Dark Shadows), and Vivian and Ivan (from Days of Our Lives) make the list.

How Tor Would Cast A Live Action Peanuts Movie.

Comic Issues Podcast #87: A Few of the Geekiest Things Part 2.

Dr. Action Podcast: Masters of the Universe (1987) Commentary.

The F This Movie Podcast: Friday The 13th Part 3 (1982) Commentary.

Junk Food Dinner Podcast #130: Gothic (1986), Frankenstein Conquers The World (1965), and Frankenhooker (1990).

Mission Log Podcast #10: Episode 10: Dagger of the Mind.

Lance LeGault has passed away at the age of 77. May he rest in peace. Star Trek fans might remember that he played the Klingon K’Temoc in the TNG episode The Emissary.

Amazon targets one-day delivery to make up for lost tax advantage.

Skeleton found at dig may be Richard III..

Shannara fantasy novels to become US TV series.

ABC Family has released their programming schedule for their annual 13 Nights of Halloween block.

How on Earth is the Buffyverse getting a male Slayer?

Scott Allie Talks ‘Billy’ The Vampire Slayer.

TIFF Interview: Joss Whedon.

Interview: Mark Waid on Daredevil, Hulk, Insufferable and Rocketeer.

Homemade Doctor Who chess set turns Matt Smith into a king, the TARDIS into a rook.

Life Outside The TARDIS: Catherine Tate.

TARDIS Bar.

Now Batman Fixes Potholes, Too.

Here’s another new clip from The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1.

Alternative Costume Designs for Cass Cain as Black Bat.

Confirmed: No Extended Director’s Cut Of The Dark Knight Rises Exists Or Is Planned.

Looking back at Beauty And The Beast. The Ron Perlman series.

Tuesday Q&A: Dan Slott.

CR Sunday Interview On A Wednesday: Tim Sale and Scott Hampton.

E.T. coming to theaters, Blu-ray for 30th anniversary

Fatal Events: 10 Comic Book Crossover Character Deaths.

Benedict Cumberbatch beats Matt Smith as Sherlock wins twice at TV awards.

Discworld Fan Film Possibly The Largest Scale Fan Film Ever.

Comic Book Easter Eggs: The Many Faces of Identity Crisis.

Spoiler: Obituary For The AvX Fallen.

Top 10 Scenes Of Epic Superhero Carnage.

Trailers From Hell: Mick Garris on Ghost Story

The Girls of Tumblr’s Monster Girl Drawing Challenge.

Culling Comics in the Digital Age.

How Much Longer Until A Samurai Jack Movie?

First Clip From Frankenweenie.

The CW’s official description of season 4 of The Vampire Diaries.

Dear science: please, please name this dancing spider after Zoidberg.

Amazing New Nosferatu Poster Available Tomorrow.

5 Things You Didn’t Know About Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Brannon Braga Returns To Star Trek With Star Trek: The Next Generation: Hive

Tarzan Never Dies: Part I: 100 Years of Books and Movies.

Thale, Byzantium Find U.S. Distribution.

Robot Chicken: Nerd Lantern.

Grace Randolph’s Stacktastic: New Justice League Line-Up.

3 Chicks Review Comics Podcast, Episode 43: Interviewing Greg Rucka.

Now Playing Podcast: The Spy Who Loved Me (1977).

The Forgotten Flix Podcast: Big Trouble In Little China (1986)

Sofa Dogs Podcast #256: The Monster Squad (1987) Commentary

Geekfest Rants Podcast Episode 105: Raiders of the Lost Ark in IMAX.

Comic Issues Podcast #83—Back To School Special.

Ernest Borgnine has passed away, at the age of 95, due to renal failure. May he rest in peace. Because of MST3K, I remember him from Merlin’s Shop Of Mystical Wonders. According to IMDB, he was also the Lion in the 1985 version (the one with Carol Channing) of Alice In Wonderland.

The Amazing Spider-Man Webs Up $140 Million. The worldwide total is currently $341.2 million

Spider-Man at 50: The strange tale of Amazing Fantasy.

Is This What Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Man Almost Looked Like?

Guest Blog: A Spider-Woman For the 1980’s, Part 1.

People Spent 1 Billion Hours Watching Netflix Last Month; What Were You Watching? I’ve never used Netflix—can’t afford it, and don’t care to use them, given everything I’ve read.

The British Comic Awards Are A Go.

Defenders assemble: 21 super-teams that would make for great movies (but likely never will).

Jamal Igle To Start Kickstarter Campaign For Molly Danger In August.

First The Dark Knight Rises screening reactions. No spoilers.

Smart Pop Writers At San Diego Comic Con.

SDCC 2012: operate cat ears with only your brain waves.

The Myth of Japan’s Shuten Dōji.

Amazing Discworld Cake.

Early 1900’s Halloween Lantern.

Stan Lee talks about how comics will last forever.

Look At This Incredible Paper Mache Bust of Dragon Maleficent

Stuart Gordon Talks Re-Animator The Musical.

Sew Nerdy gallery show reveals the softer side of fanart.

Comic Con Tips: A Dexter Survival Guide For Killer Weekend.

Game of Thrones Direwolf Bookends.

The Avengers Painted As Epic Fantasy Heroes.

Comics Alliance Reviews Superman Returns (2006) Part Two.

For Sale: Volcano House--$750,000.

October Release For Dark Shadows Movies On Blu-Ray And DVD. For Night of Dark Shadows, this is not the restored version people were hoping for, but the version originally seen in theaters.

Philip Seymour Hoffman Becomes Head Gamemaker For The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

Dan Jurgens Takes Over Writing And Drawing Firestorm.

Exclusive The Wolverine Casting News.

Thanks to some thunderstorms that went through the region, we’ve fallen from 115 degrees, down to a breathable 89 degrees.

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)

Gateways to Geekery: Terry Pratchett novels.

80 foot Superman Thanksgiving Parade balloon from 1940.

Dimestore Dames spotlights Mary Jane Watson.

Jason Aaron, Kieron Gillen, Victor Gischler, Christos Gage and Nick Lowe discuss Kitty Pryde.

Bruce Campbell weighs in on the Evil Dead remake.

From Cracked: 5 Batman Villains Too Lame To Survive A Single Issue.

Svengoolie shows Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man tonight.

A sixth performer performer was injured during Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark.

Fans of the late All My Children may not be getting a web series after all, as plans have been put on hold thanks to a lack of funding.

Russell Tovey is leaving Being Human.

The trailer for Snow White And The Huntsmen. If Kristen Stewart weren’t in this movie, I would actually want to watch. whedonesque discusses it here.

Yuletide nominations are open! The locked-in nominations. Someone else nominated Back to the Future, and two characters from Fright Night (1985). I nominated My Best Friend Is A Vampire, The Librarian movies, and Fright Night (1985), so I could include Peter Vincent and Charley Brewster. If anyone hasn’t nominated their fandoms yet, please consider adding Ghostbusters or either incarnation of Dark Shadows. (I was so close to going through with nominating Mr. Boogedy)

Blog of Dark Shadows has an exclusive interview with the production designer for the new movie—Rick Heinrichs.

The start date for shooting The Hobbit has been announced: March 21st.

The Thor trailer aired during the Superbowl, and you can watch it here. The first trailer for Captain America is here.

It looks like Good Omens is going to be made into a miniseries in the UK.

We’re getting a lot of snow right now. It was supposed to be flurries over the course of the morning, and that was it. Barely anything, they said. Instead? 1-2 inches every half hour. I think we’re up to 6 inches now, possibly 7, and it’s still coming—it’s starting to slow, though. More snow might hit Wednesday, and then it stops again for a few days. At least five snow plows have gone sliding into ditches, while parents had to get help picking up kids at Lone Oak Middle School, because nobody could see for all the snow coming down. That, and a bus went off into the ditch before they could pick any students up. Two semi trucks slid off Lone Oak Road, while another truck lost control going around a corner two streets away.

ETA: As of 6 PM, they say we ended up with 9 inches of snow.

At least it’s not anywhere near as bad as Chicago?