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Franco Urru has passed away. May he rest in peace. He is best known for his artwork on IDW’s Spike: Asylum, Spike: Shadow Puppets, and Angel: After The Fall, as well as working on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the publisher. Whedonesque reacts to the news here. Guest Editorial: In Memoriam—Franco Urru.

Final Nintendo Power cover brings the magazine full circle.

Happy 60th Birthday, Keith Giffen.

Happy 62nd Birthday, Chris Claremont.

Happy 56th Birthday, Kevin Conroy.

Doctor Who: BBC confirms 50th anniversary special.

Sir Ian McKellen On Playing Magneto In X-Men: Days of Future Past.

Diabolique Magazine—Issue 13 To Feature Author Christopher Pike.

Infographic: Quick Guide To Choosing A Vampire Hunter.

Catching Up With Star Trek IV’s Catherine Hicks.

Bid at Ebay on a Wesley Crusher Trading Card Ruined By Wil Wheaton Himself.

Take Your First Look At New Carrie, Prometheus, And Gremlins Action Figures From NECA.

Win A Piece Of Original Alex Ross Painted Art.

New Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part Two Blu-Ray And DVD Package Art, Bonus Content

Trivia: Christopher Nolan Met With Heath Ledger For The Lead Role In Batman Begins.

Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing Gets June 2013 Release Date. Whedonesque reacts to the news here.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey TV Spot #8.

TeeFury features new Ghostbusters/Star Wars design.

The 10 Biggest Changes of the Brian Bendis Avengers Era.

Details Revealed On The CW’s New Wonder Woman Series.

Man of Steel Movie Novelization Already Available For Pre-Order.

Trailers From Hell: Brian Trenchard-Smith on Game of Death.

Samuel L. Jackson: No Nick Fury In Iron Man 3, Confirms Captain America Sequel Role.

Clarence Haynes: A Case For Comic Books, Part 1: A Woman Named Raven.

Merlin: details of two-part series five finale revealed.

White-Chocolate Baby Heads: The Cure For Chocoholics.

And Now, This Weatherman Will Read The Forecast In Elvish.

Comic Book Legends Revealed #395.

I Love Ya But You’re Strange—That Time Gen13 Met Betty, Veronica, Archie, Katchoo, Wolverine, Hellboy, Madman…

ABC president on S.H.I.E.L.D.—‘It’s very Joss Whedon.’

Two Teaser TV Spots For A&E’s Psycho Series Bates Motel.

Interview: Dolph Lundgren, still a ‘Universal’ Action Star.

Arrow casts Manu Bennett as Slade Wilson.

Marvel Unveils Four Iron Man 3 Movie Stills.

12 Science Fiction and Fantasy Movies That Are Just Pure Nonstop Fun. I would have added Back to the Future, The Mummy, Army of Darkness, and Ghostbusters to that list.

Massive collection of 1,950 Star Wars figures being auctioned off.

Movie Issues Podcast: Catwoman (2004)

Retroist Podcast. Episode 124: The Last Starfighter (1984).

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.