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§ Words like "TV" and "Broadcast" are long ago relics as streaming from many sources takes over the sitting in front of a screen time. And many comics properties are getting a second (or first) life on these new platforms. F'rinstance, Powers, the Brian Michael Bendis/Michael Avon Oeming series that was made into a pilot then passed on by the FX network, is getting revived as a streaming series for Playstaton. The show will go straight to series for 10 episodes. The cast and crew of the previous pilot has been scrubbed, with Charlie Huston on board to write, with Michael Dinner (director of everything from The Wonder Years to Masters of Sex) to direct. According to THR, Huston and Bendis will be the showrunners—it's nice to see Bendis getting a good title on this. Circle of Confusion (which also reps The Walking Dead) is among the exec producers.

§ Here's a sad story making the rounds: a young lad of nine named Grayson went to school wearing his beloved My Little Pony...

Let's start out this late St. Patricks Day roundup with Shaenon Garrity on two webcomics that adapt Irish Mythology:

§ Alex Behr has an excellent interview with Chris Ware at Salon where he talks about his daughter's drawing ability, the bully that apologized...

I bet you thought the Michael George murder case was over. The former comics shop owner was tried twice for killing his wife in 1990, and convicted in 2011 after years of legal proceedings. But one little shard of the past may have just been revealed: a dusty bullet found behind a water heater in an unused room in the commercial space that was the murder scene back in '90. Creepy, isn't it?

I believe we've mentioned before that Finnish prog-metal musician Tuomas Holopainen (think Toki from Dethklok only Finnish) is making a concept album devoted to...

§ Joe Illidge writes about the casting of the new Johnny Storm and other race related issues about comics and movies. And he makes...

§ I'm not going to go too far into the Whole Denver Comic Con-troversy, as its definitely heating up, and things have been ugly...

By Brian Hibbs (Originally published February 2014) “There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics” For the eleventh (!) year in a row, I’m...

I'm still "on the Continent" as they say...I have the rest of my Angoulême pictures, and a big news wrap-up in the works, but...

§ Portland's Steve Duin reports on last weekend's Wizard World Portland, which kicked off the never ending con season: The con featured Stan Lee...

§ Warren Ellis has trashed another laptop, prior to moving to LA SOMEWHERE for six months to work on a mystery project. I...