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Continuing the parade of 90s media giants coming back to life, Dark Horse has just announced a team up with Crystal Dynamics™, a Square Enix® for TOMB RAIDER: The Beginning, a prequel to the upcoming Tomb Raider video game reboot due March 5. A 48-page hardcover, “TOMB RAIDER: The Beginning,” was written by lead game writer Rhianna Pratchett, lead game writer for TOMB RAIDER, with art by Nichola Daniel Sela, and Andrea Mutti, if the poster is to be believed. The cover art is by Tomb Raider art director Brian Horton.

If you somehow didn’t know it already, then this is breaking news for you: this year marks the 50th anniversary of the longest running...

A new manga by the author of Solanin and a sports comic about Michael Jordan...plus some guesswork about the EC Library

At Buzzfeed DC has revealed its covers and plans for April, and promises MORE shocks MORE surprises and MORE MORE so much that you will sit back on your heels and just say, in a dazed tone...."What the ****...."

One accusation thrown at DC is that their comics are very stern, and there's little room for silliness and fun jokes in their Universe....

Or rather, as seen in this gorgeous Peter Gross/Mark Buckingham-drawn teaser image, the cast of Fables literally drag Tommy Taylor into their world.   Vertigo...

I guess all the Superfolks are still involved in this “H’El on Earth” storyline, which finds Supers Man, Boy and Girl battling a evil alien named H'El. It all wraps up in Superman #17, which is out next month, and DC released some pencils by Kenneth Rocafort to get everyone in the mood for the finale:

It seems that Hollywood studios are now so desperate for material that they are turning to smart, nuanced graphic novels with intelligence and insight...

People who know me are generally surprised when they find out I'm a huge fan of Phonogram, the ode to the power of music...

Just in time to celebrate the Raimi-esque casting of Paul Giamatti as The Rhino in the next Spider-Man movie, Diamond Select Toys has released 9-inch Rhino action figure.

Lots of news emerged from Warner Bros. yesterday besides getting a new CEO. On the most germane to our continuing investigations, Amazon, the Wonder Woman pilot being scripted by Allan Heinberg, has been put on hold for a while. It hasn't been killed, but it "needs more time." On the plus side, an off-season pilot may be ordered so it can go in as a midseason replacement. On the non-plussed side it's yet ANOTHER superhero project that WB has put on hold or dithered over or fretted about.

The Center for Jewish History hosted a celebration of the 2013 75th birthday of the seminal superhero Superman on January 27th with co-sponsorship from...