Comic-Con registration starts on February 21st; new guests

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Here it comes! Preliminary instructions for this year's San Diego Comic-Con open registration is coming next Saturday, 2/21 at 9 am pst. As usual links will be revealed later and you'll get into a waiting room before being able to get in and purchase tickets. Only THREE PER PERSON this year, which is tough. Here's some rough guidelines:

WWE asks Papercutz to remove CM Punk from WWE Superstars reprints

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When you leave the WWE, you also leave WWE licensed comics, as CM Punk will be removed from future printings of Papercutz WWE Superstars comics.

UFC and DC team for UFC 181 poster

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On December 8th, UFC 181 will take place withThe cover unveiled will be used ahead of UFC 181 as the promotion teams up with...

Swipe File: Kris Mukai’s Commuter and a real woman with a subway pole in...

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While there were more great comics than you could count at this weekend's MoCCA Fest one that got a little notice was Kris Mukai's Commuter (available for sale here) which captures real life moments of subway horror (rats, puke, bums, vandals, peoples selling batteries, mariachi bands) in comics form.

RIP: The Ultimate Warrior

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR08M6EUd0g Only a day after recording this promo, the man known as The Ultimate Warrior is dead at age 54. Born Jim Hellwig, the masked...

RIP: Mae Young

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Wrestling Hall of Famer Mae Young died earlier this week, at age 90. She wrestled in 7 decades, as recently as 2010, a...

NSA scoured Azeroth for terrorists

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Edward Snowden's leaked paper have released a lot of bombshells but none as big as this: the NSA sent agents to play World of...

The week in review: No one did anything they didn’t want to

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Now that the outrage-o-tron has moved from torture to movie casting, here is a round-up of reactions to the "Torture Cover" post the other day. Actually I don't even need to write anything, as the Outhouse already summed it up with CROSSED TORTURE VARIANT CONTROVERSY SPARKS SURPRISINGLY CIVIL DEBATE ON INTERNET. It's true. No one was blackballed, castigated or petitioned. The effects and provenance of disturbing material were widely debated, but it was generally decided by everyone involved that those who like it can like it, those who want to throw up can move right over to the toilet.

So what kind of person buys a “Torture variant” cover anyway? (NSFW, trigger images)

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I know everyone tsk tsk's Avatar's habit of putting out gory, exploitive covers, but seriously, after looking at some of their "torture variant" covers, I find myself asking "WHAT KIND OF SICK FUCK BUYS THIS SHIT????" I get the appeal of a little transgressive gore now and then, but these are basically images of sawed off limbs, flaying and twisted sexual situations that make Mark Millar look like Hannah Montana.

The epic journey: Nine Foot Tall Hulk statue makes its way to Illinois library

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We've been reporting for some while on the saga of the Northlake Public Library in Illinois and its quest to attain a 9-foot-tall statue...

SDCC ’13: It was the year of the Vikings Interactive Waterway

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Yes, that is what they will remember this year's San Diego for. The Year the Vikings arrived, bold conquerors, mighty thewed, red hair flowing...

Fight! Jim Carrey vs Mark Millar over Kick-Ass 2 gun violence

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The fight will be gentlemanly fisticuffs only. Carrey—who has been coming out pretty strongly for gun control in recent months—portrays Colonel Stars and Stripes...

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