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DC Entertainment now has four shows on TV (which might just be another milestone on the way to "peak geek")!  To help new viewers...

With this week's epochal news that the Marvel Cinematic UNiverse will be adapting the Civil War event storyline, many are wondering...why? Few of the superheroes introduced in the MCU even have secret identities—which were the crux of the kerfuffle between Iron Man and Captain America. Some just think it's a bad idea on other terms. Noelle Stevenson, of Lumberjanes and Nimona fame, is one of the sharpest commentators on Twitter, with incisive character analysis delivered in short 140-character bursts. Her thoughts on Avengers characterization are below.

By Edie Nugent     If the response from the fans at NYCC is anything to go by, Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. should delight viewers with “Face...

WHOA. It turns out that Civil War tease Marvel sent out was just the prelude to the real blockbuster news: Robert Downey Jr. will play a major role in Captain America 3 which will feature the Civil War storyline.

The first trailer for POWER, the Playstation series based on Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming's longrunning comic, debuted at theNYCC panel for the show. Sharlto Copley stars as Christian Walker and Susan Heyward as Deena Pilgrim. Copley is minus most of his outrageous accent, but he's still nutty as hell and I love it. Also, f-bombs and maybe Walker is Bi?

by Edie Nugent From L to R: Dalton Ross, Robert Kirkman and Sean Mackiewicz at Skybound's The Walking Dead panel at NYCC  "The Walking Dead is a very unreal...

A film has been made about Seth, the single named Autuer of Clyde Fans, It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken, Palookaville, and countless illustrations. It's called Seth's Dominion, it's directed by Luc Chamberland and it is described as "a hybrid documentary/animation film exploring the life of master cartoonist Seth." Given that Seth is a perfectionist, you'd expect no less of a film about him, so to no one's surprise the film has won the Grand Prize for Best Animated Feature at this year's Ottawa International Animation Festival.

Insight Editions is a non-fiction publisher who put out a lot of excellent reference books on a variety of nerdish topics and they'll be at NYCC this year with a bunch of debuting books—and a 30% off special. Their booth number is #1869 and here's the line-up and signings:

That gum you like IS coming back in style. Following that above not very cryptic at all really tweet by Twin Peaks creator David Lynch, today he and series co-creator Mark Frost both tweeted at 11:30

With the cancellation of CW's Vortexx cartoon block, broadcast television has ceased showing cartoons on Saturday Morning. With it, a cherished memory and ritual vanishes,...

This week had its up and downs for Rovio, the Finnish company that makes Angry Birds mobile games. On the plus side the...

Well, this will come as little to no surprise to anyone but....the group of people who buy the most print books are the oldest...