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The third volume of Charles Burns' great Nitnit trilogy is finally coming out in December! It's called and it completes the story from The Hive and X'ed out about the varying levels of reality among a man who has overdosed, a weird world of worms where a reverse Tintin named Nitnit is finding his way, and angsty drama that will be familiar to readers of Black Hole.

Here's a run down of what Kevin Smith is up to, including news that Comic Book Men will be renewed for a fourth (!)...

Avengers: Age of Ultron is currently filming in Aosta, Italy which has to be tough because one bowl of pasta and it's going to show in your spandex, but luckily, as these photos show, some of the costumes have pasta-concealing features. Elizabeth Olson said she wasn't going to go around in a scarlet swimsuit as The Scarlet Witch and she is sure not wearing a swimsuit. Sensible shoes and everything!

Next month sees a launch which The Beat has been following on and off for the last few weeks. A new Transformers miniseries will...

With time travel and tons of extra characters so Fox can make sure they have them on their Marvel roster, even this new POSTER...

The Gwar frontman is dead at age 50. Gwar had a big comics crossover of inspiration and I know they played Comic-Con several times....

There was much rejoicing last week when it was announced 80s cartoon mainstay Jem and The Holograms is coming back as a live-action movie, with the production crowd sourced in some cases. . The movie will be directed by Jon Chu who previously made both Step Up and GI Joe Retaliation, which is the perfect resume for a movie about a female rock band that has adventures.

Straight from the offices of Publishers Weekly, it’s More to Come! Your podcast source of comics news and discussion starring The Beat’s own Heidi...

Fox announced it future Marvel moviesslate last night, including a sequel to the FF movie they haven't even shot yet. But Fox has to...

It's that time! Time for the #1 graphic novel of the year to be announced!

For those longing for the days of Barbie's crapping toy dog Tanner, we have very good news: there is a new generation of toy animals that take little toy dumps on command. Although this being 2014, the girls who own the pets are fashionable "Moxie Girls" and the lovable pets with "the silly poo" are a bunny a koala and a unicorn. It turns out unicorn poo looks a lot like a colorful plastic ball, which is a huge relief for all. Turns out the main varieties of toy turds are glitter, rainbows and jewels.

§ 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.