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Or at least that's what the poster says. Click for the full size version so you can see the single sinister spot of moisture on Yogi's nose—mucus? phlegm? or...something else???—and the light glinting off his vampire fangs. Brrrrrr. "Good things come in bears." How much did the people who sat around coming up with this slogan get paid?

Artist Stephen DeStefano directs us to a trailer for his new graphic novel LUCKY IN LOVE, written by George Chieffet. The trailer was directed by Miguel Martinez-Joffre and colored by Carly Monardo -- both are vets of The Venture Bros., as is DeStefano.

The road to comic book Valhalla is lined with companies that have tried to do "celebrity comics" as a means of switching to the fast lane of movie money and licensing gold. Tekno, Virgin, CrossGen. There is hardly a company that does not have some kind of celebrity "vanity project" comic out there made mostly to show to producers as a bible for a film. And all of this is despite the fact that not a single movie has yet been made from a comic book that was published just to be turned into a movie. COWBOYS & ALIENS, which is certainly an A-list project with Jon Favreau, Daniel Craig, and Harrison Ford aboard is set to be the first comic of its genre to ever actually get turned into a big movie. But this is the first time it has ever happened and it took 10 years. And despite this, there are still no other Platinum, Tokyopop, Radical, or Liquid movies. No one can go to Netflix and order the MAYHEM movie or OCD movie or GAMEKEEPER movie.

Take one part Kanye West's completely solipsistic Twitter feed. Add in one part abstruse New Yorker cartoons. Result: comedy.

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• The fellow who produced WATCHMEN is now interested in developing MAGE, Matt Wagner's modern day Arthurian fantasy. Lloyd Levin, who professes to be a big fan of the material, has optioned the "Hero Discovered" portion of the tale of Kevin Matchstick and his wonder-bat. Originally published in the indie-comics-lovin' 80s, MAGE is one of those tried and true tales which remains a good read, and always in play for Hollywood -- Zack Snyder was attached to a previous deal.

Has all the Comic-Con hype actually TURNED OFF some moviegoers? That's what what a chart over at THR seems to show, Jay Fernandez reports:

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Contrary to its reputation as a garish, headache-inducing day-glo nightmare, Batman &Robin is, in fact, a sensitive, heartfelt examination of power, frailty, family, humanity’s custody of the earth, the ties that bind and the mysterious ways of the human heart.

I kid, of course. Batman & Robin, as every schoolboy knows, is ridiculous. A ludicrous traffic-jam of a narrative, it makes no goddamn sense whatsoever from any conceivable point of view. However, that does not mean it is unworthy of study. To paraphrase Charlie Brown, if one learns more from one’s mistakes, that must the creators of Batman & Robin the smartest storytellers who ever lived.

No fewer than six main characters vault into the narrative of Batman & Robin, each with his or her own agenda. Some of these agendas cohere into a compelling, thematically- linked narrative. Others, well, not so much.

Boilerplate, the not-so-historical mechanical man dreamed up by Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett, has been optioned by J.J. Abrams, whose Bad Robot production company...

The THOR footage shown at Comic-Con has been leaking out all over the place, and far be it from us to link you to a place to see it, as it's being taken down quickly, but in case you can't find it, Splash Page has a blow-by-bow account.

This year's edition is guest edited by Neil Gaiman, who tweeted this cover.