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TV and comics veteran Jeph Loeb has been named to a new position within Marvel, according to a press release, below. As Executive Vice President, Head of Television, Loeb will work on bringing Marvel's characters to television and oversee both development and distribution of their series efforts, both animated and live-action. He will report to Marvel Publisher Dan Buckley.

This afternoon marks the end of season 31 of DOCTOR WHO, or season 1 of the Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith) if you are watching...

We're sure this has been around forever, but we just saw it at ArtPatient.

What's this? A new graphic novel illustrated by the amazing Nathan Fox and written by M.F. Wilson? Why yes! OR at least a collection of "Fluorescent Black,", their story that has been running in HEAVY METAL for the last three years. Fox writes "We are really proud of how it turned out and it features a TON of new content including guest pinups, additional narrative pages and more."

RED is yet another comic book movie coming out this summer, albeit one whose comics connections are a little less clear due to the vast changes from the original, a three issue mini- by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner. The film stars Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich and Helen Mirren as aging CIA operatives who have to get together one! more! time! to clear their names. As expected, the trailer proves that the proof-of-concept of "Helen Mirren, Action Star" is just as awesome as you thought it would be Or, as Warren Ellis wrote of the film:.

Helen Mirren with a sniper rifle. I mean, if you don’t want to see a film with Helen Mirren with a sniper rifle, I’m not sure I want to know you.

Hit records and stellar nerdlebirty status aren't always enough to steer a retail ship through the shoals of hard business realities. System of a Down's drummer John Dolmayan apparently learned that the hard way, as this sale for Torpedo Comics shows. The online retailers inventory and even domain name are being auctioned off to pay creditors.

A preview of Flight 7 is up. This will be the last volume of the anthology of fantasy comics featuring many animators and illustrators. Editor Kazu Kibuishi had a bit more at his blog:

Just do it.

It's time for pissed off readers to put their money where their mouth is.

Anything billed as an Absolute All-Star has to be great, but Frank Quitely holds up his end with the cover for ABSOLUTE ALL-STAR SUPERMAN,...

The Vertigo blog annoucned their GN schedule for Jan-Apr 2011 yesterday -- including some books that were announced back in May but didn't get too much attention: RAT CATCHER by Andy Diggle and Victor Ibañez NOCHE ROJA by Writer: Simon Oliver and Jason Latour (above -- nice!)) Also, a new OGN, AARON AND AHMED by Jay Cantor and James Romberger. Nothing else new we spotted, although we're bummed that the third volume of the deluxe collected Preacher won't be out for another year. We had already cleared a place on the shelf for it!

http://d.yimg.com/m/up/ypp/movies/player.swf  Michel Gondry's GREEN HORNET feature is so weird that it's been consigned to January release date hell by the studio, but actual approved...