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§ Nice Art: John Patrick Green has a new book out this week Hippopotamister, and it's a really gorgeous and charming book from the Teen Boat creator. It's about a hippo who leaves the zoo and tries to get a job, and all that entails.

A couple of weeks ago, Wolf artist Ricardo Lopez Ortiz joined the Podcorn Gang to talk about this year's Image Expo announcements. We teased it...

"Bitchy is sort of based on the kind of person I find extremely irritating, clueless, quick to anger, no insight, and so on. But I can really identify with some of the things that make her angry."

Funko + Scott Pilgrim = less money in your bank account. Finally! Scott, Ramona and Knives in Funko stylee. The figures go on sale later this summer. The figures are based on the characters from Bryan Lee O'Malleys still popular epitome-of-the-aughts graphic novel series, Scott Pilgrim, but the actual figures are based specifically on the movie version, in which Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Ellen Wong portrayed Scott Pilgrim, Ramona Flowers and Knives Chau, respectively.

I think we were all pretty shocked when we learned that Warner Bros. execs were blindsided by the bad reviews for Batman v Superman; they thought they had a crowd pleasing winner on their hands. However, it seems Fox execs may have been equally over-optimistic about X-men: Apocalypse, the new Bryan Singer directed mutant fricassee. The film doesn't open here until May 27th, but reviews all went live earlier this week, usually a sign that the studio thinks the film will get great buzz. But, the buzz was...not great.

The National Cartoonists Society Foundation (NCSF) has presented the 2015 Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship to Sheridan College animation major Tex Minos, who has a...