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With Marvel Studios Civil War just around the corner, Lego Marvel's Avengers game released their own versions of the characters we'll see in the...

In the wake of The Walking Dead's on-going (and growing) success, AMC is gearing up for what it hopes is its next big comic...

In May DC is reimagining your beloved Hanna Barbera cartoons with books like Future Quest and Scooby Apocalypse. While that latter title sounds like a late night Tumblr parody, it isn't. And here are the variant covers by Steve Rude, Bill Sienkiewicz, Howard Porter and Neal Adams to prove it.

Last year, the Netflix release of Marvel's Daredevil took superhero fandom by storm. The set of episodes that comprised Daredevil's freshman year breathed new life into a fairly moribund television landscape.

Yesterday the great Al Jaffee turned 95. He's been contributing to Mad Magazine for a mere 61 years as the master of the "Fold-In," a few of which are presented below. Still active and charming as ever, Mr. Jaffee is one of the few people who can genuinely be said to speak with a "stentorian" presence, and I would just sit and listen to him read the phone book.

Last year, Lionsgate and the San Diego Comic-Con announced a joint venture to launch a SVOD (subscription video-on-demand) channel themed to all things nerd and con. Now they've just announced that a free beta of the service, named Comic-Con HQ, will roll out on May 7th (Free Comic Book Day). Plans for programing include including original scripted and unscripted programming, such as Kings of Con, a show based on the Her Universe fashion line, and an interview series with Adam Sessler, The ad-free service will also offer programming from Comic-Con's archives, and that should be an eye opener for comics historians.