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Fresh Ink! Online: Blair Butler and Murs review last week's comics, which include Catwoman, Batman, Daredevil, Green Lantern Corps., Northlanders, A Game of Thrones, Near Death, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Ultimate Comics: X-Men. Writing: Pastor Skye Jethani blogs at length about The Man of Steel ditching Superman's underpants on the outside...

Driving: According to The Plain Dealer, the Cleveland-based Siegel & Shuster Society is campaigning to bring Superman license plates to the creators' native Ohio. Art: If you're stuck on how to illustrate female anatomy, the Boobs Don't Work That Way Tumblr may be for you. ...

Gaming: DC Universe Online will release a new Lantern-centric "Fight for the Light" downloadable content pack this summer that will add a light construct powers and missions rooted in GL lore to the title. Animation: Paramount plans to release a film from its new animation studio by 2014, potentially drawing from outlets across Viacom like Nickelodeon...

Conventions: The official map for the San Diego Comic-Con International has surfaced at last. The Beat's annotations may help attendees spot a few of their future line hangouts and/or plan quick escape routes. Upcoming: October's Savage Dragon #177 will see the Dragon face down an undead Osama bin Laden...

Goodness: Comics Express, a free 24-page comic to be distributed to kids and teens affected by the Joplin, Mo. tornado disaster that features talent from across the industry needs a little help reaching its fundraising goal. You can donate to the project at its IndieGoGo page...

Buildings: New York City's Hook & Ladder 8 of Ghostbusters fame has been placed on a tentative list of fire companies that the city might close due to lack of funds. Noooooo! Movies: Filming has official kicked off for The Dark Knight Rises. No...

Movies: Artist Edward Rueda does his best Ralph Steadman impersonation of what Rango's tale might look like if it were inspired by Hunter S. Thompson's exotic adventures. TV: Elizabeth Hurley will play an unspecified villain role in the upcoming Wonder Woman TV pilot starring Adrianne Palicki...

When you're at the top of your game, sometimes you burn out. Sometimes you freeze up. Sometimes you fade away. And sometimes you poison the well and drop the mic. On the flipside of my last parallel between a Western and Eastern creator, Grant Morrison and Naoki Urasawa, I'm flipping it around to look at two incredibly polarizing and far less optimistic figures: Watchmen and League of Extraordina

Movies: Jessica Alba has characterized The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer as the movie that made her want to quit acting. I could totally snark on that, but I'm not going to, because she likes pugs. Mainstream Media: I don't have a ton of patience for news stories profiling the comic book medium as anything but awesome, which is why I really dug this thoughtful feature on the factors

Attractiveness: People Magazine has named Ryan Reynolds (a fusion of Hannibal King, Captain Excellent, Deadpool and Green Lantern) as this year's "Sexiest Man Alive." Comic Strips: Even if you tend to think of Mort Walker's Beetle Bailey as a comic your grandpa digs, Wicked Local has a fun interview with the creator that highlights his military history shows what an interesting guy he i