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Charles Forsman got our attention last fall when he imagined Raiders of the Lost Ark in the style of Popeye, but the Snake Oil creator's latest movie/comic strip remix casting Charles Schulz's Peanuts gang in Steven Spielberg's Jaws might be even more endearing...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Flashbacks ^ Dissolves % Fades ¢ Cuts ^ % ¢ AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #667 Dan Slott and Humberto Ramos start "Spider-Island" in earnest, after months of leadup. I'm kind...

Art: Yehudi Mercado illustrates a series of Muppets in Game of Thrones garb, which fans can pick up in postcard form at his official web site. Polls: Results are trickling in for The Hooded Utilitarian's poll for the ten best comics from all over the globe...

Webcomics: It's Twitterficial, Chris Onstad's Achewood will return from hiatus... soon? TV: Actress Lucy Punch has been cast as Deena Pilgrim for FX's Powers pilot. Sadness: Hilarious Tumblr page Peanutweeter has been struck down by Iconix Brands Group after filing a complaint under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act...

You ever post something to Twitter that's just so incredibly funny but none of your jerk-ass friends bother to reweet it so you can earn the praise and adoration of countless Tweeps you don't even know and you just wish somebody was watching...

The notion of making Peanuts comics without Charles Schulz may seem to be a surprising or even controversial move, but that's exactly what's happened with the new 80-page graphic novel Peanuts: Happiness is a Warm Blanket, out this week from Boom...

Charles Schulz explored some pretty depressing thought experiments in his comic strip Peanuts, disguising them with the adorable drawings of Charlie Brown and company. The strip could become as dark as the bleakest Greek tragedy. Consider Lucy pulling the football out of the way of Charlie Brown's kick: After 50 odd years of never kicking the ball, this simple gag more closely resembled the tort

Coming in March is Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown, a graphic novel starring the beloved Peanuts characters created by Charles M. Schulz. Published by BOOM! Studios' children's imprint kaboom!, the book is an adaptation of the forthcoming animated DVD feature of the same name...

Just a week ago Charlie Sheen was but a beloved imp whose amusingly anarchic adventures were documented only in the pages and websites of the most culturally inconsequential tabloid news sources. But within the last 24 hours, the Two and a Half Men star has before our very eyes transcended the confines of his terrestrial form and attained not just a heretofore undiscovered form of enlightenment, b

BOOM! Studios has released some vague new teaser images suggesting the company's newly-renamed kids line Kaboom! is set to release new Peanuts comics sometime in 2011. No word on exactly what this means as the BOOM! KIDS website has been replaced with an equally nondescript image...