Super Mario Bros.

Gaming: The Penguin graces the upcoming cover of the UK's PSM3 magazine, confirming his villainous role in Batman: Arkham City. Movies: Matthew Vaughn might make a Kick-Ass 2. After all, the first one made a ton of money, ya know? Bad Driving: The Plain Dealer reports that a driver (believed to be a repentant neighbor) drove through a commemorative comic art plate-covered fence at Superman co-cr

Infographics: Nathanthenerd makes sense of all the wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff of Doctor Who seasons 1-6 so far with an awesome organized timeline chart. Bless you, Nathanthenerd (Click for the full-sized image). Movies: In an interview with Empire, Stellan Skarsgard revealed that Joss Whedon directed the scene in Thor that plays after the closing credits...

Entertainment: Marvel's got a bevy of animated series headed to Netflix Instant starting today and extending over the course of the coming months. If you're reading this Marvel, please add Japanese Spider-Man ASAP. You'll have my eternal gratitude...

In Memory: The BBC reports that Elisabeth Sladen, known for her role as Sarah Jane Smith on Doctor Who and its spinoff The Sarah Jane Smith Adventures has died at the age of 63. Trading Cards: When assembled properly, this July's The Avengers: Kree-Skrull War trading card set from Upper Deck will tell five new comic stories stemming from The Avengers #89-97...

We used a whole week's worth of effusive adjectives in our write-up of The Brothers Mario, an inspired fan-made video that re-imagined Super Mario Bros. in the style of Grand Theft Auto. The creators of that superlative trailer (and Megabot) are back with a sequel: Brothers Mario 2: Kong Country, in which the grim n' gritty plumbers find themselves caught up in a turf war between Bowser and new cr

Movies: Edgar Wright is reportedly working on Ant-Man again. Can they just make this thing already? Advertising: The majority of the most talked movies on Twitter come from Comic Book Land, a place I made up to paraphrase "movies based on comic books...

I've seen a lot of things in this crazy world of ours, but never in all my years have I witnessed an argument for the fact that we're living in the best of all possible worlds as compelling as the existence of this: An installment of the 1988 Ice Capades based on Super Mario Bros... Read More ...

Free Comic Book Day: For those still mourning the loss of Roger Langridge and Chris Samnee's Thor: The Mighty Avenger, have heart! Fans can catch one more tale with a time travel adventure uniting the Thunder God with the Sentinel of Liberty this Free Comic Book Day with Captain America/Thor...

It is probably fair to say that we have a tendency to throw around the word "awesome" kind of a lot here. But seriously you guys have to see this. It is, for real, totally f*cking awesome. The creators of the memorably awesome Power Rangers spoof Megabot have returned with a transcendently awesome new video called The Brothers Mario that reimagines the Super Mario Bros...

If John K and Peter Bagge tried to make cartoons together, they'd end up with characters who look approximately like the ones in the work of Dirk Erik Schulz. The Germany-based artist obviously harbors an intense love of Mario, but he also draws Sega's Sonic and Tails as you would imagine they might appear in a wrestling competition in a cinematic depiction of an acid trip, Fear and Loathing in La