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Doctor Who will keep silent for the better part of 2016, airing nothing but a Christmas Special, but undergo major transition in 2017 with the addition of a new companion and Steven Moffat’s retirement. Even more, Peter Capaldi has been asked to stay on amid all the chaos, but still isn’t sure of a Doctor Who future without Steven Moffat.

Time and time again, Doctor Who has been fraught with rumors of one or more upsets, including showrunner Steven Moffat’s inevitable exit. Well, it appears that day will finally come, as Moffat confirms his exit post-Season 10, setting his replacement Doctor Who head writer as well.

Wednesday's links await, after the cut.

Animation: Director Alex Zamm has posted footage from a canned Marvin the Martian CG/live action short, along with a Hong Kong Phooey CG demo on his Vimeo site. Upcoming: Fantagraphics has posted an online preview of the upcoming Messages in a Bottle, which will collect the best comics by Bernard Krigstein...

Next year marks the 50th anniversary of the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who, a fact celebrated not only with new episodes of the show itself (including, it's rumored, a special anniversary episode), but also with a new IDW comic series looking back at the history of the character...

Whether it's because of DC Comics' upcoming Before Watchmen or the increasingly mainstream cultural implications of his V For Vendetta series in the wake of the Occupy Movement, Alan Moore is getting more press than ever these days. His recent appearance on a British television chat show included some familiar comments about why he doesn't want his comics to be turned into movies, the morality of

Set against the disputed Iranian elections of 2009, Zahra's Paradise tells the story of a mother on a quest to find her missing teenage son, who disappeared amidst the chaos. First serialized online and later published as a book by First Second, Zahra's Paradise was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Digital Comic, and has earned praise and coverage from sources around the world...

While mainstream paranoia points to 2012 as the year the world ends, fans of storied cartoonist Peter Bagge know the whole thing already went down five years years back in the pages of Dark Horse's "Apocalypse Nerd." Such knowledge could soon expand exponentially if Tupaq Felber is successful in bringing his six-part live action adaptation of the series to the BBC under the modified titl

The Vertigo blog recently posted a TV commercial that's been airing on BBC America for the Eisner-winning modern fairy tale graphic novel series "Fables." It's a slick, well-produced affair that comes complete with a movie trailer style voiceover selling that sums up the book's immediately appealing high concept (fairy tale characters in modern-day New York City...

Even though he ran out of funding before he was able to fully realize perfection with his steam-powered calculator, The Difference Engine, Charles Babbage's contributions to science and computing technology have been validated time and again by the scientific community...