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George Lucas and Ron Howard's 1988 fantasy film Willow might have had a happy ending, but the followup novel, Chronicles of the Shadow Moon, outlined by Lucas and adapted by Chris Claremont, wiped out all those warm fuzzy feelings in one giant cataclysm...

Unless you've actually been out in deep space fighting a threat from beyond the galaxy, you probably already know that Mass Effect 3 came out this week. Thanks to a great combination of action and a thrilling story that reflects the player's choices, it's one of the best video game franchises of all time, and a big part of that comes from the distinctive character designs and the memorable enviro

I'm a sucker for concept art. It's hard for me to look at concept designs for Alejandro Jodorowsky's never-made Dune adaptation or the test animations for the discontinued 1936 John Carter cartoon and sigh at the movies that will never be made...

Star Wars is one of those franchises that has curiously gotten younger as time has gone on. Now don't get me wrong, I love Clone Wars (and probably get into more heated discussions about it than it warrants), but it would be nice to see a new Star Wars movie or television series that's aimed at people who were alive when Return of the Jedi came out...

Last month New York City Comic Con goers got an early look at Activision and Beenox's upcoming videogame adaptation of this summer's The Amazing Spider-Man movie, which showed off some city-wide webslining action. The new concept art Tweeted by Beenox studio head Dee Brown takes players inside some structures, however, to potentially reveal key locations from the game...

THQ closed an Australian studio awhile back that was rumored to be working on an Avengers game -- or at least a pitch for one. Looking at leaked video from said studio's former senior animator Mike Smout, and the LinkedIn profiles of two former THQ employees caught by WouldYouKindly however, it seems unlikely the studio was actively working on a literal tie-in to next summer's The Avengers movie..

While AMC's The Walking Dead TV series tread some familiar comic book ground in its first season, according to Joystiq, Telltale Games' upcoming TWD videogame will offer a fresh story not found in either Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard's current comic storyline or the second season of the TV show...

As we wrote previously, Marvel and 20th Century Fox, apparently emboldened by the very positive reaction of critics to early screenings of X-Men: First Class, have been releasing more and more material to whet the public's appetite for the new mutant movie...

If there's one thing that's absolutely essential to Marvel's Avengers movies, it's artists. The films owe their hearts to the comic creations of icons like Jack Kirby, Joe Simon, Don Heck and others who made Iron Man, Captain America, Hawkeye, Black Widow and Thor the characters we know and love today, and looking at newly revealed Thor concept art by Craig Shoji and Michael Kutsche, it's pretty

Back in December, we threw the spotlight onto a set of amazing backgrounds created for the Masters of the Universe cartoon, proving that while they're often literally overshadowed by other aspects of animation, there's an incredible amount of detail work that goes into backgrounds that always makes them worth a look...