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Fresh (or in the case of the zombies, ripe) from their initial preview at Toy Fair, Diamond Select Toys and Art Asylum's The Walking Dead Minimates have received their retail marching orders. Come September the line's first assortment of two-packs will arrive in stores, pairing Rick with a Roamer, Tyrese with a Roamer, Andrea with a Lurker and a very literal pack featuring two Herd Zombies... Read

Gaming: A new teaser trailer for Telltale's The Walking Dead game sets the stage for the recently-orphaned Clementine's journey. Tech: Movie2Comics software can now break down live action movies into (currently super ugly) comics. Opinion: Tom Spurgeon and a host of creators ponder some of comics' underappreciated talents...

Unlike The Avengers, which consists of an almost completely costumed cast, Diamond Select Toys and Art Asylum had far more civilian style characters to make into Minimates for Marvel's The Amazing Spider-Man movie line this summer. Having debuted both Spider-Man and the Lizard last month at Toy Fair, it's kind of nice to see so many plainclothes characters get blocky figures...

Gaming: DC Universe Online players can now access "XP Booster Box Two-Pack" (100 Station Cash) and "Bandito and Buckaroo Styles" (50-200 Station Cash). Toys: Mattel's Mattycollector is having a sale through March where collectors can save up to 30% on select figures...

Diamond Select Toys and Art Asylum showed off quite a few new additions to the collective Marvel Minimates line this past week at Toy Fair. Among the new cylindrical faces shown were The Amazing Spider-Man movie Minimates of Spidey and the Lizard, Brood Wolverine, and new Ultimate Spider-Man Miles Morales...

Suits: UD Replicas' new Captain America: The First Avenger motorcycle suit looks like ready for conditions beyond recreational cosplay, but I guess it should for around $1,300. TV: David Ramsey has been cast as bodygaurd John Diggle in CW's Green Arrow pilot, "Arrow...

New images of upcoming Marvel Select action figures and Minimates from The Avengers movie were revealed this afternoon during a live chat at Marvel.com, with Diamond Select Toys' Zach Oat on hand to answer collector questions. Coming in April, Loki, Hawkeye, Black Widow and Nick Fury Minimates will roll into Toys"R"Us stores, joining a wider line that includes Captain America, Thor, Iron

Fans looking to fill holes in their collections and/or build a brand new team of righteously '80s and '90s New Mutants are going to dig Diamond Select Toys and Art Asylum's 13th wave of Toys"R"Us exclusive Marvel Minimates coming in March...

Cars: In The Avengers movie universe, Tony Stark's bullet-proof Acura costs a measly $9,198,000.00. Gaming: Contrary to earlier plans, it seems Netflix won't be renting videogames after all. TV: Powers co-creator Brian Michael Bendis says he and Michael Avon Oeming's crime series is still in the game for a live action adaptation on FX...

Matt Fraction and Stuart Immonen's 2011 Marvel event Fear Itself will get immortalized in tiny plastic pieces this summer with Diamond Select Toys and Art Asylum's release of The Worthy and The Mighty Minimates. The Worthy box set will include Cul, The Serpent; Skadi (Sin); Mokk, Break of Faith (Grey Gargoyle); and Angrir, Breaker of Souls (the Thing)...