DragonBallZ

Digital: Marvel has released two new interactive storybooks for the iPad, Avengers Origins: Assemble and Avengers Origins: The Hulk. Events: ShiftyLook will hold a free event on May 26 as part of the MCM Expo in the UK featuring stand-up comedy, the music of Area 11 and special guests including designer JamFactory...

Books: Brian Michael Bendis has signed with Random House to publish Words for Pictures: The Art and Business of Graphic Novels, a non-fiction comics writing guidebook due out in 2013 that will include portions of his Marvel work, along with new art from industry pros...

Gaming: New art from Gazillion's upcoming Marvel Heroes MMO reveals Cyclops' look in the game. Comic Strips: Guests artists Mo Willems, Stephan Pastis, Lincoln Peirce and Michael Jantze, Corey Pandolph and Ken Fisher will fill in for Richard Thompson on his Team Cul de Sac strip from today until March 19 as the creator takes time for physical therapy...

Gaming: Rocksteady senior animator Simon Warwick chronicles the company's Batman: Arkham City wrap party, which included a visit to the team's inspiration for Wayne Manor lit by a Bat-Signal -- not to mention go-karts! Movies: According to Variety, multiple Harry Potter movie director David Yates has a Doctor Who feature film in the works...

Movies: Wonder Woman pilot star Adrianne Palicki will star as Lady Jaye in G.I. Joe: Cobra Strikes. Industry: Newspaper content -- especially comic strips -- syndicate United Media has closed its doors. Blogs: CA contributor Douglas Wolk is digging into Judge Dredd in chronological order at his new blog, Dredd Reckoning...

Fresh off a genuinely epic fail at the Comedy Central roast of Donald Trump, America's national shame, The Situation, rejoined his sickbros of Jersey Shore for a street brawl with the heroes of Dragon Ball Z. Perhaps inspired by the endlessly bizarre hairstyles of DJ Pauly D...

I may prefer the streamlined Dragon Ball Z Kai to FUNimation Entertainment's earlier translations of Akira Toriyama's classic, lightning-fast manga turned (occasionally painfully-long) anime, but it's still very nice to see that the company is taking its original DBZ online for free...

If you're one of the nearly 2 million Minecraft fans to have jumped into the sandbox building game's pandemonium of pixels of late, you've doubtless indulged in the Alpha version's character customization feature. While not the most sophisticated graphically, there's a certain appeal to the simplicity of skinning your blocky avatar as a favorite comic book character for open-ended adventuring... R

There's already an Ultra Combo's worth of fine Street Fighter artwork out there in the world, both in Udon's SF comics and the textured brushwork look Capcom went for in their "Street Fighter 4" games. Brazilian artist Samuel Cazetta Arlindo humanized a few of the games' cast members, however, and his Ryu and Dhalsim are absolutely vicious-looking...

Not every interpretation of the Masters of the Universe has to focus on heated battles or He-Man's ultra-ripped muscles. In fact, artist Seo Kim makes He-Man and Skeletor look like they're posing for a Hallmark card, and she takes similar approaches to "Dragon Ball Z" and other characters who show up in her artistic explorations...