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As is his wont, comics writer Warren Ellis has issued another art challenge to the members of his thriving Whitechapel community. Having yielded impressive results in the past when he asked his fans to imagine posters for a Spider-Man film directed by David Lynch and an Iron Man movie helmed by Stanley Kubrick, Ellis commanded his followers to create the cover of Fantastic Four #1...

You've heard of shelf porn? How about bathroom porn? Or is that already a thing? Anyway, Los Angeles film editor and podcaster Aaron Brewer has given new meaning to one or all of those terms with his astonishingly geeky bathroom, which is covered wall-to-wall with pages from the first 20 issues of Jack Kirby and Stan Lee's Fantastic Four and the covers of Scalped by Jock...

Settling one of the most juvenile yet compelling superhero debates that has raged across generations, Marvel Comics architect Stan Lee confirmed this week that Ben Grimm, better known to Fantastic Four fans as the monstrous The Thing, does indeed have a penis made of orange rock...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Gloves ^ Moustaches % Eyebrows ¢ Oaths % ¢ ACTION COMICS #898 Paul Cornell and Pete Woods' Lex Luthor serial continues to slither toward its climax; this time, he meets up with Green Lantern's completist-collector stand-in Larfleeze. % ...

In the aftermath of the Human Torch's recent death, the surviving members of the Fantastic Four must cope with the loss, and ultimately transform the iconic team into something new in FF #1, coming this March from writer Jonathan Hickman and artist Steve Epting...

The writer had to be cagey in his recent interview with ComicsAlliance - where he confirmed that our own David Uzumeri's Johnny Storm analysis was right on the money - but Jonathan Hickman has revealed more of his plans for Marvel's first family with the news that Spider-Man will be joining what's now called The Future Foundation...

Movies: Spidey keeps it casual in a Nike tracksuit in new images from the Spider-Man reboot set. If I didn't know any better, I'd worry this was somebody's confused grandpa wandering into traffic. Art: Old school cutaways of the Fantastic Four's crib are going to feel a whole lot emptier without that dead member I won't name...

If you're anything like us, you've been gnawing your elbows off in frustration over not being able to find that perfect piece of wall art to tie your living room together. Your favorite Alex Ross poster is too nerdy, but the abstract piece you bought at the coffee shop/art gallery to impress the cute clerk who works there is just too stupid...

A member of the Fantastic Four died today in Fantastic Four #587, the latest issue of the comic written by Jonathan Hickman with art by Steve Epting. As fans have been reacting to the news of the casualty all morning, ComicsAlliance editor-in-chief Laura Hudson had a chance to talk with Hickman about why this particular character ended up on the chopping block, his thoughts on the spoilers that

Like Bruce Wayne in "Batman Begins," some of the great minimalist artists - both superhero-oriented and otherwise - know that a symbol can be a powerful thing, and that goes doubly for T-shirts in the case of designer Jonah Block, who we've featured on here before for his Threadless submissions...