Firestorm

Gaming: The full Batman skins pack for Batman: Arkham City is now available on PSN and XBL and includes 1970s Batman, Year One Batman, The Dark Knight Returns, Earth One Batman, Batman Beyond, Animated Batman and Sinestro Corps Batman. Movies: Though The Adventures of Tintin hasn't opened, Indie Wire says the film's planned sequels are already moving forward...

Art: Ulises Farinas has posted Gregory, his 84-page comic "about being depressed and a sock monkey," in full at his official website. Pitches: Brian Clevinger details his unused "New 52" Firestorm pitch while wishing the team of Gail Simone, Ethan Van Scriver and Yildiray Cinar the best...

Upcoming: Kate Beaton's collected Hark! A Vagrant finally has a cover to official watch out for when it drops in October. TV: AMC's The Walking Dead could be hit with some budget cuts. Do you fear for the show's season two quality? Interviews: Atomic Robo co-creator Brian Clevinger discusses what would have been his take on a new Firestorm series for DC...

One of the nice things about being the internet's Foremost Batmanologist is that over the years, I've built up a network of readers who keep their eyes out for stuff they think I need to see. It's not a perfect system -- I think I got the trailer for Machine Girl, the Japanese picture about a schoolgirl who has her arm replaced with a Gatling gun so that she can go on a roaring rampage of revenge,

It's been eight months since the first issue of Brightest Day. Now, if an actual day were to last that long, it would cause massive droughts, famine and heat waves on one side of the Earth while the other freezes and probably undergoes equal amounts of famine...

In this month's comic book solicitations, it's been revealed that Ray Palmer is making a return to comics as the Atom, following in the footsteps of characters like Hal Jordan and Barry Allen in what I like to call "regressive storytelling...