HarryPotter

I don't think I'm breaking any new ground here when I say that Neil Cicierega's Potter Puppet Pals videos are awesome, but this week, I've got a reason to love them even more. Just in time for Christmas, cartoonist Emmy Cicierega -- Neil's sister, who was last seen here on ComicsAlliance in her alternate form as a Pokemon -- has created four Christmas Card designs featuring the characters from the

Tomorrow, the first trade paperback collection of Mike Carey and Peter Gross' Vertigo comic book series, "The Unwritten," hits bookstores. Subtitled "Tommy Taylor and the Case of the Bogus Identity," the book revolves around Tom Taylor, the son of a bestselling author named Wilson Taylor who mysteriously disappeared years before the story opens...

Lucy Knisley ("French Milk") imagines what the "Harry Potter" might have looked like in the late 80s with a comic that makes the idea sounds surprisingly awesome, casting John Cusack as Harry, Christopher Lloyd as Dumbledore, with guest appearances from David Bowie, triumphant synth music, and Falkor the Luckdragon...

With midnight moviegoers poised to catch the "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" premiere tonight, the boy wizard is riding high on the cultural zeitgeist. So when My Chemical Romance bassist (and sometimes-writer for DC Comics) Mikey Way spoke his mind about the striking resemblance between one of Vertigo's most magical characters and J...

The New Scientist reports that science has taken one of the first steps to a Harry Potter-style "invisibility cloak" that hides objects in plain view:Invisibility cloaks work by deflecting light waves so the light that reaches the eye shows no trace of the hidden object...

It's the end of the week explosion! For a weekly column that's part of a comic book themed blog, we sure don't talk about comics very often. This week we may not even talk about comics at all! This is only because Seacord knows so many interesting things about gambling, prison and fighting...