Robots

Gaming: New key art of the Joker from Batman: Arkham City has surfaced. He looks somewhat sicklier than normal. Movies: After numerous delays, the Vancouver Sun reports that The Wolverine will finally begin shooting in November. Costumes: New images from The Amazing Spider-Man show Spidey's new costume's soles...

Inspired by Martin Hanford's Where's Waldo books, Richard Sargent of Hopewell Studios has presented robot fans with a similarly awesome challenge: Find Pixar's WALL-E amid dozens of pop culture's most famous robots, then identify them all...

A number of awesome packages come off the mail truck at the ComicsAlliance team's respective headquarters, but Hasbro's Transformers: Dark of the Moon (in theaters today) press kit is the first I've gotten that actually was a truck -- or a truck's trailer, at least...

The terrifying Chinese genius known only as Steel Legend who spent Xenu knows how much money and manpower in replicating with scrap metal the horrible Megatron tank from Transformers 2 has returned with a virtual army of garbage warriors that will surely destroy us all...

TV: Horror master (and American Vampire co-writer) Stephen King could have a writing credit on AMC's next season of The Walking Dead. For serious. Conventions: WonderCon's full programming list is now live for all to see. San Francisco's April 1-3 show seems pretty packed...

Gaming: Twitter's MRVLCATS phenomenon may have passed, but DeviantArtist Suzuran's "Meowvel Vs. Catcom" piece reawakens our kitty love in a big way. Movies: The Amazing Spider-Man is being shot on 3ality Digital's TS-5 wireless and handheld beamsplitter mirror rig...

Gaming: Behold the Thor: God of Thunder videogame front box art on the PS3, Xbox 360, Wii and Nintendo DS. Music: Donald Glover will blow you away with his latest jam Freaks and Geeks (NSFW audio). History: Kirb Your Enthusiasm analyzes comic panels by the legendary Jack Kirby, while occasionally digging into some righteous anecdotes from the artist's prolific history...

I've been having some paranoia about the robot community lately -- though it's not entirely unfounded, I'll tell ya -- so it's nice to find some reassurance that sometimes, just sometimes, robots are still utterly awesome. The kind folks at Nuthin' But Mech are responsible for reminding me that robots are still cool and aren't all out to get us...

With the new Hollywood CGI Astro Boy now out in theaters, the usual question comes to mind: how close will it be to the original comic? And the answer for most US comic fans is..."who the heck actually read Astro Boy?" Well, we did. And we're betting the movie's changed a lot of this sad story of one robot's struggle against anti-robot racism...

There's no shame in admitting it: Everybody has dirty thoughts. We're only human, after all. But what exactly would a naughty daydream mean if you weren't human, but machine? A new t-shirt from Threadless examines the often neglected sexy side of robots like the Transformers, and their secret desires to, uh, assemble...