Super Mario Bros.

Movies: Empire Magazine's 2012 Summer Movie preview has new shots of Judge Dredd, The Amazing Spider-Man and The Hobbit in action. Creators: Sam Humphries, Ramon Perez and cover artist Julian Totino Tedesco are teaming for John Carter: The Gods of Mars, a five-issue series adapting Edgar Rice Burroughs' same-named novel, in March...

Crime: Police arrested a 33-year-old man after he allegedly attacked shoppers at a Portland, Ore. Toys 'R' Us with a blue lightsaber toy. The dude apparently resisted arrest and managed to deflect a taser cable before getting tackled and taken to a hospital for a mental evaluation...

TV: Ben McCool and Nikki Cook's Memoir has been acquired by Warner Bros. Television. Anime: Images of the live action Ranma 1/2 cast in their TV special costumes have surfaced. Definitely no Dragonball Evolution shenanigans going on here...

Do you love video games? Do you hate trees so much that you want them to be chopped down as fast as possible, possibly because you were a victim of tree-based crime when you were a child? If the answer to both of those is a resounding yes, then have we got a trend for you...

Luigi powers up with what we can assume was a Gamma ray mushroom in this Super Mario/Hulk mash-up by artist Dan Hipp. You can check out more of Hipp's relentless sweet art at his website.

Movies: The Amazing Spider-Man's sequel has been dated for May 2, 2014. Sony's got some serious faith in their Webslinger reboot. Webcomics: Doug TenNapel's Ratfist has wrapped at 150 online pages. The full story will be collected by Image in December...

Whether or not any of Andrew Kolb's wood cutouts actually exist as physical objects, they are the coolest thing in wood art that we've seen since Chris Yates tackled Planet of the Apes. Kolb was already on our watch list, though, thanks to his hip, vintage-ish illustrations...

Have you ever wondered what Samus Aran's day-to-day life is like when she's not rolling up into a ball and blowing up floating jellyfish aliens? Chris Furniss obviously does. In fact, he began a series of pieces called 31 Days of Zero Suit Samus, and last we looked, he was already on day number 23...

Art: Darick Maasen's taxidermed koopa paratroopa is better than anything out of the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie. No, Really: Capcom and Hello Kitty owner Sanrio are planning a merchandising crossover. It doesn't sound like there will be a Hello Kitty Vs...

Feel free to debate this point, but you know how the 1993 live action Super Mario Bros. film ("This ain't no game!") tried to make everybody look all serious and ended up making most of the Mario-verse unrecognizable? Well, Mike Puncekar did a much better job...