Tarzan

If you thought you could make it out of this week without a new comic book rights lawsuit, you were wrong. ERB, Inc., the family company that administers the various intellectual properties owned or associated with the Edgar Rice Burroughs estate, is suing Dynamite Entertainment for trademark infringement with respect to the publisher's line of comics based on Burroughs' John Carter of Mars and Ta

On shelves now is the first issue of Dynamite's Lord of the Jungle, the beginning of a brand-new retelling of Edgar Rice Burroughs' original "Tarzan of the Apes" story. Promising a more faithful interpretation of a story that's been retold several times in several mediums, Dynamite is hardly entering into new territory...

Mashups between Marvel and Disney characters were almost inescapable in the weeks that followed the big buyout news -- some creative, some ridiculously bad. Fortunately, The Beat pointed out a fantastic gallery of "dark" Disney Princesses as drawn by illustrator Jeffrey Thomas...