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This Friday, the CW announced that due to an unexpected spike in ratings, Smallville, the long-running television show about a thirty year-old Clark Kent who still hasn't become Superman -- has been picked up for an eleventh season. While the current season had previously been advertised as the final run for the series, 24 new episodes will begin airing this fall...

In a move apparently spurred by the final impassioned plea of Joanne Siegel regarding Superman's copyright issues, Time Warner announced Friday that it will revert all intellectual property rights, chiefly the rights to characters, to their respective creators, and in some instances the heirs of those creators...

Over the past few years, IDW has become the premier publisher for licensed comics with properties like Ghostbusters, Star Trek, Godzilla, and Doctor Who under their belt, and today, they're getting even bigger with the huge announcement that they will be adapting Tommy Wiseau's groundbreaking film, The Room, into a five-issue comic book miniseries...

Here at ComicsAlliance, we value our readership and are always open to what the masses of Internet readers have to say. That's why we've given Senior Writer Chris Sims the punishment pleasure of stepping into the grand tradition of the Answer Man as he responds to your reader questions...

Over the past three years, Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark has suffered through a staggering array of problems ranging from constant delays of its opening to the departure of director Julie Taymor to cast members being injured during the musical's complex stunts...

The mega-crossover Flashpoint has been shrouded in secrecy for months, but DC Comics has been dropping Flash Facts like hotcakes all through March, giving eager fans tantalizing teasers and blazing preview images. Now, just when you thought the big summer event couldn't get any hotter, comes the biggest reveal yet: Comics Alliance has eight exclusive variant cover images from Flashpoint tie-in co

After paying tribute to women in comics with the hit miniseries "Girl Comics," Marvel has announced plans to branch out to another underserved demographic with the upcoming "Bro Comics." "Grab your Axe body spray and your best Ed Hardy tee," Marvel EIC Joe Quesada announced via Twitter, "cause Marvel is bro-ing down...

As of last month, Dynamite Entertainment was putting out five simultaneous "Green Hornet' series, but in a special supplement to this month's "Previews" catalog that was released Thursday afternoon, the publisher has added fourteen additional "Green Hornet" titles to their publishing schedule in preparation for the release of the feature film later this year...

Building off the success of their line of biographical comics that have tackled such influential figures as Barack Obama, John McCain, Lady GaGa and Stephenie Meyer, Bluewater Productions announced today that the next step in their stated mission to give everyone who has ever been on television a 22-page biocomic: "Fame: Tommy Wiseau...

Although "Finnegans Wake," the final work of legendary author James Joyce, is considered by many scholars to be to the Irish writer's greatest masterpiece, the book has managed to fly under the radar of the public at large for decades. That's all about to change, however, with the news that Mark Millar has been granted the rights to adapt the acclaimed novel into a comic that the "