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Classics: Tom Spurgeon's short profile of Jan Strnad and Dennis Fujitake's 1980s sci-fi series, Dalgoda, may will have you begging Fantagraphics to recollect the full run in a hardcover omnibus. Conventions: A group of the original San Diego Comic-Con founders have formed a new, more comics-centric convention called The San Diego Comic Fest, which will run from October 19-21 at the San Diego Town

If you haven't picked up Diamond Select and Art Asylum's 44th line of Marvel Minimates, MarvelStore.com's exclusive box sets may give you reason to consider waiting another week or so. Timed to drop right around the May 4 release of The Avengers movie are two sets that include a few of the Wave 44 mainstays, along with the first Minimate versions of Kang the Conqueror and the Grim Reaper, along wi

Following last week's premiere of The Avengers in Hollywood, many spoiler hungry fans have already learned the identity of Loki's mystery army in the film. But guess what? We're going to keep on calling them "Loki's Army" until the movie comes out in a small effort to keep your potential moviegoing experience intact until May 4...

Fresh (or in the case of the zombies, ripe) from their initial preview at Toy Fair, Diamond Select Toys and Art Asylum's The Walking Dead Minimates have received their retail marching orders. Come September the line's first assortment of two-packs will arrive in stores, pairing Rick with a Roamer, Tyrese with a Roamer, Andrea with a Lurker and a very literal pack featuring two Herd Zombies... Read

Gaming: A new teaser trailer for Telltale's The Walking Dead game sets the stage for the recently-orphaned Clementine's journey. Tech: Movie2Comics software can now break down live action movies into (currently super ugly) comics. Opinion: Tom Spurgeon and a host of creators ponder some of comics' underappreciated talents...

Unlike The Avengers, which consists of an almost completely costumed cast, Diamond Select Toys and Art Asylum had far more civilian style characters to make into Minimates for Marvel's The Amazing Spider-Man movie line this summer. Having debuted both Spider-Man and the Lizard last month at Toy Fair, it's kind of nice to see so many plainclothes characters get blocky figures...

Diamond Select Toys and Art Asylum showed off quite a few new additions to the collective Marvel Minimates line this past week at Toy Fair. Among the new cylindrical faces shown were The Amazing Spider-Man movie Minimates of Spidey and the Lizard, Brood Wolverine, and new Ultimate Spider-Man Miles Morales...

Suits: UD Replicas' new Captain America: The First Avenger motorcycle suit looks like ready for conditions beyond recreational cosplay, but I guess it should for around $1,300. TV: David Ramsey has been cast as bodygaurd John Diggle in CW's Green Arrow pilot, "Arrow...

New images of upcoming Marvel Select action figures and Minimates from The Avengers movie were revealed this afternoon during a live chat at Marvel.com, with Diamond Select Toys' Zach Oat on hand to answer collector questions. Coming in April, Loki, Hawkeye, Black Widow and Nick Fury Minimates will roll into Toys"R"Us stores, joining a wider line that includes Captain America, Thor, Iron

Fans looking to fill holes in their collections and/or build a brand new team of righteously '80s and '90s New Mutants are going to dig Diamond Select Toys and Art Asylum's 13th wave of Toys"R"Us exclusive Marvel Minimates coming in March...