conan the barbarian

Conan: The Barbarian has been a pretty easy movie to overlook this summer. It's not that Robert E. Howard's testament to manliness isn't awesome, it's just that compared to icons in the costumed crowd Conan can come across as more of an archetype than a character to the untrained novel/comic reader...

Industry: Marvel has hired Peter Phillips as Senior Vice President & General Manager, Digital Media Group. He'll be working in digital publishing, social networking and other digital avenues. Movies: Harry Lennix has joined the cast of Zack Snyder's Superman movie The Man of Steel as General Swanwick. ...

Threads: Ever since Disney bought Marvel, classic animated character designs have seemed like the best they were at what they did. Digital: Arcana has joined the digital retail space with its own iPhone app via comiXology. Crime: Batman's prevailed against the Joker, Two-Face and scores of others, but the lethal Lady Gaga could prove his most cunning costumed antagonist yet...

Movies: A new image from Conan the Barbarian featuring star Jason Momoa being appropriately huge will surely fill your shirtless dude quota for the day in case you can't make it to the pool. Bargain: Did you know the Atomic Robo digital tpbs on comiXology are dirt cheap...

Gaming: This fall Power A will release batarang-flavored controllers for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in honor of Batman: Arkham City. Awesome: Gamma Squad's put together a super fun gallery of actors meeting their action figure selves that you will want to see, pronto...

Summertime is upon is once again and it's time for this year's blockbusters to start hitting theaters. Over the past few years, there have been a ton of comic book movies, but this summer, it looks like things are about to hit critical mass...

Awesome: Tales Designed to Thrizzle creator Michael Kupperman's next project, Mark Twain's Autobiography, 1910-2010, will be out from Fantagraphics soon. Manga: Japanese fans who attend Fullmetal Alchemist: Milos no Sei-Naru Hoshi on July 2 will get an exclusive copy of Fullmetal Alchemist vol...

Crom's devils! Conan the Barbarian has a full movie trailer at last over at Yahoo! Movies and it's looking pretty beefy. There's Jason Momoa slashing things with a huge sword, Lovecraftian monsters, ruthless bandits, a fantasy-looking army and a princess in peril...

Anime: Two opposing armored dudes battle/high five on G4's new promo poster for the Iron Man anime coming Stateside in July. TV: Scooby Doo's upcoming Batman: The Brave and the Bold crossover appearance looks extremely '70s Scoobs authentic...

Art: On the launch week of Pokémon Black and White, Olly Moss renders the three starters from Red and Blue. Publications: The Comics Journal has relaunched online with new editors Timothy Hodler and Dan Nadel. Creators: Mark Waid, Kurt Busiek, Bob Harras, Marv Wolfman and David Walker remember Dwayne McDuffie at Emerald City Comicon. ...