crime

In this week's installment of news designed specifically to make your ten year-old self cry, io9 reports that a gun-toting Ninja Turtle robbed a Wendy's restaurant in Wisconsin. Of course, the official police report describes the robber as a man in a Ninja Turtle mask, but I think it's clear that after 25 years of glorifying the ninja lifestyle, the Turtles have finally given in to the darker sid

Anime: Japan's giant 1/1 scale Mobile Suit Gundam statue can now be observed at ground level in its deconstructed state in Tokyo for the low, low price of about $6.50 USD. Indie: Our Love is Real by Sam Humphries and Steven Sanders is headed for wide release via Image Comics in November...

With last week's release of L.A. Noire -- the latest blockbuster video game from Grand Theft Auto creators Rockstar Games -- there's been a sudden spike in interest in hard-boiled crime stories. Stand-up tough-guys dealing with corruption and vice, faithless lovers plotting murderous betrayals, and twisted secrets dragged into the light? Who wouldn't want to see more of that stuff? And fortunately

Movies: Universal and Illumination Entertainment are teaming up with Tezuka Productions to produce a live action/CGI hybrid adaptation of Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki's Pluto manga, which explores a world analogous to Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy stories ...

Where once Batman ruled Taco Bell with promotional movie cups and kid's meals, it seems the Caped Crusader (or an impersonator) has now turned to crime, taking food from an unsuspecting drive-thru customers like a thief in the night. It's sort of like the old drive-thru football grab from MTV's "Jackass," only the gosh-darn Batman leaps from an untold height onto the top of an SUV before

Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a spider can - and apparently, what a spider can do is bust comic book thieving criminals with ease. The Guardian reports the story of Michael Baulderstone, the 45-year-old owner of Adelaide Comic Center who thwarted a robbery in progress on Free Comic Book Day this past Saturday...

In a story echoing Peter Parker's identity theft problems at the hands of villainous imposters like the Chameleon, a Chattanooga, Tenn. area man has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison for armed robberies committed while wearing a Spider-Man mask...

It turns out comics are useful for more than just escapist reading -- especially if you're into selling meth. A Colorado drug ring that police say laundered their money through sales of classic comic books has just been shut down through the efforts of an undercover law enforcement operation of more than 200 officers, according to The Denver Post...

Crime is in. Although noir and crime stories were wildly popular in comics during the 40s and 50s, thanks to the ultra-conservative Comics Code of 1954, it soon became almost impossible to tell gritty, sexy stories about bad men and beautiful dames...