DarthVader

Art: IGN has a first look at Frank Quitely's variant cover for The Walking Dead #100, which drops in July. Good luck sleeping tonight, or ever again. Movies: 20th Century Fox will release the as-yet-unnamed X-Men: First Class sequel on July 18, 2014...

Gaming: A CGI Joker teased a Batman: Arkham City sequel with an "Arkham World" script during Spike TV's Video Game Awards this past weekend... TV: Lost episodes of BBC's Doctor Who series have been unearthed. What do you make of their Fish People and Chumblies...

The big reveal of Luke Skywalker's true parentage is a couple decades past spoiler territory at this point, and so culturally saturated that many of us grew up hearing about it before we even saw the movies. But what if you were a 4-year-old kid who had no idea that Darth Vader was Luke's father...

Since 1977 Star Wars fans, shackled by the lameness of physics, have only had two options when it comes to lightsaber toys: 1. You can buy a retractable blade made of clear plastic that simulates "unsheathing" or 2. You can buy a solid saber, with a blade that's essentially a light-up tube...

Movies: Mark Millar says he and his team have "locked down the most high profile actor of 2010," for the Superior movie. Does that mean Alan Thicke is out of the running? Sites: The Silver Age Secrets Tumblr has what you want. Welcome to the '90s: Pogs, man...

If you thought Ryan Heshka's "Strange Powers" exhibit took a unique approach to depicting superheroes, just wait until you see Astro Boy bursting out of a masked man's head in a series of paintings by Australian artist Meggs. Throughout his work, Meggs shows what Marvel and DC's Amalgam Comics might have looked like if their inter-universe collisions had been a bit more violent... Read M

A long time ago, an MC far, far away... The cats at College Humor are at it again, this time lampooning both "Star Wars" and Jay-Z's ode to NYC with their new music video, "Galactic Empire State of Mind." Darth Vader proves that a mechanical respiratory apparatus is no impediment to an unstoppable flow, rhyming through the wires in tribute to the seminal twice-over trilogy...

It's the tenth day of Christmas at ComicsAlliance, as our 12 Days of Christmas original art series continues. Every day until the 25th, we'll be posting a new illustration from a Periscope Studio comics creator that reinterprets the days of the Christmas carol through newer, more awesomely nerdy eyes...

Humor: Why Lara Croft from "Tomb Raider" is dumb as a bag of hammers. (Bully) DC: What if... the Joker were a video blogger? (Newsarama) Awesome: The Great Darth Vader (and Yoda) pumpkin statues! (iGeektrooper) Threads: Speaking of, if you want the new "Star Wars"-themed "Diesel Sweeties" Halloween shirt, you've got till end of day tomorrow...

Although the last three Star Wars movies weren't quite the reinvention that most fans had hoped for, at least one famous character recently got a new look -- a hundred of them, actually -- at the Andy Warhol Museum, in a show called "The Vader Project...