Dredd

Toys: IGN has a huge new image of Hasbro's 3-foot-long S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier toy from The Avengers movie toy line. It's no USS Flagg, but it'll do for now. Marketing: BlackBerry released an infographic featuring superheroes known as "The Bold Team" based on...

Lego: Lego continues to tease its upcoming The Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit lines with posters of Aragorn and Legolas. Heh. LEGOlas. Get it?... Sorry. Movies: Just in case you were worried, Judge Dredd won't be kissing anybody or taking off his helmet in the live action Dredd movie...

Animation: Shout! Factory will release the much-maligned G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero series two, season one on DVD in January. Get ready for the Dic goodness. Got to get tough. Yo Joe! Education: Gamma Squad rounds up a list of five online comics courses you can take for college credit...

British film magazine Empire has an impressive array of new photographs from the set of Dredd, the forthcoming film based on the irrepressible 2000 A.D. character Judge Dredd created by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra. The film stars Karl Urban (Star Trek, Priest) in the title role, an ultra-violent lawman based in Mega-City One, a post-apocalyptic metropolis where his word is law...

In a shocking display of a comics creator using social networking to engage his audience rather than broadcasting his disdain for them, John Wagner invited fans to query him via Facebook on the progress of Dredd, the new film based on his and Carlos Ezquerra's ultra-violent anti-hero Judge Dredd...