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Rafa Toro pays tribute to Batman movies great and not-so-great in a series of animated GIFs featuring the rogues from Tim Burton's Batman through Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises. With just a handful of frames, he captures what separates Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer and George Clooney's enemies and anti-heroes from the ones Christian Bale battled...

Toys: G.I. Joe Retaliation's Snake Eyes is getting the Hot Toys treatment in 2013, although the figure won't come with Timber the wolf. Upcoming: Michel Fiffe's trailer for COPRA #3 has us intrigued. Art: This transforming cardboard EVA Unit-01 is one of the most impressive papercraft figures to ever protect Tokyo-3...

Video: The CW's new live action Arrow gets reimagined as an erotic thriller thanks to College Humor. It's technically SFW, but about as highly suggestive as its Fify Shades of Grey inspiration. Books: It looks like The Walking Dead fans can expect a third TWD novel in the not-too-distant future...

GIFs: Join us in being completely hypnotized by Shmorky's morphing Scott Pilgrim. Movies: Disney may be working on a cinematic The Rocketeer reboot... Art: Apparently, Jack Kirby ghosted the comic strip Davy Crockett, Frontiersman and it was reprinted in France...

Upcoming: Fantagraphics Books and Alexander Street Press are making the complete archive of the The Comics Journal available as part of its Underground and Independent Comics online collection. The archive will serve as a scholarly online collection and include "more than 25,000 pages of interviews, commentary, theory and criticism from the 35 year history of The Comics Journal...

With roughly ten years worth of reading material at their disposal, Calvin and Hobbes fans have long been content with the fact that Bill Watterson's beloved series stands on its own without licensed merchandise or an animated series. After all, Watterson's vision for his material has remained pure, and that purity can translate into an undiluted reading experience...

Movies: If you thought Bane's The Dark Knight Rises design was a departure from his comic book look, concept art from Behind the Scenes with Batman: The Making of the Dark Knight Trilogy is proof that Tom Hardy's costume could have been even more different...

Upcoming: Howard Chaykin will write and illustrate the lost story of Nick Fury's early Avengers Initiative starting with October's Avengers: 1959 #1. Cons: It looks like Marvel is skipping Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con International. Feel free to reschedule the three hours you would've spent waiting in line to get into an Avengers panel as you see fit...

Chances are, if you were one of the thousands who downloaded "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game" from PSN last month -- and there were a lot of you, since it was the #1 downloaded game for the month of August -- you're probably not even reading this post since it seems to be one of the most addictive side-scrollers this side of "Double Dragon...