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Movies: A new Iron Man 3 featurette profiles Tony Stark's abundance of new armors. Toys: A new Man of Steel Lego set sees Superman and Lois Lane face General Zod in a "Black Zero Escape" scenario. Art: Johnny Ryan does Dav Pilkey's Captain Underpants in the style of Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns...

We didn't realize when we set out to list our favorite comic books of 2012 that it had been such a fun year to be a fan of the medium that we all love so much. The last twelve months offered readers a wide variety of work ranging from the most crowd-pleasing superhero epics to the most idiosyncratic of indies; the return of much missed mangaka and the emergence of exciting new talent; a new crowd-

Video: This charming "Gotham High" supercut may result in '90s nostalgia whiplash. Crowdfunding: Custom magnetic/dry erase board comics could be in your future, should you choose to back Erik Heumiller's Kickstarter. Art: Prison Pit Book 4 just dropped, but Johnny Ryan's already got the cover for Book 5 ready to show us all...

Toys: MattyCollector's new Masters of the Universe Classics Castle Grayskull has been successfully funded via preorders and will hopefully debut in prototype form in time for Toy Fair. Creators: Prison Pit creator Johnny Ryan has launched a new online store, which hosts a number of his original (and NSFW) illustrations...

Gaming: TellTale's The Walking Dead: Episode Four - Around Every Corner is now available on PlayStation Network, with the Xbox 360 and other versions available later this week. Upcoming: It may have already seemed like a foregone conclusion, but NetherRealm's upcoming Injustice: Gods Among Us fighting game is now certain to receive a prequel-style comic book from DC Comics...

Art: Mondo's 20" x 29" "The Batcave" print (limited to 500) by artist JC Richard will go on sale on Thursday for $50. Movies: Chinese audiences apparently prefer The Amazing Spider-Man to The Dark Knight Rises, with Spidey opening to $5...

Movies: The Dark Knight Rises star Christian Bale and his wife Sibi Blazic visited the Medical Center of Aurora in Colorado yesterday afternoon and met with several patients (including Carey Rottman, pictured above) who were injured in the Friday shootings that took place during a midnight showing of the film...

Threads: Mondo shines a neon light on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle's greatest foe. Movies: Twilight/Snow White and the Huntsman star Kristen Stewart has supposedly been offered the role of Kei in the live action Akira film from Warner Bros...

Gaming: Dorkly discovers the real makers of pokeballs. Silph Co. is a lie! Humor: Everything is Terrible ran its Mondo Superhero series last week. It's completely and utterly NSFW. Movies: CA's David Brothers takes a look at five manga Hollywood should turn their attention to following this past weekend's release of Priest, which was based on a manhwa...

Regular readers are familiar with our passionate love for the work of Johnny Ryan, the artist behind such works as Fantagraphics' Prison Pit 2 and a contributor to Nickelodeon Magazine. His work is simple and seemingly childlike while simultaneously being decidedly adult and sophisticated, but filtered through the fevered dreams of a madman...