Mario

Animation: It looks like chef, TV host, novelist and comic book writer Anthony Bourdain will be appearing on an upcoming episode of Archer. Digital: Anthony Clark has released a pay-what-you-want digital sketchbook PDF, which includes 101 pages of Nedroid-y goodness...

Bad news for those of us who hadn't yet realized we were getting this old: After nearly a quarter-century of continuous publication, Nintendo Power is releasing its final issue on newsstands tomorrow. And on the off chance that this isn't enough to get you all misty, wait'll you see how the Magazine actually ends: With a two-page Nester strip by Bill Mudron where you find out that Nester keeps Ho

What happens when Mario decides to take that last life and retire to a fishing cabin on the outskirts of the Mushroom Kingdom? Micah Zeilinger shows us a Mario whose Koopa fighting days are decades behind him, as well as an aged Link and a Red whose graying thoughts turn to his beloved, long-departed Pikachu...

When I was a kid, I'd start bugging my mom every Friday after school to drive me over to the video store so that I could rent a video game before all the good ones were gone, and the reason I knew which ones were good -- or thought I knew, anyway -- was that I was a subscriber to Nintendo Power...

Have you ever wondered what Samus Aran's day-to-day life is like when she's not rolling up into a ball and blowing up floating jellyfish aliens? Chris Furniss obviously does. In fact, he began a series of pieces called 31 Days of Zero Suit Samus, and last we looked, he was already on day number 23...

I think it's fair to say that when I was growing up in the '80s and '90s, Nintendo's Mario was one of the major heroes of my childhood, right up there with Batman, Randy Savage and Michaelangelo the Ninja Turtle. I spent countless hours guiding that guy from castle to castle in search of kidnapped royalty, and along the way, I became very familiar with a world where the traditional ideas of logic

The old "fake legs to make it look like you're riding something" has been a standard trick for costumes for as long as people have been pretending to dress up like cowboys to get free candy at the end of October, but we have rarely seen it better than the incredible Mario and Yoshi Puppet costume created by Oscar D...

Lately, I've had the truly harrowing experience of seeing These Kids Today getting nostalgic over "old school" PlayStation 2 games, and as someone whose own fond memories for the 8-bit era of the Nintendo Entertainment System, it's starting to make me feel pretty old...

Musicals: Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark actress T.V. Carpio, who plays Arachne in the show has denied rumors that writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa has been brougt on for a rewrite. Anybody else hope she's wrong? People: Original art collector William M...

I've seen a lot of things in this crazy world of ours, but never in all my years have I witnessed an argument for the fact that we're living in the best of all possible worlds as compelling as the existence of this: An installment of the 1988 Ice Capades based on Super Mario Bros... Read More ...