Mickey Rourke

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Though it's been nearly four years since Iron Man 2 showed us what actor Mickey Rourke can do with a little bit of wiring and a lot of anger as Whiplash, Hot Toys will revisit the character once again for a a1/6 scale figure of the villain in his Mark II armor.

How many comicbook movies are on your gift list for Christmas or Hanukkah? Does it already include The Dark Knight Rises, The Avengers, and The Amazing Spider-Man? Are you chuffed enough to request the The Dark Knight Trilogy on Blu-Ray, or are you nervously holding your wad for April 2013, when the 10-disc Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase One drops like a ton of bricks...

Just a week after Robert Rodriguez confirmed that he and Frank Miller would finally re-team for a second Sin City movie, the director has been talking about what to expect from A Dame To Kill For, including the structure, the actors who'll return for a second outing, and why it's taken so long to start work on the follow-up to the 2005 cult classic...

Here's everything you need to know about Immortals, the new movie from director Tarsam Singh that's (extremely) loosely based on Thesus, the hero from Greek mythology: At one point, Zeus gets super mad at Apollo for interfering with the humans, so he blasts him through a stone wall...

It is the duty of geeks everywhere to go over certain movies with a fine tooth comb, to look in the background for hidden jokes and Easter eggs, to ponder what throw-away jokes may be deliberate allusions to future plot points or the original material the film is based on...

There is something very creepy about a super villain that's one part Marv from "Sin City," another part Randy "The Ram" Robinson from "The Wrestler" and yet another part Ivan Drago from "Rocky IV." Of course, as an action figure - in this case, Hot Toys' 1/6 scale "Iron Man 2" Whiplash action figure - that creepiness is also completely cool as hell

It looks like Whiplash might finally look cool in comics after all. Marvel.com has new images of Whiplash's new duds care of artist Marko Djurdjevic, and the updated design definitely reflects Rourke's "Iron Man 2" look - most notably the glowing chest piece...

--Paramount Pictures has given us a lil' taste of Mickey Rourke as the villain Whiplash while filming at the Monaco Historic Grand Prix for "Iron Man 2." (Comic Impact) -- According to creator Jay Potts, his blaxploitation webcomic "World of Hurt" is like "Superfly" meets "The Equalizer;" the wayward step-child of Ernest Tidyman's John Shaft and Alex Raymond