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One doesn’t have to be out-of-touch to not recognize MTV anymore, or malign the dearth of ‘90s staples like Beavis & Butt-Head, or later years like Clone High or Pimp My Ride. Luckily, MTV will return to its roots with an MTV Classic channel as early as next week, bringing back a treasure-trove of your old favorites.

Each weekday, ComicsAlliance brings you a carefully selected variety of links from around the web about comics and comics-related media, including movies, video games, toys, and whatever else might be worth noting. Quite frankly, these are items you may just need to know about to have a productive day. Take a look at today's hand-picked links after the jump.

The mid-'80s Michael J. Fox comedy film Teen Wolf, co-written by current head of Marvel Television and bestselling comics scribe Jeph Loeb, was maybe my favorite movie when I was ten. I held it in nostalgic affection for years after -- until I made the mistake of watching it again. It didn't hold up. Yet even as a fan, I was baffled when MTV announced plans to adapt Teen Wolf as a TV show, and esp

If you're like me you remember thinking at semi-regular intervals throughout your teenage years that Beavis & Butt-Head had past it or that the show wasn't as good as it used to be or that you were too old and too cool to laugh at something so desperately stupid. Th...

When discussing sex, people often say it "just happens" or even "happens accidentally," despite the fact that it is really a long series of conscious decisions, not some sort of erotic anvil that falls on your head. As the poet Eminem once questioned derisively, "What, she tripped, fell, and landed on his d*ck...

An approximate release date of Summer 2011 has been announced as the return of MTV's Beavis & Butt-Head, the groundbreaking animated series created by Mike Judge (King of the Hill, Office Space). The original series aired from 1993-1997 on the once influential American cable network and spawned a successful tie-in comic book from Marvel that ran for three years. Ju...

One of the fun things about comics is something that is a failure in movies or TV (Hello, Whedonia!) can be a runaway success when transformed into sequential art. Lower costs, and lower audience expectation, make smaller groups of devoted fans worth catering to ...

From its upcoming "Twilite" storyline to the digital "Betty the Vampire Slayer vs. Vampironica" tale, Archie Comics certainly hasn't shied away from parodying the scarier side of youth culture of late. For many, however, the scariest story is yet to come...

"The Maxx" began as a comic by Sam Kieth about a giant purple super-hobo who moves back and forth between real life and "the Outback," an alternate reality where he is king and his social worker, Julie, is his Jungle Queen. It became an equally surreal cartoon on MTV in 1995, and is now streaming online for your viewing pleasure...