My Neighbor Totoro

The wonderful world of ironic metal covers typically thrives on the edges of social media and live performances, where fans are free to pay tribute to -- or parody -- popular song with the power of C tuning, blast beats and seven layers of screaming without upsetting corporate copyright holders...

Webcomics: Artists Kevin Mellon and John Bivens have launched Forest For the Trees, a new weekly webcomic that forces each creator to respond to the other's work on the fly, unaware of what's coming next. Museums: An adult-sized catbus replica from My Neighbor Totoro is coming to the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, Japan in June...

From Moviefone: Movie fans might not know that Portland, Ore., is home to one of the United States' most thriving communities of comic book creators and publishers. Within that comic book Mecca lies Periscope Studios, where some of the city's most passionate and talented cartoonists, illustrators, writers, concept designers, graphic novelists and storyboard artists inspire each other to create so

Toys: Upcoming Hasbro box art teases "the big three" kicking it Avengers style...in action figure form, at least. Movies: Lost composer Michael Giacchino may be lending his scoring skills to Captain America: The First Avenger. Retail: Better use your huge 33-50 percent off coupons while you can, Borders doesn't seem to be in awesome shape...

Ratings: The Walking Dead's season finale was watched by more than six million viewers - the most for any episode of the season. That's a lot of people who have come to love zombies since Halloween. Movies: It's been a long time since I gave any real thought to the 1980 live action Popeye film, but it turns out it's well worth reflecting on...