Robots

Movies: Samuel L. Jackson has joined the cast of Spike Lee's Oldboy live action film, based on Garon Tsuchiya and Nobuaki Minegishi's manga of the same name. Picks: JK Parkin was kind enough to invite me to participate in Robot 6's weekly "What Are You Reading...

Classics: Tom Spurgeon's short profile of Jan Strnad and Dennis Fujitake's 1980s sci-fi series, Dalgoda, may will have you begging Fantagraphics to recollect the full run in a hardcover omnibus. Conventions: A group of the original San Diego Comic-Con founders have formed a new, more comics-centric convention called The San Diego Comic Fest, which will run from October 19-21 at the San Diego Town

As much as I tend to enjoy Superboy stories for their sheer kookiness, I've never really been a big fan of the concept. For the most part, they tend to just be standard Superman stories with Metropolis swapped out for Smallville and a slightly different girl with an alliterative name giving him a headache...

It cost Michael Bay $150 million to make his first Transformers film, and he didn't even get to keep the robots afterward. Chinese artist Zhu Kefeng makes his Transformers-inspired sculptures with a little scrap metal and a lot of passion, and he just wants to share his undisguised robots with the people of Zhejiang Province...

A few months ago, a friend of mine and I were chatting about science fiction webcomics, and I brought up Jeph Jacques' immensely popular webcomic Questionable Content. My friend gave me a funny look. "No, really," I said, "Questionable Content takes place after the Singularity...

In the entire history of the universe, there have been few things more awesome than dinosaurs. Seriously, giant carnivorous monsters that occasionally had hilariously tiny arms? The only thing that could make them any better is if they were actually a race of ruthless space conquerors...

Movies: New promo art for The Avengers movie situates the team in some action poses. Anime: A judge has ruled that 4Kids still has the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime rights in America... for now. Digital: Robot 6 has posted the entire first issue of Van Jensen and Dusty Higgins' Pinocchio Vampire Slayer: Of Wood and Blood...

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: Rocksteady senior animator Simon Warwick chronicles the company's Batman: Arkham City wrap party, which included a visit to the team's inspiration for Wayne Manor lit by a Bat-Signal -- not to mention go-karts! Movies: According to Variety, multiple Harry Potter movie director David Yates has a Doctor Who feature film in the works...

Whenever I'm asked about my favorite webcomics, one that always springs to mind is Gardner Linn and Chris Thorn's Registered Weapon. With artists Dave Lentz and Rob Simmons, Registered Weapon tells the story of loose cannon homicide detective Frank Gorman -- a man who once interrogated a suspect by threatening to eat a cat -- and his new partner, a robot that had turned to crime-fighting after gi