stop motion animation

Movies: Comic book fans should be able to recognize some prominent eye, web and chest emblem changes to Spidey's suit in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 so far. Movies: New Iron Man 3 character images see Pepper Potts and Tony Stark clutching some worse-for-the-wear helmets...

DC: It's unclear just what DC's new Channel 52 will encompass, but it promises "All the news, some of the facts." Gaming: DC Universe Online's Home Turf DLC is now live, giving players access to inner sanctums, sidekicks and more. Video: Taiwanese stop motion animator counter656 follows action figure versions of Piccolo and Trunks versus as they square off against a bunch of mobile s

Animation: If you didn't catch it on Reddit awhile back, there's never a bad time to scope out this awesome King of the Hill animator's guide of "Do's and Dont's." Toys: S.H. Figuarts Iron Man Mark VI and War Machine pack a lot of firepower appeal, even if Iron Man 3 toys are already arriving in stores...

I might be in the minority on this one, but the trailer for the upcoming Man of Steel movie left me a little cold. Don't get me wrong, I like washed-out colors, melodramatic voiceovers and hand-holding as much as the next guy, but the whole thing just seemed a little too dour, and left me thinking that it'd be a lot better if it had been shot using the world's most famous building toys... Read Mo

Like a lot of people my age, I spent a pretty significant portion of the '90s watching the X-Men cartoon. As a result, I've got that intro more or less memorized, so I was pretty thrilled to see that entire sequence recreated in glorious stop motion action figure animation...

News: Underground comix legend Spain Rodriguez passed away earlier this week after a long battle with cancer. The Comics Journal's Patrick Rosenkranz remembers the 72-year-old artist, whose work mixed sex, violence, politics and social conscience, and helped to define and defend American counterculture for decades...

Kids: Some awesome minicomics were made by the Junior Girl Scouts of America Gables Elementary Troop 1320 when they visited the Cartoon Library this week as part of an effort to "learn about comics, self-publishing, and to earn their Drawing Badge...

Gaming: NetherRealm Studios breaks down the differences between its Mortal Kombat games and the upcoming Injustice: Gods Among Us in a new "Behind the Battles" featurette. Digital: Dark Horse's digital comic offerings are now available on Android devices thanks to a new app...

Following the release of a roughly 3-minute short last week, director Derek Kwok and Henri Wong of Parabucks Co. have released their full stop-motion animated Batman: Dark Knightfall short, successfully wrapping the tale of Hot Toys' 1/6 scale The Dark Knight Rises Batman fighting the Joker's thugs, a bizarre morping version of the Clown Prince of Crime himself and the big bad Bane...

Movies: A new poster for Dredd 3D sees star Kyle Urban stand amid some Mega City One destruction. Digital: All digital Viz titles are currently on sale, with discounts up to 20 percent off. Animation: Zane Houston puts his Marvel and DC Lego heroes into motion in the "Egos Collide" short...