The Avengers movie

Fans of The Avengers movie have been privy to plenty of 1/6 scale versions of the core team from Hot Toys. So far the company has delivered images of Nick Fury, Hawkeye, Captain America, Thor, Black Widow and Loki, with the Hulk and a new Iron Man Mark VII on the way...

TV: Louie CK can't keep his hand off volumes of Yotsuba&! in a recent episode of Louie. We don't know why, but we approve! Manga: Although he's decided on an ending, Naruto creator Masashi Kishimoto told Japan's Otona Fami magazine that he can't foretell how much longer the series will continue, meaning fans should probably brace their shelves for plenty more volumes. ...

Marvel screened its latest "One-Shot" short movie, Item 47, at San Diego Comic-Con this weekend, but only to those fans who'd completed a con-specific scavenger hunt across the city to earn admission. For the rest of us, there's always a new clip from the movie to tease us for the story described as "Bonnie and Clyde in the Marvel Universe...

Fashion: MAC Cosmetics and Archie Comics are collaborating on a Betty and Veronica-inspired cosmetics collection called "MAC Archie's Girls." Anime: Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine has announced that a new film adaptation of Dragon Ball is in the works -- no word whether it'll be animated or live action...

One of the most impressive things about this year's Avengers movie was how it juggled all the disparate elements presented in films like Captain America and Thor and created something that felt like a cohesive Marvel Universe on the big screen...

I think we can all agree that if there was a major flaw in this year's Avengers movie, it was that the characters were not Sailor Scouts. Fortunately, we live in an era where such grievous oversights can be corrected. In this case, it comes courtesy of artist Ann Marcellino, who gave the Earth's Mightiest Heroes a new look by mashing up the Avengers and Loki with Sailor Moon...

Storyboarding is a kind of mysterious discipline to people not in the entertainment business, or at least those not obsessed with it. Essentially, storyboard artists create lots and lots of simple yet very comic book-like drawings that demonstrate for filmmakers how a movie or animation or anything like that may play out when it's photographed or otherwise fully rendered...

As impressive as Black Widow's combat skills were in this summer's The Avengers film, they're still rivaled by her stop motion animated action figure adventures in Patrick Boivin's 2011 short, "Black Widow Gone Wild," which starred the 1/6 scale BW figure from Hot Toys' Iron Man 2 line...

Movies: AMC will screen all three of Christopher Nolan's Batman films -- Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises -- in a row on July 19 at select theaters. Tickets go on sale June 11. Interviews: Tom Spurgeon talks to Zack Soto about Study Group Comics and working to curate as well as create comics...

Design: Jayse Hansen shares beefy images of some of he and Cantina Creative's designs of the glass screens for the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarier in The Avengers, along with Iron Man's Mark VII armor Hud. Movies: If you've ever wanted to meet the stars of the upcoming The Amazing Spider-Man film, Moviefone's upcoming video chat may be your chance...