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Movies: If you thought the 2005 Fantastic Four film was a departure from its Marvel Comics source material, wait until you see the unused concept art for Dr. Doom and the Thing by Constantine Sekeris. Art Shows: "Lazer Lips and Glass Helmets", an art show featuring nearly 20 new retro-futuristic pieces of artwork by Ming Doyle and Toby Cypress, will kick off a 7 p...

Animation: Warner Bros. Animation has released new images and official box art for Superman: Unbound, which arrives on home video and digital formats on May 7. Movies: There's a new still of Hugh Jackman on The Wolverine movie's Facebook page captioned, "The past is always behind you, but the memories still remain...

One year ago today we were looking at Hasbro's first wave of 3.75" G.I. Joe: Retaliation figures and thinking, "Man, this movie is going to be so much better than the last one." Then the movie got rescheduled until March 29, 2013, apparently in the name of making it EVEN better than that last movie...

Lasers: Laser-Gadgets maestro Patrick Priebe builds his own working "Iron Man" laser gauntlet. Toys: PlasticPlayhouse's Rick Dries retools M.U.S.C.L.E. figures into Masters of the Universe heroes and villains. Auctions: You'd probably lose it if you'd just purchased the original Batman '66 Batmobile, too (or had the $4...

If you missed out on DC Collectibles' exclusive Aardman Batman last fall at NYCC, it seems a proper two-pack featuring both Aardman's Batman and Robin will join a number of new items at comic shops and online in March. Figures of the DC Nation short stars join a Mike Allred Batman Black & White statue, a 1:1 scale Green Lantern power battery and GL ring prop replica and a 1/6 scale Man of Ste

Toys: G.I. Joe Retaliation's Snake Eyes is getting the Hot Toys treatment in 2013, although the figure won't come with Timber the wolf. Upcoming: Michel Fiffe's trailer for COPRA #3 has us intrigued. Art: This transforming cardboard EVA Unit-01 is one of the most impressive papercraft figures to ever protect Tokyo-3...

TV: Firefly sort of pops up in a new Arrow Promo for the show's January 16 episode. Movies: Jamie Foxx's Electro costume in The Amazing Spider-Man movie sequel apparently won't be green and yellow like in the classic comics. Community: The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has posted its annual report, summing up its accomplishments in 2012...

Lego has historically embraced the comic book medium given how nicely it plays with their signature building set instruction booklets. The thing is, usually Lego's magazine and pack-in comics and posters -- like their video games, movies and other multimedia brand extensions -- stick with an official style that essentially brings the toymaker's minifigures to life rather than, say, reimagine bui

It may still be tragically difficult to get your hands on the original Shaolin Cowboy comic book miniseries by Geof Darrow and the Wachowskis, but the silent hero of the fantastical west has been making a killer comeback nonetheless. Darrow teamed with writer Andrew Vachss for the recently-released The Shaolin Cowboy Adventure Magazine through Dark Horse and is now expanding into collectibles wit

If the spoilery nature of the Man of Steel toy commercials that leaked back in October didn't scratch your itch for early looks at Mattel's Superman movie merchandise, then a new eBay auction promising a "Movie Superman 3.75" Prototype" may prove enticing...