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Sad news from the comic industry today with the announcement that artist Michael Turner died late Friday night from complications arising from his ongoing fight against cancer. Turner, who had worked for DC and Marvel Comics providing covers for books like Superman/Batman, Civil War and Uncanny X-Men as well as creating his own line of comics under his Aspen MLT label, had been diagnosed with chondrosarcoma in the year 2000 but had remained optimistic about his health throughout his extensive treatment. Aspen Comics have asked those wishing to make a charitable donation on Turner's name to donate to the American Cancer Society or to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Turner was 37 years old. More »
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Want to influence (admittedly in a very vague way) the cast of the next season of Heroes? Then make sure that you're paying attention to the new characters due to appear in the show's webcomic tie-ins, because you'll get the chance to decide which ones graduate from pen and ink lines on a screen to... photographic representations of actors on a different type of screen. Okay, that sounded a lot cooler in my head. But actually, the Heroes webcomic has had a lot of pretty cool characters. More »
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