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Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance comes out this weekend — which means we have a chance to pay tribute to one of the all-time great cult-movie method actors. Nicolas Cage has gone from serious Academy Award-winning actor to bee-eating B-movie wizard. More »
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Over the last few days, we've taken a look at the latest Toy Fair offerings from Hasbro and LEGO. Today, we hit the floors around New York's Javits Center and perused the panoply of playthings on display. Here's an overview of the upcoming collectibles you may covet out of niftiness and/or sheer weirdness.

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It's been a fairly depressing morning, what with all that incurable gonorrhea and feline mind control. Here's some more toe-tapping news. This spring, Smallville will take a cue from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and resurrect itself as a comic by former story editor and Batgirl scribe Bryan Q. Miller. More »
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Remember when the Man of Steel died and came back in the 1990s? Well, this is the closest we're going to get to a live-action Death of Superman movie. And it's kind of amazing. More »
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Designer Danny Haas has created a series of weathered posters that split famed superheroes' personalities straight down the middle. For characters such as Jean Grey and Susan Richards, the divide is less obvious but no less charming. Here's hoping he makes a Multiple Man diagram that's shaped like a pie chart. You can pick up prints of these fractured do-gooders at Haas' Society 6 shop.

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Now that Superman's no longer wearing his trademark red undershorts, in either the comics or movie versions, you might have wondered what's become of them. And apparently, they're in Malaysia, where they're a hot-selling item. More »
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Over a decade into the 21st Century, our imaginations are captivated by creations of the 19th and 20th. Sherlock Holmes rules television and movies. We're eagerly awaiting new movies about James Bond, Captain Kirk, Superman, Batman and Spider-Man. Where are the 21st Century mass-media heroes and villains? Why isn't anybody even trying to create them? More »
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Check out this close-up shot of our new Superman, Henry Cavill, on the set of The Man of Steel. Sporting the jet-black hair and scaled spandex, he certainly is filling out that cape fairly well. But without his red shorts, we wonder if Cavill will be plagued with the notorious "Bowie Bulge" from Labyrinth — not that that's necessarily a bad thing. More »
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We've seen Batman turned into Bartman with the simple change of one letter. But what other heroes can be transmogrified completely, with a simple change to one letter? Check out the wild, weird, world of Marvel and DC, if only the creators made more typos. More »
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DC Comics finally unveiled their new logo today. Even though the uncolored, leaked versions of the logo made it look like a sinister law firm, the official design can be delightfully tailored to each and every individual character. For example, there could theoretically be a Spider Jerusalem logo barking blue language at would-be consumers: More »
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The Crystal Cave — known to many as La Cueva de Los Cristales — is buried 300 meters below the Earth's surface, sequestered away in the Naica ore mines of Chihuahua, Mexico. Bursting from the top, bottom, and sides of the cavern's walls are otherworldy outcroppings of gypsum crystal. Many are too big to wrap your arms around. Others extend over thirty feet in length. More »
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The 1980s gave audiences plenty of timeless bad guys like the Terminator, Boba Fett, and Vigo the Carpathian. The decade also dished out plenty of incompetent and ill-conceived villains. Let's explore the 1980s wing of the Annals of Mediocre Villainy.

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Posted on the While we love the notion of Henry Cavill playing Clark Kent, we're still nervous about Zack Snyder's Man of Steel movie. Maybe it's the missing shorts or the rumors that the movies' third act is a mess, or perhaps we're still traumatized by Green Lantern? Bottom line: this movie makes us nervous. More »
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The history of genre movies is littered with massive, lavish failures — movies that took hundreds of millions of dollars and tossed the money down a sinkhole. But some of the movies that everybody "knows" were box office disasters actually did really well, when you look at the numbers. More »
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Sure, we've seen a Japanese version of Spider-Man, but Wonder Woman artist Cliff Chiang has now created a Justice League straight out of 1970s anime and kaiju. More »
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DC and Marvel have crossed over their superheroes officially on several occasions, but what about those times canny writers and illustrators snuck these titanic team-ups under the table? Here's a bunch of times Marvel and DC creators stealthily transcended universes.

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Remember Kerry Callen's hilarious GIF-ified comic covers? He's whipped up a new batch, this time of Jim Steranko's Nick Fury, Agent of Shield #4 and Curt Swan and Stan Kaye's Superman's Girlfriend: Lois Lane #29. Batman is extremely impatient.

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An important question needs to be answered by the editors of DC Comics! Superman, one of their flagship characters, is famously unable to see through lead — even though he can see microscopic substances, and he can see across immense distances. More »
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Everybody knows that the movies can be a messy business — oftentimes, what reaches the big screen is the result of a process akin to sticking your fingers in a Cuisinart. And sometimes the original director of a project gets dropped just before filming starts — as happened with The Wolfman. Or sometimes the director gets dropped after shooting but during the editing phase, as was rumored to be happening with the Judge Dredd film recently. We also learned just a couple weeks ago that Steven Spielberg came perilously close to being sacked from Jaws halfway through shooting. More »
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Get a fresh glimpse at all the movies we can't wait to see in 2012, via Empire Magazine. Check out an Avengers battle scene, a few Spider-Man pics with a very wet Dr. Connors, a new look at Peter Jackson's The Hobbit, and Michael Fassbender in Prometheus. More »
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It's kind of hard to imagine that there are more ridiculous design ideas for Tim Burton's Superman Lives than the stuff we've already seen, including the light-up disco suit and the Nic Cage test shots. But some newly released concept art may actually beat everything. More »
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Bob Kane created Batman, and Bill Finger came up with a lot of the character's look. But without Jerry Robinson, who died today at age 89, the Batman universe would be way less exciting. More »
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There may have been less cartoons this week because of Thanksgiving holidays in the U.S., but they were good! Ben 10 and Generator Rex teamed up for a one hour special, Ahsoka returned for a new arc on Clone Wars, and the season finale of Thundercats saw Tygra and Lion-O square off in a duel! Minor spoilers ahead.

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When you really want to show people you care about them, the best present is one that they can spend hours exploring. And nothing sucks people in quite like a really feature-heavy DVD or Blu-ray box set, full of special features, alternate versions and commentary tracks. More »
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Next week in Beverly Hills, several million dollars will be spent buying the pen-and-ink artwork behind the comics we love. Including some classic Batman art, and some Jack Kirby inks. Check out a gallery of the artwork that's for sale — with suggested bids totaling around $2 million. More »
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It's new comics day, and for many of us that means a trip to our local comic store to pick up those amazing pamphlets filled with graphic storytelling. Everybody has been saying for years that "floppy" comics are going away, and soon we'll all just buy the trade paperbacks. What's the point in even dealing with floppies, when it's all written for the inevitable trade collection? You're just getting 1/5 of a story, they say. More »
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Man of Steel star Henry Cavill refused to reveal any Superman secrets at the press day for his Greek gods epic Immortals. But the British actor did eloquently explain why his nationality doesn't stop him from playing an all-American superhero. More »
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Everybody's focusing on the fact that these new Man of Steel set photos show Superman looking even more bearded and wild than his "hobo" look from a little while ago. Crave Online, which posted the photos, is wondering why Supes looks like Wolverine. More »
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Last week, we heard about Joel Schumacher's plans to cast Nicolas Cage as the Scarecrow in his planned third Batman movie, after Batman and Robin. It's enough to give you nightmares, and not in the way the Scarecrow is supposed to. More »
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The 23rd James Bond movie is about to start production, with Sam Mendes (American Beauty) directing. Imagine if there had been 23 Batman movies. Or 23 Star Trek movies. Few other movie series can boast that kind of staying power, not just in terms of number of movies but in terms of enduring cultural relevance. More »
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Xenomorphs are the (giant, deadly, and acid-filled) cockroaches of the universe, so it's no surprise they've encountered such famous superheroes as Batman and Green Lantern. Here are ten occasions the Aliens invaded someone else's franchise.

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To paraphrase Ray Davies of The Kinks, we all wish we could fly like Superman. Sadly, our stupid, non-Kryptonian DNA prevents mere humans like you and me from righting the Leaning Tower of Pisa, extinguishing the Olympic torch, and getting blotto and fighting the physical manifestations of our super-egos in junkyards. You know, all that fun stuff. More »
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Check out the first ever look Superman's alien daddy, Jor-El — as played by the bearded Russell Crowe. Note the lovely alien frock, and Superman "S" emblazoned on his Kryptonion chest? More »
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Whole bunch of crazy in the week's comics. A Superman without a girlfriend, the man who wrote The Dark Knight Returns is back to fight the War on Terror, and Jack Kirby's post-apocalyptic manimal series gets ready for your bookshelf. Wackiness abounds. More »
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We heard about all the scenes that were cut from Star Wars for years. And then, with the Blu-ray release, we finally got to see all of them... and we learned just why they were cut in the first place. More »
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Superheroes are great at solving crimes, but downright awful at the intricacies of spatial design. More »
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Chances are, you spent the weekend rediscovering the magic of Star Wars (with a few unwelcome tweaks.) The original Star Wars was a miracle of seat-of-the-pants film-making that captured the world's imagination and boosted science fiction to new popularity. More »
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