Matt Molgaard of "I Am Rogue" has just added some new ideas about who the villain could be in the third Batman movie. Cobbling together a rumor about at least a part of the film being shot in Louisiana and a few teaser tweets from Mark Millar, and came up with Killer Croc. Could he be the next villain to challenge Batman? ...

This year's New York Comic Con sums up its policy on weapons with one sentence in its final paragraph: "Basically, don't be an idiot." Sounds good, but in every crowd of 80,000, there are going to be a few idiots. That's even if the crowd is not going to include people hoping to snag a prize for Most Realistic Orc. With that in mind, the con elaborates on its one-sentence credo, helping fans ...

Some kinds of comedy works with sparkling lines, precisely timed with flawless delivery. The laughter is a direct result of how unexpected the lines are, and how well the whole bit comes together. Other kinds of comedy, especially more modern comedy, is more about awkwardness. It sets up expectations based on the audience's experience and then falls flat. The timing has to be different, but ...

After 36 years of collecting comics, Jose Alaniz, a professor at the University of Washington, is donating his collection of 12 boxes of comics to the institution's library. This will raise the eyebrows of many comic book fans for two reasons: 1: Only twelve boxes after over three decades? The man was selective. 2: Though almost every comic in the collection was being given the chop, Alaniz ...

Simba Information recently completed a report entitled, "Overview of the US Comic Book and Graphic Novel Market 2009-2010." A press release accompanying the statement highlighted one of the more surprising details of the report: Their claim that one fourth of the comic reading public is over the age of 65. Since the report is completely "available" only to those retailers and publishers willing ...

The Birds of Prey are a confident bunch, with a lineup of ladies expressively in charge of their sexuality, but did you ever think you'd get the inside scoop on their superheroic rendezvous from their "Batman: The Brave and the Bold" counterparts? In this past weekend's episode, "The Mask of Matches Malone," Batman got knocked on the head and came to believe that he was a gangster. Since the ...

So it seems that St. Louis Today is conducting a poll to determine which of a few select comic strips are going to be ripped from its comics pages and discarded. Lifestyles columnist Joe Holleman announces this, and on the same page breaks the news that no amount of votes will save certain other strips from getting the boot. "Blondie," "For Better or for Worse," and "Garfield," are some of the ...

Not many creators are in indie comics for the money -- at least not many that last -- so when someone creates something of their own it's a labor of love. This is a great thing for the consumer, because people who do things out of love don't tend to get sloppy or lazy. They're working towards something they want, and they pull out all the stops to get there. In the case of Peter S. Conrad, ...

David Willis has made a living, and a very successful one, writing and drawing webcomics a specific kind of twenty-something. Silly, immature, well-intentioned, and obsessed with pop-culture, his characters blundered their way through life and relationships. From the start, the parallels with Willis' own life were clear. His characters love toys, comics, geekdom, and questions of continuity, ...

There's no question that when we read a comic book, we step into a different world. That's the point. Things that aren't possible in the real world work like a charm in comics. Things that would look silly or creepy blend in with an exaggerated comic book world. Things make sense, there. And while the practical aspect of superhero comics -- or lack thereof -- has been ridiculed many times, ...