Attention, everyone who's registered for this year's San Diego Comic-Con International 2012: You won't be able to share your badge with friends this time around - and you might want to ensure that you're carrying a photo ID with exactly the same name as is on the badge at all times, just in case. Yes, Comic-Con is getting serious with its attendees this year, it seems. ...

Yes, yes, Avengers: You've had your day, being much-beloved and breaking box office records and everything. But this summer superhero movie showdown is only getting started, as Warner Bros. is patiently reminding everyone with two new television spots and a host of still images showcasing Christopher Nolan's final Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises. ...

It's the Robocop/Batman crossover that you never expected, as the original Officer Murphy, Peter Weller, takes on the cowl and cape as the voice of Bruce Wayne and his alter ego in the upcoming animated adaptation of Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns. ...

Not content with being one of the stars of this summer's uber-successful Avengers movie (and having a new solo series launch this summer), Marvel Comics' Hawkeye is now teaming up with fellow hearing-impaired hero the Blue Ear to help boost one real life kid's confidence and inspiring him to wear his hearing aid. Pretty good for an archer, right? ...

Before the DC Animated universe heads towards its own rumored Flashpoint, Superman still has time to demonstrate the value of his brand of heroism in the upcoming Superman Vs. The Elite, based on Joe Kelly, Doug Mahnke and Lee Bermejo's 2001 Action Comics #775 story "What's So Funny About the Truth, Justice and the American Way." Click through for brand new clips and images from next month's ...

The surreal (and, yet, more real than most) battle for Seattle continues, it seems, as Seattle's self-styled super villain Rex Velvet has released another video teasing an upcoming showdown between good and evil... and, apparently, cats. Lots of cats. ...

May 20 was the third annual Everybody Draw Mohammed Day, the event in which artists depict the Prophet Mohammed in cartoon form to protest censorship and extremist threats (The event was created by cartoonist Molly Norris in 2010 in response to the death threats received by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone for attempting to feature the figure in their Comedy Central series). If ...

As if San Diego Comic-Con International wasn't harrowing enough -- Seriously, you should see me by day four if you want to witness true horror -- this year's uber-convention will include a chance to go through your very own zombie apocalypse via something called The Walking Dead Escape, a kind of haunted house-like experience promoting AMC's TWD TV show based on Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore and ...

Clearly, some of the business genius of Tony Stark has rubbed off on Robert Downey Jr. after playing the character for three movies (four, if you count his Incredible Hulk cameo), with the news that the success of The Avengers will earn the actor somewhere in the region of $50 million. ...

The CW is clearly working on the assumption that, the more we see of new Green Arrow series Arrow, the more we'll like it. Just a day after we got to see our first glimpse at the new show from some of the people who brought you the Green Lantern movie, the network has released the show's official trailer... and it kind of looks good. Click through to see if you're convinced. ...