College Humor has compiled a video imagining Parks and Rec character and Entertainment 720 entrepreneur Jean-Ralphio as the star of the upcoming Amazing Spider-Man film. For bonus Parks and Rec enjoyment, check out Adam WarRock's Parks and Rec-themed rap EP, which contains not only an entire song about Entertainment 720 but a touching ode to Ron Swanson that should not be missed. ...

Gender-swapping has always played an interesting role in comic books, primarily in terms of derivative female characters with significantly smaller costumes, but also as a way to get perspective on how differently comics (and our culture) treats the different sexes and/or create fan art that slightly disturbs people. With the help of Jess Fink, creator of the wonderfully NSFW Chester 5000, ...

In Buffy the Vampire Slayer #6, on stands today, there are huge developments and huge decisions in store for the Buffy Summers, the heroine of the cult-favorite television show that has continued as a Dark Horse Comic book since its small screen finale. Consequently, huge spoilers follow. ...

The Super Bowl may be over, but Vince Aparo has imagined a very different Giants vs. Patriots team-up, and one that somewhat tragically predicted the Patriots' ability to handle the football. [Thanks, Preston] ...

The Brooklyn comics studio Pizza Island recently disbanded, with its creators -- Kate Beaton, Domitille Collardey, Sarah Glidden, Meredith Gran, Lisa Hanawalt, Deana Sobel and Julia Wertz -- parting amicably and scattering as far as Canada and France. One of Pizza Island's most prominent members, Kate Beaton of Hark! A Vagrant, also announced that she will be slowing the pace of her webcomic ...

Image Comics publisher Eric Stephenson weighs in on the Before Watchmen prequels. ...

The Watchmen prequel announcement is official, and reaction to the news has been fast and snarky. Now that a few hours have passed and the the initial waves of backlash, counter-backlash, and counter-counter-backlash have rolled through social networks, we've collected some of our favorite Twitter responses from artists, writers, editors, critics and other comic book pros who have added their ...

Long ago in 1979, an 11-year-old boy named John White was cruelly forbidden to see the totally awesome R-Rated sci-fi film Alien. While most kids might let "never actually seeing the movie" get in the way of enjoying it, White did not, and thus made his own Alien comic book adaptation of what he imagined it was like. Now a professional designer, White is posting pages from the comic at the ...

Comics writer Warren Ellis has long been a proponent of the space program, even going so far as to compare off-world travel as a critical Noah's ark for humanity: "The single simplest reason why human space flight is necessary is this, stated as plainly as possible: keeping all your breeding pairs in one place is a retarded way to run a species," which is a rather progressive thought marred ...

Nearly 5 months have passed since the DC Comics "New 52" relaunched their entire superhero line, and while the ambitious initiative and its mixed bag of results were the biggest news of 2012, some of you are still waiting for the collected editions. Well, I have great news for the trade-waiters and spoiler-avoiders: The publication dates for all the New 52 collected editions have been ...