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An update on Carla and Lance

It’s Wednesday, which would typically mean Carla Hoffman’s The Fifth Color column would have been posted today if last week’s tragedy hadn’t occurred. Carla and her husband Lance suffered severe burns in the Tea Fire in the Santa Barbara, Calif. area last week. I want to say thanks to everyone who has commented [...]

One last poster (we swear!) for The Spirit

There appears to be some sort of competition between Warner Bros. and Lionsgate to see which studio can churn out the most posters for one movie. Warner Bros. is winning with Watchmen, but it’s not for lack of trying on Lionsgate’s part. Anyway, Cinematical has the roughly 173rd, and supposedly final, poster for Frank Miller’s adaptation [...]

Watch a Wolverine and the X-Men trailer

Marvel has released what I believe is the third trailer for Wolverine and the X-Men, the animated series set to debut Jan. 23 on Nicktoons. It looks surprisingly good — good enough that those tired of seeing Wolverine everywhere may overlook his front-and-center role in the cartoon. Hey, how else are they to capitalize on that [...]

Yes, he has! No, he hasn’t!

Despite claims to the contrary, writer James Robinson apparently hasn’t quit DC Comics’ Superman books. On Monday Rich Johnston reported that he understood Robinson had left the titles, “and the DCU in general,” after an argument with Executive Editor Dan DiDio. But yesterday editor Matt Idelson told the Superman Homepage fan site that Robinson has not quit. I [...]

They fought the market; the market won

Last week Executive Editor Dan DiDio revealed that DC Comics is canceling Blue Beetle, a move made official on Monday with the release of February solicitations. Not to be outdone, Marvel on Tuesday announced the cancellation of She-Hulk. Again. But at least the publisher did so with humor: “She’s been savage. She’s been sensational. She’s been [...]

REVIEW: "Amazing Spider-Man" #578

One of this week's highly anticipated releases, writer Mark Waid makes his debut on the thrice-monthly "Amazing Spider-Man." How does the issue, with art from Marcos Martin, stack up? Doug Zawisza has the review.

Permanent Damage

Steven Grant comes to the rescue of a new writer uncertain of where to start his story, reviews the latest comics-related books, digs up another Kubert rarity and spreads holiday cheer in this week's PERMANENT DAMAGE.

NBC.com launches next chapter of "Heroes: Evolution"

J. Michael Straczynski: Origin of a Writer

"Babylon 5" creator and "Changeling" writer J. Michael Straczynski spoke at the Screenwriter’s Expo about his beginnings, his transition into feature films, and the benefits of the comic book format.

HEROES VIDEO - "The Eclipse, Part 1"

NBC has provided CBR with video from next Monday's episode of "Heroes" titled, "The Eclipse, Part 1." Find out what Arthur is up to, while Hiro & Ando visit a comic shop (owned by Seth Green) and Nathan & Peter go on a trip.