Fast Forward Entertainment will release the first volume in its CrossGen role-playing game this August.

On April 6 (his birthday no less) a new Astro Boy anime TV series debuted on Fuji TV in Japan.

Variety has reported that Christopher Nolan, who has signed on to direct the next Batman film, will also direct The Prestige , an adaptation of a novel by Christopher Priest.

Burger King has announced that a Justice League promotion will start at its restaurants next Monday, April 21. Eight action toys featuring the characters from the Cartoon Network's Justice League animated series will be given away in Kids Meals, as well as individual 12-page mini-comics.

Frequent commenter Jerry Ringi of Amazing Fantasy Comics and Cards in Chesapeake, Virginia has only good things to say in this Talk Back comment.

Rittenhouse Archives has announced that it has obtained the license to produce trading cards featuring Robert E. Howard's Conan character.

Marvel's press conference today was to announce two additional Epic series, both by journalists previously unpublished as comic writers.

Marvel's efforts to gain attention for its products with hot-button editorial material recently succeeded in an unlikely way -- its Captain America comics were reviewed by Michael Medved on National Review Online.

In one of the more interesting collaborations between a collector-oriented toy company and a comic book publisher, Palisades Marketing and Top Cow Productions have joined forces to create a line of Witchblade Animated Toys as well as a Witchblade Animated comic book. The only thing that takes this story out of the ordinary is the fact that, at least for right now, there is no Witchblade Animated cartoon series.

Titan Books is preparing to publish a trade paperback edition of the never-before-collected Tank Girl: Apocalypse saga.