Having Secrets Is Awful—Or Great! Let Panel Discussion Tell You Why.

These might be the most important words in comics: "Hey, have you read that?" The medium's lifeblood has always been the word-of-mouth that passes from one reader to another. The only query that might surpass the above is "So, what'd you think?"

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League of Legends Doesn't Need Much Story, So Fans Get To Create Their…

There are few games that require a "lore" so little as League of Legends. Pick your guy/gal/thing, ,get 'em in a lane, click a lot, give/receive abuse, game over. It's a series as dependent on narrative as a game of poker.

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This Amazing Video Game Art Will Make You Wish You Were in Canada

Maybe you live in Toronto. Maybe you’ll be at the Toronto Comics Arts Festival this weekend. But if you won’t be in the upper part of the North American continent over the next few days, you won’t be able to see some incredible video game art. But we can show some of it right here.

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Super-Serious Sci-Fi Eye Contact Is My Favorite Comics Panel This Week

In the near-future of Brian Vaughan and Marcos Martin’s The Private Eye, there’s been a meltdown of social networking. Imagine anyone anywhere being able to see everyone else’s addresses, banking information or browser history. People zealously hide their real faces and personal details after this cataclysmic…

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Iron Man 3: The Fall (and Rise) of Tony Stark

The first Iron Man movie uses Tony Stark as a metaphor for American power, with Tony's near-lethal chest wound signifying his remorse at spreading weapons around Afghanistan. The brilliant Iron Man 3 makes this connection even more explicit, giving us an elaborate fable of post-9/11 America and a paranoid-but-cocky…

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The 7 Most Essential Iron Man Comics

Hey, did you know before the incredibly popular movies were made, Iron Man was a comic book character? It’s true! In fact, some of these comics were quite good! If the only Tony Stark you know has Robert Downey Jr.’s face, these are the seven Iron Man stories you need to read.

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