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The Weekly Static is our righteously desperate-yet-endearing look at the past week in the land of the networks, cable, streaming, smoke signals, cloud formations, and shadow puppets from what an interesting, unique and entertaining perspective. At least that's how it reads on paper - let's see how it goes...

Two new Marvel favorites are coming from Funko, as Venom gets a Hikari two-pack and Deadpool gets an exclusive Dorbz at an interesting location.

Diamond Comic Distributors reports that Dave Hawksworth, Diamond employee since 1996 and longtime Diamond Outside Sales Manager, passed away in his sleep on January 9th.

Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood is getting a whole lot of content with Patch 4.2 including new main scenario quests, two new dungeons, a new trial and extreme trial, a new set of Omega raids, and now glamour dressers, a new beast tribe, and even updates to the PVP mode The Feast.

Up-and-coming comedy cabler (and I'm sure proud recipient of The Weekly Static's 2017 Most Valuable Player award) truTV took to the stage at today's Television Critics Association (TCA) to give details on three new series as well as announce the premiere dates for several returning series.

Ubisoft's original parkour-magic-and-swords franchise Prince of Persia hasn't had a new game in seven years since the release of Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands — but that might be changing sometime soon.

Rather than encouraging retailers to order more and more to get a big discount, Robert Kirkman, Lorenzo De Felici, and Annalisa Leoni's Oblivion Song gives retailers a big discount, no matter how many they order.

In today's X-Men: Blue #16, they managed to sort out one glitch in the Marvel Universe timeline, for now at least. But, because this is X-Men, they can't

Batman: White Knight by Sean Gordon Murphy has been a smash hit. I'm sure DC Comics expected this tale of a reformed Joker dealing with Gotham and a mad

Dark Souls Remastered has been confirmed, and we now know, as had been previously speculated, it is indeed coming to Nintendo Switch. For the last 24

Available on the 7th of February... Batman: White Knight #4 has gone to a second printing. BATMAN WHITE KNIGHT #4 (W) Sean Murphy (A/CA) Sean Murphy Jim

Looking for something to woo your love with this Valentine's Day? Or maybe you're looking for a gift for yourself or a friend? Well, fear not! ThinkGeek has released these fantastic — and adorable — new Plush Bouquets for the popular line, just in time for Valentine's Day!

The Daily Mail is running what they are dubbing an exclusive story, saying that a number of nurses who have worked for Stan Lee in his home are claiming he groped them.

Breathe easy, citizens of Knox County, Tennessee. Mayoral candidate Glenn Jacobs, better known as WWE Superstar Kane, apparently survived a brutal assault

Players of Bioware's Dragon Age series should all know the name Varric Tethras. And now, they'll get to read his famous novel, Hard in Hightown.

The comics in Alex Schumacher's Defiling the Literati are short, but they are remarkably straightforward. The entire book will make you stop and think — and maybe even change your perspective on the world.

NBC took advantage of the more than a few million eyeballs glued to last night's Golden Globes to "bless" viewers with the first official promo for their next live musical broadcast, Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert!.

This is the Top 10 Bleeding Cool Bestseller List, as compiled by a number of comic stores from their sales on Wednesday and Thursday. It measures what are

NBC's  Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert! continues to gather "disciples" ahead of its Easter 2018 broadcast, adding platinum-selling singer/songwriter Sara Bareilles as Mary Magdalene to a line-up that currently includes singer John Legend as Jesus and rock star Alice Cooper as King Herod.

In the new teaser for Homeland Season 7 released by Showtime, Carrie has left her job at The White House but her work in Washington D.C. is far from over.

Last year, Netflix Comics announced they had bought Mark Millar's Millarworld Comics, a comic book imprint that has published through other publishers

Writer/director/producer Ryan Murphy is clearly a man who doesn't believe in the concept of "free time," taking to the stage at the Television Critics Association (TSA) press tour in Pasadena on Friday to promote three series (Pose, 9-1-1 and American Crime Story: Versace) and update others.

Viewers who mapped out their own version of Steven Soderbergh's HBO murder mystery limited series Mosaic through the film's app back in December will get their chance to compare notes with how their vision matches the filmmaker's.

Streaming service Amazon has released their end-of-year tallies on what your eyeballs have been glued to in 2017. Here's the breakdown, separated between "streamed" and "downloaded"; and then further divided between domestic and international viewership:

Under the same kind of pressure as many comic stores in 2017, with sales down, and many stores going under, Seattle store Comics Dungeon did something very different indeed.

Ryan Higgins is the owner of comic book store Comics Conspiracy in Sunnyvale, California. While there has been a lot of doom and gloom in the comic book market, his annual report indicates that he's been turning things around.

DC Comics has confirmed to retailers that, as reported, the Action Comics #1000: 80 Years Of Superman hardcover planned for April will indeed bye $29.99

Looks like the Shonda Rhimes "universe" is about to get a little smaller in a very big way, with the Scandal creator and How to Get Away with Murder creator Peter Nowalk confirming to Deadline: Hollywood that the two series would be part of a major crossover event on ABC later this season.

All good things must naturally come to an end (which has still in no way, shape or form ever made me feel good about the process), and that's where IFC finds itself with their Portland-set hipster satire series Portlandia. Watch the trailer here!

Today, Bleeding Cool's Jude Terror published the Top 5 Marvel Screw-Ups of 2017. But, like Fox News, we are fair and balanced. So here's how it's looking