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One is a comic book turned into a film against the writer's wishes. The other is a comic book about to be turned into a film with the writer's eager

The Ghost Key from Locke & Key on the left from IDW in 2008, Hellraiser from Boom in 2011... In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble

It's very exciting. Tomorrow, we get to see Neil Gaiman's episode of Doctor Who, The Doctor's Wife, set on a junkyard asteroid. Looking like this. Now, in

This is a T-shirt design by Rian Hughes for Forbidden Planet that became a little famous a couple of years ago. And this pretender from Shirtoid by

Howdy partner... somebody's poisoned the waterhole! In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree. They may be

The movie poster pose.... The comic book cover pose... The movie poster pose... The comic book cover pose... In Swipe File we present two or more images

Ever since Bleeding Cool ran the first Rob Granito article, there's been something in the air. Rob Granito famously posed as a comic book and animation

Here are a few scenes from Super Dinosaur, published on Wednesday. And here is Strontium Dog from 2000AD created... a wee while before that. In Swipe File

There's something here isn;t there? From Astonishing X-Men #1 And the new UK poster for X-Men: First Class At least The Beast doesn't look like he's

This is the cover to the Kapow Convention Booklet, the artwork the result of a competition organised last year, revealed at the show and credited to one

A few people reading the first issue of Fear Itself found them suffering a little deja vu when seeing the sea dragon demony serpent things that Sin

I took the mickey out the Fear Itself poster the other day. But it took Brent Keane to spot a certain similarity... In Swipe File we present two or more

One of them is considered one of the most important pieces of literature in the world - in fact it's harder to think of anything quite so influential, in

On the left, the cover to the third issue of Raise The Dead 2 from Dynamite. On the right a poster image on display at Wizard World Miami to promote the

Swipe File: One More Day Vs Superman 2000

"My precious!" "My greenness" Thanks to several Little Bleeders who sent this one in, from DC's upcoming War Of The Lanterns. There does seema to be a

Finer artist Erro continues to sell work completely ripped off from current comic books with little of the justification that Lichtenstein afforded... he

No sooner are Boom embroiled in a trademark battle over the use of the word "Kaboom" in a comics publishing context, than they may have a battle with DC

Above is the cover to Star Trek: Infestations, part of the cross-franchise crossover comic being published by IDW. And below is the poster to the movie

Marvel's promotion for a series of less-than-A-list characters getting a relaunch in 2011, using gunsight imagery... Marvel's promotion for a series of

This is the cover to Outsiders #26, published this week. Bold, striking and powerful. And then you open the comic and on the very inside cover... You

Yesterday, the comics internet woke up to a series of images sent under the headline "Stan Lee Lies" from a junk gmail account called Truth Teller. This

This is the trailer to the X-Men: Destiny video game. Very pretty, nice use of silhouettes... but wait. What was that around the 30 second mark? And from

This is Supergirl. A TV Movie in Indonesia showing from today on MNC TV and made by Soraya Intercine Film, that bears no relation to the DC Comics

I don't think I need to show the original here, do I? The wraparound cover to issue 3 of the Night Of The Living Dead: Death Valley comic drawn by the

The Tony Lee/Dan Boultwood comic book, The Gloom, has gotten a revamp for MTV Comics. This we know. Being redrawn by the original artist, as the original

From Nikki Finke: Warner Bros is closing a deal to acquire Harker, a spec script by Lee Shipman & Brian McGreevy for a re-imagining of Bram Stoker's

The new design for Venom does bear a little resemblance to the costume of Appleseed Ex Machina's Briareos Hecatonchires, no? In Swipe File we present two

I have had two major comics publishers just contact me about this, their mouths agape. Marvel have just run a teaser for a new comic, The Mystery Men,

Comics Alliance recently ran/possibly-even-created (still not sure on that) a car insurance infographic feature that purported to show the original