Comic illustration is hot right now, and not just because of the flood of Marvel and DC Comic based movies. Comic illustration is fun. It's imaginative. And it breaks the rules.

After the critical and commercial success of director Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins, the expectations for The Dark Knight were understandably high. With history showing us that oftentimes sequels can't outshine their predecessors, the fan community worried that perhaps TDK would pale in comparison. Instead, it stands as a shining example of a great franchise only getting better.

Who would've ever thought that it would be Kristen Stewart who would play the role of Snow White in Universal's Snow White and the Huntsman? Definitely, not I.

La Virtù dei Strali d'Amore (The Power of Love's Arrows) was composed by the prolific Venetian opera composer Francesco Cavalli - a pupil of Claudio Monteverdi - with a libretto by Giovanni Faustini. The story is part serious and part comic, filled with love, confusion, intrigue, and an unmanageably large cast of characters (twenty-five in all).

Plato's Euthyphro is a dialogue between Socrates and the young 'prophet' Euthyphro outside the court in Athens just before Socrates is to go to trial. As Socrates has been charged by the Athenians with 'impiety', and as Euthypho claims to understand piety perfectly (5a) Socrates, sarcastically, asks the younger man to explain "what is piety and what is impiety?" Having at first stated that he can easily define 'piety' as well as "many other stories about divine matters"(6c) it soon becomes clear that Euthyphro has no idea what piety is and no clear idea about "that accurate knowledge" (14b) of the will of the gods he boasts of repeatedly.

Neonomicon is a new four-part miniseries from Avatar Press, released between July 2010 and January 2011. It is written by comics legend Alan Moore (of Watchmen fame), and illustrated by Jacen Burrows.

On the occasion of Twentieth Century Fox’s announcement that the Peter and Bobby Farrelly-directed Three Stooges film, starring Will Sasso, Sean Hayes and Chris Diamantopoulos as the comedic clowns, would have its theatrical release on April 13, 2012, one cannot help but recall the tragic true life tale of Ted Healy, the most sour-faced stooge of them all, who died at only age 41.

When you think of great comic writers, you tend to go for the classic names like Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and Stan Lee. That's not to say that current writers are bad, on the contrary, there are plenty of big names – Gail Simone, Geoff Johns, and Ed Brubaker – who have made quality work over the years. While these writers are lauded, it's a bit too soon to see how well they will fare in the long run.

Barely ten years after exploding into the American cultural landscape, Japanese animation now faces distribution challenges stemming from illegal downloading.

The movie Avatar is a combination of real time acting, realism and fantasy with the help of computer assisted graphics. The movie could be tagged an American 3-D science fiction epic film. It was written and directed by James Cameron.