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Everyone's heard the old bromide "three's the charm." Fans of the Spider-Man movie franchise might think otherwise.

At last week's WizardWorld: Philadelphia, Dynamite Entertainment stated that, due to the swastika appearing on the cover of The Boys #34 by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, the comic would not be able to be sold in Germany, due to law prohibiting display of the symbol that was used by the Nazis in World War II.

It's rather subtle, but a DC icon has had a costume change.

Newsarama had occasion to speak with both Eric Shanower and Skottie Young, the writer-artist combo of Marvel Comics' highly-praised The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. As announced this weekend, the pair are reuniting for another tour of the fabled place in The Marvelous Land of Oz, an adaptation of the next book in the cycle. We asked Skottie Young about his background with, such as we did with Eric, then we branched out and talked about how the artistic process on the this kind of project works, particularly when your partner is so schooled in the lore of L. Frank Baum.

It's been 25 years since the robots in disguise morphed from toy line into an animated TV series that immortalized them to an entire generation. And to celebrate, they're making their second big-screen outing with the opening June 24th of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

Those giant robots storming the silver screen in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen don't look much like the Transformers of yesteryear. Optimus Prime may still be trucking along, but the Autobot Bumblebee has ditched his old Volkswagon Beetle shell to take on the form of a fifth-generation Chevy Camaro. Other Autobots and their evil Decepticon foes now form a veritable fleet of the latest motorcycles, cars, trucks and U.S. military hardware. Never say obsolete to robots that can shape-shift, right?

Just how good and versatile a voice artist is John DiMaggio? Here's how the good folks at Batman: The Brave and the Bold answer that question - they didn't just give him one role, but two. That's right; he voices both Aquaman and Gorilla Grodd.

The heat for the second (live-action) Transformers movie is starting to build. Sure, seeing Megan Fox straddle a motorcycle the way she does is going to cause some kind of excitement, and can make the average fanboy forget the value of an original Megatron action figure in a box. Still, in the next few months the Transformers will see another important event in their history. This September marks the 25th Anniversary of the Autobots' and Decepticons' debut. It was in the five-part syndicated television mini-series "More Than Meets the Eye" on September 11, 1984. ...