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Ken Marino's career as an actor, writer, and director has been largely defined by two things: comedy and collaboration. After establishing himself via the MTV sketch comedy series "The State" with the comedy troupe of the same name (comprised of his closest friends and creative confidants), he went on to work on some of the funniest, most brilliant, and underrated TV and film projects to come out of Hollywood in the last two decades.

Much of his work is the result either of his own creative will or that of his former troupe-mates, the group having spread through the industry to wreak hilarious havoc. They often explore absurd angles on popular genres such as medical dramas and reality dating shows. At the same time, he's a familiar face on a smorgasbord of network sitcoms, as well as a few audacious dramedies you'll certainly want to add to your watch list.

Actor Andre Braugher, known for his roles on TV shows like Homicide: Life on the Street and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, has passed away.

Per Deadline, Braugher died on Monday, Dec. 11, after suffering a "brief illness." No other details have yet been revealed about Braugher's passing. The actor was 61 years old.

Braugher was a veteran actor with many roles he could be recognized for by fans. His most popular roles include playing Detective Frank Pembleton in the 90s crime drama series Homicide: Life on the Street, and more recently Captain Raymond Holt in the hit sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine. He won Primetime Emmy Awards for his roles in Homicide as well as the FX miniseries Thief. He had also been nominated four times for his Brooklyn Nine-Nine role, and he scored another two of his 11 total nominations with his role in the sitcom Men of a Certain Age.

The actor's other acclaimed roles...

The Simpsons' recent seasons have improved considerably, winning over both critics and fans, making it one of the stronger animated adult comedies on television. The fact that new shows, even with notable talents like Dan Harmon, are struggling to gain hype emphasizes The Simpsons' impressive comeback. Despite its age, The Simpsons' formula continues to work, allowing it to outperform newer shows and earn more acclaim than even Dan Harmon's new series.

While The Simpsons season 35 might not be as good as the show’s best outings, the creator of Rick and Morty’s new animated Fox sitcom shows just how good the series still is today. It was no major surprise when The Simpsons seasons 30 through 33 struggled with critics and fans alike. The show’s so-called Golden Age ended around season 11, a full 20 years before season 32 began. The Simpsons paved the way for much of the modern adult animation landscape but,...

Justin Roiland was let go from Rick and Morty as felony charges against the voice actor and co-creator became public earlier this year. Rick and Morty will go on, but Adult Swim will no longer associate itself with Roiland. He was charged with one count of domestic battery with corporal injury and one count of false imprisonment by menace, violence, fraud, or deceit in Orange County. The incident occurred in 2020 with an unnamed Jane Doe that Roiland was dating. He pleaded not guilty and was released from his charges in March 2023, but by then, the damage was done.

Adult Swim had cut ties with Roiland, as had networks such as Hulu, which produces Roiland's animated sci-fi series Solar Opposites. As a result of Roiland no longer being in the picture, Rick and Morty underwent quite a few changes, especially given that Roiland voiced both Rick Sanchez and Morty Smith, as...

While he is known for playing charming nerd Wyatt Donnelly in the 1985 film Weird Science, Ilan Mitchell-Smith's career has taken a compelling turn. He began acting when he was a child, appearing as younger siblings or pre-teens who wish that they were cooler. After playing a young version of Timothy Hutton's character, Daniel Isaacson, in a flashback in the spy drama Daniel, he appeared in the 1984 TV movie How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days as dorky Milo Crimpley, who takes a course on achieving flawlessness. Mitchell-Smith then played Eric Stoltz's Vietnam War-obsessed brother in The Wild Life, a teen comedy written by Cameron Crowe.

Wyatt is one of the most lovable characters in John Hughes's movies, and the story of him and his best friend Gary Wallace (Anthony Michael Hall) making a computer-generated woman named Lisa (Kelly LeBrock) is a classic coming-of-age tale.

[This post originally appeared as part of Recommendation Machine, IndieWire’s daily TV picks feature.]

Where to Watch ‘Saturday Morning All Star Hits!’: Netflix

Even a minute longer, and “Saturday Morning All Star Hits!” probably wouldn’t work. With a handful of weekend cartoon parodies, fake commercials/trailers, and a wacky brother hijinks framing device, taking on any more than a half-hour at a time would be a recipe for this Netflix show to overstay its welcome.

Improbably, though, it doesn’t. Never spending more than a few minutes in any of these worlds, “Saturday Morning All Star Hits!” (take the first letters of each name in that title if you want a totally tubular surprise) recaptures the vibe of Saturday morning favorites in all their camcorder-chic glory.

The show is the combined brainchild of the live-action “Brigsby Bear” duo Kyle Mooney and Dave McCary and the animation stylings of Ben Jones, a vet of “Axe Cop” and “Neo Yokio.

Humbly listed at the bottom of recent press release, Hulu revealed a rather startling viewership statistic. In the last year, more than half of Hulu subscribers had watched at least one of its adult animated programs. Further still, nearly 40 percent watch some form of adult animation every month. Based on reported figures, that’s roughly 12 million people regularly seeking out Hulu’s acquired and original animated series.

It’s no wonder the Disney-controlled streamer has invested in making more of its own animated programs, including “Solar Opposites” (the main focus of the press release), which became the No. 1 title on Hulu (animated or otherwise) during its premiere week in May. There’s a growing demand for adult animated content, and Hulu is in a prime position to capitalize. Why? A bulk of Hulu’s high-profile animated content comes from Fox, one of the streamer’s sister networks and a long-standing...

Dark Horse Entertainment, owners of online comic shop "Things From Another World" and publishers of "The Mask", "Timecop", "Hellboy", "R.I.P.D.", "Polar", "Duckman", "Axe Cop", "Dark Matter" and "Sin City", have entered into a production deal with Netflix to exclusively adapt more Dark Horse titles for the streaming service, thanks to the success of "The Umbrella Academy", now in its second season:

"We are very excited about this new arrangement with the talented people at Netflix," said Mike Richardson, Dark Horse president and founder.

"We have strong creative relationships as well as a large content library to work with, and, as we have seen with our recent projects, Netflix is the perfect partner to bring our stories to fans around the world."

Adds Netflix's Cindy Holland, "The Netflix teams are already working in deep collaboration with Dark Horse to identify projects...

"...beyond the world of traditional superheroes...

"...branching into horror, fantasy...

TV shows status included: 3, 12 Monkeys, 13 Reasons Why, 100 Code, 100 Things To Do Before High School, Adam Devine's House Party, The Adventures of Kid Danger and Captain Man, The Affair, Aftermath, Alexa & Katie, Alias Grace, The Alienist, All That Glitters Almost Royal, Alone Together, American Crime, American Dad!, American Horror Story, The Americans, American Princess, American Vandal, American Woman, Andi Mack, And Then There Were None, Angie Tribeca, Animal Kingdom, Animals, Anne with an E, Annedroids, Another Period, Archer, Arrested Development, The Art of More, The Arrangement, The Artful Detective, Ash Vs. Evil Dead, Atlanta, Atypical, The A Word, Axe Cop, Baby Daddy, Backstage, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Ballers, Barry, Baskets, Bates Motel, The Bay, Being Mary Jane, Bellevue, Ben 10, Berlin Station, Best Friends Whenever, Better Call Saul, Better Things, Between, Beyond, Big Little Lies, Big Mouth, Billions, Bizaardvark, Black Mirror, Black Sails, Blood Drive,...

Now that those basketball games are over (go Wildcats!) we’re ready for Round 3 of the 2016 Mix March Madness April Armageddon Webcomics Tournament! Yes, it’s time to take on the Top 32… and you have until Wednesday, April 6 at midnight Est to vote!

Congratulations to everyone who made it through Round 2, and we’ve raised another $30 for the Hero Initiative. But now it gets even tougher, as we’re down to only 32 webcomics… and we know that every vote counts from you and all your friends, so make sure to share and tweet about it, because Round 3 starts now!

Here are the updated brackets. As usual, we’re dividing the candidates into four divisions. This year’s divisions are Anderson, Obadiah, Ryan, and Trimpe…

Anderson Division Erfworld

Bye

Erfworld

127-18

Garfield Minus Garfield Guilded Age

8-12

Garfield Minus Garfield Erfworld

Game 25 Details

Wilde Life Modest Medusa

9-18

Wasted Talent Wasted...

Round 2 of the Mix March Madness 2014 Webcomics Tournament— soon to become April Armageddon— starts here! Voting lasts until Midnight Edt on Saturday, April 2!

Congratulations to everyone who made it through Round 1! We’re down to 64 webcomics after a last minute tiebreaker, and we’re raising more money for the Hero Initiative. Let’s get on with the show!

Here are the updated brackets. As usual, we’re dividing the candidates into four divisions. This year’s divisions are Anderson, Obadiah, Ryan, and Trimpe…

Anderson Division Erfworld

Bye

Erfworld

Game 17 Details

Garfield Minus Garfield Guilded Age

8-12

Garfield Minus Garfield Winner of 17

Game 25 Details

Winner of 18 Modest Medusa

9-18

Wasted Talent Wasted Talent

Game 18 Details

Wilde Life Winner of 25

Game 29 Details

Winner of 26 Kevin & Kell

17-105

Wilde Life Ava’s Demon

74-6

Hijinks Ensue Ava’s Demon

Game 19 Details

Misfile Winner of 29

Game 31 Details

Winner of 30 Dork Tower

11-26

Misfile Winner...

Deborah Ann Woll doesn't just play the most down-to-earth character on "Daredevil" -- she's a bona fide genre-loving fangirl in real life too.

As sweet-natured Karen Page, the office assistant at the rising law firm of Nelson & Murdock, Woll gets to act out a different breed of heroics. Rather than swinging down to rain punches onto back-alley bad guys, Karen is a normal, grounded woman who knows injustice when she sees it. She's frequently fighting through her biggest fears to see that the right thing gets done, and things are finally heating up romantically between her and her not-exactly-blind colleague Matt Murdock, who's secretly cleaning up the streets as Daredevil.

Off-screen, Woll -- previously best known for her breakout stint as the "baby vamp" Jessica Hamby on HBO's "True Blood" -– connects with the Marvel/Netflix series' passionate fanbase on a personal level. She's a gamer, cosplayer, and deeply devoted...

Yes, it’s that time of year again, the time where bracketology reigns supreme and the cry around the nation is “Win or Go Home!” Last year’s Mix March Madness Webcomics Tournament was incredibly popular, and so we’re doing it all over again– and raising money for the Hero Initiative in the process!

We’re giving you a list of over 300 webcomics, and we want your votes . We’re taking the top 128 and putting them in a single elimination tournament where we whittle down the contestants down to one. The top 128 vote getters make it into the tournament, with the biggest getting top seeds. The voting ends Sunday, March 13 at 11:59 Pm Edt, and brackets go up on Monday, March 14!

Simply check off the strips you want to see in the tournament below. If there are webcomics you don’t see, check “Other” at the end and include...

Spoofing police procedurals is one thing. Eviscerating them — as the new TBS comedy "Angie Tribeca" does with addictive glee — is another. Shows like "Brooklyn Nine-Nine," "Axe Cop" and even more vicious parodies like "Reno 911" utilize absurd humor to make light of jobs often depicted with the utmost seriousness in TV and movies, but we haven't seen a live action cop comedy as delightfully cartoonish as Steve Carell and Nancy Walls Carell's creation since "Police Squad" went one and done back in 1982. Since then, cop dramas have kept stacking up, making more and more scenarios, lines and characters into cliches — and thus ripe for parody. Rashida Jones and her merry men tackle each and every one of those cliches with such casual acceptance that it would be easy to mistake "Angie Tribeca" as simple. After all, it's only slightly serialized (by today's standards) and extremely consistent in style, tone and presentation.

Below, you'll find a list of recent/current/upcoming scripted TV shows on Comedy Central, DirecTV, FX, Fxx, Hallmark, and Hulu. To see a series' ratings (if they're available), click the links in the middle column.

Shows include 11.22.63, Adam Devine's House Party, American Crime Story, American Horror Story, The Americans, Anger Management, Another Period, Archer, The Art of More, The Awesomes, Axe Cop, Baskets, The Bastard Executioner, Better Things, Big Time in Hollywood Fl, Billy & Billie, Brickleberry, Broad City, Cassius and Clay, Casual, Cedar Cove, Chesapeake Shores, The Comedians, Deadbeat, Difficult People, Drunk History, East Los High, Fargo, Full Circle, Good Witch, The Half Hour, Idiotsitter, Inside Amy Schumer, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Jo, Justified, Key & Peele, Kingdom, Kroll Show, The League, Louie, Lucas Bros. Moving Co., Man Seeking Woman, Married, The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, The Mindy Project, Moonbeam City, Moone Boy, The Path,...

What if you could create the perfect woman just from the tap of a keyboard and a click of a mouse? That's the tantalising premise at the heart of John Hughes's delightfully dorky teen classic, which celebrates its 30th birthday today (August 2).

To mark this momentous day, we look back at the cast of the beloved '80s film to find out what they've done since. Whatever happened to that fella Robert Downey Jr...?

Kelly LeBrock

'80s sex symbol Kelly LeBrock hit big with her first two roles in Gene Wilder's The Woman in Red and Weird Science, but only appeared in a handful of films after - among them Betrayal of the Dove, Tracks of a Killer and Zerophilia.

She moved out to a farm in Santa Barbara where she looks after animals and sleeps under the stars with her horse, but she keeps cropping up...

The 2014 Nebula Awards were presented June 4, 2015 in a ceremony at Sfwa’s 50th Annual Nebula Awards Weekend, held in Chicago, Il. Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation, Axe Cop) hosted the awards. Larry Niven was honored with the 2014 Damon Knight Grand Master Award for his lifetime contributions and achievements in the field.

Scott Edelman gave a heartfelt acceptance speech for the Bradbury Award on behalf of Guardians Of The Galaxy, which we transcribed in its entirety for you:

I am Groot. I am Groot? I Am Groot.

Now, who among us can argue with that?

The full ballot, with winners listed first:

Novel

Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer (Fsg Originals; Fourth Estate; HarperCollins Canada) The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison (Tor) Trial by Fire, Charles E. Gannon (Baen) Ancillary Sword, Ann Leckie (Orbit Us; Orbit UK) The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu (Tor) Coming Home, Jack McDevitt (Ace)

Novella

Yesterday’s Kin, Nancy Kress (Tachyon) We Are All Completely Fine,...

Lisa Kudrow in The Comeback, which she announced will be returning for a third season.

John Singleton is poised to be the next filmmaker to make the leap to television, as FX has picked up the pilot for Snowfall, a show co-created by Singleton. The press release had this summary of the series.

Los Angeles 1981. A storm is coming and its name is cocaine. Snowfall is a one-hour drama set against the infancy of the crack cocaine epidemic and its ultimate radical impact on the culture as we know it. The story follows three characters on a violent collision course: Franklin Saint, young street entrepreneur on a quest for power; Gustavo Zapata, a Mexican wrestler turned gangster in search of his American dream; and Logan Miller, a prominent family’s “black sheep” desperate to escape his father’s shadow.

Singleton will also direct the pilot.

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The partnership between Fox and...

The last few years, some network TV executives have tried to do away with the pilot process, ordering shows straight to series based on a script, or even an idea, rather than spending a lot of money filming a pilot episode before deciding whether it's good enough to order to series. This is essentially like deciding to build a house on land that hasn't been surveyed yet and hoping that it'll hold the structure. The results have gone about as expected: "Hieroglyph"(!) was pre-canceled before a second episode was filmed, NBC decided to sell "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" to Netflix rather than have to cancel it after three episodes aired, and other straight-to-series orders have been delayed, or similarly pre-canceled, or (as in the case of Fox's "Weird Loners") sent off to die quietly. Netflix has had more success doing away with pilots, but that's in part because no one but...

If you’ve got a TV, you’ve been there. You’re sitting in front of the TV, flipping through channels, and you discover that there’s nothing on. It doesn’t matter of you have three channels or three hundred channels. There’s absolutely nothing that you have any desire to watch on any channel currently in the roster.

It seems like during certain times of the day, you’d better just be prepared to watch either “Friends” or “Seinfeld” because that’s all anyone is running. Even worse, it’s the same rotation of about fifteen episodes of each show, so you will never, ever see any episode that you may have missed without just buying either season sets or the complete series.

If you’re paying for TV, chances are you’re also paying for a bunch of channels you don’t want. I have not ever...

I talked with Nick Offerman earlier this week and got the answer to the question I'm sure you're all wondering: A ukelele. What? You weren't clamoring for details on the latest carpentry projects from Hollywood's endlessly busy Renaissance Man? Personally, I'm always interested in Offerman's woodworking, because I know the value he puts in maintaining that pursuit and skill -- it's not just a hobby -- while following a schedule that would exhaust a lesser man. On Offerman's recent/current slate: He's completing work on the final season of "Parks and Recreation." He's touring the country with his one-man humor/lifestyle spectacle "Full Bush." He directed the marvelous and star-studded video for Tweedy's "Low Key." He's apparently co-producing a documentary about writer Wendell Berry. He appeared in the summer blockbuster "22 Jump Street" and probably has another half-dozen movies coming out soon. And this Sunday night (October 5), Offerman can be heard...

Nick Offerman has loaned his manly pipes to a variety of animated Fox shows—Bob’s Burgers, The Cleveland Show, Axe Cop—but his crowning vocal achievement will be heard this weekend when he pops up on The Simpsons. In the episode (Sunday, 8 p.m.), relations between Homer and Bart reach a nadir over a serving of broccoli, prompting Marge to ship them off to sea—specifically to the Relation Ship, where conflicts between fathers and sons can be worked out while they learn to become sailors. The Parks and Recreation star voices the man in charge of that vessel,...

Below, you'll find a list of Fox's recent/current/upcoming primetime TV shows and their current status. To see a series' ratings (if any), click the links in the middle column.

The shows include 24, Almost Human, American Dad!, American Idol, Axe Cop, Bakstrom, Bob'€.s Burgers, Bones, Boom!, Bordertown, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, Dads, Does Someone Have to Go?, Empire, Enlisted, Family Guy, The Following, Gang Related, Glee, Golan the Insatiable, Gotham, Gracepoint, Hieroglyph, Hell's Kitchen, High School USA!, Hotel Hell, I Wanna Marry 'Harry', Kitchen Nightmares, The Last Man on Earth, Lucas Bros. Moving Co., MasterChef, MasterChef Junior, The Mindy Project, Mulaney, Murder Police, New Girl, Raising Hope, Rake, Red Band Society, Riot, Short-Com Comedy Hour, The Simpsons, Sleepy Hollow, Slide Show, So You Think You Can Dance, Surviving Jack, Us & Them, Utopia, Wayward Pines, Weird Loners, The X Factor...

It's Marvel TV time at Comic-Con, with an hour-long panel that promises to feature Jeph Loeb plus still-unnamed castmembers from both "Marvel's Agents of Shield" and "Marvel's Agent Carter." The question is, will Marvel stop with just the two ABC dramas, or will they start trying to build excitement for the four upcoming Netflix series by, say, bringing in "Daredevil" stars Charlie Cox and Deborah Ann Woll for surprise appearances? (Woll has a long and impressive history of Comic-Con cosplay, including stints as Hit Girl and Axe Cop, so I wouldn't be shocked in the least if she came dressed as Elektra — or Daredevil, for that matter.) And will Loeb be as bombastic as in his usual interviews, or will he acknowledge how rough so much of "Agents of Shield" season 1 was before "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" finally gave the show direction? I'll be live-blogging all the action, updating...

The following is a list of all comic books, graphic novels and specialty items that will be available this week and shipped to comic book stores who have placed orders for them.

Adhouse Books

Street Angel Hc, $19.95

Amryl Entertainment

Cavewoman Journey #2 (Of 2)(Cover A Monte Moore), $3.99

Cavewoman Journey #2 (Of 2)(Cover D Budd Root), Ar

Antarctic Press

Victorian Secret Midwinter Special (One Shot), $3.99

Archie Comic Publications

Afterlife With Archie #6 (Andrew Pepoy Variant Cover), $2.99

Afterlife With Archie #6 (Francesco Francavilla Regular Cover), $2.99

Betty And Veronica Jumbo Comics Digest #225, $6.99

Diary Of A Girl Next Door Betty Hc, $13.99

Jughead And Archie Double Digest #4, $4.99

Life With Archie #36 (Magazine Format), $9.99

Life With Archie Comic #37 (Alex Ross Cover), $4.99

Life With Archie Comic #37 (Cliff Chiang Cover), $4.99

Life With Archie Comic #37 (Jill Thompson Cover), $4.99

Life With Archie Comic #37 (Tommy Lee Edwards Cover), $4.99

Life With Archie Comic #37 (Walt Simonson Cover), $4.99

Aspen Comics

Damsels In Excess #1 (Cover A Mirka Andolfo), $3.99

Damsels In...

Teen Wolf's excellent visuals continue to shine in season four. Here's Ron's review of The Benefactor...

Review

This review contains spoilers.

4.4 The Benefactor

I was very hesitant about the new additions to Teen Wolf's regular cast. They seemed a bit too young, truthfully. Late teens playing teenagers is one thing, even 23-year-old high school students can pass - though there are some background extras who look like they should be teaching rather than attending classes - but there's something that comes along with teenagers playing kids their age that's a little... not unnerving, per se, but worrying. I'm not sure why, because the new additions seem like they're going to be just as good as the previous cast members.

Scott, despite himself, has a new progeny. To save the life of Liam (Dylan Sprayberry), he had to sink his teeth into him, quite literally. The full moon is approaching.

Story by Malachai Nicolle

Pencils, Inks, and Lettering by Ethan Nicolle

Colors by Dirk Eric Shulz

Cover by Ethan Nicolle

Published by Dark Horse Comics

Axe Cop American Choppers #2 starts off with Axe Cop and Co. Fighting off an army of evil anthropomorphic axes. The evil Axes are the work of three Demon Lumberjacks working for satan. Satan not feeling up to killing God, has decided instead to kill Axe Cop to “tick God off”. The character from issue #1 who’s power is to shoot hypno-chickens out of his brain when he closes his eyes makes a return appearance, this time on behalf of God. This is really just Par for the course with Axe Cop.

Trying to summarize an Axe Cop book is much like trying to summarize one of the Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy novels : an exercise in futility. Like all other Axe Cop tales,...

The following is a list of all comic books, graphic novels and specialty items that will be available this week and shipped to comic book stores who have placed orders for them.

AC Comics

Femforce #167 (Cover A Will Meugniot), $9.95

Femforce #167 (Cover B Mark G. Heike), $9.95

Alterna Comics

Last West Gn, $14.99

Amigo Comics

Lunita #3 (Of 4), $3.99

Amryl Entertainment

Cavewoman 20th-Anniversary 2014 Full Color Show Book, Ar

Antarctic Press

Rod Espinosa’s Steampunk Edge Of Empire #2 (Of 2), $3.99

Ape Entertainment

Tugg The Bull Terrier #1 (Of 4), $3.99

Archie Comic Publications

Archie #656 (Dan Parent Regular Cover), $2.99

Archie #656 (Ramon K. Perez Roses Are Red Variant Cover), $2.99

Archie Funhouse Double Double Digest #6, $5.99

Aspen Comics

All New Fathom #7 (Of 8)(Cover A Alex Konat), $3.99

All New Fathom #7 (Of 8)(Cover B Randy Green), $3.99

All New Soulfire #5 (Of 8)(Cover A V. Ken Marion), $3.99

All New Soulfire #5 (Of 8)(Cover B Paolo Pantalena), $3.99

Fathom Annual #1, $5.99

Avatar Press

Dicks Volume 2 Tp, $19.99

Big Finish Productions

Doctor Who The Evil One Audio CD,...

Axe Cop The American Choppers #1

Story by Malachai Nicolle

Pencils,Inks, and Lettering by Ethan Nicolle

Colors by Dirk Erik Schulz

Cover by Ethan Nicolle

Publisher Dark Horse Comics

Axe Cop is back and caught in a whirlwind of lunacy as per usual.

For those readers not familiar with Axe Cop, here’s a little back story. The artist Ethan Nicolle started Axe Cop as a web-comic based on his then five year old brother Malachai’s imaginative creations. Axe Cop’s popularity grew as it spawned toys, t-shirts, an expansion to the popular card game Munchkin, and even an animated show on Fox.

The American Choppers is the latest Axe Cop adventure, and though there is a very loose continuity in the Axe Cop universe one need not have read any previous adventures to enjoy American Choppers.

From the very first panel where Axe Cop tells his wife that...

The following is a list of all comic books, graphic novels and specialty items that will be available this week and shipped to comic book stores who have placed orders for them.

801 Media

Private Teacher Volume 4 Gn, $12.95

Action Lab Entertainment

Skyward #7 (Jeremy Dale Regular Cover), $2.99

Skyward #7 (Phil Noto Variant Cover), $3.99

Antarctic Press

Gold Digger #210, $3.99

Archie Comic Publications

Archie’s Funhouse Double Digest #5, $3.99

Sonic Super Special Magazine #11, $9.99

Sonic The Hedgehog #260 (Ben Bates Regular Cover), $2.99

Sonic The Hedgehog #260 (Evan Stanley Sonic Versus Variant Cover), $2.99

Aspen Comics

Lola Xoxo #2 (Cover A Siya Oum), $3.99

Lola Xoxo #2 (Cover B Siya Oum), $3.99

Lola Xoxo #2 (Cover C Joe Benitez), Ar

Ballantine Books

Alex Delaware Volume 2 The Web Gn, $24.00

Big Dog Ink

Penny For Your Soul Death #7 (Of 7)(Cover A J.B. Neto), $3.50

Penny For Your Soul Death #7 (Of 7)(Cover B Jenevieve Broomall), $3.50

Ursa Minor #4 (Cover A Ian Snyder), $3.50

Ursa Minor #4 (Cover B Nei Ruffino), $3.50

Black Library

Warhammer 40K Commissar Sc,...

Update 3/24: Round 2 is over… vote in Round 3 now!

Round 2 of the Mix March Madness 2014 Webcomics Tournament starts now! Voting lasts until Midnight Edt on Saturday, March 22!

Congratulations to everyone who made it through Round 1! We’re down to 64 webcomics, and we’ve raised another $118 for the Hero Initiative. And we’ve listened to you and put splits between the polls to make it easier to see who’s going head to head when you vote.

We’ve had a few surprise upsets– Camp Weedonwatcha pulling ahead, as did Sinfest, while Derelict beat Axe Cop in a squeaker. How will they do this time around? Here are the latest standings!

Cardy Division Infantino Division

Morales Division Plastino Division

Update: Yes, it should be TwoKinds listed in the voting ballot below instead of Power Nap. Just roll with it and vote there instead if you’re so inclined.

Note: There is...

Update: Seeding round is over! Go vote in Round 1 now!

Yes, it’s that time of year again, the time where bracketology reigns supreme and the cry around the nation is “Win or Go Home!” Last year’s Mix March Madness Webcomics Tournament was incredibly popular, and so we’re doing it all over again– and raising money for the Hero Initiative in the process! Find out how…

We’re giving you a list of over 300 webcomics, and we want your votes . We’re taking the top 128 and putting them in a single elimination tournament where we whittle down the contestants down to one. The top 128 vote getters make it into the tournament, with the biggest getting top seeds. The voting ends Thursday, March 13 at 11:59 Pm Edt, and brackets go up on Friday, March 14!

Take a look at the comics for yourself. You’ll see some old favorites, but...

As someone with a major soft spot for Funko products, their booth at Toy Fair 2014 was a standout. The company came with dozens of brand new items including The Walking Dead and Guardians of the Galaxy bobble heads, and Pop! collections for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Ghostbusters, How to Train Your Dragon 2, and more. Mattel showed off new Hot Wheels and Frozen products while Mezco Toyz previewed brand new pieces for Sons of Anarchy and Breaking Bad including a variety of six-inch Walter Whites (Bryan Cranston), a replication of the infamous pink teddy bear, and Jax (Charlie Hunnam) and Clay (Ron Perlman) figurines. Underground Toys had a huge assortment of Doctor Who products while Cryptozoic Entertainment put some of their new trading card series on display. We even caught the Khaleesi trying to sell some dragon eggs (or rather, paperweights) on the convention center floor. We also got a...

The following is a list of all comic books, graphic novels and specialty items that will be available this week and shipped to comic book stores who have placed orders for them.

AC Comics

Crypt Of Horror Volume 20 Tp, $29.95

Antarctic Press

Gold Digger Platinum Volume 6 Tp, $14.99

Archie Comic Publications

Archie #652 (Dan Parent Regular Cover), $2.99

Archie #652 (Stephanie Buscema Retro Concert Poster Variant Cover), $2.99

Fox #4 (David Mack Daddy Variant Cover), $2.99

Fox #4 (Dean Haspiel Regular Cover), $2.99

Sabrina The Teenage Witch The Magic Within Volume 4 Tp, $10.99

Sonic Universe #60 (Tracy Yardley Regular Cover), $2.99

Sonic Universe #60 (Vincent Riley Alien Invasion Variant Cover), $2.99

Avatar Press

Ferals Volume 3 Tp, $19.99

God Is Dead #1 (Jacen Burrows Enhanced Connecting Cover), $3.99

God Is Dead #6 (Jacen Burrows End Of Days Cover), $3.99

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Patton Oswalt is a man of many talents: stand-up comedian, sitcom star, should-have-been Oscar nominee and Twitter god. There are plenty more impressive attributes attached to the former "King of Queens" regular, and 2013 saw many of them on full display. Oswalt appeared in virtually every television show on the air. In addition to his regular slots on Adult Swim's "The Heart She Holler," FX's new animated show "Axe Cop," and narrating every episode of ABC's "The Goldbergs," Oswalt stole episodes as a guest star in the likes of comedies "Brooklyn Nine-Nine," "Portlandia" and, quite memorably, "Parks and Recreation." Oswalt also held his own in the dramatic realm, continuing to prove the accolades he received for "Big Fan" and "Young Adult" were no flukes. He proudly co-starred in Ben Stiller's ambitious interpretation of "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" as an overly involved service representative and made an impressive...

Over for another year, this weekend’s Thought Bubble was the biggest in its short history, and it definitely felt it. While I didn’t attend every panel or get every signature that I wanted to, my days were still jam-packed with awkward fan-worship of idolised writers, wonderful small press discoveries and comfortable reprieves in the plush Bury Theatre in which writers and artists waxed lyrical about their work and industry.

On arriving at New Dock, I and a couple of friends navigated the main hall as best we could, but the first morning of Thought Bubble is always (in my experience) the busiest, and I may have slightly regretted packing my decade-old, ramshackle rucksack to the brim with quite as many comics and trades as it made me something of an obstacle to all beside and behind, especially when we stopped to gawk at a table’s wares.

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On TV this Saturday: Doctor Who‘s anniversary party is surely bigger on the inside, My Little Pony saddles up again, Bill Cosby and Sarah Silverman show the funny, SNL gets Hunger-y and more. Here are 10 programs to keep on your radar.

10 am My Little Pony (The Hub) | One-hour Season 4 premiere: When Princesses Celestria and Luna go missing, Princess Twilight and pals embark on a quest to find them – and wind up battling to save Equestria from being destroyed.

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Nick Offerman auditioned for the role of Wolverine.

The Parks and Recreation star revealed that he read for the role in Bryan Singer's original 2000 X-Men film.

The actor has since gone on to voice the titular character in the animated Axe Cop comic book adaptations.

"You know actually, I auditioned for Wolverine when Bryan Singer made the first X-Men movie," Offerman told Newsarama.

"I went on tape reading for that role. I always felt when I was younger, I could have taken a good crack at Wolverine.

"These days, I love the lead character of The Boys - I'm blanking on the name - Butcher! That's it."

The role of Wolverine went to Hugh Jackman, who will celebrate his eighth appearance as the character in Singer's upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past.

Offerman will be guest-starring in an upcoming episode of The Simpsons.

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On TV this weekend: Scandal‘s Kerry Washington hosts Saturday Night Live, The Mentalist faces off with The Five, Drop Dead Diva‘s finale secret is revealed and Homeland turns the tables. As a supplement to TVLine’s original features (linked within), here are 15 programs to keep on your radar.

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Saturday, November 2

8 pm 2013 Breeder’s Cup (NBC) | The two-day racing event continues from Arcadia, Calif.

8 pm The Preacher’s Mistress (Lifetime) | Sarah Lancaster (Chuck) stars in this telepic as a struggling single mother who unwittingly falls for...

Fox has announced their programming plans for November sweeps. They include episodes of Almost Human, American Dad!, Axe Cop, Bob's Burgers, Bones, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Dads, Family Guy, Glee, Golan the Insatiable, High School USA!, Lucas Bros Moving Co., MasterChef Junior, The Mindy Project, New Girl, Raising Hope, The Simpsons, Sleepy Hollow, and The X Factor.

Here are the details:

Fox Scores In November

Touchdown Television Events Include Two-part Season Finale Of "Masterchef Junior" Nov. 1 And 8; Fall Premiere Of "Animation Domination High-def" Nov. 2; Special Preview Of New "Animation Domination High-def" Series "Lucas Bros. Moving Co." And "Golan The Insatiable" Nov. 23; John Noble Guest-starring On "Sleepy Hollow" Beginning Nov. 4; The Return Of Coach To "New Girl" Nov. 5; "The X Factor" Live Performance Shows Nov. 6, 13, 20 And 27 And Live Results Shows Nov. 7, 14 And 21;...

Nick Offerman continues to redefine his status as a 21st century Renaissance man. The Parks & Recreation star, who just published the book Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living, moonlights as a woodworker, stage actor, touring comedian and, most recently, the voice of a cartoon written by an 8-year-old boy. Axe Cop returns to Fox's Animation Domination High-Def lineup on Nov. 2 after debuting this summer, and the latest batch of episodes should satisfy fans of Offerman's distinctive cadence who've been left out in the cold by Parks & Recreation's unexpected hiatus. (With

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“Simpsons” fans, prepare for celebration: Nick Offerman of the “Axe Cop” and “Parks and Rereation” T.V. series is coming to the longest running American sitcom of all time as a guest!

"I recorded an episode of 'The Simpsons,'” the “We’re the Millers” star said to the A.V. Club today (October 10). “And that was such an incredible life dream for me that I had kind of lost sight of."

“For a couple of decades, I've been ape-s**t about that show, and I thought, 'It would be so amazing to be on that show, but that could never possibly happen,'” he added. “And today it happened, and I was incredibly on cloud nine."

He finished the interview saying, “I called Mike Schur, and I said, 'Once again, I have to thank you. Without your generosity and tenacity in casting me in this job, this would not have happened.

Ken Marino is one of those actors that you may not know you know until you see his face. By now, though, his name should suffice. Marino has popped up in a number of popular television shows like "Veronica Mars," "Dawson's Creek," and "Children's Hospital," as well as writing and co-starring in "Role Models" and "Wanderlust." Many remember him fondly as the sexually forlorn Victor Kulak from "Wet Hot American Summer" or the desperate-to-please lead caterer Ron Donald on "Party Down." More recently, he’s earned acclaim as Mark Orlando on the web series turned Emmy-nominated E! program, "Burning Love."In addition to the animated series "Axe Cop" and the upcoming "Veronica Mars" movie, Marino stars in what will certainly be another memorable role for everyone who sees it. "Bad Milo!" begins as a movie about Duncan (Marino), a man with severe stomach problems related to stress. His boss (Patrick Warburton...

Exclusive: Matt Silverstein and Dave Jeser, executive producers of Fox’s Animation Domination HD series Axe Cop, are expanding their relationship with the network on the live-action side. Fox has given a put pilot commitment to an untitled multi-camera comedy written and executive produced by Silverstein and Jeser and produced by 20th TV. Loosely based on Silverstein and Jeser’s shared childhood experiences, the project centers around brothers from a multi-racial family who, when reunited in their hometown as adults, quickly find that their past as troublemakers (and occasionally a**holes) is about to finally catch up with them. Silverstein and Jeser both grew up in New Jersey and met in high school. They landed their first gig in 1998, writing and producing segments for Comedy Central’s The Man Show. The two went on to create the network’s animated comedy Drawn Together and also have worked on 3rd Rock From The Sun,...

Ken Marino is one of those actors that you may not know you know until you see his face. By now, though, his name should suffice. Marino has popped up in a number of popular television shows like "Veronica Mars," "Dawson's Creek," and "Children's Hospital," as well as writing and co-starring in "Role Models" and "Wanderlust." Many remember him fondly as the sexually forlorn Victor Kulak from "Wet Hot American Summer" or the desperate-to-please lead caterer Ron Donald on "Party Down." More recently, he’s earned acclaim as Mark Orlando on the web series turned Emmy-nominated E! program, "Burning Love."In addition to the animated series "Axe Cop" and the upcoming "Veronica Mars" movie, Marino stars in what will certainly be another memorable role for everyone who sees it. "Bad Milo!" begins as a movie about Duncan (Marino), a man with severe stomach problems related to stress. His boss (Patrick Warburton...

Welcome to Screen Rant’s “Geek Picks,” where we collect the finest movie-related geekery from around the Web. Today you’ll find some Jedi parents; villain portraits; new Axe Cop shirts at WeLoveFine.com; Jurassic Park LEGOs; Zack Galifianakis as Batman; and Daft Punk at the VMAs. All that and more on this edition of Sr’s Geek Picks!

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Fox has ordered six additional 15 minute episodes of both Axe Cop and High School USA!, bringing their season totals to 12 installments each. They currently air late on Saturday nights.

At the TCA Summer Press Tour, Nick Weidenfeld (Fox's head of Animation Domination HD) told The Futon Critic, "I thought to roll out 12 gives us a little more of an anchor... It's also way better for production because we can get invested in those shows... The best part of this process from a production standpoint is that if things start to feel like they're gaining traction while you're making them, you can continue. It's very flexible because all the talent is in-house."

Golan the Insatiable and Lucas Bros. Moving Co. will be joining the Animation Domination HD block in January. Two more new animated shows will premiere next April. Their details will be...

If making an animated series was easy, a child could do it.

Actually, one is involved in the process now ... but that still doesn't mean it's simple, especially if several different shows are combined. That's the approach of "Animation Domination High-Def," a late-night franchise Fox debuts Saturday, July 27. Two of the 15-minute programs will be ready for starters, and Fox will give them preview showings in primetime Sunday, July 21.

"Axe Cop" is the component involving the child, Malachai Nicolle, who's 8 now. At age 5, he developed the premise as an Internet comic book with his much-older brother Ethan. Nick Offerman ("Parks and Recreation") supplies the voice of the sleepless, birthday-cake-consuming title character, with Megan Mullally (Offerman's wife), Patton Oswalt and Ken Marino furnishing other vocals.

Also in the initial "High-Def" lineup is "High School USA!" with singer-actress Mandy Moore and Vincent Kartheiser -- alias Pete Campbell on AMC's "Mad Men" --...

Not many TV shows were specifically designed for the way many of us watch television today—namely, by watching for ten minutes on our iBrains, making GIFs of the best scenes, then flipping to the next show while we fight about the last one on Twitter. But Fox’s new Animation Domination High Def lineup, a late-night block of cartoons that premieres Saturday night, couldn’t be more suited to this kind of short-attention-span theater: the acronym spells out Adhd for a reason. The first two shows in the series, Axe Cop and High School USA!, are flat-screen-ready in all their two-dimensional glory,...

He's a cop with an axe. Parks and Recreation's Nick Offerman will make his highly anticipated debut as Axe Cop, you know, said cop with an axe, this Saturday night when Fox's Animation Domination Hi-Def premieres, and judging from this exclusive preview we got our hands on, it seems like a role he was born to play. (Apologies to Ron Swanson!) Seriously, Offerman says "I'll chop their heads off!" with a little too much enthusiasm and passion, no? Hey, can you really blame him when he's channeling Clint Eastwood's gruff voice?! Watch our sneak peek at the new animated series to see why its creator knows Offerman would be the perfect Axe Cop... "Several friends of mine...