"NC - Nudity has been Covered up.
JG - Jean Grey dies, again."

"Berry was named worst actress of 2004 by the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation for her performance in "Catwoman" and she showed up to accept her "Razzie" carrying the Oscar she won in 2002 for "Monster's Ball."

"I want to thank Warner Brothers for casting me in this piece of shit," she said as she dragged her agent on stage and warned him "next time read the script first."

"The Department of Homeland Security has named Claria [formerly Gator - DN], an adware maker that online publishers once dubbed a "parasite," to a federal privacy advisory board.

In the past, Claria's pop-up ad software has riled some users who claimed it was annoying, installed without permission, and not easy to delete. Publishers also were irked about pop-up ads for a rival's product appearing next to their own Web sites.

In February 2003, Gator settled a high-profile case brought by The Washington Post, The New York Times, Dow Jones and other media companies. Terms of that deal were quiet, but Claria appears to have stopped delivering pop-ups to those publishers' sites."

"LOS ANGELES - Authorities shot and killed a male tiger Wednesday that had been roaming the hills near the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. The 425-pound cat was shot several hundred yards from soccer and baseball fields at the edge of a housing development, said Lorna Bernard, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Fish and Game."

"DON SIMPSON: I am not arguing that the entire comics medium is "meant" for only a particular age range. I am arguing that most comic books today are of interest only to a particular age range (superheroes for roughly ages 10-15, "art comics" roughly for 17-22). Quibble about those numbers if you like, but the fact is there is very little material in comics form that is of interest to an adult.

Recognizing that the overwhelming majority of adults ignore comics as a serious art form, and that thirty years of the "art comics" movement has done little to change their mind, is a reality we need to confront if we hope to change that reality. I am not concluding that comics are therefore doomed to being only "toss-away garbage."

We need to understand what adults are getting from all those museums, novels, plays, films and other forms of art and culture -- and not from comics -- if we hope to rise above the perception of comics as "toss-away garbage."

3. Publishers: Allow corporate-owned characters who have become creatively bankrupt through mis-handling to lay fallow for a few years. There's no reason at all why Green Lantern, Iron Man, Thor, or most other second-tier characters must be published month-in and month-out. Wait until a creator or creators have solid, original ideas with which to stage a true revival rather than a lame renumbering.

10. Creators: At all stages of the creative process, seek out the opinions and evaluations of people whose tastes and critical faculties you trust implicitly. Ask them to be brutally honest in judging your work, and accept that there is at least a grain of truth in everything they tell you, and likely a lot more than a grain.

11. Readers: Do not continue to buy and support comics that do anything less than dazzle you with their ingenuity, their quality storytelling, and their elegance of purpose and design. The only reason any publisher can continue to produce bad comics is because people buy them. Just stop.

"SARBAGH, Iran - A powerful earthquake toppled mud-built homes and flattened villages in central Iran on Tuesday, killing at least 270 people and injuring 950, officials and state-run television said. A senior official said the death toll could top 350."