A poster of Barack Obama, modified to "echo" the Joker from the Dark Knight movie, has started to appear in Los Angeles. To this point, no one has taken credit for the poster.

As anticipated based on his Golden Globe Award win, Heath Ledger was posthumously made a 2009 Oscar nominee as Best Supporting Actor for his work in The Dark Knight. Ironically, it was on the one-year anniversary of his death.

Eartha Kitt, a singer, dancer and actress who became famous for her "sex kitten" purr, has died of colon cancer, according to a family friend. She was 81.

Unlike many of my friends, as a kid, I tended to read DC Comics, rather than Marvel Comics. Why? One of my favorite characters was Green Lantern (GL). Despite the fact that, at the time, Marvel Comics stressed topical issues and angst among its publications, the DC Universe still grabbed me because of GL, The Flash, Superman and The Batman.