News & Notes

I've been slack about these lately, so here's a whole bunch of links:

• Christian Bale isn't saying anything about when Batman 3 will come out:
  

  I’ve learned that I do not answer that question until (director) Chris Nolan has answered that question.



• Pop counts down the 25 coolest villains in comics.


• IGN goes a little further, ranking the top 100 comic villains (warning: it's annoying to flip through them one at a time, and they haven't gotten to the top 20 yet).


• Kevin Smith will be making another Batman comic. I'm not sure this is good news, since I didn't like his Cacophony. MTV has some more details.


• Io9 and MTV both look at upcoming episodes of Batman: The Brave and the Bold cartoon.


• Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman costume from Batman Returns brought in over $8,000 at auction.


• Lunch Bag Art asks who would win in a fight: Batman or Darth Vader?


• The LA Times ranks The Top 10 vintage Batman toys.


• The Weekly Crisis discusses some "legacy" characters who have passed their titles to others, and have recently or may soon revert to the classic versions, including Batgirl.

And there's still time to vote in the last of the Catwoman polls, and sorry again for the lousy options in this one.