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Christian Bale in 'The Dark Knight'Christopher Nolan is no fun. Sure he and his crack team have created the best superhero movie of all-time, and a second that comes amazingly close to the other's brilliance (and I'll leave you to figure out which is which). And, sure, he did it all while revitalizing the Caped Crusader, making him important and exciting again after decades of irrelevance.

But would it kill him to expand his horizons a little bit?

We kid, of course, cause it's hard to imagine the Batman property in any better hands. But with "The Incredible Hulk" and "Iron Man," rival Marvel has proved that nothing is as cool as cross-pollinating supers. So if Nolan were to change his mind about opening up the DC library a little, who could make a cameo appearance in "Batman 3"? We took a look at the comic characters in other DC titles that would best fit in Nolan's expanding universe. Read More...

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Heath Ledger as the Joker in 'The Dark Knight'The legend surrounding Heath Ledger's Joker is already growing at a staggering rate, with some even calling it the best villain of all-time. But given Ledger's untimely demise earlier this year, could it possibly be the last we'll see of the Joker on the big-screen for a long, long time?

Absolutely not, insisted "Batman Begins" and "The Dark Knight" scribe David Goyer, who already has plans to bring the Joker back to the big-screen, and soon. Just not in "Batman 3."

"His name is a throwaway. He's on a cell," Goyer said of the Joker's appearance in "Super Max," the Green Arrow movie he's written which takes place at a penitentiary for super villains in the DC Universe. "You don't actually see him, just his name on a cell. It's a real Easter Egg. That's one cross-pollination we would stay away from [doing more with]." Read More...

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Cover Artist

Splash Page welcomes Ed Tadem to our cover artist family (our custom-designed theme up top). Currently working on the forthcoming "Avengers" animated series, Tadem's work can also be seen in the "Jackie Karma" issues of Image's "'76," and in "Pop Gun, Volume 1." Ed Tadem can be found online at EdTadem.com.