Pop links: Kevin Conroy returns to Batman! Jeff Jones art! Beatles psychedelic soul cover! Opie meets Lovecraft! Bad times befall Rhino Records!

Voice actor Kevin Conroy talks about his return to the role of the Caped Crusader for DC's straight-to-DVD "Superman/Batman: Public Enemies" movie.



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Check out some very early work by comics artist Jeff Jones.



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Hear a super groovy cover of the Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows."



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Director Ron Howard plans a big screen adaptation of Image Comics' "The Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft."

"It very cleverly uses H.P. Lovecraft in a fictional way, but there's some loose biographical elements. But it certainly has the flavor and the tone of Lovecraft," Howard told me during an interview for an upcoming story on a different topic. "The character is a very young Lovecraft."

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Oh man, things don't sound good for Rhino Records:

In the latest indication of the shrinking market for compact discs, Warner Music Group's catalog arm Rhino Records laid off between 30 and 40 staffers on Thursday.

Job losses came in all departments, including A&R, marketing, promotion and publicity.