Mic.com reports, “Activists in San Francisco have taken on Islamophobia in their communities, defacing racist bus ads with [positive] messages inspired by [Marvel's] Muslim superhero.”
Unsurprisingly, Ms. Marvel’s creator thinks it’s awesome, too!
“TIL that in Star Wars Tales #19 Han Solo travels through time and crashes on Earth. Han is killed in an attack by Natives, but Chewbacca lives and becomes the Sasquatch. 126 years later, Indiana Jones is tracking down the Sasquatch only to find the crashed Millennium Falcon and the body of Han Solo.” - Skweres88
The comic being referred to is Into the Great Unknown by W. Haden Blackman and Sean Murphy, and it’s a delight. Click here to read.
Next year’s X-Men: Apocalypse will feature teenage versions of Jean Grey, Cyclops, and Storm. Director Bryan Singer just announced via Twitter who will be playing them: Sophie Turner (Game of Thrones) as Jean Grey, Alexandra Shipp (Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B) as Storm and Tye Sheridan (Tree of Life) as Cyclops. Click through for full size pics. Continue reading
I love this sketch. Burton drew it as a gift for Batman’s production designer, the late, great Anton Furst. Look at those feet! (Via.)
Image via vintagegal.
Harley Quinn Tights - $11 on Amazon!!! (Via.)
This marvelous mash-up comes courtesy of Jay Fosgitt, the artist on such comic books as Bodie Troll and My Little Pony: Friends Forever. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I do believe we’re looking at the Guardians of the Galaxy versions of Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm (circa The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show), Mutley, Captain Caveman and Grape Ape. Pretty clever — and cute!
Beast Kingdom’s Iron Man Mk. II model is 2015′s toy to beat. It actually floats over its base via electromagnets! How cool is that?
Iron Man fans with Stark-sized wallets can pre-order the Mk. II at Hobby Link Japan. The price? A whopping $134! For more info, click here.
Click to enlarge. (Via: KookyGuy)
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Amazon.com: Order Guardians of the Galaxy and save 50%
Silver Surfer body art by crisalex, based on the artwork of Ron Lim. Via.
Bat-Santa mask - avail. on Amazon.
Marvel.com reports, “[Benedict Cumberbatch] will star in Marvel’s Doctor Strange, scheduled to hit theaters November 4, 2016. The film, directed by Scott Derrickson with Jon Spaihts writing the screenplay, will follow the story of neurosurgeon Doctor Stephen Strange who, after a horrific car accident, discovers the hidden world of magic and alternate dimensions.”
Illustration by Jenny Harder
Created by witchcraftywolfen.
Title and pic via Fangirl Intensifies.
There is nothing I do not love about this. Via.
Character posters for Shinji Higuchi’s upcoming live-action adaptation of Attack on Titan hit the net today, and they look GREAT. Click through to view the lot of ‘em.
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Sculpted by Paul Harding, available July 2015. (x)
There are two (semi-valid) reasons why I’m keeping one of these Iron Man Wearable Sleeping Bags in the trunk of my car.
Original sketch available for purchase at DrSeussArt.com.
Amazon has selected its Top 20 Comics and Graphic Novels of 2014. Click through to compare your picks with those of the online behemoth. Continue reading
Marvel Comics Senior VP, CB Cebulski, has announced that the Avengers will be fighting Attack on Titans‘ titular titans in a Japanese comic book later this month.
Cebulski described the genesis of this unexpected crossover via his Twitter feed, saying, “I loved Marvel Team-Up and What If? as a kid. I would spend hours dreaming up my own crossovers & alternate reality stories. As I got more into manga, I always imagined how cool it would be for the Marvel characters to cross into the pages of manga worlds. If you ever wondered, ‘What if the titans from Hajime Isayama’s Attack on Titan attacked the Marvel universe?’ you’ll find out soon!”
Comic by hope-for-snow.
Masashi Kishimoto’s ninja manga, Naruto, will end its serialization on November 10. Naruto is one of the best-selling manga series of all time, having sold more than 130 million copies — in Japan alone! Naruto started its serialization in 1999, and has published 70 ‘tankobon’ volumes so far.
For more info, click here.
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Wait! Don’t leave! My crappily crafted pun may be bogus, but phuwadon thongnoum‘s super-stylish Dragonball Z GIFs are GREAT. Click here to see the rest of ‘em.
The killing of Thomas and Martha Wayne may be the most filmed murder of all time. Vulture has put together a short video showing all of these killings occurring side by side, simultaneously. I only hope that Bruce Wayne doesn’t stumble across this while working at the Bat-Computer today.
“A comic strip artist will end up drawing the same characters so many thousands of times, that you’d figure they could draw them with their eyes closed. But could they really? In 1947, Life magazine decided to find out by challenging 10 contemporary comic strip artists to do just that – draw their characters with their eyes closed.” - Bored Panda
To see the results, click here.
Avoid similar regrets. (Via.)
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“Why would the guy who thought Superman was a bird feel like he had to yell to everyone on the block about it?” - 13langee
(Editor’s note: I’ve always held a grudge against the “It’s a plane!” guy. He’s so quick to correct the first guy, yet he’s totally wrong, too!)
…But what about the bat-symbol appearing in a child’s smile? Surely this is the work of the nefarious Joker!
Photo via: cptnblck
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a highly hypnotic Superman GIF by Robin Dave!
The Groots by Ali Graham. PERFECT!
Did you know that Hayao Miyazaki wrote an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT version of Princess Mononoke back in 1980? S’true! Continue reading
Art by Mark Henry Bustamante
The Tracking Board is reporting that Gus Van Sant will direct Warner Bros.’ adaptation of Death Note, the starts amazing/ends atrocious manga written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata.
While Van Sant would NEVER have appeared on my mental list of directors a major studio would hire to direct a manga adaptation, I’m delighted by how potentially perfect this pairing is. Anyone who has seen Van Sant’s Drugstore Cowboy, My Own Private Idaho, To Die For, Elephant or Paranoid Park knows how skilled he is at bringing nuanced portrayals of the teen angst, anger and confusion to the silver screen. I’m really looking forward to this!
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Dynamite Entertainment and DC Comics are going to co-publish a comic where Django meets Zorro. The book will be co-plotted by Quentin Tarantino and Matt Wagner (Mage). Apparently, Tarantino considers this comic as an official sequel to Django Unchained. Via.
When one great cartoonist draws another great cartoonist, trees everywhere kill themselves in hopes of one day becoming paper.
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There is nothing I do not love about this costume.
Photo by Milhouse is a meme.
Navigate your way through Ghost Rider’s flaming skull while simultaneously using the experience as a four-color metaphor for the never-ending struggle to transcend the hell inside your own head. Great for long car trips!
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Xum Yukinori’s update of John Byrne and Terry Austin’s iconic cover for Uncanny X-Men # 141 does a pretty accurate job of explaining why your favorite superhero cartoons got cancelled. “Too Smart.” “Too fun.” Too true! For the full image, click through.
Graphic goodness by Khoa Ho.
“The sexy bedroom eyes on this Aquaman action figure make me very uncomfortable.” - rawlingstones
It’s funny cuz it’s cruel. I mean, TRUE. It’s funny cuz it’s true.
Super-deformed Cap via: ultraculture
Er…weren’t most of these characters created by Jewish folks?
Photo via arcaneimages
Bleeding Cool created a list of comic books published in the last 30 years that are currently selling for over $300. How many do you own? Cross your fingers and click over.
Animation giant Bruce Timm once auditioned to draw a Star Wars comic. He failed to get the gig. Still, looking at Timm’s recently unearthed sample pages, I can’t help but wonder: Howzabout a Star Wars: The Animated Series?
To see the rest of Timm’s Star Wars art, click here.
For a larger pic and the names of each and every one of these tiny totems of justice, click here.
Way, way back in 1974, Charles Schulz, Jack Kirby and Russell Myers got together to create an action-packed piece for the San Diego Comicon program booklet. Forty years later, we’re still admiring it. (Via.)
Not creepy at all. I just hope this photo never gets back to her Black Butler Body Pillow. SCANDAL!
Jamie Chung (Mulan in Once Upon A Time) will voice the character of Go Go Tomago in Disney/Marvel’s upcoming animated film, Big Hero 6.
In the first Avengers movie, the Hulk spoke only one line of dialogue: “Puny God.” That line was provided by actor Mark Ruffalo. But did you know that all of the other grunts and roars were made by the original TV Hulk, Lou Ferrigno?
S’true!
What’s more, while at WonderCon, Ferrigno told Nuke The Fridge that he will be doing the voice-over work for the Hulk in Avengers: Age Of Ultron (May 1, 2015). How cool is that?
We’ve known for a while now that Guillermo del Toro is directing the pilot for a live-action HBO series based on Naoki Urasawa’s amazing manga, Monster. Pretty cool, right? Well, it gets better. Crazy hunter recently revealed that producer Stephen Thompson (Doctor Who and Sherlock) is writing the pilot!
This is like one of those heist movies where they hire the best thieves from around the globe to pull off some incredible caper. Only, instead of thieves it’s geeks, and instead of a caper it’s a TV series about a fugitive brain surgeon’s hunt for the ruthless killer whose life he once saved. So yeah, same thing.
“There should be a Wonder Woman movie. I don’t care if they make 20 bucks, if there’s a movie you’re gonna lose money on, make it Wonder Woman. You know what I mean, ’cause little girls deserve that.”
- Anthony Mackie (a.k.a. The Falcon in Captain America: Winter Soldier) in an interview with Geek Dad.
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Using non-stop action and next-to-no dialogue, this brief clip reacquaints viewers with Iceman, Colossus and Kitty Pryde, while simultaneously introducing us to FOUR new mutants — Warpath, Blink, Sunspot and Bishop. Exciting stuff! I am so looking forward to this flick!
Alex Ross’ cover for Life With Archie #37.
Via: Work hard. Render fast. And breathe.
Available for weddings, proms and classy crime-fighting. Via.
Shimoku Kio’s Genshiken is one of my all-time favorite comedy comics. It’s like a Robert Altman remake of The Breakfast Club, only instead of high school students in Saturday detention, it’s about college kids in an extracurricular otaku club.
Genshiken‘s large cast of characters comprises pretty much every factor of nerdom, from the geek chic to the geek elite to those unapologetically un-hip nerds who take pride in their outsider status. Reading their rambling conversations about comics, cartoons, cosplay and love (lots and LOTS about love!) is often as hilarious as it is cringe-worthy. Hilarious, because most comics/cartoons fans have had similar discussions. Cringe-worthy, because…do I really sound like that?! Continue reading
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The only thing more confusing than comics continuity is comics film rights. For those of you still scratching your heads as to why there’s no Spider-Man in the Marvel Movie-verse, here’s a nice visual guide explaining which movie studio owns which Marvel characters.
Since the Silver Surfer’s inception in 1966, the character has been an outlet for countless authors’ overwrought, over-written, middle-aged angst.
But is it any wonder why?
Unlike most of Marvel’s menagerie, the Silver Surfer isn’t a fast-talking teenager or a testosterone fueled he-man. He’s an intellectual alien prone to alliterate elegies and impassioned pleas for peace. If you’re a corporate comics writer with a flash drive full of unpublished poetry, you couldn’t ask for a better mouthpiece.
Scott Pilgrim creator Bryan Lee O’Malley has a new, 328-page hardcover graphic novel coming out — Seconds.
To read O’Malley’s description of the plot, click through… Continue reading
Cartoon Network and IDW are planning a HUMUNGOUS comic book crossover event for this summer — the Super Secret Crisis War!
Calvin And Hobbes creator Bill Watterson has released his first published cartoon in eighteen years, and it’s a documentary film poster! The documentary, Stripped, is a described as a “love letter to comic strips,” and includes interviews with such funny page luminaries as Bill Griffith, Richard Thompson and, yes, Bill Watterson.
Most websites publish these lists in December.
The more meticulous sites will wait until January so they don’t miss any eligible entries.
But the lazy writers? The uninspired sites? Those layabout louts lacking any real writing goals and/or an online endgame? They plop one out on the last day of February, secretly seeking solace in the fact that ‘at least they didn’t wait ’til March.’
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