https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYzXqrChQ6A Comic book expert? The All Time 10s series turns its attention to Marvel in this video. Prepare yourself for 10 unlikely facts about Marvel. Zombies? Zombies? That one surprises me the most. If they had been successful – how much would it have been worth.
Superhero Week: Big eyed superheroes are oddly cute
Ahmad Kushha is responsible for the sense of “Whaaaat?” currently echoing around in your brain. These big eyed superheroes shouldn’t work and they certainly shouldn’t seem… cute. That’s exactly how some people see them though. This isn’t an anime big eye style of hero, this is something else. Here’s a few more to puzzle over. […]
Superhero Week: Opinion poll of 1000 Brits sees Marvel thrash DC Comics
If you asked 1,000 members of the British public some superhero and comic book questions how would they do? We’re not asking them to get superhero trivia right; we’re asking non-geeks about their favourite superheroes, villains, gadgets and movies. This is exactly what the games team at Ladbrokes did. It’s PR fuel for them. It’s […]
Superhero Week: The 10 most popular superhero cardboard cutouts
It’s Superhero Week and specialist shop SuperheroStuff.com has a 10% sale on. Bonus. Just use the code summer10 to get 10% off your purchase. As it’s Superhero Week lets dig into the data the site provides and investigate the best selling superhero cardboard cutouts. Any surprises here? Wally West as Flash beating the Dark Knight […]
Disney Princesses as brutal Avengers
These pictures come from the talented Christopher Stoll, a young artist based in the US. He’s getting plenty of attention this week for these creations and I hope his daily deviantion tally goes through the roof. In a good way. I’m especially fond of Pocahontas as Captain America. Mulan as Hawkeye Jasmine as Iron Man […]
Superheroes in noir posters
Noir isn’t always to everyone’s tastes. It can be bleak although that can be part of the attraction. These posters from Marko Manev certainly don’t seem bleak. They’re carefully understated, they hint at huge scenes and power yet to be unleashed. These may be some of the most familar superheroes known to the web but […]
Iconic geek characters given Game of Thrones banners
We’ve seen plenty of Game of Thrones banners, even cute ones, so it little surprise the style has been exported to some of our other favourite geeky characters. These are the creation of Miguel Lokia from Brazil.
Heroes United trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-FmBJpycIQ This is a quirky combination but it’ll probably work: Hulk and Iron Man. The two team up in Marvel’s Iron Man & Hulk: Heroes United. It’s an original animated movie from Marvel due out in April 2013. Hulk and Iron Man go head to head against Zzzax, Abomination, Wendigos and others after HYDRA scientists […]
Planet Hulk: Tear of the Green Scar
Once and a while Jeffrey Thomas shares some of his fantastic art on his blog. It’s worth subscribing to watch. This week he’s drawn a fantastic illustration based on the Planet Hulk series. Green Scar is the name the Hulk is known by in the planet Sakaar. He ends up there after powers on Earth […]
The Justice League and The Avengers as chambara samurai
The word “Chambara” is used to describe a genre of movies in Japan with the focus on sword fighting. They’re very often samurai peroid pieces set somewhere between 1600 and 1868. Talented deviant artist Alex Mitchell must have wondered what some of America’s most famous superheroes; the Justice League and The Avengers would look like […]
