Yearly Archives: 2011
The Day the Internet Collapsed in on Itself Like a Dying Star
When self-referential jokes and Internet memes came together in a Thundercats parody that melted the mind of every single human being on the planet. It was as if everyone on the Internet rose up in one voice and said, “Now.”
The Jean Grey School for Higher Learning
Boy, Wolverine is really going to stick it to Cyclops in the upcoming Regenesis storyline. While Cyclops and his Uncanny X-Men stay behind on Utopia in San Francisco (I think), Wolverine is going to take his team of X-Men back to Westchester to rebuild the old Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters. Only Wolverine isn’t going to name it after Chuck. He’s got a much better name in mind.
The logo is not as nifty as an 'X'
Take that, Cyclops! Wolverine is going to honor your dead wife while you stay in California having sex with Emma Frost. Take that! I like the change. Professor X is still around, as far as I know, but the X-Men series has been great recently about moving forward and coming up with new ideas. There’s absolutely no reason to name the school after Charles Xavier anymore.
The war between Xavier and Magneto is long over. And for that I’m grateful. I wonder if it will now be replaced by the war between Cyclops and Wolverine!
The school looks pretty badass too.
It's probably going to be a bitch to draw, though.
We Will Make the Daffy Duck Metal
I have no idea where this Daffy Duck cartoon came from, but it’s phenomenal! I found it over on Topless Robot. I suppose it could be an epic ad for some new Looney Tunes cartoon, and if it is, then it’s brilliant. It’s a badass metal song about Daffy Duck the wizard, with fire and dragons and an elevator. This is why I created this blog. To share such things with you.
My 6 Favorite Alternate Versions of Superheroes
This is going to be a very geeky list. We’re talking the height of comic book geekery. Maybe some of your non-geeks will learn something. This will hopefully be a silly list too, celebrating the depths of comic book awesomeness. Is everybody familiar with alternate realities? The idea that somewhere out there in existence is an alternate Earth, with alternate versions of us living alternate lives? Well superhero comics love this concept. There are dozens of alternate realities in comics, hundreds even. It’s a favorite of comic writers and fans to create alternate reality versions of famous superheroes.
Like Calvin and Hobbes as Batman and Robin, for example
Click the jump to read six of my favorites!
Tim Drake and the Teen Titans Preview
The new Teen Titans comes out this Wednesday, and the website Bleeding Cool has some preview images. This book is my most hotly anticipated of the new DC revamp because it stars my favorite DC character: Tim Drake. I’m a huge Robin fan, and Tim Drake is my favorite teen to wear the green. Sadly, he’s no longer Robin. Instead, he’s Red Robin! I can live with it. This new series will have Tim gathering together the Teen Titans, and I’m definitely looking forward to what’s in store.
Here’s the preview:
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