Category Archives: Cartoons
6 Silly Armored Superhero Costumes
The one constant in the world of superheroes is the colorful costume. Tights, spandex, latex, long johns, leather, pajamas; all superheroes play dress up when it comes to fighting crime. It’s just more fun that way. But in the real world, everybody knows that a big, muscular guy in spandex just looks silly. If a real world Batman was just wearing a pair of gray tights, he’d be no more threatening than a ballerina. Why do you think the movies put Batman in a specialized suit of black armor, or the X-Men wear black leather?
Tights and spandex costumes just aren’t cool, no matter how good they might look when drawn.
Paper, though, always looks good
Which is why, throughout the history of comics, creators have often tried to upgrade a superhero’s costume to make it look more badass. For some reason, this meant changing from spandex to armor, with heavy layers of complicated plating and protection. Yet no matter how good the creators’ intentions, somehow these upgrades looked even worse! These armor costumes were running rampant in the 90s, and in hindsight, everybody agrees that they looked ridiculous. Superheroes have gone back to tight spandex ever since.
I thought I’d share with everybody some of the more ridiculous armored costume changes in comic book history.
Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman Ain’t the Only Superheroes in Town
Who knew superheroes could be so self-conscious? But even the likes of Aquaman and Plastic Man deserve some time in the spotlight, right? Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman just hog it all. They’re not Super Friends at all, more like Super Jerks! This MAD cartoon parody is simply splendiforous! The superheroes of the DC Universe can really put on a good song and dance when they’re properly motivated.
Kingdom Hearts Could Learn a Thing or Two from This Girl
One of my favorite things to talk about on this blog is Internet creativity. I may not have much myself, but there are people out there who do amazing works of art, or videos, or song parodies or whatever else. I randomly stumbled upon this Disney Dressphere Project by artist Alli White. These pictures are delightfully fun. They’re Disney Princesses drawn like Final Fantasy characters, specifically from Final Fantasy X-2, which starred three female protagonists and involved the ‘dressphere’, which was about them changing costumes to gain different power sets.
But I still think they work wonderfully as just general Final Fantasy costumes. And they’d be perfect for Kingdom Hearts, the video game series that already combines Disney and Final Fantasy characters.
New Avengers Cartoon Trailer!
As if I haven’t posted enough Avengers trailers over the past few months, we’ve got a new one – but this trailer is for the cartoon The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes! Season 2 is right around the corner!
The cartoon is a blast. It seems loosely based on the various movie versions of the characters, while adding a ton of comic-related stories and villains. It stars Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Wasp, Hawkeye, Black Panther and Ant-Man. It’s made by the sort of writers who like to seed their stories early, then let them play out.
For example, the villainous Ultron was something of a background character (and even a temporary Avenger!) before he eventually became the big bad at the end of the first season.
This new trailer is rather exciting. I see teases for the Vision, Red Hulk, the Fantastic Four, Doctor Doom, Ms. Marvel, the Kree, the Skrulls and basically just a whole lot of awesome, comic book jibba jabba! I know I’ll be tuning in.
CGI Green Lantern No Longer Looks Like Crap
Instead, it looks like an exciting cartoon series that will feature multiple aspects of the various multi-colored Lantern Corps. This clip came out of Wondercon this weekend, and not only does it feature Hal Jordon doing his Green Lantern thing, but we’ve got Red Lanterns, Star Sapphires and Saint Walker of the Blue Lantern Corps.
Oh man oh man, does Saint Walker look absolutely zen-badass!
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