Category Archives: This Wins the Internet
Artist Kate Beaton Preempts the Cloak and Dagger TV Show
When you’re an Internet writer like me, you’ve got to be able to find pictures to go along with your stories to make the article more interesting to look at. So when a Cloak and Dagger TV show as announced last week, everyone on the Internet suddenly had to find some pictures of Cloak and Dagger to make their article pop. This revealed a rather startling fact to artist and genius Kate Beaton.
Behold, Kate Beaton’s mighty takedown of Cloak and Dagger. Slightly NSFW.
Hopefully the fine folks at Freeform are paying attention. It shouldn’t be too hard to head this off at the pass.
By the way, I’m aware of the irony of writing about finding pictures for an article and then not actually doing it, so don’t bother pointing that out.
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The Aaahh!! Real Monsters/Pokemon Mash-Up of Our Dreams!
This is a cartoon that could only exist on this Internet that we know and love. And no, it’s not an April Fools Day prank. This isn’t going to be real. It’s just a fun bit of animation.
All kudos go to Brian Bear for this amazingly well done video. This is quality craftsmanship and dedication all around.
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Hawkeye Fan Film is So On Target
I gladly maintain that the Hawkeye series by Matt Fraction and David Aja is the comic book of the decade. It’s groundbreaking in its portrayal of ‘people first, superheroes second’. So why not celebrate with this awesome fan film based on the comic?
The fine folks at One Riot One Ranger Productions really name the look, feel and comedic elements of Hawkeye. I raise my bow and arrow to them!
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Batlexander Manilton is More Proof That the Internet is Amazing
The musical Hamilton continues to invade pop culture with song parodies, and they’re so good that I really want to see this musical somehow. But considering I can’t afford Broadway, that’s not about to happen anytime soon. Still, here’s Batlexander Manilton!
We have the geniuses at Turtle Cameron to thank for today’s opening musical.
And speaking of Batman, I’m going to try and get my review of Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice posted this afternoon!
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A New Comic Book Cartoon Youtube Show Enters Our Lives
Behold the work of Noah Sterling, a comics fan who has taken to animation and Youtube to explain complex and awesome comic book stories in simple form! He’s funny and the work is quality. Here’s his take on Civil War.
Unfortunately, according to his Youtube channel, his videos have been taken down — so watch that one while you can. Sterling explains in a short bit that he works for Marvel, but the videos were his own little project. The popularity of his Civil War video outed his project to Marvel, and they asked him to take down the unlicensed work. Makes sense. But he says he’s going to do some other comics, so we’ll see where things go. Still, fun video.
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