Tag Archive | "superheroes"

Capes and Culture

Friday, September 9, 2011

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Today we have a fascinating article for you from our newest guest, Colin Smith. I imagine quite a few of you will be familiar with Colin’s very fine blog Too Busy Thinking About My Comics, where he regularly posts some very erudite pieces musing on the medium. I’m delighted to welcome Colin here with his [...]

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Action Comics and Swamp Thing rebooted: Andrea’s take

Friday, September 9, 2011

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Andrea Pirie of the Leeds FPI store is diving head first into the brightly coloured superhero pool of DC’s huge New 52 reboot, today sharing her thoughts on the first issues of the re-imagined Action Comics and Swamp Thing (spoiler warning!): There were 13 new issue 1’s from DC this week and as I quite [...]

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Superhero senior moments

Monday, September 5, 2011

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I do like these – Swedish artist Andreas Englund has fun creating a set of canvases depicting superheroes who are getting on a bit in years… (via IO9, in turn via Empty Kingdom)

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Garden Gnome superheroes!

Monday, July 11, 2011

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Forget that Gnomeo and Juliet, these are the gnomes you really want for your garden! Papier Boy on Instructables has a neat tutorial on how he took some shop-bought gnomes and then modded them into his own superhero gnomes like Batgnome, Rob-Gnome and Spidergnome! Brilliant! Well, okay, more brilliant than normal garden gnomes, which to [...]

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Rubbish superheroes

Thursday, July 7, 2011

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B3TA‘s users offer us up their own selection of rubbish superheroes! Why hasn’t Doc Ock used this supervillainous hi-tech device to deal with Spidey, eh? (this one comes from B3TA user Mr Eraserhead) (Ysol brings the world the awesome Captain Stopcock!) (The Twisted Omentum gives us the latest twist in the long-running Judge Dredd series)

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Superheroes – Picasso style

Friday, November 5, 2010

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It’s the superheroes we’ve known and loved for decades, but influenced by the stylings of one of the 20th century’s most famous artists – yes, it’s Picasso style superheroes by Mike and Matt, the Wonderbros – their selling the portraits on their Etsy store, alongside their zombie Beatles (via Blastr and High Definite)

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Supercake!

Saturday, October 16, 2010

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It’s a superhero supercake of many characters! Superyummy! Looks like a mix of DC and Marvel characters; this is the kind of comics crossover I like. Mind you the Batman on the top seems to have a distinctly jaundiced complexion – perhaps he’s the Batman from the parallel Simpsons version of the world. (via Geek [...]

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Tibetan superheroes

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

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Tibetan artist Gade, a founding member of the Gedun Choephel Artists’ Guild and lecturer at Tibet University, has created some amazing artworks, re-imagining some classic, iconic Western comics figures such as Spider-Man and the Hulk in a traditional Tibetan style, offering up a somewhat different take on well-known characters. I’m not sure about the Hulk [...]

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Lavie Tidhar’s Funny Pages

Friday, December 18, 2009

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One of the short stories I’ve been enjoying in the current issue of the always-excellent Interzone (issue #225, in stores now) is from Lavie Tidhar, Funny Pages, a fab short tale set in Israel with a group of superheroes fighting endlessly with their foes. Considering the brief span of the story Lavie conjures up a [...]

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The Misfits walk among us

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

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Channel 4′s digital channel E4 will be launching Misfits on Thursday 12th of November at 10pm. No, its not based around the life and times of the cult punk band (extra street cred points to you if you got that reference), its a new superhero series, with a group of youngsters who have all gained [...]

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The Atomic Age and superpowers

Monday, November 2, 2009

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On Boing Boing Maggie Koerth-Baker takes the genre staple of the radiation accident which, rather than causing either instant death at best or a slow, lingering, dreadfully painful death at worst, gives the victim superhuman powers, be it Bruce Banner being exposed to gamma rays, Peter Parker bitten by a radioactive spider or the spoof [...]

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Real life actors as comics characters

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

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El Pais had five actors from Spain made up especially as real life versions of well known comics characters, including Popeye, Tintin, Batman/Bruce Wayne, Flash Gordon (although he appeared to be in the 80s movie costume rather than comic style) and a disturbingly cute girly ‘Donald Duck’ (just go and look and see what I [...]

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Which superhero would you be?

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

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As mentioned the other day Kevin F Sutherland is in Edinburgh holding comics masterclasses (see here) and also taking part in the Fringe with the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre; here’s a wee clip of them in action, asking which super power they’d like to receive in the time honoured genre tradition of a dreadful [...]

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Capes at the Fringe

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

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The planet’s biggest arts festival is kicking off in Edinburgh this month and among the huge array of plays, stand-up performances and shows of just about every conceivable type there is also superhero-themed stage antics; Super Situation starts with preview shows (at a bargain rate) this very day in the Bongo Club and runs throughout [...]

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