Tag Archive | "Wonder Woman"

Superheroes promote breast cancer awareness

Thursday, December 15, 2011

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BoingBoing reports that comics superheroines are being used by the advertising firm DDB for Associação da Luta Contra o Cancer in Mozambique as part of a breast cancer awareness programme, with the well-endowed superwomen administering a self-check for lumps which could indicate possible breast cancer. Obviously anything that encourages more awareness of any form of [...]

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Amazonians, Classical myth, horse’s heads – new Wonder Woman

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

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Wonder Woman #1 Brian Azzarello, Cliff Chiang DC Comics The new skyscraper skyline of Shanghai is our opening scene as a rich businessman on a penthouse balcony plies three attractive women with drink and impresses them with his pedigree, telling them he is the son of a king. Actually he tells them he is the [...]

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Oli Does Wonder Woman….

Monday, September 26, 2011

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(…. or maybe that’s just wishful thinking on his part?). After his first Justice League review Oli East, the creator of Trains Are … Mint returns a week late for week 3 of the new DC. Welcome to his world…. Hey, so I write three of south Manchester’s best selling nature comics (fourth to come [...]

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Dave Stevens Sketchbook

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

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Just out among today’s batch of new releases is the Dave Stevens Complete Sketchbook Collection from IDW, a handsome hardback collection of some quite lovely work from the much-missed Stevens’ convention sketchbooks. Obviously his Rocketeer and Bettie Page work is well known and loved (rightly so), but on leafing through some of the work this [...]

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Empowered on that Wonder Woman costume

Monday, June 13, 2011

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I totally missed this until the other night, but Adam Warren had his naughty but huge fun Empowered, a superheroine who has had more than a few issues with her own super suit, commenting on some of the criticism levelled at the first shots of the costume for the proposed Wonder Woman television show starring [...]

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She’s a wonder…

Thursday, October 7, 2010

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Comics Period’s Dominique Agri cast her eye over another icon of female superherodom, Wonder Woman; I notice this was actually made before the Birds of Prey videocast I mentioned yesterday, although I don’t think that creates any problem. I did notice, though, that someone left a rather nasty comment on her Vimeo page regarding her [...]

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More wonderful Wonder Women……

Sunday, July 11, 2010

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Following on from last week’s fuss over Wonder Woman getting a new costume, here’s a couple of gorgeous images….. Left: John Allison’s wonderful trad Wonder Woman. One of these days I really must get around to ordering everything he’s got available. It’s a huge crime that I’ve not read that much by one of the most [...]

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Wonder Woman gets a new costume, Internet explodes…..

Saturday, July 3, 2010

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Or was that just my take on it? Earlier this week DC (via The New York Times) unveiled a new costume for Wonder Woman, designed by Jim Lee and premiering in Wonder Woman 600 out last week. Quite a lot of people don’t like it. And an awful lot of them have gone online to [...]

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Nitpicky – a Justice League short!

Thursday, June 17, 2010

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Okay, we may be quite a long way off an eventual JLA movie, but meantime Vinh Nguyen and friends have a (Robot Chicken/Adam & Joe Show inspired) short animated Justice League flick to keep you going and, great Hera, some diabolical fiend has zapped Power Girl and Wonder Woman with a shrinking ray! Nitpicky – [...]

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BBWW – That’s Big Beautiful Wonder Woman

Sunday, May 23, 2010

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The Big Beautiful Wonder Woman Blog. Some ridiculous, some just veering a little towards the letchy, but there’s a lot of really nice pics over there…..(Via Comic Alliance) (On the left: Meng, on the right: Becca Whitaker)

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Doug Wright Awards Charity Artworks….

Saturday, May 15, 2010

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A lovely set of artworks sold to benefit charity over at the Flickrstream of the Doug Wright Awards. You could have had this gorgeous Seth Dr Fate for just $1450.79 Canadian – bargain! And amongst all the other great works there’s a Kate Beaton Wonder Woman, which gives me the flimsiest of excuses to remind [...]

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Grant Morrison & Clive Barker in conversation

Saturday, August 22, 2009

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(Grant Morrison (left) and Clive Barker (right) in conversation at Meltdown Comics. Image from the Meltdown site.) A recent discussion between Clive Barker and Grant Morrison at Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles July 1st 2009 has been posted with both video footage and a full transcript of the entire 3/4 hour event. It goes through [...]

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