Cool sign someone made depicting a Batman and Robin Rescue zone. I don’t know if it’s a real sign or just a photoshop someone made, but it’s still pretty cool. You can find the original art work here.
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Thursday, August 27th, 2009Superhero Picture Of The Day – JG Jones’ Supergirl!
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009This is absolutely, hands down, the best friggin’ Supergirl image EVAAH!
JG Jones' Final Crisis Supergirl
Some people (chicks with an attitude) pan this image and whine about how “terrified moron, an out-of-her-depth female, cowering in fear.” But they are simply wrong, wrong WRONG!
This is a pure work of art. I haven’t been exposed to much of Jones’ art work, but this beauty is fantastic on so many levels. “Where did it come from,” you ask? It came from Final Crisis in 2008. Here is a portion of the Newsarama interview with Jones.
Newsarama Interviews JG Jones
I love that he molded Supergirl as the penultimate 17 year old girl. The first thing I thought when I saw this image was, “WOAH, Supergirl has a cell phone! She’s perfect!” Then I realized that it was just her mannerisms, the way she holds herself.
These guys here, at ComicBoxCommentary.com, said it right, “more innocent, than lack of confidence. … trying to figure stuff out.” Exactly. In fact, I see her at the local Starbucks thinking…
… ummmm.. do I reeeeally want a venti?… um… yeah, I do, but what will Wonder Woman think when she sees me with a big ol’ fat belly full of mochachino stuff… hmmm, no… should go grande, I don’t know how much is in an ounce but the venti has 20 and grande has 16…. maybe 4 shots in a grande.. That’s it, a four shot grande… now do I want the mocha? Uh-Huh!… let’s seeee, what can I put with the mocha… whip cream of course, Chyaaa! .. how about, vanilla, carmel and hazelnut! That’s it! One percent of course. Now what did Clark want? Bruce is easy, black, straight, six shots venti, but Clark… ummmmm I think it was a 2% venti, raspberry, orange frapachino!…. I hope they take Bruce’s card… pleasedon’tcheckmyid, please oh please oh please.”
The pose is one of the amazing aspects of this work of art. Truly capturing a 17 year old “attractive without trying to be sexy” and without the pretentious bitchiness that is omnipresent in the stereotypical bitchy 17 year old mean girl. And, attractive without pandering to the lowest common denomonator by resorting to big boobs and scantily clad dental floss suits. Yeah, she’s showing her tummy…. her… hard, flat, pristine… tummy…. but, aside from that, there’s no contrived boobage hanging out in front of you making her look stupid.
Don’t get me wrong. I love the melons as much as any other dog out there, but come on! Enough is enough. When you have every stupid, gorgeous looking babe flashing her cannons at you in those contorted poses to accentuate their voluptuous curves, as they part their lips with that ‘come hither’ look, and stick their butt out like a dog in heat, it just gets too blatantly contrived and phony.
Hot, yeah. Sexy, yeah, but when something truly special comes along, like JG Jones’ Supergirl, a guy just hast to be thankful for seeing the bar raised higher than a bombshell’s nipple.
The other amazing thing about this work is that it’s almost Norman Rockwellish with the way the colors are used. He takes an Alex Ross type of approach by working the hero closer to a more realistic look, lifelike look and less “comic-booky.”
Well done JG Jones. And thank you.
Take The Wolverine Challenge – Win A T-Shirt
Monday, April 20th, 2009
Take the Wolverine Trivia Challenge
Take the Wolverine Challenge, answer some trivia questions and win a 15% coupon along with a chance to win one of 10 t-shirts given away. Contest ends May 1st.
If you’re a Wolverine nut, answer the three way Eeeeeasy trivia questions and you’re a shoe in to win. Give it a shot.. bub.
Superhero Trivia Contest – Win 2 Free Shirts!
Saturday, April 11th, 2009
Green Lantern Trivia Contest - Win 2 Free T-Shirts
Superhero Trivia Contest
Visit this page on Tuesday at noon EST to take the Trivia challenge and to try your chance at winning two Blackest Night shirts of your choice. The first one to submit the correct answers will win.
Tune in every week on our myspace page, and on our blog here, to try your chance at winning a free t-shirt.
Stay tuned.
** Sorry, we’re postponing the free t-shirt give away until we can put more quality work into our myspace page. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Blackest Night T-Shirts Finally Here!
Monday, April 6th, 2009
Blackest Night T-Shirts
We finally have the Green Lantern Blackest night t-shirts, along with more other Green Lantern shirts. If you haven’t been keeping up with the Green Lantern series, you’ll want to pick up the comics or do what I do and save a buck or two and wait for the graphic novel to come out. Friggin’ comics are just way too expensive these days.
Essentially, the GL Corps is battleing the Sinestro Corps and it’s heating up way bad! Then, right when it’s about to just totally loose it in the battle of the rings, two of the little blue Hobbit guys tell Hal, Guy, Kyle, and John, “oops, we forgot to tell you about the Blackest Night Prophesy!” And the GLs are all, “WTF? No, you didn’t tell us about no Black Prophesy, but could you speed it up here? We’re in a bit of a mix!”
According to the prophesy, the two Corps, GL and Sinestro, are to be joined by five more “Corps” that are driven by a specific emotion and color. When they show up, there’s supposed to be a huge battle, the War Of Light!
 Violet Lantern Symbol Zamarons’ Star Sapphires have supposedly moved to a ring and lantern motif and ascribed the emotion of love as the color’s power source. LOVE Love Love, all you need is love. |
 Orange Lantern Symbol Orange: The plot elements have revealed the color’s power source, avarice,[3] and that both the Controllers and an unseen character “Agent Orange” are searching for the color. |
 Indigo Lantern Symbol Indigo: No plot elements beyond the prophecy and its power source, compassion, and that the bearers carry staffs[3], have appeared relating to this color. They are known as the Indigo Tribe. |
 Red Lantern Symbol Red: The lanterns, rings, corps name, and origin point within the Empire of Tears have appeared as plot elements[16] with rage being ascribed as the power source of this color. Former Green Lantern Laira became the second Red Lantern in April 2008, the first being Atrocitus. A one-shot tie-in to Final Crisis titled Final Crisis: Rage of the Red Lanterns prominently featured the Red Lanterns and Alpha-Lanterns as well as the “Lanterns of a couple colors”. |
 Blue Lantern Symbol Blue: The story elements presented so far have been the creation of the first blue ring by Ganthet and Sayd and that the emotion of hope is the color’s source of power. The first Blue Lantern, Saint Walker, made an appearance in the “Final Crisis: Rage of the Red Lanterns” one-shot. The second Blue Lantern, Warth, was chosen by Saint Walker and first appeared in Green Lantern #36. |
Rumors regarding the Blackest Night series are… The Ronnie Raymond incarnation of the deceased Firestorm will be a Black Lantern. GASP! The first member of the Black Lantern Corps is the “Earth-2 Superman”. Looks like there’s a a Black Lantern Martian Manhunter as well. What’s the deal, DC’s reinventing all their heroes as baddies? We’ll probably see Kal-L and Aquaman as Black Lanterns too. Who’s next, Bucky and Maxwell Lord what about Jason Todd? No wait… Todd’s alive isn’t he. So’s Bucky. Doh! Scar comes out and says that she’s batting for the other team… no, not like that, but that shw now, “serve[s] the universe no more,” and that she, “serve[s] another force that has crept into [her] being and revealed the unfathomable power within the vacuum of space.” Lex Luthor is to play a big role in the Blackest Night crossover as well as Superboy/Conner Kent.
Think of the Guardian’s quote, “…But he is dead. And we control the dead. For once I bear witness to the book of the black, and I question what it shows me, the dead will save you, Luthor. From Brainiac. From Superman. And from yourself”.
The dead… Batman’s dead … you think Bat’s'll be sportin’ a black ring soon?
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Mickey Rourke Joins Iron Man 2
Thursday, March 12th, 2009If you’re old enough, like some folks around here, you probably yell at the local kids, “HEY You kids, STOP THAT!” from your porch. But you might also remember Mickey Rourke from old movies like Angel Heart and Nine 1/2 Weeks and The Pope of Greenwich Village back in the 80s.
Mickey Rourke To Play Villain in Iron Man 2
But most of yous guys probably remember him from his fantastic role as Marv in Frank Miller’s Sin City (2005)… notice who the priest is in the movie?
Well, well see more of him in Sin City 2 in 2010. I can’t wait! Many of you also remember Rourke’s most recent role of Randy ‘The Ram’ Robinson in The Wrestler (2008) about an aging professional wrestler, decades past his prime, who ekes out a living working small wrestling shows in VFW halls and as a part-time grocery store employee who attempts to come to terms with his life outside the ring. He struggles with his new life as a nobody when an offer of a high-profile wrestling rematch with his 1980s arch-nemesis, The Ayatollah, comes his way.
Mickey Rourke To Play In Iron Man 2
So, that Mickey Rourke has just signed up with ICM for the role of the Russian villain in Iron Man 2! Rumor has it that Rourke was low-balled by the studio to the unsavory tune of $250K. Jesus, give the guy a break! Fortunately, Rourke’s agent, David Unger, got the quote up to a “significant” level in spite of the current melting economy where the studios are taking advantage of talent, attempting to screw them to the pool table… stupid studios!
Mickey Rourke As Marv in Sin City
Rumor also has it that Rourke is tapped to play the villain in Spider-Man 4. Apparently, Marvel did the same thing to Samuel L. Jackson, low-balled him hell’s canyon! … Stupid Marvel! They low-balled him, but then eventually came up from their pathetic offer and secured in a long-term, 9 film commitment for Jackson to play Nick Fury. One of those films Jackson is expected to be in is Iron Man 2. Go Jackson!
Samuel L. Jackson is Nick Fury
As for Samuel’s Nick Fury role in the 9 Marvel films, they haven’t all been announced yet, but so far they include Iron Man 2, Thor, Captain America, The Avengers(!!!), and perhaps even a S.H.I.E.L.D movie with Jackson’s Fury as the lead. Any of you people out there remember who played Nick Fury before? … No?…. David Hasselhoff! He might look the part but he ain’t no cigar chompin’ Fury.
I leave you with Mickey Rourke’s Marv.
… Oh COME ON! You tell me that doesn’t look like Hasselhoff!!
Nick Fury
Watchmen Movie Review and 12% Discount On Orders
Sunday, March 8th, 2009I saw Watchmen with 5 other comic geeks and we all LOVED IT.
Watchmen 12 Percent Discount On All Orders
Watchmen was a fantastic adaptation from the comic book/graphic novel. Snyder painfully, and lovingly, adhered to the theme that Moore and Gibbons created 20 years ago.
It succeeded in its adaptation and interpretation just as Peter Jackson’s translation of Lord Of The Rings succeeded; with unerring, devout commitment to every single friggin’ detail in the book . The commitment and attention to detail and strict adherence to the plot and imagery in the comic is unlike no other comic-to-film ever seen, except for possibly Robert Rodriguez’s adaptation of Frank Miller’s Sin City.
I cannot stop thinking about this movie and how accurate and dead on target it was in honoring the works of Moore and Gibbons. Everything about this movie was taken STRAIGHT from the comic. Even though the scene with the newspaper stand and the kid reading the Black Freighter comic had no more than a couple seconds on screen, you will notice that Snyder duplicated virtually everything from the comic, down to the patch on the kid’s left knee and the green sweater worn by the street vendor with the left-over-right lapel. (For those of you who’ve seen the movie, notice who is in the foreground of the movie pic.)
This is truly a movie that can only be fully appreciated by those who have read, and reread, the graphic novel that Moore created in 1986 and 1987. Each time you read Watchmen, you learn a little more about the story that you hadn’t known before. After reading, and upon experiencing the movie, you will be amazed at the Watchmen come to life in a believable and very real alternate reality.
Above all the other Watchmen, Rorschach shined with surprising and exceptional grittiness that surpassed what was in the book. No wonder why the audience cheered during his vent in the prison cafeteria; “You don’t get it! I’m not STUCK IN HERE WITH YOU! YOU’RE STUCK IN HERE WITH ME!!” God I loved it.
Yes there are some alterationgs from the comic book, but surprisingly few. The death of Rorschach has Nite Owl as his witness, but it only contributed as we watched Nite Owl plunge further into his dispair and disillusionment. When he screams NO!! we all scream NO!! for are we all not disillusioned and betrayed by our heroes who kill to save us.
Aside from the absence of the Black Freighter story and the accompanying newstand backdrop, and the murder of Hollis Mason by the Top Knots gang, which I hear will be added to the dvd, there was very little missing from the original story.
I cannot WAIT to see this movie again and to buy the extended version dvd with the extra hour and a half.
I loved this movie. You’ll definitely want to get your hands on some Watchmen merchandise once you see the movie.
Marvel Superhero Calendar 2009
Sunday, February 15th, 2009
Print Your Own Marvel Calendar For 2009
Each month we’ll be posting a Marvel, or maybe even DC, calendar for you to print up if you want. Just click on the image for the larger version:
- Click on image only view the image.
- Click on image again to make sure you’re looking at the larger image.
- Go to File.
- Print Preview.
- Set at 50% and then print.
