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This is my super hero I created over at Marvel's Create Your Own Super Hero website.
Recently called out of retirement The Bailout last saw action during the 1930s. While his effectiveness during that depressing period is debated to this day as his rival the New Deal grabbed most of the headlines, The Bailout has reappeared for another go, this time against the evil Dr. Subprime Mortgage whose dastardly actions has led to global economic instability.
Hahaha!
This is an example of the sort of hilarious "sight-gags" that Al Jaffee drew for the Herald Tribune from 1957 to 1963.
Jaffee conceived of Tall Tales while in desperate economic straits, and hit upon a winning formula for breaking into the lucrative comics syndicate game: rather than drawing a traditional horizontal strip that would compete with the existing material, he opted for a seven-inch-tall vertical strip, which gave editors a lot more flexibility as to where in the paper the strip would run.
Jaffee's comics have now been collected into a book. I want.
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Watchmen co-creator and artist Dave Gibbons' companion book Watching the Watchmen is a real insider treat for fans of this seminal and iconic graphic novel. Here's some of the original concept art. I'm really glad Gibbons and Alan Moore decided to not go with the Rorschach seen in this early sketch.
Read more here.
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Superman makes Batman look like a little bitch in this pretty funny video from College Humor.
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I don't know who the artist is behind this piece that Simko posted on her ever designlicious blog (Ashley, maybe you can enlighten?), but what I do know is that I like it.
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There's also this:
I can't wait to watch this new UK sitcom No Heroics centered around the various city superheroes who hang out in a bar. I'm stoked about the casting of Patrick Baladi ("Neil" from BBC's The Office ) as the resident jackass superhero. And also, the guy who can look 60 seconds into the future has a hysterical super power. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3zpMTKvvgk]
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DC Comics posted a Cliffs Notes, short concise summaries, of the origin stories of many of their heroes and villains (in comics form of course), as well as a 10 part series that explains the current retcon DC universe.
Check out the website here.
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I don't quite know the context of this image that depicts Wolverine infected by the Venom symbiote, but I think it definitely qualifies as bad ass. Feel free to agree with me on this one.
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This is for my friend, tribe member, and loyal reader (only because half of our conversations involve me saying to him: "I blogged it. Did you see it? WHY DIDN'T YOU READ IT?") who happens to be stuck in Detroit for a couple more months while he completes his prestigious assignment there before returning back to the Mothership City.
Aquaman saved Motown, Motor City, 3-1-3, and Chauncey Billups. Don't you guys forget it.
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I never quite found Garfield all that funny or amusing. Even as a seven year old learning to speak English I found it very uncouth and provincial in some way. At least Peanuts, which I never enjoyed too much, had some pace or ambience. Stripped of that obnoxious cat I find Garfield pretty humorous. Garfield sans Garfield becomes almost a visual koan or a comic rorschach test that provides enlightenment of some sort, or as the website states: "Let’s laugh and learn with him on a journey deep into the tortured mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against lonliness and methamphetamine addiction in a quiet American suburb." Gawd, that is a genius observation: He was totally bugged out on meth...
I had a good conversation this weekend with Kzar about the unique impact of a graphic novel (although here, it's more correctly a 'comic book')--the genre that stimulates the visual as well as the text in a symbiotic manner. It can be very powerful when done right.
Formerly George Garratt, this British 19-year-old legally changed his name to
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