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Friends Meets SuperFriends

Andrew — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:00:49 +0000

Great job on this one. Usually I find these parody videos cute for a second and the quality blows and nobody’s mouth matches the dialogue, etc. But this one is damn sharp and beautifully edited. And pretty damn funny.

Best Superhero Movie Never Made

Andrew — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:02:42 +0000

I would so pay good money to see this flick if it ever came out. Stick with this preview trailer till near the end, it’s worth it. And fairly short overall.

The Liefeld Lowdown

Andrew — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:07:42 +0000

Let me start by saying, I seriously enjoyed Rob Liefeld’s art on his original “Hawk & Dove” mini-series for DC. It was fresh, crisp and energetic. Real good storyline too courtesy of Karl Kesel. But then something happened. Liefeld got onto New Mutants and his art starting changing. Muscles grew exponentionally. Pouches started appearing at a Tribbles-type rate. And everyone started carrying around guns the size of houses.

I could go on and on about Liefeld’s art (Don’t get me started on his “no more A on Captain America” era…), but instead, I’ll just point you over to The 40 Worst Rob Liefeld Drawings courtesy of Progressive Boink. They did a bang-up job not just showing off some great, er, bad examples from Liefeld’s career, but the detailed commentary really gets the point across. Here’s a few of my favorite drawings to mock:

Not so super heroes

Andrew — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:40:13 +0000

This week Bob over at Bobbarama published a refreshing and pretty damn funny write-up on his post Where have all the superheroes gone?

I’m always fascinated to read anything about comics or superheroes when it’s written in a more mainstream or completely non-comic arena. Granted, the articles generally start with the same ol’ “Pow! Bam! Zap! Holy comics are growing up, Batman” type of intro and go on to say that comic books are more adult these days. Uh, yeah. They’ve kinda been like that since the mid-’80s. 1986 in fact when Dark Knight and Watchmen came out and kicked the entire industry in the nuts. But in a good way. (If there is such a thing.)

Anyway, Bob writes a highly entertaining blog that’s pretty much all over the place and he does bring up superheroes once in a while. The post starts off based on a conversation Bob had with a co-worker about Batman not being a real hero… and evolves into Bob giving his opinion on what other costumed characters should fall into the non-hero role. Wonder Woman, Elongated Man, Green Lantern to name a few.

Heck, the guy even mentions Ant Man and shows the cover to the Batman: Son of the Demon graphic novel, so you know he’s a legit fanboy. Anyways, just wanted to send Bob some link love and give him an additional 2 or 3 eyeballs on his site (assuming the 3 readers I have actually listen to me)…

Ralph Wiggum 4 President

Andrew — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:43:18 +0000

No, he’s not running. But I’d totally vote for the little dude. Easily the best Simpsons character created ever, here’s the only Ralph page you’ll ever need. Not only do you get to see Ralph doing what he does best (digging for gold), but you can click on any of the dozens of keywords to hear an awesome and memorable quote from the man himself.

The Ralph Wiggum Soundboard

Okay, who am I kidding. Someone as charismatic as Ralph deserves a second website, and here’s a loving video tribute: