Superhero Facebook Statuses

Posted by John Farrier in Arts & Crafts, Funny on October 5, 2009 at 3:18 pm


Image:Chris Sims

Chris Sims of The Invincible Super-Blog created a gallery of Facebook status updates for superheroes at Comics Alliance. Among the featured heroes are Batman, Green Lantern, Spider-Man, Daredevil, and The Punisher. Sims works in a comic book store, so he knows of what he writes.

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Marvel Zombies

Posted by Alex in Cartoon & Comic on May 7, 2009 at 1:29 am

I won’t pretend that I’m "with it" when it comes to comic books, but it was a complete surprise for me to find out that, starting in 2005, Marvel began issuing limited series of comics in which the superheroes are … zombies! (Probably a better read than Spider-Ham)

Link to Marvel Zombie’s official website | Marvel Zombies at Wikipedia

 
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6 Famous Characters You Didn't Know Were Shameless Rip Offs

Posted by Miss Cellania in Cartoon & Comic, Movies & SciFi on April 29, 2009 at 1:29 pm

You’ve heard of X-men, but do you remember Doom Patrol?

Unlike the X-Men, the Doom Patrollers were once normal people who suffered an accident that disfigured them but also gave them superpowers. Shunned by the world for just being plain ugly, the freaks were gathered by Doctor Caulder, a paraplegic, who thought that maybe the world wouldn’t dislike them so much if they used their powers to save the normal people’s asses from giant robots once in a while.

If this sounds somewhat familiar to you, it’s because the same thing as X-Men with the only difference that the smart guy in the wheelchair was bald in one and X-Men uses mutants as an allegory for minorities instead of people with elephantiasis or whatever the heck Doom Patrol was going for.

Cracked looks at six famous characters and their lesser-known precursors. I knew about The Lion King, but I was unfamiliar with the rest. Oh, I knew the last one, too, but I didn’t know how much they had in common. Link

 
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Nemesis

Posted by John Farrier in Video Clips on March 19, 2009 at 8:32 pm


(YouTube Link)

Nemesis is a short film by Leonard Scarlow about an ordinary man trying to discover his hidden superpowers — because deep down inside of himself, he knows that he was meant to be a superhero.

It’s about 9 minutes long. The dialogue is in Norwegian, but it’s subtitled in English.

 
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