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.

Link via Urlesque | Writer’s Blog

 
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A Scientific Paper Explaining Superman's Powers

Posted by John Farrier in Science & Tech on September 30, 2009 at 6:11 pm

Ryan North of the webcomic Dinosaur Comics asked his friend Ben Tippett to write a formal paper explaining the coherency of Superman’s amazing powers. It’s a very math and physics-heavy article, so I won’t try to understand, let alone summarize the whole thing. Here, however, is the conclusion:

We conjecture that all of Superman’s powers come from His ability to alter the inertial mass of objects in His immediate vicinity or with which He is in personal contact; although the mechanism is unknown.

Link via io9

Image: flickr user chanchan222, used under Creative Commons license.

 
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Super Hero Wedding

Posted by Miss Cellania in Cartoon & Comic on August 1, 2009 at 9:33 am

You may have seen or read about some over-the-top wedding productions, but Tony Lucchese told Sarah LaFore will be going the extra mile when they marry today in Portland, Maine. They will say their vows dressed as Superman and Wonder Woman.

Aquaman, Flash and Spider-Man round out the groomsmen. Ten bridesmaids will be Amazon warriors — in comic mythos, Wonder Woman is an Amazon princess — with spears, togas and sandals.

Two weeks ago, LaFore and Lucchese made an emergency trip to Jersey, down and back in one day, to tweak her costume.

“Paramount to having a successful wedding is having the bride feel pretty,” he said.

He and volunteer carpenters built a Fortress of Solitude altar in a rented warehouse space in Portland. They’ll be married by Kieschnick’s father, dressed as Jor-El, Superman’s dad. Part of the script borrows from Kryptonian wedding vows. The couple will break character to say, “I do.”

The two met while working on a theatrical production in Oak Ridge, Tennessee seven years ago. They have been planning the wedding for 18 months. Link -via Fark

(image credit: Amber Waterman/Sun Journal)

Update: See more at Tony and Srah’s wedding blog. Link (Thanks, Tony!)

 
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Post-It Note Stories

Posted by John Farrier in Book & Lit, Cartoon & Comic, Funny on July 23, 2009 at 9:16 am

Cartoonist Arthur Jones writes stories through text and doodles on Post-It Notes, then reads his stories live to audiences as his cartoons scroll in the background. There are a few on his site, but my favorite is actually a translation of Jonathan Goldstein’s “Man Not Superman”. This is the story of the ordinary guy who dates Lois Lane after she breaks up with Superman, and tries to overcome his feelings of inadequacy. Jones’ comics just make this funny story even funnier.

Official Website

Man Not Superman (text version)

Via io9

 
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Kandor the Miniature Kryptonian City in a Bottle by Mike Kelley

Posted by Alex in Arts & Crafts, Cartoon & Comic on July 11, 2009 at 12:10 am

Los Angeles-based artist Mike Kelley brought the bottle city of Kandor from the Superman comic series to life. If you don’t know, Kandor is a Kryptonian city miniaturized by Brainiac and kept in a bottle by Superman:

The exhibition of new works by Mike Kelley at the Jablonka Galerie features sculptures, lenticular lightboxes, and videos related to the fictional city of Kandor, the capitol of Superman’s home planet Krypton. According to the Superman mythos, Kandor is the only remaining vestige of the exploded Krypton, and the city is preserved, in a reduced state, in a bottle in Superman’s possession. Interestingly, the image of Kandor was never codified and the numerous representations of it in the comic book throughout the years vary widely in appearance. In this exhibition Kelley reconstructs ten unique versions of Kandor, with its enclosing bottle, which, despite obvious differences, purport to depict the same city.

John Struan over at Super Punch has more pics and a video clip from the
exhibit: Link – Thanks John!

 
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Lex Luthor Applies for a Federal Bailout

Posted by John Farrier in Funny, Politics, Video Clips on March 13, 2009 at 8:59 pm


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Only with your taxpayer dollars can Lex finally destroy Superman. Please call or e-mail your representatives in Congress and ask them to rescue the troubled LexCorp.

 
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Superman Logos

Posted by Alex in Movies & SciFi, Toy & Video Games on February 23, 2009 at 3:35 am


Photo: fengschwing [Flickr]

Flickr user fengschwing (of The Darling Downs blog) posted a collection of Superman’s various S-shield logos from his collection of action figures. Who knew that the Man of Steel is also quite fashionable? Link – via Super Punch

 
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