Want!
The full spectrum of power rings from Green Lantern made of PVC with LED lights to make 'em light up? Yes, please! They'll be available in July, and you can check 'em out here.
High Brow Comedy Starring Iron Man And The Hulk!
Just discovered that Marvel Comics has a new feature on their Super Hero Squad website that allows you to make your own comics, be they comic strips or full comic books. I made the above strip using it, and although I wasn't keen on the image quality of the download (and fairly unhappy that it downloads the strip as a PDF instead of an image, so I had to take another step to get it to post here without being all sorts of a headache), the idea is pretty amusing and I had a pretty good time playing with it. Hopefully, they get the downloads to look a bit better down the line.
Go try it for yourself here. I'd tell you to tell 'em I sent you, but you'd just be talking to your computer and people might look at you a little weird if you did that, so I won't.
I Think I Need “Bat Jump-The-Shark” Repellent
Via Comic Book Resources: Batman: The Brave And The Bold is having a musical episode that features Neil Patrick Harris as the villain. I'm not sure how I feel about this yet.
The House Of Ideas Joins The House Of Mouse
According to MSNBC, Disney is set to buy Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion dollars. This should be interesting... I'm especially intrigued to see if Howard The Duck will no longer have to wear pants.
Wizard World Philly: Video Update
Step one: Get in pool. Step two: Get out of pool. Step three: Make video.
ARE YOU ^$#&*@ KIDDING ME?!
Remember back in September when I mentioned Spider-Man meeting Stephen Colbert as the lamest cross-over ever? Apparently Marvel took that as a challenge:
Yep, it's The Punisher meets Eminem! I'm sorry, did I say "meets"? I mean fights.
C'mon... A well-armed, military-trained psychopathic vigilante versus a rapper? The only way this could possibly work is if it's played for laughs, like Archie Meets The Punisher, but, given the preview they gave and Eminem's lack of ability to laugh at himself, I doubt that'd happen.
Let's check out the press release together, shall we?
This all new story written by Fred Van Lente (Amazing Spider-Man) with art by Salvador Larroca (Invincible Iron Man) takes place in Detroit after Eminem performs on stage and gets involved in a conflict with The Punisher and his old foe Barracuda. The first half of the story will be featured as a bonus eight page special edition comic printed in the June issue of XXL magazine, with the eight page conclusion available exclusively on Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited (www.marvel.com/eminem) for free starting May 5th.
“When we learned that Eminem is a fan and collector of Marvel comics, we could only imagine what would happen if The Punisher and Slim Shady met up in the Marvel Universe,” said Marvel’s Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada. “This was a unique partnership and the team had a blast working with Eminem and incorporating the rapper into the Marvel fold.”
For fans of the Punisher, Eminem and those wanting to own a part of the action, visit your local newsstand to purchase the magazine on May 5, 2009 and then be sure to visit www.marvel.com/eminem to experience the second part of the story.
Yep, you can go check out this crap right now. On the plus side, I doubt it can be much worse than Wolverine.
UPDATE: Yeah, no, it wasn't worse than Wolverine, but it certainly tried. But, hey, it's free, so you get what you pay for, I suppose.
6 Ways Superman Could Beat Batman
I just finished reading ComicBookResources.com's 'Top 25 Comic Book Battles.' It was an interesting list, with a bunch of battles I fondly remember ('Avengers vs. Ultron' being one of my personal favorites) and a few I could do without ('Guy Gardner vs. Batman'... Am I the only one who hated the 'Bwa-Ha-Ha' Justice League?). However, the top choice, 'Batman vs. Superman' from The Dark Knight Returns, holds a special place in my heart as "The Stupid Fight That Ruined Everything."
See, I have no problem with the idea that Batman can beat Superman... but I can only accept that once. Superman, despite how most people write him, isn't some stupid tool that just flies around and does what anyone with 'authority' would tell him; he may not be as smart as Batman, perhaps, but he's not too far off. Not only that, Superman has proven himself quite a dick in the past, so he could do some underhanded things if need be.
In that spirit, I have compiled the greatest assemblage of shoddily made cartoons to demonstrate how Superman could beat Batman.
Superman Can Beat Batman With A Yacht
Look, Batman is a human, and a pounding with a good, old-fashioned yacht would leave him as nothing more than a pile of Bat-Jelly.
Superman Can Beat Batman With Psychological Warfare
Superman has displayed some weird powers in the past... Super-Hypnotism and Super-Ventriloquy, for example. Why can't he have Super-God You're A Lame-O powers? I mean, it's a power my mom, girlfriend, and just about every other girl I know has, so it couldn't be that tough for Superman to master.
Superman Can Beat Batman With Heat Vision From Space
Batman has kryptonite, right? Kryptonite can effect Superman when he's near by. So what's the Last Son of Krypton to do?
HEAT VISION FROM FREAKIN' SPACE. Done and done.
Superman Can Beat Batman With Irony
In The Dark Knight Returns, Batman has Green Arrow shoot a kryptonite arrow at Superman to distract him before Batman kicks Superman's ass. Let's say Superman isn't a moron and uses X-Ray vision to scan the scene before he goes to meet Batman... He'd see Green Arrow. He could disarm Green Arrow (heat vision from space, maybe?), snag the Robin Hood wannabe, and then throw him at Batman, creating a distraction of his own.
Superman Can Beat Batman With A Super-Speed TEMPLE OF DOOM Heart Rip-Out
Superman can run in, rip out Batman's heart, and run back, all before Batman knows what's going on. Seems fairly easy to me.
Last and most certainly least...
Superman Can Beat Batman With A Loogie To The Junk
It's a Super-Loogie! Get it?!
Back to me doing the work I need to get done for real people.
Spider-Man And His New Amazing Friend… Part 2!
Just when you thought the soul-selling that is Stephen Colbert's team-up with Spider-Man in Amazing Spider-Man #573 couldn't get any lamer:
Alternate Cover To AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #573
Oy.