I've thought for a while that scanty female clothing in comics isn't nearly as much of a problem as the porntastic posing. There are male superheroes who wear scanty clothing, but the way they're posed is athletic or dynamic or casual, whereas the women are invariably lightboxed out of Maxim or some such. (Also, as I've mentioned in a post I can' ( Read more... )

So without further ado, ( here's Ty Templeton's Big Hat Dog. )

Short shameful confession: I was actually sorely tempted to get into a Twitterfight with Gail Simone recently over the recent kerfuffle over an issue of CAPTAIN AMERICA. (If you haven't heard, Cap and the Falcon show up at a Tea Party protest and casually diss them, with the Falcon concerned that he'll be attacked because they're clearly a bunch ( Read more... )

This just in: Rich Johnston is a coward.

What's more, he's a weaselly and despicable one.

If you don't know who he is, Johnston runs Bleeding Cool, which is the successor website (and current host for) his long-running comics news and gossip column, "Lying in the Gutters." One of his recent posts mentioned the attempted murder of Danish ( Read more... )

Found on Heromorph, which has some amazing 3D renders and some really bad pornography, a "none of the above:" a really amazing manip of Wonder Woman by "joshmc."

( Seriously, it's amazing. )

I never knew there was a terrible story behind the naming of Skippy peanut butter.

And I mean it: really, really terrible. The kind of terrible you can only get when you combine an unscrupulous business and a powerful government.

McFarlane Toys occasionally does lines in the "Twisted" vein, which means they take public domain characters and create horrifying action figures of them that look like something out of a typically overdrawn 90s comic book. I usually don't think much of these things, but if you haven't seen it, character designer Jeffrey Thomas decided to do a ( Read more... )

The Marvel/Disney animated musical, THE IRON MERMAID, is now complete with the addition of Obadiah Stane's big musical number.

Yes, I have done gone lost my mind.

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Disney bought Marvel Comics! On Twitter (#disneymarvel) everybody is goofing around on the possibilities for what this means. Here is my pitch for the Disney/Marvel miniseries ( Read more... )