John Gushue . . . Dot Dot Dot

Rethinking what a guitar hero is

Clever idea, as seen on Herochan. 

Assembling the Avengers

Check out this gallery of an ad campaign for Target, tied into the Avengers movie launch. 

There are several ways to gain superpowers

Here's a list. As seen on the Midtown Comics Tumblr page.

About Spider-Man's nose

Someone connected a few dots to the Harry Potter side of things. From 9Gag.

Loki there! The Avengers bring the party to you

Just a couple of months before The Avengers is out. Today, the latest trailer went online ... and there was a smile on the kid when I showed this to him.

When Superman met Samantha from Sex and the City

As seen (quite of context, we assume) here.

Another look at another Spider-Man

This summer's reinvention of Spider-Man is coming pretty quickly on the heels of the Sam Raimi trilogy. Nonetheless, it looks like it'll be different, and a little darker, to judge from the new trailer out this week. (A key point: Peter Parker invents his webslinging apparatus, whereas the Tobey Maguire version woke up with the sticky powers like, um, some teenage hormonal thing.) 

Anyway, I'm pretty sure I know I'll be buying two or three (depends if Martha wants to tag along with the boy and me) tickets in July. 

Zombie dinosaurs

From Buni.

Winnie-the-superhero

I've never seen an episode of Young Justice, but the characters look familiar from the time when I inhaled DC comics in the Seventies. I still got a laugh out of this parody, which successfully matches images with audio straight from Winnie-the-Pooh.

The Justice League of the internet

Yahoo as Bizarro Superman? Gotta laugh. See this and much more on a post via the Tumblr feed of Midtown Comics. 

Two interpretations of the upcoming Avengers movie

The official one. 

The totally unofficial one. 

Mister Kent, I presume?

Superman gets a Victorian makeover here. Not steampunk, but a step in that retro sort of direction. 

 

Take On Me

Nick has heard A-Ha's major hit a few times over the last few months, enough to sing/hum along with the chorus. The latest time was yesterday, when I told him about the video that featured comic books - one of his major interests, not surprisingly - and promised I'd look it up for him. 

Here you go, kiddo. 

Linus: The Lost/Peanuts connection

TeeFury has a winner today, hands-down. Available for only a few more hours, by the way. 

A Batman diorama

I had this, and others like it. In the mid-Seventies, DC would oversize anthologies of many of its top titles, with "extras" on the back pages like this. Get a pair of scissors, and a kid could be happily engaged for at least several more minutes! 

As seen on This Isn't Happiness. 

A JLA makeover

What would the Justice League of America look like if they had only just been invented... and they were younger, and into the punk scene? 

Annie Wu figures they'd look like this: 

I love that Batman still has a sneer intact. 

Saw it here. 

Spidey slings a web ... or goes to a rock concert

New from TeeFury today, a nod to Spider-Man.

Peel before Zod

Too funny. Almost.

 

Kneel before Zod

Superman fans know that Zod has been one of the superhero's key adversaries, and appeared in two of the Christopher Reeve movies, as played by Terence Stamp.

Lance Taylor, one of my fellow players on Empire Avenue, took in Free Comic Book Day in Edmonton yesterday, and asked one of the participating artists to make a Zod poster. Why? Because another player in our virtual group, Travis Tripp, named himself after Zod. Cool.

Comic Book Day is tomorrow

Actually, it's Free Comic Book Day, to be precise, which falls on the first Saturday of May. In this case, it also falls just before Mother's Day, the second Sunday in May ... I imagine we won't be the only household with a boy-centric Saturday and a mom-centric Sunday this weekend.

The shot above is Nick making a beeline for the Simpsons pile at Downtown Comics, one of his favourite spots, when we were out last weekend. We'll be there tomorrow.

 

Thor all over

I wasn't a major fan of Thor when I was growing up. The character was there, but as I was filling boxes with comic books in the Seventies, Thor was not a priority.

That said, the movie looks like fun, or at least something Nick and I can enjoy together. (I'm assuming Martha will take a pass, but she may surprise us.) The above is a limited edition poster that, I have to admit, makes me want to make plans for the theatre.   

 

Spider-Man gets something right in New York

A cool coincidence, this photograph of a taxi (with an ad for the notoriously troubled Spider-Man musical on top) cruising by exactly the right backdrop. But I'll read a bit more into it than just that.

As seen on In Other News.

 

If Frank Miller took on other history projects

Frank Miller has had a huge influence on comics, and not just bringing some film-noirish angst to Batman years ago. He's also the mind behind 300, among others. This series of parodies imagines other possibilites.

 

A reminder: Batman got his start in Detective Comics

This made me cowl. I mean, howl. As seen here.

Flash, blur

"Why is he called The Flash when he should be called The Blur?"
- Nick, pondering aloud while getting ready for bed.