How’s this? A Lady Bane – perhaps not a cosplay you expected – and a rather good Batman costume too. The photographer is LJinto. The cosplayers? Suggestions or credits in the comment section below please! This superhero-themed post is from 2013’s Superhero Week. Made any good superhero discoveries online recently? Share them in the comments […]
Superhero Week: Opinion poll of 1000 Brits sees Marvel thrash DC Comics
If you asked 1,000 members of the British public some superhero and comic book questions how would they do? We’re not asking them to get superhero trivia right; we’re asking non-geeks about their favourite superheroes, villains, gadgets and movies. This is exactly what the games team at Ladbrokes did. It’s PR fuel for them. It’s […]
Superhero Week: The 10 most popular superhero cardboard cutouts
It’s Superhero Week and specialist shop SuperheroStuff.com has a 10% sale on. Bonus. Just use the code summer10 to get 10% off your purchase. As it’s Superhero Week lets dig into the data the site provides and investigate the best selling superhero cardboard cutouts. Any surprises here? Wally West as Flash beating the Dark Knight […]
Superhero Week: It begins!
It’s Superhero Week here at Geek Native. This doesn’t mean the blog will only cover superhero topics but it certainly means there’s going to be an extra focus on superheroes this week. Got a superhero RPG you’d like to talk about? A superhero themed Kickstarter? Perhaps you’ve a superhero comic book or novel that might […]
Batman theme song squeaked by actual bats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N95tCG4leWY Cool? Or the most annoying sound ever? I add the latter because that’s how it was described to me. I quite like the “bats’ song” but I’m not sure about the bloody maw of the vampire bat that pops up throughout the video. This is the work of Sándor Seuntjens. Sándor assigned digitally reduced […]
The deadly assassin Cheshire graduates to DC’s New 52
DC Comics have shown us the New 52 design of Cheshire. Cheshire is one of the more dangerous assassins of the DC Universe; an expert in martial arts and poisons. It’s likely that she’ll have some connection to the Red Hood aka Jason Todd and to Roy Harper. Both Harper and Hood are part of […]
Batman and Aquaman: Medieval armour style
Two of the Justice League heroes wearing mythic medieval armour. These leather suits were created by deviant artist Azmal, aka Samuel Lee, who has confirmed that Loki, Deadpool and Green Lantern are also going to enjoy the same treatment.
Gangster mugshots for Batman’s baddies
Artist Jason Mark was inspired by well dressed gangsters and villains in this Laughing Squid curated collection of Australian mugshots. The result? He turned some of Gotham’s favourite foes and Batman’s most frequent enemies into something similar. Check out his portfolio at Jempix.blogspot.ca for more fantastic (and often superhero) art.
Gotham City cake
This tasty looking gothic cake is the hard work of Bite Me Bakery. The British bakers have crafted a Gotham City cake complete with brooding Dark Knight.
Cute DC and Marvel counterparts
This is an excellent collection of art and insight by Darren Rawlings. He’s partnered up DC and Marvel heroes so that… well, so that they’re good counterparts. It strikes me as a good exercise for when you’re stuck on a plain, train or in an automobile. You pick a DC hero and you pal has […]
