At a guess Zavvi found success by making only 500 copies of their anniversary Pokemon Pokebox available. How can I tell? They’re doing even more, super limited, deals on ‘Marvel Day’ with Civil War zboxes. Okay, if the offer isn’t on the site by the time you’ve clicked through it means it’s already gone. Sold […]
Captain America: Civil War trailer
This isn’t a teaser. This Captain America: Civil War trailer comes in at 2 minute 26 second in length and offers up the outline of the Avenger civil war, a good indication of who picks which side and what the row is over. We also get a sneak peak at Black Panther, I think, and […]
Tiny pixel heroes; Avengers, He-Man and Adventure Time
James Boorman is a talented character artist who has been able to take dozens of superheroes, He-Man characters and even Adventure Time into pixel art. Each of these pixel heroes have been created on a 25×25 grid. There’s more colour here than early computer game designers had but that goes to show how clever Boorman […]
16 clever dogs of the Marvel Universe
Josh Lynch is a creative director and freelance illustrator. He shared this collection of “DOTMU: Dogs of the Marvel Universe” to his public gallery at Behance and you should take a look. I think Punisher pug is my favourite. Which is yours?
Every Marvel movie all the way back to Howard the Duck [infographic]
The team at Shirts.com aren’t just busy floggint t-shirts like this cartoon Batman face tee, this Joker and Harley shirt or even Captain America popsicle t-shirt as they’re also busy with infographics too. What do you think the first Marvel movie was? I wonder if this will start a fight but Shirts.com are call the […]
Superhero Week: Cool superhero and Star Wars vintage dictionary prints
Etsy retailer Loft817 printworks is going on my bookmark list. They take old dictionaries and print a range of geeky art on them. Since this is Superhero Week this post will focus on mainly on heroes and villains. The Star Wars prints are a bonus! Tempted? I am! Check out Loft817 printworks. This superhero-themed post […]
Superhero Week: Hijab superhero self portraits
Nour Saleh is a hijab wearing Canadian. Last year she took up a Tumblr challenge to draw herself as different fictional characters. I love how Nour responded to that challenge. Not only did she imagine herself as various superheroes, she kept the hijab in all of the illustrations. I think the results work well and […]
8 of the best: Marvel Civil War breaking out across the web
The next Captain America film will be called Civil War. Now, comic book fans will know what happened in the Mark Millar series but that doesn’t mean the movie will go the same way. The internet has been having fun over the last few days with alternative suggestions as to why the row kicked off. […]
Official Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer
There are no strings on me. Since the cat was out of the bag Marvel wisely released the first teaser trailer for the next Avengers film. At this point nearly 6 million views have been recorded on the official release. The signs are there’s a lot of interest in this movie. What’s your gut feeling? […]
Which 10 comic book adaptations top the movie disappointment list?
There’s been no shortage of comic book inspired movies in recent years. Some have been better than others. Which of these comic book adaptations have flopped the hardest? Viewing figures tell one story but this month cinema chain Vue asked fans for another point of view. Vue ran a survey to discover and rank the […]
