Here I was worrying that Gotham would roll out on an American cable network and may never get any further than that. Warner Bros’s worldwide television department have announced a deal with Netflix that will take the series across the sea. From 2015, each season of the series will be made available to Netflix members […]
$1,750,200 and up as eBay reveals world’s most expensive comic
Do you collect comics? Do you collect rare comics? Action Comics #1 was published in June of 1938 and it is the comic that introduced superman to the world. This super rare comic is currently up for auction on eBay and there is no reserve. No reserve does not mean the comic is in reach, […]
Gotta mash them all! DC superheroes as Pokemon trainers
Imagine if some DC superheroes took up Pokemon and became trainers? That’s exactly what creative student Creees (HyunSung Lee) has done. While studying comic art he’s created a mashup of two favourite topics and added some pocket monster action to the heroes. Creees says he’s striving to become an awesome DC or Marvel comic artist. […]
Final Fantasy character designer remakes Batman
This is what Tetsuya Nomura did to the Dark Knight. Nomura’s best known for Kingdom Hearts but he’s a character design on Final Fantasy too. This remake is kind of offical to. That’s not to say that Batman will now star tto look like this but that the redesign is part of the Square Enix’s […]
Superhero Week: Gotham Gears and superhero robots
Deviant artist Chasing Artwork, aka Justin Currie, has a fantastic looking art series called Gotham Gears. It takes Batman, friends and foes and re-imagines them as robots. Gotham Gears did so well that Justin expanded the style to include some Marvel heroes. Keeping up with Superhero Week? It could win you Amazon vouchers in this […]
New Constantine trailer
NBC have released a trailer for the Constantine show. “Released” in the sense that it has been aired but seems to be suffering from YouTube yanking. Watch this while you can. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8YAlnMVELw The show will start in Autumn 2014 on NBC. We don’t yet know if any European channel will pick it up but here’s […]
DC Bombshell: Supergirl cosplay
DC’s Bombshell range come from their covergirl range of models. Okay, I might arch a worried eyebrow at the use of “covergirls” to describe superheroes today but the range does tend to show alternative stylings of costumes; such as 50s era or 60s rather than just flashing the flesh. This Supergirl cosplay is modelled, I […]
Irregular Reconnaissance: Comic Books #7
You wait all year for an Irregular Reconnaissance of comic books and then two come along in the space of the week. Actually, this issue is effectively part two of IR: Comics #6 so there’s no overlap. Let’s talk comic books. What would you recommend? What series needs to be checked out and read by […]
DC’s New 52 turned steampunk wonderful
It’s been expected for a while but this February DC will do steampunk variant covers of many of their New 52 titles. As it happens comic book super site Comic Book Resources were given an exclusive peak at some of the designs. They’re too good not to share. […]
Find out why Superheroes wear underwear on the outside
This video from “Today I found out” digs into the history of superhero costumes and why early superheroes seemed to be wearing their underwear on the outside. If you like asking “Why” (and many wise geeks do). The script from the video is actually an excerpt from The Wise Book of Whys.
