Step up Chad Roberts. He knows how to grow a beard. No wonder he took home the prize in the 2nd annual Garden State Beard & ‘Stache Competition. So many thoughts, though, I mean; does he shower, can he eat burritos, how much gel does he use, which came first – the beard pattern or […]
Batman, The Joker, Hell Boy and X-23 as striking illustrations
These illustrations are by Uwe de Witt, a German illustrator and designer who lists Sam Raimi, Akira, Fight Club and Requiem for a Dream among his favourite inspirations. His style is certainly bold and quite unusual. There’s a certain energy to these pictures and you’ll likely find a favourite too; Batman, The Joker, Spawn, Ghost […]
Peanut superheroes
This peanut Spider-man and Wonder Woman are the creation of Steve Casino. You can see many more on his site or over at Facebook. Steve paints more than just superheroes. He’s done Doctor Who and many others. Like what you see? He accept requests and charges between $300 to $500 a nut. Via My Modern […]
Superheroes in noir posters
Noir isn’t always to everyone’s tastes. It can be bleak although that can be part of the attraction. These posters from Marko Manev certainly don’t seem bleak. They’re carefully understated, they hint at huge scenes and power yet to be unleashed. These may be some of the most familar superheroes known to the web but […]
Iconic geek characters given Game of Thrones banners
We’ve seen plenty of Game of Thrones banners, even cute ones, so it little surprise the style has been exported to some of our other favourite geeky characters. These are the creation of Miguel Lokia from Brazil.
Who owns what?
This infographic is actually helpful — wait, surprise? It lets us know who owns Marvel movies, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Hobbit, DC, Sherlock Holmes (movies), Bond (UK), Spider-man (cos he’s differnt), Jason Bourne, X-Men, Fantastic Four, Avatar, Star Trek, Transformers, and oh… wait… what about The Terminator series?
Stan Lee Media sues Disney for $5.5 Billion
Let’s write out all the zeroes Stan Lee Media are hoping to take off Disney. It’s $5,500,000,000. Hmm. Tasty. The grounds of the case are pretty straight forward (unless you start to get too legal). Stan Lee Media claim ownership over all the characters that Stan Lee ever invented. This means they want cash from […]
Cosplay made DragonCon 2012 level 2 of awesome
Once cosplay might have been considered lame or even weird. Okay, maybe it still is – but only by those fools who’ve yet to succumb to the geek way. I look at this awesome video by Micah Moore and my jaw hits the keyboard. I don’t have the blog-skills, the wordsmithing ability, enough command of […]
Awesome papercraft models
Check out Gus Santome’s collection of incredible papercraft models. These aren’t just art to look at. Gus provides PDFs to download for geeks to have a go at creating their own papercraft superheroes, anime and sci-fi characters. Papercraft Avengers Papercraft Batman Papercraft Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Papercraft R2-D2 Papercraft She-Ra Papercraft Vegeta Papercraft Venom
Posable LEGO Spider-man
Mike McCooey has crafted a very impressive Spider-man out of LEGO. Not only does this figure look like Spider-man but has an incredible 48 different points of articulation. That’s right; a LEGO model that you can move around and re-position based on 48 different joints. It’s well worth checking out his Flickr page for many […]
