Tag: Superheroes
The Batman and The Joker have banded together in a rare show of unity to fight a new mutual threat: The New York City Council. The New York Times reports that the mascots of Times Square, including Hello Kitty and the Big Apple, appeared before the Consumer Affairs Committee on Wednesday to oppose a proposed […]
Artist John Lane remixed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Star Trek and X-Men as Ancient Egyptian deities and magical gods. Check out those superhero’ed slabs of Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. We especially like the one with the Kick-Ass characters, because they’re not really superheroes but regular people running around in loud outfits pretending to have superpowers. Because there […]
Remember that thing I said about design-y pop cultural mashups being internet gold? Well, here you go. An illustrator and designer who goes by Billy Butcher gave a bunch of ’80s punks and rock stars a DC Comics makeover, turning Morrissey into Superman, Ian Curtis into Batman, Siouxee into Wonder Woman, and slew of others. […]
A neighborhood that’s been embattled by everything from colossal storms to toxic sludge in recent months has a new hero, as artist Dean Haspiel’s latest comic features a former rascally thief who cleans up his act to become a reluctant crime-fighter. His name? The Red Hook, naturally. Red Hook “yields those kinds of characters,” Haspiel told […]
“A” is for Ant-Man, “B” is for Beast, “C” is for Captain America, and so on and so on. Designer Mike Boon created two parallel alphabets–upper-case for heroes, lower-case for villains–highlighting the various characters of the Marvel Comics universe. T-shirts, prints, and various other ephemera are available here and here. I’ve got most of them […]
Catch Wonderwoman with her pants down, see Spiderman get really into dental hygiene and peep some hot hero on hero action in this series of posters by Greg Guillemin. Private moments. Big personalities. Voyeuristic crops. And they’re all for sale. Because waking up to Batman and Robin macking on your wall is an em-super-powering experience. […]
German Designer Aslan Malik created this badass line of dollar bills beautified with some of DC’s greatest heroes–Ben Franklin becomes the Green Lantern, Abe Lincoln is the Flash, Andrew Jackson makes quite a fetching Wonder Woman, et cetera. Next I want to see Aztek on a Peso and Super-Chief on a Buffalo Nickel. Check out […]
