Category Archives: Comics

Reverse Cone-ing

There’s a scene in Batman #496 – 1993’s Knightfall story arc, supposedly the source material for much of Nolan’s TDKR – where Joker and Scarecrow set about terrorising Gotham through a series of prank calls. In one panel they’re evading the police in an ice-cream truck, until they reach a toll booth… And that’s when this happens: […]

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Pixar’s Zoetrope and the 4th Dimension

As leaders in computer animation, in terms of box-office takings, technical prowess and industry awards, it’s easy to forget that Pixar’s roots are in traditional animation: the frame by frame progression of a set of still images at speeds that trick the eye into perceiving a single moving image. But in the Age of Mechanical […]

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Superhuman Babies

French artist Alexandre Nicolas has produced some quite beautiful sculptures of superheroes in a foetal state. The work comprises his 2008 series: PRÉDESTINÉS, working in his preferred media acrylic and resin. I think these pieces inherit a special fragility because we’d usually see these characters (Hulk; Silver Surfer; Batman etc) as fully-grown and badass, whereas here they are quite […]

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Super Social Networking

Chris Sims from Invincible Super-Blog takes a look at the Facebook feeds of our favorite heroes, which I thought some of you might like: Well I thought it was cool, anyway…!

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Filter Heroes

Just a quick one that any lover of Photoshop will enjoy, from the mad-skills team over at Chop Shop T-Shirts. I love how ‘Silver Age‘ these characters look: Sometimes, those Photoshop filters really do feel like superheroes to me. What’s your favourite tool? And if it was a superhero, what would it’s power be?

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