Me Geek, You Geek

As a proud daddy who loves playing LBP with his daughter and a comic book geek for eternity, I have to say I was truly giddy when I saw that Marvel is licensing three (maybe more?) of their characters as purchasable “skins” for Little Big Planet.

Kotaku is reporting that Marvel Comics will be lending Captain America, Wolverine, and Iron Man to the LBP universe.

It makes sense that Iron Man and Wolverine are getting the LBP justice (Iron Man 2 is coming and Wolverine is Wolverine) but Cap usually doesn’t get this treatment.

So unless it has to deal with licensing and Spider-Man was tied up at the moment, it appears Captain America is about to make a splash! Could this be Captain America movie news? Or maybe just a reiteration of the play Cap is getting in his comic book, coming back from the dead and all that.

Hopefully, more characters will follow and some day I’ll be playing Daredevil on one of the more than 1 million (MILLION!) LBP levels.

Woot!

Here’s a glimpse of Captain America, Little-Big-Planet-ized:

Awww…ain’t he cute?!

In other Marvel video game news, it looks like Ultimate Alliance 2 is coming along rather nicely. Looking to get my hands on this little number too! In UA:2 I’m sure to get my Daredevil video game fix!

Labels: Comics, Marvel Comics, Video Games

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A very cool announcement came out this past week regarding new Bone stories from Jeff Smith!

In the article Jeff is quoted as saying,

“I always said I would find a way to draw more Bone stories, and now I have.”

Anyone who calls themselves a comic book fan has almost certainly read “Bone”. With 4.5 million books in print, it’s safe to say there’s an audience out there for these new books.

So good luck to you Mr. Smith! I eagerly anticipate the little Bones return!

For more information from the story make sure to click the link!

Labels: Comics

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If you don’t mind me starting some pretty stimulating conversation, please read on. If you do mind it, you might want to come back a little later in the week after a couple new posts have been put up.

As you can see to the left, there’s a new image, albeit blurry, that shows Scarlett Johansson as the Black Widow in the upcoming Iron Man 2 film.

And all I can say is wow!

Is that not exactly what the Black Widow should look like? The stingers. The tight suit. The red hair, the curls! And eyes which would memorize you in to a drooling sack of nothingness as she slowly walks up to kick your ass.

Having Scarlett in as the Black Widow, looking like this, raises my expectation for Iron Man 2 even more. C’mon Favreau, strike gold twice.

Now, again, this post is going to mostly recognize Scarlett’s beauty and how said beauty will translate over to the Black Widow. But obviously, simply finding the hottest gal to fill the Widow role would have been disastrous. You also need someone who can play the role and professionally act. Ms. Johansson has a list of awards which demonstrate her acting abilities, MGYG is here to talk about her look as the Black Widow.

As a Daredevil lover I’ve always had a comic book crush on the Black Widow. How could you not when you’re 14 and you see stuff like this going on in your four color rags:

Here outfit never left much to the imagination. Not only that, but sexist stuff like this would crop up from time to time:

Yikes!

Truly, Scarlett Johansson has the face, the hair, and the body to fill out the Black Widow outfit.  If you don’t believe me, I offer you Exhibit A:

Exhibit B:

And finally, Exhibit C:

If there’s still any doubters among you, step away.

UPDATE 07.25.2009: This new pic of Scarlett has now hit the web. A little less nude than the above posts, but still sexy!

Labels: Comics, Commentary, Marvel Comics, Movies, News

Posted by Jon at 10:06 AM | Permalink | Comments | links to this post

Okay, every once in a while I come across an artist that simply blows me away with his or her work.  You know, the kind of art that grabs you buy the sack and makes you sit up and take notice (apologies to the ladies).

Also, apologies to Luke since I haven’t run this post past him yet and am displaying many of his images here. So Luke, if you read this and are ticked off, well, come on over, kick my ass, and I will shake your hand and take the images down. Swear!

I came across Luke Radl’s site and had to click through each and every image he posted. I then had to check out his blog, read his posts, follow him on Twitter, you know, all the freaky, creepy social networking stuff we do these days.

But enough of my garbage, let’s let his art talk for itself.

This was the first piece that I saw of Luke’s. This is the piece that grabbed the sack and ended up taking the next 30 minutes of my life as I sifted through his site:

Love this strip. Cute with a little Joe Kubert inspiration? And yes, I am comparing him to Kubert.

Here’s a pic of some real life. Check out his versatility here. In the comic above he does Joe Kubert and Bill Watterson.  Here he does photo realistic image.

You can never go wrong with Chewbacca! And I love his interpretation…

Some more versatility…

His sense of design and layout. Is anything better than seeing an artist’s sketch work? Nothing is more pure than roughs…

Some more creativity and design…

And the pièce de résistance. This is my new desktop wallpaper. I spent this morning writing a post on how traditional Superman needs to be. Ironic that I am writing the last post of the day and including the most iconic picture of Spider-Man I’ve ever seen.

Norman Rockwell eat your heart out…

Luke Radl: Website Blog Twitter Bio

Labels: Artist Watch

Posted by Jon at 10:25 PM | Permalink | Comments | links to this post

Oh no. Not this again. Warner Bros. is still on target to make the next Superman movie a darker, edgier version.

Yikes…

Do they seriously not get the Superman property? With Superman you have to go boy scout, you have to go pure, you have to go traditional. Stop telling me that people don’t want to watch a Superman movie with morals and a “good vs. evil attitude”. I don’t buy it. Didn’t they try this “edgy” version of Supes in the last movie?

“Superman Returns” gave us a real S.O.B. of a character when we find out he knocked up Lois and then took off. We see that he’s a really creepy dude when he’s spying on Lois all night. I mean that took the cake right there, what all 13 boys fantasize about, being able to see through walls in order to watch a gal you have a crush on, happens in a Superman movie!?

In “Superman Returns" we all rejoiced to see Superman saving a crashing airplane. We loved that scene! And then everything went down hill from there. With Superman taking a back seat to Lex Luther for the last half of the film and then the whole Kryptonite-makes-Superman-weak crap which has been played out so many times.

So, what does WB do? They talk about making him even edgier. Darker. Oh c’mon! What’s next for ol’ Supes, stealing children, killing people, drinking in a bar to get over an ex-girlfriend he knocked up? Oh wait, that happened in “Superman Returns.” Damn!

Give us what we really want. Give us Good vs. Evil. Give us Superman saving the day. Saving the day in Metropolis. Where people can see it happen, can see themselves being saved. Can cheer! Not out on some ice cap.

Give us romance, but traditional romance, don’t have any three ways with Lois and Lana (although that would be edgier). Give us a villain worth fighting. And by this I mean, if you want to go edgier and darker, have some bad sh!t happen in the beginning of the film. Have the villain kill lots of people. Stack up traditional Superman against today’s mentality of bad guys.

And have Superman get in to some power slugfests!  I want to see him kicking ass, not on his knees for half the movie!

Just keep my Superman pure man!

Labels: Commentary, DC Comics, Movies, News

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