Patton Oswalt’s Epic ‘Star Wars’ Rant On ‘Parks and Recreation’

By Joseph Hughes

Parks and Recreation, a show about politics in a small U.S. town, often finds clever ways to parody various topical issues taking place in Washington D.C. Tomorrow’s episode is no different, as this time they’re taking a shot at much debated filibuster reform, and they’ve enlisted the help of Patton Oswalt to do so. Oswalt, playing the role of one of Pawnee’s many insane passionate citizens, goes on a completely improvised nerd rant in which he recites what he believes should be the plot of the upcoming Star Wars Episode VII, including an aging Luke, Han and Leia crossing over into the Marvel film universe as they team up with the Avengers, Spider-Man, the X-Men and more to take on Thanos. Not all of the Avengers make it into Oswalt’s cut, as he’s replaced “second tier” characters Hawkeye and Black Widow with noted Marvel A-lister Moon Knight. Naturally.

You can see the full video above, and while this is obviously meant to be a joke, let us all pray to our respective deity’s that no executive at Disney ever hears this proposal.

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Link Ink: Art: Michael Mateyko visualizes 50 years of team members in a hearty poster Assembling Marvel’s Avengers. [io9]
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Art: Michael Mateyko visualizes 50 years of team members in a hearty poster Assembling Marvel’s Avengers. [io9]

The Avengers Take Over The Powerpuff Girls’ Opening, Move Avengers Mansion To Townsville

By Joseph Hughes

If his Tumblr page is any indication, Iros Yan is a pretty big fan of both the Avengers and the Powerpuff Girls. He’s also fond of combining the two, and a quick look through his Tumblr shows that he’s been creating various comics and illustrations depicting the Avengers in Powerpuff Girls style art for some time. But he may have just outdone himself with a recreation of the Powerpuff Girls opening credits that features Thor, Captain America and Iron Man standing in for Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup.

chrishaley:

Here I have drawn the god of thunder, THE MIGHTY THOR!

This is my take on how he looks in his snazzy new “Marvel NOW!” costume.

He looks plenty angry about something though, so perhaps someone made fun of his new costume in spite of how snazzy it looks.

This was colored by the thunderously talented, Joe Hunter!

I included the photos of the original art to show you what it looks like and to let you know that it is for sale in my Etsy store!

Perhaps you’d like it for yourself, or perhaps you have a friend that might enjoy it as some kind of holiday gift!

You can also get a print or a t-shirt or an iPhone case or a pillow with this on it over at my Society6 store!

Don’t believe me? Look at these pictures!

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I told you it was on a pillow!

Drawing things is how I make my living, so, if you’d like to buy it that would be awesome, but if you can’t afford it but still want to help me out, your reblogs are VERY appreciated!

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xo
ch 

LINK INK: Gaming: If you prefer traditional pinball to the digital variety, Stern Pinball’s new ($8099) The Avengers table may be up your alley. [CBR]
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Gaming: If you prefer traditional pinball to the digital variety, Stern Pinball’s new ($8099) The Avengers table may be up your alley. [CBR]

The Avengers Team With Pokemon In Pairings By FerioWind By Caleb Goellner As much as we’ve enjoyed imaging our own Pokémon/Marvel Comics mahsups here at ComicsAlliance, there are always more skilled artists embracing their mutual fandoms to celebrate. Take Feriowind, who has coupled the stars of The Avengers movie with adorable pocket monsters in a series of illustrations you may love with all your heart (gold) and soul (silver). The Avengers/Pokémon pairings are fun because they don’t just focus on the power attributes of each character, but also their personality types. Thor, for example, can be seen hanging with a number of electric-type buds like Pichu, while Nick Fury kicks it with Mewtwo and Agent Phil Coulson works alongside Gallade. A 22-year-old student at SVA in New York City, the artist is currently selling all 13 of her “Pokévengers” pieces in the form of 5X7” prints, which cost $23 as a set, $3 solo, or $5 for two (plus $1-2 for shipping, depending on whether you live in the US). Of course, if you’d like something a bit more custom, Feriowind also takes sketch commissions. You can check out Feriowind’s Pokévengers, plus The Amazing Spider-Man and his Poképals, on ComicsAlliance!
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The Avengers Team With Pokemon In Pairings By FerioWind

By Caleb Goellner

As much as we’ve enjoyed imaging our own Pokémon/Marvel Comics mahsups here at ComicsAlliance, there are always more skilled artists embracing their mutual fandoms to celebrate. Take Feriowind, who has coupled the stars of The Avengers movie with adorable pocket monsters in a series of illustrations you may love with all your heart (gold) and soul (silver). The Avengers/Pokémon pairings are fun because they don’t just focus on the power attributes of each character, but also their personality types. Thor, for example, can be seen hanging with a number of electric-type buds like Pichu, while Nick Fury kicks it with Mewtwo and Agent Phil Coulson works alongside Gallade. A 22-year-old student at SVA in New York City, the artist is currently selling all 13 of her “Pokévengers” pieces in the form of 5X7” prints, which cost $23 as a set, $3 solo, or $5 for two (plus $1-2 for shipping, depending on whether you live in the US). Of course, if you’d like something a bit more custom, Feriowind also takes sketch commissions.

You can check out Feriowind’s Pokévengers, plus The Amazing Spider-Man and his Poképals, on ComicsAlliance!

‘Saturday Night Live’ Imagines Hawkeye Running Out Of Arrows In ‘The Avengers’ [Video]

By Caleb Goellner

In the pages of most Marvel comics, Hawkeye tends to draw arrows from a bottomless quiver, which furnishes everything he needs until the plot demands otherwise. For those rare occasions that the Avengers’ resident archer does run out of ammo, the Captain America trained fighter is usually resourceful enough to improvise projectiles or fall back on melee techniques. We say “usually,” because, as seen on last night’s Saturday Night Live (hosted by none other than The Avengers movie Hawkeye, Jeremy Renner), sometimes the guy comes up short. We’re not judging - I mean, there’s a reason Clint Barton chugged Pym particles back in the day to become Goliath.

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Agent Coulson Joins The Hot Toys Avengers With New Movie Masterpiece Action Figure By Caleb Goellner Not content to merely star in The Avengers, its multiple connected Marvel movies and the upcoming SHIELDTV series on ABC, actor Clark Gregg has Tweeted that “And now this aging fanboy can die happy…” withAgent Phil Coulson finally receiving an action figure from the scary-accurate Hot Toys. Though his character is arguably the most beloved fixture in The Avengers multimedia empire, Gregg’s likeness has been skipped over by Hasbro and most other toy licensees due to Coulson, well, more or less being a dude in a suit rather than, say, a god with a hammer and cape (although he did get a Minimate in the Thor movie line). Toyeticism, man! Hot Toys began teasing an Agent Coulson release over the summer amid the flurry of toy reveals for essentially the entire rest of The Avengers movie lineup, but these are the first official images of the full figure. Full solicitation info hasn’t surfaced yet, but if it’s anything like the rest of the HT Avengers figures, its release date is likely later in 2013 with a price tag in the $200 range. You can see an accessory-packed press photos of the Agent Coulson Hot Toys figure after the cut. READ MORE HERE
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Agent Coulson Joins The Hot Toys Avengers With New Movie Masterpiece Action Figure

By Caleb Goellner

Not content to merely star in The Avengers, its multiple connected Marvel movies and the upcoming SHIELDTV series on ABC, actor Clark Gregg has Tweeted that “And now this aging fanboy can die happy…” withAgent Phil Coulson finally receiving an action figure from the scary-accurate Hot Toys. Though his character is arguably the most beloved fixture in The Avengers multimedia empire, Gregg’s likeness has been skipped over by Hasbro and most other toy licensees due to Coulson, well, more or less being a dude in a suit rather than, say, a god with a hammer and cape (although he did get a Minimate in the Thor movie line). Toyeticism, man! Hot Toys began teasing an Agent Coulson release over the summer amid the flurry of toy reveals for essentially the entire rest of The Avengers movie lineup, but these are the first official images of the full figure. Full solicitation info hasn’t surfaced yet, but if it’s anything like the rest of the HT Avengers figures, its release date is likely later in 2013 with a price tag in the $200 range. You can see an accessory-packed press photos of the Agent Coulson Hot Toys figure after the cut.

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Rick Remender Adds Familiar Faces to ‘Uncanny Avengers’ Roster By Joseph Hughes On a conference call with comics press today, writer Rick Remender and editor Tom Breevort revealed additions to the Uncanny Avengers team. Starting with issue #5, the team’s roster will expand to nine members, with Sunfire, Wonder Man, and The Wasp joining the cast. It was also revealed that Olivier Coipel will be the guest artist for issue 5, spelling regular series artist John Cassaday. Marvel has provided the Cassaday drawn cover to Uncanny Avengers#5, which you can see in full after the cut. READ MORE HERE
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Rick Remender Adds Familiar Faces to ‘Uncanny Avengers’ Roster

By Joseph Hughes

On a conference call with comics press today, writer Rick Remender and editor Tom Breevort revealed additions to the Uncanny Avengers team. Starting with issue #5, the team’s roster will expand to nine members, with Sunfire, Wonder Man, and The Wasp joining the cast. It was also revealed that Olivier Coipel will be the guest artist for issue 5, spelling regular series artist John Cassaday.

Marvel has provided the Cassaday drawn cover to Uncanny Avengers#5, which you can see in full after the cut.

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Unusually Realistic Dinosaurs Dressed as The Avengers By Laura Hudson A creature designer who worked on Star Wars: Episode I and illustrated The Katurran Odyssey, Terryl Whitlatch was also once a student of zoology, a knowledge base that she recently put to valuable use by drawing some unusually realistic-looking pictures of the Avengers dressed as dinosaurs. See more.
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Unusually Realistic Dinosaurs Dressed as The Avengers

By Laura Hudson

A creature designer who worked on Star Wars: Episode I and illustrated The Katurran Odyssey, Terryl Whitlatch was also once a student of zoology, a knowledge base that she recently put to valuable use by drawing some unusually realistic-looking pictures of the Avengers dressed as dinosaurs.

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