Erica Henderson’s Farting Superhero Sketches Are A… Gas By Caleb Goellner I wasn’t able to hit HeroesCon this past weekend in sunny Charlotte, North Carolina, but I was able to routinely refresh my social media feeds from the comfort of my own home. As always at Heroes, an assemblage of awesome artists were cutting loose with wild commissions befitting the jovial spirit of the show, but only Erica Henderson (known in part for her work on Subatomic Party Girls with Chad Bowers and CA’s own Chris Sims) was genius — or perhaps nefarious? — enough to upload a series of farting sketches starring your favorite superheroes. Superman, Power Girl, Jubilee, Robin — no beloved character was held sacred! You can browse Henderson’s tantalizing array of tooting titans on ComicsAlliance!
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Erica Henderson’s Farting Superhero Sketches Are A… Gas

By Caleb Goellner

I wasn’t able to hit HeroesCon this past weekend in sunny Charlotte, North Carolina, but I was able to routinely refresh my social media feeds from the comfort of my own home. As always at Heroes, an assemblage of awesome artists were cutting loose with wild commissions befitting the jovial spirit of the show, but only Erica Henderson (known in part for her work on Subatomic Party Girls with Chad Bowers and CA’s own Chris Sims) was genius — or perhaps nefarious? — enough to upload a series of farting sketches starring your favorite superheroes. Superman, Power Girl, Jubilee, Robin — no beloved character was held sacred!
You can browse Henderson’s tantalizing array of tooting titans on ComicsAlliance!
‘Pokemon x Nic Cage’ Equals Unspeakable Terror By Matt D. Wilson I’ll come clean with you guys: I’ve always found Pokémon to be a little bit creepy. First off, there’s the concept of forced animal fighting, and the fact those creatures are kept in little red-and-white balls. Then, there are the Pokémon themselves, some of which, as we here at ComicsAlliance have documented, can be rather unsettling when you think about them.One enterprising, anonymous artist on Tumblr didn’t feel satisfied with Pokemon only being mildly disturbing, however, and thus created Pokémon x Nic Cage, in which the actor’s face is going to be added to all 151 of the original pocket monsters. Peer into the abyss of abject terror with a few selections from the site’s efforts on ComicsAlliance!
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‘Pokemon x Nic Cage’ Equals Unspeakable Terror

By Matt D. Wilson

I’ll come clean with you guys: I’ve always found Pokémon to be a little bit creepy. First off, there’s the concept of forced animal fighting, and the fact those creatures are kept in little red-and-white balls. Then, there are the Pokémon themselves, some of which, as we here at ComicsAlliance have documented, can be rather unsettling when you think about them.

One enterprising, anonymous artist on Tumblr didn’t feel satisfied with Pokemon only being mildly disturbing, however, and thus created Pokémon x Nic Cage, in which the actor’s face is going to be added to all 151 of the original pocket monsters.

Peer into the abyss of abject terror with a few selections from the site’s efforts on ComicsAlliance!

DC Takes Its First Shot At Making You Say ‘WTF’ By Joseph Hughes When it was time to solicit its titles that would be on shelves next month, DC Comics announced that April would be “WTF” month. As part of the initiative, the publisher stated that each comic in April would come with a gatefold cover that, when fully revealed, would shock the reader, making it 100% WTF Certified.This afternoon, DC Comics made it’s first reveal of one of these gatefolds, showing the full cover for Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo’s Batman #19. You can check out the first WTF moment on ComicsAlliance!
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DC Takes Its First Shot At Making You Say ‘WTF’

By Joseph Hughes

When it was time to solicit its titles that would be on shelves next month, DC Comics announced that April would be “WTF” month. As part of the initiative, the publisher stated that each comic in April would come with a gatefold cover that, when fully revealed, would shock the reader, making it 100% WTF Certified.

This afternoon, DC Comics made it’s first reveal of one of these gatefolds, showing the full cover for Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo’s Batman #19. You can check out the first WTF moment on ComicsAlliance!

Hey, it’s Colonel Sanders cosplaying Dragon Ball Z style in Japan. [Kotaku]
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Hey, it’s Colonel Sanders cosplaying Dragon Ball Z style in Japan. [Kotaku]

‘Superman Lives’ Indeed Via Nic Cage’s Serene Movie Life Mask By Caleb Goellner Over the past four years or so, fans have been treated to a host of screen test images, costume designs and various pieces of concept art from Warner Bros. and Tim Burton’s canceled $50 million cinematic experiment known as Superman Lives. Actor Nicolas Cage would’ve starred as a very different version of the Man of Steel in the film circa 1996-2000, as a story penned by Kevin Smith that amalgamated assorted chunks of Superman comics lore, including the hero’s 1992 death and return, plus a host of studio-mandated details. Though the project never got as far as the filming stage, Cage’s likeness was cast and utilized by scores of artists, designers and craftspeople as they imagined metallic/fiber-optic armor and other items enow to fill a Fortress of Solitude. Last week I got to see one of these Nic Cage “life masks” up close during a tour of the DC Comics office library in New York City, along with a few others. It was, no hyperbole intended, pretty awesome. You can take a look at all of the cinematic life masks DC had on display in its library — including George CLooney, Chris O’Donnell and Brandon Routh —  at ComicsAlliance.
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‘Superman Lives’ Indeed Via Nic Cage’s Serene Movie Life Mask

By Caleb Goellner

Over the past four years or so, fans have been treated to a host of screen test images, costume designs and various pieces of concept art from Warner Bros. and Tim Burton’s canceled $50 million cinematic experiment known as Superman Lives. Actor Nicolas Cage would’ve starred as a very different version of the Man of Steel in the film circa 1996-2000, as a story penned by Kevin Smith that amalgamated assorted chunks of Superman comics lore, including the hero’s 1992 death and return, plus a host of studio-mandated details. Though the project never got as far as the filming stage, Cage’s likeness was cast and utilized by scores of artists, designers and craftspeople as they imagined metallic/fiber-optic armor and other items enow to fill a Fortress of Solitude. Last week I got to see one of these Nic Cage “life masks” up close during a tour of the DC Comics office library in New York City, along with a few others. It was, no hyperbole intended, pretty awesome.

You can take a look at all of the cinematic life masks DC had on display in its library — including George CLooney, Chris O’Donnell and Brandon Routh —  at ComicsAlliance.
Michael K. Williams and Kagan McLeod Show You An R. Kelly Party In Comic Form [link]
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Michael K. Williams and Kagan McLeod Show You An R. Kelly Party In Comic Form [link]

The Machine-Gun Bra Is The Third Craziest Thing About The New Issue of ‘Tarot’ By Chris Sims Look, I think it’s fair to say that I’ve had my difficulties with Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose, Jim Balent’s long-running epic of mostly-naked witchity adventure. We all have. Dubious werewolves, eel trauma, the occasional haunted bathroom area… put it all together and it’s a hard comic to love. But there’s a reason I’ve bought every single issue for the past nine years, and never, ever want it to go away. And that reason is that every once in a while, Tarot will give you something amazing, like the image above of a woman with golden breast-mounted Gatling guns. It may be the single greatest image to grace a comic book since Superman smashed that car on Action #1, but here’s the thing: That is nowhere near the craziest thing to happen in the latest story. Read more.
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The Machine-Gun Bra Is The Third Craziest Thing About The New Issue of ‘Tarot’

By Chris Sims

Look, I think it’s fair to say that I’ve had my difficulties with Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose, Jim Balent’s long-running epic of mostly-naked witchity adventure. We all have. Dubious werewolves, eel trauma, the occasional haunted bathroom area… put it all together and it’s a hard comic to love.

But there’s a reason I’ve bought every single issue for the past nine years, and never, ever want it to go away. And that reason is that every once in a while, Tarot will give you something amazing, like the image above of a woman with golden breast-mounted Gatling guns. It may be the single greatest image to grace a comic book since Superman smashed that car on Action #1, but here’s the thing: That is nowhere near the craziest thing to happen in the latest story.

Read more.

‘The Situation’ Gets His Own Comic with Greg Horn Cover, End of Days Possibly At Hand By Chris Sims A while back, we brought you the news that Jersey Shore star Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino was teaming up with Wizard World to create a comic book about himself, which was somehow both mystifying and, given Wizard’s slow transition from taste-making comics mag to traveling celebrity sideshow, perfectly logical. Today, thanks to our colleagues over at MTV Geek, we now know the details of this upcoming masterpiece. In order to bring the Situation’s adventures to the page, he’ll be joined by artist Talent Caldwell, cover painter Greg Horn, and Eisner Award-winning writer Paul Jenkins. Really. Read more.
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‘The Situation’ Gets His Own Comic with Greg Horn Cover, End of Days Possibly At Hand

By Chris Sims

A while back, we brought you the news that Jersey Shore star Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino was teaming up with Wizard World to create a comic book about himself, which was somehow both mystifying and, given Wizard’s slow transition from taste-making comics mag to traveling celebrity sideshow, perfectly logical.

Today, thanks to our colleagues over at MTV Geek, we now know the details of this upcoming masterpiece. In order to bring the Situation’s adventures to the page, he’ll be joined by artist Talent Caldwell, cover painter Greg Horn, and Eisner Award-winning writer Paul Jenkins. Really.

Read more.

John Goodman’s Face Ensures You Will Never Look at Anime Girls the Same Again By Caleb Goellner There are few fundamental truths uniting humankind, but the statement, “John Goodman is beautiful,” clearly ranks among them. Already one of the internet’s most memetic celebrities, the esteemed actor’s inner and outer beauty illuminates all that it touches. The most recent phenomenon of Goodman goodness comes from the John Goodman Faces on Anime Girls Tumblr, which aggregates exactly what it purports. See more.
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John Goodman’s Face Ensures You Will Never Look at Anime Girls the Same Again

By Caleb Goellner

There are few fundamental truths uniting humankind, but the statement, “John Goodman is beautiful,” clearly ranks among them. Already one of the internet’s most memetic celebrities, the esteemed actor’s inner and outer beauty illuminates all that it touches. The most recent phenomenon of Goodman goodness comes from the John Goodman Faces on Anime Girls Tumblr, which aggregates exactly what it purports.

See more.