Alan Moore as Tom Strong

Alan Moore as Tom Strong by Dylan Horrocks, who has comics on sale Amazon. Via.

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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen enter the swinging sixties

Cover to the next volume of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (which will hopefully be dramatically better than the last):

CHAPTER TWO takes place almost sixty years later in the psychedelic daze of Swinging London during 1968, a place where Tadukic Acid Diethylamide 26 is the drug of choice, and where different underworlds are starting to overlap dangerously to an accompaniment of sit-ins and sitars. The vicious gangster bosses of London’s East End find themselves brought into contact with a counter-culture underground of mystical and medicated flower-children, or amoral pop-stars on the edge of psychological disintegration and developing a taste for Satanism. Alerted to a threat concerning the same magic order that she and her colleagues were investigating during 1910, a thoroughly modern Mina Murray and her dwindling league of comrades attempt to navigate the perilous rapids of London’s hippy and criminal subculture, as well as the twilight world of its occultists. Starting to buckle from the pressures of the twentieth century and the weight of their own endless lives, Mina and her companions must nevertheless prevent the making of a Moonchild that might well turn out to be the antichrist.

Via these sites.

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Link roundup

1. Colourlovers has a fancy app for customizing your Twitter page background. Via.

2. "British intelligence services experimented with using semen as an invisible ink to write top-secret letters, it has been disclosed." "Mansfield Cumming" was the man in charge of the program. Via.

3. Hilarious parody by Alan Moore of Frank Miller's Daredevil. Via these sites.

*At Toycutter: Custom Daredevil toys.

*Buy Daredevil toys at Amazon.

Airplane emergencies can be awesome (link roundup)

One of three awesome airplane emergencies. Via.

And a few more links:

1. Read an interview with Jacen Burrows, artist on Alan Moore’s upcoming Neonomicon. Via.

2. Hula Squidgirl postcards.

3. Semi-personalized letter Steve Martin used to send out to fans. Via.

*Previously: Mega Shark vs. Airplane infographic.

*Buy dashboard hula girls at eBay.

Vintage Northern California Menu Collection (link roundup)

Go here for a gallery of vintage California menus. Via these sites.

And a few more links:

1. Judge warned Shepard Fairey that the AP is going to win its lawsuit, and urged Fairey to settle soon. Via.

2. i09 has a slightly more detailed explanation of The Mongoliad.

3. In the 80's, Alan Moore wrote Star Wars stories (Second story down).

4. Free lightsaber or Rex helmet if you buy $25 worth of Star Wars Merchandise.

*Previously: Anthony Bourdain's Overrated Menu.

*Buy Star Wars copmics by Alan Moore at Amazon.

Alan Moore doll (link roundup)

Alan Moore doll by Ryusuke Hamamoto. Via.

And a few more links:

1. Kabuki-style Sith markings.

2. Check out the hypnotic movement on Art Lebedev's Segmentus clock.

3. Spider-Man plus Superman plus a dash of Batman equals an amusing bootleg toy.

*Previously: Ragnarok: The Sci-Fi Animated Film Written By Alan Moore.

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Voltron reimagined (link roundup)

Redesigned Voltron by Chuck Lee.

And a few more links:

1. Enjoy the game trailer for Visions - A Christian MMO. Via these sites.

2. So a tauntaun walks into a bar.

3. Here's the website for the Alan Moore-published magazine Dodgem Logic. Via.

*Previously: Lego Voltron.

*Buy Voltron toys at eBay.

Video of bears playing ice hockey (link roundup)

Video of bears playing ice hockey. Via.

And a few more links:

1. The Chronicle Herald reports that Peta held an event to promote a new device that "humanely" kills lobsters and invited lots of people. Unfortunately, the device broke. So Peta instead killed hundreds of lobsters in the traditional inhumane manner to satiate the people they'd invited. Via.

2. Team Fortress 2 cosplay.

3. A comic strip about the Kool-Aid mascot by Alan Moore and Peter Bagge? Via.

*Previously: Gloomy Bear Gauntlets.

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Rabbis with guns (link roundup)

Does any newspaper even come close to the NY Post in terms of irresistible covers and headlines? Click through to see the "Temple of Boom" and "Mazel-Tough Guys." Via.

And a few more links:

1. Great interview in which Alan Moore talks about the genesis of the Miracleman stories that he wrote. Looking back, he says the stories are so "grim and ugly" that he doesn't want his name on them when they're republished. He's certainly right, they are grim (and excellent) in the manner of Watchmen (Neil Gamain's Miracleman: The Golden Age is also frequently horribly depressing), but I wonder how he distinguishes them from the graphic rapes and other misdeeds that star in his League books. Via.

2. Photo gallery of the interior of the new LAPD headquarters downtown. Via.

3. Hot rod pedal car.

*Previously: Jewish Journal April Fool's cover.

*Buy Miracleman toys at eBay.

Video of Charles Barkley hitting a bystander with a golf ball (link roundup)

Video of Charles Barkley hitting a bystander with a golf ball. Via.

And a few more links:

1. Team Fortress 2 fan art.

2. Night at the Museum 2 Happy Meal toys.

3. Which of our own closely held beliefs will our own children and grandchildren by appalled by? Reddit thread. Via.

4. Alan Moore paper toys. Via.

*Previously: Team Fortress 2 paper toys.

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If Hellboy had starred in Raiders of the Lost Ark (link roundup)

Lee Sargent mashes up Hellboy and Raiders of the Lost Ark. See also, What if Boba Fett was in Jaws.

And speaking of Hellboy, check out this new work by M.S. Corley featuring Helbboy, BPRD, and their famous enemies.

And a few more links:

1. The glow in the dark Creature from the Black Lagoon/Army Man figure I previously mentioned is now on sale for $30.

2. Unlike the Army Man, I don't think this humanoid spider toy was intended to be so delightfully atrocious.

3. Long interview with Alan Moore unfortunately at a website with white letters on a black background. He's already working on the next volume of League (set in 2009) and it sounds like he intends to write many more after.

4. Funny pie chart.

*Previously: Lego Hellboy bust.

*Find Hellboy toys at eBay.

Two Watchmen parodies

Lil' Watchmen by Glen Brogan. Via.



Alan Moore proves to be the mastermind as he derails the Watchmen movie opening in this parody of Ozymandia's triumphant moment in Watchmen. Via (source unknown).

*Previously: Adorable portly Nite-Owl.

*Buy Watchmen posters at eBay.

Children of the Watchmen art show

This is the poster for the Children of the Watchmen show at Brave New World Comics in Philadelphia, presented by the Philadelphia Cartoonist Society:



Alternative design here.

And here's one item from the show - - Lil' Hooded Justice by Chogrin Muñoz:



Go here to see Chogrin's equally adorable Joker.

*Previously: Vintage Nite-Owl comic book cover.

*Preorder Watchmen action figures at Entertainment Earth.

V for Vendetta, Assassin's Creed desktop icons

Go here to download these desktop icons, which include Altair from Assassin's Creed, V for Vendetta, a fireman, and more.

*Find more desktop icons here.

*Buy Assassin's Creed action figures at eBay.

A drawing of Alan Moore giving the V for Vendetta movie a standing ovation

D.J. Coffman's a genius and so are the people who come up with things for him to draw.

Update: This is timely, Alan Moore says "The 'Watchmen' film sounds like more regurgitated worms." Via.

*Previously: Drawing of Rob Liefeld complaining about his inability to draw feet.

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Dr. Manhattan poster by Dave Perillo

Dr. Manhattan poster by Dave Perillo. Click through to see his Nite-Owl poster.

Previously: Star Wars Cantina poster by Dave Perillo.

*Preorder Watchmen action figures at Entertainment Earth.

Nite-Owl's Owlship made out of Lego

Nite-Owl's Owlship made out of Lego by Christopher Doyle. Many more photos here. Via.

*Previously: Something Awful photoshops panels from The Watchmen.

*Find rare Watchmen collectibles at eBay.

The character of John Constantine was created because the artists wanted to draw Sting

Alan Moore, speaking about Steve Bissette and John Totleben:

One of those early notes was they both wanted to do a character that looked like Sting. I think DC is terrified that Sting will sue them, although Sting has seen the character and commented in Rolling Stone that he thought it was great. He was very flattered to have a comic character who looked like him, but DC gets nervous about these things. They started to eradicate all traces of references in the introduction of the early Swamp Thing books to John Constantine’s resemblance to Sting . But I can state categorically that the character only existed because Steve and John wanted to do a character that looked like Sting.

More Comic Book Urban Legends here.

Fan Art: When Tom Strong met the Fantastic Four

Tom Strong and Fantastic Four by ~DocShaner on deviantART

Watchmen Vietnam War Army Patch

Found here. Apparently a bit of swag given to people who worked on the movie.

*Previously: Awesome U.S. Military Patches.