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The new Fantastic Four costumes

I couldn't possibly care less about Spider-Man joining the team, but I like the upbeat science hero feel of the new Fantastic Four costumes.

*Buy Heroclix at eBay.

A puff of smoke appears

A few panels from this collection of scans from The Fantastic Four in the House of Horrors (A Big Little Book). The book is available at eBay and Amazon. Via.

Travel posters for famous comic book locations

Travel posters for Gotham, Metropolis, Neo Tokyo, and New York by Justin Van Genderen on sale here.

*Buy travel posters at Amazon.

OrangeDial OysterDate (link roundup)

Rolex OrangeDial Oyster Date spotted here.

And a few more links:

1. Diego and Kai Lan drive a Yum Yum-themed car for a Nickelodeon Grand Prix charity race.

2. Motke Dapp's Twitter feed is one bizarre short story after another. For example:

Every time he sneezed, faeries shot out his nose and mouth. He found it unusual but loved the delicious breakfast they would make for him.

3. Fantastic Four/Beatles mashup.

*Previously: Gallery of stills from The Beatles Rock Band outro trailer.

*Buy OysterDate watches at eBay.

Hulk/Snow White mashup and other abominations

Some creative concepts on display in the Worth1000 Disney/Marvel mashup gallery, including G-Force and the Punisher. You'll find high-res versions of the images above at the link. Via these sites.

*Previously: G-Force/Gatchaman mashup.

*Buy Tokyo Disneyland toys at eBay.

Cartoony versions of the Fantastic Four and their enemies

Cartoony versions of the Fantastic Four, Franklin, Doctor Doom, and Annihilus by Bob Strang. You can find desktop wallpaper sized images at these links. And don't miss his take on the Darkstalkers and sci-fi girl on a rocket sled.

*Previously: Turn of the century occult heroes Fantastic Four.

*Buy Annihilus toys at eBay.

Turn of the century occult hero Fantastic Four (link roundup)

"Turn of the century occult hero Fantastic Four" by genesischant, who is currently seeking commissions.

And a few more links:

1. Drawing of a "pirate with 10 fingers on each hand, 8 eyes, and 2 million teeth."

2. The Dead Weather's (Jack White's latest band) June 22 concert will stream live. Via.

3. In the month of May, the median age for John Stewart's show was 41.4, and Stephen Colbert's was 38.3. Via.

4. No joke, I recently received a pr email from a publicist who was representing an ad agency.

*Previously: The Fantastic Four as hobo animals.

*Buy Fantastic Four toys at eBay.

Jim Rugg cover for the LA Weekly (link roundup)

The cover of this week's LA Weekly is by Jim Rugg.

And a few more links:

1. The Ashley Wood toys are really too expensive to have problems like this.

2. Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus starring Deborah Gibson and Lorenzo Lamas. Stills of the monsters here. Via.

3. While exploring the site of The Asylum, makers of the Mega Shark movie, I found this giant nigiri.

4. Some people create custom Thing action figures. Other people create custom Thing televisions.

*Previously: Shark plane.

*Learn how to make sushi with these books at Amazon.

Adam Koford reveals the true secret origin of the Fantastic Four's powers (link roundup)

Adam Koford reveals the true secret origin of the Fantastic Four's powers.

And a few more links:

1. Coming soon from Burger King: superdeformed Star Trek figures and vehicles.

2. There's still a little time left to try to win a signed copy of Eisner-nominated comic book Sentences.

3. A "photo featured in Alberta's newest tourism campaign shows children running along a rugged beachfront, but it isn't from Alberta. The picture was shot near the village of Bamburgh in Northumberland, England, it's a famous beach, near Bamburgh Castle, known as the legendary home of Sir Lancelot." Photo link. (You know, a clever way to get publicity for something like the home of Lancelot would be to just make up a story like this.) Via.

4. Yet another alternate Twitter icon.

*Previously: More Twitter icons.

*Buy the Adam Koford-designed Super Punch logo on merchandise at Zazzle.

Neon plastic horsemen desktop wallpaper (link roundup)

Valt3r Rav3ra's Flickr gallery is full of beautiful desktop wallpaper sized images, including these neon blue plastic horsemen, and this mournful statue.

And a few more links:

1. Adorable animated gifs of the Human Torch, Mazinger, and Gizmo turning into a Gremlin.

2. A claim that the Mormon Church, US Marines, and others are buying votes at Digg and Stumbleupon. Via.

3. Self defense pen. (I'm not sure what makes it a self defense pen other than it's strong and useful for stabbing.) Via.

4. A guy who sued Google in small claims court and won tells his story. Via.

*Previously: Mazinger desktop wallpaper.

*Buy Mazinger toys at eBay.

Katie Cook parodies the cover to Fantastic Four #1

Katie Cook's parody of the cover to Fantastic Four number 1, made for the Rittenhouse Fantastic Four Archives trading card set.

And also by Katie:

Hulk and Spider-Man Marvel Masterpiece sketch cards.

*Previously: Mickey Mouse stars in a parody of FF #1.

*Buy Katie Cook sketch cards at eBay.

Please, big, wet man, don't stab me with your giant torpedo

Some hilarious covers in the Marvel Solicitations for April 2009:

Moon Knight against some pro wrestlers on the cover of Moon Knight #29 by Gabriele Dell'Otto.

Arthur Suydam proves a flaming skull can really emote with the cover of Ghost Rider #34.

Pasqual Ferry captures the spirit of the Fantastic Four with the cover to Dark Reign: Fantastic Four #2.

And Namor threatens to shove his torpedo into a man paralyzed with awe on the cover to Sub-Mariner Comics #1 70th Anniversary Special by Marcos Martin.

Best cover of the month is:

Sonny Liew's cover to Pride & Prejudice #1.

*Previously: Wonder Woman sure faced a lot of big missiles in her day.

*Buy "Lost in Austen: Create Your Own Jane Austen Adventure" at Amazon.

The Fantastic Four as animals

The Fantastic Fauna by Colin Gauntlett. You can vote for the design at Design By Humans.

*At my custom toy site: Custom Skrull action figures.

*Buy Fantastic Four toys at eBay.

Reed doesn't like the way Norrin's looking at Sue

FANTASTIC COUPLE by ~sistema-nervoso on deviant ART

Fantastic Four/Silver Surfer art by Miguel Alves.

*Previously: Mirrors give viewer the powers of the Fantastic Four.

*Buy Marvel Legends action figures at eBay.

I'd forgotten how disturbing Chris Claremont's X-Men comics were

Brian Cronin posted some pages from a Phoenix series by Chris Claremont and Rick Leonardi that was begun but never completed. This splash page seems harmless, but I've read enough of Claremont's work to know something terrible's going to happen next.

And sure enough, you can click through to see gruesome death.

I assume it's because I read too many comics that were too mature for me at the time, including Rachel Summers as a Hound (I never did find out what the backstory was for that). I wonder if somewhere there's a bunch of kids that read Joss Whedon's run on X-Men and will always be creeped out by Emma Frost and the bug room.

Here's the first couple covers of the Fantastic Four vs. the X-Men mini-series that I absolutely should not have been permitted to buy.