Everyday Iron Man Suits

Saw this today and had to re-post



Loved that it is “bullet proof.”

Meanwhile, over @ Diggg

Not quite sure what is going on, but I just learned that I have four new followers over at my Digg page.

Apparently I'm (nearly) famous (again).

How cool is that?

Stan Lee’s Oscar Campaign

You read that right, kids, Stan Lee the guy who built the Marvel Universe and saved comics from extinction, is campaigning for an Oscar, which he totally deserves.  Check it out over at Funny or Die.

Stan’s Cameos in the various Marvel films:

I say we besiege the Academy with a write-in campaign.

Who’s with me?

Another Index from Marvel

Hey kids, it looks like I’m nearly famous again! Yep, another of the soft-cover Official Indexes of the Marvel Universe has come out (this one about Ghost Rider), and, yep, I’m a contributor, again. How cool is that?

Superheroes

Not quite sure what this is all about, but it was kind of interesting, so I thought I’d share..

OK kids, here is a fun way to start out the new year, apparently Marvel Comics lawyers, are having a very real-world battle attempting to prove that the company's mutant characters aren’t human. 


Really. Want to know why? well, if they aren’t human, then it costs the company less to export them to other countries. Seriously

In the non-fictional world, our world, Marvel is taking the position that mutants are not humans at all. But this isn’t an ideological or a moral stance. Instead, it is a financial one. Toys manufactured in other countries and imported into the US are subject to taxes, but those taxes are lower if the toys represent non-human characters. That has led to Marvel lawyers arguing that an action figure representing, say, Wolverine, is actually “representing animals or other non-human creatures (for example, robots and monsters).” This argument leads to a good conversation on the questions of humanity and acceptance that have long been part of the X-Men storyline.

We really can’t make this stuff up.

DC & the Big Bang

We just discovered The Big Bang Theory. Yeah, yeah we know that it has been on TV for a bit, but for whatever reason  we just never sat down to watch it. However, now that it is on TBS, we have become a big fan. We love all the geeky Sci-Fi, fantasy, Comicbook, collectible references. Plus we also enjoy that the main characters are all braniac scientists, most of whom can't figure out how to exist in normal society. Still we were curious as to why all of the comic book references were DC rather than Marvel. Then we saw this:

Bummer, eh?