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We’re still working on a Halloween costume (yes, we always push this to the last minute), but we’re thinking the best way to go about the decision might be to see what the experts wear. By experts, of course, we mean people who wear costumes every day: superheroes.
As it happens, ComicsAlliance has just the listicle [...]

We’ve long had a fantasy of renting (buying even, maybe, since it’s a fantasy) an old church and turning it into a really cool loft-type thing. We almost did it once, but then realized that we couldn’t change the three story-tall stained glass images of Jesus and company being killed/tortured/abused, because the church was a [...]

As kids we had some killer cool lunch boxes. There was a Batman one for a little while in 5th grade that was totally hot. A couple years before we’d asserted our lunch box cool with a flashy red Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles number, but we eventually lost touch with our fans when we sported [...]

What’s a good sci-fi or fantasy series without a fascinating, deeply rich urban locale to serve as its backdrop? Batman’s got Gotham, Superman has Metropolis, and any comparable franchise that plans to stick around would do good to create comparable settings from which subplots and supporting characters can emerge to provide new narratives and continuing [...]

Being a good sidekick, as we noted yesterday with Robin’s Big Date, isn’t always the easiest task. You have to be prompt, reliable and yet sufficiently self-effacing and lacking in charisma to still allow the real star his or her time in the spotlight. Maxim, that great sidekick magazine, counts down The 10 Most Underrated [...]

Although YouTube abounds with heaps of evidence to support the argument that cheap video equipment is dumbing down the world, wasting energy and killing creativity, there are plenty of works that suggest the opposite. The advances in fan films, for instance, are proof that new, cheaper technology levels the playing field in a productive way. [...]

We’re suckers for cool and cute animated images, which is why we couldn’t pass up this image of 18 Really Fast Superheroes. We also wanted to make you think, with our choice of title, that this would be a dense, comic book lore-heavy listicle of superheroes endowed with the ability to achieve extreme speeds. Did [...]

You’re probably too young to remember this (in truth, so are we), but during the run of the original Batman series (1966-68) there was a recurring joke that whenever the caped crusader and his birdy assistant Robin were climbing up a building, someone famous would poke their head out to say high. It was pretty [...]

It’s funny, we’re always disappointed to learn that a character we’ve come to love isn’t actually as original and unique as we thought. Like our uncle Ted, who we thought was just the sweetest guy, but turned out to be a documentary filmmaker making a life-long project about the decline of the modern family. That’s [...]

Something that hadn’t dawned on us until just now: with stable, wage-earning jobs becoming ever-more scarce, will we suddenly see a sharp increase in dubious and unfounded lawsuits? If so, you’d better get creative because there’s no telling who’ll take you to court over an issue so trifling you that didn’t even know it was [...]