DJ Food, who we’ve interviewed in these pages before (e.g. DJ Food Interview: Recording “The Search Engine”, Rolling Cigarettes with Herbaliser & Designing the Coolest Label Logo Ever), has put together a special mixtape in honor of Free Comicbook Day. We love us some DJ Food, who also did an amazing Tribute to the Beastie [...]
The life of a superhero isn’t just about whipping up on Turk and Grotto, hanging out in underground lairs and foiling the evil conspiracies of guys like Dr. Doom, Sebastian Shaw and Kingpin, there’s a certain level of banality in their every day lives that we rarely see. That is until Gregoire Guillemin decided to [...]
A ring is a gingerly applied accessory. Too many and you look like a TGIF-sponsored Guy Fieri clone, but used just right the proper ring can go a long way. Unless you rock knuckledusters, however, there are very few rings that will grant you the functionality of The Man ring. Crafted from aerospace grade titanium, [...]
After the big screen was recently rocked by The Dark Knight Rises, the toy pioneers at LEGO only found it appropriate to update their Super Hero Collection with the latest additions from the DC and Marvel cosmos. The updated series includes Bane, the new terrorist leader who overwhelmed Gotham’s finest, Venom, Spiderman and a re-mastered Batman. [...]
Subtext Gallery in San Diego is hosting artist Tim Maclean’s first solo show, Fragments & Phantoms, which opened July 14 during Comic Con. The timing makes sense given Maclean’s work plays on fantasy’s invasion of the real world, much like Comic Con itself. Fantasy stems from the mental realm, or as Maclean says, “the place where [...]
The Marvellini brothers of Milan are injecting surreal into the 21st century. Firebombing tactics of dining hall wall grandeur, they’ve created a name for themselves in Italy through the digital enhancement of vintage portraits. Not into retouching, their enhancement reigns in obscuring features by way of a virtual Marvel masquerade — adorned with masks of [...]
Anyone who has watched Big Bang Theory will attest to the hotness factor surrounding Kaley Cuoco. A girl that’s tall, beautiful and blonde, but also has the wits to go toe-to-toe with two physicists is a girl that knows the path to my heart. Plus, she rocks a damn good Wonder Woman outfit to boot. [...]
Superheroes of today having nothing on the heroes of yesteryear, but that hasn’t stopped designer Beau Reid from creating the only means of transportation that would make any clockwatching cubicle monkey feel like Ghost Rider whipping around corners at 60mph. Reid, of Beau Designs, has created the GK2G: an F1-inspired go-kart concept with true mobility [...]
