Post-Punk/New Wave Icons as Super Heroes

This great super hero/post-punk hero crossover is pretty impressive. Created by Brazilian designer/illustrator Butcher Billy, you can buy them as prints, t-shirts and iphone covers - just click on the link. I quite fancy the Batman/Ian Curtis one as a t-shirt.

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October 8, 1871: The Night America Burned

The Great Chicago Fire is the most famous inferno in American history. But it wasn't even the worst fire that night. This is the story of America's most fiery night, and the crackpot theory about a lost comet that's meant to explain what really happened.

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In this week's comics, Archie meets KISS and DMZ wraps up!

Look at that cover art above! Archie! KISS! Sabrina the Teenage Witch! Jughead! I'd accuse somebody of going inside my head and stealing my mental fan fiction, but there's no appearance by David Lee Roth as a pyrokinetic centaur! It's fair game! Without further ado, the comics in stores tomorrow!

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Read an exclusive 4-page preview of DC Comics' The Fury of Firestorm!

Courtesy of DC Comics, here's an exclusive sneak peek at the next issue of The Fury of The Firestorm: The Nuclear Men by Gail Simone and Ethan Van Sciver. In this preview, superpowered teenager Ronnie Raymond confronts some heavily armed fellows with whom he has a bone to pick.

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Never-made 1980s action figures turned Robin into Mad Max (and Batman…

In the 1980s, toy manufacturer Kenner produced the Super Power collection of action figures for DC Comics. In an effort to capitalize on the Mad Max craze, Kenner also drafted designs for a line of "anti-hero" toys that recast DC heroes like Superman and Wonder Woman as leather-sporting ruin dwellers. As you can see…

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Firefly's Wash gets a proper good-bye in this week's comics

This Wednesday, the incomparable Patton Oswalt delivers his secret history of Hoban "Wash" Washburne in Serenity: Float Out. Mister "I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar" has deserved a formal send-off for years — about time.

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