This Metaphor Can Kick Your Ass
The latest movie featuring Marvel’s metal-clad hero, Iron Man 3, manages to do something seemingly impossible. It takes Tony Stark’s character down a more serious path without losing any of the inherent fun superhero stories should have. In fact, if Iron Man is Marvel’s Batman (both rich white guys with no superpowers but lots of [...]
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Homemade Birthday Cards 2005: Dash from The Incredibles and Metroid’s Samus
Max’s 5th custom Birthday card: Dash from the Pixar film, The Incredibles. When I first presented this card to Max on his 5th Birthday, it was the first bad reaction from the boys about any of their cards. He was obviously weirded out by it but tried to put on a twitchy artificial smile; he [...]
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The Muppet X-Men
It’s like he stepped inside my mind and drew my fantasies. Mr. Ken Haeser, a writer and artist out of New Jersey, has a talent for BEING AWESOME. He has created, what I consider, to be a magnum opus of crossovers. My eyes have melted from the sight of it. Does this prove to you [...]
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Marvel Superheroes
And then Marvel went from creating superheroes to becoming superheroes themselves… A young boy from New Hampshire decided three weeks ago that he wasn’t going to wear his hearing aid any longer. His reason? None of his superhero idols wore hearing aids. Four-year-old Anthony Smith loves comic books, has no use of one ear, and [...]
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Name that Superhero Diaper Pail!
[ click the image to enlarge ] Everyone poops. Even superheroes. Though, having been a bit of a collector in my youth, I can tell you it’s not something that you’ll ever see depicted in the colorful storyboard format of a comic book or its blockbuster movie adaptation. “Hey, Alfred! Can you hand me a [...]
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Homemade Birthday Cards 2004: Max’s 4th / Cody’s 6th
Cody’s Sixth Birthday: 2004 Max’s Third Birthday: 2004 To recap: I make birthday cards for each year my boys. Lucas (2), Max (11), Cody (13). As they got older, I started designing them around what seemed to rock their socks off. I was thrilled the year Cody turned 6 and Max 4 and they were [...]
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