Superhero Bits: The Avengers, X-Men First Class, The Dark Knight Returns, Man Of Steel
Why haven’t we seen many photos of Iron Man on the set ofThe Avengers? Curious about theThorandX-Men: First ClassBlu-rays? Would you like to have a Batman coffee table? How about look at fan art ofMan of Steel, Captain America: The First Avenger, The AvengersandThe Dark Knight Returns? When didMarvelalmost buy all theDCcharacters? Which late actress from the Forties and Fifties will be digitally placed inThe Avengers? Read about all of this and much more in today’s Superhero Bits.
The Daily Blamfound this coolAvengersimage featuring Nick Fury. Blow it up to check out some of the details.
Inspired byThe Dark Knight Risesteaser poster,AliZeckerat Deviantart (viaCBM) has created this poster forMan of Steel.
Geek Artposted a slew of stylized superhero art by artist namedIvan Camelo. That’s Wolverine, obviously, and at that link you can see a great many other superheroes and comic characters in the same style: Batman (at the top), Superman, Green Lantern, Bishop, Thanos, etc.
Former Marvel editorJim Shooterhasa new blog(via io9) in which he’s been dropping knowledge about old school comic book stuff including the fact that, in the mid-Eighties,Marvelalmost boughtDC. Head over there to read all about it.
i09 hascreated a gallery of “Fan-Made Superhero Movie Posters We Wish Were Real.” One of the most impressive is this one forCaptain America: The First Avengerby Deviant artistAlex4everdn. Head there for posters forX-Men: First Class, The Dark Knight Rises, Man of Steeland more. FYI though, guys. Some of those posters ARE real. Tyler Stout, Mike Saputo, Eric Tan, Ken Taylor, Florian Bertmer. All real posters.Superhero Hypehas this exclusive look behind the scenes of the upcomingX-Men: Destinyvideo game.This is a church many of us would like to attend.Geeks Are Sexyalerts us to anEtsy pagewhere you may buy a stained glass windowBatmanposter.GeekWeektook an awesome tour ofDark Horse Comics. Head there to see photos and read about the experience.
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Maybe you can’t have a batcave, but you can have a BatTable. Check out thisBatmancoffee table fromNeatorama(viaThe Daily What).
Over on IGN, you’re able to read their first impressions on theThorBlu-ray and its special features, including features it has that teaseThe Avengers. Sounds like a solid release.
OhClark Kent. You will be forever alone. Funny comic find fromBuzzfeed.
Want to watch a video of nakedJennifer Lawrence? Of course you do.io9 hasa sneak peek at an extra from theX-Men First ClassDVD showing the seven-hour process of applying her Mystique makeup. No embed, click the photo above to head to the site.
This year marks the 25th anniversary of one of the most influential and revered Batman stories ever,The Dark Knight Returnsby Frank Miller. /Film readerSean Harttermade this great poster to commemorate.
JoBlohas an exclusive deleted scene fromX-Men: First Classfeaturing Havoc learning how to harness his power. No embed, head over to the site.The 8 Saddest Real World Superheroes— powered by Cracked.comCrackedprovides some laughs with their videoThe 8 Saddest Real World Superheroes.
Back in the 1980, Radio Shack put out a comic book whereSupermanis teaching school children about computers.Thanks to io9for finding this gem. Head there to read the whole thing.
Foogoshas posted a bunch of pop culture symbols made with food. Above is obviously limeGreen Lantern; head to the link to see Batman, Robin and many others. Pretty AND delicious.
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Why haven’t we seen many photos of Iron Man on the set ofThe Avengers?Because he wasn’t there.Comic Book Movieposted this photo, among others, of an actor (notRobert Downey Jr.) in a motion capture suit that’ll later be made into Iron Man. But wait, there’s more.
How about a video for good measure?Comic Book Moviehas this video and another of Iron Man fighting god-knows-what on the set ofThe Avengers. Great stuff.
/Film reader Zack Parks alerted us to hisComic Book Moviearticle where a friend of his, Rick Kinkade, got to meetJoss Whedonby winning an auction. He found out that Whedon wanted the Wasp in the film and that late actressJoan Leslie(above), who was inYankee Doodle Dandy, will be digitally placed in the movie as Captain America’s girlfriend in an opening montage at the beginning of the film. Very curious how that’ll work since Cap was frozen. Read more at the link.
More fromTheAvengers:Superhero Hypehas new set photos showing the inside of a recent set. Odds are this is the place terrorized by Loki last week.
