Did you know superheroes were once pre-teens just like you and us? That means they had diaries just like you and us, but that doesn't necessarily mean they went through the same puberty woes as you and us.
Sidekick-searching is just as painful and awkward as soulmate-searching. Read THESE embarrassing Super Seeking Sidekick Personals and feel slightly less bad!
Remember those classics you read for school? Don't worry, we have trouble remembering, too. But! Jazzing them up with superhero twists definitely helps compensate for that!
We've all had that feeling: that feeling of being led on by our favorite superheroes, when romance seems so close, before it's completely obliterated. Here to help satisfy some of our fantasies is Ollin Morales!
For Frida Killho, this scene from Freakazoid hits close to home. Super close. Too close.
When superheroes start tweetin' and facebookin' their every move, there's bound to be some collateral damage!
With superheroes taking over at the box office, why not situation comedies?
By Susana Polo Alright, I'll admit it: we haven't done a post about the CW ordering a Green Arrow pilot. Why? Because this is the fourth time the CW's name has been connected to a proposed TV series based on a DC Comics character in the past year, and we still haven't seen anything concrete out of any of them. First, the CW greenlit a pilot based on Raven, the Teen Titans character, and has done nothing since. Then, the CW turned down the (by all accounts terrible) pilot for Wonder Woman. A few months later, a Deadman show, written and produced by the creator of Supernatural, made a few headlines, and then disappeared.
Superheroes experience awkward sexual encounters just like everyone else. And here's just a series of panels taken from famous comics, revamped to show just how awkward it can get!
Is laughter really the best medicine? Not when two Jokers meet!
If the world's in peril, and all the most badass characters in TV and movies lived in one shared universe, who gets the call to join the most villainous team ever?!
At last, Shirley Wench has found her drunk karaoke song of choice. Again.
By Susana PoloIf you thought that Thundercats already contained enough weird human-animal hybrids, you should see the stuff that didn't make it past the concept stage. I'm not sure what capacity Crab-Man would have served in the show, but I'm already imagining a dopey laugh for him for when I tickle his feet.
Allow us to explain. Let me let you in on a little secret: writers like words. We like them so much. And so where you might wrinkle your nose and wonder why on earth someone might used the word "pulchritudinous" instead of "pretty," we're sitting at our desks and cackling with delight.We got to use "pulchritudinous" today. And it alliterated.But as a geek or nerd, you get introduced to new words all the time! Science fiction and fantasy are practically in the business; not just of creating new place names, which is a given; but also of making new nouns in general, new verbs, and new adjectives. And while some of those concepts might not be particularly useful outside of their fictional setting, others have, over time, been accepted wholly by the English of reality. With some of these, we've forgotten that they were ever words in fiction to begin with.And so we present six made up words that have since become inextricable from their meaning outside of their fictional origin (runners up include the very mimsy word "vorpal"), and, because we love words, eight words that we would like to say all the time and not get weird looks for (runners up include twip, shwey, slag, and every other silly, silly curse word from Batman Beyond).... read more.
By Jill PantozziWe love him for a plethora of reasons actually but this is why we're happy today. Actor Liam Neeson has given us solid information on Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises.... Read more.
Bam! Ka-pow! Expelliarmus! Who would win: Superheroes vs. Magic!
As it turns out, super villains and celebrities have a lot in common; namely, the ability to eff the world up. So how would the most notorious celebs fare as actual super villains?
In this week's Hot Mess, Amanda contemplates the age-old question: if you could only pick one, which superpower would you choose?
By Susana PoloAnd I never wear skirts. Or, like, want to wear them... read more.
By Susana PoloThere is an alternate universe, where, among the other television adaptations of superheroes in the 1970s; like The Incredible Hulk, Wonder Woman, the made-for-TV Captain America, and Captain America II: Death Too Soon (not kidding, featuring the talents of that guy from Space Mutiny); that ranged in quality from “enjoyable camp” to “what?” there was...
