Tag: SUPERHEROES

Shhh, do you hear that? Outside the Javits Center in New York, spandex-clad geeks are gathering to celebrate their annual opportunity (well, biannual, if you count San Diego) to strut around as Fat Spiderman or woo chicks as Cloud Strife. Without superheroes, comic books would have never evolved, so, today, we pay tribute to our Men (and Women) in Tights. While superheroes dominate the American ...

Monitoring Google's Street View for serendipitous moments of ridiculousness provides seemingly infinite possibilities for hilarity, depravity, and eccentricity. A recent event captured by the Street View mobile on a remote Scottish island actually intertwines all of those aspects into one incredibly awesome shot. The picture clearly portrays a gathering of masked superheroes at a local pub as ...

What do you get when you combine a 5-year-old's imagination with his 29-year-old brother's design skills? Web comic genius. 'Axe Cop' is a collaborative online comic strip started by kindergartener Malachai Nicolle and his (much) older brother Ethan, an artist and writer living in Los Angeles. As Ethan explains, the idea was hatched from a game that the brothers used to play, involving the elder ...

With the imminent release of 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine,' everyone is getting a little super-hero envy (especially the guy in the video above). And who can blame them. There are certainly days when we wish we could heal our wounds and sprout indestructible metal claws from our hands, especially when some jackass with a Hummer parks across two spaces in the super market parking lot. Sadly, we're ...

We know you wish you were a superhero (who doesn't?). Sadly, though, radioactive spiders won't actually give you incredible agility and gamma rays won't turn you into a green monster capable of picking up cars. Like Batman, however, we can whip ourselves into top notch physical shape and carry around a load of gadgets. Despite seeming to forget that 4 comes after 3, not 5, Wired has cobbled ...