Showing posts with label Comic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Comic. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Mental Covers: Love Shape.


For the super powered, love is rarley easy, something Mental and Heidi don't experience a lot since she more often than not helps him out. But occasionally something comes up. For example, here we have him being smothered by an ooze girl. But she's not alone. There's also a plant girl in tow, a fairy and something eldritch in the sewer. Neither Mental nor Heidi seem to be taking this very well.

Mental originally started out sharing his spotlight with his brother Mike, who was essentially an alternate sane personality of sorts, so when I brought in Heidi I eventually cut him out of it. With that I also made their relationship somewhat lovey dovey, because at least one superhero deserves to have a good relationship. One might think it's odd to give a character based on oneself a really good relationship, but I assure you, shut up.
The premise itself stems from the childhoods of many people who have had crushes on cartoon characters, mostly weird ones. Here's that happening in real life, except reversed and with the main character in a loving relationsip.

Monday, May 10, 2010

Crowning Moment of Awesome: Adelaide Comic Centre.

I heard about this a while ago, but only found out the details recently.

I regularly attend the Adelaide Comic Centre. It's a great place, it's pretty easy to find what you want, the staff are friendly, and it's just set up really well.

As part of an Open Day promotion, the staff were dressed in superhero suits. One of the owners, Michael Baulderstone was dressed as Spider-Man. You can tell they're enthusiastic about the whole thing, since he was jumping around the store making the sound of web shooting. I salute you, my geeky superior. But here's the weird bit. He happened to see someone trying to sneak off with an expensive X-Men collection, and, without even removing his mask, he walked over and asked him to return it.

That.

Is.

AWESOME!

I heard about this and thought, 'That Guy's seen Kick-Ass too many times,' cos I thought it was actually a guy in a Spider-Man suit maybe going to a party and seeing someone with a stolen thing, but then I went to the website and realised it was actually him. I gotta say, that's pretty damn hilarious. Annoying since all technically I could have been there when it happened, that would've been funny.

I'm gonna bet you anything people came into the store for the following weak just to mention that. Youtube hooooooooo!

Check out the video at their Website (if you live in the area, check out the website in general) here: http://www.dynamicduocomics.net/
Don't worry, his voice is much more understandable in real life.