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Thursday Geek-Out: Dr. Seuss’ Batman, Japan’s Justice League & Pingu’s ‘The Thing’

  • January 5, 2012 12:01 am

Yesterday, I blogged about the Shaun of the Dead Legos so I thought I’d continue to geek out some more with three more geektastic things.

First, I present a collection of images of Batman and some of the best-known members of his Rouge Gallery as if they had been imagined by Dr. Seuss courtesy of Dr. FaustusAU. Next, artist Cliff Chiang’s concept art for an anime-inspired Japanese version of the Justice League (featuring Superman, Batman, Aquaman and the gang) that almost became a reality a few years back. And finally, one of the coolest videos I’ve seen in awhile–a reimagining of John Carpenter’s classic monster flick The Thing (which my fellow Offender Quentin blogged about recently) as a claymation epic starring Pingu the Penguin. Check them all out:

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Stuff & Wing: The Fallen Asian American Superhero Sidekicks

  • September 24, 2010 12:01 am

Tomorrow, September 25 is National Comic Book Day so in honor of the holiday, throughout the week, I’ll be looking back at some “classic” comics that relate to Asian and/or Asian American subject matter.

You would think that trying to find an Asian American superhero of any kind in mainstream American comics during the 1930s/40s might be a losing proposition, but DC Comics (home to Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, among others) had not one, but two of them. Granted, they were sidekicks to white superheroes and had their share of stereotypical traits, but they’re also worthy of being re-discovered; having been all but forgotten except by a handful of comic aficionados.

I start off with Stuff, the Chinatown Kid. First appearing in Action Comics #45 (Feb 1942), Stuff was the young Chinese American sidekick to Vigilante, a superhero who dressed up like a cowboy.

If Batman Is Good Enough For The Justice League, China Is Good Enough For the G-8

  • July 9, 2009 3:44 pm

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The big news at this week’s G-8 summit in Italy has nothing to do with the global economic crisis or greenhouse gas emissions or what to do about Iran.  No, all the talk is about the last minute withdrawal of China’s President Hu Jintao who abruptly left the proceedings yesterday to return to China to deal with the deadly clashes that broke out this week in the province of Xinjiang.

Now China isn’t even one of the G-8 nations (those would be the U.S., Russia, Japan, France, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy and Canada) and was only invited to participate in second day discussions, yet Hu’s withdrawal immediately sent major ripples throughout the summit and diminished the perceived significance of the event.