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Mark Millar and John Romita Jr asked a simple question in their 2008 comic book (and 2010 movie) Kick-Ass: Why don’t fanboys actually suit up and try their hand at being superheroes?
Now that Street View has covered 95 per cent of British roads, expect to see a lot more random snapshots of those eccentric Brits – like these, which show a comic book meet-up on a very remote island off Scotland.
I’m not sure whether this French version of Batman would rather take on crime or eat fruit, but you can’t deny that it’d be a shock to see him hanging upside down from a toilet cubicle…
[NimportequiThanks Nic!]
Superheroes often have conflict with the public they’ve sworn to protect, but usually that conflict doesn’t involve snickering.
I might be a little old for these Souper! action-figure spoons now, but if they were around when I was 15, I would have bought 10 of ‘em.
James Kakalios was a consultant on The Watchmen (film), and here, he walks us through the physics of Dr. Manhattan. Summarised, he’s “not strictly correct from a physics point of view, but very cool nonetheless.”
