Showing posts with label Green Lantern. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Green Lantern. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Justice League Brewery: Adult Beverages In Honor Of The JLA by Marcello Rizzetto
My love for comics was forged at a very early age. I remember being four or five and walking into my local neighborhood candy store, seeing a rack of comics, and falling in love with how colorful they were. From that point on I spent my life idolizing comic book characters, buying and collecting hundreds and thousands of them through the years. But now I am a grown up geek, and I have grown up needs. Enter graphic designer Marcello Rizzetto, who must be in the same boat as me and decided to do something about it. He created a six pack of beers based on the core six members of the Justice League, with each beer taking on characteristics of each hero. This is a killer idea. Superman as a super strong Pale Ale. Wonder Woman as an American Lager. The Flash as an Irish Red Ale. Aquaman as a Belgian Blonde Ale. Green Lantern as a special edition St Patrick's Day Green Beer. And finally Batman as a Dark Ale. It all works so perfect, both in reference to the heroes and to the potentially deliciousness of these beers! I can get behind this. You can see all 6 beers after the jump, and hopefully we see something like this in the future...
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Denis Medri Takes The JLA Back To The Wild, Wild West
We have featured many artists here on CCD over the last few years, and it is always nice to come across one a bit down the road still doing great work. Denis Medri was featured here on CCD last August for his Star Wars High sketches, and now he is back with his take on the JLA. Medri decided to take these DC Comic mainstays on a trip down the ole trail, as he has re-imagined them in a style of the Old West. I like the distinct western characteristics he gave each of the original seven (plus Green Arrow), but I have to say that Martian Manhunter's mustache and Aquaman's spear are two of my favorite details. Batman is still king... no matter what! Check all of them out after the jump...
Thanks for the find Tommy!!!!
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Sketch Lottery Goes Green... Lantern That Is!!!!
The gang over at Sketch Lottery are really making me proud. These guys are repping hard, and they are knocking out various topics that they chose to take on with Babe Ruth like efficiency. They don't really do the basics, they take on lesser known characters like Power Lords and Bufkin from Fables. But honestly, the thing I like the most about this collective has to be the various mediums that they present their weekly topics in. You have everything from 8 bit GIFs to full on paintings... you couldn't run as much of a gamut as these guys do. This week they are going a bit more traditional, albeit still staying abstract. They are taking on Green Lantern. Now I know first instinct is to say that Green Lantern is a mainstream character, but honestly that really is not the case. He is a second tier character in the Justice League, and the bombing of the Ryan Reynolds movie didn't do the character any favors to boost his popularity. So far we only have three entries for this character, but I am sure there will be many more before the entry closes on 5/12. Check out all the gang has to offer over at Sketch Lottery by clicking here, and check out the first three GL's after the jump...
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| Thomas Napolitano |
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| James Wilkes |
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| Mike Monge |
Thursday, September 20, 2012
What If Albert Hitchcock Had Made Superhero Movies?
Artist Alberto Muriel is now the regular artist over at Propeller, and boy can the guy bring the funk. In order to celebrate his ascension to his new position, he has released four very cool photos of restructure key scenes from Alfred Hitchcock films to feature Comic Book Characters in the key roles. My favorite is the Green Lantern/Sinestro infused North by Northwest. You can check out all four after the jump... they are fantastic....
Dial M for Murder with Norman Osbourne & Gwen Stacy
Rear Window Professor X & Jean Grey
North by Northwest with Green Lantern & Sinestro
Strangers On A Train with Loki & Harvey Dent
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Justice League of the Round Table by The Comic Fan
My main man Cal up in Canada sure does find some gems to post on his awesome blog The Cave of Cool. One of the cooler things he has posted in the past few weeks has got to be these medieval renderings of The Justice League of America by a Deviant Artist who goes by The Comic Fan. I love the way he recreated each individual character in a way that befits their counter parts of King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table. Pretty great detail and innovative ideas on how to make the more mystical characters like Martian Manhunter & Green Lantern into Knights without sacrificing their original looks. I would love to read a book like this from DC in the vein of Marvel 1602, especially if Neil Gaiman was writing it. All around pretty cool. Thanks for another winner Cal... check out the pieces after the jump!
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Erich Owen Puts The Mash In Mash-up For Comic Book Resources
Comic Book Resources is a pretty kick ass website that provides comic book geeks like myself with a plethora of comic related stories to read & revel in. One of their coolest features they have over there has to be the "Comics Should Be Good" message board, where they provide fodder to artists for cool mash-ups they want to see and then the artists post their versions of the finished product. One of the artists who is consistently coming up with great mash-ups has to be Erich Owen. He is taking things like comic books characters & sitcoms, comic characters & a historical figure, and all time fantasy Green Lantern Corps and is producing some killer mash-ups. Check after the jump for six of the contributions from Owen that I absolutely love after the jump...
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| Comic character/Historical figure: Professor X & Freud |
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| Comic/Sitcom mash-up: WKRP in Cincinnati & Sin City |
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| Comic/sitcom mashup: Spiderman & Three's Company |
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| Comics/cartoons: Capt America & Captain Caveman |
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| Fantasy inspired Green lantern Corps: Characters from LOTR |
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| Comics/Cartoons: kim Possible & S.H.I.E.L.D. |
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
The Many Colors Of The DC Lanterns Explained
The Lantern Saga has been an ongoing story line for the past couple of years in DC Comics. It is one of the only titles that has not been affected by the new DC 52 relaunch (I think) and has produced some really cool arcs such as The Sinestro Wars, Brightest Day, and Darkest Night. But who are these mysterious groups of Lanterns??? What are they all about? Who are the key members? Look no further. Thanks to my main man Cal over at the Cave of Cool here are 8 full size posters detailing everything you need to know about all the Lantern Corps. Hope that this helps you out with any questions you may need answered about the basics... click after the jump for all the posters!!!
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