There’s no one more fed up with riffs on the Star Wars universe than I am, but when you see something as gorgeous and imaginative as these Star Wars steampunk action figures you just have to talk about them.  Even if you just did another Star Wars thing just yesterday…

For me, there was a moment of shock when I realized that action figures are this guy’s art form. These aren’t copied from someone else’s images, they are totally original creations. That kind of blows my mind…
This snippet from his …

It is what it says it is, but it’s better than it sounds.
Definitely NSFW audio.

I hate to say I told you so, but things are looking rough for the mean green giant
But signs of trouble abound, leading to lip-biting among some Marvel investors, Hulk fans and movie theater owners. “There are people who clearly don’t think it looks good and are expecting a bomb,” said Doug Creutz, an entertainment analyst at Cowen & Company.
The trailer, engineered to vanquish memories of the 2003 film, arrived last month and instantly polarized the comic book crowd. The look of the new Hulk — meaner and greener …

I haven’t been paying much attention to Frank Miller’s version of The Spirit, but these pictures of Scarlett Johansson show that he may have managed to effectively capture the slightly off-kilter hotness that made Eisner’s Femme Fatales work so well:

Here’s a sample of the original comic to compare and contrast:

 
via Hollywood Newsroom

The funny thing about a major character is its tenacity. No matter how many crap sequels, sticker books, mini-games, or regrettable ad campaigns it ends up in, it will get trotted out to the street corner one more time, trying to turn another buck on its long faded beauty.  The sad thing is that it often works.
There’s probably no character that’s been more prostituted than Sonic the Hedgehog. Once bigger than both Mickey Mouse and Mario in the minds of America’s youth, over the last decade Sonic has managed to …