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Naming Superheroes According to B-List Character Rules

If you’ve spent any time reading comic books, watching comic book movies or enjoy the myriad of comic book cartoons, odds are you’re passingly familiar with superheroes and their alternate identities. I would wager all of you know that Batman’s rea…

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The Heroic Deeds of 6 Real World Batmen

posted 01/27/2012
by Ian Fortey

Thanks to Christian Bale and Christopher Nolan, everyone loves Batman again after the near irreparable damage caused by George Clooney and Joel Schumacher. He’s like the Superman of heroes and everyone digs him, but with all the crime-fighting and g…

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25 Real Life Super Heroes

posted 11/28/2011
by Ian Fortey

The world is damn near lousy these days with “real superheroes,” people who dress up and sorta fight crime. Mostly what they do is help out in their neighborhoods, sometimes prevent crimes, sometimes get beat up but generally they̵…

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5 Underrated Superhero Teams That Need Movies

posted 11/10/2011
by Ian Fortey

Avengers hype is heating up as the big day for the movie’s release draws near. It will undoubtedly be huge, just as the X-Men was before it, and the Fantastic Four was for about 10 minutes before people realized it sucked super hard. People like …

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7 Examples of Misguided Superhero Casting

posted 08/04/2011
by Ian Fortey

Henry Cavill was recently cast as Superman in the reboot of the reboot of the franchise in another attempt to not screw it up. Hollywood can do that, you know. Some people find the choice a little questionable, partially because the man is British …

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25 Not So Super Supermen

posted 05/31/2011
by Ian Fortey

Superman is an American icon. And like all good icons, his image has occasionally fallen into the wrong hands.

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4 Action Figures Guaranteed to Make Your Kids Just Ridiculous

posted 04/15/2011
by Ian Fortey

4 Action Figures Guaranteed to Make Your Kids Just Ridiculous

As we grow and develop, we learn to cultivate certain bonds. We build attachments to our parents, our friends, the pervy, middle-aged woman from next door who used to always leave her bedroom curtains open while she changed and then she would sta…

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25 Girly Green Lantern Ladies

posted 04/04/2011
by Ian Fortey

A beefy new teaser for the Green Lantern movie was unveiled at Wondercon last week and it makes it look like the movie is a big, green pile of Ryan Reynolds in tights. In honor of that, here’s some lady lanterns.

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The 8 Most Bad Ass Real Life Super Heroes (We Assume)

posted 01/06/2011
by Ian Fortey

If you’re the type of shut in who scans the news frequently fearing the encroaching apocalypse heralded by the recent spike in apparently mysterious animal deaths, or the apocalypse heralded by CBS sitcoms you may have heard the recent story of a …

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The Unexceptional Brotherhood of Unexceptional Brothers

posted 10/27/2010
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Hollywood thrives on cocaine and whores. Also nepotism. For the purposes of this article we’ll just stick with the nepotism aspect since it lends itself to the clever title we thought up. We all know about the famous brothers who have emba…

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Superheroes Feel the Impact of a Poor Economy, Too

posted 05/12/2010
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The economy doesn’t seem to be getting any better these days. It’s forcing everyone to watch what they spend and in some cases, get another job. No one is safe, not even our caped crusaders. Spider-Man Goes To Work For Animal Con…

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Naming Superheroes According to B-List Character Rules

The Heroic Deeds of 6 Real World Batmen

25 Real Life Super Heroes

5 Underrated Superhero Teams That Need Movies

7 Examples of Misguided Superhero Casting

25 Not So Super Supermen

4 Action Figures Guaranteed to Make Your Kids Just Ridiculous

25 Girly Green Lantern Ladies

The 8 Most Bad Ass Real Life Super Heroes (We Assume)

The Unexceptional Brotherhood of Unexceptional Brothers

Superheroes Feel the Impact of a Poor Economy, Too

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