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1. A detailed look at how The Asylum makes movies. Sample:
Oh, and one more tip -- pick something that you're pretty sure is going to be an actual hit. "People ask why we didn't do Cowboys and Aliens," The Asylum's Paul Bales says, "And we considered it for a while, but in the markets we have, genre-mixing doesn't work." In fact, The Asylum takes international genre tastes really seriously. "Disaster films work pretty much anywhere," Bales says, "But creature films only work in a few territories. In most of Europe, a big giant fish means nothing to them."
Via.



2. A look at the character designs from the Iron Man: Armored Adventures cartoon (my boys love this show, and since they often watch it in the car, I regularly have the theme in my head).



3. "It began as a classic Hialeah politics whodunit: Little mirrors were glued on some of Acting Mayor Carlos Hernandez’s campaign yard signs. The mirrors prompted a rumor in the no-love-lost mayor’s race that Hernandez was trying to appeal to voters who practice SanterĂ­a." Via.



4. The Kidrobot plastic breakdancers I posted a few days ago will also be sold by the bag. Now all we need is for them to start selling MUSCLE knockoffs by the bucket.



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Thor loves kittens

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Hulk vs. the Rain

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Papercraft Sentinel (Marvel Comics)





Download the Sentinel paper toy here.



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Thor is a loser







Austin Madison bet Scott Clark and Angus MacLane that the Thor movie would be better than the Captain America movie. He lost the bet and drew the above drawings for the winners.
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Medusa, Link, and Zelda by Rich Pellegrino. The Zelda print is on sale here, there's several more mythology illustrations in display at his site, and he also has a new Royal Tenenbaums print on sale here.







Art by Jamie McKelvie and Matt Wilson for Secret Avengers (written by Warren Ellis).







Painting by Charmaine Olivia for a show next month at Spoke Art.







Big Daddy and Little Sister by Jonathan Case on sale here.







Fox by Sho Murase for the Trickster book.
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1. Move over Hooters, here's Blitz Sports Bra & Grill.



2. A look at Sara Pichelli's various designs for the new Spider-Man. Via.



3. A John Lasseter story.



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Best Covers: Marvel Comics solicitations for November 2010

My favorite covers from Marvel Comics solicitations for November 2011:





DEADPOOL MAX 2 #2 cover by KYLE BAKER







DAKEN: DARK WOLVERINE #17 cover by GIUSEPPE CAMUNCOLI







UNCANNY X-FORCE #17 cover by ESAD RIBIC







HERC #10 Variant Cover by MIKE OEMING







FANTASTIC FOUR #600 cover by STEVE EPTING







VENOM #9 cover by JOHN TYLER CHRISTOPHER







ULTIMATE COMICS SPIDER-MAN #4 cover by KAARE ANDREWS







DOROTHY & THE WIZARD IN OZ #3 cover by SKOTTIE YOUNG



I cropped these wallpapers:









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Noelle Stevenson's hipster Lord of the Rings continues.











Time travelling pirate by Dan Matutina available as a print.











Avengers and Fantastic Four by Bobby Rubio. The paintings on the wall are by his children.









Coffee stains by Rebekie Bennington for Threadless's tattoo design challenge (voting's closed).











Athena by Gustav Klimt via Emily Hughes, who offers her own interpretation here.









Map of Portland by Edward Juan on sale here.
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1. New movie Spider-Man paper toy available for download.



2. The latest video for The Old Republic shows off something called huttball. I lost interest halfway through.



3. The BBC's reading of William Gibson's Pattern Recognition is now complete. (One of my favorite books.)
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Spider-Man redesign





I'm really looking forward to seeing the results of Project Rooftop's Spider-Man redesign. Of the various designs I've seen pop up so far, this one by JSM is my favorite (especially the crawling shot).



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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory deluxe edition cover by Ivan Brunetti.







The Thing and X-23 by Kalman Andrasofszky (X-23 #14 cover).







Avengers/X-Men mixer by Phil Noto.







Rear Window poster by Daniel Zender on sale here. Via.







Book cover by Josh Cochran's for Matthew Quick's Boy 21.



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Deadly Hands of Kung Fu

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The Fantastic Four by Joe Quesada








The Fantastic Four by Joe Quesada (to celebrate the team's 50th anniversary).

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Francesco Francavilla:
this is the cover for BLACK PANTHER: THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN ALIVE #525, which debuted at SDCC last week. It will be out in November and will be the beginning of a new arc where T’Challa will be facing the Kingpin (Wilson Fisk), Lady Bullseye, Typhoid Mary, and lots and lots of ninjas.




The Lone Ranger and Tonto by David Palumbo on sale as a print here.




Frazier Irving:
Some months back, my buddy and collaborator Simon Spurrier became very, very old. To make him feel better I drew him a birthday image and printed it out so he could frame it and gaze at it’s loveliness as his faded with each passing moment, sorta like a Dorian Grey thing to order. All of the characters in the background he either created or worked on whilst making very good comics. I figured, however, that it isn’t enough that only he can gaze at it, so I have decided to unleash it upon the internet. Yes, that’s Simon at the bottom of the picture.
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The Land that Time Forgot by Justin Parpan.



Business card by Mattson Creative for Natalie Ebnet.



X-Force.



Inner Child by Nicolas Duffaut.



Above the Terminal by Jonathan Viner on sale here. Via.

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