15 songs inspired by comic book heroes

https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/raise-the-roof-15-songs-inspired-by-superman-hulk-and-other-comic-book-heroes

I can think of a couple more, like Superman by The Kinks or Comic Book Collector from The Trashmen or Super Powers by Ookla The Mok.

You might want to check out Miracle of Sound on YT too. Great comic-culture songs!

From 1960s psychedelic shout-outs to some of the wilder elements of Silver Age Marvel, to original tunes crafted for Broadway shows and present-day hip-hop and metal tributes, comics have long provided inspiration to musicians. And while we have never been blessed with having a version of the Teen Titans tearing it up onstage as the late, great Darwyn Cooke envisioned, we have had some cool and quirky music inspired by capes.

Guardians: Russian Superhero Movie

I finally got to watch Guardians (English Dub) on Tubi: https://link.tubi.tv/s73XcgaeY7

Michael Bay eat your art out! It's a Russian, Post Cold-War Superhero flick. It's OK. No worse than some of the tripe coming outta Hollyweird. You should give it a shot!

Man Spends Two Years Building Iconic 1989 Burton Batmobile

A REAL-LIFE superhero has turned down six-figure offers for his home-made 1989 Batmobile for hire - so he can continue helping sick children. Batman fanatic Zac Mihajlovic, from Camden, Australia, hand-built his very own street legal version of the car from the 1989 film starring Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson. And the car has whipped up a reaction wherever it has been seen. Businessmen from across the world, including a Sheik in Dubai, have offered Zac big bucks for the Batmobile. But rather than cash-in on his dream machine, Zac decided to use his powers for good by teaming up with Make-A-Wish Australia, who make dream’s come true for terminally-ill children.

Terrible Superhero TV Shows You Completely Forgot About

http://screenrant.com/superhero-tv-shows-you-completely-forgot-about-terrible/

Bring back Manimal! 

In the current age of Peak TV, fans of genre television are definitely getting spoiled. Horror fans get Hannibal and American Horror Story, science fiction fans have Westworld and Stranger Things, and fantasy buffs are enjoying Game of Thrones and American Gods.
Fans who have been waiting for great superhero storytelling have an abundance of riches at their disposal, from the various Netflix Marvel offerings to Gotham, Arrow and FX’s Legion.
However, before viewers get too complacent and accustomed to the fantastic offerings at their fingertips, it’s a good idea to remember where superhero storytelling was just a few short years ago. When it began in 2006, NBC’s Heroes seemed like a strong and intelligent series, but by the time it limped into its third and fourth seasons, it was clear that television still hadn’t cracked exactly how to make longform superhero storytelling compelling.

Check out the link for MORE! 

15 Comic Book Films You Forgot ROCKED

http://www.cbr.com/15-comic-book-films-you-forgot-rocked-your-face-off/

Comic book fans are spoiled nowadays. We are living in a time where there are movies and TV series coming out all the time based on our favorite comic books. The best part is that most of them are actually pretty good!However, since all the chatter is about the latest, greatest comic book films and TV series, we tend to forget about a lot of awesome movies that predated this era.

Check out the link above for complete deets etc. Here's a couple of my favs.

 

They Stand on Guard!: North, by Scott Sawyer

They Stand on Guard!: North, by Scott Sawyer: Continuing a trend of trying to provide support to a Kickstarter project that doesn't need it at all...Check out North !

 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1653117719/north-issue-1-of-an-ongoing-series?ref=hero_thanks

Check out the link directly above for some great shots of penciled pages from the first issue. Looking good! 

#JustinTrudeau joins Alpha Flight

http://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/justin-trudeau-joins-alpha-flight-in-marvel-comic-book/

Make way, Liberal cabinet: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will have another all-Canadian crew in his corner as he suits up for his latest feature role — comic book character.
Trudeau will grace the variant cover of issue No. 5 of Marvel’s “Civil War II: Choosing Sides,” due out Aug. 31.
Trudeau is depicted smiling, sitting relaxed in the boxing ring sporting a Maple Leaf-emblazoned tank, black shorts and red boxing gloves. Standing behind him are Puck, Sasquatch and Aurora, who are members of Canadian superhero squad Alpha Flight. In the left corner, Iron Man is seen with his arms crossed.
“I didn’t want to do a stuffy cover — just like a suit and tie — put his likeness on the cover and call it a day,” said award-winning Toronto-based cartoonist Ramon Perez.

The Flying Man - Short Film

Here's a very cool short film about the a discovery of a Superhero. 

A new superhero is coming, only this time it's on his terms. Will he
still be considered a hero?
www.facebook.com/TFMshort

Batman v Superman Supercut v4 - All trailers (Chronological)

This is brilliant! So happy someone did this. 12 MORE DAYS!

How to be a Superhero

http://13thdimension.com/this-guy-can-tell-you-how-to-be-a-superhero/

 At some point or another in your life, you wanted to be a superhero. Probably even right now. Well, writer Mark Edlitz got the idea to ask the people who’ve actually done it — at least on screen. In How to Be a Superhero (BearManor Media, $42.95 list price), Edlitz talked to dozens of people who’ve given vision and voice to our fantasies: from the actors and actresses who’ve played Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Wonder Woman and even James Bond — to the creators and directors like Stan Lee, Joe Quesada and Jon Favreau.

More Super Food!

in a follow-up to this posting....

 

 http://nerdist.com/rise-with-some-dark-knight-coffee-at-the-batman-cafe/

Because this is the cafe we deserve, even if we didn’t realize we need it right now. So we’ll go there. Because we’re hungry. Because we need waffles. A well-made sandwich. A stack of pancakes. A Dark Knight coffee shop. Superheroes Café is scheduled to open this month in Singapore.

 

14 Forgotten TV Superheroes

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/flash/news/1931817/14_forgotten_tv_superheroes/?utm_source=zergnet.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=zergnet_499440

Check out the link for the opening credits for ALL these series. Brings back some memories for sure.

Automan

Having famous parents will give a person a leg-up in show business, but that's only part of the battle -- just ask Desi Arnaz, Jr., whose legendary parents' prowess wasn't enough to keep him from starring in Automan, a 13-episode wonder that aired on ABC from late 1983 through the spring of 1984. Following the adventures of unfortunately named cop/computer specialist Walter Nebicher (Arnaz, Jr.) and his AI hologram creation Automan (Chuck Wagner), the show combined corny humor (its second episode was titled "Staying Alive While Running a High Flashdance Fever") with goofy special effects (Automan's Tron-inspired suit was made out of special reflective fabric), to negligible results. By summer, he was gone, along with his Autocar and Autochopper.

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Birds of Prey

Taking its inspiration from the DC series of the same name, the WB's Birds of Prey imagined a Batman-free future for Gotham -- one in which three of the city's strongest women (Barbara Gordon, a.k.a. Oracle, played by Dina Meyer; Helena Kyle, a.k.a. Huntress, played by Ashley Scott; and Dinah Lance, played by Rachel Skarsten) team up to fight crime, assisted by a police detective (Shemar Moore) and, of course, Batman's manservant Alfred Pennyworth (Ian Abercrombie). The show's splashy premise made it a popular viewing destination early on, but ratings quickly eroded; after Prey's 13-episode first-season run, the network opted not to renew.

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Black Scorpion

Avoiding camp is often a tricky proposition for superhero series; their concepts require such a delicate suspension of disbelief that it can sometimes be easier just to embrace the silly humor inherent in the idea of a costumed crimefighter. The Sci Fi Channel series Black Scorpion is a case in point: Drawing its inspiration from a pair of Roger Corman films and leaning heavy on the exclamation-pointed aesthetic of the 1960s Batman series (right down to hiring special guests Adam West and Frank Gorshin), it starred former Miss Kansas Michelle Lintel as the titular hero, a police detective leading a double life as a masked vigilante. Like Batman, Black Scorpion relied on combat training, cool gear, and impossible gadgets to do her work, which may have been part of why she ended up battling low-budget baddies like Aerobicide (and her sidekicks Bend and Stretch) -- and that, in turn, likely had a lot to do with why Black Scorpion lasted only a single 22-episode season before being retired.

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The Cape

If for no other reason than that its supporting cast included the magnificent Keith David, NBC's The Cape should have had a long and healthy life on television. Alas, this 2010-11 midseason replacement was quickly doomed by lukewarm reviews and dismal ratings, more than likely the byproduct of a thoroughly convoluted (if still fairly exciting) premise involving an honest cop (David Lyons) framed for murder by a criminal mastermind (James Frain) who thinks he's killed his patsy -- but he's really only driven him underground, where he's been schooled in the ways of combat and trickery (as well as outfitted with a nifty cape, ergo the series title) and reborn as a hero hellbent on exposing the crimes of his nemesis. Originally booked for a 13-episode run, The Cape was cut to 10 installments, the last of which was subject to the then-unique indignity of airing only on the network's website -- but it did at least walk away with an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup For A Series, Miniseries, Movie Or A Special.

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Captain Nice

A sort of goofy precursor to The Greatest American Hero with a Captain America twist, 1967's short-lived Captain Nice followed the clumsy adventures of Carter Nash (William Daniels), a nebbish police chemist who ingests a "super serum" that endows him with special powers (strength, invulnerability, flying) without making him particularly heroic. Garbed in a uniform made and monogrammed by his mother (the incredible Alice Ghostley), Carter Nash becomes Captain Nice and gets himself mixed up in all sorts of goings-on, all while remaining blissfully ignorant of the affections of meter maid Candy Kane (Ann Prentiss). Although it had a solid creative pedigree, springing from the mind of Get Smart co-mastermind Buck Henry, Captain Nice was always campier than funny, and after 15 episodes, NBC had seen enough.

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Generation X

Before they feuded over Mutant X, Fox and Marvel teamed up for Generation X, a 1996 TV movie that positioned Banshee (Jeremy Ratchford) and Emma Frost, a.k.a. the White Queen (General Hospital vet Finola Hughes) as the leaders of a Professor X-less Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters. Our heroes and their young charges squared off against Russel Tresh (Matt ?Max Headroom? Frewer), a mad scientist whose quest to access the "dream dimension" involves scooping brain tissue out of a mutant named Skin (Austin Rodriguez). Bringing superhero action to the screen on a television budget is always a tall order even under the best of circumstances, however, and that problem is compounded when you're dealing with a script that calls for a large cast bestowed with a dazzling (in theory) array of powers. Toss in a screenplay that gives too many of our teen mutants short shrift and a director who seemed to be actively encouraging Frewer's hammiest instincts, and it's no wonder that Generation X hasn't been followed by future small-screen X-outings (yet).

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Isis

Before superhero-watchers were treated to Wonder Woman, they got The Secrets of Isis, starring Joanna Cameron as a high school science teacher whose discovery of an ancient amulet during an Egyptian archaeological dig bestows her with the power of the titular goddess. Part of the same Filmation stable that produced its frequent crossover buddy Shazam!, the two-season Saturday morning hit represents peak '70s superhero action, with a highly permeable fourth wall and loads of kid-directed moral lessons (delivered straight to the camera during each episode's closing moments) to go along with the many moments of peril defused by Isis's poetry-prompted powers.

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Man-Thing

Undoubtedly one of the odder heroes to shamble out of the Marvel hivemind during the publisher's occasionally trippy late 1960s-mid-1970s run, Man-Thing is the unfortunate aftermath of a spy ambush meant to steal the work of a biochemist trying to recreate the "super soldier serum" that created Captain America -- when he injects himself with the serum in order to prevent it from falling into the wrong hands, then crashes his car into a swamp that also happens to house the Nexus of All Realities, Dr. Ted Sallis mystically merges with the muck to become the virtually indestructible creature who brings burning pain to all those who know fear (in other words, just about anyone who sees a lumbering red-eyed giant in the middle of a swamp). This 2005 TV movie, which originally aired on the Sci Fi Channel, altered vast chunks of the Man-Thing's origin (Ted Sallis is now a Seminole chieftain rather than a scientist, for starters) and made it more of a murderous beast than an interdimensional guardian, leaving Man-Thing a low-budget horror movie that served as an adaptation of its alleged inspiration pretty much in name only -- and a missed opportunity to present a fun, enthusiastically goofy B-movie version of one of Marvel's cultiest cult favorites.

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M.A.N.T.I.S.

What's a socially responsible doctor to do after being shot in the spine and paralyzed from the waist down? Well, if you're Miles Hawkins (played by Carl Lumbly), you dedicate a sizable portion of your considerable wealth to the development of a powerful exoskeleton and other assorted cool gear, you give yourself a secret identity that doubles as a fancy acronym (Mechanically Augmented Neuro Transmitter Interception System, or M.A.N.T.I.S. for short), and you fight crime in a hovercraft between R&R sessions in your secret underwater lab. As M.A.N.T.I.S., Hawkins made life miserable for nemeses like unscrupulous industrialist Solomon Box (Andrew J. Robinson), but the one bad guy he couldn't defeat was network indifference; Fox pulled the plug on the show before it could make it to a second season, leading to a series finale in which our hero is killed in the line of duty while battling an invisible dinosaur.

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Mr. Terrific

The other half of NBC's goofball superhero hour during the 1967 season, Mr. Terrific starred Stephen Strimpell as Stanley Beamish, a weakling gas station attendant who?s lured into the costumed life by the United States Bureau of Secret Projects, whose agents give him cutting-edge "power pills" that turn him into our flying, super-strong hero. Superheroism with a time limit is a durable premise, but one that Mr. Terrific chose to play for laughs, generally by hanging Stanley out to dry with his mission not quite completed when his powers ran out. Somewhat ironically, this show had a little more time than its programming partner: Terrific lasted 17 episodes to Captain Nice's 15.

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Misfits of Science

A good-natured, Ghostbusters-inspired paranormal action comedy anchored by Dean Paul Martin, Misfits of Science is notable not only for its eclectic cast -- which included a young Courteney Cox, fresh off her big break in Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing in the Dark" video, as well as future Predator Kevin Peter Hall and ALF's sputtering landlord, Max Wright -- but for the talent behind the scenes, a group that included first-time writer Tim Kring. Although the show was a pet project of NBC president Brandon Tarkitoff, it was ultimately too expensive to justify continuing in light of low ratings, a casualty of Misfits' unenviable position across the schedule from Dallas. After 15 episodes, Science was blinded, although it remains a cult favorite for a small group of devoted fans -- for proof, check out Will Harris's ebook Misfits of Science: An Oral History.

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Mutant X

Fox's ownership of the film and TV rights to Marvel's X-Men characters enabled the publisher to see some of its heroes on the screen at a time when they weren't able to adapt those titles themselves, but it has also been a source of persistent complication between the companies -- and occasionally the basis for a lawsuit, as was the case when Marvel produced Mutant X, a syndicated series about a bio-geneticist named Adam Kane (John Shea) whose remorse over having helped create a generation of mutants leads him to round up and lead a group of genetically altered heroes on a mission to protect and train mutants at risk of being harmed or exploited. The story possibilities were fairly endless, and the ratings were sufficiently healthy for three full seasons' worth of episodes, but Fox sued the various companies involved, arguing that Mutant X was a breach of their licensing agreement. Marvel eventually settled out of court, leaving its production partners Tribune Entertainment and Fireworks Entertainment to continue fighting on their own -- and when Fireworks went bankrupt, Mutant X died a sudden death.

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My Secret Identity

Those lucky Canadians, man -- not only do they have publicly funded health care, but the Great White North is also home to photon beams that endow teenage boys with superhuman abilities. (This may explain how the guys in Rush are able to rock so hard.) That's the premise, anyway, behind My Secret Identity, which starred a young Jerry O'Connell as Andrew Clements, a Toronto teen who just happens to be pals with a super-genius scientist (Derek McGrath, a.k.a. Andy Andy from Cheers) who helps him navigate the perils of superpowered puberty. Part of the same block of delightfully '80s syndicated series that included Out of This World and She's the Sheriff, My Secret Identity made Saturday afternoons fun for a few years before soaring off into obscurity.

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Night Man

Years after Manimal faded into the annals of misbegotten TV crimefighters, the show's creator, Glen A. Larson, got a second shot at helping develop a small-screen superhero with Night Man, a syndicated (and loosely Marvel-derived) series about a saxophone player (Matt McColm) who acquires the ability to telepathically detect evil (but is no longer able to sleep) after being struck by lightning. Did we mention that this poor fellow's name is Johnny Domino? Given its intensely silly premise, visibly low budget, and a supporting cast that briefly included Taylor Dayne, it?s perhaps most surprising that the show managed to last for two seasons, enjoying a 44-episode run (during which Night Man came across Little Richard and Donald Trump as well as Manimal) before disappearing into the darkness.

DC Superhero Movie Line up

http://geektyrant.com/news/full-dc-superhero-movie-line-up-revealed-and-the-flash-has-been-cast

 

Warner Bros. is currently holding a big shareholder meeting today, and during the meeting the studio revealed some big release date information for their slate of upcoming DC superhero movies. Thanks to Ben Fritz of the Wall Street Journal, we have learned the following details that includes information about Suicide Squad, Justice League 2; Aquaman; Cyborg; a new standalone Superman movie; a standalone Batman movie, and a Green Lantern reboot. They also revealed the actor who will be playing The Flash in a standalone film. Here are all of the details we know so far:

"First DC movie after Batman vs Superman will be Suicide Squad."
"Wonder Woman movie coming in 2017!"
"2nd DC movie in 2017: Justice League"
"2018 DC Movies: The Flash starring Ezra Miller and Aquaman starring Jason Momoa"
"2019 DC Movies: Shazam (with Dwayne Johnson as Black Adam) and Justice League 2"
"Other DC movies in the works: Cyborg, a Green Lantern reboot, and new stand-alone Superman and Batman movies."

Hero Hideouts!

http://www.movoto.com/blog/novelty-real-estate/hero-hideouts/

@CaptainCanuck Got my Kickstarter rewards this week!

Thanks @HopeLNicholson for setting us straight on #CanadianSuperheroes

Just a little Canadian Superhero historic timeline for your Tuesday.

In order of appearance, Maple Leaf Superheroes: Canada Jack, @CaptainCanuck, Captain Canada, Guardian, Northguard pic.twitter.com/DBh06f2SbU
— Hope Nicholson (@HopeLNicholson) March 18, 2014

There's a new Hero in Town ! @Rebel_Loo

A New Canadian Super Hero! Check out the Kickstarter  Campaign



Retro Captain Canuck! @ctncanuck

Throwback Thursday: The very first Canuck merchandise. Anyone still have one of these neato shirts? #fashion #retro pic.twitter.com/49okjiiOab
— Captain Canuck (@ctncanuck) November 14, 2013

10 Worst #ComicBook #TV series

http://www.newsarama.com/15448-10-worst-comic-book-live-action-tv-series-of-all-time.html

A couple of these I hadn't even heard of, but most of them I used to watch. I even own a couple of the DVD sets; Birds of Prey,  The Tick.

What about The Flash series?!?

They're Reprinting #Nelvana !!!

They are reprinting the original Nelvana Comic from 1940!! This excerpt was taken from the Nelvana FB page

We will be reprinting the original 1940s Nelvana of the Northern Lights comic books, aka Canada's first super-heroine (and one of the world's first!)
Next month, we will begin crowd funding to raise funds to capture, restore, print, and distribute the comics.