Super Marishka Hargitay

This month The Awesome Town has seen many posts with the word "super" in them. That's good. All super everything.

The picture below is by an artist named Sina Grace. It's a drawing of Detective Olivia Benson, one of the main characters on the great television show Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (the best Law & Order show by far) played by the actor Marishka Hargitay.

In this picture, Detective Benson has lightning powers. And she's fighting terrorists.

But, wait! This is not the only sci-fi Law & Order picture in existence! Not by a long shot!

If you want more Sci Fi Law & Order, An artist named Brandon Bird got a bunch of his colleagues together to make art taking the premises for Law & Order episodes and turning them sci fi.

For example, the picture above is based on a Law & Order: SVU plot called "Benson Combats Terrorist Activities." The series of art is appropriatly called "These Are There Stories."

The famous comic shop Meltdown Comics in Hollywood is showing currently showing all the "These Are Their Stories" art in the store. If you are in the L.A area, and you enjoy Law & Order and Sci Fi stuff, I recommend stopping by Meltdown and checking "These Are Their Stories" out. If you like comics and haven't been to Meltdown, it's a great store. I've been twice and it's definitely one of the best comic shops I've visited in my life so far.

Law & Order becoming Sci Fi really is amazing. It's two awesome things coming together.

[Via io9]

Super Cross Overs

Crossovers are definitely in fashion these days. Well, mostly if you're Capcom. Just last year Capcom released Tatsunoko vs. Capcom and next year they're putting out the game we've been waiting a decade for: Marvel vs. Capcom 3 (a game that has two character wishlists here in Awesome Town. One by guest blogger Morgan Kent and one by yours truly). And now, a year after Marvel Vs. Capcom 3, we'll probably see release of the recently announced Street Fighter Vs. Tekken crossover game.

Perhaps inspired by Capcom's Cornucopia of crossovers on the way, an artist named David Stonecipher has made some crossover art. Stonecipher drew a series of pictures depicting superheroes meeting famous videogame heroes. Pictures such as this one of Superman and Super Mario:

Or this one of Batman meeting a fellow stealthy, deadly serious and gruff-voiced warrior: Solid Snake:

Here are two big monster guys, Donkey Kong and The Hulk:

And finally, here's Spiderman--whom Capcom oddly hasn't announced yet for Marvel Vs. Capcom 3--teaming up with a somewhat lesser known videogame guy: Just Cause's protagonist Rico Rodriguez. That team-up is because both Rico and Spider-Man zip around using grappling hook type things. Spider-man has his webs and Rico's got his stunt.

[Via Comics Alliance]

P.S: Just Cause 2 is one of the most fun games to dick around in of all time. It's like Grand Theft Auto, but even more ridiculous and thus even more entertaining.

I highly recommend downloading The Just Cause 2 demo, which is available on the Playstation Networks and Xbox Lives of the world. It's free fun. And, the Just Cause 2 demo is re-playable in a way most demos aren't. You can keep returning to it for awesome paramilitary sandbox adventures.

The Sound Of Superheroes Fighting

As a rule, All MMOs suck, and I'm sure the DC Universe Online game will be no exception. However shitty it the game will be, its trailer is pretty amazing. It is an incredibly epic and damn entertaining clash of DC's heroes and Villains.

Now, I know what you're thinking. I, too thought this would be lame before I watched it. But, trust me, it's nowhere near lame. Give this video a chance. I could care less about the game its a trailer for, so I'm sort of just considering it an awesome animation featuring DC characters and not much more than that:

[Via io9]

Air Skeletor

Skeletor is one of the most badass villains of all time. In fact, I think he's so badass that he deserves a better nemesis than He-Man. But, that's neither here nor there.

Anyhow, here's a little know fact about Skeletor: did you know he plays basketball?

An artist by the name of Andy Macdonald drew up the lovely picture of Mr. Skeletor balling.

[Via Complex]

Iron Man Anime Trailer

I've said again and again that I think most anime is terrible.

But, this trailer for the an Iron Man anime show looks pretty badass. And really, only the art style is anime. It probably won't have a ridiculous anime story since Warren Ellis, one of comics' most visionary sci fi writers, is handling on the script.

Game Reviews - E3 2011

In addition to Iron Man, G4 is also giving 3 other Marvel franchises the anime treatment: Blade, X-Men and Wolverine.

[Via Spinoff Online]

Robot Butterfly

Mind Sanitizer

This bizarre and awesome short film "Mind Sanitizer" is the work of my friend Emily Wingren:

And, get this: it isn't the only film she's made! You can check out other videos on the ALAAMODE Youtube Channel.

Yeah!

Street Fighter Vs. Tekken Trailer

[Via 1up]

Western Spaghetti

Ghostface Soap Commercial

Star Wars Cereal

[Via Comics Alliance]

Toy Delorean

I can't tell if this Power Wheels style Back To The Future Delorean is coming out soon or if it's a retro thing. It's hard to tell these days what's retro and what's made to look that way ( Cf., Mega Man 9 and 10, '50s Star Wars...).

My guess is that it's a new toy with retro advertising. Even if I'm wrong about that, this Delorean is still awesome:




[Via io9]

A Mustachioed Assassin

Ubisoft has an Assasin's Creed comic coming out, a joint effort by comics guys Cameron Stuart and Karl Kerschl.

This comic won't be about either of the Assassins we've come to know and love from the games (Altair from the first or Ezio from the second). Instead, it will take place in 19th century Russia and features Nikolai Orelov, a new Assasin who seems to use a riffle. And has a mustache.

There's also a teaser trailer they put out for this comic. Trailers for things that aren't films is a strange thing. But, they're making trailers for everything these days. This one is kind of cool since it's in an oldschool fashion:

But, you should know that while old man, mustachioed Assassins are awesome, Nikolai won't be the first...
[Via Comic Book Resources]

Presidents And Their Hams

An Artist named Bijoo painted portraits of all the U.S Presidents. He depicts each man with a ham in his arms.

Here's Obama with a Ham:

Here's Abraham Lincoln:

Here's Ulysses S. Grant:

And Here's Bill Clinton:

[Via Paste]

I Write Like...

On the website I Write Like, you can paste in few paragraphs, a sample of your writing, and it will tell you which famous author you're writing resembles.

For example, It told me that the first few paragraphs of a short story I wrote are like Charles Dickens. The site used "analysis" to do that, so it has to be correct. Right?

Obviously, if I write like Dickens that means I'm destined for greatness, y'all.

I can't see why you'd need to know what writer this site thinks you're like.

In fact, you don't need to know. But, finding out can be fun. In the that very dumb internet way.

[Via Paste]

Kanye West x King Tut's Grandma

Here's an even more ultimate teamup than Hellboy and Ghost Rider:

[Via Rap-Up]

Man Wolf Van

Not only is this a creeper van. But, it's a GOLD creeper van with a MUTANT WOLF DUDE (and outer space) painted on it.

[Via io9]

Hellboy x Ghost Rider

The other night I had a dream where Hellboy teamed up with Deadpool and Rorschach from Watchmen.

In the same vein as my dream, today some art hit the internet of another Hellboy teamup. Comic artist Dan McDaid took it upon himself to draw this very short comic featuring Hellboy and everyone's favorite flame-skeleton superhero: Ghost Rider.

[Via Comics Alliance]

Super Mario On The Curb

Super Mario Bros. from Andreas Heikaus on Vimeo.

[Via Destructoid]

From Russia With Love

Alcohol Up Close

Here's what Gin looks like crystalized and viewed through a microscope:

Pretty awesome, right? Here's what Sake looks like:

And here's what White Zinfandel looks like:

[Via Complex]

Batman vs. Predator (and Aliens and The Joker)

The new Nimrod Antal directed (and Robert Rodriguez produced) Predators movie is out tomorrow.

In honor of that, and because I've been blogging a ton about Batman lately (mostly over on the Ronblog) here's Batman: Dead End.

This fan film's a couple years old, but it's pretty cool. There's really no story. It's just Batman fighting monsters. But, that's fun.

A much more recent Batman fan film called City Of Scars came out a little under a month ago. "City Of Scars" has no Predators or Aliens, but it's not too shabby.

Big Bang Big Boom

Here's some amazing graffiti stop motion by an artist named Blu (not the same guy as the hip hop Blu) showing the beginning of the world up to Blu's vision of the world's end:

BIG BANG BIG BOOM - the new wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

[Via io9]

Fancy Inception Ad

Christopher Nolan's new movie Inception is supposed to really great and it isn't even out yet (it comes out July 16th).

Apparently the film's about dreams and reality manipulation and such. That's what I can glean from the internet anyway.

Whatever Inception's about, this ad on the side of a building is pretty cool:

[Via Heat Vision]

Mice Fight

[Via i09]

Girls And Wolves Shirt

This is a great shirt you can get from Threadless.

Awesome Sand Castles

[via Curated]

Lego Futurama

[Via Comics Alliance]

Hulkula

The recent Hulk comics have really sucked in my opinion. But, this variant cover for Hulk #26 featuring the Red Hulk as Dracula is pretty awesome.

It's drawn by Salva Espin. Hulk #26 will be out in October.

[Via Comic Book Resources]

Code Organ

Yeasayer has this fancy "Code Organ" on their website that will "play" other websites and make you a song if you type in URL.

Somehow the Code Organ reads a website's HTML code and then makes a song out of that using sounds from Yeasayer's song "O.N.E". I tried it with Awesome Town's URL (thetownisawesome.blogspot.com) and got a pretty fun song (which I unfortunatly can't figure out how to share with y'all).

Try it with your for yourselves here!

Also, here's the original track "O.N.E" because it's a great song:

Yeasayer "ONE" By: Radical Friend from ODDBLOOD on Vimeo.

[via Pitchfork]