Dork Art: Mike Mitchell's Marvel Portraits

This afternoon Time Magazine unveiled another set of portraits from Mike Mitchell's Mondo Gallery Show (opening this Friday in Austin - the lucky bastards!), and they are absolutely & utterly perfect.  The Hulk is the tops for sure; Mitchell expertly captures that cromag forehead accentuating the green meanie's dim bulb rage.  But I also love Loki's contemptuous glazed expression, Doc Ock's maniacal grin, and Bullseye's psycho eyes.  Luke Cage?  He's all confidence & sideburns.  I really hope prints of these Avengers are available soon so that I can fight the internet into frustrated bliss as I click, click, click, click to no avail.  Seems like the only luck I'm having at scoring Mondo prints these days is on the secondary market.  An old story, but still it rankles.

The Spectacular Spider-Ham Gets Animated

So, I've got a lot of questions about the below clip from the new Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon show, but the number one query has to be--What the hell is the tone of this show?  Is this Marvel doing The Brave & The Bold?  Cuz good luck capturing that special brand of crazy.  I'm gonna have to check this show out, but it looks way more comedy-comedy than I was expecting.  But maybe the suits in charge thought the semi-serious tone of the last cartoon Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man was getting in the way of the kid demographic.  And you know kids love Spider-Ham, right?



--Brad