Discarded Wonder Woman costume shows up on Erica Durance
Waste not, want not: although the Wonder Woman costume designed for Adrienne Palicki didn't help the show fly as a pilot, producer David Kelley must have realized that a newly designed Wonder Woman costume is the kind of thing you keep in the closet for a rainy day. on Harry's Law, another show he produces, Erica Durance showed up wearing the costume -- playing a woman who THINKS she's Wonder Woman. So it's both Kelley making an in-joke...and being thrifty and green by recycling! Well played.
Continue ReadingHeisman winner Griffin sends Superman Socks up up and away
Only a few innocent weeks ago, we were kidding around about these Superman socks with calf capes, suggesting they were a suitable gift for a male geek, even though they only come in girls sizes. And then Robert Griffin III, this year's Heisman Award winner, picked up his award while wearing these very socks. (The Heisman Triophy is presented each year to the #1 college football player and it is quite an honor.) Maybe the self-professed comics nut Griffin is a Beat reader? At the very least he has shattered the nerd/jock divide to atoms:
Continue ReadingGift Guide: Superman socks with mini calf capes
Although Edna Mode famously cried "No capes!" people can't seem to get enough of them these days, with capelets and mini capes among the outerwear options for fall and beyond. But if you need capes on all your extremities, these Superman socks with attached capes will get you flying down the street. According to the seller, they are for schoolgirls, but they go up to Women's size 9, so a variety of ages and sizes can get in on the fetish fun. Usually, however, it is males who get socks for Christmas since there is little giftable that can be purchased for them. Maybe these are a comedy option for the BIg Bang Theory types in your household?
Continue ReadingWhen Victoria’s Secret did Superheroes
Cosplayers rejoice! The theme at this year's Victoria Secret fashion show was superheroes!
Continue ReadingNew line of DC Comics Chuck Taylors make for stylish feet
Converse and DC have teamed for the DC Comics x Converse Chuck Taylor All Star Hi Collection,, which features high top sneakers based on Batman, Superman, the Flash and the Joker. We like! More pics in the link. A DC comics poster comes with each shoe purchase.
Continue ReadingStan Lee teams with MASScanvas for T-shirt contest
As you all know, Stan Lee pacts the way other people breathe. Here's a new one -- a contest with online community MASScanvas to design a t-shirt; a portions of the proceeds of the winning design will go to the John Wayne Cancer Institute. Winners get their very own congratulatory video from Stan, as well.
Continue ReadingKibbles ‘n’ Bits: NYCC 11 Edition
It's going to take a while to get the images and sounds — and smells — of New York Comic Con out of our head, and images such as the above — a bevy of gender-swapped Doctor Whos composed of cosplay superstars — will show you why. There were SO many costumed people at the the show this year. The ratio of costumes to lookieloos was incredibly high. So yeah, if it was spectacle you wanted, you got it, including the topless woman with the fake mustache who was hanging outside the Javits on Sunday. "Yeah, they were talking about her all the way back to Macy's," a photographer told me. Since Macy's is five blocks crosstown from the Javits, this is the equivalent of light speed communication in New York terms.
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Get your Tyrion Lannister T-shirt!
Although right now you might want to support the valiant Stark clan with a Robb Stark T-shirt -- one of three Game of Thrones character shirts now on sale at HBO.com-- who can resist Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister, the cunning, caustic, hard-living, altogether irresistible member of the scheming, incestuous house of Lannister? Plus, New Jersey-born Dinklage is one of the few US actors who can keep up with the acting chops of the largely British cast. Clan Morristown!
Continue ReadingWin Green Lantern tickets and a Green Lantern Hex watch band
There are a lot of Green Lantern merch tie-ins out there, and here's a cool one, a Hex sport watch band suitable for ipod Nano. It isn't actually a Green Lantern licensed product...but it's the right color. You can win this or a pair of tickets to see Green Lantern by going to the ShopHex Facebook page and answering some questions. Today's quiz: "IF YOUR HEX WATCH COULD GIVE YOU ANY SUPERPOWER, WHAT WOULD IT BE?"
Continue ReadingStan Lee 1: Get your Stan Lee Tee courtesy of Secret Headquarters
Secret Headquarters, the LA- based comics shop, is selling some swell t-shirts, including this one featuring Stan the Man Lee which should fulfill both your hipness, homage, and fashion needs as we head into summer.
Continue ReadingJanuary Jones as the White Queen is heating up
Fox has been holding back on the January Jones/White Queen lingerie shots for X-MEN: FIRST CLASS but The Hollywood Reporter is delivering with some shots in era-appropriate (and now fetishized) garb.
Continue ReadingCartoonists go goo-goo for Gaga
NY Magazine recently commissioned a bunch of designers to reimagine the mistress of all the surveys, Lady Gaga, just in time for her new album's release. While it's hard to out-weird someone who wears a meat dress and goes to a Mets game in her underwear, several cartoonists gave it a shot, including Ariel Shrag, David Reese, Tim Hensley and Mike Keefe.
Continue ReadingMAC Wonder Woman totes and tee available online
MAC's Wonder Woman cosmetics have blurred the line between chic and geek and created excitement among lady nerds everywhere. But it's just not rouge and pomade: You can buy Mike Allred-drawn Wonder Woman merchandise online. We don't need another tote bag -- lordy, we don't -- and yet somehow we need that one.
Continue ReadingBeautiful superhero stars at the Golden Globes: Emma Stone, Christian Bale etc.
Last night's Golden Globes held no wins for any comics-themed material, but lots of stars of comic book movies were out, providing a stunning parade of nerdlebrity pulchritude.
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