Luigi

Fans hurting for a fully articulated Luigi action figure since Toy Biz's notable Mario Kart 64 line in circa 1999-2000 can finally snag something arguably even cooler from Good Smile Company in July of 2014. Even as Nintendo's "Year of Luigi" draws to a close, GS has announced a Nendoroid action figure version of Super Mario's taller, higher-jumping brother.

Animation: It looks like chef, TV host, novelist and comic book writer Anthony Bourdain will be appearing on an upcoming episode of Archer. Digital: Anthony Clark has released a pay-what-you-want digital sketchbook PDF, which includes 101 pages of Nedroid-y goodness...

Luigi powers up with what we can assume was a Gamma ray mushroom in this Super Mario/Hulk mash-up by artist Dan Hipp. You can check out more of Hipp's relentless sweet art at his website.

Have you ever wondered what Samus Aran's day-to-day life is like when she's not rolling up into a ball and blowing up floating jellyfish aliens? Chris Furniss obviously does. In fact, he began a series of pieces called 31 Days of Zero Suit Samus, and last we looked, he was already on day number 23...

I've seen a lot of things in this crazy world of ours, but never in all my years have I witnessed an argument for the fact that we're living in the best of all possible worlds as compelling as the existence of this: An installment of the 1988 Ice Capades based on Super Mario Bros... Read More ...

The Super Mario Brothers aren't just the stars of this week's biggest video game release on the Wii, nor were they simply the heroes of one of the most disastrous films of the 1990s - they were also comic book legends. Well, legends might be pushing it, but brothers Mario and Luigi certainly have some comic book credibility to their name...