mashups

We're living in pretty grim times these days, what with explosive volcanoes, massive oil spills and an impending Gundam uprising. But sometimes, there are still things in this world that are positively filled with win. This illustration from Gotta Be Carl combining the cast of Futurama with the various characters in the X-Men universe is one such victory...

Tony Stark and Rocky Balboa aren't the likeliest of allies. But when a United States sports icon like Apollo Creed is taken out with such ruthless efficiency by Ivan Drago all because Tony has "successfully weaponized boxing" and has created a deadly enemy out of Ivan "Whiplash" Vanko, conventional wisdom goes out the window and unlikely alliances are the only logical solutions

There are scads of reasons I wish I were attending this weekend's MoCAA Fest 2010, but the chance to buy limited and exclusive items is near the top. Take Dark Igloo's two new supermashup Booom! tees, which pit amalgamations of good and evil against each other in print combat...

Marvel super-heroes undergoing strange transformations isn't really a new idea: Captain America's been a werewolf, Storm and Wolverine have been vampires in "What If," and heck, there's an entire universe where the Marvel Super-Heroes have been turned into zombies, and one where they're all apes, some of whom are also vampires...

Artists (and Photoshoppers) all over the web have been responding to the Marvel/Disney deal by creating bizarre, entertaining amalgams of characters from Disney and Marvel lore. Considering that we've all only known about this for the last 12 hours, color me impressed: -- Craig Yoe, whom you may remember as the author of that book about the secret S&M art of Superman's co-creator, just launche