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In putting together this summer's superhero-themed SpongeBob Comics Annual-Size Super-Giant Swimtacular #2, United Plankton Pictures dug deep and left-of-center for inspiration and riff material. How deep, and how left-of-center? Well, the book includes, "I Shall Destroy All The Civilized Planktons!", a rather meticulously assembled homage to the work of Golden Age oddball artist Fletcher Hanks and his Stardust The Super-Wizard, by Paul Karasik and R. Sikoryak. That story follows a few featuring more traditional targets of parody, like a Western-themed story starring SpongeBob regular Mermaid Man, who is basically just Silver Age Aquaman with sea shells over his nipples and a starfish in the middle of his face, and another in which Squidward becomes Batman parody the Squishy Knight and SpongeBob becomes "Multi-Purpose Sponge, the hero with a different costume in every panel" (which allows for panel after panel of SpongeBob dressed as various Marvel and DC superheroes).

Responding to yesterday's news that Sir Ian "Magneto/Gandalf" McKellen will be officiating Sir Patrick "Professor X/Jean-Luc Picard" Stewart's wedding to his fiancee, singer Sunny Ozell, Taiwanese animation machine NMA has put together a report fit for fans of, well, everything remotely kinda nerdy...

TV: Chloe Bennet of Nashville has signed on to star in Joss Whedon's S.H.I.E.L.D. pilot for ABC. Lego: Bruce Lowell's Krang (Kraang) Android Body custom build is exactly what Lego's new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles line needs. Digital: Mark Waid and Peter Krause's Thrillbent title, Insufferable, is now on ComiXology...

Gaming: It looks like Scribblenauts Unlimited may be the next great source of in-game superhero fan art. Lists: Tom Spurgeon responds to Bleeding Cool Magazine's list of the "100 most powerful people in comics" with a tongue-in-cheek list of 10 least powerful people...

At this point, making fun of hipsters is so played out that I'm pretty sure it can only be done ironically, at which time you have officially become the thing you hated. Imagine my surprise, then, when I cracked open the new issue of The Devastator, a quarterly comedy magazine that set its sights on "indie culture" this time out, and found that there's actually some pretty hilarious stu

While a number of amphibious aliens have been recruited into the Green Lantern corps, Disney's idea to add Kermit to their ranks for a Green Lantern parody promo for The Muppets movie proves the best frog for the job is an Earthling. See the GL parody trailer after the jump...

While most Marvel Comic fans are still stoked that an honest-to-Norse-gods decent Thor film actually arrived in theaters in their lifetime, the film wasn't without its problems. Functioning both as an introductory film and as a cinematic tributary to The Avengers franchise, a lot went down over the course of the movie and viewers may not have been satisfied with its conclusion...

In a move apparently spurred by the final impassioned plea of Joanne Siegel regarding Superman's copyright issues, Time Warner announced Friday that it will revert all intellectual property rights, chiefly the rights to characters, to their respective creators, and in some instances the heirs of those creators...

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While it's true that the Internet's relentless jihad against hipsters has become a bit of a bore (are we really done making fun of the Ed Hardy sickbros? Is there nothing left to say about yuppies?), some legit shock and awe has come in the form of a new feature at CollegeHumor...