Rule 63

A group of comic artists including The Kitchen's Ming Doyle (artist site), Unbeatable Squirrel Girl's Erica Henderson (artist site), Howard the Duck's Joe Quinones, (artist site) and Where Is Jake Ellis's Jordan Gibson (artist site) recently came together to brainstorm and illustrate some of their favorite celebrities for #DCBend, a Tumblr-based fancast of the heroes and villains of the DCU with women in male roles and men in female roles. While the concept of gender-swapped casting and fan art for comic movies is not a new one, DCBend has lead to some really inspired choices by some of the rising stars of comics. Check out the entire gallery, including some that are debuting for the first time on ComicsAlliance.

We've had a little fun with the idea of switching the genders of Archie characters, but in this month's issue of Archie, we're getting the official version. In Archie #636, Tania Del Rio and Gisele bring us "The Great Switcheroo," in which Archie is transformed into Archina along with the rest of a gender-swapped Riverdale...