An unknown fan made this poster for the new Avengers movie using the concept art that has been released. I think it looks pretty stunning! 
 
Source 
 

Not sure if this has been shown before, but I couldn't find it and haven't seen it before. So here it is!
 
Newsarama has their hands on the first two page previews of some of the #1 comics of the new DC Universe. The issues are:

• Batman
• Action Comics
• Superman
• Flash
• Green Lantern
• Wonder Woman

You can find them here

I know there are some fans on CV of the Spartacus show, so here's the new trailer for Spartacus: Vengeance!
 
Andy Whitfield will not be returning due to his illness, but the new actor looks to be doing a pretty good job. You can read the interview here.
 
WARNING: GRAPHIC VIOLENCE IN THE VIDEO. So watch at your own discretion.

So we all know which comic book writer we think writes amazing stories or which artist is able to draw the most disproportionate bodies. But when you really think about it, do we really know anything about the person behind those amazing stories or drawings? So I decided to do a little background research on some famous and some not so famous comic book creators. And the things you find can be pretty interesting to say the least.

I’ve only picked out a few out of many more stories, but feel free to add your own!

Jack Kirby

Marc Sleen

Jim Lee

Carl Barks

New 'Captain America: First Avenger' news!

“Sometimes when we had questions and we were stuck we would say, ‘What would Indiana Jones do? What would be the answer to this in “Raiders of the Lost Ark”?’ I’ve always loved ‘Raiders’ and the great achievement of it was the tone and the fresh feeling of the movie."

It's not something that bothered me, but it is something I noticed with some of the new designs. Seems like they're going with some tattoo's for the new designs. Personally I kind of like it except for the Superboy one, it looks more like it's been branded than an actual tattoo. I do like that Mr. Terrific one.

“But Batman is always right! He’s the godd*mn Batman!” you say? Well yeah.. but bear with me here. 

A lot of people always say ‘Batman should kill his villains because they always break out of jail and kill more people’. Sure.. it’s a valid point. But let’s look at it from a different perspective, let’s say Batman did kill his enemies. How often does a character really stay dead? At one point in time (s)he will come back to life and when that character does.. (s)he’ll come back more powerful, with the element of surprise and with a lust for revenge. At least when they’re locked up you’re always aware of the potential breakout that could happen. You keep that in the back of your head and it keeps you on your toes. But if you think the person is dead… well no problem then! You’ll drop your guard and it’ll leave you vulnerable.  

And when the inevitable return does happen (you know it will) it’ll hit that much harder. Just look at Morlun when he returned, almost destroyed the whole of Wakanda! Look at Blackest Night…. Had those people been locked up instead of killed you’d have a lot less to worry about. So maybe locking them up instead of killing them isn’t such a bad idea after all.  

Disclaimer: This only works in comics, not real life :P

How many do you have: Comics inspired by video games

I was browsing a little through my comic book collection and I noticed I have quite a few books that were inspired by videogames.

For example

• Tomb Raider series
• Street Fighter
• Mass Effect.

RPG-ing: ‘Why does it feel like a task?’

So, a short summary of what has been mentioned so far by people (ok, I lied, turned out longer than I thought, you people complain too much :P):

• People drop out of rpg’s too quickly.
• Some people don’t like the new structured feel of rpg’s while others disagree and find it to be better.
• People are only excited for new ideas at first, but once that dies down people lose interest and it starts feeling like a task.
• I feel pressured into writing, this can be because of the pace of the rpg or the large posts other people write.
• It’s too much of a popularity contest.
• I don’t know what or how I should write it to fit into the story.
• People aren’t willing to change things themselves and depend on others to do it for them.
• The rpg-community is much larger than what it used to be so it’s difficult to make your mark on a rpg.
• I feel my post is simply ignored in the rpg and that people don’t even read it.
• Big canon rpg’s go way too fast and there’s simply too much to read for me to keep up with.
• People are left out of the loop so they don’t know what to do in a rpg so just do their own thing.
• I have a lack of time to write posts that I feel are up to the standard nowadays (large posts, elaborate descriptions etc).
• People will only flock to a new rpg if there’s an established rpg-er taking part in it.
• People ‘whine’ about new rpg’s being too similar to rpg’s that have already been done.
• (New) rpg-ers are quickly shunned out of rpg’s if they make a mistake. Instead of explaining what they did wrong and how to improve.
• You have to be on a team to do anything noteworthy, if you’re solo you just wander around aimlessly.
• Teams do rpg’s that affect the whole vine but keep it to themselves, this is fine, but eliminates the welcoming factor the vine is known for.
• People are forming cliques and not branching out.
• Rpg’s are too slow, it takes weeks/months before the story actually gets going. Some rpg’s used to be finished in one day in the early days.
• The posts are too big nowadays to keep up with. 70% of the post is filler and has nothing to do with the story at hand.
• Why bother joining rpg’s anymore? People are gonna get hyped for a couple of days and then drop out and let the rpg die.
• RPG’s are too predictable nowadays. One or two people lead, the rest follows without them doing anything noteworthy.