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Wallpapers for the Batman range of Lego mini-figs. Can’t wait for the upcoming Lego Batman : The Videogame to be released later this September since I’m a big fan of Traveller’s Tales games - their previous Lego Star Wars : The Videogame made me into a Star Wars fan.
Hopefully a romp through a Legofied Gotham City will change my opinion of the depressingly dark and gloomy Batman universe.

© Lego

Also check out the six promotional comics for a quick primer on the major villains (below) as well as Batman’s garage of Legofied vehicles. Almost all the villains are present except for the strange omission of Catwoman. Hmmm….

© Lego

More Dark Knight goodness in the exclusive debut trailer for Lego Batman : The Videogame which you can watch or download from Gametrailers.

© Lego / Traveller Tales

Travellers Tales has another soon to be released Lego game in the form of Lego Indiana Jones : The Original Adventures but I think the Dark Knight is far cooler - although I have to admit that the exotic locations in Lego Indiana Jones as shown in the wallpapers do have their attractions

Apparently, Lego no longer has the Harry Potter license so I’m wondering which license they would use for the next Lego game -a Lego minifig version of The Lord of the Rings would be fantastic

Download the wallpapers or view the comics for Lego Batman.

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I first learnt about The Darkness by Top Cow Productions from a high resolution E3 2005 trailer for the Xbox 360 game by Starbreeze Studios. Below are two screen captures from the E3 2005 trailer which seems to be rendered entirely by the game engine. The slimy skin textures are amazing

© Starbreeze Games

Download this trailer from the official Microsoft site (of all places!)

I also like the artwork for The Darkness, especially the illustration below from The Art of The Darkness book. Read more about the artbook from Silver Bullets Comic Books where I found the image.

© Top Cow Productions

Enough of The Darkness, let’s get back to the wonderful wallpapers in store at the official Top Cow Productions site (Center Stage > Desktops). Shown below are eight of my favourites from the 35 available:

© Top Cow Productions

In ascending order (use the number in brackets to find the download link below):
Cyberforce (04), Firstborn (07), Human Kind (09), Hunter Killer (13), The Darkness (22), The Magdelena (23), Wanted (28), Witchblade (30)

Direct links to all the wallpapers (in 1024×768 where available) are listed below as some of them are unaccessible on the Top Cow site, probably because they were previously featured at Top Cow and the official site only showcases the four most recent wallpapers at any one time.

This list should be complete as of 04 July 2007 and is sorted in alphabetical order.

Battle of The Planets
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Common Grounds
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Cyber Force (More info)
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Eric Basaldua Sketchbook (More info)
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First Born (More info)
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Freshmen II : Fundamentals of Fear (More info)
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Human Kind
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Hunter Killer (More info)
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Lara Croft’s Tomb Raider (More info)
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Stryke Force
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The Darkness (More info)
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The Magdalena (More info)
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The Necromancer (More info)
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Vice
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Wanted (More info)
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Witchblade (More info)
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Others
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A generous 51 page preview of the comic Death Jr written by Gary Whitta and illustrated by Ted Niafeh, in a high-res freely downloadable PDF

© Backbone Entertainment

This comic is mainly about the adventures of a group of special kids:

• Death Jr (DJ) (wielding the scythe) - the son of the Grim Reaper
• Pandora (purple dress, blank eyes) - a little girl who displays obsessive-compulsive tendencies with opening closed boxes, chests or any other containers, often with disastrous results (ala Pandora’s Box)
• Stigmartha (the other girl) - her hands bleed when she’s nervous (a play on the word stigmata)
• Smith & Weston - two very smart twins conjoined at the head
• Seep - a cynical baby (child?) encased in a mobile vat

© Backbone Entertainment

Page 25 - Death Jr & Pandora in Death’s Jr’s dad’s study.

© Backbone Entertainment

Page 42 - Death Jr & friends at the Museum of Supernatural History

Get the comic preview now from the website of the Konami PSP game from which this comic was adapted. Go to www.deathjr.com, select Death Jr II : Root Evil, browse to Downloads and finally click on Download .pdf Comic under Death Jr. Comic. (52 MB).

Read more about the Death Jr comics at Backbone Entertainment.

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I remember watching this Hanna-Barbera cartoon when I was a kid (created and aired in US in the mid 70’s but only appeared on SG TV during the 80’s). The Chopper Bunch were one of my favourite cartoon troublemakers - not villains though because they weren’t that capable There’s more info on the cartoon (but not much) on the Wikipedia entry)

Three of the mischeivous bikes were standard motorcycles with the smallest one Scrambles bearing an uncanny resemblance to the Honda Motocompo, an interesting artefact of the 80s

© Cartoon Network

From right to left:
Hi-Riser (wearing a toque)
Chopper (wearing the Prussian-style helmet)
Revs (wearing a peaked cap)
Scrambles (the little orange Motocompo)

You can view a relatively new flash animation featuring the Chopper Bunch (with the original voice artists if I’m not wrong) on Cartoon Network’s Web Premiere Toons or view the original cartoon intro at RetroJunk. Brings back good memories when my daily routine consisted only of hours of cartoons

According to Wikipedia, the spinoff comic published by the now defunct Charlton Comics from July 1975 to July 1976, feature some of the earliest published artwork of the famous comics writer/artist John Byrne (Superman, X-Men, The Hulk, etc) in the first three issues. You can view some of his early work for Charlton Comics on his official site here here.

There’s also a nice cover scan of Wheelie & The Chopper Bunch comic #1 on waffyjon’s random thoughts

Three cool wallpapers featuring Martin Abel’s comic style illustrations of pretty goth and tattooed girls from his official site @ www.martinabel.com.

© Martin Abel

Found out about Martin Abel after checking out Warren Louw’s favourites @ GfxArtist.com. (See previous post about illustrator Warren Louw here.) Think I’m spending too much time on GfxArtist.com nowadays but I’m having such a great time it’s hard to stop

Martin Abel’s showcase at GFXArtist.com features more great illustrations of his pretty comic girls (mmm… love the recurring theme of goth influences and tattoos for his girls). Some thumbnails of his excellent artwork below - for the actual artwork, you’ll have to visit his GFXArtist gallery or his official website

  
  
© Martin Abel

Clockwise from top left :Pirate Girl, Dragon Girl, It’s a Mad World and Roswell High

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