Flotsam, Jetsam for 06/27/2007

• Every kid growing up in the 80’s spent more time than they’d like to admit mastering the boxy art of crayola Transformers drawings. Let’s see a new generation try that with the new squiggly designs. • Super Bastard Box Art Characters. • Everything you ever wanted to know about the original boy genius inventor, […]

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• Every kid growing up in the 80's spent more time than they'd like to admit mastering the boxy art of crayola Transformers drawings. Let's see a new generation try that with the new squiggly designs.

• Super Bastard Box Art Characters.

• Everything you ever wanted to know about the original boy genius inventor, Tom Swift Junior.

• An excellent review of ToM's favorite superhero artist Fletcher Hanks by Cory Doctorow: "Hanks's characters have seemingly unlimited powers (and extremely quirky anatomy), and yet they always seem to turn up after some racial bad guy (these heroes fight Kurds, "slant eyes" and shylock-looking Jews, among others) kills thousands of people. Then they tear them apart limb from limb in bloody revenge."

• You stupid broads can't handle the penis fencing that goes on in the Disney cartoonist's bullpen.

• Just wait until I strap 8 of these to my torso and start robbing banks: fully automated bionic arm.

• Takeshi Miike's Zebraman, coming soon to theaters near you: "Zebraman looks like an utterly bonkers superhero flick from Miike, where a schoolteacher’s one bright spot in his life is his obsessive love for an obscure 70s TV show Zebraman. As aliens attack he finds himself actually gaining superpowers and turning into his cheesy hero in an OTT (well, it is Miike!) homage to fandom."