Comic-Con 2011 - Friday: Geekocalypse

Here's the Friday roundup of Comic-Con activity including South Park, Kevin Smith, Nintendo, Real Steel and more!


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WonderCon: The Geeks of San Francisco

This past April Fool's Day, I pulled off the ultimate prank of tricking people into thinking I was a nerd by attending my first-ever WonderCon during a weekend in San Francisco. WonderCon is sorta like a Comic-Con lite, but this year's convention went big with some appearances by stars like Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively (Green Lantern) and Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan (Hanna).

Anyway, the joke was on the WonderConventioneers when they realized I pulled the April Fool's wool over their eyes and turned out to be a totally supercool dude merely pretending to be geek. Suckers! It was cosplay, whatever that means! You should've seen the looks on their Batfaces!!! It was like Issue 104 of the DC Comics classic Silver Age... I mean, wait, what?

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LEGO DUPLO Gallery, Pt. 2

Ronald McDonald


The Jolly Green Giant


A Target employee


A UPS delivery person


Marge Simpson


Snooki from Jersey Shore


Kid 'n Play


Edward Cullen from Twilight


Muno from Yo Gabba Gabba!


SpongeBob SquarePants


Yoda


A ninja


An embarrassed ninja


Mr. Fantastic


The Little Mermaid


Super Mario Bros.


Video game arcade

LEGO DUPLO Gallery

Welcome to the first installment of my LEGO DUPLO Gallery. Me + boredom + toy blocks = this...

Superman


Spider-Man


Iron Man & the Hulk


Iron Man vs. the Hulk


Black Widow


The Vision


Cyclops


The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' Raphael


Optimus Prime


Optimus Prime ready to go cruisin'.


Soundwave


WALL-E


Mickey Mouse


Oscar the Grouch


Papa Smurf


Chewbacca


C-3PO, R2-D2 and a Jawa

Disney Marvel Team-Up

This morning Disney announced that it's acquiring Marvel Entertainment along with the 5,000-plus characters from its superhero universe. The implications are of hulking proportions. First, it means that Disney's Jonas Brothers will be getting some serious competition for who wears the tightest pants at the Mouse. It also means that there could be some crossovers like Howard the DuckTales, That's So Kraven or sorcerer supreme Dr. Strange visiting Waverly Place. Even Pixar could end up making a Fantastic Four movie called The Incredibles.

Here are some other ideas that could come out of the Disney-Marvel team-up:

Belle meets The Beast. Oh my stars and garters!

Namor the Sub-Mariner was also up for the lead role in The Little Merman.

I'm not sure which is worse -- this joke or my lazy Photoshop job.

"Real considerate, students. I'm in a wheelchair and can't jump.
'We're all in this together,' my ass."

Toad from the X-Men comics would've worked, too,
but his tongue-based "rides" aren't really very Disney.

True Tales from Our Podcast: Chapter 1

Ass Assault at Disneyland

The following comic is the first in an ongoing series of dramatizations of stories ripped straight from our podcasts. This true tale is from Podcast Episode 002 and tells of Jason getting violated at Disneyland...

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