Awesome Iron Man Custom Figures

So, apparently there was an Iron Man figure exhibition in Hong Kong, and well, the figures are just freaking spectacular.

Here's a sample - there are more to be found, from the beautiful to the bizarre and everywhere in between, at the One Sixth Warrior Forum.

Heroes Vets to Voice Iron Man, Wolverine Anime

Marvel TV head Jeph Loeb might has cast two veteran actors from the show he shephereded to success, followed by an alarmingly fast burnout, Heroes, to voice the leads in the upcoming American translations of the Wolverine and Iron Man anime series.

Now say what you will about Heroes, or anime takes on Marvel superheroes - both topics which can easily spark heated debate - but there is no doubt in my mind that the actors in question, Adrian Pasdar and Milo Ventimiglia are spectacularly well suited for their roles.

Especially Pasdar, whose evocative voice and knack for nailing the moral subtleties of the cutthroat capitalist have made me a fan ever since he starred in the title role of the cult classic TV series Profit. Pasdar will be the voice of Tony Stark/Iron Man, a role he was practically born to play.

Ventimiglia as Logan/Wolverine is slightly less obvious - while Pasdar is known for his masterful portrayals of morally ambiguous yet ultimately, kinda/sorta heroic industrialists, Milo does not exactly scream "I'm the best there is, bub," literally or metaphorically.

However, as fans who have been watching the Japanese take on Wolverine have noted, often with contention, this is a very different Logan than the one we've come to know from the X-Men, Avengers, and a whooole lotta solo titles. This is a young, thin, more nuanced Wolverine. Less body hair, more triple-back-somersaults. Whatever you think of this version of the character, it's not a stretch to imagine him voiced by Milo Ventimiglia..

The shows, slated to air in the US on G4, will have American subtitles but otherwise are expected to remain true to their preexisting storylines, based in Japan and immersed in Eastern culture.

Next in the pipeleine from Marvel: Blade and X-Men anime series.

So - are we excited?

Physiology Professor Uses Batman as Model of Peak Condition

Sure, because if you train hard enough, there's no good reason why you can't survive getting shot in the face by Darkseid, traveling through time, being a cowboy, a puritan and - oh geez, whatever the heck else Grant Morrison throws at you.

E. Paul Zehr is a professor at University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, where at least they have universal health care for the inevitable injuries you'll sustain if you think you can go out in the world and be Batman.

He also is the author of Becoming Batman: The Possibility of a Superhero, so he kind of has a vested interest in convincing our particularly impressionable youth that anyone can, in fact, be The Bat.

Comics characters, generally speaking, in an ideal world, should inspire us to greatness, but lets not forget that we were all taught at very young ages by responsible, sane adults that we should not run around and emulate their physical exploits or we would suffer multiple fractures and/or death. Also, Batman totally rules but lets not kid ourselves, he is a schizophrenic ticking time bomb, and every day he doesn't die or get a kid under his watch killed is just a goddamn miracle.

Says Zehr:

"The more that people understand science, and the physiology of things in particular, the better for everyone."

Fair enough.

Seriously though, is this a monsoon of lawsuits waiting to happen or what?

Zehr's second cuckoo-bananas book, Inventing Iron Man: The Possibility of a Human Machine, is due in stores this year. A quick read-through and you'll be flying through the air in your armor, a cocktail in one hand and Megan Fox in the other, in no time flat.

I mean you'll actually be in the hospital, but morphine-induced comas will give you some kick-ass dreams.

Black Widow Gone Wild: Poetry in (Stop) Motion

It's like the greatest episode of Robot Chicken EVAR.

Behold as the sultry Soviet Super-Spy takes out Batman, Michael Jackson and a T-effing-1000, before taking off in her badass new War Machine armor.

I didn't say it made sense. I said it was awesome. And it is.

Yet another masterpiece from stop-motion animator Patrick Boivin.

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Cheese, pepperoni Armor, onion power core, black olive rivets, pureed black olive outlines and a whole lot of love.

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See War Machine’s Upgraded Armor From Iron Man 2.0

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James “Rhodey” Rhodes, aka War Machine, gets an armored upgrade in Iron Man 2.0. What will Tony Stark’s pal face in the upcoming comic book series?

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Iron Man Cake Inspires the Baker In you

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Of all the superheroes that Marvel Comics has given to us, Iron Man has to be the most prolific and mysterious. This cake here was inspired by Iron Man and was created by a long time Marvel Comics fan.

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Jon Favreau Will Not Direct Iron Man 3

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The poet Robert Browning once wrote that "a man in armor is his armor's slave." By that logic, director Jon Favreau is now a free man: Insiders tell Vulture that Favreau has just informed Marvel Studios that he won't direct a third Iron Man film.

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Paltrow Says No Potts In THE AVENGERS

via GeekTyrantOur friends at Collider caught up with Gwyneth Paltrow at the Screen Gems press junket for her latest movie Country Song and of course she was asked about Joss Whedon's The Avengers which is getting ready to start filming early next year.

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