Category Archives: comics

About Tesla

The Oatmeal comic on Nikola Tesla, here.

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Teaser trailer: The Amazing Spider-Man

The first mov­ing images from the new Spider-Man big screen reboot have just been released. The teaser trailer feels more like an inter­pret­a­tion of the “Ultimate Spider-Man” series which in itself is a re-interpretation of the ori­ginal com­ics run. Humm…

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DC Universe online trailer

The amaz­ingly craf­ted Blur Studios did this 5 minutes trailer for the upcom­ing game DC Universe online. It fea­tures an epic battle of some of DC com­ics iconic char­ac­ters in a post-apocalyptic Earth. Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Flash, Joker, Lex Luthor and more, all smash­ing each other in some nice visu­als. Game trailer below (flash […]

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The Oatmeal’s take on “Buying Apps”

Reality TV? So true. Check the comic strip here.

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Scott Pilgrim vs. World — The Videogame

If the Scott Pilgrim vs. The World movie wasn’t cool enough, here is the video­game. Good ol’ beat’em up game, Double Dragon style. I want this for iPhone/iPod Touch, unfor­tu­nately it is only going to be released for Playstation Network and Xbox Live. Who knows maybe one day it will show up in the App Store. Here’s […]

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Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

Trailer 2 is out. Comics and video­game visu­als all the way. Just for the fun of it. The movie is to be released this Summer (August in the U.S.). The movie is an adapt­a­tion of  “Scott Pilgrim”, a comic book series cre­ated by Bryan Lee O’Malley. Final volume of the inten­ded 6 volume comic book series is set to be […]

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Frank Frazetta 1928–2010

Frank Frazetta, the legendary fantasy artist, died a couple of days ago. He worked for the pulp paper­back industry and did cov­ers for Conan and Tarzan and many more. From The Beat art­icle: «Frazetta’s imagery of brawny, relent­less swords­men, seduct­ive, fleshy sirens and hell­fire breath­ing mon­sters had a gut level impact because it came from the gut» I remem­ber the […]

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