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So have you heard of obamicon.me, where you can upload pictures and turn them into versions of the iconic Obama poster? Well, superheroes lend themselves very well to the treatment:



( More images below! )

I'd love to see some other favorite superheroes given this look! *looks hopeful* They have to be pretty big images, and it helps if the background is mostly blank, although it doesn't have to be...

I've always said I like more realistic, detailed art in comics. But lately, I dunno...I'm starting to see the appeal of art that's more "cartoony." I'm sure it can be done badly, but when it's done well there's an energy to it that the more static pin-up art style we see in flagship titles doesn't seem to have.

Case in point: Supergirl's Cosmic Adventures in the Eighth Grade. It's a Johnny DC title, which means marketed to kids. But it snaps along at a good pace and has some real emotion in it--not like the "Super Friends" title, which I love in part because it's so very, campily young, but this is good stuff for any age IMHO.

Plus, this title made me like Kara, which is very cool. And gave her a real secret identity, which I really want her to have more often in the main titles.

The story is that a rocket suddenly interrupts a fight between a power-suited Lex and Superman. It opens to reveal a Kryptonian girl, who is immediately harassed by the media--especially frightening to her because her powers start developing willy-nilly:

( Not very friendly to dial-up-ness below the cut. )

1) Pick up to 15 pairings you like
2) Describe them in up to 15 words
3) Get your friends to guess

(As a hint:  5 are DC, 4 are Trek, 6 are other fandoms;  11 are m/m, 3 are m/f, one is f/f).

1.  An endless game, chasing and catching and escaping again.  The chasing is the best part. (bradygirl_12 and snake_easing  guessed Bruce/Selina)
2.  Bitter enemies, fated slayers.  A vision of the future fails to reveal respect and mercy. (icarus_chained  got Londo/G'Kar)
3.  Fate, destiny, Doom:  a moth to a flame, comrades and warriors until the bitter end. (yavieriel  guessed Turin/Beleg)
4.  Good friends.  He loved her in secret.  Slowly, sweetly, she came to love him too. (fictionalknight  woke up with the realization this was Kira/Odo.  *grin*...snake_easing  guessed it too)
5.  He took his place to hold back the darkness.  Now it's him that needs saving.
6.  Hidden depths, nothing "simple" about either of them.  Sarcastic, ironic banter reveals many layers. (snake_easing  guessed Bashir/Garak)
7.  His father dreads the king's return, but he feels the dangerous allure of fealty. (ilyena_sylph  guessed Boromir/Aragorn)
8.  Idealist and cynic thrown together and apart;  the cynic searches, searches, searches...and (alas!) finds. (dshael guessed Avon/Blake)
9.  "What a piece of work is man" is arrogant in the extreme--but rather charming. (bradygirl_12  guessed Picard/Q)
10.  Mute, scarred, enslaved--he helped her raise her secret son and loved her in silence. (jade_dragoness guessed Araris/Isana)
11.  Passion and intellect exploring the universe together.  Fire and ice balanced in a perfect friendship. (jade_dragoness  guessed Kirk/Spock)
12.  Shadows and sunlight aren't opposites, but two halves of a whole.  They complete each other. (ilyena_sylph  guessed Clark/Bruce)
13.  She's a plant stunted by a cruel gardener.  How she longs to help her bloom. (ilyena_sylph  guessed Harley/Ivy)
14.  Their shared devotion was the only bright point in the dark realm they served. (tygati  delighted me by guessing Kunzite/Zoisite)
15.  They're pals--they have fun, get in trouble together.  Why not in bed too? (stinglikeabee  guessed Ted/Booster)

Title: Forsaking All Others
Characters/Pairings: Kal/Bruce
Rating: PG
Summary: Kal and Bruce prepare to be Nightwing and Flamebird and Bruce teaches Kal something he didn't know about Kryptonian society.  A continuation of the From This Day Forward series.
Word count: 3000
Notes: For rai_daydreamer 's birthday and as a thank you for all the inspiration.

( You know perfectly well such indecent exposure will be remarked on. )

Title: Where the Lightning Strikes
Characters/Pairings: Clark/Bruce
Rating: PG-13
Summary: While double-checking Fortress security, Batman hacks into Clark's diaries.
Word count: 4700
Notes: For the World's Finest Gift Exchange:  F08: Clark is feeling blue, and Bruce does something special for him.

( He wasn't exactly sure why he left the old sound files of Clark's diary playing in the background, to be honest. At first he told himself it was so he could keep checking for security risks. But by the end of the week, with Clark's voice still nattering about his favorite cereal and the nice sunrise he'd seen...it was becoming increasingly obvious there was no real reason to keep listening to them. )

Title: Both Alike in Dignity
Characters/Pairings: Girl!Clark/Bruce
Rating: PG
Summary: The summer of his fourteenth year, Bruce Wayne finds himself in Smallville, where he meets the daughter of Jonathan and Martha Kent.
Word count: 5600
Notes: F25:  movieverse au. I'd love to see a genderbender that isn't written by me. Girl!Clark (always been), first time meeting going from there.  Um.  I got inspired and then most of the way through the fic realized it wasn't...exactly...movieverse, especially Bruce.  I'm sorry!  But I was having so much fun with it...

( The new kid was skinny, with a shock of unruly dark hair that fell into his eyes, untrimmed.  )