Cool Picture Thread

[Griffin]

... Batman starts wearing a different, brightly coloured suit when fighting crime each night. The actual reason for this was to make people stop looking at Robin. See, in his civilian identity of Dick Grayson, the Boy Wonder had hurt his arm, so Batman thought if people noticed Robin had a similar injury, they’d discover his real identity. So, instead of just going out without an injured child partner, Batman decided to distract people with fabulous colours.

Comics are wild, man.

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

... Batman starts wearing a different, brightly coloured suit when fighting crime each night. The actual reason for this was to make people stop looking at Robin. See, in his civilian identity of Dick Grayson, the Boy Wonder had hurt his arm, so Batman thought if people noticed Robin had a similar injury, they’d discover his real identity. So, instead of just going out without an injured child partner, Batman decided to distract people with fabulous colours.

Comics are wild, man.

It was the Silver Age, or at least close to it.

[Mikey]

Is that second pic a Zorro, the Gay Blade reference? It's got to be, right?

If you're referring to the comic panel, then no. That one's from a 1957 comic. Whereas Zorro, the Gay Blade, came out in 1981.

Huh. The similarity in plot points is striking, yet no doubt coincidental.

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

Is that second pic a Zorro, the Gay Blade reference? It's got to be, right?

If you're referring to the comic panel, then no. That one's from a 1957 comic. Whereas Zorro, the Gay Blade, came out in 1981.

Huh. The similarity in plot points is striking, yet no doubt coincidental.

Yeah. I think this is one of those, 'infinite monkeys on infinite type writers' situations.

A little bit of trivia I've learned recently. Back during the Silver Age of Comics, the writers were basically handed some goofy-ass scene and were basically forced to come up with some sort of plot that would make halfway sense with the insanity that would grace the cover of the comics.

[Mikey]

That explains Madcap, and Batroc the Leaper.

[JudgeKing]

Some Legend of the Galactic Heroes images:

[Graham Kennedy]

[Graham Kennedy]

[Graham Kennedy]

Some people just have too much fun with their lives...

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

Some people just have too much fun with their lives...

Bah! For him, that's the perfect amount!

[Mikey]

Less so for Mrs. Stewart...

[Graham Kennedy]

The new Trek actors with their faces merged with the original actors via photoshop...

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

The new Trek actors with their faces merged with the original actors via photoshop...

Now that... is awesome.

[McAvoy]

Always said Kirk and McCoy were perfectly casted into their roles.

[Graham Kennedy]

The one that gets me is Scotty. He looks SO like him! I really would buy that face as a young Scotty.

Shame, too, because Pegg is one of the main people I just don't buy as any version of Scotty. No slight on his acting or anything, I think he's fine in the movies. He's just really not Scotty in the way that Pine is Kirk or Urban is McCoy.

Thinking about it, it probably goes more to his age than anything. I always got the vibe from Scotty that he was like the "older uncle" of the crew, like he kind of looked at all the heroics and stuff Kirk did with a "yeah, that's a young man's game Laddie, but when ye settle down ye'll find there's more to life than that." Pegg comes across more like your slightly wacky younger brother. This face has a bit of the gravitas of the real Scotty to it, though.