Dapper wear with a nice fedora to cap off a well-worn outfit. Deck it out with a subtle mask covering the eyes and the look is nearly complete. Throw in a trench coat and the Spirit is all in the making. Then comes the soul and that which cannot easily find itself in the coat pockets. Clothes do not make people, they only begin the walk.

Acclaimed writer/artist Darwyn Cooke (DC: THE NEW FRONTIER) sets his sights on Will Eisner's classic hero The Spirit in this all-new monthly series that maintains the "spirit" of Eisner's creation while bringing a new sensibility to the character. The Spirit, a.k.a. Denny Colt, joins Commissioner Dolan and his daughter Ellen in this go-for-broke, shoot-the-lights-out crime story!

When ace television reporter Ginger Coffee is abducted by a crime lord she was about to run an expos? on, The Spirit is called in to investigate. Finding her is tough enough, but getting out alive is a whole other matter!

Don't miss the first exciting issue, filled with action, adventure, humor and sexy girls!

The Spirit #1 from DC Comics

No six fingers here with a slice of X-23 Target X. Craig Kyle, Christopher Yost and Mike Choi guide Marvel's Wolvie clone into what she hopes will be a new life for herself.

Vertigo returns to the gas mask in the sands of Afghanistan with Sandman Mystery Theatre: Sleep Of Reason. A dusty storm made into five parts with John Ney Rieber, Eric Nguyen and Tim Bradstreet. But no longer with Wesley Dodds, instead a new bloke by the name of Kieran Marshall resurrects the mantle.

Tony Bedard and Paul Pelletier jump in and throw around some Marvel meat with the battle trays flying about in the Exiles Annual. It's Exiles against Exiles as the current roster face the original team. Oh, will someone think of closing the fridge door!

Sing a song of penance with Peter David and Andrew Currie as they pay it forward in a way with Wonder Man: My Fair Supervillain. Marvel limited of five songs, once a villain, now a good guy, Wonder Man looks to help another up and out.

Four on the floor with a rollicking dirt porridge for more as Zach Howard, Sean Murphy and Reed Buccholz spin things right on absurd in Outer Orbit from Dark Horse. Outrageous, y'hear? Sounds like slapstickish noir in a space fantasy way.

 

Takes a loose minded entrepeneur to figure out that skinning a dog in a banana suit may add to the high price of a hand. Pity not the dog, in this case Brian Griffin from The Family Guy, a tool in the whole marketing scheme and scam.

Takes the discerning consumer to work out that a dog dressed in a banana suit helps no one in the long run. Not if the dog isn't playing all the cards that are involved in the game of dressing up fruity.


Such as knowing the limit at which the costume will work. After a certain period of time, it should be either taken out as a whole or left for the compost and hopefully the return back into the environment.

Another thing to note is the infuriating stickers that comes with the costume. Vital for those who are interested in knowing the wheres and whats. Less so for those who forget and throw it in the wash, only to end up with bits floating about not yet ready to let go.

Dressing up as a fruit is one thing. Knowing how to be the fruit is another thing entirely.

 

More than just a quick and easy way for the second fastest man alive to change from one outfit to another, wearing a suit underneath another suit has it's warming benefits. Especially in the colder months.

With a full body length costume keeping him warm, Clark Kent can easily slip out of his alter-ego into his true identity of Superman without the need for a dressing room.

Such is the reason behind quick changing in increasingly rare phone booths, revolving door entrances and back alley ways.

For the average individual, it would be like walking around in long johns. Underwear of choice for many who use an outhouse to do business in. Or for those whom the winter months take a particularly harsh attitude toward.

Superman Returns opens June 29 for all those looking to check out a dapper application of the style.

 

Ben Reilly, the one true clone of Peter Parker and the second successful clone from the labs of The Jackal.

Scarlet Spider, one time the holder of the Spider-Man mantle and now merely fragments of memory and speckles of clone dust drifting in the wind. Or down a smokestack.

Core essentials for making a Scarlet Spider costume: One red full-body length suit (neoprene could work if spandex burns too much against the talcum powder), a blue hood and a pair of big fat bracelets/bands for the extra web-fluid catridges.

After the two are done, grab a fat black mark and draw a spider on the back at an angle across. And that, is the Scarlet Spider costume.

Be mindful of wearing such a thing during this time of the year and rug up with the right underwear underneath. A red body suit is better than an entire body of red skin from the cold. Hence, the hoodwear.

 

Merc-with-a-mouth (and ears and eyes and lips and fingers and etc.),Wade Wilson aka Deadpool, is tired of fighting off the hordes of people too cheap to chip in at the laundry palace. Not for the sheer exercise though, that, according to the mercenary, is a fun diversion.

At issue are the mounds of shell casings he often finds piling at his feet from blasting away another stinking denizen looking to use his stomach as an old fashioned washing board.

Yes, that stomach full of rock hard abs. And while Body-by-Jake's Jake remains in hiding and Peter Andre is off on his honeymoon with Katie "Jordan" Price, there's only so many washboard stomachs left.

Of course, there's always room for self improvement and a way to find your own personal washing board, should the need ever arise.

Coughing - squeezing those muscles to expunge a fur ball works wonders for the aching strains of putting those fibres to work.

Electo-shock therapy - if coughing is not in season, there's always this controversial method. Though, results vary wildly, with many patients not remembering anything after the ordeal or even with the abdominal muscles being correctly targeted.

Plastic surgery - taking an easy way out? Install an actually corrugated iron wash board underneath that stomach. Authenticity won't be in doubt. Not will the immense pain of walking around with such a fix.

Actual work-out - if all else fails, there's always that slow and determined method of actually working out. Given that spot targeting remains sketchy, the side benefit of actually being able to breathe should have you thinking about the option.

 

 

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