Iron Man, aka Tony Stark, is a billionaire with a shoe fetish. Only in his case, it's a suit of armour instead of a closet of pumps, heels and sling backs. And another. And another. A suite of suits if you will.

Let's face it, he's got a gallery of Iron Man suits that rivals the count of Imelda Marcos' shoes in any decade. One for ice climate missions, one for Rhodey, one for public speaking engagements, one for every day of the year almost.

He is Iron Man and he knows how to accessorise.

Bust a handful of three Iron Man mini-busts sculpted by the hands of The Kucharek Brothers and Eric Chan for Bowen Designs.

It's enough to make you think about how to mix and match those platforms with the trend for sandals.

 

"Here he comes. Here comes, Speed Racer"

What kind of super clean and non-suggestive lyric is that? They're the words from the opening of the classic Speed Racer cartoon is what.

Too pip ol' chaps and young 'uns, there's a new Speed Racer movie coming up from The Wachowskis later in the whenever the chalk dust falls. So what better way to build the chassis (wow, what meekness) than by having other new adventures with a touch of the old spice.

"Mach Go Go Go!" Speed Racer and all of the characters you know and love -- from Trixie to Chim-Chim and beyond -- is back in all-new adventures!

Kicking off a new era of Speed, writer Arie Kaplan (Mad Magazine) and artist Robby Musso (The Transformers) expand the mythos in exciting, new (and old) ways in a story that spans generations of Racers!

Artist Alex Garner (Dominatrix) provides a special painted cover, and fellow Transformers artist extraordinaire E.J. Su offers a variant.

Speed Racer: Chronicles of the Racer from IDW Publishing

Other comics to eyeball this week

Calendars don't matter in the world of comics. Not with late comics on schedules. And what better showing of this than Halloween Nightdance. Right there in the title, like the Treehouse of Horror only more gore. Stefan Hutchinson and Tim Seeley slashing the Valentine's night away. See, doesn't even match.

Mike Mignola and Jason Shawn Alexander give feet to the Abe not that fond of wearing stovepipe hats in Abe Sapien: The Drowning. Sounds like the experience of being on a first mission. Or having the interviewer actually turn up on time to the interview. The nerve.

Alan Davis brings it all back to you (guess the lyric hint) with ClanDestine at the House of Ideas. And what brings out the freak balls and odd ones? A secret. No closet or bones, just plain and simple secret. And them's the bigguns. Awwwww, freak out!

As scientific research into the best way to fry whale blubber continues apace by Japan and Norway, The Whale gets a do over in Marvel Illustrated: Moby Dick. Roy Thomas and Pascal Alixe commandeering the Pequod of Herman Melville's master tome.

With a title like Lords of Avalon: Sword of Darkness it's hard to not think of many other fantasy related titles which sound out and on and on. Robin Gillespie, Kinley Macgregor and Tommy Ohtsuka twist an ankle on the old Arthurian times. Why not call them Galahadian?

Spot the cross reference to another pre-90s thing coming back in the opener?

 

End of the year and the start of a new one right around the corner. Janus spins his heads looking back and forward. Tomorrow can only come when today goes into yesterday. And all that blather. But... comics ahoy!

"CREATE THE FUTURE, DESTROY THE PAST!" From the mind of comic book innovator JONATHAN HICKMAN, comes the exhilarating time-traveling epic, PAX ROMANA. The creator of THE NIGHTLY NEWS brings his unique sensibility to science fiction and the result is a visually stunning look at a new history of the world.

PAX ROMANA tells the tale of 5000 men sent on an impossible mission to change the past and save the future. It's the end of the world: Will they succeed, or will they fail?

Pax Romana #1 (of 4) from Image Comics

Other end of year comics to eyeball

Robert Kirkman presents Invincible Presents: Atom Eve presented by Benito Cereno and Nate Bellegarde. Represent! Presently.

Chupacabras aplenty on the Fantastic Four: Isla de la Muerte trip. Hunter guides of Tom Beland and Juan Doe heading down Puerto Rico way with the first family of the Marvel U.

One shot in the ring with Hulk VS Fing Fang Foom. Green on green and Peter David with apparently nobody on art from the Marvel solicit page.

Pack it up, pack it in, let it begin with Green Lantern/Sinestro Corp Secret Files. From a swagger of writers and artists on the green and yellows. Ring fingers that don't fing much. Thanks Otto.

Oscar Wilde's story on vanity and all sorts of debauchery pops on the treadmill of conversion as the House of Ideas goes Marvel Illustrated: Picture of Dorian Gray. Roy Thomas and Sebastian Fiumara painting with the oils on this picture.

Spiky trade of the week

Classic, but a good read, Sonic the Hedgehog from Archie Comics. Not for all, especially those into their muscles and codpieces. Great read for the emotion, connection and slapstick. Relaxing even.

 

Wake up after a heavy night before and start looking for the Weet-Bix to start the day. Really, is there anything as soggy as those biscuits in a bowl of milk after a few minutes? How about oats? Smashing good really.

The puny humans hate the Warbound, the savage alien monsters who joined the Hulk in his quest for vengeance against the heroes of Earth. But when new horrors arise in the New Mexico desert, the puny humans might just learn that a savage alien monster or two can be pretty handy in a pinch.

What is Gammaworld? Which deadly enemy from the Hulk's past has returned? And who here dares to learn what it is to be Warbound, in life and death, whatever may come?

World War Hulk Aftersmash: Warbound #1 from Marvel Comics

Other comics to eyeball this week

Werewolf juiciness from Simon Reed, Mike Ploog and Simon Bisley getting Thicker Than Blood. About two brothers slinging the highlands of Scotland and spotting not any of Christopher Lamberts by monsters of lycanthropic persuasion. Wrong place, wrong time.

Roy Thomas, Miguel Angel Sepulveda and Sandu Florea wrap the gears around that really long story and translate it with pictures with Marvel Illustrated: The Iliad. Some body's at the door after all these years.

Four more until it's here and Jason Blair and Leanne Buckley count down the Mayan calendar in The Long Count. Know the year 2012? That's supposedly the end of the world according to the Mayans. Where are they now?

Brian Reed and Edgar Salazar go hitting Mercenaries as they convert the video game into another conversion property for Dynamite Entertainment. Many explosions lead to much ringing in the ears. Can't you hear the doorbell?

Doctor Who Classics, so aptly titled, collects and colours in the black and whites of the original series from the UK. The originals of which done by Pat Mills, John Wagner and Dave Gibbons. Like watching old reruns of Doctor Who and putting colour spectacles over the eyes.

Frank LaPerch and Ash Jackson go Hollywood, vampires with a new reality TV poppet hopeful of Eve: Vampire Diva. Can't seem to get the leaking of the ears to stop. Strange smelling too. Last two sentences have nothing to do with the solicit by the way.

Step toe with Countdown Presents The Search For Ray Palmer: Superwoman/Batwoman. Palmiotti, Gray and Randy Green visit a world where the sexes are flipping cross switches on the ever continuing hunt for that little speck of a bloke in the DC Universe.

Zombie filled trade of the week

Sure, it might be a new hardcover out this week, but then that only highlights the goodness that happens to be The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard. Zone on the head out with tightness of the neck writing and a munching good time with a bunch of survivors surviving a zombie infested world. Heart, dammit, they have heart and brains and mmm... braaaiins.

 

Marvel Zombies 2 #1; The living dead are back in their second instalment of feeding on the undead flesh. The creative team of Robert Kirkman (Invincible/ Ultimate X-Men) and Sean Phillips (Criminal) return with also Arthur Suydam drawing his popular painted zombie covers. In this epic zombie tale, many years have past and the zombies return from consuming other world's flesh to their own universe only to have their very own 'Civil War' crisis. Let the chumping, biting and eating begin! The series is set in an alternate version of the Marvel Universe (Earth-2149).

Are you ready for Marvel Zombies Civil War? Forty years have passed and the zombies have come back home after eating just about everything else in the universe. Yum yum! What awaits them back on Earth, though, is beyond anything even these shambling monstrosities could have conceived! This is a new series featuring the amazing, irreverent take on the Marvel characters that became last year's unexpected smash hit. They're back and more stomach-churning than ever! The smash hit series is back, daring to ask: "Whose stomach are you in?" 32 PGS./Parental Advisory.

Other Comics to Keep an Eye Out for this Week:

DC showcases; Death of the New Gods #1 (of 8), written and penciled by Jim Starlin (Mystery in Space). With the death of Lightray, one of the New Gods in Countdown #48, it looks like the death-poll will continue in this mini series. The New Gods were created by Jack "The King" Kirby.

From Image Comics; The Sword #1, written and drawn by the Luna Brothers (Girls). This new neo fantasy on-going series features a young female student by the name of Dara. What does a unique sword and an ordinary girl have in common? I sense some high action sword swinging drama coming to events.

Dynamite Entertainment presents; The Boys #11, writer/co-creator Garth Ennis (Punisher MAX); Art/co-creator Darick Robertson (Transmetropolitan). The series has had probably the most controversy, beginning with Wildstorm comics and now continuing on with DE. This current issue see the Boys travel to Moscow. Recommend to mature readers.

DVD of the Month

Superman Doomsday animated movie, from producer and director Bruce Timm (who brought Batman: 'The Animated Series' and Justice League Unlimited). Based off the comic series 'The Death of Superman', by Dan Jurgens.

'When Lexcorp accidentally unearths the intergalactic serial killer Doomsday, Superman battles the creature head-on in the fight of his life. The world collectively mourns it's fallen hero; humanity realise it will never feel truly safe again. Superman's enemies rejoice - all but Lex Luthor, who grieves the loss of his own demented manner, setting off a chilling chain of events that even he couldn't have foreseen'.

Starring Adam Baldwin (Firefly) as the voice as Superman, James Marsters as Lex Luthor (Buffy) and Anne Heche as reporter Lois Lane.

 

This week's merchandise feature is the Lizard statue, this is another masterpiece coming from Bowen Designs. This statue stand over twelve inches tall and is limited to a thousand pieces worldwide. It also comes fully painted and ready to display. Everything about this statue screams "buy me" (well it does to me lol). Awesome sculpt, the tail being one of his best features.

The Lizard character was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko in Amazing Spider-Man #6 in 1963.

 

 

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