Mr. Sandman, send me a dream ...

Let's do one last non-traditional comic book figure, the Sandman, here in a series of MOCs by Shane Larson. Morpheus, aka Dream of the Endless, is a fantasy figure created by Neil Gaiman as a new take on the older DC hero. I can't recommend these stories highly enough. They're mystical and beautiful and extremely intelligent. A bit graphic at times, so they are for adults. Anyway, they're hard to describe, so just go read them.

Archie

I probably misspoke yesterday when I implied that my childhood comic reading was all based on DC and Marvel superheroes. We also had a huge stack of Archie comics - hey, I blame my sisters. So, in the spirit of expanding my comic horizons a bit, Nathan Proudlove made an awesome version of Archie and his friends.

Team Rocket

I've been debating whether I should post this here or not. On the one hand, when I think comics I go back to when I was a kid watching Superfriends on Saturday mornings, or reading Spider-Man, or running around the backyard with a towel draped around my neck as a cape pretending I was Batman. But maybe I'm being a little closed minded here and I should also consider manga, the Japanese version of comic books. Anyway, this is a pretty amazing sculpture from Dave and John at briXwerX: Jessie from Team Rocket

Happy Saint Patrick's Day

Monsterbrick made this great version of Daredevil, the LEGO without fear. Why feature Daredevil today, you as, and not at least someone green like the Hulk or the Martian Manhunter? Because Matt Murdock, the man behind the mask, is an Irish American who grew up in an immigrant neighborhood of New York City.

Don't make me angry

Mike Asanuma, brother of Mariann (prominent builder and blogger at Model Building Secrets) is no slouch himself. For instance, see his Hulk.

Darling it's better, down where it's wetter, take it from me

Quinn Rollins has a fun blog, Quinnarama, that I'm going to have to read in greater depth. Anyway, he made this Aquaman scene.

Believe it or not ...

Shmails made a great custom of the Greatest American Hero. "Hey!" you shout at me, "that's a TV show!" You can even watch it on Hulu. Apparently William Katt, star of the 80's series, launched Catastrophic Comics, a company that released a limited series based on the TV show. You can see a preview on that site, but I have no idea if it lasted past its initial release in 2008.

Batboy and Superboy

ModelGal Mariann Asanuma has built a couple of boys in superhero costumes at miniland scale. These are excellent, as should be expected since Mariann used to work at Legoland.




My only disappointment is that they rely on custom decals. I had thought that the Batman symbol might be a printed 1x2 brick from the Batman sets, but it doesn't appear that such a brick exists. That said, in looking at Bricklink, there are a number of printed 1x2 bricks that might make great logos for custom superheroes built at this scale.

Plus some others, even more if you accept stickered bricks. Some of these would be fun superheroes - Snakeman! Telephoneguy! (wonder what his power is?) Shellgirl!

Man of very thin steel

Keler666 made this Superman mosaic.

Iron Man

Sdarrin has this great bust of Iron Man.

Wonder Woman

Spring McManus posted this great mosaic of everyone's favorite Amazonian.

Plastic Man

My apologies for my lack of blogging in recent weeks. I've been busy with family and holidays and also with the administration of the Colossal Castle Contest. Anyway, Graznador2 came up with this awesome Plastic Man MOC based on an old comic book cover.

Merry Christmas!

MOC by Noved1. I guess they hid a couple of familiar characters in a shop they displayed - one relevant to the day, the other relevant to this blog. I hope everyone found lots of LEGO under their tree this morning.

Rhodey and Tony

Johnny Tang made large-scale versions of War Machine and Iron Man.

Joint powers

Garrett Waters is producing a series of LEGO comics called Batman/Superman: Joint Powers.

Hulk smash!

Craig Lyons presents the Incredible Hulk. The big green guy seems awfully happy to me.

Holy pastries, Batman

A couple of years ago, Elisa Strauss of Confetti Cakes was commissioned by Warner Brothers to create this great cake for the launch party for LEGO Batman, the videogame. Yes, everything is edible.

Set 1374 - Green Goblin

Another of the first run of Spider-Man sets was 1374, the Green Goblin. As with 1376, this set was organized as a subtheme of Studios, rather than a separate them. One interesting result of this is that the Green Goblin/Norm Osborne face was not really patterned after Willem Dafoe, but was rather the same actor who had appeared in earlier Studios sets. The Green Goblin fig is nice, though they improved it in the subsequent series by painting the mask. Sometimes the mask doesn't stay on my fig all that well. The torso is double sided and fairly versatile - one side could be some sort of green monster, and the other side (if you flip the arms and switch out the hands) could easily be a green formal shirt. Patterns on the legs and the back of the head further highlight the attention to detail on this fig. The Mary Jane Watson fig is another really nice character. Again the head and hair repeat an actress from earlier Studios sets. I really like the wisps of hair detail, and the double sided face lets you switch from damsel in distress to woman in control. As to the glider, it was a pretty disappointing build - pretty flimsy and the pearl gray pieces were made of a cheaper feeling plastic. Who cares, though? Let's face it, you were paying $7 for two key figures, which was a lot better than paying $24 essentially for the Spider-Man fig in set 1374.



You can see the inventory on Peeron, the instructions on LEGO.com or buy a copy on BrickLink.

Batty

This Batman sculpture was in a LEGO store near Washington DC.

Hulk ... no ... Atom Smash

Meet Atom Smasher, a member of the Justice Society of America and later of the Justice League, known for his great strength and ability to grow to great size, here built by Graznador2.