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Who is chalked up to be the next Wonder Woman? Well, since DC called us up last week, asking our opinion. We decided to chime in with a unanimous vote for Alana de la Garza! Google her, if you don’t think she has what it takes to be Wonder Woman, then Your missing a testicle, son! Take a look and behold… a goddes!!! (Ai Chewawa!!)

Can you say Smokin’ HOT!

We just incorporated the first upgrade to our site.  Since the site is so freakin’ prehistoric and cumbersome, it’s static, written in notepad, not a bit dynamic at all, it’s a total bitch to change so we’re doing it in stages.  Below are the changes we’ve made.  Note the very cool SuperHero Nav Bar that allows you to scroll by superhero.  Very cool.  Let us know what you think.  And request to be added to our monthly newsletter and you’ll be sure to get a discount code that’ll save you money on your purchase.  Also included in our newsletters are relevent superhero movie trailers and news articles about things related to superheroes. 

Our old design

The New Site Design

We just got some new Batman Action Figures.  They are totally awesome and are from the Trinity series, series one.

We have Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman and the each sell for $15.99.  If you get on our newsletter mailing list, you’ll be sure to receive a SuperHeroStuff.com discount code.

We also got some new Lot 29 Speed Racer t-shirts in stock.

This is one of our top selling shirts so far.  Speed Racer movie will be either a Love It or Hate It.  I have high expectations for the film… that is until I saw the trailer at the Iron Man movie.  I don’t know… it might have almost wayyyy too much vibrant electric color.  Over the top.  But I’m still going.  I think it’ll still be good.  I have faith.  You can check out our new Lot 29 Speed Racer t-shirt, for $27.99, at our Speed Racer t-shirts page.

We also got in a brand new Iron Man t-shirt!  Very cool, yours for only $19.99.  You can see all of our Iron Man Movie T-Shirts here.  And don’t forget to go see the movie.  It was really well done.  I gave it a 4.5 out of 5.

Plain and simple, Iron Man was well done.  It was as true to the comic as they could be while taking minimal steps in the artistic license department. Robert Downey Jr. did a great job as Tony Stark, and held true to the playboy billionaire character.  Gwyneth Paltrow also did Pepper Potts justice. 

But most of all, the Iron Man suit itself was a great job.  See, what makes these SuperHero movies acceptable to the comic fans is if the hero is true to form.  Undoubtably, the directos always, always mess it up.  Let us review:

• Batman having automatic guns on the Batmobile.
• Batman having bombs for hubcaps in the Batmobile.
• Catwoman using dentle floss for an outfit.
• Catwoman being thrown out of a window and coming back to life.
• DareDevil fighting on a stupid see-saw!
• A black King Pin! (Not to appear racist, but if Luke Cage was white on screen or if Wolverine was Mexican I would still be criticle.  Lack of true conformation with the comics.)
• Stupid claws coming out of Spider-man’s fingers.
• Organic web-shoooters for Christ’s sake.  Organic.  Did these idiots ever read a comic?
• Superman wearing low cut (boy toy) briefs.
• Superman turning into a Peepin’ Tom. 
• Cyclops dying (unless I missed that in the comics).
• Stupid looking Batarangs.  Why, oh why do directors feel compelled to change something that works?
• Spidey’s high density webbing on his suit.  What’s the deal with that?  And it’s silver too.
• Superman ripping off a celephane sheet from the symbol on his chest.  With all due respect to the great and honorable Christopher Reeve … what the hell was that? And kissing Lois and making her forget? 
• And Michael Keaton is no Batman and Jack Nicholson is no Joker.  That’s right!  I said it.  I’m sick of all you pukes who worship Jack’s Joker.  One, he was too fat.  Two, he was a caricature of the Joker in the comics. 
• And since when does the Batjet (and the Batmobiel.. again) have 30 mm cannons for armorments?

The list goes on.  However, this is not to say that there are changes in the Superhero movies, under the guise of “artistic license,” that are acceptable.  Some of these items are:

• Batman’s electro-cape that gets rigid when a current is passed through it.  This is acceptable and actually makes sense.
• The grappeling gun.  Also a movie adaptation that is more realistic than throwing a batarang with a rope attached. 
• Venom dropping from a meteorite.  Of course we can’t have Peter, or even Spider-Man, go to outerspace in some huge superhero Secret Wars episode… so we bring Venom to Earth.  Totally acceptable.
• New Goblin’s scateboard glider.  When Harry took over the green mantle of Normon’s Goblin villainry, back in the comics, scateboards had yet to make an appearance.  Today, it’s a natural fit to have a young Harry alter the Goblin Glider into something that would better reflect the times.
• Superman’s subdued color tones.  At first I hated the new colors, especially the red.  But in hindsite, the colors don’t need to be as vibrant as in the comics. 
• Batman’s metal wing tipped gauntlets.  This was weaved well into the story line, how it came from the “ninja” type suits used in combat and were actually practically applied in the movie.  Totally acceptable.
• Bruce having two girlfriends bath with him in a fountain in a hotel restaurant.  Totally acceptable.
• Tony Stark going to Afghanistan instead of Vietnam.  Duhhh, no brainer, a change that HAD to have happened due to the times.

See, there are changes that can be done as long as they make sense. 

Back to Iron Man.  From start to finish the four different suits of armor we’re true to form.  First was the Mark 1, the suit made when in captivity.  Perfect.  Exactly like the original in the comics, even if it was in Vietnam.

Well… for his next two suits, I can’t find any images on line.  But they work.  We see the silver suit, the first of the new design. and then we see another briefly with true to form colors of the Iron Man in the comics.  The armor is actually a true red and gold instead of the red/magenta we see in all the images on line.  If I remember correctly that’s the one he fought the two Air Force jets in and Pepper comments on and asks, “Oh My God… are those bullet holes?”  Then we see the suit in all the trailers.

Good Superhero movie.  Probably more true to form than any other Superhero film made yet so far.  I can’t wait for the sequel.  I give this a 4.5 out of 5 with regard to honoring the comic story line and a 4 out of 5 for entertainment.  Overall, a 4.25 out of 5.  I suggest a strong see for everyone and a must see for all comic fans.

 To see a couple of the trailers, check out our Iron Man movie page.  Here is the official movie site.

Some Awesome Zapp Branigan quotes.

“What makes a good man go neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?”
“You’d sacrifice this beautiful woman for a moderately attractive ape? You’ve been smoking some bad granola.”
“If we can hit that bull’s-eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards…Checkmate.”
“You win again, gravity!”
“Stop! The spirit is willing, but the flesh is spongy and bruised.”
“We don’t know anything about their race, history, or culture, but one thing’s for sure. They stand for everything we stand against.”
“Wow, one day a man has everything…,then the following day he blows up a $40 billion space station, and the next day he has nothing. It really makes you think.”
“I like your style, Fry - you remind me of a young me, not much younger mind you, perhaps even a couple years older.”
“She’s a beatifull ship alright. Shapely, seductive. I’m gonna fly her brains out!”
“I’m the man with no name… Zapp Brannigan.”

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