Illustration roundup

Batman wallpaper available in high-res here.




Oh, Betty!




Seriously, if this was just fan art by some random artist, would anyone have reposted it today? I mean, it's almost as ridiculous as getting excited over the news that George Lucas has written 50 hours of scripts of a Star Wars series.





Kate Beaton mocks a mermaid cover. (Speaking of, Hark! A Vagrant! can now be preordered for 37% off Amazon.)

New Alice: Madness Returns gameplay footage and wallpapers

This Alice: Madness Returns video really shows off how platforming-centric the game will be. (Hopefully those elements will be a lot more fun and forgiving than the first game.) I cropped some widescreen wallpaper-sized stills:






*Buy American McGee's Alice toys at eBay.

Image roundup

Bridge at night.




Four elements.




300.




The Skylon, Britain's new spaceplane.




From a gallery of worst Power Point slides. (Or maybe best?) Via these sites.




Puppy cuddles with his new chew toy.

Link roundup

1. How to use Amazon to self-publish.

2. FYI, it's free shipping plus 30% off everything at American Eagle this weekend.

3. Creepy tree wallpaper.

Illustration roundup

Rube Goldberg machine wallpaper by Roxanne Daner.





Captain America's great love - - Agent 13.




One of Dustin Harbin's $30 commissions.




Cool black and white art by Paul Neary in the comic story The Time Eater.




Tardis t-shirt by Rosemary Travale up for vote at Threadless. She created a wallpaper, too.

*Buy bullfight posters at eBay.

Jellyfish wallpapers

Gorgeous blue jellyfish wallpapers available for download.

Image roundup

Monster dog.




Finally, the Black Eyed Peas' secret origin revealed.




Ghost mountain. Via.





World War I-era ship's camouflage. Via.




Widescreen wallpaper-sized still I cropped from one of the new Star Tours videos.




Chicago, surrounded by fog.




Abandoned mill in Sorrento, Italy.

Illustration roundup

Green Lantern #57 cover. Via.




One of several ads for DirecTV HD.




Otis Frampton was commissioned to create an original Indiana Jones storyline and has started posting some rough illustrations.




Seven samurai poster by David O'Daniel on sale here.




He-Man wallpaper by Ewen Stenhouse.

Link roundup

1. The ESPN Films: 30 for 30 Limited Edition Collector Set is 40% off at Amazon. (Perfect for Father's Day.)

2. Desktop wallpaper of a forest reclaiming a city.

3. 90 minute video showing off (what I think) are the first few quests of the Jedi class. It looks a lot like KOTOR.

Olly Moss's Resistance 3 cover art as wallpapers

I took the liberty of turning Olly Moss's cover art for Resistance 3 into widescreen wallpapers. You can save 17 cents by preordering the game at Amazon.

Gotham City Impostors

Destructoid has a preview of Gotham City Impostors. The companion comic is available at Amazon. Via.

Link roundup

1. Massive Voodoo is giving away an impressively-painted (and based) miniature.

2. HAL (2001) phone wallpaper.

3. Batman paper toy.

Big Daddy wallpaper (Bioshock)

Big Daddy wallpaper via.

Relatedly, the BBTS has preorder listings for new Bioshock splicers by Neca (Crawler, Ladysmith Brute).

Link roundup

1. The established video game reviewing press has known for at least a week that Brink was a disaster.

2. Steel Divers, which is supposed to really show the 3DS off, was essentially completed for the DS and then repurposed for the 3DS.

3. Captain America wallpaper.

Link roundup

1. This Reddit thread has links to several iPhone wallpapers, including Pac-Man and Tron.

2. Why are most livable city lists always so lame?

In fact, Vancouver’s boringly consistent topping of the polls underlines the fundamental fault that lies at the heart of the idea of measuring cities by their “liveability”. The most recent surveys, from Monocle magazine, Forbes, Mercer and The Economist, concur: Vancouver, Vienna, Zurich, Geneva, Copenhagen and Munich dominate the top. What, you might ask, no New York? No London? No LA or HK? None of the cities that people seem to actually want to emigrate to, to set up businesses in? To be in? None of the wealthiest, flashiest, fastest or most beautiful cities? Nope.

This article tries to explain. Via.

3. It's always good to be reminded how politicians (in this case Obama) stage photos.

If Amidala got in touch with her dark side

Today's $10 plus shipping Tee Fury t-shirt by Zerobriant shows that Anakin wasn't the only one with a dark side:





I took the liberty of turning the Star Wars/Black Swan mashup into a widescreen wallpaper:





They're also giving away a poster:



*Buy Black Swan posters at eBay.

Thor wallpaper

I took the liberty of turning Ken Taylor's Thor poster for Mondo into a widescreen wallpaper. There are already at least 28 copies on sale at eBay.

Kobe and the Infinity Gauntlet

The NBA playoffs meet the Marvel Universe. Via.