The Wide World of Geeky TV Fanart

Simpsons by Spacecoyote

Hey so you guys remember fanart right? Of course you do, half of you had a geocities website with all your crudely drawn pictures loaded up for everyone (read: no one) to see! These days with sites like deviantart and people knowing how to actually create non-tripod webpages and blogs fanart is all the more available. Well I decided to scrounge around the net and see what the current fan art for some of the great geeky shows looks like. Here's a sampling of what I found, some good, some...not so good, and some just plain strange. Enjoy!

-And for the record, nothing after the jump is NSFW, trust me, I came upon way too many of those types of images to count and had no intention of putting them up here. But yeah, thanks internet, I really could have gone without seeing some of that stuff.-



First up,
Battlestar Galactica

Nice trio of Starbuck, the Admiral and the Prez by Gould.


A couple of the Simpsonized BSG characters you may have seem floating around via Dylan Meconis.

Moving on, here's a smattering of some Mythbusters art:

The whole gang by Brian Prindville.

Adam and Jamie by Digital Duckie. Please note Adam's lovely pink underpants.

The duo again by Bill Drastal.

Heroes, anyone?

A lovely sketch card selection by crisishour. Bennet shot though the eye is always a fun image.

Here's Bennet alive and well via acidburn133, I prefer shot through the eye.

Nice rendition of the lovely Kristen Bell by scorch-d.

Goddamn that's some blood. Isaac by harbek. And speaking of blood, how about some brutal Metalocalypse art:

umm, yeah actually this is pretty character accurate for Toki.

The band by Chronofiend. Man Muderface looks even uglier, if possible.

Time for some Veture Bros.

Yes, awesome, always love when The Monarch looks badass.

Uh, woah, what the crap? Terrifying image brought to you by Spookychan.

Also ATHF:

Aqua Teens as real people, somehow not that much less creepy.

Another version of the force as humans, slightly less unnerving.

Okay see now here's where we go wrong, (or oh so hilariously right). Carl, as two characters from the anime Inu Yasha. Hilarious. Terrifying.

Now for some randoms:

Twin Peaks fan art? Yes, thank you Johanna.

COLBERT NATION MOFOS!

TEK JANSON NATION MOFOS!

Someone might like Jon Stewert just a little too much...maybe. We forgive you Carts, because it's an excellent rendition you've done.

Cowboy Bebop + Pulp Fiction = good fanart by ek

Cowboy Bebop/Fear and Loathing mix by ek.

A little Firefly courtesy of Kristele.

House NO! Why would you choke Gordon Freeman?! WHAT IS HAPPENING?!

I'm not even sure...is that...Reboot and Zelda combined?

Oh hi Brendon Small, you're looking a little out of sorts today....

Not so much a nerdy show, but the Star Wars reference gives it a whole bag of win.

Okay so lastly, here's a ton of Futurama art I grabbed because well, it's so awesome:

League of Extrodinary Gentlemen/Futurama by loeg.

Claw Plagh! by spacecoyote.


The whole gang by spacecoyote.

Beck and Bender, again by spacecoyote.

SD Fry and Leela.

Futurama as the cast of Fifth Element. I'd watch it.

Fry playing the holophoner.

Fry and Leela ala Star Wars. It's a popular movie to mash with.


Badass rendition of the PE crew as if they were real people. Damn Zoidberg is terrifying.

OH GOD NO WHY WOULD YOU DRAW THIS PICORMDWE, WHY? WHY DO YOU WANT TO MAKE ME CRY?

Well that's it for today. I'll have to maybe do some more of these, anyone for a roundup of geeky tattoos?

Snap Judgements: Tek Jansen, Martha Washington, Green Arrow

As always, Snap Judgements gives you Triple-S comic reviews: short, sweet, and spoiler-free.

Silverfish: Pre-Review Rant

You know what I'd really like to be SnapJudgin' today? David Lapham's Silverfish. I'm a huge fan of his and was really excited to pick up his book today before I realized it would set me back $25. That is way too much to pay for 160 pint-sized (6.875” x 9”) black and white pages, I don't care how flippin' hard your cover is. Moving on.


Stephen Colbert's Tek Jansen #1: Cable Funnyman in Space

I actually had high hopes for this series, since I'm a fan of Colbert and get a kick out of the brief Tek Jansen jokes on The Report. In case you're unfamiliar, these jokes involve Colbert making up some silly futuristic names for things. For example (and this is from the comic): "Look at the chronotime! No time to radioshower, lasershave, or autodress!" That shit cracks me up. Unfortunately, that line was pretty much all this ish had to offer. And the story is so forgettable that... I just forgot it. The back up tale had the benefit of having a satiric bite, but it's over way too soon. Apparently catchy one-liners don't expand well into full-length comic stories. Color me disappointed.

Supposed To Be Funny, Not - Bad Story + A Bit of Satire = D

Reviews for Martha Washington Dies and Green Arrow: Year One after the jump...

Martha Washington Dies: Guess What Happens?

I'm a Frank Miller junkie, but recently his work has been pretty lazy. All-Star Batman will make me chuckle occasionally, but there's really not much depth to it. And The Dark Knight Strikes Again... Well, I have a pet theory that the whole thing was a great joke Frank played on all of us and he's laughing his ass off right now. But Martha Washington Dies is some good stuff. It felt so good to read a Miller book that wasn't so... Miller-ish. There's no jokes, no silliness, no lazy pages... Just some solid storytelling that caps off the story he began telling 18 years ago. There's one big problem, though... The book is only 17 pages! WTF?! It feels like a backup story, and maybe should have waited until the Complete Martha Washington Collection which is advertised in the back of this issue. I guess he wouldn't be Frank Miller if he didn't piss us off at least a little. Oh, and Dave Gibbons art is scrumptious as always, though Angus McKie's colors don't do it much justice and there are some fireworks at one point that are clearly cut-and-pasted jpegs somebody downloaded from the internet. It is some ugly shit.

FM Returns to Form + Great Gibbons - Short As Sin = B+

Green Arrow: Year One #1: Ollie Wanna Reboot?

If this book didn't have the words Green Arrow on the cover, I think I would've come away happy. The writing is sharp enough, the art, while a little bare, gets the job done, and the growth of this "Oliver Queen" character seems like it will be fun to watch... The problem is that it says Green Arrow on the cover, and the Ollie Queen in this book is not Ollie Queen in my book. And I hate "modern" reboots of characters that are doing just fine. And the cover features some crucifixion imagery. Which is silly. Did I mention my sarcastic, witty Ollie Queen has turned into a spoiled frat boy? Not that there isn't a precedent for this, the Ollie of Mike Grell's The Wonder Year was similar, if I'm remembering correctly. But I don't remember liking that story either.

OK Writing - No Backgrounds - Annoying Ollie = C+