Jason Chan. He's done both gaming-related art and a lot of F/SF cover art. Just an amazingly skilled guy: [jasonchanart.blogspot.com]

Helloooo, io9!

You win this thread, Sir or Madam.

Good list, but needs moar 80s female once-villains w/ funky hair.

Yeah, that anniversary special was roughly contemporaneous with this commercial featuring The Most Smackable Man In The World. [www.youtube.com]

Pyr's fantastic.

It's cool stuff - pretty enough for a cover or something. But when the original comics came out they weren't fluffy cartoony stuff - but they weren't airbrushed like this, either. Think I liked that look more.

I dunno - there's a pretty strong correlation between certain types of martial formality (color-coded costumes, intricate, inflexible bureaucracy of rank, pips-on-collar, etc., and coin-and-credit economies, from at least Imperial Rome onward...

The idea that we can have individual hierarchical relationships that are somehow magically separate form the 1,001 structural hierarchies that are constantly shaping our reality (if not always visible) is preposterous. Angle's notion of deference based only on wisdom or experience (as in a master/student…

It was Nosferatu's little brother Wayne Feratu, known as much for his tracksuits as his blood lust.

Apples, thanks.

@Mr. Rosewater: Actually I called him a moron. Your shock sounds an awful lot like prophet-worship. Dude wrote some good evo. bio popularization back in the day (most of The Selfish Gene is brilliant), but as soon as he turned his eye to sociocultural ramifications & analysis of religion he started to sound like a…

REALLY!? THE RAPTURE ISN'T GOING TO HAPPEN!? SOME RELIGIOUS PEOPLE BELIEVE DUMB SHIT!? NO WAAY!

Ahahahahaha!

[Edit: upon review, COPS is on there after all.] ::goes and sits in corner::

Jesus! Ego chamber, Supergirl mannequin, fake dead dad to eat dinner with...

A related note: One of the comics moments that fucked with me the most back in the day was from Bill Willingham's 80s Elementals series. In that series' world, superpowers came mostly form dying in gruesome ways that attracted mystic energy. So this TV preacher Reverend Skagg, who was drawn to look exactly like Jimmy…

Absorbing Man > Executioner

Somebody call De La Soul, STAT!

FWIW, Shaq at least did the rap crossover thing better than some other athletes...