Captain Power! Power On!

Captain Power (from Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future)

Please permit me today to indulge in one of the beloved, diamond-in-the-rough shows from my youth, the live-action 80's post-apocalyptic adventure show "Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future". It was in many ways ahead of it's time, but it was also kinda dark. The effects were good for the era, especially Lord Dread's menacing CGI robots, Sauron in particular.

The show also featured one of the coolest toy lines, with great looking action figures and ships/vehicles that would actually interact with the tv show - you could actually shoot the bad guys on the screen, and be shot by them! It blew my mind as a kid!

In any case, I hear the show may be up for a revival, this time under the name "Phoenix Rising"! More details on the Phoenix Rising Facebook page.

Aaaanyway, a bunch of cool fan submissions today too;

Abdul does his Simpsonized versions of superheroes at his http://simpsonsdrawings.blogspot.com page

"Le Brickinator" has send it some cool Punx renditions of Marvel's Falcon! Nice!

John is celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who with this cool collage;

 And Cliff is back again with more great stuff; giving Doctor Who's 6th Doctor his Peri, as well as one of enemies, “Sil” who first appeared in “the Vengeance on Varos”

Doctor Who's Mystery Doctor

Doctor Who's mysterious (John Hurt) Doctor

 

Well at the finale of the last season (series) of Doctor Who, we were treated to quite the mystery in the form of the John Hurt's Doctor. We don't know where he fits exactly, but apparently he did committed some act that was "not in the name of the Doctor". Quite the tantalizing mystery! I guess we'll see what happens in the 50th Special!

More DW goodness as well today from Cliff! Here's his description;
"Back to the 11^th Doc this time, and 2 scenes from an Episode called “Victory of the Daleks” ,  one with Winston Churchill, Prof Bracewell, and the other pic of the Doctor with the Tardis self-destruct button (Jammy Dodger) and the "Paradigm" of Daleks." 
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Super Mario's "Wario"

Wario (from Super Mario Bros.)

Another addition to the Super Mario collection, it's Wario!

Power Rangers - Lord Zedd!

Lord Zedd (from Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers)

It's the villain Lord Zedd from Power Rangers, done at the request of a friend ;)

Update! Jack has sent in a new Wolverine pic he did, nice!

 

And more new Doctor Who stuff from Cliff as well! It's  the 1st Doctor Who with companions, and Voord from the Keys of Marinus episode! Click them to enlarge!

 

 

Marvel's Black Panther

The Black Panther

 

I wanted to do another Marvel character, and the Black Panther has been a requested character for some time. What a cool looking, simple costume, eh? Any other important costume variations of him that I should get to?

Also to share with you is this great Punx-inspired Firefly drawing by Willowbay! Nice! Click to enlarge!

And also a very fun look at what I would love to see happen on Futurama - The first three Doctors From Doctor Who as Heads-In-Jars - courtesy of Kathryn! Click to enlarge!

Super Mario's Yoshi!

Yoshi, Goomba, Bob-omb (from Nintendo Super Mario games)

Continuing with the Mario theme, here are a few more of my favorite Mario characters.

It's bizarre when you sit back and think about it; All that time we spent as kids with a couple of plumbers who rode around on dinosaurs, stomping on angry mushrooms, avoiding walking wind up bombs, and bouncing off of winged turtles. And it was awesome.

Also for Doctor Who stuff today, Cliff has drawn up some of the monsters from the 9^th Doctor episode “the End of the World”,  ‘the Adherents of the Repeated Meme’, click it to check it out!

Beware the Batman!

Batman (from new "Beware The Batman" show)

The new "Beware The Batman" CGI cartoon premiered this last weekend, and while it's certainly a different take on a Batman cartoon, I thought it was kinda cool. I'm willing to give it time and see where it goes.