And he’s going to need your help: two adventurers will stumble into the TARDIS and take off by accident. If you’re there, one of those adventures might be you!
Phil & Kaja Foglio’s campaign on Kickstarter for the next round of hardcopy publishing is wildly popular with more than triple its goal pledged already.
Some days you need somebody to be your hero. Some days you need to be a hero for someone else, because you know what it’s like to really, really need one. Today’s video of the day is from singers and songwriters Luke Conard and Landon Austin. Their song Superherois effervescent, clear and bright, and fills your heart with hope.
Luke Conard is the latest Krypton Radio discovery. We don’t mean weexclusively discovered him. We mean that when looking for new songs about superheroes we stumbled across his work, and found that he also writes a lot of music based on Harry Potter as Ministry of Magic.
In fact, his stuff is so well done and so clean that we couldn’t choose between Superheroand the Ministry of Magic – House Song. Lucky you. We’re posting both.
Now when many of us think of superheroes, we naturally tend to have images of Batman, or Iron Man, or many other spandex clad super powered people fighting crime. But when you really think about it, superheroes come in so many different forms. A lot of us call people superheroes for the sheer fact that they inspired us, or had an impact on our lives in a very significant way. One such person to have an impact on many people’s lives is none other than master artist Bob Ross. Mr Ross wasn’t a world famous comic book artist, he was a painter and a dreamer whose gentle demeanor and passion for art inspired many of us to take up the brush and get into the art world ourselves.
His fans know him from his world famous television show Joy Of Painting, where he taught his television audience painting techniques and frequently added happy little trees and happy little clouds to his works of art. Joy Of Painting ran from 1983 to 1994 on PBS, only being discontinued due to Ross having to retire and to battle cancer. Sadly he passed away in 1995, two years after his second wife had passed away, also from cancer. PBS recently released a wonderful musical tribute to Mr. Ross, featuring clips from his show, and titled it “Happy Little Clouds”.
So we thought we’d brighten up your Sunday with a happy little music video from PBS Digital Studios, featuring art legend Bob Ross.
Hey, every so often we just want to give a shout out to all the amazing folks who produce the music we play on Krypton Radio. From Abney Park, to Kirby Krackle, to Felicia Day, and just so many more that we can’t list them all. Remember, besides some of the best news and tidbits we bring you on our website, we’re first and foremost, the most kicking Superhero, Comic Book, Science Fiction, Steampunk, Fantasy, and Gaming Internet Radio Station. Streaming 24/7 - IN THE WORLD!
Check us out, come for the stories, stay for the music. Like a nerd discovering the powers of Mountain Dew, you’ll want more.
The Hope and Goodwill Superheroes Bring Helps Unite Cultures in Real World
Silver Scorpion
NEW YORK – (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX Press Release) — The Open Hands Initiative, in partnership with Liquid Comics and MTV Voices, announced today the newest rendition of the Silver Scorpion comic book character – an animated web series featuring the world’s first disabled cross-cultural superhero. Silver Scorpion is the brainchild of a group of American and Syrian youths with disabilities who gathered in Damascus a little more than a year ago. The hero they envisioned, an Arab teen that loses his legs in a tragic accident, has the power to not only bend metal with his mind but — the creators hope — to transform his world… and ours.
Created by 26 talented youths with disabilities who convened for a Youth Ability Summit in Syria, the Silver Scorpion will come to life on the web in an animated 4-part series on the MTV Voices global websites, bringing this unique story of courage and perseverance to young people all across Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia. The series is intended to build bridges among the youths of the world while promoting inclusion and equality for people living with disabilities.
Toy Company Offering ‘Personalized Action Figures’ for $127
"Accurate? It'll be like looking in a teaspoon."
If you’re willing to shell out about $127 (or £79.99) you can have an action figure one of five DC Comic’s classic superheroes with your head on it. Firebox, a U.K. novelty company, is offering the figurines – you just upload a well-lit front and profile head shot of yourself to its website. Firebox will then use your photos to create a 3D-printed head in your likeness for you to place on Batman, Batgirl, Superman, The Joker or Wonder Woman.
“Using advanced 3-D printing technology your photographs will be turned into a fully-formed 3-D version of your noggin – including eye color, skin tone, hair style (or as close as possible) and hair color,” states the company website . “Accurate? It’ll be like looking in a teaspoon.”
The company will send you the action figure and the replica of your head, which together stand about 6 ½ inches tall. The kit enables you to remove the original head and attach your own, either temporarily or permanently.
“The assembly instructions aren’t super high tech (soak the figure in water, yank off head, pack the new one on with putty), which leaves us a little skeptical that the custom head will be the most accurately detailed piece of work in the world,” according to Gizmodo . “It costs a good chunk of change, too, at about $127, but oh goodness do we want to believe in this particular bit of magic.”
Considering that the head is packed on with putty, it’s probably not something you’ll be wanting to give a child to play with, and the product is obviously the head, combined with action figures resold off the shelf – but if you have the cash for something like this, it’s still quite the novelty.
This isn’t the only service offering 3D printed likenesses on figurines, howwever. We also found Sculpteo, ThatsMyFace.com (which also does superhero action figures) and a host of others, most of which are cheaper than Firebox, averaging about $80 to Firebox’s $127. Then there’s FigurePrints, who can print out your build from Minecraft, or your avatar from World of Warcraft or XBox Live.
The machines that do it are expensive enough that they’re purchased by businesses who then sublet time on the machines and/or sell one-off items to consumers.
If it’s out there, there is a toy of it. Even you.
Londoners Get Ready to Walk, Jog, and Run to Help Support Cats Protection Charity
Krypton Radio Newswire
Doing it for the Super Kitties, mate!
Cats Protection, a Feline Welfare Charity is helping our fuzzy friends throughout the UK by raising money, caring for, educating pet owners and helping find homes for thousands of cats in the United Kingdom. Coming the 13th of May 2012, Cats Protection is holding a Superhero marathon as part of its fundraising efforts, and if you happen to be in the London area or are willing to travel bit, you to can join in! Free superhero suits will be provided and the registration fee is only £20, Minimum of £100 for sponsorship!
Come and join us to run, walk or jog 5km for Cats Protection. Over 1,000 people are expected to take part and now this is your chance to join them!
We are looking for Superheroes to take part in the Do It For Charity Superhero Run 2012 and raise much needed funds for Cats Protection. We are an official charity partner of the 2012 run and we’re looking for people to join the Cats Team and release their inner superhero! No previous experience is required and with a bit of training the distance should easily be within your capabilities. The spirit of the event is ‘taking part’ not ‘winning’ so you can run, jog or walk – you decide!
Cats Protection - Helping Cats In the UK
Cats Protection is the UK’s leading feline welfare charity. Our vision is a world where every cat is treated with kindness and an understanding of its needs.
Cats Protection is the UK’s leading feline welfare charity. Our vision is a world where every cat is treated with kindness and an understanding of its needs.
It’s an ambitious vision. However, we truly believe it can be achieved because of our passion, our professional approach and simply because cats are among the UK’s most popular companion pets.
Cats Protection has simple and clear objectives to help cats:
Tom Hutchison's creation "Critter", from Big Dog Ink
Krypton Radio Interviews Tom Hutchison and Stephen Smirl of Big Dog Ink
Interview by Gene Turnbow
At the annual Long Beach Comic Convention last October 30, we got to speak with Tom Hutchison and Stephen Smirl of Big Dog Ink! Mr. Hutchison owns the fledgling but rising comic book company and created Critter; Mr. Smirl writes and draws Island Tales.
The first issue of Critter was released to the public in April of 2011, and it takes comic books back to the basics: good story, appealing artwork, great characters, fantasy costumes and utility belts.
Gene Turnbow: It’s great to see you here at the convention, Tom! Can you tell our readers about your publishing company and what you’ve been doing?
Tom Hutchinson: Actually this is our third year at the Long Beach Comic Convention, and our third year that we’ve been in existence, so this is sort of our anniversary as well. Since 2009, we came with a couple of titles, starting with “Penny for your Soul”, which we followed up with our superhero title called “Critter”, and this year we’re doing five or six series. We’re releasing at this show our western reimagining of the Wizard of Oz called “The Wicked West”, and we just keep on growing.
GT: I see the quality of these books is extremely high, certainly as good as from any major publisher I’ve ever seen. How long does it take to produce one of these books, and what are you working hard on developing right now?
Tom Hutchinson: When we started this, we really wanted to make a splash with our art. To do that, we really had to make some decisions, primarily about the distribution of it. Most of our books at this point are bi-monthly, they’re coming out every two months. We want to give our artists all the time in the world to do the best work they can possibly do. In order for us to compete artistically in this business – well, art is the first thing people see. So we let our artists do their job, and we have great people working for us.
It’s time again for another Friday edition of Weekly Artist Spotlight! First off a quick apology for our Monday edition not getting to press, every so often that wacky thing called life comes knocking, and we got a little sidetracked. So to make up for that, we’re doing a Special Edition feature today and we’re going to overdose a bit on everyone’s favorite brooding ,cave-dwelling billionaire, Bruce Wayne aka BATMAN!
Batman: City of Scars
Let’s start off with Bat in the Sun Productions, these folks have produced what has to be one of the most incredibly well made fan scripts for the Batman storyline. Not only did they write their own script, they’ve created a few extremely high-quality half-hour long dramas that could rival that of many major television networks.
From the BITS site:
Bat in the Sun Productions is a self-contained film and music production company. We are based in the Los Angeles area, 10 miles north of Hollywood California in the city of Calabasas. The Company began in 2001 and was founded by both Aaron Schoenke and Sean Schoecnke, the work of BITS has collected many film festival awards and has received notable attention from the film industry as well as a loyal fan base.
After watching the exciting adventures of Batman, your inner Superhero nerd is probably jonesing for some interactive action with the caped crusader. So we’ll follow BITS up with Batman: Arkham City, the sequel to the hugely successful Batman Arkham Asylum videogame. Batman: Arkham City will be released on the Xbox 360, PS3, and PC on October 18, 2011.
From Wikipdia:
The story for Arkham City takes place about one year after the events of Arkham Asylum.[10] Quincy Sharp, former warden of Arkham Asylum, has taken credit for stopping the Joker, and used the notoriety to become mayor of Gotham City. As neither Arkham nor Blackgate Prison are in any condition to detain inmates, Sharp buys out a large section of Gotham’s slums and arms the perimeter with private military contractors from a group called Tyger in order to create “Arkham City”. The prisoners are brought into Arkham City and are given free rein, as long as they do not attempt escape. To oversee the city, Sharp hires psychiatrist Hugo Strange who appears to have his own secret agenda for the city. Batman maintains a vigil over the city, worried that the situation may get out of hand.[4] Part of the setup for “Arkham City” was contained in plans in a hidden room in Sharp’s office in Arkham Asylum.[11]
The events of the game are set in motion when Two-Face, seeking to gain notoriety among the inmates and other villains outside the city, devises a plan to publicly execute Catwoman. Batman decides for both the safety of Gotham and of his past relationship with Catwoman that he must stop the execution by entering Arkham City.[4] Catwoman takes advantage of the chaos in Arkham City to acquire jewelry.[12]
A teaser trailer was released that featured Joker being nursed by Harley Quinn from the effects of the Titan formula (and the explosive gel punch from Batman) while Gotham descends into chaos.[13] The sequel was described by veteran Batman voice actor Kevin Conroy as “really, really dark”. While relating the game’s dark nature to the animated movie Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, Conroy also said, “It involves a lot of the villains and it goes to that area – it’s that dark.
Great shows and what looks like a video game that will keep your inner Bat-geek happy for many hours to come, now we hit you with a video that will make you drool with envy. Even if you’re not that big of a Batman fan, car lovers will be on their knees begging to drive this beauty.
From their YouTube site:
This is the only Bat car created that makes fiction reality. It is powered by a military spec turboshaft engine driving the rear wheels through a semi automatic gearbox. It features a custom tube frame/monocoque chassis with fully independent suspension, disc brakes, and a sequential shifter. It runs on kerosene, diesel, or Jet fuel and has a power to weight ratio comparable to a Dodge Viper. The car is registered and insured for the road in the United States. Built in 2011 by Casey Putsch. Casey Putsch has the Putsch Racing facility.
Weekly Artist Spotlight, is Krypton Radio’s bi-weekly feature, to help raise awareness of the artists who you may not have heard about through mainstream media. All content used in Weekly Artist Spotlight, is used from publicly available sources, and is used solely to promote the artists we spotlight.
Hey, every so often we just want to give a shout out to all the amazing folks who produce the music we play on Krypton Radio. From Abney Park, to Kirby Krackle, to Felicia Day, and just so many more that we can’t list them all. Remember, besides some of the best news and tidbits we bring you on our website, we’re first and foremost, the most kicking Superhero, Comic Book, Science Fiction, Steampunk, Fantasy, and Gaming Internet Radio Station. Streaming 24/7 - IN THE WORLD!
