Scott McCloud points out this little gem on his blog. The video for “Franco-American band” 70 Million (do they come with Spaghetti-os?) for their song “Hold Your Horses!” was produced by by L’Ogre, and is full of awesome.

I’ve never encountered 70 Million before, but I’ll have to seek out more of their stuff. They remind me of a cheerier Arcade Fire, and I respect any band that clearly doesn’t take themselves too seriously. (The one thing sure to turn me off any musician or band is if they are deadly earnest and oh so serious at all times.)

Holy crap, y’all. Check out this amazingness that I found on Michael May’s Adventureblog.

The piece is by Gael Bertrand, and is titled “New York After Disaster.” About it Gael says, “Here’s a crossover of my dreams.”

Yours and mine both.

There’s more awesomeness at Gael’s deviantArt gallery. Check it out!

I have PS238 creator Aaron Williams to thank for pointing out this little gem. (And if you haven’t tried PS238, you should. It’s Williams’ self-published and long-running comic book epic about an elementary school for superheroes, and it just keeps getting better and better.)

Daniel Simon, the designer of the light cycles in the new Tron flick, has a website. And it is jam-packed with awesome. Space ships, cars, strange creatures, seductive ladies… he runs the gamut, folks.

He’s also got a blog. And a book, Cosmic Motors: Spaceships, Cars and Pilots of Another Galaxy, which looks well worth checking out.

I love the Comic Twart group blog. Every week a bunch of insanely talented artists all draw the same character. This time in the barrel, it’s John Carter of Mars. After the solid gold that were the Comic Twart assaults on Zorro, Black Beetle, and Johnny Recon, among others, how could a week of Barsoomian goodness not be awesome?

Well,Francesco Francavilla is first out of the gate, and it looks like we’re off to a winning start. Unless you hate goodness, check the Comic Twart blog regularly for more splendidness.

I’ve been on the fence about this idea, but damned if this doesn’t look like it might work.

Along with OK Go and .357 Lover, We Are Scientists are one of my favorite musical outfits of the moment. I’ve been looking forward to their forthcoming release for a while, and the first video from the album has just gone online.

Evan “Doc” Shaner, whose work I’ve raved about here on the Ramble many times, posted this little gem to his blog over the weekend. Here’s how he describes it:

Last time I mentioned that James Lucas Jones had suggested using Case of the Midnight Visitor for the fourth Encyclopedia Brown “cover”. Somewhere in that conversation Paul Tobin jumped in and for reasons I can’t quite remember the cover you see here is what came out of it. I was thinking the way I drew Billy Batson last time and the way he came out looking like something out of the Hardy Boys and this seemed like it would be a fun team-up. Plus, Bugs Meany in the Monster Society of Evil sounds like a good fit to me.

Now, click to embiggen, and behold the awesome.

Yeah! Tron Reboot is back with a new episode. (The posting promises that the skipped-over episode 4 is coming.)

The Remake/Remodel art threads on Warren Ellis’s Whitechapel forums are always hit or miss for me. (The quality and level of creativity at Dean Trippe and company’s Project Rooftop is a much more consistent, for my money.) That said, sometimes he strikes a rich vein, as he’s clearly done with this week’s Superman thread.

The brief this time out was simple.

You are an artist/designer. You have to put together the cover for a comic called SUPERMAN. It is issue 1 of this book.

You have been told that Superman is a man who dresses predominantly in a shade of blue, and wears a red S symbol. You know nothing else about the character.

The cover must include a logo and the text THE COMPLETE STORY OF THE DARING EXPLOITS OF THE ONE AND ONLY SUPERMAN.

And that’s it.

Some of the artists who have weighed in so far have really knocked it out of the park.

Dean Trippe

David Bednarski

Alberto J. Silva

Paul Sizer

Ken Miller

Good lucking stuff, no?

(via) I don’t love the voice-over in this promo, but damned if that isn’t the Avengers, folks.