Check out Francesco Francavilla’s contribution to Comic Twart’s “Marvel What If” week, “The Avengers: Earth’s First Heroes.”

Here’s how Francesco describes the piece:

So I give you, for the first time I think, Hulk the Druid (a celtic primeval force of nature), Captain Amerigo (from the New World), Thor himself, and an unknown mysterious clad-armored gladiator known as Iron Man . Tigether they are The AVENGERS, EARTH’s FIRST HEROES and they fight evils and undead armies. How does that sound? 🙂

Sounds good to me, Francesco!!

Thanks to Super Punch, I think we may have the next candidate for “bad movie drunk-tweeting.” I give you, Starcrash…

Of course, the title can’t help but remind me of my own Star Wars-inspired effort from that era, Space Crash…

My pal Jason Chalker, whose work I’ve praised before, has a fantastic Tron-related t-shirt design that’s up for voting over at Threadless. Go vote for it, already, so I can buy it as a shirt!

Score this design: “C.Hi.P.s,” to help it get printed on Threadless!

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Over on the Bleeding Cool site, the cover and description of the long-awaited next installment of Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century has been posted. Behold the awesome:

CHAPTER TWO takes place almost sixty years later in the psychedelic daze of Swinging London during 1968, a place where Tadukic Acid Diethylamide 26 is the drug of choice, and where different underworlds are starting to overlap dangerously to an accompaniment of sit-ins and sitars. The vicious gangster bosses of London’s East End find themselves brought into contact with a counter-culture underground of mystical and medicated flower-children, or amoral pop-stars on the edge of psychological disintegration and developing a taste for Satanism. Alerted to a threat concerning the same magic order that she and her colleagues were investigating during 1910, a thoroughly modern Mina Murray and her dwindling league of comrades attempt to navigate the perilous rapids of London’s hippy and criminal subculture, as well as the twilight world of its occultists. Starting to buckle from the pressures of the twentieth century and the weight of their own endless lives, Mina and her companions must nevertheless prevent the making of a Moonchild that might well turn out to be the antichrist.

I’ve got J. Torres to thank for mentioning this on Twitter. Really much funnier than it has any right to be.

And speaking of Thomas N. Perkins, he’s just released a new art book for the iPad and iPhone that’s available through the iTunes Apps store. There are details on Perkins’ blog, and speaking for myself I can say that I paid full price for it and thought it was worth every penny. Just jam-packed with awesome!

I have the redoubtable and ridiculously talented Thomas N. Perkins to thank for pointing out this gem.

There’s a blog for the short set up by the creators, largely in French, if you want more information.

The Vertigo blog, Graphic Content, has posted a few preview pages from next week’s iZombie #6, the “Spot-light” issue entitled “I, Were-Terrier.” To save your clicking finger, I’ll just post them all here, shall? (This is my favorite issue of the series to date, I should point out.) The issue will be on stands October 6th, so be sure to mark your calendars!

I’ve been following Caanan Grall’s “Max Overacts” strip on his Occasional Comics Disorder blog for a while now and really enjoying it, but it took a post on Comics Should Be Good to compell me to talk about his work here. The post was part of their ongoing art challenge thingee, where the Comics Should Be Good writers toss out a theme, readers send in ideas, and then artists illustrate them. This week’s theme was mash-ups or team-ups between comic book and literary characters. One reader suggested Edgar Allan Poe and Raven from the Teen Titans, and Caanan Grall brought it to life.

Check out the awesome:

There’s tons more great stuff on his website, so check it out unless you hate goodness or something.

The complete series of Thundarr the Barbarian, arguably one of the high watermarks in human achievement, is now available on DVD direct from the WBshop.com. The series featured the work of Jack Kirby, Alex Toth, and Steve Gerber. Also, a laser sword and giant cat guy.

The DVD apparently won’t be in stores, and is only available online. I’ve already ordered mine, what are you waiting for?