Kinetix Releases a ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ T-Shirt Collection …..

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Bethany Fong

With the release of The Dark Knight Rises this summer, LA-based design company KINETIX has come out with a collection of T-shirts designed in collaboration with the Warner Bros. Exclusively sold on kitson, the T-shirt collection features imagery of Catwoman and Bane from The Dark Knight Rises, as well as classic Batman logos and DC Comics art (including Dustin Nguyen’s artwork for Heart of Hush).

Check out the KINETIX x The Dark Knight Rises collection after the jump!

Although the tees are a tad pricy at $38-48 a pop, these designer fashions are made out of high quality Pima cotton, which is softer and more long-lasting than your standard superhero tee.

Social Climber Tee, $48 [link]

Despite the flattering cut of this top and the stylish graphic of Anne Hathaway as Catwoman, I’m not too jazzed about the “Social Climber” text scribbled on top of this graphic. I get it, it’s a Catwoman joke, and it’s possible the phrase is used in the film and the specific context has yet to reveal itself, but as this is the only women’s top available in the collection… yeah.

Shattered Batwings Tee, $48 [link]

White Fire Rises Tee, $48 [link]

Batman Watercolor Tee, $48 [link]

Although the product description for this tee describes this design as “Batman watercolor art from The Dark Knight Rises,” this is actually Dustin Nguyen’s artwork for Heart of Hush. Regardless of kitson’s labeling mistake, a designer shirt featuring Dustin Nguyen’s beautiful artwork is pretty stellar.

Black Bat Stencil Tee, $48 [link]

Bane Lightning Bolts Tank, $38 [link]

Grey Batman Classic Logo Tee, $48 [link]

Batman Swinging Tee, $48 [link]

Tags: anne hathaway – AnneHathaway – batman – catwoman – dustin nguyen – DustinNguyen – fashion – kinetix – kitson – the dark knight rises – TheDarkKnightRises

Catwoman, Death and the Riddler Swing Into the ’60s with Gene Gonzales Artwork ,,,,

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Andy Khouri

A great cartoonist and illustrator whom we’ve featured before, Gene Gonzales has been kicking out the jams lately with some inspired 1960s-inspired redesigns of Catwoman, Death and the Riddler. Gonzales couldn’t have picked a better time to publish these stylish images, what with Matthew Weiner’s Mad Menfinally returning to AMC just the other night. If you’ve seen the show, you’ll agree that Gonzales’ Catwoman syncs up quite well with the new Mrs. Draper as portrayed by Jessica Paré, but the artist actually thinks his Selina Kyle looks more like Natalie Wood and Lisa Loeb. In any case, these are lovely and you can check them out after the cut.

Gonzales’ take on Mike Dringenberg and Neil Gaiman’s Death is my favorite of the lot. As he points out on his blog, the perky reaper’s appearance often changes to reflect whatever time period she happens to be, er, living in, and the artist rightly zeroed in on 1968 for this uncommonly cute re-imagining. “Death dressed in mod fashion in London is just too cool,” Gonzales wrote. “Psychedelic colors to come.”

Because the Julie Newmar catsuit from the 1960s Batman television series is so perfect, Gonzales chose to go with a more “real world” approach for this version of the character first envisioned by Bill Finger and Bob Kane. “Instead I went with a flat black. No shiny leather or spandex. Or latex,” he wrote. “I thought about her being agile like a cat or dancer. So the outfit ended up more like a dance unitard with a few open spots. Big belt and rope filled out the rest. I didn’t put ears on her head, since I was trying to keep this ‘real’ world. But the necklace works.”

And check out this Riddler. Has Bill Finger and Dick Sprang’s classic villain ever looked so dapper? Don Ameche himself couldn’t rock a cane like that.

Hopefully Gonzales will keep this up. You can see much more of his sketch work on his blog, and there’s loads of material to see on his professional site as well.

[Via Robot 6]

Tags: catwoman – death – gene gonzales – GeneGonzales – mad men – MadMen – riddler

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Catwoman Pepper Sprays Ozzy Ozbourne !!!

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Andy Khouri

As depicted in the documentary Confessions of a Superhero, the area of Hollywood Boulevard between La Brea and Highland in Los Angeles is famous for its population of street performers who dress as popular characters from film and comic books. And as you know from previous ComicsAlliance coverage, these individuals are prone to violence.

Another episode occurred last Friday, this time between a Catwoman performer and a man who’s been identified as an “Ozzy Osbourne.” According to numerous Twitter testimonies and a televised report from NBC Los Angeles, the intoxicated “Ozzy” was attended by paramedics following a pepper spraying from Catwoman, whom he’d been allegedly harassing for most of the day.

“They were causing a lot of problems today on the boulevard,” Catwoman told NBC LA. “He was rambling nonsense. I must have asked him at least 50 times to just go away.”

Catwoman continued, “I’m giving you fair warning. If you do not get away from me right now — you’ve been harassing me all day — I have pepper spray and I will spray you in the face.”

Street performers including Skeleton Willy Wonka and Insane Captain America backed up Catwoman’s stories, and she said that other characters told her that she’d done them “a big favor.”

The Ozzy character was examined by paramedics but not taken to a hospital, and no arrests were made.

For years, Hollywood Boulevard street performers have earned a living on tips from tourists who wish to be photographed with Superman, Spider-Man, Jack Sparrow, the Incredible Hulk, Marilyn Monroe and other pop culture icons. But as someone who’s lived in the neighborhood for many years, I can confirm that they are sometimes a nuisance, and many of them are just really creepy and weird. Tourists and residents are routinely accosted for photos, and feuds between the characters are not uncommon. However, some of the characters can be entertaining, like the Spider-Man who climbs street lamps or clings to the walls of the Jimmy Kimmel Live building, from which he leaps out to frighten unsuspecting passersby.

Local business owners were successful in getting the local police to impose a kind of Watchmen-like Keane Act banning the costumed characters, but a court asserted the performers’ rights on free speech grounds.

Obviously, the worst thing about the superhero panhandlers is their typically non-continuity behavior and appearance. For example, the aging Superman actor has had to augment his costume with artificial muscle mass through which copious amounts of sweat seeps horrifically. Most depressingly, the Batman performer is rumored among Hollywood residents to be someone prone to acts of violence and drunkenness, and has been arrested numerous times.

But pepper spraying a drunk rock n’ roller seems absolutely in keeping with Catwoman’s idiom, so, regardless of the circumstances, I’m forced to award this street performer with the appropriate points for authenticity.

Tags: catwoman – hollywood blvd – hollywood boulevard – HollywoodBlvd – HollywoodBoulevard – ozzy osbourne – OzzyOsbourne – street performers – StreetPerformers

Want To See What Catwoman Really Looks Like in ‘The Dark Knight Rises’? Check This Out !

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Andy Khouri

A catalogue of new products from DC Direct has given us our best look yet at the Catwoman costume to be worn by Anne Hathaway in The Dark Knight Rises, the new Batman film directed by Christopher Nolan. We’ve seen only glimpses of the black catsuit and mask in leaked set photos and the precious little filmed material that’s been released so far, but the Catwoman Icon 12″ Statue, expected to go on sale in July, reveals and/or confirms several details of Selina Kyle’s Catwoman gear, including rubber thigh-high boots with silver stiletto knife-heels, rubber opera gloves, a utility belt, goggles that flip up to mimic cat ears, and what we can presume is some kind of textured body armor in the form of a skin-tight black catsuit.

“I love the costume,” Hathaway told The Hero Complex last year. “I love the costume because everything has a purpose, nothing is in place for fantasy’s sake, and that’s the case with everything in Christopher Nolan’s Gotham City.”

It must be said, the sculptors did an incredible job capturing the true idiom of Catwoman in this iconic pose, which inspires visions of a dramatic scene in which Catwoman discovers a shiny silver dollar on the sidewalk.

The photos of the Catwoman statue and other Dark Knight Rises products come courtesy of Idle Hands, a collectibles blog whose Paul Nomad pointed this week that the last few months have been quiet for DC Direct, the merchandising and collectibles arm of DC Entertainment, especially in light of a far-reaching licensing deal with competitor Mattel. But DC Direct came to ToyFair 2012 with quite a lot to show for itself, including the Dark Knight Rises material. Idle Hands grabbed some photographs of some of the promotional material.

And this one, featuring a nice image of Bane in the COME AT ME BRO pose, comes from Toy News International:

Head over to Idle Hands for more previews of future DC Direct products, including action figures and statues from Arkham City and the New 52.

[Via The Mary Sue]

Tags: anne hathaway – AnneHathaway – batman – catwoman – dc direct – DcDirect – the dark knight rises – TheDarkKnightRises

Wonder Woman, She-Hulk, Storm and Catwoman Speak Out for Breast Cancer Prevention

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Andy Khouri

Held this year from December 5-10, Mozambique Fashion Week is an annual fashion and cultural event hosted by African nation’s capital city of Maputo. In addition to MFW’s mission to promote the creativity and beauty of the Mozambican people, the event includes a social responsibility component that specifically targets the subject of breast cancer, which is of course an enduring threat that affects millions and millions of women around the world. For this year’s campaign, MFW partnered with Associação da Luta Contra o Cancer to create a series of breast cancer screening advertisements that feature the comic book superheroines Wonder Woman, She-Hulk, Storm and Catwoman.

Mozambique Fashion Week’s breast cancer campaign is a collaboration with the office of first lady Maria da Luz Dai Guebuza. The MFW website states:

Alongside the fashion shows, the Mozambique Fashion Week promotes this project which focuses on publishing and disseminating information about this disease that has victimized many women in order to achieve an improvement in prevention and also in the provision of alternative breast cancer treatment in Mozambique.

The main objective of this campaign are to:

- Inform and disseminate the disease in the adolescent and youth community and the public in general, in order to change the attitude and behavior towards the disease.

- Raise funds to support this project of the fight against breast cancer.

- Contribute to an improvement of prevention resources.

To that end, advertising firm DDB Maputo was commissioned to create the superheroine-themed self-screening images. Illustrated by Maísa Chaves, the work is most likely not officially licensed by Marvel or DC Comics, who own the characters depicted. Regardless, readers of Ads of the World have reacted favorably to the campaign by awarding each piece at least seven out of 10 stars.

That the iconic characters’ faces are obscured speaks to the important message of the ads, which reads:

Nobody’s immune to breast cancer. When we talk about breast cancer, there’s no women or superwomen. Everybody has to do the self-examination monthly. Fight with us against the enemy and, when in doubt, talk with your doctor.

[Via The Mary Sue, DC Women Kicking Ass]

Tags: breast cancer – breast cancer awareness – BreastCancer – BreastCancerAwareness – catwoman – mozambique – she-hulk – storm – wonder woman – WonderWoman

Do You Like These? ‘Batman: Arkham City’ Series 2 Action Figures Coming From DC Direct in April

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Caleb Goellner

The second series of Batman Arkham City action figures from DC Direct will slip the Caped Crusader into his patented “Detective Mode” before setting him against all new (and all-plastic) versions of Hush and Jervis Tetch: The Mad Hatter. These three figures join Catwoman and the Riddler, who were shown in October at New York Comic Con, bringing the 4.25-6.75″ tall second series to a relatively hearty (for DC Direct) five characters strong. Set to arrive in stores on April 25, the new characters join the first wave of Arkham City figures coming December 28, that will include an unmasked Batman, Harley Quinn and Robin. Check out all five upcoming figures after the jump.

[Via Toynewsi]

Tags: action figures – ActionFigures – Batman Arkham City – BatmanArkhamCity – Catwoman – DC Direct – DcDirect – Hush – Mad Hatter – MadHatter – Riddler – Rocksteady

Things To Be Excited and Worried About for “The Dark Knight Rises”

Posted on December 5, 2011 by kkomics

Whenever a new film comes out that I’m a fan of, I always end up overanalyzing the littlest details and jumping to my own conclusions, positive or negative. Naturally, that brings about some things I get very excited about and some things I’m equally anxious about in a bad way. Let’s take a look at a few of those things in regards to THE DARK KNIGHT RISES…

THINGS I’M WORRIED ABOUT

1. Possible 8 Year Gap

I’m very, very nervous about this. I don’t see how it’ll make any sense and work. Not only does Gordon look in the hospital scene from the teaser to not have aged 8 years, but to say that the police have been chasing Batman and accusing him of murder for EIGHT years is just drastic. Considering the time lapse between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight is what, a year or two maybe, I can’t imagine this being a logical jump in time. It’s too far. If you were to say a year, then sure, I can see that. But eight years is meaning that Bruce is now about 40 and he’s still wearing the same suit made by Lucius in TDK, we still have no Robin, and for what? I’m still really hoping that this is just some messed up report or rumor with no foundation.

2. Small Bane

Don’t get me wrong, if you gave me a choice between seeing what we’ve seen so far versus having what many people suggest – a WWE superstar playing a giant luchador – this new take seems much more interesting and has better potential. That’s coming from someone that owns his own wrestling website (Smark Out Moment, check it out and my YouTube show Smack Talk if you’re interested – plug over). Bane still looks nowhere near as intimidating as I was hoping he would be, particularly if that voice we’ve heard is what they end up with (I’m not expecting it to be, though).

3. TOO Reflective of Batman Begins

I keep hearing all of this mirror imagery that they’re going to set up between Batman and Bane. While I’m a big, big supporter of making things turn around full circle (even if it’s just referencing a joke from earlier in a conversation), you run a risk of being repetitive and pointless if you do it too much. If this is a film that starts off the same as Batman Begins but from Bane’s point of view, then references the two of them as being similar throughout the whole film, which might consist of a plot that is basically just “League of Shadows takes a weapon and plans on destroying Gotham with it”, then why not just watch Batman Begins again?

4. Catwoman Not “Catwoman” Enough

Look, I wasn’t expecting her to spit out a bunch of cat puns and wear the original cat mask from the 40s or anything, but from what we’ve seen, there really isn’t anything “Catwoman” about her yet. She’s got a black outfit, her character is Selina Kyle, and she’s hot. Those are the similarities we know right now. It annoys me when I see things like the goggles look the way they do when, if you’re adding something like that into the film, it wouldn’t be any more difficult to just make the goggles look like the comic book version. These goggles don’t look like cat eyes, and as much as people say when she has them up on her head that that resembles cat ears, I don’t see it. It looks more like a woman in an Emma Peel Halloween costume sporting some goggles on her head. Considering how Catwoman’s modern outfit is something that would work perfectly well in Nolan’s realistic world, I don’t see why they seem to be stripping all of the CATwoman characteristics away from it. Whips, a cowl, and goggles that resemble cat eyes aren’t exactly like asking for a mutant shapeshifting mud monster (sorry Clayface). Then again, I’m sure we haven’t seen it all, so I’m hoping I’m proven wrong about this and we get “Catwoman” on the screen, instead of just “Woman on a bike dressed in leather named Selina Kyle”.

5. Ending the Trilogy by Ending Batman

Personally, I like my stories to end with a sense that the story will continue after you’re done watching it, but in a way that we can all make up the details so much as we know the big picture. This is extended even more so when it comes to comic book movies and any other kind of serialized franchise in similar fashion. I don’t want my Ultimate Spider-Man to end with Peter Parker just being killed and then that’s it (nor do I want someone else to take up the role, Miles or Ben or Miguel, but that’s a different discussion). I want it to end knowing that Peter’s still out there as Spider-Man, but in a better place with it. Obviously, there are exceptions to the rule, but generally speaking, think more along the lines of the end of Return of the Jedi (still work to be done, but we know the rebels have won and will ultimately fix everything) versus the end of another one of my favorite movies, Reservoir Dogs (hint: you’ll never see Reservoir Dogs 2 lol). I don’t want to see Batman crippled and retired. I don’t want Bruce to be killed off. I want to see that Batman has ascended to greatness and is going to clean Gotham up even if it takes one criminal at a time – but damn it, he’ll do it even if he has to do it until the day he does eventually die. By the way, when speaking about ascending, I can’t stress enough how much I’m disappointed with the title “The Dark Knight Rises”. The word ‘rises’ is used far too much in movies recently and I think replicating the ‘The Dark Knight’ part was just lazy. Plus, if they do in fact want to end this by ending Batman, then that would be quite stupid to name the film “Rises”, wouldn’t it? They keep speaking about this being a definite end to things, which has me worried.

THINGS I’M EXCITED ABOUT

1. The Track Record

I was first turned to Nolan with Memento, which I loved. Insomnia fell flat, and I’m not the biggest fan of Prestige (not bad, just not good enough to own IMO), but Inception, Batman Begins, and The Dark Knight are all three films I own and love. Batman Begins is what I consider the best comic book film ever. Thus, I’m excited to see what they bring us in this next film. If it’s more of those 3 instead of the Insomnia quality, then this should be a real treat.

2. Bat Cave

First we have a rough concept, then we have more of a bat-garage than anything else, but by now, we’ve GOT to have the true Bat Cave! I don’t expect fluorescent lights and motorized platforms with a giant penny and dinosaur and whatnot, but I’m definitely expecting to see a more decked out Bat Cave in this version. If I start hearing that we won’t see it, I’ll be really disappointed.

3. Bane and Catwoman (and possibly Talia)

They might not be what I want them to look like and for all I know, that’s as good as it’s going to get, but for now, I’m excited to see what Nolan pulls out of these two characters in the film. I’m a fan of both of them – more so Catwoman than Bane, but I’ve been getting more into Bane the past few months and he’s growing on me – so even though I really was hoping for Riddler, I’m still more than up for these two. This would be a different story if you were telling me the new female lead would be Roxy Rocket and the new villain was Calculator, haha. The possible addition of Talia is another welcome addition that I’m looking forward to seeing.

4. Hans Zimmer is the Man

I have a playlist dedicated to any type of song that sounds similar to the Hans Zimmer style, whether it’s the Transformers or Island soundtracks, production music like “Kingmaker” by Immediate Music, or something by Hans Zimmer himself. The guy does quality work and I love it, so I’ll be keeping my eye on the score for sure (or should I say my ear?).

5. Future Recognition in Retrospect

This is definitely jumping ahead, but it’s something that is on my mind nonetheless. If this film is as good or better than the previous films, because of it being the last of a trilogy, we might finally see Christopher Nolan and the rest of the cast/crew responsible for it be recognized for their work. I’m not expecting it to win Best Picture, but it seems like the Academy took a lot of necessary flack for snubbing The Dark Knight that they might have listened to when it came time to think about Inception. If Lord of the Rings can win Best Picture and countless other awards for ending its trilogy, why can’t a Batman trilogy get some respect as well? It’s a possibility, and we’ll have to see what the final product is before speculation about awards could possibly make any sense, but the sheer concept behind the potential that it has to make that impact is something I’ll be eagerly in anticipation for.

So what are some things that you’re worried and/or excited about for Nolan’s third and final outing with the Batman?

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