Awesome Comics

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Frank Miller of Batman, Sin City and 300 fame is back with a new graphic novel, centering on a new dark hero – The Fixer. It’s the very first release from Legendary Comics and hits this September.

(SPOILERS) HPosters are Lucy Knisley‘s series of illustrated and lighthearted re-telling of all of the Harry Potter books. You can download high-res versions of the posters for free here.

(NSFW: Language) Need a dose of dark humor? Check out this webcomic. Hugh D. Crawford’s pessimistic and jaded strips will make you sad and happy at the same time.

Mike Joos has a series of prints featuring popular characters both real and fictional riding their very own custom bikes – with a couple of exceptions. You can also order the prints as T-shirts.

It’s certainly not complete, but this 18″ x 24″ poster is nonetheless impressive, cataloging 100 superpowers possessed by 200 superheroes and supervillains. Limited to 500 prints.

The teaser for Captain America: First Avenger explores the origins of Steve Rogers before he became the symbol of hope for WWII America, and Johann Schmidt’s transformation into the Red Skull.

Peter Muehlenberg makes the Axe Cop come alive in this live action version of the titular character’s origin story, based on the first episode of the campy and random webcomic. More please!

The superheroes of the Marvel universe enter a new world in April 2011, taking on the most intense evil they’ve ever encountered in this epic new 7-issue series. More detail on the storyline here.

If superheroes were real, there’s no doubt that their cities will leverage them for tourism. These comic posters do just that, but in an understated manner. Gotham’s Tourism Board sure is creepy.

Dinosaur Comics creator Ryan North just put his job at risk by releasing his one and only drawing as a whiteboard. Now you can usurp his throne and come up with a comic strip of your own.

Show your love for Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus, Patty and Woodstock with these limited-edition Peanuts journals in celebration of the 60th anniversary of Charles Schultz’s classic comic.

Kobe as Iron Man? Magic as Wolverine? MJ as Nick Fury? Marvel artists teamed up with ESPN to create a series of comic book cover-style art of NBA stars. If you’re a Cavs fan, brace yourself.

In anticipation of the upcoming TRON: LEGACY, Marvel will be releasing variant covers featuring Tronified versions of Iron Man, Wolverine and other super heroes. Moon Knight never looked better.

Ice Cream & Sadness is the second collection of strips from the popular webcomic Cyanide & Happiness. The book has 120 comic strips as well as 30 more that are exclusive to the book.

A photoblog that features maps and diagrams from actual comic books. Even if you’re not a fan of comics, you’ll find a lot of humor, honesty and Looney Tunes-like simplicity in the drawings.

The talented Matthew Inman has created a laugh-out-loud comic about the 6 main reasons we should ride polar bears to work; like the other work on his website, it’s good, silly fun. (Thanks Josh!)

“Play” the Scott Pilgrim vs. The World i-Trailer and earn points to unlock extras like wallpapers and trivia. If you don’t dig this trailer, you’re probably not going to enjoy the movie either.

Yet another classic comic from xkcd. Universities are usually the champions of logic and excellence, but their websites are another story altogether. This diagram needs to be posted at all schools.

Fork Party has created a template for Steve Jobs and Bill Gates jokes, whether it’s about how insanely rich they are or how Microsoft pwns Apple, or vice versa… Have at it, guys.

Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver’s graphic novel re-imagining of The Green Lantern is now available in this 224-page slipcased hardcover edition with all the juicy green bits in one place.

Here’s an unlikely mash-up that we’d nonetheless love to see – everyone’s favorite comic strip duo as the Dark Knight and the Boy Wonder. Actually we’d be content with just more Calvin and Hobbes.

Dinosaur Comics is the complete opposite of The Universal Punchline. Dinosaur Comics creator Ryan North has used the exact same drawing since he began in 2003. And it’s still funny.