We can all thank one of our favourite Sidekicks; Rich McAuliffe for drawing my attention to this perfect Something Silly candidate.

Ok in all fairness this has frak all to do with comic books really and we can't even class it under geek either but I did get it from a retweet from Andy Diggle writer of The Losers and currently Daredevil, so I think that qualifies it and I like it...so there.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/user/beerdogfood

Oh Yeah! Alright! This Sunday we're gonna take you down, all the way down! What could be a greater combination than the man of steel turning and wrestling in one all mighty good guy gone bad mashup! Oh Yeah!

Link: http://www.aintitcool.com/node/45586

If this doesn't make you smile then you're dead inside.

Link: http://jesusdinosaurs.smackjeeves.com/

You may recognise the stylings of this comic strip as it comes from one of our favourite Sidekicks, the man who's a little bit blue and little bit mean; Rich McAuliffe. Click on the image to read the rest of strips bitches, Boo-Ya!

So I picked up my fresh batch of comics this weekend and found myself with an hour window to make my way though them. If anyone is interested, I’m currently reading Daredevil, some Deadpool titles, the Batman comics, and some stuff The Boneman lent me namely a collection of The Boys (which is awesome!) and Cowboy Ninja Viking. Not a massive load but it does me for the time being – I’m going to try and pick up some the new Flash stuff and expect to get royally head f***ed continuity wise on that one!

But I wondered having read through that little lot whether there would be any chance for a new superhero/comic character to make it through to mass popularity, say on a par with your Superman or Wolverine? It seems as though the magic circle of age-old established characters completely own the market in the comic industry, and cannot be knocked off their perch by any of the young pretenders that come along. Do any new characters/franchises have a chance of topping the guys of the Golden Age of Comics? Sadly, I don’t think they do… We get new publications all the time and all of them offer something fresh and new to the table but they don’t seem to be able to get the public whipped up in the same way that an X-Men title, for example, can. Longevity plays a massive part as does, I guess, certain political events and how titles can react to those and capture a public’s imagination but these things have to be earned and I’m not sure if publishers are prepared to give enough time to a title to achieve this. The scenario of a modern day football manager comes to mind here.

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Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Zd_khk6zXo

I must've watched this brilliantly executed film somewhere in the excess of 20 times now and it never gets old, best thing to come out of the World Cup I reckon.

Link: http://gottabecarl.deviantart.com/art/Futurama-X-Men-Meld-140468631

You know us Sidekicks love the X-Men and we're more than partial to a little Futurama too so this poster is pretty damn cool. I love seeing this sot of reimagining, mainly to see who becomes who, Fry as Cyke is a given as is The Professor as...well...The Professor but I'm loving Zapp as Magneto. It's the sheer depth of characters on display here that makes this really special so thank you RemyLeBeau from the Comic Forums for pointing this out and thank you gottabecarl for doing such a bang up job.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGNy7reIfys

Well it's all done and I feel empty, I may start Lost all over again just to really punish myself. The show went out true to itself leaving us with questions but emotional satisfaction. We couldn't pass up the chance of one last Lost flavoured Something Silly so enjoy this video from Jimmy Kimmel.

As was reported on this very website last week, Heroes has been dropped as a TV series and I was very much saddened by this news. It’s almost unbelievable the way its popularity has risen and fallen over the last few years, and this final cull was a rather messy end to a show that promised so much.

I remember many moons ago X-Centric Ned telling me about the show and to watch it on Sci-Fi Channel as they were going to repeat the first three episodes. It was on a Saturday night and I was ridiculously hungover from the night before and those three episodes absolutely pulled me out of my malaise. They were just awesome to watch back to back and I was left gagging for the next episode. The whole series was superb and the characters all genuinely likeable and empathetic. The comic-book setup of the show was perfect and a real original concept at the time. And it was a hit through the spoken word and mates telling mates – I bet Sci-Fi channel couldn’t believe their luck that they had such a goldmine on their hands.

It then became a huge juggernaut of a show but sadly, even as little as halfway through the second season it started losing its way and got muddled, with people switching off in their droves shortly after the writers strike ended and the new material came back out. I was gutted for them and stuck with the second season trying to get people to change their minds, but I knew deep down that they had bottled it. The third season I simply watched for continuity reasons only (although I would argue that certain episodes were quality), and come the fourth I’ve completely lost it. No idea what is going on and I don’t miss it.

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