Portal Turret Pumpkin [Pic]

These Star Wars and Gundam Dioramas Will Totally Blow your Mind [Picture Gallery]

I know you’ve all seen lots of small scale model representations of various scenes featured in pop culture movies as kids, but what you’re about to see will totally blow you mind. These Star Wars and Gundam-themed dioramas were recently presented at the Shizuoka Hobby Show in Japan, and unfortunately after seeing this, I can only be disappointed after seeing the work of, oh, pretty much 99.9999999% of people who make these kind of models in the future.

[Via Kotaku]

BloodRayne Writer on Uwe Boll [Video]

Holy crap you guys have to watch this… this is… this is… ahhhhh, forget it, just watch the darn thing.

I knew Uwe Boll was… special, but until I watched this, I didn’t know how “special” he really was. It certainly explains a lot on why most of his movies are the way they are.

[Via Joystiq]

One Superman, Just $130 [Pic]

You’d think a guy like Superman would be worth a lot of money, especially considering the billion-dollar comics industry that was initially made popular by America’s favorite Good Guy. As it turns out, ol’ Supe was worth $130. That’s how much DC Comics gave Jerome Siegel and Joe Shuster — along with $210 for the June 1938 issue of Detective Comics and $36 each for Adventure Comics and More Fun.

In 1938, a hundred bucks was nothing to sneeze at. But, at least according to this calculator, it wasn’t a massive fortune, either. Today’s going rate for the original rights to Superman? $2,091.88. In total, Siegel and Shuster earned about $6,629.66 for their work in today’s dollars.

The check, which has been missing and thought lost for decades, turned up last week after an image shared on Twitter by @GerryDuggan caught the attention of a fewfolks in the know. “Have you ever made a business decision that haunted you? This piece of true comics history will make you feel better,” it said. We’re not so sure about that.

The check was used as evidence in DC’s lawsuit against Victor Fox way back in 1939; Fox hired a strapping lad by the name of Will Eisner to create a comics character, who shared some remarkable similarities with Superman–basically, all of his powers and 50% of his name. Eisner’s Wonder Man appeared in Wonder Man #1 and never again. DC sued Fox, establishing modern character copyright laws for comics.

It’s an interesting story with some far-reaching historical merit. If not for Jack Liebowitz’s signature and an on-check itemization of Siegel and Shuster’s payment, Wonder Man could have been the country’s most famous superhero.

Huge List of Printable Halloween Masks

Our friends over at Super Punch have compiled a fairly extensive list of locations where you can download printable Halloween masks. So if you find yourself with no costume for this year’s Halloween, just head over there, download a mask, and stick it over your pretty little geek face.

[Dozens of Downloadable Masks – Super Punch]