You can check out more of Remi Gallard’s brilliant pranks on his Youtube channel here.

1) Speaking of Ninja Turtles, I recently started to check out a bunch of local Toronto blogs. How does this relate to Turtles? Well Carol Zara of Digitally Blonde fame recently posted a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles snuggie!!!! I’m totally ordering four and having a turtle snuggie party in the near future! You in? I call dibs on Donatello.

On a side note, I highly recommend checking out Digitally Blonde. I can’t figure out if she’s real and every nerd’s fantasy (read: mine!) or if she’s like that terrible Al Pacino movie S1M0ne, where Al Pacino creates an actress who becomes a star overnight… but she’s computer generated!!!! I mean we’ve all seen Avatar, who knows what’s real and fake anymore amirite???!?!?! My guess is she’s probably real.

That said, any pretty Brazilian girl who talks about comics, dresses up as cartoon characters and dances around in her underwear gets my full infatuation attention! You can stalk check out Digitally Blonde here.

2) If you’re not snugged out yet, Street Fighter IV also has a snuggie. You too can now kick some ass in comfort.

3) Oh!!! I almost forgot! Cartoonist Matt Bors recently had a brilliant commentary about global warming: “What if the Avengers treated Galactus like global warming?” Seriously, so good! Click here for parts 1, 2 and 3.
(via Comics Alliance)

4) By now I’m sure most of you have heard that Gallery 1988 (the best gallery in the universe), recently held a show completely dedicated to He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. Now I’m really jealous that I couldn’t make it down for the show but lucky for me the great people of the internets have come through and posted tons of the content online. You can check out alot of the artwork here, here, here, here and most importantly here. Also here.

So many of my favourite artists from today came together for this show. One of those favourites is Vancouver artist Camilla d’Errico. Camilla’s piece for the show can be seen here, however what’s even cooler and slightly related is that Gallery 1988 held a show back in 2008 called “Toys.” During this show Camilla displayed one of my favourite pieces of all time called “The Sorceress” which depicted The Sorceress from He-Man lore.

I love this piece, I mean it’s even my phone wallpaper. The colours are so vivid and there is so much character in those eyes. Anyways, I recently bought a copy for my new place and it arrived late last week! I am in my happy place. Check out Camilla’s site here and her store here.

(via Topless Robot)

I give her full props on her turtle passion. However, I also cringe at everything in this video. Watching this video basically amounts to three minutes of being uncomfortable.

Anyways, let’s never speak of this again.

Edit: Apparently his name is Melvin

So I was sitting here last night eating my Mexican cereal and I was reminded of some other famous bipedal elephant heroes, such as Snout Spout, Elaroo, Max Rebo, Hooter and Joseph Merrick. Now most of these names I’m sure many of you have heard of, however I would bet not many of you have heard of…… The Power Pachyderms!!!!

Power Pachyderms was a magical Marvel one-off comic that combined all that was great about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the X-Men and Dumbo. Much like the TMNT it was hazardous material combining with innocent animals that formed these fierce fighting four. If I recall a circus train went off route and was in the blast radius of a gamma bomb (like the Hulk). The elephants on board then gave birth to four mutant bipedal elephants who were shunned from the elephant community (like Dumbo!) Oh yeah, these mutant elephants also had super powers. Are you with me so far?

Our four heroes then go their separate ways to find themselves and then eventually meet meet up as adults again. Mammoth could turn into organic steel much like Colossus, Rumbo was a short stocky elephant with retractable adamantium tusks, Trunklops could shoot lasers out of his trunk and Electralux, while named after a vacuum, was actually a Jean Grey/Elektra amalgam.

Electralux and Rumbo are the first to meet as adults, and the “enlightened” Perfect Masters inform them that Mammoth and Trunklops are still alive. Obviously they all meet again, but really I’m not sure where to go from here with my synopsis; I have read it hundreds of times, and I understand it less each time.

- They turn a boat into their headquarters in the middle of New York
- Their first villain, Clarinetto appears (Magneto, if Magneto lead a marching band)
- Electralux falls into radioactive goop and turns into Rogue Elephant (a Dark Phoenix parody)
- ……. and I believe the conclusion is that they discover being a super hero is a dangerous profession and quit

Oh yeah, did I mention Clarinetto leads a squad of super villains called the “New Musicians?” Oh, well he did. Naturally this villain team is composed of a young Whitney Houston, Bruce Springsteen, Cyndi Lauper, Willie Nelson and Madonna.

There isn’t much more to say except to cap things off the “Perfect Masters” end up being the Three Stooges.

Honestly, I forget why I even started writing this post. Half way through this post I felt like I was ruining a really good childhood memory and I think I need a drink now. As a kid, this was a hysterical and a very clever parody of everything that I loved about X-Men and Turtles; however, even as a kid I knew it had flaws. As an adult reliving this comic, it’s probably terrible. Next time I’m at home I’ll find this comic and read it in all of it’s glory. In the mean time I will leave you with this:

Thanks Rumbo....