The fun and creative Photoshop website Worth1000, is running a contest that combines the artsy with the fartsy, aka Superheroes with iconic Renaissance masterpieces.

The results are awesome. If they had had comic books in the Renaissance, these are the paintings we could have had. Hit the link for all of em.

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USA Today has confirmed that Bruce Wayne will be hanging up the cowl in Grant Morrison’s Batman #681, due next week.

Just as The Dark Knight closes in on $1 billion worldwide gross, DC Comics is ready to have Bruce Wayne “die” — or at least give up the cape — in his monthly comic.

Batman #681, due Nov. 26, wraps up writer Grant Morrison’s Batman R.I.P. story line, in which the crimefighter is so shaken by a secret from his past that a new Batman must be found.
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[Neil] Gaiman is writing a two-issue tribute to the character, starting with Batman #686 and tentatively titled Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?, due in February. “This is my last Batman story,” he says. “And in some ways, it could be seen as every last Batman story.”

I’m not tough enough for a tattoo, but if I was I would get this awesome tattoo all over my body. Then I could walk around naked and look like I was changing into my Spidey suit.

This may well be the most ultimately geeky tattoo ever! Pics of the arms below.
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