Best 'Super Mario' Art Ever: A Tribute to Satoru Iwata
Gamers of all ages and all console allegiances around the world have mourned the recent loss of Nintendo president Satoru Iwata. To celebrate his life and work, we’ve put together this collection of...
View Article'Zinetendo' Is Up For Preorder With All The Zelda, Pokemon And Mario Content...
I've identified with a lot of Dinosaur Comics strips, but I don't think any of them have ever spoken to me quite as much as the one where T-Rex talks about how Nintendo is the only corporation that he...
View ArticleGotta Catch 'Em All! Best Pokemon Art Ever
With last week’s announcement of Pokémon Go for iOS and Android mobile devices, once and future trainers all over the internet have been given a new reason to be abuzz with excitement about the...
View ArticleFantastic Five: Video Games That Deserve Comics
Hello again and welcome to another episode of Fantastic Fives, the show where we tell you the irrefutably correct five answers to a particular topic in comics, and you tell us how wrong we are in the...
View ArticleTwilight Princess Finally Gets the Respect it Deserves With Amazing New Figma...
In its quest to craft the finest Legend of Zelda action figures from across the wide breadth of the franchise, Good Smile's latest Figma collectibles finally arrive at one of the most brilliantly...
View ArticleScreen & Page: Bridge The Worlds In 'Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past'
This weekend sees both the long-awaited debut of Nintendo's latest game console, Nintendo Switch, and the even longer-awaited release of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. In a change from Screen...
View Article20 Best Pokémon Gym Leaders
Is the world of Pokémon really all about Pokémon? Certainly to an extent it is, but there’s another aspect of each game that’s arguably as important as the pocket monsters themselves. They’re the gates...
View ArticleFantastic Five: Baddest Pokemon
If there’s one thing we’ve learned from our years on the Internet, it’s that there’s no aspect of comics that can’t be broken down and quantified in a single definitive list, preferably in amounts of...
View ArticlePerlman And Hirsch To Write Live-Action 'Pokemon' Movie
The dream of a live-action Pokémon movie has been alive for the past twenty years of the franchise's existence, with fans around the world imagining the day they'll see an approximation of a real...
View ArticleCast Party: Who Should Star In A 'Super Mario Bros' Movie?
This week, in a departure from the usual format, we're adapting a classic video game, Nintendo's flagship franchise Super Mario Bros. This adaptation looks primarily at the premise of the first game....
View ArticleMarvelized Mega Man Sprites Are 8 Bits of Awesome
If our look at comics reimagined as NES games didn't satisfy your love of comic-themed 8-Bit video game sprites, then prepare to be awesomed. Suzuran at DeviantArt, has posted a piece called "Marvel...
View ArticlePokemon Black & White Anime Coming to Cartoon Network February 12
North American fans still have about two months to go before they'll be able to pick up the latest chapter of the Pokémon saga on March 6, but they'll have a good threeish weeks of anime to tide them...
View Article8-Bit ‘Futurama’ Game is Too Good to Exist [Video]
Hyper-kudos to GrandmaBird, the YouTuber who created a mock-up of an old school Futurama Nintendo game that we'd genuinely love to play. Featuring authentically crappy 8-bit graphics, early 1980s...
View ArticleZac Gorman’s Legendary ‘Zelda’ Comics Get Their Animated GIF On
Nothing against Akira Himekawa's The Legend of Zelda manga, but Zac Gorman's gif-alicious Link comics are about the best illustrated stories to come out of Nintendo games since Nester regularly...
View ArticleMike Puncekar Paints a Little Horror into ‘Super Mario Bros.’ and ‘Pokemon’...
Feel free to debate this point, but you know how the 1993 live action Super Mario Bros. film ("This ain't no game!") tried to make everybody look all serious and ended up making most...
View ArticleChris Furniss Spends Quality Time With Samus Aran and Other Gaming Greats [Art]
Have you ever wondered what Samus Aran's day-to-day life is like when she's not rolling up into a ball and blowing up floating jellyfish aliens? Chris Furniss obviously does. In fact, he began a series...
View ArticleWhy the Nintendo 3DS is Just About Ready for Comics in Multiple Dimensions
When Nintendo dropped its beefy DSi XL in 2010, I had high hopes that comics could flourish -- or at least make some headway -- on one of gaming's most iconic portable gaming platforms. While that...
View Article‘Pokemon: The Movie 2000′ Quoted By GOP Presidential Candidate Herman Cain...
A few nights back during the Ames Republican Presidential Debate, GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain let a pocket monster flag he didn't even know he had fly by quoting Donna Summer's "The...
View ArticleLink Ink: ‘Batman: Arkham City’ Gets 3D, The TARDIS Corset And Lunch From An NES
Gaming: Batman: Arkham City will support both stereoscopic and old-fashioned anaglyph (red and blue glasses) varieties of 3D at launch. International: Robert Kirkman's Skybound imprint at Image has...
View Article‘Penny Arcade’s Mike Krahulik Draws ‘The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword’ Comic
Though The Legend of Zelda videogame franchise has received a few official comic book and manga tie-ins over the years, some of the most impressive illustrations of Link, Princess Zelda and company...
View ArticleLink Ink: Marvel Post-it Note Art, More Hero Initiative Donations and...
Office Supplies: As part of its promotions for The Avengers movie, Marvel has released pixel art templates of each of the film's heroes that fans can assemble using Post-it notes. Donations: The Hero...
View ArticleParting Shot: ‘The Legend of Zelda,’ ‘Mega Man’ and ‘Metroid’ as Japanese...
The influence of Japanese culture on classic 1980s Nintendo games isn't always overt -- especially considering how localized box art and other modifications colored consumer's earliest experiences with...
View Article‘Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition’ Announced For Wii U [Video]
Having already sold several million units on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC, Batman: Arkham City has set its sights on Nintendo's upcoming Wii U console with a new edition boasting enhanced gameplay...
View Article‘The Avengers: Battle For Earth’ E3 2012 Hands-On Preview [Video]
In the absence of an official video game tie-in to The Avengers movie this summer, fans have been eager for information about Ubisoft's new motion controlled title, The Avengers: Battle For Earth,...
View ArticleComicsAlliance Storms E3: The Photo Gallery
ComicsAlliance made its first trek to the Electronic Games Expo 2012 this past week, taking in a bevy of comic book and superhero related titles including The Avengers: Battle For Earth, the reimagined...
View ArticleCatwoman Suitably More Armored In Wii U ‘Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition’
With Batman donning a new suit that stores and releases kinetic energy in the Wii U ported Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition, it only seems fair that his playable co-star Catwoman might also stand to...
View ArticleLink Ink: SHIELD’s Toys, Mega Man Fan Art Contest And Nintendo’s Non-Specific...
Movies: The latest batch of Avengers movie concept art gives fans a closer look at SHIELD's vehicles and various tech. 	 Contests: Archie Comics is hosting a special Mega Man fan art contest in...
View ArticleAsk Chris #141: How ‘Super Mario Bros.’ Works
Over a lifetime of reading comics, Senior Writer Chris Sims has developed an inexhaustible arsenal of facts and opinions. That's why, each and every week, we turn to you to put his comics culture...
View ArticleLink Ink: ‘Batman’ ’66 Mez-Itz, Chinese Opera And Goku Parties With Luffy And...
Toys: Mezco's Batman 1966 Mez-Itz Batmobile with Batman and Robin is now available for preorder at specialty retailers. Interesting: Tom Spurgeon points to Gene Luen Yang's thoughtful piece examining...
View ArticleParting Shot: Father Hacks ‘Donkey Kong’ So Young Daughter Can Play as...
Kudos to game developer and geek dad Mike Mika, who achieved what few parents can by making the seemingly impossible happen for his three-year-old daughter, a Donkey Kong player who asked the simple...
View ArticleGamers Can Soon Make Manga On The Nintendo 3DS With 'Comic Studio'
Starting January 15 Nintendo 3DS owners in Japan will be able to download Collavier's new Comic Studio app, with a Western release planned down the road. Several manga making apps were released for the...
View ArticleLink Ink: Thursday, March 13 2014
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View Article'Mario Kart 8' Will Feature A Mercedes Benz For Some Reason
If you were a kid in the '90s and you wanted to find out more about Mario once you were done with the video games, you pretty much had two choices: Sitting through a half hour of dance instructions...
View ArticleHere's The Thing Episode 16: Why Do We Love Super Mario?
If our weekly Ask Chris column isn't enough of definitive comic book (and pro wrestling) opinions for you, good news: ComicsAlliance is proud to present Here's The Thing, a series of videos where you...
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