Young Justice

Let's get 2011 off to a great start with a post featuring the guys of Cartoon Network's newest action series Young Justice.  The screencaps in today's post are from the pilot, which aired in November.  The show starts airing regularly later this month.

I liked the pilot and its unique take on the characters.  It's sort of what I expected the Teen Titans cartoon to be like.

The image archive for today's post features over 200 bonus screencaps.

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Bruce Wayne is Back

Bruce Wayne prepares to make his return to the DC Universe in the new limited series The Return of Bruce Wayne. Issue #1 has Bruce in a world with shirtless, hairy-chested warriors. I'm not sure how the other five issues will top this.

Andy Kubert did the cover while Chris Sprouse did the interior pencils.

Misfits #7

Today's post is the seventh installment of the ongoing Misfits series of posts.  These are catch-alls for putting pics that would not necessarily warrant their own post.

Axis Powers Hetalia is a popular manga and anime that turns the countries of the world into bishounen.  The character designs are a bit too "cute" for me but I have found a couple of pics I like:

The new fall anime Miracle Train also anthromorphizes places as bishounen, except this time they're Tokyo train stations.   You have to wonder what they'll do this to next. 

 

If you need another reason to check out the video game Batman: Arkham Asylum, then these screenshots of a seemingly shirtless Batman should do just nicely:

 

Rosario + Vampire is a manga/anime known for hot girls rather than hot guys, so finding one is a stroke of luck:

The same can also be said for the anime Demonbane, which is based on a hentai game.  Lucky once again:

Hanasakeru Seishounen has an interesting pedigree.  It's based on a manga by the creator of Jyu-Oh-Sei and the anime is directed by the same person who directed both seasons of the Junjou Romantica anime.  This certainly explains the pics below:

Twinkle Stars is the latest manga by Natsuki Takaya, the creator of Fruits Basket.  It may warrant a post by itself as more artwork comes out.  In the meantime, here are a couple of the guys:

A while back, artist Goli Matsumoto was spotlighted.  Here is some more of his work for the Beatmania games:

 

Here's a guy from the manga Air Gear:

And here's a guy from the manga Sket Dance:

This next pic was going to be used in one of the Guys of Fathom posts until I realized it was from Soulfire (another title created by Michael Turner).

 I like the semi-old-school feel of the guys of Brave Command Dagwon.  I say "semi" old-school because the anime hails from the mid-1990's.

Finally, it's time for some guys by the water.  First up are some guys from Valkryia Chronicles, including one boldly wearing a speedo:

And we end things with this pic of the guys of Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei that's racier than it looks.  I'm not sure if the guy in the yukata is wearing anything underneath it:

 

I hope you enjoyed this collection of Misfits.  

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Video Game Week Finale: Misfits #6

Video Game Week comes to a close with a special Misfits post.  A Misfits post usually contains pics that could not support a full post by themselves.  This time around, all the pics are from video games.

First up is the main character of the upcoming Wii shooter The Conduit:

 

Next are three pics of two hot guys from the upcoming MMO APB, which allows you to play as either a criminal or a cop.

 

  

Kratos (who we just saw in the Soul Calibur: Broken Destiny post) will be returning to his own series in the upcoming God of War III.  Hopefully, there will be a ton more art of him to follow the pic below:

  

The following pic of Deadpool was labeled as concept art from Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2.  I'm really not sure if it is or not.

The Nintendo DS has an installment of the Tales series called Tales of Hearts that had an interesting release in Japan.  You could buy the game in two different versions.  One version had anime cinematics while the other had CG cinematics.  See what version you prefer in the pics of two male characters below:

 

  

Batman is looking pretty good in the highly anticipated Batman: Arkham Asylum as seen in these pics:

 

  

The following artwork is from a Conan The Barbarian video game, although I've forgotten which one.

This is the only artwork I could find of this guy from Saint's Row 2.  If anyone has more art of the buff, shirtless guy in this picture, I'd love to see it.

 

I like the style of the sequel Army of Two: The 40th Day.  I just wish I could see more of the guys again.

 

  

Finally, I somehow missed these four male characters from Virtua Fighter 5 completely when I originally featured the game.

  

I hope you enjoyed this special week of posts.  Things go back to normal on Monday.

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