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Frankachu, I choose you (and please don't eat me)

Frankachu

You might remember the promo image that Marvel released a few weeks back that shows the Punisher being turned into some sort of Frankenstein's Monster. Well, now you can build your own Frank Castle ... or at least give him a head. Head over to Marvel.com to download the template, add a head, then upload your creation to the Flickr set Marvel's set up, where you can see such ungodly creations as Frankachu (above) and FrankenQuesada.

Straight for the art | Jon Adams draws J. Jonah Jameson

J. Jonah Jameson by Jon Adams

What do fictional editors-turned-mayors dream about? The kind of stuff that probably would lose voters but gain readers ...

(You can find more of Kevin Church's J. Jonah Jameson sketch collection here).

Have you met my new girlfriend Queen-size?

Nisan and his 'girlfriend'

Before you start moping in your Corn Flakes again about what a lonely, lonely comics nerd you are, consider this: At least you're not as bad as some of the people profiled in this recent New York Times story about a growing subset of men and women in Japan who fall in love with and attempt to have real relationships with cartoon characters. Take "Nisan" for example, whose girlfriend is an anime character printed on a body pillow:

Nisan told me that not long ago he had a real girlfriend, but that she dumped him. He carries Nemutan almost everywhere he goes, though he is more self-conscious about it than he may seem at first. “Some people don’t find this funny,” he said, “and it also takes up a lot of room.” He treats her the way any decent man would treat a girlfriend — he takes her out on the weekends to sing karaoke or take purikura, photo-booth pictures imprinted on a sheet of tiny stickers. In the few hours we spent together, I watched him position her gently in the restaurant booth and later in the back seat of his car, making sure to keep her upright and not to touch her private parts. He doesn’t take her to work, but he has a backup body pillow with the same Nemutan cover inside his desk drawer in case he has to work late at his tech-support job. “She’s great for falling asleep with on an office chair.”

See? Feel better now, doncha? (link via Cartoon Brew)

Yow! What have they done to Little Lulu?

Over in Brazil, apparently the likes of John Stanley, Irving Tripp and Marjorie Henderson Buell aren't good enough anymore, because they've taken the classic Little Lulu character beloved by so many and given here a makeover that, well, see for yourself ...

Oh the inhumanity

You can see more images and a snippet from the new comic (it's all in Portuguese) here. According to Cartoon Brew, Tubby has left his violin to lead a rock band, Annie is the gang’s geek and a videogame freak, Gloria is a fashion expert and Alvin has become a skater and surfer.

So ... they've taken everything that was original and funny about the characters and replaced them with generic cliches? I'm sure that will work well for them.

This is all the fault of that West Side gang I betcha!