The fascination with superheroes is crossing comic book boundaries and leaping into fashion, music and pop culture.

Even music and retail icons like Christina Aguilera and Target know the value of channeling superhero popularity in their advertising.

In this Target commercial (that promotes the release of Christina Aguilera’s new best-of album, sold exclusively at Target), Aguilera borrows from the action-hero theme of her music video Keeps Getting Better dressed in various superhero outfits, with an animated comic-book style background.

The upcoming Watchmen movie is generating lots of buzz, largely due to the theatrical trailer now showing before the new James Bond movie.

Here’s the new trailer. Wow, this movie looks intense!

“Maybe someone’s picking off costumed heroes…” Uh oh, that can’t end well.

Alan Moore’s Watchmen is arguably THE best, most celebrated graphic novel ever made. The story is dark, gritty and incredibily compelling.

I think the costumes look just awesome. There’s definitely a retro feel to them. The film is set in an alternate 1985, and follows a group of former vigilantes as war begins to break out between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Here are a few more publicity stills, enjoy! For more information, visit the official movie website.

I don’t think Joel Schumacher will ever be forgiven for putting nipples on the Batsuit. Nor will he ever live down the travesty that is the 1997 Batman and Robin movie.

This video is making its rounds on various blogs. Someone took all the worst scenes in Batman and Robin and made a brilliant compilation video. It’s hilarious! And truly shows how awful that movie is, especially compared to the recent Batman Begins and The Dark Knight films. It’s a full ten minutes in length, but well worth it.

Poor Joel Schumacher. Here’s a short clip of him actually apologizing for this film.

Good news, Evil Doers! If you’re a fan of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, you’ll be happy to know that the Evil League of Evil is now accepting applications!

Create your own Evil Villain and submit a video - the winners will be shown as a Bonus Feature on the upcoming Dr. Horrible DVD!

Here are the rules listed on the ELE website:

Ha! How fun is this? Better hurry though, the submission deadline is only a couple of weeks away. Some videos are already up on Youtube, and they are a lot of fun to watch.

Those are great!

For more information, head on over the ELE website. Good luck, Horrible Fans!

This is some extremely cool comic book news. Marvel just announced that “Spider-Man and acclaimed television personality Stephen Colbert will join forces in an all new eight-page story featured in the extra-sized AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #573!”

How totally bizarre, but I love it. We’ve blogged about Colbert before when he wore a Neil Young costume and sang with Crosby, Stills and Nash. I didn’t think that could be topped, but… swinging around with Spidey is about as good as it gets.

Marvel appears to be quite the fan of Colbert. In the Marvel Universe, Colbert is still a popular presidential candidate, even though in real life he was voted off the Democratic ballot last November.

Here’s a clip of the Colbert talking with Joe Quesada, the editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics:

“You are polling incredibly high among super-humans and mutants.”
- Joe Quesada

Congratulations, Stephen Colbert. You are truly a hero among men. I hope Marvel ends up giving you a super power.

The Colbert/Spider-Man #573 will be released in October. In the meantime you can keep track of Stephen Colbert’s presidential campaign in the Marvel Universe HERE.

In closing, I just want to say that DC Comics seems to be missing the Colbert Boat. If they knew what was good for them, they’d be rushing to sign Colbert for a live-action Plastic Man movie. I think he’d be perfect. In the meantime, Colbert’s presidency in the Marvel Universe will just have to do.

One of our readers named Samantha dropped us a line about her Dragon*Con 2008 photos. CLICK HERE to view her photo gallery.

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We’ve mentioned the Internet musical Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog quite a bit, so I thought this would be fun to share.

Two talented Youtube performers cover a song from Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. They are fantastic!

After a bit of Googling, I learned that they are actually The Moaning Myrtles, a popular Wizard Rock band. Awesome!

I’m really impressed with the recent photo set posted by Once Upon A Geek. Over 400 photos of the best costumes of Dragon*Con 2008. Simply amazing!

Very nice! Head on over to Once Upon a Geek’s gallery to view all 400+ photos. So many great costumes, it’s mindblowing.

Looks like another great year for Dragon*Con attendees. The 2008 convention in Atlanta, GA ended yesterday and tons of photos are appearing online.

You can browse Dragon*Con photo galleries Here, Here, Here, Here, Here and Here.

I imagine most people have come home exhausted and are still trying to organize their photos. We’ll post more about Dragon*Con soon!

I have a new favorite superhero. Or, maybe I should say antihero. His name is Mr. Justice. He’s flawed, starved for attention and refreshingly likeable. His partner, Powerful Girl, is his voice of reason. Together, the “super” duo set out each day to perform what they consider a good deed for humankind, like raising awareness for rabbit adoption.

I can’t let go of my infatuation with Dr. Horrible and Capt. Hammer…but I’ve carved out a special place in my heart for the quirky Mr. Justice (and not just because of his costume). Take a look at this video and you’ll see why.

An estimated 10,000 people wore costumes at Comic-Con last weekend. Lots of great photos are showing up online. Cinemablend.com just published a gallery with dozens of excellent photos.

Wow, everybody looks great! Be sure to visit Cinemablend.com to view the entire gallery.

You know how they say that life is stranger than fiction? Maybe that’s because sometimes life tries to mimic fiction but it doesn’t go so well.

This past weekend, Spencer Taylor, 20, of Three Rivers, Mich, tried to steal posters and other items related to the new Batman movie from a cinema lobby while dressed up as the Joker.

Unfortunately Spencer, who was wearing a purple suit, green wig and face paint in the style of the Dark Knight’s nemesis, is no criminal mastermind. He was detained by the theater employees until police arrived.

Now our young not-so-super villain may face larceny and malicious destruction of property charges.

Look’s like the joke is…on this joker.