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Artist Vanja Mrgan has a series adding beards to pop culture heroes including, of course, Batman.

Topless Robot has a list of villains from the 60s Batman TV series that should be in comics (most of them really shouldn't, but it's an interesting list anyway).

And here's some emo versions of superheroes. The artist was selling prints, but Batman is long since sold out.

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Jeff Yorkes made the above Mad Men/Batman mashup.

• It's rumored that Spider-man 4 may feature the Black Cat. Why does that matter? Black Cat is amazingly similar to Catwoman, so a studio may be reluctant to make a superhero movie with the same kind of villain. But I'd like to think that if Christopher Nolan and company had a good enough idea, it wouldn't matter.


• And speak of the devil, MTV had a Catwoman casting poll and Kate Beckinsale was the runaway winner.


• And here's a trailer for Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths, another DC direct-to-DVD/BluRay animated movie. I didn't much like the last one (Superman/Batman: Public Enemies) but I'm a total sucker for these, so I'll definitely check out this one when it comes out (which won't be for a while):

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Above, a clever fan-made Riddler poster from millarc (click the image for a larger version if you can't read it).

I was behind on my reading from having just moved, but MTV's Splash Page was super busy with Batman-related stuff over the past couple weeks. They held a poll on which villain should appear in Batman 3, and their readers chose the Riddler. And in an interview with Dane Cook, he said he wants to play the Riddler, which should never happen.

They suggested possible actresses for Catwoman, mostly including names I've mentioned here, but also throwing out Reiko Aylesworth, which is an odd choice. And now they're having a Catwoman casting poll which leaves out both oft-mentioned names (Marion Cotillard) and favorites from this site (Julianne Moore).

And they offered up a preview for the Batgirl #4 comic that comes out tomorrow. Batman fans may enjoy the mutants from The Dark Knight Returns on the cover.

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Above, the Batman portion of a Dr. Seuss/Superhero mashup over on DeviantArt.

Some website that I forgot which one it was pointed to this design for a Batmobile by noted sci-fi/horror artist H.R. Giger which was intended for (but not used in) the 1994 film Batman Forever. That whole Batmobile history site is pretty awesome. Be careful, though, I've lost entire workdays browsing it.

And this has nothing to do with anything, really, but Isla Fisher is a lovely woman who dressed up as Catwoman for Halloween, so here's some pictures of that.