This week in Marvel Podcast: Benedict Cumberbatch and Steven Moffat -
Recorded just before last month’s PBS preview screening of Sherlock Season Two in New York City, Marvel.com Editorial Director Ryan “Agent M” Penagos talks to Steven Moffat, Sue Vertue, and Benedict Cumberbatch in the weekly Marvel podcast. [MP3 format]
Not only is the podcast a very entertaining listen, but it also contains the following exchange, during a chat about a peculiar Marvel Comic featuring super-powered animals:
Steven Moffat: You could be Otterman!
[laughter in studio]
Benedict Cumberbatch: Yeah, I could be Otterman. Otterboy!
Cue me being flabbergasted for the 587th time this month! It seems I have unwittingly unleashed an unstoppable monster upon the world…
“If the Avengers are the Partridge Family, Nick Fury is Reuben Kincaid.” – Joss Whedon
The moment I saw that quote, my imagination immediately fixated on the words “the Avengers are the Partridge Family” and this is what popped out.
However, if you’re too young to remember the Partridge Family and don’t know the relevance of the little birdies, here’s the title sequence so you can sing along!
In the interests of lavishing some Avengers attention on characters other than Loki, here’s the Black Widow explaining the possible rationale behind her weapons of choice…
a-to-zoo: L is for Lllllama
These lovely llamas are the work of Sydney Padua, most famous for The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage and less famous for going to the pub with me!
She’s now got a Tumblr called A to Zoo: An Animal Alphabet, where she’s drawing her way through the alphabet in animals (and when she gets to the end, she’s planning to start again). This is my longwinded way of saying that you should follow her!
A couple of people have asked me how I felt when the Cumberotters became A Thing™, or more precisely, A Thing™ That Benedict Cumberbatch Knows About. On reflection, I think this image from Father Ted sums up my sentiments pretty accurately, although in my case, the fluffy frolicking things would include a few otters as well as the bunny rabbits…
(Source: really-lame)
“Hiddleston explains that as Loki’s anger grows, so do his horns. ‘It’s all that jealousy. It might be a crazy analogy, but the more Pinocchio lies, the bigger the nose gets. And the more Loki’s pain and rage expand, the bigger the horns get. Also, they just look more badass. By The Avengers 3, I’ll be like a magic elk.’” (USA Today)
If Tom Hiddleston wants to be a magic elk, then far be it from me to deny him that pleasure…
Here’s another piece of older art by me that you may already have seen, and which was first posted here. It’s Mycroft versus Sherlock in Bitchslap On Baker Street!
I’m irresistibly reminded of the “Do you mind if I smoke?” scene from Carry On Screaming. Surely it’s a natural phenomenon: no cigarettes required…
(via deareje)
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If Thor uses Th’Oreal, I decided that Loki deserved his own haircare range. Well, not so much deserved as demanded in a diva-like way…
I’ve had requests to post some of my older art on here, and since I have some new followers (hello there!) who are still discovering my non-otter-related stuff, it seems like a good time to do so. These are things that have already been widely Tumblr’d, but in the days before I had a Tumblr myself, so this is their first “legit” posting by yours truly.
First up, the cocktail menu from Bar Sherlock, first drawn in September 2010!
So I went to see The Avengers, loved it, and now feel an urge to make ridiculous jokes about it. Sorry, folks.
While I wait to see whether my brain does anything more with this shiny new source of fannishness, you can read my Avengers review (with SPOILERS) over here.
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“I must have been studying otters before I did Sherlock because there’s a *chuckles* huge similarity.” — Benedict Cumberbatch (on VH1’s Morning Buzz)
(Source: maggieconnelly)
mymassiveintellect asked: Benedict on VH1 -- just now -- spent quite a while discussing your otters, courtesy of the host of the show. :D
Goodness gracious me! I am now hoping that another kind person will be able to provide footage of this incident for posterity. If it turns up somewhere, do let me know about it, viewers!