57 Chevy Picture-O-Rama

It's a known fact that men love their cars. They would spend countless hours setting it up, cleaning it, making sure it runs smoothly and  even giving it a name. There's countless theories and explanations that answer a male's fixation on cars, but it all sums down to a fact that we adore material things that make us "macho". You could say we're wired that way. 

We all have that special car that we have a soft spot on, and for me it is a 1957 Chevrolet Bel-Air. Why? Because of  the overall shape, the sharp back fins and the front grilles. It is an art form in itself. It is a definite icon of an Americana. When people think of diners, Saturday nights at a drive-thru movie and the American dream, you think of the 57 Chevy.

Now the following set of images are some great 57 Chevy pictures that will make any haters reconsider. Enjoy and click on the pic to for a detailed look. 

Great photograph compositions:

Artworks: 

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ready for a Zombie apocalypse

                                           

made this my Facebook cover photo

would love this to be my 

Birthday Cake.

A car wouldn't be complete without a 

pin-up girl posing on the car. 

57 chevy mods: 

if you can't afford an original, 

modify one.

Famous media appearances:

Love this Garfield special.

from 1962 James Bond movie, "Dr. No"

from "American Graffiti", the famous "Project X"

how to wreck a 57 chevy, from "Used Cars"

Artworks 2:

my frustration on not having a 57 chevy on 

Pixar Cars and Cars 2 made me draw this piece.

superstar comic book artist Marc Silvestri drew 

this flying Chevy on New X-Men # 152

And massive toy collections

of course I have a huge collection of my own...

even getting this from a certain girl-centric toyline.

And that's about it. All the good stuff I could find. See you next time, and dare I say a big, fat BOO!!! to a Ferrari...

- "the king"

Crisis on Infinite Archie-Earths: Life with Archie # 18

Well, here we are again with another post of the Archie: The Married Life series. I grew up reading Archie and Donald Duck comics when I was a kid instead of the Superman or Spider-Man comics. But then their stories became redundant. Plus, growing up made you crave for stories with some action, violence and mature themes. So I set aside my childhood fascination with Donald, Scrooge McDuck and Archie and replaced them with Combatron, Batman and Wolverine. 

Time passed by and I have learned that Archie and the gang moved "forward" with a storyline that involves Archie marrying Betty and Veronica while struggling with real-life problems. Having a soft spot for Archie and wanting to find out how the writer dealt with it, I bought the 2 trade paperbacks with 6 issues each. 

( you could check the review on the 2 volumes here and here ). The writer made 2 universes where Archie married Betty and another one where he married Veronica. Believe me, it can get confusing. 

Out of sheer luck I was able to buy a single issue of Life with Archie # 18 at a discount bookstore instead of waiting for the third volume due next year. I advanced on 5 issues and a lot has happened: someone got married, someone got divorced, someone is pregnant and so forth. From here we are treated to Betty-Archie and Veronica-Archie meeting face-to-face with each other. And Archie's childhood friend Ambrose Pipps reappearing and able to travel in between dimensions. 

So when you think that the previous volumes were confusing... hell, you ain't seen nothing yet. Click on image for a larger view. ( and all images copyright Archie comics 2012 ) 

Wait, wait, multiverses? Dimensions? Reggie from where Archie got marriedto Betty? And to think this was at just the 8th and 9th page of the comic that I wanted to just stop reading and save myself from a migraine. But I just went with it and even entertained myself with possible story elements. 

Like this homage that I did to Crisis on Infinite Earths # 7 cover. 

Or anyone remember Little Archie's bully Fangs Fogarty???

...And Crisis on Infinite Earth's ultimate villain the Anti-Monitor???

Hmmm.. what if?? 

Man, there are a lot of ideas here. But alas, there wasn't much dimension-hopping that occurred or an omnipresent being killing the other universes. We only get this bit on Ambrose explaining his "powers"

And again we are presented with another brain-busting moment. Even Archie from whatever Universe he came from commented on all the multiverse hoopla.

This was a great moment in the series. Seeing all those multiverse characters in one huge panel. Makes you think twice about those other fantasy Archie stories being actually "true".

Then we are shown the Archie-Marries-Betty story side of things (with a different artist doing the art chores) Believe me when it still gets confusing even when we are near the end.

This is one of great moments of the issue. Every single multiverse character that you could think of at that moment appearing in front of the "bad" Dilton.

This panel isn't much, but I just like seeing the 2 Archie Earths being sorta together. The art can be pretty awkward at times, where the anatomy is dis-proportioned.

In one issue, we are finally relieved of all the Multiverse hoopla and gone forward with a more suitable "soap-opera" story ( hopefully ). I had to read the issue twice to finally understand what's going on. All of the multiverse story bits is kind of unnecessary, but I'm guessing the writer just wants to spice things up. 

Although I would have welcomed this possible story element. Heck, who knows???

- "the king"