io9 Roundup of Superhero, Political and Futurist Articles, Part 8

Today we've got a roundup of recent, relevant, and few just really cool, articles from the science, science fiction and fantasy blog io9.com. Stay tuned for all the parts.

• Is this the Justice League’s big, bad villain?
• Man of Steel poster imprisons Superman in handcuffs and lens flare
• What would it take to be Bane? A Dark Knight Rises infographic
• Japan’s new ‘communications robot’ will prevent astronauts from getting lonely in space — by being absolutely adorable
• How to make your voice sound like Darth Vader
• The sci-fi inspired buildings that communism built
• At first glance, The CW’s Wonder Woman show seems to be getting back to Diana’s roots
• Remember that time Willie Nelson and Frank Sinatra teamed up to do a PSA for NASA?
• Your First Look at the Animated Remake of the Soviet Union’s Most Monty Python-esque Movie
• The Top 10 Claims Made by Creationists to Counter Scientific Theories

Cracked.com's Superhero Lists

Today we've got a round up of some of Cracked.com's Superhero lists, such as 6 Hilarious Attempts at Brainwashing Kids with Comic Books, which  include a comic created jointly by FoxNews and conservative comic publisher AAC Studios where democrats were elected in 2000, which obviously creates a distopian future, so a cyborg Fox News Anchor Sean Hannity and super-buff Watergate Burglaries Organizer G Gordon Liddy team up and go cop killing, and The 6 Most Unintentionally Hilarious Superhero Reinventions, which includes the time Captain America renounces America and starts going by the name Nomad.
The other lists that focus on or include superheroes are:

• 5 Classic Superman Comics that Prove he Used to be a Dick
• 5 Absurd Ways Comic Cooks Have Resurrected Dead Superheroes
• The 7 Most Offensive Adaptations Classic Comic Books
• 5 Superheroes Rendered Ridiculous by Gritty Reboots
• The 6 Creepiest Comic Book Characters of All Time
• 6 Superheroes Who Completely Lost Their Shit
• The 5 Most Unintentionally Hilarious Comic Strips
• The 6 Most Inexplicable Cartoon Adaptations Ever
• 9 Foreign Rip-offs Cooler Than the Hollywood Originals
• The 10 Most Disastrous Saturday Morning Cartoon Adaptations

Educational Comics Around the World

They a picture says a thousands words, so it's no surprise people are trying to educate people using comics and graphic novels, especially in places where literacy is poor to non-existent. So here are there stories about educational graphic novels around the world.

The first story is about a pair of brothers in India whose graphic novel, 40 Sufi Comics, explaining Islam and its ideology with graphical novel versions of stories from the Quran has gone international. The whole story can be read on The India Times.

The second story is about the Kenyan Government's efforts to teach ethnic tolerance to children using a storybook (or a comic book lite as some people call them). One of the pages can be seen at right. The whole story can be read at io9.com.

And finally the last story is one from last year, but is worth repeating. An agency in Mozambique produced a series of (authorized) posters featuring famous superheroines giving themselves self breast exams to raise breast cancer awareness. The full series of posters can be seen as Geek Tyrant.

Superheros' TV PSAs Part 2

In the continuing search for Superhero PSAs, here is the second part of a series featuring some television PSAs staring the likes of Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman, among other heroes and role models.

Superheroes' TV PSAs Part 1

In the continuing search for Superhero PSAs, here is the first part of a series featuring some television PSAs staring the likes of Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman, among other heroes and role models.

Cracked's 6 Most Baffling Superhero PSAs

I said I'd keep an eye out for Superhero PSAs, and I've found an interesting list. Cracked has compiled a list they're calling "The 6 Most Baffling PSAs Starring Famous Superheroes". You can check out the whole article over at Cracked.com.
~James

Superman's Healthcare PSA

Hey everybody!
While researching yesterday's post where the superheroes comment on healthcare I found this PSA of Superman talking about hospitals and the welfare of America from 1952!
Of course back then the healthcare infrastructure was nowhere near as robust as it is today and hospitals were quite uncommon in some areas, and people in those areas who were wary of new hospitals being built were no doubt the target audience of this PSA. I think it's interesting that a Superman PSA from 50 years ago still has meaning today, especially in this election.
If you know of any interesting or relevant superhero PSAs, let me know, and I'll be keeping my eye out for other things like this in the future.
~James
(Found at ComicMix.com)