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I meant Pokémon in black and white.

Awesome Steamboat Willie…-inspired sketch by cartoonist Matthew K. Garner.

A new trailer for the upcoming Nintendo DS game Pokémon Black/White… offers a peek into some of the game’s new monsters and new features, including team battles – the trailer showed 2-on-2 and 3-on-3 fights. I wonder if the game will have pokémans so tough that you’ll have to use

Definitely one of the weirdest mash-ups I’ve ever seen.

The sagacity of Boing Boing‘s commenters shed more light on the painting. Made by a Japanese artist named Sakkan, the title of the painting reveals the pun: “Rocket Monster Kim”. The Pikachu rockets are labeled, “Pika-don”, which apparently means “flash-boom”, or…

Some people have been wondering why Terrence Howard didn’t return to play as War Machine in Iron Man 2…. Fork Party reader Andy B isn’t one of those people, because he knows exactly what happened:

It must be insanely hard to be a Pokémon fan. For someone who’s been trained to “catch ‘em all”, it’s bad enough that there are a hundred and one Pokémon games out there, there’s also the awesome merchandise to collect. CollegeHumor sheds some light on the situation with a more honest…

…but he’s a lot more offensive as well. freestuff9er and his friends borrow The Lonely Island’s beats and flow on I’m On A Boat and makes everything crystal clear to Pokémon fans: You can’t beat Gary Oak, because he’s Gary Oak….

Listen to Dr. Oak’s ill descendant before Nintendo

Building on Pokémon’s fiction while sharing a piece of her childhood, artist Maré Odomo created a few Pokémon-themed comics titled Letters to an Absent Father…, in which the franchise’ original protagonist Ash Ketchum writes letters – which he may or may not have actually sent – to his dad,

Michelangelo, Leonardo, Donatello and Raphael, I choose all of you!

From Pocket Love, who says “all we need is each other and Pokemon”. Not in the picture: Master Rattata.…

If there’s anyone out there who still thinks that video games are for kids, here’s something to look at: a student named Matthew couldn’t answer one of the items in his math quiz, so he drew a Pokemon on his test paper instead. … Are you still with me? Okay.…

If you absolutely must share your love of Pokémon with the world, this is not a bad way to do it–by stitching little pocket monsters on your towels. It’s attractive, simple to match with other bathroom gear in bright colors, and anyone who isn’t a fan gets to wipe their…