Fun with Flags and Mavel Comics

Logo of Marvel Comics

they are on the red - bloods team

Here are some spoofs and fun with flags. The proposed flag of Antarctica by the Antarctic Treaty Secretariat.

His or her proposal kinda' looks like a spider web. It has a UN flag feel, no?

On the other flags - Thor needs to borrow a hammer! And Captain American finds his 'original' shield on the state flag of Illinois.

Spidey on Antarctic Flag

Thor borrowing the hammer to build something

Captain America finds his original shield with the flag of Illinois

Link to Marvel Comics http://marvel.com/

Charlie Brown Race of your Life River Raft Flag

Flags and Pennants of the Peanuts Gang

In 1977 Charles Schultz created one of the most memorable feature length Peanuts movies. This is when Schultz was in his groove and at the top of his game.

Summer camp is a rite of passage for kids in America. And the Peanuts gang was no exception. The main plot of Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown is a river raft race. There are four main teams - the Peanuts Boys team, the Peanuts Girl team, Snoopy & Woodstock, and finally an arrogant bunch of bullies aka Team R. I suppose this is where team Rocket from Pokemon traces their heritage to?

The Peanuts Girl Power Team Flag

The boys team uses an orange pennant as their flag. Snoopy & Woodstock use a red pennant. And the girls team has fist of girl power. The girls are the only team to use an original flag. It is the symbol for woman and or Venus coloured in red. In the center of the circle is red fist. The backgound colour is white.

The original Team Rocket?
if you cheat and bully your way to the top
then here are your heroes








Team 'R' dose not have a flag, but their team colours are blue and green.

The main theme of this classic Snoopy & Charlie Brown movie is about standing up to bullies. My favorite part is when Snoopy gets fed up with bullies and punches one of them in the face - it is sweet justice and happy satisfaction.



Watch the film here on Youtube!

It's Seven Eleven, 2011 & Hoagiefest!

Idealised 7-11 Flag
Colours Orange, Green, White & Red

One of the companies that led the way for a 24 hour always open nation was 7-11. Originally it had an eight hour rest period. But in 1962 in Austin, Texas a 24hr business cycle was tested. Oh what a successful experiment. Since then, this mini-general store has led the way.

Although the logo implies a 16 hour open period, it is actually open 24 hours, (and 3 hrs for idiots).

The Hoagiefest Flag 2011
'Hoagie' is a Philly word for Sub or Hero

In the wake of a 24 hour open America, hundreds of clones have arisen - Circle K, Stop-N-Go, Jr. Foodmart, Kwik Stop, Famima!!, ABC Stores, etc. In the Delaware Valley we have WAWA. WAWA is many times more friendly and homey. Although 7-11 has the power of the nation behind it, WAWA is a breakfast pit stop for many on the go and a virtual madhouse in the morning. Their coffee is cheap and delicious.

WAWA employees are allowed a bit a freedom to be themselves when dealing with the public, instead of having a corporate prod up their arse that dictates the customer-corporation interaction. Dealing with normal people who can be themselves adds to the charm. Employees don't have the mandatory, "would you like fries or some other fattening item with your order," at least not yet!


Flag on Hoagieman's Bus for Hoagiefest 2011

The colours of the Hoagiefest Wawa flag are based upon the legendary character Hiawatha, thus the name Wawa. Hiawatha was the founder of the Iroquois Confederacy, which exists today in upstate New York. The purple and white flag of the Iroquois is still in use. Most recently it has been used as a battle flag with the Environmentalist Sea Sheapard Group in the Antarctic sea against the Japanese Whaling fleet.

ink to WAWA official site^
link to 7-11 wikipedia site^

2011 Hoagiefeset Commercial
Notice use of 60s Counterculture art for advertising

It's official we have a new nation! South Sudan

Flag of Southern Sudan.

Welcome to the world, officially that is - South Sudan. I wonder how long that name will last. Nubia might be more appropriate?

Anyways the missing piece for Equatorial Guinea is at last found. Equatorial Guinea is small part of Africa that was aggressively adopted by Spain, while Southern Sudan was roughly mentored by the United Kingdom.

Space Shuttle Flags

Last US Space Shuttle

Today the last US Space Shuttle flight went off without a hitch. It was the shuttle with the most ancient names and yet highest of technologies - space Shuttle Atlantis, a proverbial Alpha & Omega.

Interestingly each space shuttle has its own flag. The shuttle flags were all of the same basic design. Along the top is a thin blue trapezoid and along the bottom a reversed red trapezoid. In between is a broad white gap tilted downwards.

Although the Space Shuttle Enterprise never made it into space, here is my imagined design

Each shuttle had its name in the center printed in blue, with an outline of a shuttle. In the 'canton' is a red logo that reads, 'Space Flight Awareness NASA,' with the planet earth and an orbital path extending into space.

The End of an Era

Link to NASA
http://www.nasa.gov

Penn & Teller Burn the American Flag

Penn & Teller folding
the US flag in order to burn it

Penn & Teller are one of America's cheekiest duos of magic. The traditional duo of magic was previously co-ed. The primary magician does the talking and set up, while an eye stunning assistant 'magician' makes the illusions come to life.

However Penn and Teller are both men. Perhaps someday in the future, there will be a female magician with a male assistant? Or maybe a girls only magic show? Anyways Penn is the dominant, bigger, yang element of the show while Teller is the shorter, lesser, yin element of their classic all American magic act that fuses itself with standup comedy.

Old Glory up in flames?

Penn & Teller are passionate about the free market and the libertarian vantage point. So much so, that a 'burning the American flag' was bound to become one of their many spectacular illusions.

Link to their website - http://www.pennandteller.com/

Watch the daring illusion that is a tribute to freedom

The Iron Maiden Mascot Eddie
often holding a British Flag

Rockin from the 80s, the roots of metal charge out of England with a class in their own - IRON MAIDEN. Besides the heavy rocking riffs, the art associated with this band was an essential aspect of this group.

Iron Maiden is a British Rock Group. Like the Who, Beatles, AC/DC and Led Zeppelin they were cutting edge sounds of their times.

The mascot of their band is Eddie the undead cybernetic time traveling solider from the future or is the past? It seems with all this technology the time is ripe for an Iron Maiden movie?









LINK to Iron Maiden's Website http://www.ironmaiden.com/