From Fantastics Mag, this is Alexander Beer, photographed by Christopher Sims for "Of Tree And Tempest". What can I say? I like the outdoors.

Meet "Mon-El", the DCU's replacement for Superman while Superman is headlining the "New Krypton" series. Mon-El's been around for several decades, and is usually introduced as an amnesiac space traveler who meets Superman when Superman, as Clark Kent, is a teen, whether calling himself "Superboy" or not. The traveler expresses familiarity with Krypton's House of El, from whence Kal-El, Superman, was born, and Clark jumps to the conclusion that this is his older brother, whom he christens "Mon", because he arrived on a Monday, and "El", because they're siblings. (Yes, he could have been Tues-El, or Thurs-El, etc.!) Eventually, Mon succumbs to lead poisoning, and his memory returns. Seems he's a native of the planet Daxam, gets powers similar to a Kryptonian's by way of a yellow sun, but has a weakness to lead equal to that of a Kryptonian's to Kryptonite. Depending upon when the character's story is told, he either traveled to Krypton prior to the explosion and met Jor-El, Superman's father, or studied Krypton and learned the language, exlaining why Clark mistakes him for a longed-for sibling, or fellow survivor of his home planet's destruction. Mon's real name is Lar Gand. Clark places the dying Lar/Mon in the Phantom Zone, which is either a benign or dangerous place, depending upon when the story is told, but where Lar/Mon won't age while a cure is sought.

In most tellings of the tale, Mon is cured 1000 years into the future, by the Legion Of Supre-Heroes, and becomes a free man/boy (the LSH were teens generally), joining that team and becoming one of its most powerful members. In the current DCU, the Phantom Zone was destroyed, Mon/Lar had to be pulled out of there, and a mysterious temporary cure appeared in the Fortress. Clark asked Mon-El to look after Metropolis for him while he went to New Krypton, and Mon took the name of 'Jonathan Kent' as a trbute or something to Clark's recently deceased adoptive father, and took a job with the Metropolis Science Police. The 'Mon-El' name should mean nothing to the citizens of Metropolis, and the 'Jonathan Kent' thing is just lazy writing, but the books have re-established a connection between the planets Daxam and Krypton, and gone a long way toward explaining why the DCU is not overpopulated with superpowerful Daxamites, while giving Lar/Mon a tragic twist to his story as he explores the DCU while attempting to defend it. I realize that things will be status quo eventually, but it'll be interestig to see how they get there.

Merlin, the TV series from the BBC is into its second season and it's on tonight! NBC ran the first season during the summer, and hopefully will do the same this summer. It's a reworking of the traditional Camelot mythology, with the tweaks that Merlin comes to Camelot as a teen during a period in which magic is outlawed by King Uther, and Merlin must aid Prince Arthur in fulfilling his destiny while hiding the ways in which he does so. Lancelot passes through, Morgana is Uther's ward and frightened of her own budding abilities, and Gwen works as Morgana's maid. We even meet a kid Druid named Mordred and an evil sorceress named Nimue. Like Smallville, which also took a well-known mythology and tweaked it, for better or worse, Merlin has a go-to for advice in dealing with the menace-of-the-week in the form of an imprisoned dragon (in Smallville it's Clark's Kryptonian father, Jor-El, the disembodied voice in the Fortress). It's beautifully filmed and the actors are clearly having fun with their roles. Worth checking out if you can.
Some more Marlon Teixeira from SAKS for this Saturday:

Remember Joshua Delos? Well, there's more of him by Paul Reitz at Bello Mag:

So this is model Patrick Kafka, as photographed by Joe Lally. Joe Lally also shot these:

the hair-styling of which remind me of the women who ran Moonbase on the British TV series U.F.O.:

Coincidence? Inspiration?

I've posted before about how much I like the Bucky Barnes Captain America, and am enjoying the exploration of his relationship with The Black Widow, Natasha Romanoff. As Captain America Reborn races toward the inevitable return to the status quo, Bucky and Natasha are reduced to a couple of pages in issue 4:

but Natasha gets her own miniseries this month called "Black Widow: Deadly Origin", which seeks, among other things, to explain her absurdly long history in the Marvel Universe. Bucky is retconned into Natasha's history at the point where she begins to avoid aging. While I liked their brief but dramatic affair back in "Captain America", tying him into an important part of her origins makes sense as well.

It's a good start to the series, and I hope that Marvel keeps them together even after he takes on whatever new gig they give him when Steve Rogers resumes the Cap identity.
Taking on the Captain America identity in real life this Halloween, (and possibly prior?) was Real World Brooklyn participant, fitness guru, and all around nice guy Scott Herman:

He recently graced the Undergear catalog:

and gives fitness advice/demonstrations at Scott Herman Fitness.com
an example seen here:

Subscribe. It's informative AND entertaining. And Scott's easy on the eyes and relaxed on video. Besides, Marvel/Disney has been aiming toward an Avengers film since Iron Man, and they might just make Scott that franchise's Captain America, and he'll be too busy to do videos!

Previously seen here at Idle, here's more of Craig Malozzi, as photographed by David Arnot, thanks to YVY Mag

Colton was on Melrose Place last night (I was wrong about it being last week's episode, which was a rerun) as a client of Ella's agency. His scenes here:

From The Fashionisto, we have Idle fave Marlon Teixeira "in the most recent issue of French magazine Crash photographed by Xevi Muntané. Styled by Elisa Nalin, Marlon’s moody stint is part of a larger editorial entitled 'The Background'."


and a 'new to us' image of Kerry from the AX Holiday Campaign posted at Major Models Blog

It's cold enough here in Atlanta to covet a couple of the sweaters Kerry is sporting on the Ralph Lauren Rugby site, but the yellow pants are another thing.

Nick's back! Nick Riback by Greg Vaughan, by way of VGL!

From the AX Campaign for Fall 09, Kerry, Michaela, and Carlos (head and all!) in a remix of the Behind The Lens videos:

Our banner character is Wally West, DC Comics' Kid Flash! The nephew of Iris West, girlfriend of Barry Allen, The Flash, Wally received similar powers to his mentor in a freakish accident that replicated the one that had given Barry HIS powers. At first, Wally wore a costume exactly like The Flash's, just a smaller version, when he would visit and lend a hand. Eventually Wally would get his own distinctive costume, which is my favorite of the various members of the 'Flash Family', seen here. Wally never worked a sidekick in the manner of Batman's Robin and others, but rather had adventures with the Teen Titans, or in solo back-up stories, and occasionally guest-starred in Barry's book. When the DCU "Crisis on Infinite Earths" killed off Barry Allen, Wally became the first 'sidekick' to replace his mentor, becoming The Flash himself.

Barry's alive again, and Wally's married with kids, and there's a new Kid Flash. I liked Silver Age Wally. He was a normal guy for a superhero character.
Craig Malozzi is a college student who's been doing some modeling. I don't know what his major is, but he's got the modeling thing down.





(Some images by way of Fantastic Mag)

It's November! And we get another hour this evening! Which is cool, because setting the clocks back makes me feel like a Time Lord! (When is the new Doctor Who debuting anyway?)
There's a great interview with Colton Haynes at 160 Grams Te pictures are Photography Ben Cope, Styling Cliff Hoppus, Grooming SEAN JAMES for Rusk, Art Direction Eric Sposito.





Another Idle fave, Marlon Teixeira, appears in Hercules Mag #7, lensed by Doug Inglish, as posted on Charmants