Broken Heroes: Comic Heroes Get Tragic New Endings

By Buck Wolf, About.com Guide

Who lives in a booby-trapped pineapple under the sea? Forget Sponge Bob -- call him Sponge Bomb, Squarepants... because German artist Patricia Waller has turned him into a bomb-wielding terrorist made entirely out of yarn. In the "Broken Heroes" exhibition on display at the Deschler Galerie in Berlin, Waller turns iconic childhood figures from TV and comics into tragic and even frightening figures -- like Sponge Bomb here.

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• Sponge Bob Turns Sponge Bomb, Suicide Bomber
• Sponge Bomb Is Ready to Blow
• Spider-Man Snared by His Own Web
• Spider-Mans Hopeless Struggle
• Superman's Epic Fail
• The death of Superman
• The Sandman Kills Himself With Sleeping Pills
• The Sandman Falls Into the Big Sleep
• Even the Fire Extinguishers Are Made of Yarn

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