<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9a121aad-d20a-4830-893a-8a8342450fe6/DEADF40C-DA8F-4922-8E6A-CC80EC243B71/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.comicsalliance.com/2009/09/17/twisted-princesses-a-darker-take-on-disney/" href="http://www.comicsalliance.com/2009/09/17/twisted-princesses-a-darker-take-on-disney/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.comicsalliance.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.comicsalliance.com/2009/09/17/twisted-princesses-a-darker-take-on-disney/"><H2><A href="http://www.comicsalliance.com/2009/09/17/twisted-princesses-a-darker-take-on-disney/"><SPAN id="ppt19165307">Twisted Princesses: A Darker Take on Disney</SPAN></A></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.comicsalliance.com/2009/09/17/twisted-princesses-a-darker-take-on-disney/">Mashups between Marvel and Disney characters were almost inescapable in the weeks that followed the big buyout news -- some creative, some ridiculously bad. Fortunately, <A href="http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2009/09/10/marvels-twisted-princesses-imagined/" target="_blank">The Beat</A> pointed out a fantastic gallery of "dark" Disney Princesses as drawn by <A href="http://jeftoonportfolio.blogspot.com/2009/02/twisted-princess.html" target="_blank">illustrator Jeffrey Thomas</A>. <DIV> </DIV> Granted, Thomas drew these long before the corporate buyout, but given their typically grim and gritty take on superheroes, it's easy to see these hardcore heroines through the lens of a Marvel mashup.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.comicsalliance.com/2009/09/17/twisted-princesses-a-darker-take-on-disney/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.comicsalliance.com/img/71002022-9189-4F42-B84F-B9A4104D4B02" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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