Remixing the default Twitter avatar

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1 Vote for Wolverine.

I have been absolutely loving these. Consider my cap doffed, Apelad, sir.

These are fantastic! Each of them works great.

A tiny little Wolverine embryo! How adorable!

I like how there is a qualitative difference in the way the third one maps the original form to the bird. I have no idea how one describes this in formal terms.

As part of the Cthalloween Lovecraft-meets-Twitter event, we got this awesome mashup of Cthulhu and the Twitter logo created by John Kovalic of Dork Tower fame: www.twitter.com/cthalloween

In honor of Professor Calamity, arrested for twittering at the G20: the anarchist twitter

To me Galactus is all helmet. Start there, and go down. I vote for the Jack Kirby-style; "about to consume a world" eyes!

And, might I add, Cthalloween was loads of fun! I look forward to seeing it again next year, and maybe by then I'll figure out where all those cultists went...

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