Here are a couple of posts to help ruin your dinner, as my mom always liked to say ... first, Thom Zahler shares some cookies his brother brought over for his birthday:

I've never heard of the restaurant where he bought them, called Eat 'n Park, but they specialize in smiley cookies, apparently. Zahler's brother had them add the red, which transformed them from regular smiley-face cookies to comic book icons.

And next, retailer and blogger Matt Price shares a whole bunch of comic-themed sheet cakes his wife made, featuring everyone from the Wonder Twins and Captain America to Mr. Spock and Booster Gold:

I shouldn't be looking at cookies and cakes before lunch ... now I need a snack.