Throughout Thor’s illustrious career, his powers have been appropriated by a slew of other comic book heroes. Not all of these heroes carried his official hammer, Mjolnir, but almost all of them dressed as lunatics while imitating the Thunder God. 10.) Thor, Frog of Thunder In the 1980s, Loki turned Thor into a frog. Even…
If you like your fantasy comics grimy, roguish, and filled with orcs trying to lop each other’s dorks off, you’ll love James Stokoe’s Orc Stain. And if you don’t, you’re dunderheadedly depriving yourself of some of comicdom’s finest artwork. Orc Stain, which (in a herculean effort) is written, drawn, and colored by Stokoe, follows the…
Let’s face it. If sweet science fictional rides like Airwolf or KITT actually existed, laymen like us wouldn’t get first dibs. No, we’d probably get saddled with whatever comically impractical vehicles the Tony Starks of the world don’t scoop up. Assuming that the most outlandish transports are someday available to consumers, here’s a (not actually)…
In the 1980s, the bestselling Secret Wars miniseries was an antecedent to today’s comic book mega-events, as it featured almost all of Marvel’s marquee heroes and villains beating the tar out of each other. But how was it named? Over at his blog, Secret Wars scribe Jim Shooter, who was the editor-in-chief at Marvel at…
We’ve been ridiculously excited for the Tamil science fiction blockbuster Enthiran once we heard that it was totally bonkers. And indeed, these clips prove that the movie delivers scads o’ madness. Robotic orb of machine gun death = total delight. In Enthiran (a.k.a. Robot), Dr. Vaseegaran (the Indian megastar Rajinikanth) builds the robot Chitti Babu…
Here are some of the mechanical participants of Tokyo’s Robot Japan 2011 dance competition. Some of the contenders are charming, whereas others scuttle around in that abandoned Chuck E. Cheese that lurks in the umbras of your nightmares. [Robots Dreams]
Now that Tron Legacy is in theaters, let’s take a look at the many hidden references that pepper the film. The film’s screenwriters were also willing to give us hints about where to find Easter eggs. Spoilers way on! 1.) If you were in Hall H during the Tron Legacy panel at the San Diego…
We’ve posted concept art of the absolutely fabulous costume from Tim Burton’s Superman Lives, but how does the suit look on film? Like Clark Kent escaped from a Kryptonian rave. Here’s the video from Steve Johnson FX, which also provided concept art for J.J. Abrams’ Superman Fly-By [Spotted on Topless Robot]
Protests from animal rights activists have put a moratorium on NASA plans to expose 27 squirrel monkeys to gamma-ray radiation. Researchers hoped to simulate the effects of space radiation on humans, but protesters claim the experiment’s cruel and unnecessary. The experiment was put in limbo after PETA obtained documents detailing the experiment using the Freedom…
We recently rounded up the most nightmare-inducing creations of speculative zoologist Dougal Dixon. Here’s another one of Dixon’s futuristic Homo sapiens. This being is more or less a psychic raspberry strudel. io9 superstar reader Hypnosifl has blessed us with this pre-Man After Man musing Dixon contributed to the November 1982 issue of Omni magazine (RIP).…
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