WEEKEND ROUNDUP: 11/5 - 11/6 | Star Wars Day of the Dead by John Karpinsky.
Awesome X-Men fashion goes beyond spandex and ruby-red visors
Mutant haute couture tends to begin and end with leather jackets, pouches, not-battlefield-worthy corsets, and blue-and-yellow school uniforms that leave nothing to the imagination. Artists Kevin Wada and Max Wittert have decided to put some more outfits in the X-Women's armoires. More »
The Dark Knight plays Ebenezer Scrooge in Lee Bermejo's Batman: Noel
In writer/artist Lee Bermejo's new graphic novel Batman: Noel, the Caped Crusader's quest to use a lowly bagman to ensnare the Joker runs parallel to the plot of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. More »
A dam explodes and - for the first time in a century - a river reclaims its course
In an effort to return Washington's White Salmon River to local wildlife, engineers blew a hole in the long-standing Condit Dam. Explains photographer Andy Maser, who shot this dramatic detonation: More »
Watch the restored trailer for Alejandro Jodorowsky and Moebius' never-released scifi epic The Incal
In the 1980s, animator Pascal Blais created a trailer for an animated adaptation of Alejandro Jodorowsky and Jean "Moebius" Giraud's gonzo space opera The Incal. More »
What Fringe's Never-Ending Supply of Mad Scientists Tells Us About Walter Bishop
It's amazing how many episodes of Fringe focus on a mad scientist who's misguided, either due to hubris or some dreadful loss in his past. More »
Insane 1977 movie sent Bruce Lee to Hell to meet Popeye, Dracula, and James Bond
After Bruce Lee died in 1973, a raft of Bruceploitation films hit cinemas. These low-budget movies often starred shameless imitators (like "Bruce Li" and "Bruce Lai") and were occasionally marketed to confused moviegoers expecting a heretofore undiscovered Bruce Lee film. More »
A short film about the monkey head transplant experiment of the 1960s
We've been loving the Midnight Archive's series of macabre web shorts. More »
Captain Planet pops up on Ben 10, the new Jedi on Clone Wars is a jerk, & Beavis and Butt-Head watch Twilight!
Cartoon Network was in full force Friday night, showing six episodes, including new episodes of Young Justice, Thundercats, and Generator Rex. More »
Mortal Kombat flash rave harasses passers-by with deadly dancing
This is so unapologetically stupid, but I can't help but applaud these guys for carrying a boombox around New York blasting the Immortals' always hilarious rave theme. More »
The webcomic Kukuburi is a surreal adventure through a candy-colored wonderland
Courier Nadia steps through an ordinary gate and finds herself in an extraordinary world populated by flying battleship whales and bizarre creatures in dashing chapeaux. More »
How do smelling salts work?
There was a time when police officers were issued special "lady revivers," or vials of smelling salts for fainting women. Faintings aren't so common these days, but anyone who has read a good (or bad) Victorian novel has seen these salts make an appearance. More »
A conversation between Siri and a Furby is like listening to HAL 9000 break wind
From the same school of AI versus AI rib-tickling that brought you existentially ornery Cleverbots: some rousing logorrhea between a new-school smart phone and an old-school creepy fad. More »
The planets of the Solar System, according to crazed pulp comics of the 1940s
Back in the Forties, the science fiction rag Planet Comics published the ongoing feature "Life On Other Worlds." This section peppered scientific know-how amongst whatever gonzo shit the writer happened to make up. More »
Fund a study that will plumb the horrors of duck sex!
In case you're unaware, duck sex is perhaps the singularly horrific event of the animal kingdom, replete with labyrinthine vagina dentata, explosive erections, and the occasional dalliance with necrophilia. More »