Cyriaque Lamar, Author at Gizmodo

Read the lost adventures of Six-Gun Gorilla, the greatest cowboy gorilla in fiction

Who’s that hairy, firearm-wielding figure above? Why, that’s none other than Six-Gun Gorilla, a now-public domain hero who was almost (and cruelly) lost to the vicissitudes of time and taste. Six-Gun Gorilla first appeared in late 1930s adventure magazines that are nowadays extremely rare finds. But thanks to author, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen annotator, and…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Sep 24

Man admitted to New Zealand hospital with eel stuck in his rear end

Because hospital reports of spiders living in women’s ears and fish jumping down children’s throats aren’t harrowing enough, here’s some more shudder gasoline for the nightmare conflagration raging in your brain. As The New Zealand Herald reports of a patient at Auckland City Hospital last week: https://gizmodo.com/spider-lives-in-womans-ear-for-five-days-everyone-on-t-5933393 https://gizmodo.com/fish-that-can-survive-out-of-water-for-7-hours-jumps-do-5912995 “The eel was about the size of…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Sep 24

A Devil Wielding A Gun In 1489 = Perhaps The Most Metal Scene In Art History

I n recent decades, supernatural beings bearing firearms have been within the purview of such narratives as the movie Legion and the comic book Preacher. But the idea of angels and devils locking and loading has had a much longer artistic heritage, dating back at least five centuries. The top portion of Swiss printer Johann…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Sep 24

I want this horrifying pair of 1940s Daffy Duck shoes

Mostly so I can pair them with that Mickey Mouse gas mask, estrange myself from friends and loved ones, and lurk around that abandoned tallow factory on the outskirts of town. I’ll maintain this routine until an urban legend builds around me, so that when those meddling kids discover my shambling frame of failing organs…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Sep 21

A Treasure Trove Of Cheesy And Delightful Animation From The Early Days Of Computer Graphics

Nowadays we tend to take hyper-detailed computer-generated film wizardry for granted. But a few decades back, even a simple floating polygon set to a Phil Collins song was considered a massive achievement. The YouTube channel VintageCG has over one-hundred animations from the formative years of computer-generated imagery. It’s not unlike looking at the high school…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Sep 21

This is what Batgirl would’ve looked like in the 1880s

If Gotham City needed crimefighters in the Victorian era, these dress designs from the 1880s would’ve been a good place to start. These lovely fledermaus-themed ensembles appeared in the 1887 edition of La mode illustrée, journal de la famille and an 1882 copy of the German publication Fliegende Blätter, respectively. And should you be so…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Sep 21

Good morning, here is your life-affirming video of a dolphin giving birth

Because our day can’t truly begin until we’ve seen a cetacean go buck-wild on the miracle of life, here is Keo the dolphin giving birth to a female calf last Monday with a minimum of viscera. As the folks at Dolphin Quest explain: It’s the first baby for proud dolphin mom, 12-year-old Keo. Dolphin Quest…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Sep 21

In 1910, the plot of Alien went down in a local newspaper

Between the gargantuan frog steaks, the flying stegosauruses, and the giant mosquito robots, old-timey newspapers were a nightmarish fantasy realm where the Teapot Dome scandal may have well have been Warren G. Harding’s scheme to build a utopian cloudopolis powered by Liptons. https://gizmodo.com/in-1913-newspapers-predicted-wed-be-eating-giant-radio-5914041 https://gizmodo.com/in-the-1920s-stegosaurus-had-the-ability-to-fly-like-a-5916003 https://gizmodo.com/in-1913-a-utah-newspaper-reported-that-a-giant-mosquit-5889124 And indeed, an unassuming story about an ill-fated Cleveland woman…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Sep 20

Gaze upon the most disturbing My Little Pony ever made

One of the most popular My Little Pony characters at the moment happens to be a walleyed pegasus. This 2008 custom sculpture by Wrenniepooh is a completely unintentional forerunner to said character. As the sculptor notes, “The tear ducts and inner lids were glossed with a thick layer of Aleene’s Paper Glaze for a wet…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Sep 20

For $149, you could own this painting of an all-Spock soccer team

Who’s in the mood for aesthetics? Okay, we see a few hands. Now, who’s in the mood for aesthetics involving an entire football club populated by the same Starfleet officer? Whoa, we’ve never witnessed such a veritable hydra of arms! For a meager $149, this painting of a pure Spock soccer team by Tommervik can…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Sep 20

Everything You Need To Know About Judge Dredd

If your experience with Judge Dredd has been limited to famous Anthrax songs, not famous Human League songs, and watching the 1995 Sylvester Stallone movie hungover on basic cable on Sunday afternoons, know that Mega-City One’s top cop has a complex (and rather wacky) pedigree. Here’s a crash course on why Dredd is the law.…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Sep 20

Jae Lee draws Ozymandias versus the Comedian, in this Before Watchmen preview

Here’s an exclusive sneak peek of Ozymandias, the latest issue in the Before Watchmen series. Here we see artist Jae Lee (Inhumans, Fantastic Four: 1234) bring his ethereal flair to some early fisticuffs between martial artist super-genius Ozymandias and the cigar-chomping Comedian. This issue hits stands next Wednesday, September 26. Here’s the synopsis: BEFORE WATCHMEN:…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Sep 20

6 Nerdy Parties Throughout History We Would’ve Loved To Attend

Since the dawn of humanity, our species has been assiduously researching ways to party hard. And every now and then, this impulse to rage like banshees unchained intersects seamlessly with our geekier proclivities. Behold six wonderful nerd soirées that were almost stranger than fiction. 6. Wayne Manor Nightclub In the mid-1960s, this Batman-themed nightclub (above)…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Sep 19

This insane footage of a volcano is like staring into the jaws of Hell

Good gravy, is this a harrowing video. To capture close-up footage of this lava lake on the Pacific island of Vanuatu, Geoff Mackley and his colleagues had to brave excruciating heat and some rather precarious-looking abseiling. Here’s his description of this mind-blowing footage, which offers the scenic views of a James Bond villain’s veranada: Geoff…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Sep 19

New Hobbit trailer shows off Bilbo and Gollum’s contest of wits

Behold the latest trailer for The Hobbit! It’s brimming with new scenes, most notably Bilbo Baggins’ riddle olympiad with Gollum. That anthropomorphic sack of unpleasant sure does drive a hard bargain. (I’m secretly praying that “The Precious” is rebooted to be Hat FM.) The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey hits theaters December 14.

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Sep 19

Good morning, here is your recommended daily allowance of Ewok terror

Have you ever imagined what would happen if the Ewoks sang The Cranberries? Certainly, such a universal musing is shared by all members of the human race, but Alex Kropinak has actually gone so far as to render this tableau in this blissfully stupid animation. Not going to lie, on my fifth re-watch here. Hat…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Sep 19

What if Portal was a 1980s animated movie?

I’m getting a strong Don Bluth vibe from this cartoon short by Chelsea GR, whose test animation uses dialogue from Portal 2 and transforms the game’s always yapping A.I. into humanoids. Here’s the original scene, and for similar Portal-mation, here’s the game by way of John K. [Via I♥C] https://gizmodo.com/what-if-portal-was-a-ren-stimpy-inspired-saturday-mor-5917094

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Sep 18

In 1971, Duke University professors wrote a wank-friendly medical textbook

In 1971, three medical professors at the Duke University School of Medicine collaborated on The Anatomical Basis of Medical Practice, an anatomy textbook that included cheeky prose, some macho dudes, and more nubile female nudes who’d fit right in pin-up magazines. In the book’s foreword, the authors justified their decision as such: Perhaps we should…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Sep 18

In comic stores tomorrow, it’s ghosts and gem princesses

Here’s a rundown of the first issues hitting stores this Wednesday. First off, there’s Sword of Sorcery, a reboot of Amethyst: Princess of Gem World by Jem creator Christy Marx (interview here). The synopsis: https://gizmodo.com/this-september-the-creator-of-jem-will-write-dc-comics-5916819 Amy Winston leads a strange life on the road with her mother. She’s about to learn why it’s all been…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Sep 18

A downright gorgeous short film about doomed astronauts after a spaceship crash

This is Grounded, director Kevin Margo‘s trippy seven-minute film about the final moments of extrasolar astronauts. Margo — who works on visual effects for Blur Studio — tells io9 that this project took several months of planning and animating, including “one weekend with a forklift dangling an astronaut 50 feet high in the parking lot.”…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Sep 18

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Read the lost adventures of Six-Gun Gorilla, the greatest cowboy gorilla in fiction

Man admitted to New Zealand hospital with eel stuck in his rear end

A Devil Wielding A Gun In 1489 = Perhaps The Most Metal Scene In Art History

I want this horrifying pair of 1940s Daffy Duck shoes

A Treasure Trove Of Cheesy And Delightful Animation From The Early Days Of Computer Graphics

This is what Batgirl would’ve looked like in the 1880s

Good morning, here is your life-affirming video of a dolphin giving birth

In 1910, the plot of Alien went down in a local newspaper

Gaze upon the most disturbing My Little Pony ever made

For $149, you could own this painting of an all-Spock soccer team

Everything You Need To Know About Judge Dredd

Jae Lee draws Ozymandias versus the Comedian, in this Before Watchmen preview

6 Nerdy Parties Throughout History We Would’ve Loved To Attend

This insane footage of a volcano is like staring into the jaws of Hell

New Hobbit trailer shows off Bilbo and Gollum’s contest of wits

Good morning, here is your recommended daily allowance of Ewok terror

What if Portal was a 1980s animated movie?

In 1971, Duke University professors wrote a wank-friendly medical textbook

In comic stores tomorrow, it’s ghosts and gem princesses

A downright gorgeous short film about doomed astronauts after a spaceship crash

This Loud-Ass Party Speaker Almost Got Me High AF

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How Should We Prepare for the Looming Quantum Encryption Apocalypse?

Picture Perfect: Artemis 2 Returns Home After a Stellar 10 Days in Space

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‘Doomsday’ Asteroids Could Have Kickstarted Life on Our Planet

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