Cyriaque Lamar, Author at Gizmodo

If you decapitate a ninja with a boomerang, he just ain’t dead

In the 1966 Toei fantasy flick The Magic Serpent, the hero Ikazuchi-Maru is ambushed by a gang of boomerang-wielding ninjas (who are way more dangerous than hula-hoop-wielding ninjas). https://gizmodo.com/hula-hoops-and-fish-grenades-two-contenders-for-the-wo-5810125 The dastards succeed in decapitating our hero, but he’s got one last stupid ninjutsu up his sleeve. Also, witness the most ignominious death of a ninja…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Aug 1

Profoundly stupid carjacker blames his crime on The Dark Knight Rises

Pittsburgh was plunged into a Tinseltown tizzy yesterday when The Dark Knight Rises dropped by to film some fight scenes. Unfortunately, the shoot also brought out the city’s criminal lot, which was less cowardly and superstitious and more unlucky and dumb. https://gizmodo.com/tremble-before-banes-full-costume-from-the-dark-knight-5826294 Last night, a would-be carjacker attempted to purloin a police vehicle from a…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Aug 1

David Tennant’s first TV role was in the world’s worst anti-smoking PSA

Before he became renowned the world over for playing Barty Crouch Jr. (and some other role I can’t remember off the top of my head), David Tennant starred in what was possibly the world’s most stultifying anti-cigarette program. Together with some bemulleted child, a 16-year-old Tennant plays a teenage smoker with “beautiful legs.” It’s so…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jul 31

You tell us what Bane is reading on this piece of paper

Earlier today, we posted photos of Tom Hardy decked out in Bane attire on the set of The Dark Knight Rises. One of the stranger snapshots has Bane staring intently at a scrap of paper. https://gizmodo.com/tremble-before-banes-full-costume-from-the-dark-knight-5826294 In the comments of that post, professional everyman Garrison Dean — who you may know from his awesome Dark…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jul 31

Sometimes you just have to walk your mechanical fire-breathing pony

We’ve seen many a fiery automaton in our day, but this flame-belching robo-pony seen at this weekend’s Detroit Maker Faire deserves a some sort of prize most sinister. Are his mohawked companions walking him…or vice versa? https://gizmodo.com/10-flamethrowing-contraptions-thatll-keep-those-dang-ki-5735083 [Via Boing Boing]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jul 31

Chupacabra attacks on the rise in Siberia

Despite the absolutely Dullsville real-world explanations for chupacabras, it seems as if the dreaded goat-sucker has hopped continents. https://gizmodo.com/chupacabras-are-just-coyotes-with-scabies-says-biologi-5671700 https://gizmodo.com/actress-natasha-henstridge-is-the-chupacabra-for-real-5784498 According to The Moscow News, towns outside of the Russian city of Novosibirsk are abuzz with rumors of chupacabras, who are said to be sipping on some bovine and goaty hemoglobin. One local named Natalya…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jul 31

Art installation allows you to be a kaiju in the city of the mole people

For the upcoming MS Dockville music festival in Hamburg, Germany, designer EVOL transformed an empty field into a weird subterranean cityscape that visitors can tromp through. The hole will be refilled by the end of the festival, but for a brief time, you can be the titanic scourge of a Kobold apartment complex. And if…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jul 31

Alan Moore’s 1985 interview about Watchmen gave no inkling it’d be a smash hit

In January 1985 — well over a year and a half before the first issue of Watchmen would hit stands — Alan Moore had a short interview (click to enlarge) in Amazing Heroes #65 in which he gave a quick and dirty synopsis of the comic. I love how hilariously understated Moore’s description of the…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Jul 31

Tremble before Bane’s full costume from The Dark Knight Rises!

Yesterday in Pittsburgh, Tom Hardy braved the summer heat wearing his full Bane get-up to deliver a speech to some bad guys. Also, some new camouflage Batmobiles rolled down the street. Warning: spoilers and supervillain fashion galore! According to an on-set tipster who was in at the filming yesterday, Bane freed a bunch of inmates…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Jul 31

io9 Roundup: July 30, 2011

WEEKLY ROUNDUP: 7/24 – 7/30 | A scene from the ridiculously cool 1979 Alien graphic novel. Art by Walt Simonson. https://gizmodo.com/holy-hell-the-1970s-alien-comic-book-was-awesome-5826225 Cowboys & Aliens will show you action like you’ve never seen it before https://gizmodo.com/cowboys-aliens-will-show-you-action-like-youve-never-5826069 Summer science fiction movies are about spectacle. Gods channel lightning; robots deconstruct themselves in gleaming slivers of computer-generated light. More »…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jul 30

Jango Fett attended a prom in New Zealand

Here’s a cute story about bounty hunters and school dances. When New Zealand actor Temuera Morrison (Jango Fett, Abin Sur in Green Lantern) was asked by his niece to attend a Star Wars-themed school ball in the city of Rotorua, he made a guest appearance. In other news, a school held a Star Wars prom!…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jul 30

This is what an 18-foot-tall, 1700-pound marionette walking down the street looks like

During the last weekend this May, the Royal de Luxe marionette company trotted their disconcertingly large she-marionette — which is adorned with the hair of 70 horses — down the streets of Nantes, France. Now we know the dread the citizens of Metropolis feel whenever Toyman is on the loose. [FKY via Laughing Squid]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jul 30

The new League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a magical mystery tour through Alan Moore’s head

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century – 1969 sees Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s Britannic literary superteam in Love Generation London, where Aleister Crowley analogue Oliver Haddo conspires with Terner Purple, a thinly veiled reference to Mick Jagger’s role in the rock-and-roll drama Performance. In other words, Moore’s back to his labyrinthine “all fiction in one…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Jul 30

Holy hell, the 1970s Alien comic book was awesome

We recently ran an interview with Thor writer Walt Simonson in which he mentions an Alien movie adaptation he worked on for Heavy Metal back in 1979 with Archie Goodwin and John Workman. I’d never read it before, so I looked it up. And guess what? It’s an absolute jaw-dropper. https://gizmodo.com/the-secret-history-of-the-greatest-thor-stories-ever-wr-5826183 Is this bad boy…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Jul 30

The secret history of the greatest Thor stories ever written

At Comic-Con, io9 had a nice long talk with Walt Simonson, the man responsible for the defining run on The Mighty Thor in the 1980s (indeed, Simonson’s tenure on the comic was a big influence on this summer’s Thor movie). https://gizmodo.com/fresh-off-thor-and-x-men-first-class-hollywoods-next-5798178 Simonson gave us a behind-the-scenes look at fan-favorite moments, like the first appearance of…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Jul 30

In this 1995 MTV News report, Newt Gingrich defends internet porn

We’ve seen pundits on The Today Show be perplexed by that wacky world wide web fad — now check out Coolio weigh in on the CB radio of the future! Listen to that soundtrack! Better than Ezra! And at last, a twirling image of R2-D2! https://gizmodo.com/watch-tv-commentators-in-1994-have-no-idea-what-the-int-5746373 [Via Nerdcore]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jul 30

How to make an origami Yoda

For those of you who always wanted to fold a Jedi master out of paper, Fumiaki Kawahata has created a handy guide (PDF) and video tutorial (2, 3, 4) teaching you how to do so. It’s way more aesthetically pleasing than that Aunt Beru origami project I was originally going to post (paper + Zippo).…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jul 30

Clarissa Explains It All prophesied the movie Cowboys & Aliens

Way back in the early 1990s, before Cowboys & Aliens was a graphic novel/film pitch, Clarissa Explains It All predicted the existence of the film in a throwaway line courtesy of Clarissa’s dorky brother Ferguson. Now we know where Hollywood gets its ideas — trawling Nickelodeon teen sitcoms. [Via NYMag]

Television Cyriaque Lamar Jul 30

Before you kick the bucket, be sure to don your Mushroom Death Suit

Designer Jae Rhim Lee is concerned about the carcinogenic affects of the funerary preservative formaldehyde. That’s why she’s invented the Infinity Burial Suit — a.k.a. the Mushroom Death Suit — a postmortem garment designed to consume the wearer’s corpse. In an interview with New Scientist the artist described how she’s training the mushrooms to process…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jul 27

What’s next for Grant Morrison? The democratic Superman, prehistoric UFO invasions, and Supergods

At Comic-Con, io9 had a chat with the one and only Grant Morrison. The Scottish author told us about his new superhero history book/autobiography Supergods, his plans for Dinosaurs Versus Aliens, and the ideal Superman for the 21st century. You’ve built your career on comics. Why a book? It was initially supposed to be a…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Jul 27

Cyriaque Lamar

If you decapitate a ninja with a boomerang, he just ain’t dead

Profoundly stupid carjacker blames his crime on The Dark Knight Rises

David Tennant’s first TV role was in the world’s worst anti-smoking PSA

You tell us what Bane is reading on this piece of paper

Sometimes you just have to walk your mechanical fire-breathing pony

Chupacabra attacks on the rise in Siberia

Art installation allows you to be a kaiju in the city of the mole people

Alan Moore’s 1985 interview about Watchmen gave no inkling it’d be a smash hit

Tremble before Bane’s full costume from The Dark Knight Rises!

io9 Roundup: July 30, 2011

Jango Fett attended a prom in New Zealand

This is what an 18-foot-tall, 1700-pound marionette walking down the street looks like

The new League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a magical mystery tour through Alan Moore’s head

Holy hell, the 1970s Alien comic book was awesome

The secret history of the greatest Thor stories ever written

In this 1995 MTV News report, Newt Gingrich defends internet porn

How to make an origami Yoda

Clarissa Explains It All prophesied the movie Cowboys & Aliens

Before you kick the bucket, be sure to don your Mushroom Death Suit

What’s next for Grant Morrison? The democratic Superman, prehistoric UFO invasions, and Supergods

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