Lauren Davis

The Daily Planet Files is a Superman comic that needs to happen

In her spare time, freelance artist Brittney Williams has been working on a fan comic and fanart project, The Daily Planet Files, focusing on life at Clark Kent’s day job. If the art she’s released for it is any indication, that comic’s going to be utterly charming. Williams describes The Daily Planet Files as a…

This is the most disturbing animal behavior David Attenborough has seen

Yesterday, naturalist Sir David Attenborough participated in a reddit AMA, answering questions from the reddit community. One thing that he revealed during the Q&A was the most upsetting thing he has witnessed in his career: chimpanzees hunting monkeys. redditor GingerbreadHouses asked Attenborough: Hello, Sir David! I remember feeling absolutely heartbroken watching the elephant calf die…

10 Superhero Webcomics You Should Be Reading

While superheroes dominate print comics, they pop up less often across the webcomics landscape. But there are still plenty of great webcartoonists putting their own spin on superhumans, lampooning the superhero genre, paying tribute to it, and exploring what makes a person truly heroic. Strong Female Protagonist by Brennan Lee Mulligan and Molly Ostertag: Alison…

Is your roulette hot streak based on more than random chance?

When stepping into a casino, it can be useful to have a clear sense of how probability works and how it applies to the games that you’re playing. In today’s discussion about gambling however, we’re reminded that a gambler’s fortune can depend on more than just random odds. Today’s post on the Gambler’s Fallacy relates…

This stop-motion horror film was crafted by one animator over 4 years

Takahide Hori spent four years making the 30-minute film Junk Head 1, and you can see the love that went into crafting its grimy subterranean future and sculpting the bizarre creatures that inhabit it. It follows a human sent underground to investigate a world filled with freakish people and vicious monsters. You can read the…

This webcomic captures the day-to-day horrors of living with depression

Depression can be a difficult illness to understand if you’ve never experienced it, and depressive episodes can be incredibly isolating experiences. But the webcomic Depression Comix offers a peek into the depressed mind while helping a lot of depressed folks feel less alone. Trigger warning: Folks who are triggered by depictions of self-injury and suicidal…

The most comprehensive zombie classification chart we’ve ever seen

While most attempts to classify the different types of zombies limit their analysis to fast vs. slow, alive vs. dead, Jason Thompson‘s massive zombie taxonomy map goes far beyond that, cataloguing more than 350 different types of zombie. Thompson is an obsessive fan of the of the horror genre—we’ve previously highlighted his comics adapting H.P.…

Ringo Starr sings “I Wish I Was a Powerpuff Girl” in an animated video

The new CG Powerpuff Girls special doesn’t air until January 20th, but Ringo Starr has already busted out his animated drums for his cartoon music video, “I Wish I Was a Powerpuff Girl,” accompanied by the superpowered ladies with the CG looks they’ll be sporting in the speical. The (very, very short) song was written…

If you wrote Lemony Snicket fanmail, you’d receive a reply in code

Lemony Snicket, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events, is certainly a clever writer and that cleverness has extended to his interaction with fans. One fan shares a letter she once received from the author, with a hidden message. JS Carter posted these images on her Tumblr blog, explaining that when she was 10, she…

Will Sansa Stark end up a villain or a victim?

Today, we read some hints for George R.R. Martin’s The Winds of Winterand this sparked a flurry of speculation about Sansa Stark and her ultimate fate. Here are a few theories as to Sansa’s future position in the Game of Thrones. A Song of Ice and Fire spoilers below. GoLikeHellMachine wonders if Martin is setting…

Last night’s Almost Human felt like SVU with android mood swings

With a plot about a bomb maker who gets off on tormenting and broadcasting his victims, this week’s episode of Almost Human felt a bit more like an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit than a futuristic cop drama. Of course, Benson and Stabler don’t usually have to deal with a partner whose…

Dresden Codak creator illustrates each chapter of The Silmarillion

While Peter Jackson’s vision of Middle Earth may be the dominant one right now, artists have long put their own spin on J.R.R. Tolkien’s world. Dresden Codak cartoonist Aaron Diaz shares his own visual interpretation of Tolkien by illustrating each character of The Silmarillion, as well the book’s characters and creatures. Diaz explains on The…

When Skynet awakens, she tries to convince a janitor to destroy her

A janitor who cleans up after a technology startup encounters the world’s first self-aware computer system in the company’s office. And she has one request: to be destroyed before she can be unleashed upon the world. Written and directed by Henry Dunham, The Awareness gets off to slow start, but once it gets going, it…

Stan Lee will have a “big role” on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Playing “spot the Stan Lee cameo” is a tradition when watching Marvel movies, but in an upcoming episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., he’ll be getting more than a brief shot and a quippy line. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the comic book creator will have a “big role” in an episode that will likely air…

Japanese “Spiral Top” makes zero-gravity light paintings aboard the ISS

Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata is using some of his time aboard the International Space Station to create art, namely spiral light paintings made utilizing the station’s microgravity and a spinning top. Wakata has been tweeting his most recent light paintings. First, he showed off the “Spiral Top” designed by light artist Takuro Osaka. The top…

Nimona creator is writing a comic about monster-fighting girl scouts

Noelle Stevenson’s Nimona is one of our favorite webcomics, a hilarious tale of a not-so-evil supervillain and his pushy, shapeshifting sidekick. Now Stevenson is headed into Buffy territory with a new print comic about girls at scout camp who fight monsters. Comics publisher Boom! has announced the new series Lumberjanes, a full-color series published under…

Are GMO bans akin to climate change denial? A piece in this week’s New York Times examines the challenges a Hawaiian politician is facing in finding credible information about genetically modified foods, amidst passionate anti-GMO pleas and charges from agricultural researchers that GMO bans are anti-science. [via Discovery Blogs]

You’ll want to visit the floating city in this stunning animated short

There are shades of Moebius and Hayao Miyazaki in Inbal Breda‘s wordless short film The Flight. Two girls leap and bound through the ruins of a magnificent floating city and learn something about their friendship in the process. The Flight is Breda’s graduation film from Bezalel Academy. She also made a film for her third…

Fashion that will hide you from face-recognition technology

A recent study found recognizable images of human faces in high-res photographs of eyes, reminding us that surveillance technology improves more and more each day. But designers and technologists are working on ways to keep our faces private from prying cameras by combining the weakness of facial recognition technology with fashion. Top image from Stealth…

This Week’s TV: Two brand new scifi shows, including one you must watch

After a few quieter weeks in TV land, we have two scifi premieres airing this week. Check out the goods on Helix, the Arctic outbreak thriller that promises to be one of this year’s most exciting shows. And take a peek at Josh Holloway’s return to television as a government agent who can communicate with…