Entertainment Tonight Has Figured Out the Secret to Guardians Marketing

It’s Avengers comparisons. How could you see Guardians without knowing which one is the Tony Stark? (Spoiler alert: It’s Rocket!) This Entertainment Tonight video is so stupid that I think I love it. Yeah, there’s some new stuff here, but the big thing is that they’re convinced that they need to explain everything in terms…

Warehouse 13‘s Final Gag Reel Makes Us Miss It All Over Again

Who knew that the team’s biggest problem would be seatbelts? [via SpoilerTV]

Now That Summer Has Come To Gotham, Batman Dons His Skimpier Suit

Cartoonist Stjepan Šejić reveals the one costume Batman doesn’t display in the Batcave, the one he reserves only when the heat in Gotham has become intolerable. Šejić is a prolific comic book artist, but if you haven’t seen his goofier doodles on deviantART, I highly recommend checking them out. Someone really needs to give this…

Do You Have A Short Attention Span? This Video Knows The Answer Is Yes

We’d all like to think we’re thoughtful, patient, and steadfast, especially in our ability to pay attention to things. We are completely and totally wrong, and this brilliant College Humor video is proof. Just try and watch this video without pausing, skipping ahead, or looking at something else — you’ll see. Here’s the kicker: Even…

Why The Higgs Boson Should Have Crushed the Universe

This may seem a little far fetched — but if our understanding of the physics behind the recently-discovered Higgs boson is correct, our universe shouldn’t exist. It’s funny when two seemingly distant theories conspire to destroy the universe. You may have heard about the controversy surrounding a certain telescope located near the South Pole. The…

Was 1984 The Best Year Ever For Summer Movies?

Have you noticed that a lot of really awesome things are celebrating their 30th anniversaries this year? The Macintosh computer, Tetris, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? 1984 was also a really good year for movies, but I’ll go farther than that: This particular week in 1984 was probably the best week ever to see a movie…

Four Asshole Magical Girls Must Stop The Rise Of King Arthur

Kel McDonald, creator of the long-running webcomic Sorcery 101, messes with magical girls in her latest webcomic, Misfits of Avalon. But these superpowered teens would rather cut class and get into meaningless brawls than save the world. Morgan and Elsa are the kind of high school enemies who are almost friends. Dealing with a lousy…

How Comics Readers Finally Got To See Magneto’s Face

In the movies, Magneto has spent as much time out of costume as in it. But there was a time when comic readers only saw Magneto’s face from behind his helmet. Here’s the story of how readers finally got to see the man behind the mask — plus the original pencil drawings of the reveal!…

The Three By Sarah Lotz Could Be This Summer’s Most Engrossing Thriller

I’ll be very interested to see if airport bookstores stock Sarah Lotz’s new novel, The Three. It’s a creepy, engrossing look at the stories we come up with in the face of disaster, involving four airplane crashes on a single day. In the aftermath of these crashes, morbid fascination mixes with conspiracy theories that make…

Ann Leckie Refused To Change Ancillary Justice‘s Unusual Pronouns

One of the most notable things about Ann Leckie’s Nebula and Clarke-winning novel Ancillary Justice is its unusual pronoun use, which she talked a lot about when she answered your questions. In a new profile, she explains how she was told it would make the book unpublishable. Top image: Alan Lynch. Without giving too much…

Soviet Accident Prevention Posters Depict A Dozen Gruesome Ways To Die

Industrial safety is a serious matter. But, in the 1920s, the Bolshevik regime — not exactly known for its restraint — went over the top with these scare posters, depicting gruesome, imaginative deaths that seem like panels from classic horror comics. “Don’t Walk Under the Transmission Arbor” “Look Out For The Buffers” “They Are Working…

Ben Kingsley Will Voice Bagheera In Disney’s Live-Action Jungle Book

There are two movie adaptations of The Jungle Book in the works right now, but only one of them will feature the leonine voice of Sir Ben Kingsley. Kingsley will be voicing the panther Bagheera opposite Idris Elba’s Shere Khan. The Hollywood Reporter has announced that Kingsley’s voice will appear in Disney’s version of the…

Why Wasn’t This 1960s Fantastic Four TV Show A Real Thing?

There never was a 1960s live-action Fantastic Four TV show starring Russell Johnson (the Professor from Gilligan’s Island) as Reed Richards and Elizabeth Montgomery (of Bewitched fame) as Sue Storm. So a couple of TV fans decided to dream one up, complete with production stills and a detailed episode guide. “This site is dedicated to…

Trippy Animated GIFs Bring Contemporary Architecture To Life

The best modern architecture has a playful quality, and often seems to have a life of its own. But what if these buildings really could move around, or dissassemble and reassemble? Or turn into Tetris blocks? A wild series of animated GIFs makes this happen. We’ve seen buildings that rotate and have optical illusions on…

No, That Twist In The Flash Pilot Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means

The first episode of The Flash leaked onto torrent sites earlier today, allowing folks an early preview before the show’s October 7th premiere. This preview included quite the shocker in the show’s final scene — SPOILER WARNING STARTS HERE. NO, SERIOUSLY. SPOILER WARNING. Okay, you with me? Good. The episode ends with S.T.A.R. Labs creator,…

Who’s Got The Worst Daddy Issues In Science Fiction, Fantasy Or Comics?

Daddy issues are the main motivating force in pop culture, it often seems. Everybody is pissed at their fathers, or desperate to impress them, or striving to avenge them. But who’s got the most painful (or annoying) daddy issues of all time? Please include a picture, book cover, comics panel or clip for your chosen…

This Potentially Habitable Super-Earth Is Just 16 Light Years Away

An international team of astronomers has announced the discovery of a potentially-habitable Super-Earth around the nearby red dwarf star Gliese 832. Located 16 light-years from Earth, it’s considered one of the closest and best habitable-world candidates so far. Gliese 832-c features a brief orbital period of 36 days and a mass at least five times…

Watch Japan’s Creepy Android Newscaster Deliver The Day’s Top Stories

Robotics professor Hiroshi Ishiguro has unveiled what he says is the world’s first news-reading android — eerily lifelike and possessing a sense of humor to match her perfect language skills. This latest plunge into the uncanny valley is named “Kodomoroid”—an amalgamation of the Japanese word “kodomo” (child) and “android.” After delivering news of an earthquake…

A revolutionary idea: bringing more science to science fiction conventions. This weekend’s Evolution Expo in Oakland combines science lectures and astronaut talks with TV and movie panels, to try and “put science back into science fiction.”

Bong Joon-ho Explains Why Snowpiercer‘s Violence Is So “Explosive”

At long last, the acclaimed post-apocalyptic film Snowpiercer is coming to select U.S. theaters this weekend. We were lucky enough to sit down with director Bong Joon-ho for an exclusive interview, and he unraveled the movie’s themes and the reasons for its unique visual style. Spoilers ahead… Note: We talked to Bong Joon-ho through an…