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Is Fox working on a Fantastic Four Versus X-Men movie?

Check out four insane clips from the mythological epic Legend of Hercules. Find out which characters will get their own episodes when The Walking Dead returns. Amazing Spider-Man 2 continues to tease a bunch of villains. Plus: a closer look at Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Spoilers now! Fantastic Four Versus X-Men According to a…

Television Katharine Trendacosta

Two Mechanical Rivals, Forever Frozen in Combat

Marta assured her that the Rival Robots were a hoax, a pair of sculptures constructed by some mischievous artist after the city had already been abandoned. But Lili slipped away to the site every chance she got, imagining an era when giant mechanical creatures battled across the Earth. An illustration by Jordan Grimmer. Old Rivals…

io9 Lauren Davis

Watch DragonLance‘s Kitiara and Skie come to cosplay life

When I was a kid, the Dragon Highlord Kitiara Uth Matar from the DragonLance books was one of my favorite fantasy characters, so I appreciate the excitement and work that went into creating Tabitha Lyons‘ elaborate Kitiara costume, accompanied by the blue dragon Skie. Lyons worked with Artyfakes Action-Props to bring Kitiara’s armor and dragon…

io9 Lauren Davis

Tentacular stained glass octopus chandelier would light up any room

If your dining room is in dire need of tentacles (and have several grand to spare), this stained glass chandelier is happy to oblige, with detachable limbs that can prop up candles or glow all on their own. This fun lighting fixture was made by Mason Parker of Mason’s Creations. Parker explains that each of…

io9 Lauren Davis

Artist reminds us to forget mermaids, selkies are where it’s at

Inspired by seeing some sea lions while in Oregon for a week, artist Phillip Light drew some “seal. . . maids.” Just look at the personality in their faces. Mermaids are played out guys, and selkies are ripe for a pop culture takeover. Just compare the sheer number of appearances by mermaids in film, TV,…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

Spend hours clicking through this animated 1930s atlas of America

After Charles O. Paullin’s Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States was published, its editor John K. Wright bemoaned their inability to create “motion-picture” maps. Over 80 years later, the University of Richmond has made that a reality. If you head over to the University of Richmond’s Digital Scholarship Lab, you can see…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

Crowdfund a kung fu time-travel comedy pitting vikings against Nazis

It’s a quieter week on the crowdfunding front, but there’s one project that looks like particular fun: Kung Fury, a goofball short film inspired by 1980s cop movies, in which a renegade cop travels back in time to kill Hitler, a.k.a. Kung Führer. Kung Fury writer and director David Sandberg has already shot most of…

io9 Lauren Davis

Here is Stephen Colbert’s cameo in The Desolation of Smaug

Did you miss satirical news pundit Stephen Colbert’s brief appearance in the new Hobbit movie? Some eagle-eyed viewers have spotted the Tolkien superfan’s face in Lake-town. imgur user leonis89 uploaded this gif, along with Colbert’s appearance on David Letterman saying that he and his family appear in the current installment of The Hobbit in Lake-town.…

Movies Lauren Davis

100-year-old negatives from the Ross Sea Party found in Antarctica

New Zealand’s Antarctic Heritage Trust has announced an exciting find: 22 never-before-seen cellulose nitrate negatives discovered inside Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s last expedition base at Cape Evans on Ross Island in Antarctica. The negatives were recovered as part of the Ross Sea Heritage Restoration Project, which is conserving items from Captain Scott’s hut. The photos…

io9 Lauren Davis

Playful ceramic sculptures look like inflatable toy dinosaurs

Brett Kern‘s sculptures look like vinyl balloon dinosaurs at first glance, but they are actually ceramic, the ridges and appearance of inflated tension all deliberately put in. In his artist’s statement, Kern likens the mold-making process for his ceramic casts to the fossilization process: Objects are covered in a material that captures their shape and…

io9 Lauren Davis

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Films of 2013

We’ve been blown away by the variety and quality of short films that have appeared online this year, from a heartbreaking story set in the zombie apocalypse to an all-ages anime about a young witch learning to trust in her own power. Here are some of our favorite science, science fiction, and fantasy-themed short films…

io9 Lauren Davis

Plutonium: Why science should officially not be taken seriously

Did you know that plutonium is a literal joke? Not the full name, which is a fair enough name (though unaffiliated with an actual planet anymore). That little square on the periodic table is a joke, made by plutonium’s discoverer, meant to stay up there for all time. Plutonium, now that we all know what…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

This reversible scarf bears a pictorial retelling of The Hobbit

The knitters at Frivolite Handcrafts have come up with a cold weather accessory fit for a Hobbit. Through a series of simple images, this scarf retells Bilbo Baggins’ story from the Shire and back again. The knitters have even come up with a bit of fanfiction to go with the scarf: When her Uncle Bilbo…

io9 Lauren Davis

The Killing Bluff: Alan Moore plays poker with a few comic book friends

Alan Moore deals in some of the comic book characters he’s created and written for in The Killing Bluff, a painting by J.K. Woodward. Woodward created this piece on commission, and is now selling 11×17″ prints on his website through January 1st. The Killing Bluff [J.K. Woodward via Xombie DIRGE]

io9 Lauren Davis

Students describe their theses in a single self-mocking sentence

“Summing up years of work in one sentence.” That’s the tagline for Lol My Thesis, where PhD candidates (Edit: and undergrads) make fun of their own theses by reducing them to just a sentence or two. Edit: I mistakenly thought these were mostly graduate theses. The about page describes them as “undergraduate (and some post-graduate)…

io9 Lauren Davis

Nikita delivers one last glorious fake-out

Last night’s Nikita finale had a definite feeling of wrapping up everything at top speed, as the pieces fell into place really quickly. But for all that, it still managed to deliver one final insane fake-out, doing the last thing you ever expected. Spoilers ahead… After last week’s too-good-to-be-true happy ending, the last thing any…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

A mountain landscape carved into 24 volumes of Encyclopedia Britannica

Book carving artist Guy Laramée bids farewell to the printed version of Encyclopedia Britannica with Adieu, a serene mountain sculpture made from a 24-volume set. We have featured Laramée’s book carvings before, but Adieu is a particularly interesting work given that the Encyclopedia Britannica went out of print in 2012, becoming an online-only reference. It…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

This musical reprise could have made Frozen even better

As heartfelt as Frozen’s climax was, the movie musical could have benefited from a brief reprise of the song “Do You Want to Build a Snowman?” at a key moment. So one fan wrote the lyrics to a reprise and another gave it voice. Spoilers below. Over at Musical Catbug, phananigans wrote a reprise of…

Movies Lauren Davis

Concept Art Writing Prompt: At the End of the Battle

As the sun sets, a giant mechanical figure surveys a smoldering battlefield, while a smaller figure admires the damage. Tell us your tale of this battle and its aftermath. This digital painting by Tomas Honz is titled simply “Done.” As always, we invite you to come up with a story inspired by this image and…

io9 Lauren Davis

Science fiction and fantasy stories get funny clickbait headlines

Tumblr SFFworthy lampoons the saccharine headlines common on Upworthy and similar sites, telling us about all the fantastical stories that will amaze us, astound us, and make us cry—although not necessarily in a good way. [SFFworthy via Laughing Squid]

io9 Lauren Davis

Is Fox working on a Fantastic Four Versus X-Men movie?

Two Mechanical Rivals, Forever Frozen in Combat

Watch DragonLance‘s Kitiara and Skie come to cosplay life

Tentacular stained glass octopus chandelier would light up any room

Artist reminds us to forget mermaids, selkies are where it’s at

Spend hours clicking through this animated 1930s atlas of America

Crowdfund a kung fu time-travel comedy pitting vikings against Nazis

Here is Stephen Colbert’s cameo in The Desolation of Smaug

100-year-old negatives from the Ross Sea Party found in Antarctica

Playful ceramic sculptures look like inflatable toy dinosaurs

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Films of 2013

Plutonium: Why science should officially not be taken seriously

This reversible scarf bears a pictorial retelling of The Hobbit

The Killing Bluff: Alan Moore plays poker with a few comic book friends

Students describe their theses in a single self-mocking sentence

Nikita delivers one last glorious fake-out

A mountain landscape carved into 24 volumes of Encyclopedia Britannica

This musical reprise could have made Frozen even better

Concept Art Writing Prompt: At the End of the Battle

Science fiction and fantasy stories get funny clickbait headlines

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