Will Asami turn into a war profiteer on The Legend of Korra?

The Legend of Korra returns to its old stomping grounds in Republic City this week, but it hardly feels like a homecoming. Everyone is scrambling to deal with their own business while Varrick comes up with a way for everyone to win in the Water Tribe civil war. After the pilot episode, my major concern…

Game of Thrones ladies get melancholy Mucha-style theater posters

Artist Elin Jonsson channels Alphonse Mucha for a series of prints inspired by the Art Nouveau illustrator’s theater posters. Four ladies from Game of Thrones each get a turn in the starring role. The details associated with each lady add a touch of sadness to many of the posters, especially Lady and Khal Drogo in…

Watch all of Bravest Warriors Season One in a single video

If you haven’t gotten a chance to sit down and watch Pendelton Ward’s animated web series Bravest Warriors, now’s a good time to binge on it. Cartoon Hangover has conveniently loaded the entire first season into a single YouTube video. Season Two of Bravest Warriors launches on October 17th. [via Bravest Warriors Tumblr]

Concept Art Writing Prompt: The Rabid Unicorn

We kick off our October writing prompts with a gruesome sight: a once-noble unicorn gone utterly rabid. What story can you spin about this sick and terrifying creature. “The Rabid Unicorn” is a piece by Minna Sundberg, whose gorgeous webcomic A Redtail’s Dream we featured last week. As always, we invite you to come up…

Dogfish Head brews a beer made with bits of the moon

The brewmasters at Dogfish Head are certainly no strangers to experimental beers, and their latest brew may just be out of this world. They’ve added a dose of lunar meteorite to the recipe. Celest-jewel-ale may be reaching for the pun, but the folks at Dogfish Head claim that the lunar minerals and salts are “helping…

What if all the Disney princes lived together in one castle?

According to KnightJJ’s webcomic Place of Princes, it would involve a bit of crossdressing fun and a whole lot of singing. The Netherlands-based artist has been posting these goofy short comics to her Tumblr and deviantART gallery. There have been tons of comics playing with the Disney princesses, and here their male counterparts get a…

Julianne Moore warns Chloë Moretz to repent in latest Carrie clip

Carrie is about to leave for the prom in the latest clip from the Carrie remake. Naturally, Mama White is none too pleased and heaps a telekinesis-triggering scoop of fanaticism on her daughter. [via Comic Book Movie]

Harrison Ford resurrects Dragon Army in first Ender’s Game clip

In the first clip from the Ender’s Game film, Asa Butterfield’s Ender Wiggin meets with Harrison Ford’s Colonel Graff and is offered his first leadership role. Ender’s Game hits theaters October 25 in the UK and Ireland, October 31 in Australia, and November 1 in North America. [via EnderWiggin.net]

Functional LEGO BMO plays Adventure Time episodes on its screen

It’s not quite Adventure Time’s walking, toast-making Gameboy, but Michael Thomas‘ LEGO creation is the closest thing to a real, live BMO. And it’s powered by a Raspberry Pi, which turns it into a miniature media center. Thomas is showing off his LEGO BMO this weekend at BrickCon 2013 at the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall.…

Dilapidated observatory looks like the Planet Express building

The headquarters for Futurama’s delivery service has been hiding in Liège, Belgium. reddit user yearh made this gif from a photograph by Al Richardson (head over to Flickr to the image in its full-resolution glory). This is part of the Cointe Observatory built by the University of Liège in the late 19th century. It looks…

Adorable sculpted dragons guard your 20-sided dice

Some dragons hoard gold and gems, but Becca Golins’ tiny sculpted dragons guard a different treasure: gaming dice. Golins uses Premo Sculpey polymer clay to sculpt her sweet little beasties, which she oven bakes along with their 20- (and sometimes 10- or 12-) sided prizes. She also sculpts non-dice-guarding dragons, ponies, and other delightful creatures.…

Today is the second annual Star Wars Reads Day, when bookstores and libraries across the US use Star Wars to promote a love of reading. Head over to the site and see if there’s a participating location in your area. Hat tip to Ely!

A twisted take on Red Riding Hood with Grandma as the monster

While some retellings of “Little Red Riding Hood” bring the fairy tale back to its sexual roots, Maya Kern’s Redden takes a different tack, sending the little girl on a dangerous errand to bring food to Grandmother, the most fearsome creature in the forest. Redden is a short webcomic, a self-contained piece of fairy tale…

All the references in Del Toro’s Simpsons intro with handy labels

Didn’t catch all of the references in Guillermo Del Toro’s amazingly comprehensive Treehouse of Horror intro for The Simpsons? These folks think they did. (Though there are a few more in the comments.) The people over at MoviePilot put together this video, which pauses and labels each of the horror references in the intro sequence—including…

Halloween comes early on Ultimate Spider-Man

It’s a big week in the world of cartoons! Ultimate Spider-Man features a cameo-studded Halloween episode plus the Transformers return, if only for a while, as the original movie Transformers Prime Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising airs. Avengers Assemble is off this week. As always – minor spoilers ahead! Adventure Time – “Dungeon Train” What if…

Historic Bridge Disasters Caught On Film

People have been obsessively filming bridge collapses for over 70 years. Here is some footage of classic disasters that look like they could have been caused by kaiju. Honeymoon Bridge or The Upper Steel Arch Bridge (also known as Fallsview Bridge), Niagara Falls, Ontario, collapsed after an ice storm on 27 January 1938 due to…

Comment of the Day: Supertaster Edition

In today’s comments, we took a much closer look at our world maps, contemplated the return of the sabrecat, and learned a simple way to test yourself for the most ordinary of superpowers: hypertasting. Food inventor Barb Stuckey joined us today for a Q&A on the science of food development, and (in response to commenter…

Sweet mercy, the cuteness: a white lion cub practicing her roar

This obscenely adorable (and still unnamed) little lion cub was born on September 26th to a lioness named Masha at the Belgrade Zoo. HEAR HER ROAR. It’s a good thing the animal making the sounds in this video is so adorable. If I heard these noises while I was alone in the dark, I’d probably…

Amazing anatomical drawings from centuries ago

Delicate, beautiful, and terrifyingly gory, antique medical drawings give us a window on the history of science. Over at Indiana University Bloomington’s Lilly Library, there’s an incredible display of historical anatomical drawings. Here’s a gallery. According to the University: “Visualizing Disease,” an exhibition of pathological illustrations from the 16th century to the mid-19th century on…

Vampire Diaries has run into 4 crucial problems of long-lived TV shows

Last night, we got a generous helping of two hours of The Vampire Diaries, or technically one hour of TVD and one hour of its spinoff, The Originals. There were some lovely moments — but also a sense that the wheels are coming off the vampire bus. The Vampire empire is running into four lethal…