Art’s Worst Enemy Is Our New Best Friend

Christian Slater can go back to making cameo appearances in Star Trek VI for all we care. Our favorite Own Worst Enemy isn’t NBC’s latest spy drama, but the recent solo exhibition of Australian artist Meggs that mixes comic book and sci-fi images to create something pulpy, unsettling and altogether awesome. We’ve got some art…

Green Lantern Explained! Quantum Of Solace Clips! The Spirit Poster!

Spoilers not only beautify your car, they expand your outlook. Today, we have some more comments from Marc Guggenheim about exactly where the new Green Lantern movie’s storyline is coming from. A couple of Quantum Of Solace clips do absolutely nothing to resolve our “is it scifi” confusion, but show that James Bond keeps brooding.…

God Shouldn’t Have Killed Arnie’s Dog

There’s a lot wrong with Arnold Schwarzenegger clone actioner The 6th Day, but this scene is just so right. Early in the film, Arnie visits a store at his local mall called RePet, where they will clone your pet and implant the memories of your old pet “in just two hours.” Christian anti-cloners are protesting…

Pimp My Ride: The Podcar Edition

Ithaca, New York—home to hoards of vegetarians, well-educated social liberals, and the citizens hope, an organized system of eco-friendly podcards by the year 2010. (Ooh, just like in Woody Allen’s Sleepers!) Here’s how it’d work: Each car would carry 2 to 10 riders who type in their destinations on a computer pad. The vehicle, which…

What Movie Will Be The Next Dark Knight?

Click to viewEven if The Dark Knight hadn’t broken sales records – and proved a superhero movie could make you think – there would still be a spandex avalanche coming our way in the next few years. But now, it’s inevitable that every one of those films will be compared to Dark Knight. Will any…

Batman and Superman Are Diamonds on the Soles of Your Shoes

Express your superhero preferences with what you’re wearing on your feet. Nike’s new shoes from its skateboarding line are inspired by Batman, Superman and Venom, and they’re a lot more subtle than last month’s DC Comics line of superhero kicks. Who wins the war on the ground?While the D.C. Comics shoes from Limited Soles announced…

Star Trek Stills Have Beamed Down

Get a closer look at the young crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise, complete with mini skirts and baby-t’s for the ladies. The internet is buzzing with a collection of Star Trek stills, each one showing closer looks at the bridge, the baddies and a slippery situation that James Kirk gets into. It’s starting to come…

Blizzard’s Starcraft To Hit Comics Next Year

DC Comics’ relationship with World of Warcraft creators Blizzard appears to be growing, if one of the giveaways from this weekend’s Blizzard Worldwide Invitational is anything to judge by – Part of the substantial goodie bag was a preview of a comic based on their Starcraft sci-fi game, courtesy of Annihilation: Conquest’s Keith Giffen and…

The Savage Barbarians Of Battlestar Galactica

I’d forgotten that superstar artist Frank Frazetta did paintings for Battlestar Galactica in the 1970s, until I saw one of his lurid images over at Sci-Fi-O-Rama. And then I started hunting down all of his scattered BSG masterpieces all over the net. Frazetta famously turned down the offer to do a Star Wars painting, but…

Darwinian Stock Market Tanks With The Real One

A new method for evaluating which species are at risk of becoming endangered has put a target on the heads of one group you may be somewhat familiar with: mammals. Rapid-fire estimates have created volatility in the mammal futures market. What groups should you start withdrawing your natural selection dollars from? The Barcelona-based international conservation…

Necro-Cyborg Marauders Must Be Scripturally Accurate!

Religion has a way of creeping into science fiction… but religious people aren’t always thrilled about it. Case in point: Hindu groups are already sounding a note of caution about the planned movie version of the comic book Ramayan 3392 A.D., which is a retelling of the Hindu epic set in the distant future, featuring…

Star Trek Only Boldly Goes For 2 Hours, Thank The Great Bird Of The Galaxy

J.J. Abrams is leading the charge to save us from the over-extended 3 hour movies of late. His Star Trek film will only be two action-packed hours. Abrams told MTV that, “I’m sick of these two hours and forty-five minute movies. Seriously, it’s like I don’t have enough time to stay two hours and forty-five…

Researchers Probe the Mysteries of Antarctica’s Hidden Mountains

Humans may have conquered Everest and K2, but one set of mountains has continued to elude explorers: Antarctica’s Gamburtsevs, the setting for H.P. Lovecraft’s famous tale “At the Mountains of Madness.” Buried beneath four kilometers of ice, the mountain range has never been seen by human eyes, and its position near the center of the…

Why Frank Miller’s Spirit Can Only Fail

I’ve noticed a trend: We do a post about the upcoming movie version of The Spirit, and commenters complain that we’re too negative about it. Is it a ploy to bury Frank Miller’s directing career, you ask? Why are we hating so much on a movie that we’ve not seen, and judging it on solely…

If You Can Read This, Then Robot Cars May Be Close?

With the election less than three weeks away, the liberal blogosphere is debating furiously… about driverless cars. Picking up on an article by Tim Lee over at Ars Technica, Matthew Yglesias at Think Progress gets excited by the idea that self-driving cars could eliminate the need for much parking space. After all, cars could park…

BSG’s Jump Calculations Will Take Another 92 Days

Set your hibernation unit to wake you on Friday, Jan. 16 at 10 PM. That’s when the final batch of Battlestar Galactica episodes premieres on the Sci Fi Channel, meaning the series will end on Friday, March 20 according to EW’s Michael Ausiello. The final ten episodes will be at least eleven hours, and possibly…

The Art and Science of Making Ghosts Visible

I’ve been thinking about this haunting piece of photoshoppery ever since I saw it on the Dinosaurs and Robots blog last week. Designer Kevin Kidney created it by merging two images of the Los Angeles street where he lives: One from today, and one from 1909, when Los Angeles was riddled with cable cars. Human…

Plants Invade Singapore Skyscraper

Step aside, humans; the plants are about to take over the Singapore skyline. This building may look like a scene from a post-human era, but it’s actually the EDITT Tower, an eco-friendly structure slated for construction in Singapore. The hope is that the veggie-laden tower will provide locals with a much-welcome view of plant life…

Sneak A Look At What The Joker Did Next

We’ve already told you about DC’s Joker graphic novel by 100 Bullets writer Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo, a book that Azzarello calls “brutal… the most violent thing I’ve ever written.” With two weeks to go until its release, the first four pages have been released online to give fans of The Dark Knight a…

Drinking shark’s blood could slow the spread of cancer in your body. Australian researchers have discovered that the hardy blood of sharks has anti-carcinogenic properties (it doesn’t cure cancer, but does slow it). Plus, it can survive the acidic environment of the human stomach, which means a pill to slow the spread of cancer could…