These Great Sweaters Help You Get Personal With Your Favorite Horror Icons
Admit it. You’ve always wanted to own A Nightmare on Elm Street sweater. It’s the perfect, subtle wink and nod to something dark and scary. Well, now you can not only own one of those, but sweaters...
View ArticleThe Walking Dead Could Be Adding TWO Major Comics Characters in Season Six
Where is The Walking Dead going? Even if you read the comics, it’s hard to be sure, since the show has often charted its own course. But two new pieces of casting news seem to indicate that the comics...
View ArticleThis is a Supersonic Shockwave, Backlit by the Sun
Oh, wow. Aerodynamics research has never looked as pretty as it does with this new variation of an old technique for imaging supersonic shockwaves.Image of a supersonic T-38C using a new technique of...
View ArticleAn Amazing Deal: 11 of the All-Time Greatest Science Fiction Books For $15!
Humble Bundle-style collections of books or comics come along pretty regularly these days... but the latest Story Bundle offering is pretty amazing. There are 11 books that either won the Philip K....
View ArticleHere Are All the Best Photos from India's Mars Mission
It’s been exactly one year since India’s Mangalyaan mission (a.k.a MOM, the Mars Orbiter Mission) hit our favorite planetary neighbor—and they’re celebrating with something pretty cool: An offworld...
View ArticleWhat Business Is Wayne Enterprises Actually In?
Greetings my garrulous gobstoppers? (I am running out of alliterative words). Sorry for the lack of last week’s mail. I ran into a bit of trouble – namely a nest of camel-spiders, which are of course...
View ArticleThe Story of the 1930s "Impossible Murder" That Utterly Fascinated Raymond...
The murder of Julia Wallace in Liverpool in 1931 was of the rarest sort: a real-life killing that invoked some of the most well-worn tropes of Golden Age mystery fiction. Her husband, William Herbert...
View ArticlePrometheus 2, Which Has Nothing to Do With Alien, Is Now an Alien Movie
Somehow, the news that Ridley Scott wants to make three Prometheus sequels is not the most ridiculous Prometheus news this week. Scott himself announced the sequel to the semi-Alien-prequel will now be...
View ArticleIg Nobel Informal Lectures Give Winners a Chance to Explain Themselves
The Ig Nobel awards ceremony is a marvelous spectacle encrusted with tradition. But if you really want to know how the winners did their work and why, you need to go to the Ig informal lectures, held...
View ArticleWhat Did it Mean To Be a Castrato?
Castration for the purpose of singing wasn’t ever officially legal, but that didn’t stop people from filling their choirs, and occasionally their courts, with castrati. But what caused the singers to...
View ArticleFinancial Analyst Says Hollywood Sequels and Remakes Are Finally Getting...
Fans have been saying it for years: Hollywood is becoming too dependent on sequels, spinoffs and remakes. Now, the people Hollywood looks to for advice on trends are saying it too. Deadline reports...
View ArticleWatch Edgar Allan Poe's Greatest Stories Get Animated In A Cool New Trailer
We know the stories. We’ve read them. We’ve seen them made into movies, parodies and more. But we’ve never really seen the stories of Edgar Allan Poe like this. This is Extraordinary...
View ArticleMarvel's Newest Nick Fury Comic Has a Time-Traveling Super-Racist and a Very...
There are two Nick Furys in the current version of the Marvel Universe: a younger black guy and the original white super-spy who’s his dad. This week, they meet in a time-travel story that shows how...
View ArticleThe Game Has Just Changed In A Major Way For One Of DC's Oldest Superheroes
The Spectre may not be one of DC’s most iconic superhero characters, but he’s certainly one of their oldest, having been around for 76 years. Over those decades he’s gone through some changes and...
View ArticleMen in Black Isn't Getting a Sequel, So Now It's Getting a Remake
Despite the ominous warnings that constantly churning out reboots and sequels might be producing diminishing returns, Sony has boldly announced that they’re rebooting the entire Men in Black trilogy...
View Article"Who Are We To Say That Cannibalism Is Wrong?": Eli Roth Savages "Social...
With The Green Inferno—the first of two new Eli Roth movies that will be released in the next two weeks—Eli Roth attempts the virtual impossible: making a modern cannibal movie. The Green Inferno is a...
View ArticleTell Us Your Most Inspirational Stories of Heroic Comic-Book Store Clerks!
Running a comic-book store is a tough, lonely job. You have to help people find the perfect comics for their individual taste, and also deal with a certain amount of obnoxious customers. So let’s...
View ArticleNew, Insanely High-Resolution Pluto Images Include More Color—and Weird...
A fresh batch of images straight from the New Horizons downlink give us just what we’ve been waiting for: color views of Pluto! Ridiculously high resolution detail! Strange new snakeskin textures! Plus...
View ArticleDeadspin Goodnight Mommy Is Effortlessly Disturbing | Gizmodo I Watched...
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