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Want to relive Star Wars: A New Hope quick, fast, and dirty? Then check out this amazing chart that maps out the entire movie in a series of easy-to-follow icons. Bravo to artist Wayne Dorrington.

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Most roller coasters try to keep regurgitating riders to a minimum. But with this coaster by BRC Imagination Arts, queasy patrons may be inevitable. The design firm has taken a cue from NASA's KC-135A "Vomit Comet" aircraft and drafted plans for a coaster that mimics microgravity for up to nine seconds. The only downside? Such a ride costs a pretty penny. More »
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Japanese artist Takanori Aiba has taken bonsai trees, food packaging, and even a tiny statue of the Michelin Man and constructed miniature metropolises around these objects, thus creating real-life Bottled Cities of Kandor. Explains Aiba of his artwork: More »
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The works of Mexico City artist Raul Cruz envision a far-off future where Aztec and Mayan aesthetics mesh with yet-to-be-invented technologies. More »
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This is Garrison Dean, io9's resident viscount of photoshopperie, reporting in. Much like your significant other, I've been distant, busy with work, and just not fulfilling your needs. But it's Valentine's Day! And on Valentine's Day, I can make up for all my shortcomings and patch our fragile relationship with a short, cheap, burst of branded sentiment. And that is exactly what I have for you here!

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Sculptor Carl Turner has created a series of half-realistic, half-fantastical mounted animal heads that were seemingly poached out of a Dr. Seuss book. According to Turner's back story for this project, these extinct specimens were acquired by zoologist Erasmus P. Jiggins and Sir Bartholomew Scoffer during an 1863 expedition to a lost island somewhere in the Pacific: More »
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Jess Fink, of the fabulous robot porn comic Chester 5000 XYV (NSFW), is creating these gender-bending valentines for for ComicsAlliance. She's obviously having fun with these romantic role-reversals, including playing with the ways these heroes and anti-heroes typically dress. Buffy (now just Buff) wears a tight, pelvis-baring tank top, and Catdude's suit still has that enticing zipper down the front. More »
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The bombing of Nagasaki, the explosion of the Hindenburg, and the Challenger disaster have all been immortalized into smoke-filled photography. Artist Brock Davis has reproduced those iconic explosions in an unlikely medium: cauliflower. More »
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This week, the video game world lost a great concept artist. Adam Adamowicz was one of the concept artists behind Fallout 3 and Skyrim, two visually stunning games. Take a look back at Adamowicz's designs for Fallout's retrofuturistic apocalypse. More »
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This week's writing prompt takes us out under the stars, where a couple looks out upon a domed city glowing in the distance. What story can you come up with for this couch-dwelling pair, or the people living under that dome? If this painting speaks to you, write a piece of flash fiction and post it in the comments. More »
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Life isn't easy if you're a genetic experiment. Or an expendable minion, a powerful being wedged into an itty-bitty living space, or a recently downgraded scientific entity. Fortunately, it's a little easier to bear the pain if you've got someone in a similar situation to share the load. More »
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Unable to wait for a sequel to The Incredibles for one minute longer, the talented artist Edwin Rhemrev took it upon himself to make his own Incredibles 2 artwork. And the result is very impressive. It's so glorious we almost wish this was actual Pixar concept art, and not just one fan's dedication to a great movie. More »
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Artist Clinton Felker has given some of the Star Wars universe's most iconic characters a bushido makeover. Check out his takes on Darth Vader, Yoda, the stormtroopers, and that notorious ronin Boba Fett. The only thing we're missing here is Oni The Hutt.

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Adventure Time has gone from a shiny new distraction to a major freaking part of our lives. We can no longer remember a time before Adventure Time, and it feels as though Finn and Jake are more real than most of our friends. More »
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What if the symmetry-obsessed, muted-palette-loving director took on The Dark Knight? More importantly, who would Jason Schwartzman play? Behold Alfred Pennyworth, the Life Nocturnal. More »
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We've been enjoying the heck out of Kevin Wada and Max Wittert's X-Men clothing line (previously: 1, 2) — these drawings transform Marvel Comics' strangest superteam into a collective of blasé performance artists who blow Xavier's endowment on smart drinks imported from the farthest reaches of the Shi'ar Empire. More »
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Readers who grew up in the Seventies may remember the British television program Bod, which featured a bald, abstract humanoid going on adventures set to upbeat jazz. YouTuber HappyToaster discovered this unofficial sequel to Bod starring Mega-City One's premier lawman. Here's his story: More »
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We're so excited about Pixar's first princess movie (not including Bug's Life which was more of an ant monarchy). A whole slew of new Brave concept art and character sculptures take us behind the scenes, and into the mystical Highlands of Scotland. More »
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You may recognize artist Keith Thompson's work from Scott Westerfield's Leviathan books and as those creepy doodles from the remake of Don't Be Afraid of the Dark. In addition to those projects, Thompson's crafted a nightmare fuel gallery of necrotic creatures with pedigrees in both science fiction and fantasy. Just behold that stomach-churning Pripyat Beast above. We're sorry. More »
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What if, instead of hanging out with Ted Turner and going back in time to fight Hitler, Captain Planet and the Planeteers were the stars of an R-rated anime in which they threw out their sweet vests and became disaffected eco-terrorists hooked on endangered, psychoactive toads? More »
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They're not appropriately dressed, but these ladies are managing to get by in the apocalypse all the same. Illustrator Andrew Tarusov created a doomsday calendar, with a different gal and a different apocalypse for every month of the year. More »
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It's time again for the Concept Art Writing Prompt, where we ask you to write a piece of flash fiction in response to an unusual piece of artwork. This week, we're headed into the desert, where, of all things, a submarine lies rotting. You're the author, so tell us: How did it get there? More »
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Although supervillains tend to cause their mayhem in the private sector, a handful of superpowered schemers find more success pulling strings inside the government. How might supervillains change the American political landscape? For one thing, we'd have more lightsabers. More »
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Pity the poor Tyrannosaurus. With those teeny little arms and that great big body, T-Rex is incapable of doing things that come easily to you and me. More »
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Designer Danny Haas has created a series of weathered posters that split famed superheroes' personalities straight down the middle. For characters such as Jean Grey and Susan Richards, the divide is less obvious but no less charming. Here's hoping he makes a Multiple Man diagram that's shaped like a pie chart. You can pick up prints of these fractured do-gooders at Haas' Society 6 shop.

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Locked away because of her strange waking visions and her nightmares, Faye is seeing a disturbing vision of the world's impending destruction — even as the real world beyond her walls is actually falling apart, thanks to an oil crisis which has caused chaos and mass rioting. More »
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In the spirit of such cartoons as Silverhawks, Thundercats, and Wheeled Warriors comes Space Stallions, a pitch-perfect tribute to the flamboyant animation of yesteryear. Space Stallions was made by a group of Danish film students — here's the synopsis to this keytar orgy: More »
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The Dark Lords of the Sith. Most of us grew up fearing Darth Vader and his compatriots — but the Sith Order holds many other secrets to dread. And a new volume of Star Wars lore, Book of Sith: Secrets from the Dark Side, is chock full of monstrous Sith apparitions. More »
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One of the weirdest of the solar system's moons is Iapetus. This is a medium-sized (1,471 km (914 miles) satellite of Saturn, orbiting about 3,561,300 km (2,213,000 miles) from the planet. Seen from the surface of Iapetus, Saturn looms about four times larger than a full Moon in Earth's sky. More »
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Much in the same way Game of Thrones and Battlestar Galactica have received the RPG remix from College Humor, AMC's "chemistry teacher turned meth cook" drama Breaking Bad has also been given the clever 16-bit treatment. More »
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The John Carter movie has a tough act to follow — we're used to seeing tons of amazingly thrilling art by masters like Frank Frazetta, showing weird creatures and heroic vistas. Now at last, there's some concept art from the movie that lives up to our dreams of Barsoom. More »
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In 1979, designer John White was 11 years old and had never seen Ridley Scott's Alien. Still, that didn't stop him from writing his own comic book adaptation of the film using markers and notebook paper. Explains White — who has also released his nine-year-old self's take on Star Wars — of his reference material: More »
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Think there were too many characters turning into flaky bits and floating off into the sky in the Battle of Hogwarts? Concept artist Andrei Riabovitchev has released some stills from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 that show a slightly different Voldemort departure. Plus, check out a few close-up shots of some giants!

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Here's something that should appeal to fans of Gōjin Ishihara's profoundly weird children's art. In 1969. a Japanese magazine published these exceedingly intense depictions of life at the center of our planet. Taking cues from Journey to the Center of the Earth and The Lost World, these drawings and diagrams are the strange remnants of some plesiosaur-filled fever dream. I love the heck out of them all.

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Later this year, Dark Horse Comics will release The Massive, a new ongoing comic book from writer/illustrator Brian Wood (DMZ, Channel Zero, Northlanders). More »
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In 1966, famed pulp artist Norman Saunders — who illustrated the 1962 Mars Attacks cards — produced a series of magical paintings for Topps' Batman trading card line. More »
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Say goodbye to your innocent childhood vision of multi-colored Space Invader bugs dancing happily across the sky. Character artist Tom Carruthers would like to replace it with a fang-filled piece of fleshy nightmare fuel. More »
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