<![CDATA[io9: Cowboys]]> http://cache.io9.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png <![CDATA[io9: Cowboys]]> http://io9.com/tag/cowboys http://io9.com/tag/cowboys <![CDATA[What's the secret of a good genre mashup?]]> Lately it seems like a lot of the freshest genre works are mash-ups of well-worn ideas. Whether it's "police procedural with elves" or "superhero movie with Cold War intrigue." But why do some genre mashups rule, while others fail horribly? More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5802089&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Take a closer look at Cowboys and Aliens' all-out extraterrestrial war]]> You've seen the first trailer for Cowboys & Aliens now take a look at the alien secrets hidden within a collection of newly released high-res images, plus some trailer screencaps. What's the biggest surprise? The alien camera POV shot. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5692670&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Shatner Vs. Shatner: Star Trek stars' Western roles feel like a lost voyage of the Enterprise]]> No, that's not Kirk squaring off against his transporter duplicate: It's a scene from William Shatner's Spaghetti Western, White Comanche. A new DVD set is full of Trek stars' cowboys-and-Indians adventures, which really feel like lost Star Trek episodes. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5649366&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[First Footage Of James Marsters As An Alien-Fighting Cowboy]]> Did Dragonball kill all of James Marsters' sex appeal for you? Don't worry, we've got clips of him fighting an alien, as a cowboy. Throw in a unicorn and you've got last nights sex dream. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5238531&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Art of Cowboys and Killer Robots]]> In 2003, artist Sunny Buick conceived and curated SCI-FI Western, an exhibition of art inspired by both science fiction and the American frontier. Taking the analogy of space as the new Old West to the next level, the participating artists juxtaposed B-movie imagery from westerns and science fiction with bizarre and surprisingly poignant results. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5055462&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Singing Cowboys vs. Radium in "The Phantom Empire"]]> One of the best parts of watching old science fiction serials from the 1930s are the strange title cards that come at the beginning of each installment to remind you about what happened in the last. This is a gallery of those titles from The Phantom Empire, a popular serial starring "singing cowboy" Gene Autry, who fights against the evil Queen Tika. She rules the underground scientific city Murania, which is "far advanced in the use of radio activity." More »
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