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Looking to pump out some optic blasts for less than a Ulysses S. Grant? Cosplay craftsman Peter Sorensen has written this tutorial for creating replicas of Scott Summers' famous eyewear. More »
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Forget clunky metal and plastic armor that leave you sweating and bruise everyone you scrape by at conventions. This soft and cozy crocheted cyclops outfit is a cool and crafty alternative. More »
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You may remember Kevin Wada and Max Wittert's haute couture remixes of the X-Men's superheroing outfits. The artists have now drafted a new batch of mutant apparel that ranges from Chamber's plasma frock to Cyclops' quartz slab sunglasses to Namor's winged anklets. Which, to be perfectly honest, I would wear the living hell out of. Air Imperious Rex!

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The X-Men always complain that they're loathed by society, but they never think to stop it's because they're so damned good-looking. And barring a few select team members, the X-Men are more Olympic water polo team pin-up calendar, less genetically quirky superhero squad. But what if the comeliest of X-Men couldn't blend in with the normals? More »
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According to the Pisces Fleet Sportsfishing blog, this one-eyed bull shark fetus was removed from a mother caught in Mexico's Sea of Cortez. Apparently shark researcher Felipe Galvan Magaña is now examining this monocular specimen. More »
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How does one make the skeleton of Hercules? Take a bunch of mastodon bones and mix well. More »
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Illustrator Cliff Chiang has rendered Marvel Comics' most notorious — and immature — love triangle in an homage to one of Hughes' most beloved teen-angst-o-ramas, Pretty in Pink. More »
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There's a mini Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reunion happening inside Jared Hess' science-fiction-loving film Gentlemen Broncos. Can you figure out the link? Plus the director reveals his Krull roots. More »
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Is X-Men Origins: Wolverine's Kid Cyclops twitter-teasing us, or are we closer to the prospect of the X-Men movie reboot than we'd previously thought? Click through for speculations and potential spoilers. More »
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Famed director for Ghost in the Shell, Mamoru Oshii's latest live action trailer is out featuring a team of kick-ass lady hunters searching for deadly sand whales over a barren wasteland Earth. Plus, robots with heart! This is Cult. More »
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Good to see Fox isn't letting up on their perpetual crapping on poor old Cyclops. A clawful of new Wolverine Origins stills shows young Scott Summers in some sort of mutant jail, looking like hell. More »
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Next year sees the release of X-Men Origins: Wolverine and we already know that X-Men Origins: Magneto is in the works too. But is Fox also looking to reboot that X-Men franchise with a new movie that will introduce the first-ever students at Professor Xavier's School For Gifted Children? A couple of clues seem to be pointing in that direction. More »
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Marvel Comics knows a good tease when it sees one, which might explain the latest, wordless image that they've released in support of a mystery project. All we know about this shadowy femme fatale is that she's somehow connected to the letter X and the number 2009, but if you come under the jump, you can see the whole picture, its earlier counterpart, and some baseless speculation as to what it could all mean. More »
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A French graphic novel that asks tough questions about war and cyber-voyeurism is getting a movie adaptation directed by James Mangold (3:10 To Yuma). Cyclops (Cyclopes) is about a team of mercenaries in a dystopian future who wear webcams on their helmets, to broadcast their killing sprees to civilian voyeurs. Click through for details and the first three pages of the graphic novel (in French, sorry.) More »
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Nate Wragg is a cool artist from Davis, California who draws colorful scenes of monster battles and women-snatching cyclops robots on alien planets. In this 2007 piece, he illustrates a fight between Yeti and Bigfoot using acrylics, gouache, and paper cutouts. Okay, Wragg's actually not just some dude from California. He's a hot shot artist for Pixar — you can see his work in movies like Ratatouille. Click through to see his (maybe NSFW) homage to scifi pulp art. More »
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You may be sick of the flowers and Hallmark cards of Valentine's Day already, but spare a thought for those whose careers make romance an all-but-impossible dream. I'm talking, of course, about superheroes, those brave souls who have to make the choice between getting their rocks off or defeating yet another alien invasion. Yes, they have secret identities, but as many of us already know, the choice to spend at least part of your day wearing outlandish tight-fighting costumes only complicates relationships even if you keep that part of your life secret. With that in mind, let's celebrate the three super-heroes who are the unluckiest in love. More »
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Science fiction is terrific at helping you imagine how you'd enhance, hack, and upgrade your own body — especially your eyeballs. Humans have been trying to improve on the sense of sight since 1300, when spectacles were invented. What comes next? Take a look at our list of some of the vision enhancement tools that science fiction has offered up. It goes way beyond seeing more clearly or getting a glimpse of the infrared side of the spectrum. More »
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