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For their latest art challenge, the illustrators at the website Draw2D2 (previously: 1, 2, 3) placed characters from the Marvel Universe in the cherished hellhole-Americana X-Mas flick A Christmas Story. Witness Ralphie's pajamas and Flick's telephone pole shenanigans reenacted with the Marvel Universe's stalwart gang. Top image by Alex Ryan.

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Along a lonely stretch of road in Quarten, Switzerland, two strange figures and/or camera smudges survey the terrain, planning nefarious and/or blurry machinations. The figures follow the camera as it travels down the road. Some commenters on Reddit are claiming this is a gateway to Valhalla, but I'm of the mind that Galactus and the Silver Surfer accidentally ambled into the camera's view. There is a Giger Bar 40 minutes down the road. Coincidence? Of course not. More »
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The blog Project Rooftop is obsessed with the sartorial side of superheroics and posts oodles of redesigns (both official and unofficial) of your favorite capes. Artist Kris Anka recently gave Marvel's nastiest (and worst dressed) villains some much-needed makeovers. More »
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The weekend's coming, and you'll need some cool nerd duds if you're going to look right. Allow me to suggest these tees from Mighty Fine, each showing the rainbows-and-unicorns side of our favorite superheroes and villains. More »
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Yesterday, we showed you the worst of Comic Con's advertising - now here's the best. From the horrifying to the fantastic, SDCC's marketers ramped up their aggressive tactics tenfold this year. But when you're getting free burgers, what's to hate? More »
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So, I had done a couple of Disasters for you when I woke up Saturday morning to an apartment with no power. So I got some breakfast and went record shopping. More »
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Alien invasions, competing vampires and robots that are more than meets the eye are all populating the comics that'll be making their way to your local shelves tomorrow. What else do you need to know? More »
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Hip-shaking, pill-popping rocker Elvis Presley officially died in 1977, but he keeps popping up, at least in science fiction. Think Elvis lives? We list scifi’s explanations for what really became of the King. More »
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Marvel Comics’ big summer Spider-Man storyline, “New Ways To Die”, promises to introduce a new villain into the webslinger’s life: a mysterious character connected to his enemy Venom, called Anti-Venom. The most recent issue of Marvel’s Fantastic Four series featured Mr. Fantastic stopping an invincible foe by wearing his new “Anti-Galactus suit”. Sensing a trend here? We've got the full back story on this new anti-zeitgeist. More »
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Now that we've all given up on any pretense at a New Year's diet, it's time to celebrate some of the hungriest people in science fiction: Those so hungry, they could eat an entire planet. Not for these fine folk, the questionable pleasures of a Burger King Whopper or espresso chocolate chip cookie or several; instead, they'd rather slurp up every appetizing mortal-filled morsel in the universe. Those who want to feel thin should applaud our hierarchically-organized list of the three greediest bastards ever created. More »
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New York is famous as a breeding ground for monsters. With the metropolis about to get ripped to shreds on Friday in giant monster flick Cloverfield, NY's love affair with deadly, inhuman beasts is on our minds. HP Lovecraft wrote back in the 1920s that the Red Hook neighborhood was built over a vast, subterranean chamber where demons worshiped ancient monsters; and in 1933, the first King Kong movie gave the world an iconic view of a giant gorilla battling planes on top of the then-ultra-modern Empire State Building. But there are some other New York monsters you might have forgotten. We've got ten to remember. More »
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There are moments when I think that science exists purely to blow my puny human mind. Take galaxy NGC 4622, for example. For years now, astronomers have wondered about the fact that it seemed to be moving in reverse, spinning towards the direction of its spiral arms instead of away from them. Now a new analysis of images of NGC 4622 has revealed that there's more to the galaxy than thought. Namely, it may be deformed because it swallowed another galaxy. More »
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Must-read graphic novels are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale. More »
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