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This is like the poster for the greatest crossover movie ever. The Eleventh Doctor and Amy team up with ShatnerKirk and NimoySpock to fight the Klingons, Romulans, Daleks and Cybermen. For the record, though, the Daleks would p0wn the Klingons and Romulans, and then take on the Federation. Artists Mike Mayhew & Rainier Beredo created this piece for the late, lamented Wizard Magazine. [Summerset on DeviantArt via Geek Tyrant, thanks Alex!] More »
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Like the undead, these zombie novel mashups are hard to kill. Next up is The War of the Worlds Plus Blood Guts and Zombies, in which both alien invaders and humankind are forced to fight off the undead. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5714662&view=rss&microfeed=true It had to happen eventually — someone is doing a Charles Dickens horror mashup. Sherri Browning Erwin, who already scored with the vampire-heavy Jane Slayre, is following it up with Grave Expectations, due in May 2011. Here's the blurb: More »
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If the Internet was built so that people could post pictures of their cats, then Twitter was built for this. Artists came up with their best kitty-Marvel mashups and tweeted the adorable results. More »
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But this "Toy Wire" mash-up by Ryan Hoffman and Dan Angelucci proves that, sometimes, all you need to be compatible is an overabundance of quality. And Mr. Potato Head. [Geekosystem] More »
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Godzilla has been a classic for years, but now he finally gets classical in this mashup by artist Andrew Leipzig, aka Zig. From Stormtrooper Mona Lisas to zombie pastorals, Zig has specialized in putting geek icons into fine art. More »
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Paul is Undead, Alan Goldsher's zombie history of the Beatles, hasn't even hit the shelves, but Goldsher is already at work on his next monster-musician mashup. Frankenstein Has Left the Building will star the ultimate manufactured popstar, complete with pitchforks. More »
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Some crafty home CG enthusiast decided to take a 3D computer model of Iron Man and drop it into the big "no one puts baby in the corner" dance scene. Is this cool? More »
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Ryan Dunlavey, the illustrator behind those wonderful comic book/comic strip mashups, has added a dash of Dr. Seuss to classic superheroes. Now someone needs to start writing comic books entirely in trisyllabic meter. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5436594&view=rss&microfeed=true BoingBoing is giving a free HP Envy laptop to the writer of the best literary mashup, and the 100+ entries so far include a mash-up of Star Trek and Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Plus A Clockwork Orange with zombies. And Edgar Allan Poe's Hamlet. The best, though, might well be Thoreau's Walden as reinterpreted by H.P. Lovecraft. Hell yes. [BoingBoing via L.A. Times] More »
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Sick of Disney/Marvel mashups? Artist Ryan Dunlavey offers an alternative with his bizarre and demented mashups of science fiction and comic books with classic newspaper strips. Just be warned: some beloved comic strip characters don't survive the experience. More »
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The recent movie mashup contest at b3ta.com asked members to combine two popular movies into a single, iconic movie poster. From Alien meets E.T. to Donnie Darko recast as Harvey, many of the results are truly clever and inspired. More »
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Zombies have taken over malls. They've taken over Jane Austin and Charles Dickens. And now they're coming for the Beatles in the upcoming book Paul Is Undead, which chronicles the rise and fall of an undead Fab Four. More »
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You're probably family with the widespread claims that The Wizard of Oz synchs up with Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. Now some fans are saying the same is true of robot love story Wall-E and The Wall. More »
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Hey, it's Friday! And if you're like me, you're heading out to the Karaoke to guzzle $1 PBRs and holler into a super-echoey mic at a crowd of people who (hopefully) are even drunker than you are. But being an enlightened, forward-looking person, what you really want is to bellow a science fiction song into the mic. We've got you covered with our handy list. More »
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