February 5, 2012 – The Avengers assemble in their explosive Super Bowl spot. It's an action-heavy trailer, one meant to show off the flying, punching juice of our mightiest heroes. More »
io9 Roundup: February 5, 2012
February 5, 2012 – THE REAL BATTLE BETWEEN THE PATRIOTS AND THE GIANTS | Football already has ghosts. What it needs are superpowers. By Vincent Aparo, via Super Punch. In this semi-drunk movie about Superman's death, Elijah Wood is Cyborg Superman Remember when the Man of Steel died and came back in the 1990s? More »
Aliens sink more than boats in Super Bowl Battleship trailer
February 5, 2012 – The Super Bowl trailer for the boardgame-inspired Battleship film is filled with city-busting disaster porn. Watch the spiked alien spheres take out roadways and buildings, before trapping Hawaii under an impenetrable dome — More »
Handwritten pages from Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, illustrated by Lewis Carroll
February 5, 2012 – Lewis Carroll's first iteration of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was a much shorter work titled Alice's Adventures Under Ground. Although the final product is well known for John Tenniel's memorable illustrations, Carroll himself illustrated his original manuscript. In fact, many of Tenniel's... More »
Pin-up calendar ladies survive the sexy apocalypses
February 5, 2012 – 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. Apocalypse Tomorrow is a 2012 calendar with a goofy take on... More »
Sky diver plans supersonic jump from suborbital space
February 5, 2012 – Could space jumping be the next extreme sport? After all the objects that have gone into suborbital space: teddy bears, Lego men, plates of sushi, one man plans to send himself up to the edge, and then leap back down again. We first told you about Felix Baumgartner's quest to be the first... More »
The world’s largest museum collection of brains is on display in Peru
February 5, 2012 – There's only one place in the world where you can view row after row of brains afflicted by mad cow disease, Alzheimer's, and alcoholism. It's Lima's Museo de Cerebros, home to the largest collection of gray matter that can be viewed by the public. More than 3,000 samples of diseased brains and... More »
The New Orleans Saints hired a Voodoo priestess to fight a ghostly football curse
February 5, 2012 – Today, the New York Giants and the New England Patriots battle for football supremacy, while fans sit at home with their lucky jerseys and their game day rituals. More »
In Sarah and the Seed webcomic, a woman gives birth to a giant seed instead of a baby
February 5, 2012 – When an older woman becomes pregnant, there are always a lot of concerns. Will the baby be born healthy? Will the labor be difficult? In Ryan Andrews' short and sweet webcomic Sarah and the Seed, a woman's pregnancy results in something her husband never thought to worry about: More »
What do you name an adorable two-faced kitten? Meet Harvey Dent
February 5, 2012 – There's a new two-faced character in the world, and he's a lot cuddlier than Aaron Eckhart. Newborn Janus cat Harvey Dent has four eyes, two noses, two mouths, and one appropriate name. Little Harvey was born in this week in Port Charlotte, Fla. More »
SNL journeys to Moon President Gingrich’s lunar utopia
February 5, 2012 – Life will be sweet on Newt Gingrich's moon base. We'll all wear awesome retrofuturistic jumpsuits, children will serve as janitors at their own schools, and Vice-Admiral Herman Cain will be there to greet us with a warm secret space handshake. More »
Perhaps the most well-researched map ever of The Hunger Games‘ Panem
February 5, 2012 – Part of the fun of Suzanne Collins' dystopian Hunger Games series is trying to figure out where in North America the districts of the future nation of Panem are located. More »
The Avengers team up with Jake and Finn for Avenger Time
February 5, 2012 – If the Avengers are Earth's mightiest heroes, and Adventure Time's Jake and Finn are the bravest adventurers of the post-apocalypse, what happens when they meet face to animated face? More »
Jim Bakker’s Christian amusement park is now a post-apocalyptic ghost town
February 5, 2012 – In 1986, Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's Heritage USA was the third most-visited amusement park in the US, behind only Disney World and Disneyland. Now the park that once entertained millions of guests is falling to pieces, and looks more like the scene from a post-apocalyptic movie than a place for... More »
The experiment to determine whether an astronaut could fall like a cat
February 4, 2012 – How did astronauts learn to walk in space? In part, they learned from the animal kingdom's master of the freefall: the common house cat. In the 1960s, Stanford University professor Thomas R. More »
Why the new Star Wars Volkswagen Super Bowl ad is a travesty
February 4, 2012 – I was excited as the next Star Wars fan to get a sneak peek this week of the new "The Dog Strikes Back" Volkswagen ad that's set to debut at the Super Bowl. More »
Milk Man is the world’s worst (and most disgusting) superhero
February 4, 2012 – With dairy-based powers far beyond that of a mortal man, Milk Man is a surprisingly effective crimefighter. But you may want to politely decline his projectile milk-spewing aid if you have a delicate gag reflex.
Real-life "Human Centipede" contraption used electric shocks to keep frat pledges in line
February 4, 2012 – Believe it or not, someone managed to put the words "human" and "centipede" next to each other more than 80 years before the infamous surgery horror film. More »
Bin Laden leads undead terrorists in the explosion-filled Osombie trailer
February 4, 2012 – The biggest issue on tap for the 2012 presidential campaign season? Dealing with zombie terrorists. In the independent horror film Osombie, Osama Bin Laden will emerge from his water grave to convert Afghanistan — More »
1950 letters from wannabe space travelers hoped for canine astronauts and Venusian dinosaurs
February 4, 2012 – In 1950, the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium promoted its Conquest of Space exhibition with a peculiar stunt. They solicited letters from the general public, inviting them to reserve seats on the first flight into space. More »
