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Although supervillains tend to cause their mayhem in the private sector, a handful of superpowered schemers find more success pulling strings inside the government. How might supervillains change the American political landscape? For one thing, we'd have more lightsabers. More »
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Usually, when a political figure is photographed in disreputable company, he tries to cover it up. But when pictures surfaced of Russian blogger and protestor Aleksei Navalny meeting with Voldemort, the Terminator, a "gray" alien, and even that notorious lout Bender, he displayed them proudly on his blog. More »
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Photoshop is a reality in the world of photography, but it gets out of hand when advertisers and fashion directors completely transmogrify the original image, creating an unrealistic and impossible result. New research proposes a way to codify how heavily Photoshopped an image is. The only catch? The industry has to cooperate with it. More »
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Holy hell, this is disturbing. Could high-heeled foot implants actually happen in the near future? One artist is showing us the horror we've got to look forward to. More »
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Battleship, Monopoly, Ouija — these are all real board games Hollywood has been turning (or at least attempting to turn) into major motion pictures. But what about the rest of the classic brain teasers? A Photoshop contest challenged folks to imagine even more board game movies — by creating horror movie posters. The results were fantastic! More »
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Earlier today, we posted photos of Tom Hardy decked out in Bane attire on the set of The Dark Knight Rises. One of the stranger snapshots has Bane staring intently at a scrap of paper. More »
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Reddit user DoubleChops decided that John Constable's 1825 painting "Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Garden" didn't have enough Star Destroyers. So he rectified that shit. More »
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Several days ago, we were absolutely baffled by the lamentable posters for X-Men: First Class, which depict silhouettes of Charles Xavier and Magneto incubating their own giant heads. More »
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Marvellous Hairy author Mark A. Rayner is holding a Photoshop contest to create vintage advertisements for futures that don't exist yet. Here's a small sampling of these retrofuturistic print pieces from both the current and past contests. More »
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Old-school Polish movie posters were absolutely wondrous. Rather than succinctly portray movies' plots, these posters would go out of the way to be as cryptic as possible. Something Awful has transmogrified some of your favorite sci flicks into symbolic weirdness. More »
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At the blog "Nic Cage As Everyone," the former Nicholas Coppola plays every single role in the history of moving picture. He's so talented that he even plays real-life people! Here's the Cagemaster as some of your favorite scifi characters. More »
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At the blog The Brave and The Bold: The Lost Issues, blogmaster Ross teams Batman up with absolutely everybody, copyright be damned. Check out the never-was issues of The Brave and The Bold, guest-starring Alpha Flight, Deathlok, and KISS! More »
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While waiting for Lost's final mindfrak this Sunday, spend some time looking at all the brilliant artwork, videos, and photoshopperie this epic show inspired. Check out our massive round-up. More »
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Looking to give your Photoshop art that old-school arcade sheen? This tutorial will help you create retro-chic videogame designs à la Tron, Mega Man, and Asteroids. More »
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How will Chris Evans' Captain America look on the silver screen? Intrepid fans have begun Photoshopping Evans gussied up as Cap, and he looks red, white, and awesome. More »
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Adam Richardson has added pixelated alien invaders to actual war photos from Iraq and Afghanistan. And when the Space Invaders descend on a war zone, they find that they have more to contend with more than laser cannons. More »
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We all agree that comic books can be art, but here are some particular takes on classic paintings may be taking that argument just a little bit too literally (Wait until you see the Wolverine Lichtenstein). More »
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The starlets of tomorrow will emote in the depths of space and at the bottom of the ocean. That's because gynoids will replace all our favorite actresses! This gallery is sleazy, but probably work-safe. More »
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You've probably seen Ernst Haeckel's amazing naturalist drawings of squid and other creatures of the sea. But did you know he started his career as a greeting card designer? More »
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If you have too many cars on the freeway, the best thing to do is go vertical and build a skyscraper road system. Here is one possible way to do that, layering roads on top of each other until the traffic thins out. Perfect for Los Angeles, where it often takes three hours to cross town on the freeways. [Core Form-ula via Next Nature] More »
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Those of you with discerning tastes already know there is a subgenre of porn devoted to superheroes fighting, but you probably didn't know that there's a sub-subgenre devoted just to ladies with laser rays coming out of all their parts. Luckily, our sister site Fleshbot discovered this for us, and now we bring you the good news. A Flickr user named Daveisdrawing says he had a slow weekend with the old Photoshop, and decided to test out his theory that "porn is really super-powered women fighting." Check out the NSFW results. [Naked Super Battle via Flickr] More »
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Everybody thought comic book creator and Lost scribe Brian K. Vaughan was so creative when he came up with the premise for post-apocalyptic comic book Y the Last Man. In it, a mysterious force wipes out the entire male population of all species except for the main character, Yorick, and his male monkey. But we didn't realize Vaughan had copied the premise from a fifty-year-old romance comic! Behold the just-revealed inpsiration for Y, brought to light thanks to the researching powers of the dude behind comics blog MightyGodKing. More »
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Worth 1000 asked readers to improve non sci-fi movies by giving them the George Lucas treatment. The readers didn't disappoint. Sci-Fi Theater [Worth1000.com] More »
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