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unrealistic countdowns
The Slowest, Stretchiest Countdowns In Science Fiction History
When life and death for everyone hangs on a ten-second countdown, those ten seconds can feel endless because of your adrenaline rush and your super-focused attention. Or maybe those seconds actually are endless. (Like this awesome moment from Time Chasers via MST3K — thanks t3knomanser!) Science fiction TV shows (and some movies) have a long and honorable tradition of cheating on final countdowns, where seconds last ridiculously long. It's like ten, nine, eight and a half, eight and a quarter.... Here are some of the most unreal countdowns from science fiction. More »
poll
ChooseThe Next Scifi Classic To Get The Comedy Remake Treatment
Now that Eddie Murphy and Brett Ratner are remaking The Incredible Shrinking Man as a comedy, maybe we'll see the start of a trend of comedy remakes of scifi classics. After all, a version of The Day The Earth Stood Still starring Martin Lawrence probably wouldn't be any sillier than the "serious" Keanu Reeves version coming in December. So which classic movie do you think would make for a modern comedy masterpiece? More »
dc comics
DC Universe Will Give Us "Manazons" and Anatomically Correct Supergirls
A new Secret Six series, evil math and 'Manazons' for Wonder Woman to face, and a Supergirl without T&A were only a few of the announcements made by DC Comics uber-editor Dan DiDio (flanked by cosplayers as Good and Bad Mary Marvel) and the panel of DC writers and artists at New York Comic-Con. They also revealed a new chapter in DC's ongoing space war, and an ominous development for Green Lantern's space police squad. More »
green lantern
Sinestro Will Sleep With Men, Women In Times Square For Victory
We've been wondering for a while about Sinestro's sexuality. The fascistic alien conqueror, from DC Comics' Green Lantern series, sports a neat little mustache and a costume that's skin-tight and unusually heavy on the gold lamé, even by superhero/supervillain standards. And then we discovered a page from an old Green Lantern comic that made our sex questions even more pressing — and so we decided to talk to the comic's writer and shed some light on what makes Sinestro happy. More »
millennium
Relive Comics' Earlier Secret Invasion
It's an eight-issue crossover comic book series where a ton of superheroes discover that their friends, family - and even some of the heroes themselves - have been replaced by alien invaders with a sinister agenda. Marvel's upcoming Secret Invasion? Nope - DC's 1988 crossover series Millennium. This series not only did the alien conspiracy plot twenty years before Skrulls took over Marvel, but also introduced arguably the lamest super-heroes ever. Find out what happened to the next step of human evolution under the jump.More »
triviagasm
Back, Back, Back To Life With The Best of the Worst Scifi Resurrections
Anyone who reads comic books knows that no one is ever really dead. Every character from Superman to Green Lantern has returned to life from the whereverafter they went to when sales figures dropped. Plus every zombie movie ever made brings your loved one back from the beyond, although they are never quite the same. Insta-reanimation doesn't happen as much in science fiction, where you have devices like nanobots and cellular regenerators that should make returning from the state of deadness quite easy. Of course when we do get a scifi resurrection, it's often so lame that you wish the character had stayed dead. Read on for our picks of the best bad returns from the grave. More »
toy fair
New Toys Will Vaporize The Contents Of Your Wallet
Toy Fair is going on right now in New York City, and besides Comic-Con, it's probably the geekiest time of the year, sending shuddering fangasms through everyone who's ever wanted a scale-model replica of the flux capacitor. This year finds a ton of science fiction toys on display, and we've already put several things on our must-have lists for when they hit stores. Check out our favorite goods in the gallery below, and find out why we want a Sleestak coin bank so badly. More »
new comics we crave
What To Buy When Jenna's Let You Down
Sure, there may be other comics coming out, but on a week where Jenna Jameson's Shadow Hunter #1 ships to comic book stores across this proud nation, is there any point talking about any of them? ...Oh, wait. Shadow Hunter is actually a generically dull story about a woman dealing with demon heritage that we've all seen more than once before, and something that wouldn't get a second's publicity if it wasn't for the connection to one of porn's favorite daughters. In that case, let's talk about the other things you can pick up this week after all. More »
9:00 AM on Tue Feb 19 2008
By Graeme McMillan
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Latest by CrispyShot: one of porn's favorite daughters That is sooo the wrong mental image... more »
morning spoilers
New Spoilers For Justice League Movie
If we had a superhero for every mutually contradictory plot synopsis we've read for George Miller's Justice League movie, we'd have enough for three super-teams. But the latest League plot info supposedly comes from a casting notice, and sounds just dumb enough to be real. We also have spoilers for Wolverine, Lost and Torchwood. Plus a preview of Joss Whedon's next issue of Runaways. More »
new comics we crave
Teen Drama Queens Vs. Alien Invaders: Who Will You Root For?
If it's Wednesday, then it must be time-travel or space war. Or, in the case of one of the new comic books this week, some combination of the two. This week's comics see all manner of classic scifi ideas repackaged for today's super-hero-centric audiences. Relaunches, forgotten series, and an unfinished classic all wait for you to click that "more" button. More »
9:00 AM on Tue Feb 12 2008
By Graeme McMillan
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greenwich village
The Aliens Of Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village may be a big mall now, but it used to be one of the most alien locations in America. Full of beatniks, hippies and freaks, it seemed like a natural hang-out for a slumming monster. In classic scifi, the Village is always full of bizarre acid trips and aliens who pass unnoticed. Click through for our round-up of way-out Village tales.More »
lensmen
New Movie Celebrates Galactic In-Breeding
The quest for classic scifi texts to bring to the big screen may finally have gone too far. Ron Howard's Imagine Entertainment and Universal Pictures are negotiating for the rights to film E.E. "Doc" Smith's Lensmen novels, which are so dated that any adaptation will be either unrecognizable or unwatchable. And yet the series helped launch the whole genre of space opera, so it's easy to understand the temptation. Click through for the awful details. More »
justice league: the new frontier
New Justice League Flick Puts Green Lantern in the Korean War
The award-winning retro-futurist graphic novel DC: The New Frontier will become a stylish movie, judging from this newly released trailer. This direct-to-DVD animated film, based on the Darwyn Cooke graphic novel, follows Green Lantern (voiced by David "Angel" Boreanaz) from the Korean War to the Kennedy administration. It's also part of a trend toward putting DC Comics characters back in the bygone eras that spawned them. More comic book journeys into U.S. history after the jump. More »
doomsday plans
10 Ways To Destroy The Earth Without Nukes
You can't really call yourself an evil genius unless you've got a clever scheme for wrecking our planet once and for all. And no, using nuclear weapons doesn't really count as "clever." Nukes are so 1950. Here's a list of the 10 coolest ways to smash Earth, or at least render it uninhabitable, without splitting any atoms. More »
this week in comics
Gail Simone Cuts Loose In "Tranquility"
Murder shatters the peace in a retirement community for old superheroes, in Gail Simone's awesome Welcome To Tranquility Vol. 1, out this week. The collection of the first six issues of Tranquility comes too late to win new fans and save the series from cancellation, but it's still worth picking up for bizarre characters like Emoticon, the gangsta with a mask that displays his feelings, and Zeke the rockabilly zombie gravedigger. Freed from working on corporate-owned characters, Simone cranks her inventiveness up to 11. What other comics might help get you through Hump Day? Glad you asked. More »
comic books this week
After Black Friday and Cyber Monday, Comics Have "New Release Wednesday Thursday"
Time travel becomes a reality this week for comic book fans everywhere, with last week's holiday bumping the traditional New Release Wednesday to Thursday. The post-holiday blues also affect the books themselves, as the usual focus on the single issues begins to shift towards pricier collections. But of all the hundreds of things arriving this week, which ones should you be spending money on? Glad you asked. More »
news blast
Speed Racer Will Be All Fake Except The Monkey
- The Wachowskis' Speed Racer movie backgrounds will be all greenscreen like 300, says star Emile Hirsch. All except for Chim Chim the monkey, which is real. And presumably flung its poop at the pristine green walls. [Empire]
- Dave "Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" Eggers collaborated with director Spike Jonze on the script to Where The Wild Things Are, Jonze's next movie. Wild Things will mix live puppeteering and computer animation. [Hollywood Reporter]
- The Mist took ninth place in the holiday weekend box office, behind more obvious holiday movies Enchanted, This Christmas, Bee Movie and Fred Claus. But Beowulf, American Gangster and Hitman also blew The Mist away.
