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more about #flashgordon Bootknife-Jackson: Reynolds is already trying to convince the American public that he is, in fact, two separate comic book characters over a stretch of the next few year... more » Bill-Lee: I'd rather see a film version of Warren Ellis' Ignition City which imagines space opera heroes as washed-up has-beens. more » TomSkylark: Though neither seems like the best casting choice, I would cast my vote for Ryan Reynolds, if only to avoid the seemingly inevitable Worthington over-... more » ThisDudeRufus: GORDON'S ALIVE!?!?!? Oh, I forgot. "Flash. Ah-aaaaah." Seriously, I'm pretty sure that movie was a collective joke played on the rest of the world b... more » Bill-Lee: We already had an awesome Flash Gordon movie...it was called Star Wars: A New Hope. more » RandomFrequentFlierDent-Hogswatch!: But the real question is: is it a Mac or a PC? more » Bill-Lee: In the year 2037 is some guy in Europe going to find an old copy of the original Star Trek, take one look at the communicators and talk about how Gene... more » Pope John Peeps II: Looks sort of like a little reel-to-reel device stored in a briefcase? Or are those little radio dials? Which would be about right for the technology ... more » gorehound: there are lots of cool fantastic inventions of the imagination back in the good old days of pulp magazines. and some of those have come true. more » eviladrian: Not a "briefcase" field radio, is it? more » Anekanta - Go Play!: Need a larger image to see exactly what's going on. Still, that's pretty impressive. Now, where's my personal rocket ship? more » Mike Fabry: you forgot the Great Space Coaster. more » franklinshepard: I do think that Seaquest has a great pseudo-Star Trek theme, though. Wow, I had forgotten how many characters that show had. I loved it so much when I... more » capnrob: About the Project: UFO summary: That wasn't just Jack Webb-esque, that was bloody well Jack Webb. Honest. Also: Oh, jeez. I mention a godawful show i... more » SeeingI: In the shot of Sarah Jane drinking wine, I think they managed to capture on tape the exact moment she decided to give up acting. K-9 sits on a wall... more » ThelmaClymene: Am I the only person who is shocked, appalled even, that SPACE 1999 didn't make this list. unbeliavably funky wah wah guitar and superfast jumpcuttin... more » trekkie: There are quite a few of these that as a cranky old sci-fi nerd I take exception with. Particularly the mocking of some of the better 70s openings li... more » Klebert L. Hall: How the heck did K-9 get on top of that wall? I love everything U.F.O. - I watched the intro twice, even though I've seen it a million times before. ... more » Charax: Have to tell you, charlie, Firefox is loving all these embedded flash videos on a single page, it's not crawling or anything... I actually thought the... more » Briareosdx: I had actually always believed that my fevered young brain had hallucinated "The Powers of Mathew Star", conjuring it from the discarded detritus of v... more » -
#rumors
Ryan Reynolds And Sam Worthington Are Fighting, Over Flash Gordon?
The internet swears both Sam Worthington and Ryan Reynolds are fighting to play Flash Gordon. But is it true? Probably not. More » -
#retrofuturism
Laptop Depicted in 1937 Flash Gordon Comic
A Macedonian comics fan recently noticed this panel from a reprint of the 1937 Flash Gordon arc "The Outlaws of Mongo," which depicts the henchmen of Ming the Merciless apparently communicating via laptop computer. [Science Fiction Observer via Reddit] -
#openingdiscredits
SF Television's Most Eye-Melting, Ear-Bleeding Opening Credits
Why does science fiction television sometimes get a bad reputation? Oh yeah — because of cheesetastic opening credits like this one, from Jason Of Star Command. Here are a few dozen of the absolute scariest opening discredits in SF television. More » -
#newcomicswecrave
Teleporting Dogs And Dying Detectives In This Week's Comics
Whether you like robotic children, superheroic animals or dying detectives about to go all Fringe on you, there's something in this week's comics for you. Here's hoping you can afford it all.
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#poll
Which Long-Running Franchise Will Still Be Going In 50 Years?
So many of our visions of the future come from decades in the past, it's hard not to wonder how long they'll stick around. We can't help noticing sometimes that many of the new and exciting franchises we write about at io9 are decades old — dating back to the 1930s, in the case of Flash Gordon and many superheroes. Which makes us wonder: will we still be obsessing about Captain Kirk or Darth Vader in the year 2058? Will any of our grizzled old francises survive another 50 years? More » -
