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more about #invasion gorehound: I am the bear jew !!!! more » ManchuCandidate: Alien torture porn? more » BangarangRufio867: so are the protagonists all from Boston? Not sure if you should refer to a subway accident in LA as "wicked"...unless of course it was pissa'! more » Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: Star Brand was one of the few New Universe titles I actually liked. The Pitt was a good stand-alone story apart from the series. #comics more » Makidian: All of those sound like they'd make pretty awesome movies, but all I want to see is a proper Superman vs. Doomsday that tackles the whole of the story... more » gods-n-clods: The Maxx live action? #comics more » CleverName: they made Watchmen... #comics more » collex: What about Civil War? I love this story (one of the only big events I love and try to own as many tpb of it as I can), but it's so big I doubt it coul... more » Mike Caprio: Planetary #comics more » Brian Fowler: Age of Apocalypse would be another one. Which is sad because that was awsome, for awhile. #comics more » SinisterBill is bi-console: Watchmen should be here. #comics more » Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: If anything you're making me think The Pitt should definitely be a movie. Keep Star Brand and maybe lose "Kickers Inc." (if you have to ask... don't)... more » Im_your_Huckleberry: Kingdom Come is another big series that would be cool on the big screen if done right. more » Lassus: Aztec Ace! Although I'd love to see someone try. I'm surprised McCloud hasn't gotten anyone to give ZOT! a go. #comics more » tande04: Batman 1,000,000 was awesome though. #comics more » AngriestGeek: Better one #comics more » AngriestGeek: Secret Wars isn't even close to be comics' "as many heroes at once" stories." That honor goes back to the first Crisis that teamed up the JLA and the... more » Canoehead: It isn't a real continent. #comics more » Hamslicer: For your consideration, a reboot: The wedding of Susan Storm to Reed Richards, the comic book version. more » van_line: Give Spike Jonze the Flex Mentallo story and let him work his magic. #comics more » -
#invasion
Eli Roth Readies Yet Another Alien Invasion Flick
Is Eli Roth turning alien invasion graphic novel El Eternauta into a film? The new description of his next alien film leads us to believe it may be heavily inspired by the Argentinian comic. But if not, we're still excited. More » -
#toobigformovies
7 Superhero Stories Too Big For Movies
Sure, movies like Iron Man and The Dark Knight have proven that superheroes can work on the big screen, but sometimes only comics can offer longjohned epics so large-scale that they'd break Hollywood in half through special effects budget alone. More » -
#id4
Roland Emmerich Planning Not One, But Two Independence Day Sequels
Apparently one movie isn't enough to contain all the ideas Roland Emmerich has for his follow-up to Independence Day. The director is planning to make two sequel films, and he already has a punny title in mind. More » -
#afternoonreading
Passive-Aggressive Aliens Want to Steal Your Gravel
In the latest issue of The New Yorker, an alien civilization announces its intentions to visit our planet. But they're not a benevolent race out to share their technology; they're actually quite passive aggressive and have designs on our gravel. More » -
#conceptart
An Alien Invasion You Can Write Home About
Artist Franco Brambilla combines combines vintage postcards with computer-generated images of aliens, flying saucers, and giant robots, to give your next alien invasion the same quaint, cozy feeling as your grandpa's Alpine vacation. More » -
#waroftheworldsredux
British Schoolchildren Traumatized by Fake Alien Invasion
Hoping to spark their students' imaginations, a junior school in England staged an alien invasion, complete with a crash landing and the "abduction" of one of their faculty members while the children watched. What could possibly go wrong? More » -
#alienhoax
Alien Invasion Hoax Exposes Croatia’s Military Hair Trigger
Residents of Zagreb panicked last week when they heard radio reports of UFO sighting. The station’s journalists admitted to a War of the Worlds-inspired hoax, but claim this hoax held a deeper purpose. -
#stupidpublishertricks
If You Can't Beat 'Em, Rip 'Em Off
With Marvel Comics' Secret Invasion topping the sales charts, you can't blame DC Comics for wanting to get in on the action - especially when the plot of Secret Invasion closely mirrors two of their own series from the 1980s, Millennium and Invasion!. But do the covers of the recently-released collections of those two series go too far? Millennium's new tagline "Trust No One!" answering Secret Invasion's own tagline "Who Do You Trust?" is one thing, but adding "Secret No More!" onto the cover of Invasion!? That just seems kind of desperate. [Invasion!] -
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#conceptart
The Alien Warships That Took San Francisco
These paintings from the PS3 game Resistance: Fall of Man 2 make mayhem and alien invasions look downright gorgeous. We aren't sure if that's meant to be the Golden Gate Bridge in the image above, since the structure of the supports looks somewhat different, but if it is... San Francisco looks like it might take a pounding in this sequel. We've got a whole gallery of this beautiful art below. More » -
#dystopia
Video Games That Plunge You Into Existential Dispair
The arrival of dystopian scifi video game Mass Effect has us reaching for our Prozac . . . and our controllers. The darker and weirder the world a video game gives us, the better. Whether it involves an alien invasion, or a maniacal artificial intelligence, we love games that crush our dreams in an orgy of hopeless shootouts. Mass Effect is just the latest in a whole crop of disturbing, scifi thriller games you should stockpile for the long, cold months ahead. More » -
#planet51
A Planet of Cute, Human-Hating Aliens
New Line Cinema announced today that it will be distributing Planet 51, Europe's biggest CGI film ever, in 2009. The $60 million dollar film features astronaut Captain Chuck Baker landing on a planet filled with 1950s-era aliens who live in complete fear of aliens, namely Chuck himself. Gallery of cute aliens after the jump. More »
