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more about #xmen more comments → Roklimber: And now for a little jealousy-inducing news: in many European countries, you get several weeks of paid vacation per year, plus paid national holidays.... more » Ruthless, If you let me: At my last place of employ, we were forbidden in all but illegal ways of taking our vacation time the last two weeks of the year, or the first week of... more » lazyeight: At CHOAM you're off all the time. Other people do the work for you. Unfortunately, the only way to quit is a slip-tip through your shield. more » LittleDragon: Where I work we don't get long vacations but we usually do get at least one day a month off. more » ManchuCandidate: But Superman can cheat. All he has to do is reverse the spin of the Earth if he needs a few extra days of vacay. Where I work, everything is shut do... more » BlueBeard: I thought they said the First Class title was going to be (basically) the new mutants- as in, the first class of Xavier's school to be trained as warr... more » Perhaps Not: It would be nice to see something with a bunch of Warren Ellis pseudoscience in it and less Wolverine (and more Cyclops! Cyclops forever! Mebbe Jake G... more » icy_one: Enver Gjokaj from Dollhouse would be a really good pre-fur Hank McCoy. more » pitpat: Prequel should have a bunch of newcomers, and young Wolverine gets exiled from the School, but is visited by older Wolverine (played by Hugh Jackman),... more » AngryEddy: I can't wait to see how they try to shoehorn Wolverine into this. As we all know, there are no X-Men movies - just a series of Wolverine movies. more » OCEntertainment: Help me out as I'm having trouble tracking down the quote, but I believe Xavier, in the movies, referred to one of the main trio (Cyclops, Storm, and ... more » tipsymongoose: They should just make another sequel that retcons everything that happened in X-men 3. I'm less interested in seeing young Cyclops/Storm/etc than I a... more » WestMantooth: Hopefully, he'll go all out in terms of action this time, but tell a good story. Hopefully Dougherty and Harris do a passover of someone else's script. more » TemporalSword: While I'm all for Singer to return, the thought of a prequel has me less than excited. He's already managed to set up the team quite well in the first... more » Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: There's a Fringe comic? more » -
#inhumanresources
How Many Paid Vacation Days Would You Get If You Worked At Cyberdyne?
You only get a few days off for the holidays. Things would be different in your science fiction life, right? We compare fictional companies with real-life ones, and reveal how your scifi vacation time could shake out. More » -
#xmen
Bryan Singer Takes Another Crack At Retelling The X-Men's Origin
The director of the first two X-Men films and Superman Returns has signed on to tell the story of the earliest mutant heroes, in X-Men Origins: First Class. But will the previous stars be involved? More » -
#comicswecrave
This Week's Comics Filled By Art Books, Angel And New Superheroes
Worried about the skip week of comic shipments? It's time to start stocking up on collections to tide you over, and this week's new releases are perfectly ready to help you do just that very thing. More » -
#uncannyvalley
Ranking The Creep Factor Of Human CGI: The Uncanny Valley Effect
The more realistic a CG human is, the creepier they become. There's nothing spookier than a half-computer half-child CG face on the big screen. We've ranked all the worst CG humans, in order of creepiness. More » -
#collectibles
The Collectible Glasses That Haunted Our Childhoods
2009 will be remembered for one reason only: as the year that Burger King-themed "Kingons" attacked people's nipples to steal their Star Trek glasses. But those Trek glasses are puny, compared to the fast-food chain collectibles of yesteryear. More » -
#rant
Reclaiming Your Humanity Means Killing A Whole Lot Of People
Wolverine, out on DVD recently, is a great example of one of the silliest clichés in escapist entertainment: someone reclaims his/her true humanity and unique individuality — by killing everyone in sight. What the hell is this about?
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#comicswecrave
Belated Comics Offer Superhero Overload And Sneaks At Movies
It may be the start of the holiday season - which, amongst other things, means that new comics are released on Thursday this week, instead of Wednesday - but that doesn't stop comics from bringing death, destruction and Iron Man. More » -
#deletedscenes
40 Unseen Moments From Your Favorite Movies
Just as you finish up your t(of)urkey leftovers, we thought we should share some movie leftovers with you. Say, 40 deleted scenes from movies like Star Wars, The Dark Knight and Star Trek? Click through for excised joy. More » -
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#triviagasm
The 15 Dumbest Superhero Retcons Of All Time
Superheroes can escape almost any trap... except for 50 years' worth of backstory that's dated, self-contradictory or gets in the way of a story. So what do you do? Reach for the retcon! Here are 15 examples of retcon fail.
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#triviagasm
3 Ways To Meet (And Get Nasty With) Your Opposite-Sex Duplicate
The most frustrating, annoying thing about the opposite sex is that they're not you. Why can't you just meet your exact duplicate — except for sex? You'd be a perfect match. Luckily, science fiction suggests 3 ways it could happen. More » -
#comicswecrave
Robot Detectives Battle Superhero Bastards For Your Comics Dollars
Hope you've been saving up your pennies for this week's comic haul: There's an impressive amount of new releases that you'll want to take home and cherish for at least the next seven days. Yes, these are Comics We Crave.
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#xmen
X2 Screenwriter Explains How He Would Have Written X3
X2 screenwriter Michael Dougherty didn't get a crack at the third X-Men script, but he and Bryan Singer did kick around some ideas for a Phoenix-centric movie. He shares his different take on Rogue and the end of Jean Grey. More » -
#thewalkingdead
10 Favorite Faux Deaths In Science Fiction
Death really isn't the end in science fiction... It just depends on whether or not it can be written around later. Here are some of our favorite NotDeaths that prove that the Grim Reaper should really up his game. More » -
#rant
4 Reasons Why Zombies And Superheroes Don't Mix
Marvel Comics' Necrosha launches this week, joining DC's Blackest Night, Marvel's own Marvel Zombies and Dynamite's Super Zombies on the crowded superhero zombie comic stands. But isn't there something... wrong with the idea of superpowered zombies? More » -
#xmen
Joss Whedon's X-Men: What We Didn't See, Apparently
Ahead of next week's public screening of their new Astonishing X-Men motion comic, Marvel have released the oddest trailer for the Joss Whedon-written project yet. Click through for details. More » -
#xmen
Magneto Dead, Deadpool Reboot: X-Movie Update Motherlode!
Empire recently talked to X-Men movie franchise producer Lauren Shuler Donner about plans for Wolverine 2, X-Men First Class, Deadpool and Magneto, and got some some interesting updates on what movies will happen when... if at all. Spoilers ahead.
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#xmen
Bryan Singer: I Want To Make More X-Men
After months of rumors, X-Men and Superman Returns director Bryan Singer has publicly stated that not only does he want to return to Fox's mutant angst franchise, but that he's spoken to the studio about the possibility. More » -
#newworldorder
7 Supervillains We Wouldn't Mind Taking Over The World (And Why)
We watch their so-called "fiendish" schemes being defeated on a regular basis, but have you ever stopped to wonder whether life would be better if the bad guy won? Here're some villains we're rooting for... and why we're doing so.
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#comicswecrave
Never Mind This Week's Comics, We're All About The Prose
It's a strange week of new releases when the best thing may be a prose novel, but Peter & Max isn't just any prose novel... Also, old(er) school Spider-Mans and alien-horsehead Thors abound in this week's comics we crave. More »
