“We don’t often discuss literature around here, which is strange, because I know for a fact that we are all avid readers, with the exception of John Cheese (although to be fair, I don’t think books have made it out to the desolate corn-swamps of Illinois yet. The only book he’s ever seen was the one that husk-witch used to curse his father and turn him into a tractor. You’d hate reading, too, if you were him).”

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Go here to see famous characters who wasted superpowers.

“Superhero movies are so popular these days that even characters in other film genres are getting superpowers now — like that movie about the stripper who is also a wizard, Magic Mike. Apparently, Hollywood’s top writers are using their prodigious imaginations to come up with the coolest, most desirable powers … and then doing nothing with them.”

The Countdown

Honest titles for Disney movies – [Insert Coin]

When Game of Thrones meets Portlandia – [WarmingGlow]

James Franco is crowdsourcing three movie – [FilmDrunk]

Netflix and Dreamworks partner for new shows – [TVOvermind]

Writers saying smart things about Superman – [Pajiba]

For sale in South Korea – [TheChive]

8 bits of tasty cake – [Neatorama]

Today’s girl is Gabriel Anwar – [Maxim]

Ranking all the Pixar movies – [ScreenCrush]

Howard Stern roasts Jimmy Fallon on his own show – [BroBible]

Fake panhandler makes $100K a year – [Guyism]

Miss Utah’s brain fart – [WWIW]

A gallery that can’t be coincidence – [Izismile]

If movie posters could talk, this one would be saying “Kill Me.”

I don’t know if the UK marketing division for The Heat is just giving up trying to sell the movie to sophisticated British audiences overseas, but come on, a trained monkey could photoshop a better poster than this.

It’s hard to know where to even start, between an out of place RPG and those totally real sunglasses, but how about MELISSA MCCARTHY’S FREAKISHLY SMALL HEAD? First of all, that looks nothing like her. Second of all, you don’t make someone skinnier by simply shrinking and reshaped their skull, if that’s what they were going for here.

Maybe it’s just something about McCarthy that drives photoshoppers nuts. Her Bridesmaids poster is better than this monstrosity, but she does look like a porcelain doll. SHE DOESN’T LOOK LIKE MOST OTHER ACTRESSES, WE GET IT. There’s really no need to commit every possible sin of photoshop in order to try and “fix” that.

Alright, I’ll say up front that I’m not posting this ad for money or to secretly try and subvert our impressionable readers to run out and join the National Guard.

That said, I did find something oddly cool about watching Superman, as Henry Cavill, work out in the gym that get that ridiculous ass body we see on film. Obviously, this isn’t a complete rundown of his workout, and is more or less an ad for the National Guard, but it’s still pretty cool to see the training that goes into something like this. And I even thing he’s a lot bigger in the movie than what we see here. I bet he did a bunch of push-ups right before that shirtless laundry-snatching scene. That’s his secret…

Now, go join the National Guard and you can be a superhero too.

Probably until the end of time will pop culture artists be inspired by Star Wars, but that doesn’t mean it’s gotten old yet. Or that it ever will.

This latest batch of Star Wars prints has turned me on to a new talented artist named Joey Mason. He’s got a fantastic signature style, and some great concepts for pictures include mack daddy Lando Calrissian here.  There are a whole bunch of pretty great scenes in this gallery series which you can check out below. Something tells me he’s just getting started, and I would expect to see more of Mason on our little site here some time in the near future.  Continue Reading »

Mario Katharsis: an ongoing series in which an intrepid games journalist cracks open her sternum to reveal the most emotionally affecting moments of her gaming experiences, rated on a scale from single banana peel to spiny shell.

Like many office drones, I use Pandora Radio to help the day move along. While I didn’t ever explicitly create a station seed for video game soundtracks, the robots inside my computer keyboard can obviously tell I’m a gamer. It’s probably the callouses. Thus, I hear a lot of game soundtracks throughout the day.

As you might expect, this varies from awesome (there’s nothing like hitting a deadline while “Rock Anthem for Saving the World” plays in the background) to embarrassing (“An End, Once and For All” from Mass Effect 3). Continue Reading »

If you guys are anything like me, and let’s be honest, you are,  when you finally wrapped up the BRILLIANT fourth season of Arrested Development, you felt a slight twinge of panic rising up in your chest. Why? Because you knew in finishing that season, that there really wouldn’t be any television that would touch on the brilliance of what you just watched. As Cracked so astutely said in this article, season four really was one the best seasons of anything on TV, ever.

Why? Because they wrote it out like a book, and to see the way the final episode tied into the first episode of the season was nothing short of staggering in its scope and how well it worked. But what if I told you there is a show on Netflix right now that is, seriously, as brilliant as Arrested Development? As overstuffed with running jokes and subtle gags as Arrested, and containing a few of your favorite characters from that show, as well. While you may assume I meant actors, I didn’t. It really is like David Cross wanted to take his Tobias character to other shores, and the end result is comedy gold. So you say you want a great show to watch post season four of Arrested Development? Well, without question, that show is The Increasingly Poor Decisions Of Todd Margaret.

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I hear the word “hipster” so much now, I don’t even know what it means anymore. This is a series of “Hipster” DC superheroines by Elizabeth Beals, though I guess I’m not up on fashion enough to notice the difference between these outfits and clothes non-hipsters normally wear. That said, I do like how all the costumes have been translated into actual clothing, which is a neat concept I’ve seen done a few times with superheroes and heroines.

There are a bunch more besides Black Canary which you can check out below including Supergirl, Power Girl, Batgirl and even a few villains like Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn as well. But we love them just as much, don’t we?

Glasses. That’s a hipster thing right? I’m so uncool. Continue Reading »

Toy Story is a series that hasn’t really veered into darkness, unless you count that part at the end of the third movie where it looked like all the toys were going to be incinerated and I wept openly in the theater.

Anyway, here’s one way to creep-ify the series just a bit, courtesy of artist Kyle Lambert. He’s taken to his iPad to paint a series of pictures where Toy Story meets the Shining, and it’s exactly as weird as you might imagine. All the most famous scenes are there, and you can check them out in the gallery below. “Here’s Woody!” may not sound quite as intimidating as the original, but when he gets that dark look on his face, I certainly wouldn’t want to mess with him.

Gallery starts now with a few more on Lambert’s site. Continue Reading »

“20th Century Fox is planning a sequel to Prometheus, which I thought seemed redundant given thatPrometheus was already a prequel to Alien, and thus Prometheus already had three sequels. But then I checked the continuity, and realized Ridley Scott already denied the whole prequel aspect of it, saying “By the end of the third act [of Prometheus] you start to realize there’s a DNA of the very first alien, but none of the subsequent aliens.”

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Go here to see early versions of famous characters.

“It’s easy to assume that the whole world swooned the moment it saw Batman or James Bond appear on screen — certain characters are just so undeniably awesome that they couldn’t possibly fail. But the reality is that lots of your favorite franchises had to suffer through ill-conceived false starts before rounding into shape, at which point their creators hoped you would forget all about the early efforts.”

The Countdown

10 of TV and film’s most beautiful disasters – [Pajiba]

Coming to terms with the ending of The Last of Us – [Insert Coin]

A supercut of “we’re not so different, you and I” – [FilmDrunk]

Dave Chappelle with headline a comedy tour – [TVOvermind]

A gallery of things that will end badly – [Izismile]

The history of ice cream – [Neatorama]

The Street Fighter 2 theme a capella – [WWIW]

If next gen consoles were Game of Thrones characters – [GeeksAreSexy]

An awesome cover of Billy Jean – [TheChive]

Why minor league baseball is better – [GuyCode]

Today’s girl is Courtney Prather – [Maxim]

Kanye is what’s wrong with America – [BroBible]

The door is open again for Batman Beyond – [Gunaxin]

20 kids that are ahead of their class – [Caveman]