A Horrible X-Men Coloring Book Inspires Artists
Let me see if I can get the origin story of this art series straight. Brandon Bird found an old X-Men comic full of pretty horrible and ridiculous pictures, and then asked his artist friends…
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Mandatory Reading: Five Classic Sci-Fi Novels that Changed the Way I Look at the World
Since I’m going to be discussion true literary classics this week, I feel like I should get us in the mood with a suitably pretentious and overused quote from a dead famous person. Pablo Picasso…
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5 Exceptional Movie Trailers With No Dialogue
Movie trailers are the tip of the sword, the first thrust of the persuasive statement that asks, “should I see this movie?” The standard convention of a movie trailer is that it’s going to tell…
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Star Trek, Motion Stabilized
What really happened on set when the Enterprise was supposed to be under fire from enemy ships in the original Star Trek? Well, motion stabilization now shows that everyone was just supposed to run around…
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Rhys Cooper’s Femme Fatales
It’s clear why artist Rhys Cooper is getting his own solo show for his amazing “Femme Fatale” artwork. He’s drawn on pop culture to produce the Femme-iest Fatales of all, which include Maleficent (pre-Angelina Jolie…
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Rockwell Time
Adventure Time meets Normal Rockwell in this lovely art from Creative Outpouring. I think this is the first time I’ve featured them, and I’ve found their site to be full of lots of wonderful stuff…
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Five Film Tropes That Are Ruining Modern Cinema
Trope, as defined by Urban Dictionary, is an often overused plot device. It is a term that has only recently become more popular as a result of the interwebz, but I thought it might be…
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Six Fictional Cats You’d Actually Want to Own
Cats get a bad rep in Hollywood these days. They usually have the choice between being an accessory to the eccentric antagonist or being the eccentric antagonist themselves. Thanks, though, to trending internet stories of…
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Professor X Attempts to Fire Magneto
I thought we were all done with Pete Holmes firing X-Men, and we’d moved on to Pete Holmes firing Street Fighter characters, but it appears there’s one more mutant to go. You can’t really fire…