Author: Nigel G Mitchell

What if Futurama was made in Japan? Artist Tovio Rogers created this anime-influenced poster of the Planet Express crew. Check out Fry, Teela, Bender, Professor Farnsworth, Zoidberg, Amy, and Hermes. Welcome to the World of Tomorrow! Click to enlarge… What do you think of the Japanese Futurama? [Image Source: Herochan via Tumblr via toviorogers] Related Posts 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Futurama 5 Most Surprisingly Touching Moments in Futurama Star Wars Meets Futurama If Fry and Leela Had Kids Don’t forget to enter our giveaway for an audiobook iPadiPod app!

Artist Chris Haley and colorist Daniel Butler, the same team that brought you the Avengers’ goofiest costumes, created the gender reversed version of the Avengers for Comics Alliance. Click to enlarge… The best part of this poster is that almost all the characters are real superheroines in the Marvel Universe, not just female versions of the existing heroes. They are: She-Hulk – An Amazonian woman transformed into a Hulk, thanks to a blood transfusion from her cousin, Bruce Banner (Hulk). Hawkeye II – Katherine Bishop, a young woman who adopts the Hawkeye identity for the Young Avengers.(Hawkeye) Rescue – When…

Looking forward to The Dark Knight Rises? You’re not alone. In fact, some of us are already planning to buy the inevitable DVD and/or Blu-Ray trilogy. What would the box cover art for the Ultimate Dark Knight Trilogy look like? Awesome artist Messenjahmatt has created this preview, featuring the villains of all three movies. What do you think of the poster? Would you buy the trilogy? [Via Messenjahmatt via Superherohype via Reddit] Don’t get sold out! Buy advance tickets to The Dark Knight Rises. Related Posts The Avengers in Their Worst Costumes Why Women Love “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” Everything About…

How time flies. This was brought home by a photo that appeared recently on Reddit that showed the entire first season cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation in 2012. I created this side-by-side comparison so we can see the progression. The first photo is from the original cast photo in 1987, the second was taken at a photo session at the Calgary Expo with two fans. What do you think of the comparison? Who changed the most? Who changed the least? Does this photo bring back memories? [Image Source: IMGUR via Reddit]

Star Wars’ Darth Vader has become synonymous in our culture for darkness and evil. So much so that calling something or someone Darth Vader is a common insult. This applies to buildings, too. There actually are quite a few buildings around the USA nicknamed “the Darth Vader building” by local residents. Here are the top seven. 7. Real Name: Manhattan Family Courthouse Location: 60 Lafayette Street New York, NY 10013 Reason: The black cube reminded people of the Death Star. Trivia: Renovated in 2002 to remove the more forbidding elements 6. Real Name: Pacific Guardian Tower Location: 1440 Kapiolani Boulevard…

One Minute Galactica strikes again by re-imagining Empire Strikes Back as a Spanish telenovela called Galaxy of Passion. It’s a surprisingly accurate and funny portrayal of the opening scenes of the movie as an overly dramatic soap opera. Behold as Luke, Leia, and Han debate passion, loins, and fish sticks. What do you think of the sexy time? Will Han’s evil twin brother ever wake up from his coma and recover the passion of Luke’s sister? Let us know in the comments. [Via YouTube via SF Signal] Related Posts Solo and Leia are the Worst Couple in the Universe How NOT…

In a historic moment for Star Trek fans everywhere, all five of the TV captains appeared at the same convention stage at the same time. Previously, the captains are appeared in Shatner’s documentary The Captains, but not all in the same room. The reunion happened at the Wizard World Philadelphia Comic Con on June 4. William Shatner (Star Trek: The Original Series), Patrick Stewart (Star Trek: The Next Generation), Avery Brooks (Star Trek Deep Space Nine), Kate Mulgrew (Star Trek Voyager) and Scott Bakula (Star Trek: Enterprise) took the stage and posed for the group photo below. Unfortunately, no Chris…

Martyn Crofts is a mortgage inspector by day but at night, he’s a comedian who does one heck of a Dalek impersonation. He tried his hand on the stage at Britain’s Got Talent 2012. Amazingly enough, he didn’t get in, but he’s a winner in our books. What do you think of the video? [Via Geeks are Sexy via The Mary Sue] Related Posts Your Tension Will Be Exterminated By Dalek Relaxation Tape 10 Surprising Things About the Daleks Hitchhikers Guide to the Daleks

Marvel’s Avengers is still going strong, and the movie’s costumes are likely to become icons of film. Comic Alliance sent up the original by having artist Chris Haley and colorist Daniel Butler depict the Avengers wearing their goofiest outfits. Click the image to enlarge: For the record, the costumes are based on the following: The Hulk’s brief stint as a Las Vegas mob enforcer known as Joe Fixit Hawkeye’s original costume when he was an archer in the circus Iron Man’s second gold suit of armor (known as Mark II), complete with bulky limbs and a golden skirt Thor’s Fabio-like…

Check out this TARDIS in a Bottle! It was created by hpotterwizard (a.k.a. Andrew Lawton) and posted at Craftster.org. Here’s what the creator had to say: I went into this project looking for a challenge and with the goal of ending up with a product that would look great sitting on my desk. I was inspired by this shirt design. It came down to a choice between an Enterprise, a Serenity, or a TARDIS in a bottle. I decided to go with the TARDIS because I had no experience with a lot of the skills involved in this and it…

This is an iron, man. It was created by Tony Starch when he was ironing bored, because he had pressing concerns about crime. And for the nitpickers, yes, the power cord is European, not American. But it’s still clever. What do you think of the iron? [Image Source: Blastr] Related Posts If Pixar Made “Iron Man” Iron Man + Batman = Iron Bat The Ironettes: A Tribute The Truth About Superpowers

When movies pass each other as the top-grossing movie of all time, there’s been a trend on congratulating each other in the paper. In 1997, when Titanic passed Star Wars as the highest-grossing movie, George Lucas took out a full-page ad in Variety congratulating him. This is that ad (click to enlarge): [Via IMGUR] What did you think of the ad?

Good news, everyone! In the mood for some trivia? Feel like impressing your friends at your next Futurama party? Then check out this handy new infographic that gives you ten things you probably didn’t know about the ultimate comedy about our future. Sources: http://www.theinfosphere.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/futurama Artwork: http://www.comedycentral.com Futurama font by Darrell Johnson What do you think of the infographic? Did you learn anything new about “Futurama?” Related Posts 10 Funny Futurama Fry Pics Star Wars Meets Futurama 5 Most Surprisingly Touching Moments on Futurama If Fry and Leela Had Kids

It seems like Pixar can spin magic on everything it creates (well, except for Cars). So what if Disney’s Pixar made the Avengers? Cartoon Brew’s J.M. Walter asked the question, and answered it with this image. It would look something…like this. Do you recognize the characters in Pixar’s Avengers? [Via Cartoon Brew via Buzzfeed]

On May 25, 1977, the original Star Wars premiered. Just in time for the anniversary, Newsarama created a humongous infographic about the first thirty-five years of Star Wars. Click below to check it out! [Via Newsarama] UPDATE: Replaced the image link with IMGUR link, just because Blogger wasn’t formatting it properly. What did you think of the infographic? Related Posts The Path to Marvel’s “Avengers” [Infographic] How Indiana Jones Survived Nuking the Fridge [Infographic] Aliens vs Predator [Infographic] How Many Movies Could Be Made For What “John Carter” Lost?

Disney is offering up a new attraction where you can create a carbon frozen version of yourself. Here’s the press release from starwars.com. Coming this year to Star Wars Weekends at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, you’ll have the opportunity to relive the famous carbon freezing scene from The Empire Strikes Back with the “Carbon-Freeze Me” experience. This new experience was created especially for Disney Parks, and is part of our “D-Tech Me” line that uses technology to take personalization to a whole new level. Using state-of-the-art imaging technology, this experience casts your likeness as a three-dimensional, eight-inch figurine. At the “Carbon…

In 1977, Richard Pryor had a short-lived sketch comedy series called (surprisingly enough) The Richard Pryor Show. We only bring this up because one sketch featured Pryor as the bartender at the Star Wars Bar, riffing on characters from the cantina scene in Star Wars. The most amazing part about this sketch is that it features the original masks from the movie. (Warning: Since this is Richard Pryor, he had to throw in the N-word) [Via YouTube]

What if Earth had rings like Saturn? Animator Roy Prol created this video to illustrate the concept, as well as show various points on Earth and what the rings might look like. The shots are really beautiful and kind of make you wish it was real. Of course, in real life, it wouldn’t work out so well. Bad Astronomy explained the real impact of Earth rings. Rings made of ice would evaporate because of our proximity to the Sun. Rings made of rock wouldn’t be stable because of Earth’s gravity. Also, the rings would block sunlight, causing permanent shadows over…

Ken Robichaud (aka Buriedbybricks) assembled the Avengers’ weapons in Lego bricks to display at a local comic book shop. These are not miniatures, but full-scale reproductions. Pretty impressive. Here are the major pictures, and you can see more angles at his Flickr site. Hawkeye’s trick arrow set Captain America’s shield Black Widow’s bracelets Thor’s hammer What do you think of the Lego Avengers’ weapons? Which weapon would you wield? [Flickr via comicsalliance]

The Boston Globe created a stunning poster that tells you pretty much everything you might want to know about the Avengers. With graphics by Ryan Huddle and text by Tom Russo, it’s an incredibly detailed and fascinating chronicle of the characters, movies, and comics that built this amazing film. You can see the entire infographic as one big poster (click to embiggen): And below, you can click on some larger images to see more details. The infographic is packed with Easter eggs. For example, the “file numbers” are actually the month and year the characters made their first appearance in…

The Star Wars prequels have divided Star Wars fandom worse than the light side versus dark side. Are the prequels a worthy addition to the series? Did the prequels destroy the series? Are they just okay, but nothing special? Well, today is the day that we all stand on the side of “prequels are awesome.” It’s Star Wars Appreciation Day! It’s also the 10th anniversary of the release of Attack of the Clones. One of the biggest promoters of the prequels is the Star Wars Prequel Appreciation Society. Celebrate Star Wars Appreciation Day on Facebook with other prequel lovers. Read others’ expressions…

There have been some amazing breakthroughs in the field of nanotechnology. Fabrication with laser printers has traditionally taken hours or days, but a new laser printer has cut the time to mere minutes. It uses a focused laser on a special resin that hardens on contact. By building layer after layer, scientists can create objects on a microscopic scale in minutes. The first application will probably be tiny bio-engineered tools for doctors. For now, we get super-detailed sculptures on a microscopic level like these: Here’s a video that shows how it’s done: What do you think of these microscopic sculptures?…

Guys have a lot of beautiful women to enjoy in sci-fi, but women have some hunks out there, too. Some of them like Johnny Depp are obvious draws. But some of them are a real surprise, at least to me as a heterosexual male. Here are the ten most surprising male hunks in sci-fi. It must be said that not every woman finds the men on this list hot, but even more than one is a head-scratcher for me. 8. Fox Mulder from The X-Files – Maybe I shouldn’t be surprised by this one, but I am. He’s got a big nose and…

The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers were huge back in the day. They taught a generation that martial arts and giant robots solve all problems. But did you ever notice a pattern in the way their leader Zordon assigned the colors to his Power Rangers? CollegeHumor did, and they imagined what would have happened if his teenagers with attitude had caught on. What did you think of the video? Did you ever notice this pattern in the original show? [Via YouTube] Related Posts Yoda’s Dialogue in Reverse Stormtroopers’ 9/11 How Not to Fight Darth Maul

Anyone who watches Futurama has pondered the question, will Fry and Leela ever get together? If so, what would their children look like? One illustrator who calls herself, uh, Doodiescoop (Reddit, natch) took it upon herself to get the answer. The answer is, like this: What do you think of Fry and Leela’s kids? [Via Reddit via Buzzfeed] Related 10 Funny Futurama Fry Pics 5 most surprisingly touching moments on Futurama Star Wars Meets Futurama Futurama’s Eyephone is Becoming Reality

The Galaxy celebrated in Star Wars when the Death Star was destroyed, but not everyone was happy. Imperial stormtroopers, for example, have a different perspective. CollegeHumor showed us how the Empire reflects on the anniversary of the Death Star’s explosion in this hilarious video. What did you think of the video? How else might the Empire have mourned the loss of the Death Star? [Via YouTube]

A few weeks ago, the Coachella concert was stunned by the appearance of a computer-animated version of Tupac Shakur seemingly projected into empty space on stage – a holographic Tupac. This isn’t the first time holograms have appeared on stage. Most notably, Madonna performed with holograms of the animated pop group Gorillaz at the Grammys in 2006. I think the title says it best: “If you’d have told me as a child that during my lifetime we would have better holograms than in Star Wars, I’d never have believed you.” YouTube (NSFW due to language) [Via IMGUR via Reddit]

Happy May the Fourth! It’s Star Wars Day, because May the Fourth sounds like “may the Force!” So you can say “May the Fourth be with you” and sound like a geek! To celebrate, we have not one but two Star Wars bits for you. And maybe some more surprise updates later today. R2D2: Nailed it [Via reddit] Yoda’s dialogue, in reverse it is. Sounds like a normal person, he does. [Via screencrush] What did you think of the video and pic? How will you celebrate May the Fourth?

It’s a question that has lingered since the beginning of geek time: Alien Vs. Predator. What are the odds in a showdown between the Aliens and the Predator? How quickly can the Xenomorphs reproduce? At what point in the infestation does the Predator have the best chance? At what point do the Aliens get the upper hand? What’s the best way for a human to survive an invasion? All these questions and more are answered in this awesome infographic that illustrates Aliens vs. Predator. Better than the movies, and more informative, besides. Click below to enlarge: What do you think…

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog is a puppet with an infinite supply of scathing insults for everyone and everything. Originally from The Conan O’Brien Show, Triumph has traveled to the Westminster Dog Show, Hollywood Squares, and even a concert for Bon Jovi. One of his funniest appearances was when he visited the crowds waiting in line for the premiere of Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones . In my opinion, this is Triumph the Insult Comic Dog’s best insult. You can check out the full video at YouTube (NSFW). What do you think of this insult? Is…