Not many comics start with a woman giving birth in the back of an old body shop asking, “Am I shitting? It feels like I’m shitting.” Hell, not many stories do period. But Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples’ Saga (Image) does. And when the baby is born, it’s […]
Friend of the Gutter Ed Glaser of Neon Harbor has found a complete 35 mm print of The Man Who Saved The World, aka, Turkish Star Wars (1982). “A 35mm print of ‘Turkish Star Wars’ is the holy grail,” says Glaser, “not just of rip-off films, but all […]
Fusion argues for adaptations of Octavia Butler’s science fiction and horror. “There is no better time for Octavia Butler’s work to be adapted. Unlike most of her contemporaries, she did not deal with robots, mechanized suits of war, or quantum physics. She eschewed these to explore aliens, mutants […]
io9 has Charlie Jane Anders’ list of amazing costumes from Star Trek: The Next Generation’s first three seasons.
Open Culture has issues of Weird Tales for your reading pleasure! “Debuting in 1923, Weird Tales, writes The Pulp Magazines Project, provided “a venue for fiction, poetry and non-fiction on topics ranging from ghost stories to alien invasions to the occult.” The magazine introduced its readers to past masters […]
At Esquire, Simon Abrams shares an oral history of RoboCop (1987): “A little more than 25 years ago, Orion Pictures released RoboCop, a grimly hysterical, hyper-violent satire masquerading as an action film. And despite spawning two sequels, a television series, some anime, and now a remake, the film’s […]
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