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Month: January 2011

How to Make a Wonder Woman Television Show That Works

January 27, 2011 Morphizm 0

Let’s face it. Most female superheroes are tired ciphers for male desire and fantasy. That’s why it’s of paramount importance that studio execs putting together the new series for Earth’s […]

All Hail Our Robot Overlords! Sci-Fi’s Best Bots

January 26, 2011 Morphizm 0

Czech playwright Karel Capek popularized the term robot in the 1921 play R.U.R., spawning a deluge of artificial life forms in popular culture.

Australian Spacewalkers All India Radio Hypnotize On The Silent Surf

January 25, 2011 Morphizm 0

For Wired, I try to write about bands few have probably heard of before, but also have a gift for head-trip sonics. All India Radio fits both descriptions, so I […]

Star Wars Director Dave Filoni Chronicles Life During Clone Wartime

January 23, 2011 Morphizm 0

One of pop culture’s most accessible entry points for understanding a War on Terror is a cartoon from George Lucas.

Peak Oil and Climate Change Suck. High-Speed Rail Can Help.

January 22, 2011 Morphizm 0

I recently revisited the War on Terra for AlterNet. This time, in a double-barreled breakdown of the national high-speed rail network gaining ground in America, which is still lamely to […]

Newest, Youngest Doctor Who Matt Smith Metamorphs Into Comics

January 20, 2011 Morphizm 0

I’m an old-school Doctor Who fan, who’s always loved its subversive sci-fi on television and in comics. The latest Time Lord is Matt Smith, who’s a hoot, who’s finally getting […]

Plastic Planet Pollutes Our Minds With Truth

January 15, 2011 Morphizm 0

It floated atop a garbage patch of discarded water bottles.

Smartass Artist Sucklord’s Asshole Exhibit Debases Star Wars, Fine Art

January 14, 2011 Morphizm 0

Writing about culture for Wired means having to write about anything related to Star Wars. But I like to freak that stream a bit and look for those who are […]

Sucker Punch Artist Alex Pardee Probes Nightmares in Vertigo

January 12, 2011 Morphizm 0

I’ve been covering a lot of art lately, given that film is lately a wasteland and television hasn’t really started back up again after the holidays. But artist Alex Pardee […]

Merlin’s Magical Sci-Fantasy Catches Fire

January 8, 2011 Morphizm 0

One of my guilty television pleasures is the BBC’s reboot Merlin, which mashes Arthurian legend through the teen soap trope with surprisingly funny and rewarding results. I took the opportunity […]

Best of 2010? Inception, Batman, Sym-Bionic Titan, Iron Man…

January 3, 2011 Morphizm 0

“Animation has always had the problem of being perceived as purely for kids,” Tartakovsky told me before Sym-Bionic Titan’s stellar launch. “I think things are better than a few years ago, but the stigma still exists.”

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    Those of us who have been watching Michelle Yeoh with admiration for years — and those of us who have been wishing just as long that sci-fi would dream with more ambition — have unearthed the eternal motherlode.

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    A cli-fi masterpiece of nature and power, violence and the sacred.

    How has it taken me this long to see? What does it matter?

  • Wind, Water, Solar

    Happy New Year, Earthlings.
    I have spent it so far among the elements.
    Swim with me a bit.

  • Unhappy Halloween: COP26, DOOM

    It is probably not an accident that hip hop legend MF DOOM passed away on the same hallowed holiday our superpowers converged on an environmental conference implementing a legally binding agreement to stop destroying Earth.

  • Future Boy Conan, Miyazaki’s Hidden Masterpiece

    Hayao Miyazaki has mastered the art of cli-fi. And yet so many of his earlier visions have remained out of sight and out of mind.

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