Karen Berger’s Coolest Vertigo Comics
DC Comics has lost one of its most influential tastemakers with the news that executive editor Karen Berger will be stepping down.
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World’s Most Wired: Black Mask’s Matt Pizzolo
Who knew we needed to kill comics to save them? Matt Pizzolo, that’s who.
Exclusive: Beautiful Noise Hits Kickstarter
“It has been a long road but this seems to be the only path forward.”
China Mieville’s Subversive Superhero Comic Dial H
The award-winning sci-fi writer’s worthy reboot of cult ’60s series.
What The Force? Disney Can Protect Star Wars, Says Fandom, George Lucas
Can an independent visionary who created a vast sci-fi entertainment multiverse really think that a pop-culture multinational can better protect his brainchild? You bet your asteroids, kid. And he’s not alone.
Novel Approach: 10 Book-Based Sci-Fi and Fantasy Film Standouts
Transforming transfixing genre fiction into memorable cinema is no simple task.
Exclusive: Pinback’s Spacey Sherman
Pinback’s Rob Crow and Zach Smith touch down on a prehistoric planet in the new music video, “Sherman.”
Exclusive: Boots Riley Brings a Guillotine to Oz
The Coup‘s frontman is looking for our nation’s heart and power, as the 2012 general election nears.
Discordia Illustrates Greece’s Disaster Capitalism
Instead of investigating fear and loathing in Las Vegas, artist Molly Crabapple and journalist Laurie Penny tripped off to Greece.
Can TheNewNo2 Make It Home From Liam Lynch’s Sci-Fi?
Dhani Harrison’s dread zeppelin is led through a puzzling digital dreamscape in thenewno2‘s new video.
We Are Bilbo, Heading Off To Perpetual War
It is no irony that Jackson’s cinematic adaptations of Tolkien’s work have arrived in a world at war
Genndy Tartakovsky Schools Hollywood On Cartoon Physics
“We moved to completely copying realism. Maybe this is a good time to start going back to the old ways, where anything can happen.”
We Need To Go Where Star Trek: The Next Generation Has Gone Before
Star Trek’s longest-running television series, which alternately bored and blessed us all with a sci-fi optimism now long since buried, blows out 25 candles
Exclusive: David Lloyd’s Ballsy Occupy Comics Cover
“The timing is perfect, because as year two begins there is a lot of soul searching about what the movement means and how it can evolve.”
Geek The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour Reboots For Millennials
One man’s crap made-for-TV movie becomes another fan’s Pythonesque art trip, and the popular tastes of the ensuing decades makes up the difference. Who’s your Walrus now?
Prince of Cats Is Straight Outta Shakespeare
Like many culture vultures, Wimberly is something of a reboot specialist.
Exclusive: Frankenweenie Reanimates Vincent Price
Price’s influential spirit inhabits some small or large part in almost everything Tim Burton has ever made.
Tripping On John Lennon, Jesus Christ and Epigenetic Cloning With Jonathon Keats
[Here’s the raw feed of my mindmeld with concept artist Jonathon Keats, whose yeast-based art cloning of Barack Obama and Lady Gaga is making cats mad at Wired. Check out […]
David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis Mantra: Let It Express Itself
“It’s different if I’m writing something original, but when I’m adapting these novels I’m attracted to them for what they are, not how I’m going to squish them.”
Three Mile Pilot Resets Controls for Heart of Art-Rock Credibility
“Three Mile Pilot is definitely a ‘when the stars align’ band.”
Six Organs of Admittance Enters the Space-Rock Race With Ascent
“This record has a pretty heavy gnostic sci-fi element.”
TheNewNo2 Brings Sci-Fi Sounds to Secret KCRW Show
It was only a matter of time before someone dropped a sample from The Prisoner.
Ren and Stimpy’s John Kricfalusi Wants Another Shot of George Liquor
My Dad’s Canadian,” said Kricfalusi.
Batman Believes In Gun Control. So Should We.
(NOTE: This is Friday night’s final draft, written after the horror in Colorado, which followed the death of a friend Thursday in California. It was an emotional process, so I […]
Exclusive: Barry Sonnenfeld and Grant Morrison’s Sci-Fi Experiment Dominion: Dinosaurs vs. Aliens
“Both dinosaurs and aliens can be seen as representatives of where we are as people right now.”