Green Lantern's light doesn't shine nearly as bright in his new origin story: Green Lantern: First Flight. It's bad enough that they cut out the death of Hal's father but they barely touch on his fearlessness, which is kinda important considering it's the whole reason he's chosen to become a Green Lantern! While ... [Read More]

Over the years the Doctor has perhaps best demonstrated the space inside the TARDIS with his seeming inexhaustible wardrobe of bad clothes. The last 2 Doctors were the exception, but Matt Smith is bringing unsexy back with his uncanny impersonation of the quintessential loser George McFly from Back to the Future. He's even ... [Read More]

Blackest Night is finally here and with it the return of long dead characters as zombies! But it's not the adversaries of the past that you need to worry about, it's the loves lost. That's because unlike traditional zombies, Black Lanterns want your heart not your brains. Perhaps the most earth-shattering zombie will be ... [Read More]

When news broke earlier this week that the military was developing an Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot (EATR) that "can find, ingest, and extract energy from biomass in the environment (and other organically-based energy sources)," it immediately conjured grisly thoughts about what exactly fueled this robotic ... [Read More]

Unlike the friendly and purely fictional genies of the Western world, jinns (as they're called in the Middle East) are very real and kinda dicks. At least that's what one family in Saudi Arabia is claiming. They've filed a lawsuit against a genie that's been haunting them for the past 2 years. This unfriendly ghost has ... [Read More]

A new study published in the journal NeuroReport finds that swearing increases pain tolerance, especially in women. British college students were asked to hold their hands in cold water for as long as they could while either repeating a neutral word like brown or square to describe the table or their favorite curse word with ... [Read More]

Everyone's favorite giant space chicken makes an appearance at the G8 summit to weigh in on the housing crisis in Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit. Don't worry if your haven't seen the 60s classic The X from Outer Space. It's not a true sequel but a parody to make the G8 seem ineffectual. The only reference ... [Read More]