The robot revolution is coming, in more ways than one. Researchers at Cornell University’s Baker Institute for Animal Health are taking a page from nature and modeling nanobots after nature's little workhorse. Sperm are the model of efficiency, able to swim 7 iph (inches per hour) or the equivalent of a full grown man ... [Read More]

Eerily similar to the comic book Y: The Last Man, in which a female scientist's attempt to clone herself unleashes a plague that wipes out all men, British scientists have created sperm from female stem cells. The process literally takes men out of the equation. This artificial sperm lacks the Y chromosome, which only men ... [Read More]

Five years ago Yorick Brown went to bed a nobody (i.e. an English major). When he woke up he was the most important man in the world (i.e. the only man in the world). 60 issues later, the Yorick's journey ended as mysteriously as it began. If you haven't read the series please do so before reading on, and especially ... [Read More]

First they brought back the 2nd Robin (Jason Todd), now they're apparently reviving the aptly named Spoiler aka the 4th Robin. I've said it time and time again (and I'll keep on saying it) these resurrections are killing comics. They not only trivialize the characters' deaths, they simultaneously erase all the loss, doubt, and ... [Read More]

Binocular vision, three fingers, a pair of tank treads; it's hard to miss the resemblance between Johnny 5 and Pixar's latest creation Wall*E. Need further proof that Wall*E is the son of Johnny 5? Okay, how about this: Wall*E's movie takes place 700 years the future and in the last Short Circuit movie they were trying to ... [Read More]

When Rambo says no, he means it... unless a pretty girl says please so against his better judgment Rambo swallows his arthritis pills and ferries a group of Christian missionaries into war-torn Burma, which goes about as well as you'd expect. Rambo IV is an extremely graphic. Unlike previous movies in the series the ... [Read More]

A little thing like death isn't about to stop Captain America from defending the free world. Nine months after Cap's shocking assassination, his WWII sidekick Bucky has reluctantly picked up the mantle (see Captain America #34). There's just one problem - HE HAS NO SUPERPOWERS! Thus the very unheroic pistol he's sporting. ... [Read More]