I know the Venn diagram overlap between io9 readers and NASCAR fans is pretty slender, but this clip is worth a few seconds. One of the most unbelievable crashes in racing history, in that the car was utterly disassembled, and the driver climbed out and walked away. He struck the butt end of a concrete wall head-on…
To me, the final movie can't help but disappoint because the book itself was so disappointing. Read more
"Yo momma so fat, her patronus is a cake!" Read more
This seems appropriate.
A selected bibliography on the subject of mass hysteria, all from peer reviewed journals: Read more
Upon first glance, I thought this involved an infernal creature that terrorized 1970s David Bowie. Read more
I'm sorry if you guys are actually trolling, but did you miss the part where the authors who wrote the books about Mothman admitted the whole thing was a goof created to sell books? Read more
I used to reenact Godzilla movies in my living room, with me playing the parts of all the monsters fighting and smashing. In my mind it was an awesome monster battle, so I could never understand why my mom was not interested in watching me jump around the house making monster roars and crashing sounds. Read more
The first time I saw it in the theater, the film broke right at the bridge collapse scene. Very freaky. I'm not ashamed to admit the movie caused some sleepless nights, pondering weird creatures that can peer into our lives with their unfathomable motives and make spooky phone calls. Also, mirrors. Read more
This is awesome. Big Eco. Earth nostalgia. So many cool ideas packed into a few words. Read more
They could do it like they did in the comics - reveal it to the audience right from the start. Then it becomes a story about villains turned fake heroes thinking about becoming real heroes, with betrayals and redemption and all that good stuff. It's not a story about the "twist" because their real identities are… Read more
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Yeah, I'll admit I sometimes feel a bit eye-rolly when people complain too much about cheesecake in comics, but that image is like an exemplar of the worst offenses comic artists perpetrate. You've got your costumes that couldn't possibly stay on if the wearer moved at all. You've got the classic, "Let me turn around… Read more
That's a theory the same way evolution is a "theory." I mean, the evidence is pretty much uncontestable at this point. Read more
Crowley lived in Boleskin House on the shore of the loch several decades prior to the first modern sighting of Nessie. By the time Nessie was popular, he lived elsewhere. Read more
I found myself holed up in a hotel room, sick as a dog all day Sunday with nothing to do but watch TV. Lo and behold, the first two eps of this show, which I'd not seen! Awesome way to spend a Sunday afternoon, perfect matinee material. Read more
Here's a brief addendum to this review, explaining a potential house rule you might want to use to keep the dragon units from being overwhelming: [www.robotviking.com] Read more
To be fair, I don't think we're actually looking at cock and balls here. I believe the expression you want is, "hangin' brain." Read more
My wife, who is a science teacher, uses the Gandalf one when grading papers. Read more