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You may have noticed that we’re huge architecture nerds, and, to a lesser degree, comic book fans. In a weird way, though, we’re maybe even more fond of the places where science fiction and architecture intersect and help to create spectacular, imaginary new constructions. We really enjoyed Architects Journal’s vidsticle of the Top 5 Comic [...]

We’re still working on a Halloween costume (yes, we always push this to the last minute), but we’re thinking the best way to go about the decision might be to see what the experts wear. By experts, of course, we mean people who wear costumes every day: superheroes.
As it happens, ComicsAlliance has just the listicle [...]

As you’ve presumably heard by now, purveyor of many things lowest-common-denominator Disney recently bought out comic book empire Marvel to the tune of $4 billion. Regardless of whether you think this will make the mousy company’s products better or the wolfy-spidey-hulky company’s work suffer, you can probably take a great deal of pleasure from the [...]

Some cupcakes are just pretty baked goods, and some are delicious, spectacular, nerdy cupcakes (or “nerdcakes”). Topless Robot found two dozen of such nerdcakes for this photo-op featuring 24 Awesomely Nerdy Cupcakes. Now we’re going to spend the rest of Sunday eating cupcakes and watching old sci-fi movies and shows.

Like any great comic book character, Wolverine (whose origin story movie comes out today) is a costume party favorite. But with so many versions of Wolverine to work from (movies, comics, cartoons, etc.) there’s an incredible variety of costuming results, some of which are not so hot. Unreality chronicles some disasters in their listicle of [...]

It’s funny, we’re always disappointed to learn that a character we’ve come to love isn’t actually as original and unique as we thought. Like our uncle Ted, who we thought was just the sweetest guy, but turned out to be a documentary filmmaker making a life-long project about the decline of the modern family. That’s [...]

Every so often, in a strange moment of Interweb telepathy (or, as we like to call it, “webathy”, which is incidentally the name of the Listicles office cat), two lists will come into existence at nearly the same moment detailing instances of nearly the same phenomenon. One such case occurred recently, when Unreality posted its [...]

The premise behind the henchman character is fascinating: rather than create a complete cast of bad guys, films, TV shows, comic books and the like use one instantly recognizable costume to create entire armies. This lets protags branch out, and instead of direct duels they can perform acrobatic feats, taking out entire platoons with one [...]

It’s a little hard to remember (especially when so many superhero stories include a scene in which the hero sews/welds/staples her/his first logo onto her/his first suit), but every superhero has a team of brand-conscious designers constantly re-working their iconic logo mark. This cool vidsticle by Rodrigo Rojas, for instance, highlights The Evolution of 17 [...]

As Canadian communication theorist Harold Innis taught us, some empires are time-biased and others are space-biased, depending on their preferred mass medium of control. Well, he probably never dreamed things like interplanetary space travel, teleportation, telekinetics and instant cross-universe communication would figure into the evolution of empires. But then he probably wasn’t a huge sci-fi [...]