Archive for the ‘Science Fiction’ Category

Images & Words – THB: Comics from Mars #2

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

[images & words is the comic book pick-of-the-week at OL. equal parts review and diatribe, the post highlights the most memorable/infuriating/entertaining book released that wednesday]

I’ve spent the last ten minutes gazing into this goddamn word processor. It’s white and bright and winning this staring contest with ease. Fugger! It’s not fair – he’s got pixels and electricity and all I’ve got is the soft gelatin of these dull cow eyes. My retinas will burn out before I think of a clever way to convey my message, so I might as well just lay it out there.

Paul Pope is a master comics creator. And he’s grossly underappreciated.

Those curious about Pope should refer to THB: Comics from Mars #2.

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Behold! Space Helmet Collage Is Geek Sci-Fi Porn

Thursday, August 12th, 2010
Source: Dangerous Minds

It’s a scientific fact that space helmets are cosmically rocking. Here’s a collage of them. Bask in the glory of that which keeps your body from dying within the (alluring) death that is deep space.

Star Cruiser

Sunday, July 11th, 2010

Cindel: Don’t you have a star cruiser?

Wicket: Bitch, if I had a star cruiser you think I’d still be on a goddamn forest moon? Fugg that, I’d be getting my drank on in a Coruscant suite.*

*Translation provided by P. Krueger

Shoulders of Geniuses

Monday, July 5th, 2010


I’ll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you’re using here: it didn’t require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn’t earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don’t take any responsibility… for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you even knew what you had you patented it and packaged it and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now — you’re selling it — you want to sell it!

Support the Veterans

Saturday, May 29th, 2010

Cylon Veteran

It’s Memorial Day weekend. Please don’t forget that even veterans of fictional, intergalactic wars need our support.

Perhaps more than ever.