Infographic: Comics on the 2011 New York Times Bestseller List!
Infographics! They’re swank as fuck, distilling information into little morsels our ADD brains can handle. Simple info! Colors! Check out a neat one about the comics on the New York Times Bestseller list this year.
Study Finds Eating Less Keeps Your Brain Young and Supple. Western World = F**ked.
Eating less will keep your brain young and supple! You’ll also live longer, and breath easier. No wonder the preponderance of simpleton Bovine America continues to spread.
Is Vesta A Giant Asteroid Or A Protoplanet? Damned If I Know!
Straight-up: I don’t know the definition of a protoplanet, but people who do aren’t sure if the largest asteroid we’ve visited happens to be one.
New Still From ‘Prometheus’ Has Magneto Holding A Flashlight.

I can’t wait for the official Prometheus trailer dropping…today? Or is it tomorrow? It’s soon! Soon man. This week of trailers has my brovaries throbbing. Throbbing so hard! Want a still of Magneto holding a flashlight in anticipation of the trailer? Hell yeah. Get some.
Hideo Kojima’s Next Game Is Set In ‘Very Open World’, No Word On Philosophical Vomiting.
Hideo Kojima was on CNN recently promoting his metaphysical vitamin supplement called Scissors 61! (this is a lie) and he began to talk about his next game codenamed Project Ogre.
Hubble Brings Us A Horseshoe Einstein Ring. Is It Lucky? Rimshot.
Man, I can’t help myself with the bad puns. That may or may not be because it’s currently 3:00 am while I write this fucker up. Truth be told we all know regardless of the time I’ll rip off something glorious like that. Anyways, what exactly is causing that horseshoe effect? Gravity! Einstein told us so.
Artwork: The 25 Year evolution of LINK and ZELDA. Point ears intact!
Hyrule Historia is an upcoming Legend of Zelda art book. It’s only been confirmed for a Japanese release, and that means unless you have the mad cheddah brah, you probably won’t be snagging it. Want a preview? A lil’ taste?
Hit the jump for two pages chronicling the evolution of Link and Zelda. Pretty swell.
1969 Plan To Build Second Nuke-Proof Manhattan Below New York City. Cold War Porn!
Ah, the Cold War! Aside from all that insane amount of blood shed, useless money spent on arms development, psyche scarring, governments overthrown just because we didn’t agree with their potential socialist bent, and more, it produced some pretty cool retro-future stuff. Such as? This plan for a second Manhattan underneath New York City.
Variant Covers: Get Friggin’ Drunk, Batman’s Black Hole Is Coming.
Glory be to you, comic book friends. It’s 10:42 on Tuesday evening as I burp this out of a chemical-coated caffeine ravaged mind, and I’m writing it with a bit of a grin. ‘Tis the season for days off and leisurely loitering as we go into a collective slumber until January 2. How are you? Not rhetorical, how you doing? Hit me. This is Variant Covers, the comics column where I talk about this week’s releases that I’m either snagging, wish I was snagging, or am curious about. Per usual drop a line on what you’re digging, I’m always looking for new hotness in my greasy mitts.
Let’s party.
Trailer: ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’, By God The Movie Is Real.

It’s a fucking trailer for The Hobbit. What more do I need to say?
Hit the jump, watch it, drop your impressions in the comments.











