Top 10 Best Superhero/villain Redesigns Darths & Droids Every Human in Star Wars is Really a Humanoid Bee There are no humans in Star Wars. This should be obvious from the title card. We’re a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. Human beings evolved on this planet, Sol 3, over the last sixty million years or so depending on how you count. If we don’t want to go all “Chariots of the Gods?” we have to throw out the notion that the people represented by human actors in Star Wars movies are in fact human. Why represent them as human? While convenient, this approach does present one problem: watching the Original Trilogy, we assume that the ‘humans’ of the GFFA (Galaxy Far Far Away) are biologically and sociologically identical to Sol 3 humans. Gender is the most important clue. Family is a second important clue—or, rather, the absence of family. So we’re looking for an organism with large brood sizes, young ages of maturity, short gestation periods, and relatively few fertile females who naturally assume positions of social and organizational authority. This explains a few things:
Top 10 WORST Superhero/villain Redesigns Being a Geek The awesome Harry Potter ending J.K. Rowling didn't even know she had I am someone who began reading this series during the third grade. I grew up around the series. I love the Harry Potter series with my whole heart and I truly believe that the novels are wonderful works of literature for children and adults to enjoy. I don't believe that the purposed ending is too dark or complicated for children. I think that, at a basic level, children would understand the story and appreciate it. I believe that she HOPED those children would love the books enough to re-read them as I have over the years. What is my point? I think that when we are children, we read as children. HOWEVER, I do feel that as the audience got older, we began to understand more about the novels. Basically, I feel that it is important to have this kind of growing up and reading a series process. As for the idea that children should grow up and leave behind the fascinations of youth... To an extent, I agree. This VERY conversation has shown that we are able to do this. I find this funny.
5 Essential Superhero Redesigns! I fucking love science Fanlore 6 Comic Con-troversies With the New York Comic Con under way, we thought we’d remind you that these brilliant, geeky get-togethers can mean more than just costumes and coveted signatures on first-edition books. Here are a few of the scandals that rocked (or gently nudged) Comic Cons across the country this past year. God Hates Geeks in Superhero Costumes? At the massive Comic Con in San Diego last year, assembled geeks gave Fred Phelps’ hate-mongering Westboro Baptist Church a run for its money. When church members—who’ve earned the dubious distinction of being so radical that even the Ku Klux Klan has disavowed any association with them—showed up to protest alleged immorality and rampant homosexuality amidst convention-goers, they were greeted by a throng of nerds dressed as superheroes, robots, Trekkies and anime girls staging a counter protest. [Photo credit: ComicsAlliance. The Resident Evil Fan With the Pen in the Auditorium Master of Disguise "Insider" Exposed No Cape, No Service He Is the Lizard King
A Chronological Presentation of Fucks I Give., My sister asked if the events of “The Labyrinth"... Indistinguishable From Magic I started Dresden Codak nine years ago. Here’s a comparison of the very first strip I uploaded with the last panel of the most recent page. In 2005 I was a floundering 21-year-old college student with no direction and growing debt. I drew that snake comic in a statistics class I was failing, and on my way home I decided to scan it and maybe put together a website. I thought if I kept doing that, I could teach myself to draw, as a fun hobby. Since then, this comic has become my full time job (since 2008), and last year I raised over half a million dollars in the second most successful comics Kickstarter ever. Never underestimate the power of time, hard work, and stubbornness.
A New Sith, or Revenge of the Hope (mirror) This is such a gem that I had to re-post it just in case the original gets lost in the churn of the interwebs. Originally © Keith Martin 2005. Reconsidering Star Wars IV in the light of I-III If we accept all the Star Wars films as the same canon, then a lot that happens in the original films has to be reinterpreted in the light of the prequels. Consider: at the end of RotS, Bail Organan orders 3PO’s memory wiped but not R2′s. For the next 20 years, as far as 3PO knows, he is the property of Captain Antilles, doing protocol duties on a diplomatic transport. Yoda is out of the picture by this stage, using the Force-infused swamps of Dagobah to hide himself from Vader and the Emperor. As Star Wars opens, R2 is rushing the Death Star plans to the Rebellion. To be fair to all concerned, Leia has shown no overt signs of a link to the Force. Much of Obi-Wan’s behaviour in this film, and Yoda’s in the next, can best be understood if they are frankly scared to death of what Luke might become.
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