Heritage Auctions just listed a uniquely fascinating piece of American pop history: the original black-and-white artwork from Rob Liefeld's 1996 Heroes Reborn cover featuring Captain America with, erm, a very… Read the rest of the article: Rob Liefeld's infamous big chested Captain America artwork is up for auction

Bridgewater, Massachusetts is a town of roughly 28,000 people on the South Shore of Boston. It is the home of the Bridgewater Triangle, which has been called "one of the… Read the rest of the article: Boston reporter and soap opera star try to find the elusive Bigfoot of New England

King Richard's Faire is the largest Renaissance Faire in New England. It was originally founded in 1972 by concert producer Dick Shapiro, whose family still runs the operation to these… Read the rest of the article: Renaissance Faire workers are organizing to overthrow their exploitative king

In the sixth episode of the 80s television show Police Squad!—which later developed into the Naked Gun film series—the shoe-shining informant known as Johnny is seen taking a bribe from… Read the rest of the article: Dick Clark asks Johnny the Snitch to explain ska

Over at Pitchfork, writer Jayson Greene offers a pretty fascinating look at both the appeal, and the shortcomings, of using text-to-music LLMs such as Google's new MusicLM. In a lot… Read the rest of the article: What happens when you use music reviews as prompts for AI generated music?

Legendary comic creators Matt Wagner (Grendel) and Kelley Jones (Batman: Knightfall) have just announced that they'll be combining their notoriously brooding talents for a new graphic novel take on Dracula.… Read the rest of the article: Sneak Peek at the new Dracula prequel comic from Grendel creator Matt Wagner and Batman artist Kelley Jones

Father Jaromir Smejkal, the local parish priest in the Czech town of Kurdejov, has not been feeling that Halloween holiday spirit. According to the BBC, Smejkal took it upon himself… Read the rest of the article: Czech priest apologizes after smashing pumpkins

A recent Wall Street Journal article — an actual article, in the workplace/lifestyle section, not even an op-ed! — laments the recent trend of horrible, lazy workers who, umm …… Read the rest of the article: Wall Street Journal complains about workers using their sick days

In 2022, Marvel Studios released a Werewolf By Night film direct to Disney+. While it does ostensibly fit into the broader Marvel Cinematic Universe, Werewolf By Night mostly felt like… Read the rest of the article: Disney re-releasing Werewolf By Night in color

Compiled by YouTuber Todd In The Shadows, who apparently keeps a perpetually updated list of "stop" songs. Here's the criteria used to decide which stops actually qualified for the supercut:… Read the rest of the article: Supercut of pop songs that stop when someone says the word "stop"

Over at The Guardian, Frida Garza has a delightful new piece examining the graphic design marketing aesthetics of gentrification. Which really just a fancy way of saying: why the fuck… Read the rest of the article: Analyzing the typeface trends of gentrification

In the official Star Wars novel Aftermath, author Chuck Wendig has a delightfully clever chapter written by from the perspective of Admiral Ackbar, recontextualizing the Mon Calarami military leader's most… Read the rest of the article: This Erotic Admiral Ackbar action figure is sadly not a trap

On a particularly rainy Scottish Saturday in October, Johnny Bacigalupo and Rob Hussey took their Tesla out to enjoy a nice dinner in downtown Edinburgh. But after the meal, they… Read the rest of the article: Scottish couple learns the hard way that Tesla warranties do not cover climate change

Thanks to the ever-delightful Public Domain Review, I've just discovered the 1901 short film The Over-Incubated Baby. In the minute-long movie, filmmaker Walter R. Booth uses the still-natal medium to… Read the rest of the article: Watch "The Over-Incubated Baby," a surreal short film from 1901

All cops are bulbasaur. That's my general takeaway from this recent 404 Media investigation, in which journalist Jason Koebler uncovers bodycam footage of a bunch of LAPD officers who are… Read the rest of the article: FOIA footage reveals LAPD officers ignoring a robbery to play Pokémon Go

Last week, I received an email from a PR firm about a new graphic novel pitched as "What We Do In The Shadows meets Monster Squad." Of everything that came… Read the rest of the article: CEREAL is the grimdark reimagining of breakfast mascots I never knew I needed

Meta recently announced a new type of pointless use for AI-generated art: sticker reactions! As The Verge explains: Powered by Meta's Llama 2 large language model — the company's ChatGPT rival —… Read the rest of the article: Facebook's new AI -generated stickers include Marx with boobs and Luigi with an AR-15

Like most AI-generated software, Bing's new DALL-E3-powered image creator comes with some strict content guidelines. While some asshole on Not Twitter will inevitably whinge about how this is some sort… Read the rest of the article: Bing's new AI image creator shows Mickey, Kermit, SpongeBob, and more all doing 9/11

A baby beaver has been spotted in London — for the first time in roughly 400 years. The furry dam builders had been hunted to extinction, but there's been a… Read the rest of the article: London gets some baby beaver for the first time in centuries

On Wednesday, September 27, 2023, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken hosted a launch event for the Global Music Diplomacy Initiative on behalf of the US Department of State. As… Read the rest of the article: US Secretary of State covers "Hoochie Coochie Man"on guitar at State Department function