Comics Marvel's Children of the Vault is a post-human cyber thriller from the writer of 20th Century Men Thom Dunn

happy mutants 20th Century Men brilliantly flips the Cold War on its head, with superheroes Thom Dunn

ice cream Twin Pines' vintage ice cream clown is deliciously unsettling Popkin

History 1930 film may be the first how-to video in history Grant St. Clair

websites The obscure airfields of America Rob Beschizza

Comics MAD hits 600 issues; still, thankfully, hilariously juvenile Ruben Bolling

$80 DIY bird listening device creates painterly collages of avian visitors Rob Beschizza

books New biography captures Doonesbury's 50-year sweep of American life Ruben Bolling

Comic Books Revisiting the strange world of Dick Tracy Gareth Branwyn

Science Early 1900s Thermocap hair loss device looks like sci-fi medical tech gone wrong Popkin

Science These 100-year-old flounder photos look like abstract design studies Popkin

Science No one knows why dark side of Venus has a faint glow Ellsworth Toohey

History Historian explains why modern bread sucks Séamus Bellamy

History This 1915 ice cream ad told Americans to eat ice cream for their health Popkin

Technology Nashville public library digitizing old photos and tapes for free Rob Beschizza

Games Stranger Than Heaven looks like a true magnum opus Grant St. Clair

movies WikiFlix is like Netflix for public domain films, with no ads, no logins, and no data harvesting Ellsworth Toohey

fashion Valentino, Italian fashion legend, dead at 93 Rob Beschizza

mistakes A bet, a parachute, and Devil's Tower: a perfect plan until it wasn't Jason Weisberger

animals Pet grave photographer captures decades of unconditional love Popkin