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![War and Social Upheaval Cause Spikes in Zombie Movie Production [Chart Porn]](http://imageserver.news.speeple.com/4/6/2/7/a/f/0/8/9/f/4ca9c7be21fcac15105735.jpeg) |
War and Social Upheaval Cause Spikes in Zombie Movie Production [Chart Porn]io9 - Oct 29, 2008 There's been a huge spike in the production of zombie movies lately, and many of them seem to be inspired by war. Everything from 28 Days Later to Zombie Strippers make explicit reference to wartime, as did seminal … Also tagged: research, movies, feature, violence, zombies, top, chart, chart porn |
![Spider-Man's Frenemy Goes To Iraq [Spider-man]](http://imageserver.news.speeple.com/a/0/3/b/3/3/0/8/e/0/51d46984357b101d26f14c.jpeg) |
Spider-Man's Frenemy Goes To Iraq [Spider-man]io9 - Oct 21, 2008 He's been a high-school bully and one of the few people to stand by the embattled Spider-Man, but now Flash Thompson is taking on a whole new role... he's going off to fight in Iraq. An upcoming storyline in The … Also tagged: politics, iraq, spider man, amazing spider man, marc guggenheim |
io9 - Sep 29, 2008
It's nice to bring out a shiny new edition of a SF classic, as St. Martin's Press will of Joe Haldeman's 1974 smash The Forever War next March. Before the re-debut and related fanfare can happen, though, NYTimes …
Also tagged: books, the, forever, joe, feuds, literary, haldeman
io9 - Sep 25, 2008
This image of a future city, created by Icelandic concept designer B. Börkur Eiríksson, feels to me like some anachronistic mashup of impressionist art and science fiction. The people in their hats and bonnets look …
Also tagged: concept art, dystopia
io9 - Sep 17, 2008
It happens to the best of us: Your robot body guard takes a car bomb to the brain and suddenly she thinks she's supposed to kill you rather than protect you. Or maybe an enemy combatant has sent an autonomous …
Also tagged: robots, defense, intelligence, artificial, combat, military tech
io9 - Sep 16, 2008
His Wanted broke box office records when it was released, and the upcoming Kick-Ass is one of the most buzzed-about movies of next year already. In addition, his Marvel Comics work is being used as the basis for Iron …
Also tagged: comics, heroes, wanted, kick ass, grunts, mark millar meets his end
io9 - Sep 10, 2008
One of the unintended consequences of having constant satellite surveillance over every centimeter of the globe is that it's easy to see how governments screw up. Here is a UNOSAT image from a report on the damage done …
Also tagged: politics, maps, georgia, surveillance, dystopia
io9 - Apr 3, 2008
This is a drydock in HullBreach, a complete conversion for the Half-Life 2 video game. The team has an ambitious goal of creating 100% new content for the game, and they've been hard at work on it for several years …
Also tagged: art, space, half life 2, conversion, video game, concept art, hullbreach
io9 - Apr 2, 2008
It's become common sense to admit that war can make soldiers crazy — the condition has been called everything from "shell shock" to "post traumatic stress disorder." But now a study published yesterday offers concrete …
Also tagged: science, mental illness, lebanon, psychology, futurism, plos medicine
io9 - Apr 1, 2008
During the Vietnam War, world-famous photographers like Marc Riboud and Eddie Adams captured iconic (and traumatic) moments on film. In 2008, most war photographs are created by embedded journalists whose images are …
Also tagged: art, photography, lego, stormtrooper