Are you tired of “sci-fi” movies that are basically just action flicks with lasers and spacecraft instead of bullets and cars? Looking for something, I dunno, a little harder? Don’t be ashamed, a lot of us nerds are. Well, it looks like the upcoming Europa Report may satisfy your hard sci-fi yearnings.

The movie, about a manned mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa looks to take a fairly grounded, realistic approach to space travel. Well, until the astronauts encounter some kind of alien monsters under Europa’s ice, at which case I’m betting realism probably gives way to a lot of screaming, running and dying.

Hit the jump for the first full-length trailer for Europa Report…

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It’s time once again for our Friday comics cosplay feature, casting the spotlight on the best comics related costumery from the cosplay community.  As always, we’re focusing on those cosplayers who we think deserve special recognition for their hard work creating the best costumes, whatever their budget, and also the work of those  photographers who capture them for posterity.

This week we’re featuring some awesome cosplay of Juggernaut, Black Canary, Ant-Man, Harley Quinn, Deadpool, Poison Ivy, Batman, Pixie, Judge Dredd, Jean Grey, Guy Garner and Kyle Rayner!

Gamma Squad is committed to giving a voice to the cosplay community that thrives in communities like our friends at TheSuperheroCostumingForum.com. Each week we aim to spotlight our favorite costumes and, in addition, we also host a regular cosplay contest, with the results forming a special theme week. We invite all cosplayers, costumers and photographers to submit pictures of their work that relates to the theme (or any cosplay in general!) to our Flickr group to be considered. We’ll then pick our top choices and post them on Gamma Squad for the adoration of all.

Our current theme is:

• Super Sidekicks!

For now, enjoy this week’s selection!

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Good afternoon you princes of Maine, you kings of New England, you stalkers of Grant Morrison. Here are all the mashup and parody videos I didn’t get a chance to cover, thrown in your face like you’re Jodie Foster working for the FBI.

In the offing for today:

1. FIRST VIDEO: The 1974 version of The Great Gatsby starring Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, and Sam Waterston gets re-dubbed with audio of Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, and Tobey Maguire from the second trailer for Baz Luhrmann’s 2013 version. [via The Hollywood Reporter]
2. SECOND VIDEO: “This fall on NBC you won’t believe what She-Ra has in store.” Starring Kylie Minogue as She-Ra and Alfie Allen (Game Of Thrones) as “Skelly”. Being NBC, this would get cancelled after one season regardless of popularity. [via CBM]
3. THIRD VIDEO: Someone added the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars to GTA IV– Oh, my! What have you done? It’s BACKWARDS. You flea-bitten furball! (Technically mirrored, not backwards, but I don’t know a good Empire quote for that.) [via Technabob]
4. FOURTH VIDEO: If Breaking Bad were a cheesy drama from the ’90s, we’d still watch it. Begrudgingly. [via Reddit]
5. Banner picture: One of the ten mashups of The Great Gatsby with Mean Girls quotes at Next Movie.
6. Inset picture via Pleated Jeans.

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Nintendo has a pretty serious problem on its hands: The Wii is outselling the Wii U, and the Wii isn’t selling that well. The public doesn’t understand what the Wii U is or why they should buy one. So Nintendo is doing something that’s… actually really sensible and a great idea: They’re teaming up with Best Buy to put unreleased games into stores for you to try out. Read the rest of this entry »

Nintendo held another one of its Nintendo Direct presentations this morning and, well, I’m not entirely sure why. They didn’t exactly have a ton of information to impart. That said, there were still a few tidbits that should be of interest to Nintendo fanatics, so hit the jump for a rundown and some new trailers/game footage…

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When you speak to Kurt Busiek and Brent Anderson, the one thing that pops out about them the most is what great friends they are. Over the course of a long, freewheeling chat, Busiek and Anderson teased each other, made each other laugh, and communicated, above all, a real sense of friendship and genuine pleasure in their work. And you can tell they’re glad to get Astro City back in front of readers. We asked them about the process, and why the book went so suddenly on hiatus. Read the rest of this entry »

Last time we checked in on the art of Billy the Butcher, he was drawing real-life despots as comic book supervillains and mashing up Marvel comics superheroes with stills from their film adaptations. Now he’s created “The Post-Punk / New Wave Super Friends” to re-cast seven ’80s music icons as comic book superheroes.

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(Author’s Note: There are theories. I do not know the ending, and this post gives the six of you UPPROXIANS who watch Doctor Who a chance to speculate. Be warned, however, that the finale has been leaked, and through whatever means, some people have seen it. There are spoilers available on the Internet. If you post any of these spoilers in the comments, 1) I will kill all of your loved ones, and 2) I will wait until after you’ve finally processed all of your grief, and then I will kill you. But I won’t tell you when. Could be a day. Could be a year. Could be 20 years. But every time you get out of your car, look out your window, or go to the grocery store, you will fear for your life. If the paranoia doesn’t eventually drive you to your grave, I assure you that I will. Love, Dustin. )

The thing about Steven Moffat era of Doctor Who is that it’s hard to develop theories because Steven Moffat doesn’t always follow the rules. He comes up with an end point, but he doesn’t always lay the groundwork to get to that end point. The entire era has been a series of inexplicable twists and deux ex machinas. But many of us continue to watch, because we love Doctor Who, and we’d otherwise feel silly if we weren’t following the series despite the Doctor Who iPhone cover we own, and all the Doctor Who T-shirts we wear. It’s a sickness.

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As some of you may perhaps know, an obscure sitcom called Arrested Development is being brought back for a fourth season by Netflix. In a desperate attempt to make the Internet aware of the show, the producers put out InsertMeAnywhere, an attempt to crowdsource funny marketing materials. And Capcom answered the call. Read the rest of this entry »