Fans of the Bloom County comic strip have been wondering if and when that illustrated home of Opus the Penguin and Bill The Cat will ever come back, and so far we’ve been waiting 25 long years.

Then, just one day after announcing it's return, our Bloom County dreams came true when Berkeley Breathed released a new Bloom County strip!

Now, if you're a comic strip lover but you're unfamiliar with Bloom County then you're about to have a lot of reading to catch up on, because it's simply the best in illustrated commentary for the discerning adult...who likes said commentary to be delivered by talking animals.

My description obviously doesn't do Bloom County justice, so you've just gotta get out there and read some Bloom County strips for yourself!

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I’m a huge fan of practical special effects, and even with CGI realism advancing at an alarming rate I feel like there will always be a place for practical effects in the entertainment industry.

That being said, there are plenty of times when practical effects are used because of a low budget or lack of access to CGI effects, and that’s when things can go horribly wrong.

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This video by WatchMojo is a trip down the bad side of memory lane, reminding us about the times when bad practical effects made us laugh when we were supposed to be having some serious cinematic feels.

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Adam Savage of Mythbusters has made it a tradition to walk the floors of Comic Con without being recognized due to an awesome costume. He wore a spacesuit last year. This year, he takes it up a notch by wearing a spacesuit from the 1969 movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, taking astronaut Chris Hadfield with him.

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The Comic Con walk begins at about ten minutes in, but if you watch the whole thing, you’ll learn a lot about space suits from both Savage and the man whose life depended on one. But the Stanley Kubrick version is still something new to Hadfield. An apt comment:

Real astronaut dresses as fake astronaut so nobody will know he's an astronaut...

-Thanks, Daniel Portolan!

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Poor Shemp- your name is forever associated with the worst era in Three Stooges history (even though plenty of good shorts came out of that era), and when you passed away they had to use a stand-in to complete the four shorts owed to Columbia Pictures.

These "fake Shemps" give movie and TV productions a cheesy feel, causing viewers to wonder why the studios didn't just replace the actor with somebody else, or simply write them out of the script, for the sake of production value.

Take the Sopranos for instance- actress Nancy Marchand, who played Tony Soprano's mom, passed away in 2000 and left the show with a major gap in their lineup.

So what did series creator David Chase do to fill the gap? He digitally pasted Marchand's head on a stand-in's body. Needless to say fans were not happy with this fix...

This classic mental_floss article features 11 Times When "Fake Shemps" Replaced Real Actors, read it and you’ll discover that a real Shemp beats a stand-in Shemp any day!

Archer is a big fan of drinking, womanizing and doing “spy stuff”, pretty much exactly in that order.

However, Archer isn’t a fan of Comic-Con, and he has no problem telling poor Pam how stupid it is to go see panels and movie sneak peeks. In the process that mean drunk crushes Pam's dream of cosplaying as Immortan Joe...

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So why does the Duchess of the Danger Zone have such a problem with all the Comic-Con geekery? Who gives a crap, he's a cartoon! (Video contains NSFW-ish language)

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Derek VanCauwenbergh, a stained glass artist in Sandusky, Ohio, makes shiny things for geeks of every fandom. He made this beautiful arm lamp that he turned out so well that he's decided to build the rest of Artoo, too! You can find more of his work on Etsy and Instagram.

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The Cyberpunk subgenre isn’t just about mankind losing touch with our humanity thanks to an (often biological) link with machines, it’s also about discovering how we can remain human as tech overruns our lives, and an individual as the mega-corps take over the planet.

This search for humanism in a world where tech is fully integrated into our lives is what comes to mind as I look at these simply wonderful images by Adrian Dadich, a concept artist from Australia.

Adrian's illustrations capture the Cyberpunk aesthetic perfectly, demonstrating how people will look when tech is integrated into their bodies and how these “upgrades” will forever change the standard of beauty.

You can see many more amazing Cyberpunk illustrations by Adrian Dadich at Kotaku

Robot Chicken’s third DC Comics special is coming to Adult Swim this fall. If the full show is anything like the preview here, it’s going to be insane.

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It explores the multiverse theory, and crosses over with other universes, so that we see different versions of our favorite superheroes. Seeing a different version of yourself can be pretty unnerving. Especially if you’re an ape. -via Uproxx

You may see a dozen or more cosplayers dressed as Darth Vader on any given day during Comic Con, but if you ever see one who can actually force choke you it’s time to head for Hall H!

This year Con attendees were accosted by a seemingly normal Darth cosplayer with a camera who was actually helping the sinister masterminds at Wired seek out and eliminate Rebel scum.

So was Darth's visit the beginning of a full blown Imperial assault on San Diego, or just an excuse for people to act silly on camera? The decision is up to you...

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The producers of the upcoming Star Wars film were ready for the crowds at Comic Con with this video filled with images, clips, and commentary from the set of Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

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There were 6,000 fans squeezed into Hall H to hear from JJ Abrams, producer Kathleen Kennedy, and writer Lawrence Kasdan. Then the majority of the main cast showed up, too, including Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, and Mark Hamill. The session ended with a surprise concert of Star Wars music from the San Diego Symphony at the Embarcadero Marina Park South. -via Laughing Squid

You've seen the movie, now here's the cosplay. For CONvergence in Minnesota, redditor lisalouwho08 and her friends dressed as a more rural collection of the world's greatest heroes. She's playing She-Hulk, the cousin of Hulk. Black Widow is absent because she has to mind the still.

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As has become traditional, the trailer for the new season of The Walking Dead debuted to a packed audience at Comic Con, and now to the rest of us.

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The new season will premiere on October 11 with a 90-minute episode. Continue reading for more information, and a look at Fear the Walking Dead.

KFC and Turner Broadcasting are marketing to Comic Con attendees by dressing Colonel Sanders up in various common cosplay getups! Wifi-enabled statues of the Colonel have been placed around San Diego in various costumes, inviting passersby to hook up to the hotspot.

Once you spot one of the Colonels and connect to the wifi, you’ll be directed to a co-branded KFC and Robot Chicken digital hub at www.adultswim.com/KFC to check out KFC and Robot Chicken custom content. If you take a photo with the statue(s) and send it out onto social media withh the hashtag #colonelsanders, you could win a free Robot Chicken t-shirt.

You’ll find a map of where the statues are at the Comic Con blog. Is this genius or just plain insane? I knew met the Colonel a few times, and I bet instead of spinning in his grave, he’s chuckling at this. -via Metafilter

Anne Hathaway and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are Hollywood superstars in their own right, and often headline movies all by their little lonesome, but when they pair up and slip on some spandex supersuits it’s a battle for top billing.

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Sidekicks is a slick superhero short that premiered on episode 2 of HitRECord On TV, a collaborative TV project created by Joseph. It's comical and stylistically 2D in all the right ways! (Barely NSFW due to language)

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Comedian Kurt Braunohler wasn’t looking to become the butt of anyone’s jokes when he decided to tow the 14-foot-tall “Love Butt” across the country- he was shooting a pilot for a new show on Comedy Central called “Better. Dumber. Faster. With Kurt Braunohler”.

However, he probably should have let people know that he was filming a show, because people started freaking out when they saw a giant tattooed butt come rolling into their town.

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Okay, so people didn’t really freak out, they actually had a good ol’ time with that giant butt, and the butt looked happy about all the attention too.

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And what does Kurt plan to do with the butt when he’s done filming the pilot? He wants to leave it in his mom’s driveway as a surprise gift. I'm sure she'll crack up!

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