Project Sand is an growing repository of high-quality Dune related artwork by A.J. Trahan, Sammy, Wo"DZGN, Jordan Lamarre-Wan, and Rolf Mohr. Above is a scene by Wo"DZGN showing a Fremen warrior summoning a sandworm.

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He-Man and his friends (and enemies) from the 80s cartoon He-Man and the Masters of the Universe sing "What's Up?" by the 90s band 4 Non Blondes. It's an outstanding mashup. But I was a bit disappointed not to see Ram-Man -- he had a great singing voice.

Doug Martin, the Canadian humorist behind Right Brain Comics, pokes fun at his homeland by imagining a version of Grand Theft Auto set there. More at the link.

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Intellectual property rights? Pfft. Let's make some money! Geek Tyrant has pictures of six hilariously bizarre toy knockoffs.

http://geektyrant.com/news/2010/5/17/6-awesomely-ridiculous-chinese-superhero-knockoffs.html

Comics Alliance editor Chris Sims (whose work we've previously featured) created a periodic table of superpowers, divided into the categories of origin stories, physical abilities, and mental abilities.

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Shoyuken member NeoBlood took an old fashioned Royal Companion mechanical typewriter and turned it into a functional PC gaming peripheral with a joystick and working keys. You can view in-process photos at the link.

http://shoryuken.com/showthread.php?t=234472 via Gizmodo

deviantART user gavacho13 made a set of illustrations mashing up Sesame Street and Street Fighter. Pictured above is Cookie Monster presented as Sumo wrestler E. Honda. You can view a gallery of these illustrations at the link.

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Nickola Johnson (cola82) is a frequent commenter at Neatorama and its sub-blogs. She's also an accomplished artist and her gallery features many fine cartoons and pin-ups. I especially like this one depicting the Watchmen character Night Owl as a woman.

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Poor Aquaman -- he's the joke of the Justice League. "Oooh, aliens are invading the Earth. Let's go talk to some fish!" His TV show never even made it past the pilot.

Comic by Zach Cranor.

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It's often said that Futurama was one of the most scientifically accurate science fiction television shows ever produced, what with the Adolf Hitler shark and Nibbler's dark matter poop. So now that the show has been revived, the producers naturally hired David X. Cohen, a graduate student in physics, to be a writer. Cohen recently gave an interview about his work on Futurama:

His veiled mathematical homages are usually in the background, and are done mostly “to amuse ourselves,” he says. One of his favorite clandestine operations was an allusion to Fermat’s Last Theorem in an episode of The Simpsons entitled “Homer3.” In the name of entertainment, he wrote a computer program to search for very near misses of the theorem, and found some so close that they could not be invalidated by a standard 8-digit calculator.[...]

Despite his passion for burying physics treasure in a trove of episodes, Cohen, along with Matt Groening (creator of The Simpsons, and Executive Producer along with Cohen of Futurama), made the conscious decision early on that “we would make sure that the story and the humor would take the first position and science would take the second position. As much respect as we have for science, we have to make the show entertaining.” This requires Cohen to bend natural laws, but “we try to come up with an explanation that will amuse scientists, even if it is bogus,” he says.

For example, since the show’s universe requires travel faster than the speed of light, “we stuck something in one episode where we stated that the characters weren’t actually traveling faster than light, but that scientists had in fact managed to increase the speed of light,” Cohen explains. “We like to at least acknowledge it when we know we’re wrong.”

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The Dublin art studio Robo Steel makes elaborate and totally kick-ass sculptures out of scrap metal. Here's their Predator sculpture made from "sheet metal, washers, chain, bicycle spokes and other bits of recycles steel." Over at Neatorama, we've previously featured an Alien sculpture that they made.

http://www.robosteel.com/sculptures/predator/predator-1-2m-carrying-alien-head.html via Great White Snark

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Some clever fellow remixed the many sound effects in Street Fighter II to play the theme song (below) to Doraemon, a long-running anime series. (via Kotaku)


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This is a bit dated, since the British general election is already over. But I totally dig Bite Daily's Transformers-themed political advertisements. More at the link.

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Zach Weiner, the cartoonist who creates Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, also produces comedy sketches for a program called SMBC Theater. In the most recent episode, the entire world becomes addicted to a massively multiplayer online game (MMO). What is the unique allure of this game? Can humanity be saved from it? Only one hero can deliver the human race from imminent extinction.

Another excellent episode: Time Traveling Geek

In an inexcusable and inexplicable insult, Wikipedia has removed the Klingon character from its logo.

Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam.

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