apocalypse

Have you ever imagined how our lives would be without the internet or phone network? Even imagining an internet apocalypse is scary! A life without internet would be like life back in the Roman age - cruel and short! No internet, no phone calls, no emergency services, no way to run the mammoth Infrastructure that has been created from electricity grids to hospitals, industries, and more. In the 21st century, we rely heavily on electronics and there would be no easy life possible without the internet. Imagine spending…

Astronomers have discovered a planet that seems to have somehow survived an apocalyptic scenario. The “Hot Jupiter” closely orbits a giant star that by all logic should have engulfed it, but the team has a few hypotheses about how it’s still standing.Whether or not it remains habitable, Earth itself has a hard limit to its lifespan – in about five billion years, the Sun will run out of hydrogen fuel to burn and start fusing helium instead. That will cause it to swell up into a red giant star, expanding its size and…

This week in the Marvel Rundown, Apocalypse learns the truth Genesis and the history of the Broken Land of Okkara… but will it tear them apart? Find out in a SPOILER-LITE review of X-Men – Before The Fall: The Heralds of Apocalypse! Not ready for spoilers? Jump on down to the Rapid Rundown for spoiler-free blurbs on Silk #2 and Silver Surfer: Ghost Light #5! What did you think of this week’s fresh Marvel Comics releases, True Believers? We’re waiting to hear from you! Give us a shout-out, right here in the comment…

Posted in: Comics, Marvel Comics, Preview | Tagged: Comics, marvel, previews, x-menX-Men: Before the Fall - Heralds of Apocalypse #1 takes us back to the origin of Arakko, where Apocalypse's past might just come back to bite him. Get ready for a bizarre reunion!Published Mon, 26 Jun 2023 19:27:10 -0500 by Jude Terror | Ah, another fine week in the comic book "journalism" biz, and I've got to preview X-Men: Before the Fall – Heralds of Apocalypse #1. This little gem from Marvel arrives in stores on June 28th and reveals…

Zombie Apocalypse is of the hot topics on which several movies have been made. The idea of how to survive a disaster like that is something that inrigues many. "The Walking Dead" star Jeffrey Dean Morgan has weighed in on his chances of facing a zombie apocalypse if it ever happens. Jeffrey Dean Morgan(Getty Images) In an interaction with Page Six, Morgan was asked if he would survive the zombie apocalypse. “I do, I do”, replied the actor. “Well, one, I’d just go home and live on my farm and then sit up on top…

When State Farm announced in May that the company would stop writing new homeowners insurance policies in California, it issued a two-paragraph statement by way of explanation.It listed “historic increases in construction costs,” “rapidly growing catastrophe exposure, and a challenging reinsurance market” as the culprits, adding that it needed to take this action to “improve the company’s financial strength.” Those two paragraphs sent shockwaves through the state. Coming in tandem with a similar pullback by Allstate, the…

From Halloween to The Thing, Christine to They Live, John Carpenter is a modern master of cinematic horror. During Summer Games Fest on Thursday, Focus Home Entertainment and Saber Interactive announced that his unique zompocalyptic vision will be coming to Xbox X|S, the Epic Games Store and Playstation 5 in 2024 with the release of John Carpenter's Toxic Commando. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUgeWslPjps The game's premise, based on the trailer that debuted on Thursday, is straightforward: you see a zombie, you shoot…

Natasha Calder’s dystopian debut, The Offset (2021), co-authored with Emma Szewczak, explored overpopulation and controlled procreation. Her first solo novel offers a terrifying vision of “the end of days” involving superbugs and antibiotic resistance.Kit and Crevan appear to be the sole inhabitants of a remote island. They live in a bunker beneath a castle ruin and only venture out at night. Kit tells us she is 28, Crevan is older. There is something slippery about the pair and we are unsure of their relationship or who…

While the talk of the town is undoubtedly the highly anticipated release of The Little Mermaid, which will be swimming into theaters May 26 (the water puns just don’t get old), there’s always more to talk about when it comes to Disney. Earlier this month, Disney Plus announced it was removing a ton of its content from its streaming catalogue and that’s been looming over subscribers’ heads as they debate whether to weigh their streaming options and jump ship. I’ll also get into some movie recommendations and where…

No doubt to Alan Titchmarsh’s great relief, the horticultural arm of the post-apocalypse flick is finally entering the growth phase, with the likes of Annihilation, The Last of Us and now this lightweight effort from Chinese director Lin Zhenzhao. The hubris here is that mankind has overcompensated for the desertification of the planet with cutting-edge research to promote plant growth, accidentally creating a super-species of sentient flora that has choked the Earth, and whose roving vines hunt down people to snack…