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One of the first, and arguably still most, intriguing things about Amazon’s Fallout adaptation was the news that Walton Goggins would appear in the series—with the intrigue doubled further when that news was paired with the fact he’d be playing a noseless, peeling, irradiated creature known as a Ghoul. That remains the case as we’ve seen more of the show, and Goggins is only playing up the intrigue further.Unboxing Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 Limited Edition Playstation 5 BundleToday’s trailer revealed that Fallout will play…

Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Pompeii have uncovered a gorgeous still-life fresco depicting a platter covered in food and wine, including one foot item that looks suspiciously like a pizza.Is Google's New $1,800 Pixel Phone Worth It? | Gizmodo ReviewReader: It’s not a pizza. Traditional pizza has tomato and mozzarella on it, as the Pompeii Archaeological Park press office reminded us in a statement released today. Rather, the bready item on the left side of the 2,000-year-old fresco is mensa, a Roman…

Remnants of a Roman oil amphora. Credit: University of Cordoba Measuring just 6 centimeters wide and 8 centimeters long, the magnitude and exceptionality of the discovery has left the European archaeological community flabbergasted. It is a fragment of an oil amphora from the Roman region of Betica, manufactured about 1,800 years ago, with a written text on it, found during prospecting carried out in the municipality of…

Battery Life—about a space traveler and a scavenger who join forces to survive the post-apocalypse—has an intriguing premise, but its backstory might be even cooler: authors Brennan Gilpatrick and Gregory Lang have been friends since the sixth grade, and decided to draw on their shared love of genre to write their first book together. James Gunn on Feeling Pressure to Add Adam Warlock to Guardians of the Galaxy | io9 InterviewHere’s more details on what Battery Life is about, followed by the full cover and an exclusive…

The latest wave of Milestone titles from DC Comics began hitting shops last month. Among the titles is Static: Shadows of Dakota, a follow-up series to last year’s Static: Season One. The new six-issue miniseries, from writer/artist Nikolas Draper-Ivey, co-writer Vita Ayala, and letterer AndWorld Design, picks up three months after the events of the previous series and follows Virgil Hawkins as he faces new threats in Dakota City. Yesterday DC revealed that Static: Shadows of Dakota #1 is going back for a second…

Skepta has weighed in on Louis Vuitton’s next chapter.The 40-year-old grime rapper took to Twitter this week to offer LV a few suggestions as it continues the search for its next leader. Questions and uncertainty began swirling around the French fashion house in late 2021, when its menswear creative director Virgil Abloh died after a private battle with cancer. Though LV has yet to name Abloh’s official successor, it recently announced it had tapped SuperKid’s Colm Dillane to guest design its Fall 2023 men’s collection. …

The inaugural Mirror Mirror Music festival, which will also serve as a tribute to the late fashion designer Virgil Abloh, will feature Travis Scott, Skepta and Benji B as headliners. The event, which was curated by Benji B and produced by Virgil Abloh Securities, will be held during Art Basel on Dec. 3 at FPL Solar Amphitheater at Bayfront Park in Miami. All profits from the event will benefit the Virgil Abloh Foundation, set to launch next year. Yves Tumor, Pedro, Venus X, BAMBII, Rampa and…

Kanye West and Tremaine Emory are still at odds over the former’s recent comments about the late Virgil Abloh.Earlier this week, Ye accused Bernard Arnault, CEO of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, of killing Virgil, who died in November 2021 after a battle with cancer. Shortly after posting the rant on social media, Emory, Supreme’s creative director, urged the rapper to not use the Virgil’s name as part of his “victim campaign” and alleged that Ye “rode on in group chats” and elsewhere.“Ye tell the ppl why you didn’t…

In a new interview with French outlet Clique TV, Kanye West spoke about how he felt after Virgil Abloh was appointed artistic director of Louis Vuitton men’s branch.“No one knows I’d been offered the deal by Bernard Arnault,” Ye said at the 12:35 mark of the interview. “No one knows the deal was pulled. I used to call myself the ‘Louis Vuitton Don.’”Kanye mentioned that Bernard’s son, Alexandre, told him that the co-founder of LVMH “never goes back on his word.”“Three months after that, they dropped the deal,” West…

Last summer, Dipset and The LOX made Verzuz delivered one of the most memorable battles in the livestream series’ history. Now Jim Jones is delivering some background on Juelz Santana’s custom Louis Vuitton fitted cap that garnered attention during the show.Jones took to Instagram to break down how the fitted cap was a custom piece designed by the late Virgil Abloh specifically for himself and Santana.“We gonna go back to last year ’cause we was just sitting here talking about the Verzuz, about the fit, and n***as was…