Graeme McMillan, Author at Gizmodo

Who You Gonna Believe About Batman RIP? USA Today Or Your Own Lying Eyes?

USA Today is running a story today that gives away the end of DC Comics’ Batman RIP storyline – but in a way that may be contradicted by DC’s own solicitation for February 2009’s final issue of Nightwing. To go along with a return to Clintonian SF, are we looking at a Clintonian parsing of…

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The Army And Mom And Dad Hate Supergirl

We’ve all been there: Your long-dead race suddenly reappears on your adopted home planet, including the parents you’d just come to terms with being gone. And, of course, they don’t approve of your new friends and new lifestyle. With a storyline like that, who couldn’t empathize with the latest issue of Supergirl? We’ve got an…

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Chuck Makes Us Want The Fat Lady To Sing, And Soon

Watching Chuck last night, two things occurred to me. Firstly, somewhere between last week and this, the show turned into Alias – only without the fun dress-up part. And secondly, if I had gone to Stanford, I probably would’ve had a very different career history by this point in my life. Spoilers lie ahead, nerdherders.One…

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Heroes And Strangely Shaped Space Commanders Rule This Week’s Comics

In a week that sees the comic book shelves swamped with familiar names from TV, movies and, yes, even comic books themselves, the most interesting release is possibly something that you’ve never heard of before. It’s almost as if science fiction is all about the future again with this week’s New Comics We Crave! If…

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Meet Ape Gremlins In War Monkeys

Never mind any half-assed Planet of the Apes remake; we’ve discovered the monkey SF film we’ve been waiting for all along in the simian shape of War Monkeys. It’s the next project from director Kevin Munroe and he’s describing it as an updated Abbott and Costello crossed with Quentin Tarantino. Starring monkeys with guns. I…

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Won’t Somebody Save Robotech?

If you were hoping that Warner Bros’ big budget version of anime classic Robotech was going to be… well, good, then the studio’s choice of writers may be upsetting. Smallville creators (and vets of The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor and Shanghai Noon) Alfred Gough and Miles Millar have been hired to adapt the…

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Next Year To Give You All The Astro Boy You Want

Next year won’t bring the return of Astro Boy just to movie theaters. Thanks to the wonders of merchandising, you might have a hard time avoiding Osamu Tezuka’s little atomic pinocchio by the time that his big-budget CGI revival hits the multiplex.Last week, Astro Boy owners Imagi Studios announced partnerships with five different companies as…

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Superman To Abandon Earth And Action In ’09

2009 is going to be a big year for DC Comics’ Superman. He’s going to leave his comic book home for the last 70 years, and he’s also going to be abandoning his adopted home planet forever (or the comic book version thereof, which is at least six months). What could make the Man of…

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Knight Rider Racing Towards Hoff

Finally, a reason to hope that NBC’s Knight Rider makes it to a second season. Sources are reporting that should the troubled reboot survive its mid-season shake-up then a second season would include the addition of a new regular character: Michael Knight, as played by David Hasselhoff. That’s right: we may finally get the father-son-car…

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Can’t All The Commenters Just Get Along?

My lesson is learned. Never accuse a comic of being arguably racist, unless you want people to ask unexpected, and slightly flamey, questions in the comments section. The comic in question? Kick-Ass. The controversy? Whether or not white people are less likely to break laws.Following on from a comment I made about the worrying lack…

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Is Robert Downey Jr. Really The Entertainer Of The Year?

Entertainment Weekly has named Iron Man’s Robert Downey Jr. as their choice for the entertainer of 2008 – and while we may have loved Jon Favreau’s metal Marvel hero movie, we’re unconvinced that Downey Jr.’s necessarily the right man for the title. What about Heath Ledger, the unintentionally-entertaining Michael Bay (C’mon, “Bayhem” is definitely the…

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Free Flaming Lips For Christmas

Want to hear the soundtrack to the Flaming Lips’ new movie Christmas On Mars for free? Ain’t It Cool has a streaming version of the music for the beardie weirdie band’s latest project – which we told you about back in August – available right here. It’s no Buggin, but it’ll do for now.

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Leave Buck Rogers In The Past, Please

This year sees the 80th birthday of time-traveling American hero Buck Rogers, the comic strip and movie serial hero who also made the 25th century both a weekly destination and strangely sexy for a generation of children in the early 1980s (Okay, that last part may have had a lot to do with Erin Gray’s…

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Hubcap Sculptures Make Robot Pets

Ptolemy Elrington’s animal sculptures are made entirely from hubcaps – and look like the kind of pets that we’ll all end up owning in our soon-to-come Jetsons future. Click through for more images of the metallic skeletons that will soon linger under all of our cyborg Fifis of the future. The artist who makes sculptures…

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Get Out The Vote. Again

The holidays are a stressful time for everyone, so why not do the fine people of New York and Los Angeles a favor and give them the gift of fine SF entertainment in the month of December? The Paley Center is holding a poll to find the five most popular holiday television specials, which they’ll…

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The Curious Case Of The Disappearing K9 Website

Are producers of a new Doctor Who spin-off so afraid of fan backlash that they’ve shut down their official production site? That seems to be the case when it comes to the new, Australian-made K-9 series; the show’s website went live earlier this week, giving fans a chance to see behind the scenes of the…

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Pegg’s New Movie Brings Aliens To America

There’s something to be said for knowing your audience. As if we weren’t excited enough about Simon Pegg’s new movie Paul, in which he and Hot Fuzz co-star Nick Frost take a space alien to San Diego Comic-Con, now we learn that the alien in question is going to have a Cloverfield-esque pedigree.Pegg told Empire…

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Dreamworks Makes Our SF Movie Dream A Priority

Newly independent movie studio Dreamworks has put together a list of movies that they’re considering “high priority” projects – and amongst them are two movies that you’ll probably be seeing a lot more of on this site in the future. One of them, Cowboys & Aliens, we’ve told you about before, but the second –…

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5 Ways That Sandman Changed The World

This week saw the 20th anniversary of the release of the first issue of The Sandman, Neil Gaiman’s now-classic fantasy series that rewrote the rules of mainstream comics more than once in its’ 75-issue run. Without Sandman, we may never have seen comics like Fables, Y: The Last Man or The Invisibles… but on the…

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Robot Shall Rise Up Against Robot In This Week’s Clone Wars

Of all the loves that dare not speak their name, is there any more beautiful than the one between a man and his droid? That’s the question that this week’s Clone Wars sought to answer and, thanks to some more-impressive than usual visuals and an unexpectedly engaging final battle, the answer may be “We’re still…

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Graeme McMillan

Who You Gonna Believe About Batman RIP? USA Today Or Your Own Lying Eyes?

The Army And Mom And Dad Hate Supergirl

Chuck Makes Us Want The Fat Lady To Sing, And Soon

Heroes And Strangely Shaped Space Commanders Rule This Week’s Comics

Meet Ape Gremlins In War Monkeys

Won’t Somebody Save Robotech?

Next Year To Give You All The Astro Boy You Want

Superman To Abandon Earth And Action In ’09

Knight Rider Racing Towards Hoff

Can’t All The Commenters Just Get Along?

Is Robert Downey Jr. Really The Entertainer Of The Year?

Free Flaming Lips For Christmas

Leave Buck Rogers In The Past, Please

Hubcap Sculptures Make Robot Pets

Get Out The Vote. Again

The Curious Case Of The Disappearing K9 Website

Pegg’s New Movie Brings Aliens To America

Dreamworks Makes Our SF Movie Dream A Priority

5 Ways That Sandman Changed The World

Robot Shall Rise Up Against Robot In This Week’s Clone Wars

Trump Says He’ll Sign Order to Pay TSA

Deadpool Will Deface ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Classics for a New Secret Lair

Apple’s Siri Isn’t Just Going to Use One Chatbot. It’s Going to Use All of Them

Why ‘For All Mankind’ Season 5 Is the Key to the Rest of the Series

ASUS ZenScreen 15.6-Inch Portable Monitor Is Now Cheaper Than Black Friday in Amazon’s Big Spring Sale

Early Wildfires Are Surging Across the US—and Trump’s New Fire Agency Isn’t Ready

INIU Brings Another Power Bank to the Spring Sale as SnapGo Keychain Portable Charger Drops to Its Lowest Price

Attorney Hit With Historic Fine for Citing AI-Generated Cases

Travelers Experiencing the Longest Security Lines in TSA History

Could There Be a ‘Project Hail Mary’ Sequel?

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

Apple Studio Display XDR Review: It Looks So Good, I Wish It Were an iMac

RayNeo Air 4 Pro Review: My Eyes Love These Video Glasses, but My Nose Disagrees