Graeme McMillan, Author at Gizmodo

Disney Attempts To Merge Wall-E And Bolt In Pet Robots

What happens when war machines runaway from home and just want to have fun instead? That’s one of the questions of former animator Scott Christian Sava’s graphic novel, Pet Robots, which is now being made into a movie by Disney. That’s right; soon we will all learn to find the military industrial complex both cute…

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Steampunk Meets Cowboy Cursing In Ignition City

After more than two years of work, Transmetropolitan writer Warren Ellis’s newest series, Ignition City is getting close to its debut – and to celebrate the upcoming announcement, Ellis has been offering up previews to the book that he’s describing as Deadwood meets Buck Rogers. We have to admit, we’re liking what we’re seeing.Ellis first…

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Europe Sees Trek Footage, But Klingons Stay Hidden

More people have seen footage from next year’s Star Trek reboot, this time in Rome, as director JJ Abrams continues a European tour of the footage unveiled in London earlier this week. While we’re happy that Abrams is getting out and about after an extended stay in the editing bay preparing the movie, we’re wondering…

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Brave And Bold: Colorful, Jazzy And A Lot Of Fun

Obviously, the people behind new cartoon Batman: The Brave and The Bold didn’t get the memo about how the caped crusader was supposed to be handled, post-Dark Knight. How else to explain a story that doesn’t just take Batman to an alien planet to lead an insurrection, but also shows him breathing in the cold,…

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Stan Lee To Co-Create Premium Cable’s First Gay Superhero

It’s the sentence that I never thought I’d find myself writing: Stan Lee is creating a series for Showtime about a gay superhero. Yes, you read that right; Stan Lee – not only the creator of Spider-Man, the X-Men, Iron Man and the Avengers (amongst many others), but also a man who made sure that…

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Asimov’s Time Travel Epic Heads To Screen

It’s the book that defeated Ridley Scott and Tom Cruise, but that isn’t stopping another studio from trying to make a blockbuster out of Isaac Asimov’s The End Of Eternity. But is New Regency, the studio that brought us Jumper and The Fountain and My Super Ex-Girlfriend, really the studio to turn Asimov’s time-travel tale…

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Batman: The Brave And The Bold Premieres Tonight

The spirit of Bob Haney lives on with tonight’s premiere of Batman: The Brave And The Bold on Cartoon Network at 8pm. The new show teams up a happier, gentler Batman than we’ve seen for awhile with a host of lesser-known DC Comics superheroes, including Green Arrow, Aquaman and Plastic Man, starting tonight with the…

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Who Names The Watchmen?

Wondering why the new trailer for Watchmen seems to include characters calling the superheroes “the Watchmen”? The original comic stayed away from the word, except for the ominous graffiti that gave the series its title, so is this more squidtastic evidence of the movie moving away from the source material, or just admen demanding that…

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Master Mind Will Rewrite The Superhero Movie Genre

Ignore Watchmen’s tired take on revisionist superheroes. We’re looking to Ben Stiller to provide us with a revolutionary take on the superhero movie genre with the upcoming animated supervillain tale Master Mind that he’s producing for his Madagascar director, Tom McGrath. Don’t bother with the whole “superhero parody” label; they’re killing the superhero off at…

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New Kick Ass Pics Promise Ridiculous, Realistic Take On Superheroes

New images from the set of Kick-Ass, the upcoming adaptation of Mark Millar’s xenophobic, over-the-top tale of teenage superheroing gone wrong, show that while the movie may be following the fashion sense of the comic, it seems to be dropping that whole “the white kid beats the crap out’ve black kids and latinos” theme, thankfully.The…

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Twilight Takes Over The Pop Charts

The soundtrack to upcoming emo vampire movie Twilight is the best selling album in the US – but that doesn’t necessarily prove that Stephenie Meyer’s series is the cultural phenomenon that it’s being sold as. It’s actually the third movie soundtrack to take the top spot in the album charts this year, and it’s nowhere…

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What Star Wars Could’ve Looked Like, A Long Time Ago

Ever wondered what Star Wars was originally going to look like, back when Luke Skywalker still called himself Starkiller? These images from early storyboards for the 1977 movie let us glimpse a time when the Millennium Falcon was half the ship that we’ve come to know and love, Darth Vader wore mittens, and Star Wars…

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28 Somethings Later… But They Won’t Be Zombies

It looks like everything we know about the potential third film in the 28 Days Later series may be wrong, according to new comments from director Danny Boyle. Not only is the film unlikely to be called 28 Months Later, but those things lumbering around like the undead? Totally not zombies. What the hell is…

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What Batman Did Next

Click to viewSo, now we kind of know what’s going to happen to Batman and friends, post-Batman RIP. DC Comics Executive Editor Dan DiDio yesterday confirmed the much-rumored series Battle For The Cowl, which will feature various characters fighting over the legacy that Batman seems to have… well, left behind. And that’s not the only…

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Neil Gaiman Reveals A Little About His Final Batman Story

While fans may have spent hours analyzing the cover to the first part of Neil Gaiman’s “Whatever Happened To The Caped Crusader after it was leaked in September, all of their work was for naught. As Gaiman explained to MTV News, “That wasn’t the cover… What it was, was a trial of an idea to…

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God Recruits Dead Cops For Ghostbusters

Indie comic publishers aren’t relying on Hellboy and The Umbrella Academy alone to break into Hollywood; as publisher Mike Richardson told SciFi Wire, the company is looking to turn a number of their books into movie – and they’re starting with a story about dead cops that return to the streets as repo men for…

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What You Missed In This Week’s Heroes

If this week’s episode of Heroes seemed a little light on psychic ex-cops to you, then you’re to be praised on your finely-tuned edit detector, because “Villains” lost an entire Matt Parkman subplot before Monday’s transmission. But that wasn’t the only change between what was originally intended and what you saw on your screen, as…

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President Elect Obama Now To Govern Comic Books As Well

He was one of the first superheroes to get political this year — and now Erik Larsen’s The Savage Dragon has become the first superhero to shake hands with our new President Elect. The page from an upcoming issue of the Image Comics series was released to the Chicago Tribune’s Geek To Me blog in…

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Push Preview Shows 1980s Psychic Cold Warfare

The first issue of DC Comics’ prequel to next year’s psychic Dakota Fanning movie Push hits stores tomorrow, but the opening of the book has been released online, allowing all of us to get our first taste of Reagan era black ops telepathy a day early.The series, which previews February 2009’s movie, is co-written by…

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Pushing Daisies Isn’t Dead – Yet

Click to viewMany Heroes fans are now actively hoping for the end of ABC’s Pushing Daisies so that show creator Bryan Fuller can return to NBC’s troubled superpowered soap. That’s why it’s worth taking a quick look at just how the show is actually performing, and just how likely it is that Heroes showrunner Tim…

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Disney Attempts To Merge Wall-E And Bolt In Pet Robots

Steampunk Meets Cowboy Cursing In Ignition City

Europe Sees Trek Footage, But Klingons Stay Hidden

Brave And Bold: Colorful, Jazzy And A Lot Of Fun

Stan Lee To Co-Create Premium Cable’s First Gay Superhero

Asimov’s Time Travel Epic Heads To Screen

Batman: The Brave And The Bold Premieres Tonight

Who Names The Watchmen?

Master Mind Will Rewrite The Superhero Movie Genre

New Kick Ass Pics Promise Ridiculous, Realistic Take On Superheroes

Twilight Takes Over The Pop Charts

What Star Wars Could’ve Looked Like, A Long Time Ago

28 Somethings Later… But They Won’t Be Zombies

What Batman Did Next

Neil Gaiman Reveals A Little About His Final Batman Story

God Recruits Dead Cops For Ghostbusters

What You Missed In This Week’s Heroes

President Elect Obama Now To Govern Comic Books As Well

Push Preview Shows 1980s Psychic Cold Warfare

Pushing Daisies Isn’t Dead – Yet

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