Graeme McMillan, Author at Gizmodo

America’s Future Hero Killer Returns

In a world filled with super-heroes, only one man stands against authority figures abusing their power in ways that we can’t even imagine: Barack Oba – No, wait, I mean Marshal Law. That’s right, the anti-hero from the 1980s with the fetish for zippers and the need to kill super-heroes is back just when we…

io9 Graeme McMillan Sep 5 '08

Eli Stone Creator Assists Aliens’ “Return” To Earth

One man is responsible for The 4400 and Dark Angel! The other is responsible for bringing George Michael to the small screen as Johnny Lee Miller’s imaginary friend! And together, they’re going to bring aliens to the White House! At least, that’s just one of the plot threads in the new project by Eli Stone…

io9 Graeme McMillan Sep 5 '08

Heroes’ Painting Oracle Foresees A Potential Return

He may not have survived the first season of NBC’s Heroes, but that doesn’t mean that we’ve seen the last of fortune-telling artist Isaac Mendez. Or, at least, that’s what the actor who played him, Santiago Cabrera, is hoping. Are we ready for Heroes to have its own Denise Crosby moment?In a move eerily reminiscent…

Television Graeme McMillan Sep 5 '08

“Brutal” Joker Returns To Comic Stores

Wondering where to find more The Dark Knight-style Joker now that we’re years away from a sequel (and Heath Ledger is… unavailable)? Crime writer Brian Azzarello would like to draw your attention to a little graphic novel he’s been working on that he promises is “so ugly – in a good way.”The book, Joker was…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan Sep 5 '08

Everyone Loves SciFi

The SciFi Channel had their most successful summer ever, according to a press release issued yesterday. The key shows responsible were, apparently Ghost Hunters International, Scare Tactics, their goofy Saturday night original movies and Eureka, which apparently rules the ratings for anyone between 25 and 54 on a Tuesday night. Weirdly not mentioned at all…

io9 Graeme McMillan Sep 4 '08

Kick-Ass Too Violent For Nic Cage?

Click to viewIs the movie version of Mark Millar’s Kick-Ass in trouble already? Its biggest star, Nicolas Cage, has been talking about his reaction to seeing the comic for the first time – after agreeing to do the movie – and it’s not necessarily a good one. What kind of teenage ultraviolent action movie are…

Movies Graeme McMillan Sep 4 '08

Was The X-Files Movie A Victim Of Bad Press?

What do X-Files: I Want To Believe and newly-announced Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin have in common? Well, if you believe the RNC and X-Files producer Frank Spotnitz, both have been victims of press reporting that would rather focus on the negative instead of the positive. But what is the positive takeaway that we’ve been…

io9 Graeme McMillan Sep 4 '08

5 Fall Shows That Could Be Improved With A Little Scifi

Click to viewTry as hard as you like – and we’ve tried, trust us – but a fan cannot live by scifi alone. That’s the only explanation we have for the fact that we’re all secretly also addicted to non-SF shows like Gossip Girl, Psych and Grey’s Anatomy. But even while we watch these shows,…

io9 Graeme McMillan Sep 4 '08

Watchmen Heads To Trial Before Theaters

The ongoing legal battle over ownership of the Watchmen movie has taken another step closer to resolution with the federal judge in charge of the case telling both sides to prepare their cases for a January trial date ahead of the movie’s planned release in March of next year. Does this mean that the judge…

io9 Graeme McMillan Sep 3 '08

UK Authorities Don’t Want Wanted

This just in: Authorities in the UK found the movie adaptation of the comic Wanted to be “condon[ing] violence by glorifying or glamorising the use of guns,” while at the same time failing to be offensive to the general public. That’s the result of an investigation into the promotional posters for the movie by the…

io9 Graeme McMillan Sep 3 '08

Reprints And Retcons Get Eclipsed By Mars In This Week’s Comics

It’s somewhat of a catching-your-breath week at the comic store, following on from the holiday weekend and last week’s barrage of DC books. That’s not to say that there are fewer books making their way to stores on Thursday — that holiday Monday knocking the regular release date forward a day, unless you’re Canadian, in…

io9 Graeme McMillan Sep 3 '08

Melting Dalek Costs Thousands Of Dollars

To get back to one of fandom’s favorite refrains, this is a story that will either make you upset about all of those old toys that your parents threw out when you got older… or make you wish that you were young enough to have such toys in the first place. Because this weekend, a…

io9 Graeme McMillan Sep 3 '08

Dr. Horrible Takes Over The World

With the official soundtrack album to Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog released today on iTunes, you would have expected at least another day before seeing a tweet like this from the official Dr. Horrible Twitter: “HOLY CRAP. Just woke up to #2 album on iTunes US, and #1 on iTunes UK. We thank you thank you.”…

io9 Graeme McMillan Sep 3 '08

The Secret Fear Of Rose Tyler

The problem with saving the universe a couple of times isn’t the pressure to come up with something equally impressive as a follow-up, according to Doctor Who’s Billie Piper; it’s the children who’ve seen you do it. “The only thing that’s stressful [playing Rose Tyler] is walking down the street when schools are out… Every…

Television Graeme McMillan Sep 2 '08

Save The Birthplace Of Superman

Launching today, new charity the Siegel & Shuster Society is trying to live up to the legacy of the world’s greatest superhero, inspiring everyone to help out their friends and neighbors… and save the house where Jerry Siegel created Superman, way back in the 1930s, which they’re at it. Find out what Brad Meltzer, Chip…

io9 Graeme McMillan Sep 2 '08

What Is Going On With The Red Dwarf Comeback?

It only seems like last week that we were being told that classic UK SF sitcom Red Dwarf would be returning for a special one-off hour-long episode to be filmed next month (oh wait: it was last week). But now that plan seems to have been replaced by four half-hour episodes of new and old…

Television Graeme McMillan Sep 2 '08

What The Dark Knight’s $500 Million Means

Click to viewIt’s finally happened: The Dark Knight broke the $500 million barrier this weekend like a giant man in a well-armored, bat-themed outfit smashing through a skylight that just happens to be well-placed above a crime in progress. But what does that actually mean in the real world? We consider some possible implications.Firstly, the…

io9 Graeme McMillan Sep 2 '08

So Much For The Summer

If it’s Labor Day, then it’s the end of summer – A summer that saw Hollywood bank on the geek vote in a way that it hadn’t done before, with a record number of SF and fantasy movies crowding the blockbuster schedule (five of the top ten movies of the season were based on comic…

io9 Graeme McMillan Aug 31 '08

Eureka Looks To The Future With New Roles And A Possible ARG

I admit it; I didn’t believe it at first, but it’s beginning to look like a hologram is just a hologram, and certain changes made in SciFi Channel’s Eureka recently are really going to stick. Creators of the show have been talking about the permanence of said changes over on the Eureka Unscripted blog, as…

io9 Graeme McMillan Aug 31 '08

Why Not Let Robots Take The Strain?

Click to viewAs a non-American, the fact that the US celebrates Labor Day by taking a vacation has always been of interest and amusement to me. But why stop with just taking one day off? If there’s one thing that science fiction has taught us, it’s that technology exists to create machines that will not…

io9 Graeme McMillan Aug 31 '08

Graeme McMillan

America’s Future Hero Killer Returns

Eli Stone Creator Assists Aliens’ “Return” To Earth

Heroes’ Painting Oracle Foresees A Potential Return

“Brutal” Joker Returns To Comic Stores

Everyone Loves SciFi

Kick-Ass Too Violent For Nic Cage?

Was The X-Files Movie A Victim Of Bad Press?

5 Fall Shows That Could Be Improved With A Little Scifi

Watchmen Heads To Trial Before Theaters

UK Authorities Don’t Want Wanted

Reprints And Retcons Get Eclipsed By Mars In This Week’s Comics

Melting Dalek Costs Thousands Of Dollars

Dr. Horrible Takes Over The World

The Secret Fear Of Rose Tyler

Save The Birthplace Of Superman

What Is Going On With The Red Dwarf Comeback?

What The Dark Knight’s $500 Million Means

So Much For The Summer

Eureka Looks To The Future With New Roles And A Possible ARG

Why Not Let Robots Take The Strain?

Amazon’s Dolby Atmos Fire TV Soundbar Plus Drops to Near-AirPods Pricing, Comes With a Subwoofer for Memorial Day

The Best Smart Ring You’ve Never Heard of Has Finally Cleared U.S. Customs

Apple Watch Series 11 Drops Back to Its Lowest Price for Memorial Day, No Need to Wait for Amazon Prime Day

Scientists Just Turned Silkworm Silk Into a Near-Kevlar Supermaterial

Apple Gives the M5 MacBook Air Another Surprise Price Drop to a Record Low on Amazon for Memorial Day

Seagate 5TB PlayStation Hard Drive Packs More Storage Than Smaller Models at Just $0.03 per GB for a Limited Time

Every Theatrical ‘Star Wars’ Movie, Ranked

John Grisham’s New Legal Drama Is a Real Life Fight Against AI Audiobooks on YouTube

Salesforce Has an AI Vaporware Problem

Here’s How *That* ‘Obsession’ Scene Came Together

Soundcore Liberty 5 Pro Max Review: Wireless Earbuds With Enough Features to Make Your Head Spin

Anker Solix E10 Review: No Power? No Problem

Bose Lifestyle Ultra Speaker Review: Sonos Can Start Sweating Now

Bose Lifestyle Ultra Soundbar Review: A Boisterous Stab at Dominating Home Theater

Dell’s XPS 16 (2026) Is Almost Everything I Could Have Asked for… Almost

Smart Glasses With Subscriptions Are As Bad as They Sound

iBuyPower’s Trace X Gaming PC Is the Fishbowl You Want to Swim In

Govee Ceiling Light Ultra Review: AI Art Ain’t It

JBL Live 780NC Review: Solid Wireless Headphones You Can Live Without

Acer’s Swift 16 AI (2026) Gets a Lot Right, But I Can’t Get Past the Trackpad

Here’s How That ‘Obsession’ Scene Came Together