Keith Veronese, Author at Gizmodo

New TMNT Animated Series: These aren’t the same old turtles!

The classic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are being totally reinvented for a new animated series… but in a good way. Yesterday at Comic Con, we got a chance to see a panel featuring series executive producer Ciro Nieli (Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go!), who explained how he is taking the best of previous…

io9 Keith Veronese Jul 14

Who can the 2nd Mass trust, and who’s marked for death, on Falling Skies?

We’re halfway through season two of Falling Skies, TNT’s show about the last remnants of humanity in the wake of an alien invasion. And the cast and crew assembled at Comic Con for a panel moderated by 2nd Watch host Wil Wheaton. The Second Mass is ever vigilant against the threat of aliens — but…

Television Keith Veronese Jul 14

Everything You Need to Know About How to Train Your Dragon Spinoff, Riders of Berk!

The How to Train Your Dragon spin-off Dragons: Riders of Berk will be the first Dreamworks TV series to premiere on Cartoon Network — with the series set to fill in the gap between the 2010 feature film and its 2014 sequel, How to Train Your Dragon 2. And yesterday at Comic Con, we learned…

io9 Keith Veronese Jul 14

The Shiniest Moments From a Closed Door Q&A With the Cast of Firefly

After a tearful panel, the reunited cast of Firefly sat down for a question and answer session with reporters at San Diego Comic-Con — and we were there. Here’s our round-up of all the best moments from the Firefly reunion press conference. https://gizmodo.com/joss-whedon-at-the-firefly-reunion-these-are-the-best-5925920 Top image: Dark Horse Comics. What did Firefly give your career? Firefly…

io9 Keith Veronese Jul 14

This Week’s Cartoons: A Female Iron Man, A Haunted Convenience Store, and a Wild Spider-Ham!

This is an especially a crazy week in the world of cartoons. Pepper Potts gets her own suit of power armor on Iron Man: Armored Adventures, we see the fruits of the Skrull invasion on Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes — and we take a look at an old school Ghostbusters adventure! As always, minor spoilers…

io9 Keith Veronese Jul 14

How Actual Science Can Make Science Fiction Stories Cooler

How do the minds behind Battlestar Galactica, Prometheus, X-Men: First Class, and Torchwood go about juggling science fact and science fiction, to tell a believable story? Bad Astronomy‘s Phil Plait hosted a panel at San Diego Comic-Con yesterday to discuss this issue, along with the making and breaking canon in sequels and prequels. Involving scientists…

io9 Keith Veronese Jul 13

A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Star Trek: The Next Generation on Blu-ray

At the end of the July, Star Trek fans get an extra special treat with the release of a high-definition transfer of the twenty-five episode first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Today at San Diego Comic-Con, we had the chance to see an extra-early peak at the restoration process performed on this historic…

io9 Keith Veronese Jul 12

The British Plot to Assassinate Rasputin

An agent of the British Secret Intelligence Service assassinating a Russian Monk with purported psychic powers? It sounds like a plot point from Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century series. While the premise does have the flavor of fiction, it’s actually part of a factual story about the death of “mad…

io9 Keith Veronese Jul 11

What would your ideal science fiction convention look like?

In mere days, tens of thousands of science fiction, fantasy, and comic book fans will take over San Diego for the San Diego Comic-Con. SDCC certainly has its positives — exclusive announcements, stars, con swag, and some event to fill every waking hour of the day. The show also has its detractors, thanks to its…

io9 Keith Veronese Jul 10

Olivia Wilde guest stars on Tron: Uprising and Bender joins the paparazzi

Movies and cartoons collide this week, as Quorra (Olivia Wilde’s character in Tron: Legacy) appears on Tron: Uprising. We also see the fruits of Skrull labor pay off this week on Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes and what happens when Bender joins the ranks of the paparazzi on Futurama. Adventure Time and Regular Show are off…

io9 Keith Veronese Jul 7

10 Science Experiments That Looked Like the End of the World

It’s official: The Large Hadron Collider helped to find a new particle, and it didn’t turn the world inside out. Everybody relax! But history is full of strange experiments that people predicted might bring about the end of the human race… and in some cases, they might actually have had a point. Here are 10…

io9 Keith Veronese Jul 6

Macabre Ship Models Made From Human Bones by POWs

Left alone for years at the beginning of the 19th Century, French soldiers taken captive during the Napoleonic Wars found an unusually hobby — fashioning ornate replicas of British ships, out of beef and human bone. The soldiers made use of any bone they came across, to create these fascinating models. These rare “bone ship”…

io9 Keith Veronese Jul 5

Would you want to survive the end of civilization?

Let’s say the end of the world as we know it is coming — but someone offers you a priceless spot in their guaranteed-to-be-safe bunker, so you can be one of the chosen few who rebuilds the Earth. Would you want to survive, and emerge into the post-apocalyptic wasteland? Would the positives of playing a…

io9 Keith Veronese Jul 2

10 Fun Ways to Euthanize Yourself

Suppose you’ve been given a few weeks to live, but you’ve decided you don’t want to spend your last days in a hospital bed. What if you decide, “Today is a good day to die,” in a suitably stentorian Klingon voice? And you want a method of self-annihilation that’s both interesting and nearly pain-free? Don’t…

io9 Keith Veronese Jul 2

Captain America wields Mjolnir on The Avengers plus Jake & Finn save hostages on Adventure Time

We finally find out where Captain America has been hiding during this season of Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes! Also this week, Gravity Falls begins its regular season run, Beck loses his identity on Tron: Uprising, and Iron Man: Armored Adventures hits its stride with a great Hulk appearance. As always, minor spoilers ahead! Avengers: Earth’s…

io9 Keith Veronese Jun 30

The Big Rip Theory says the universe could end in tears

Some say the universe will end with a new Big Bang. Others say the cosmos will eventually succumb to entropy. But what if neither of those things happens? A recent theory says the universe will just tear itself apart. The Big Rip Theory might be the scariest scenario for the end of everything we’ve come…

io9 Keith Veronese Jun 29

What happens if you die on a cruise ship?

Cruise ships are floating cities. They carry thousands of people from port to port, while life passes on the shore. And with that many people on board, it’s inevitable that sometimes, someone dies. But what happens to your body, if you die on board a cruise ship, days away from port? What kind of problems…

io9 Keith Veronese Jun 28

How to Kill a Parasitic Worm Living Inside of You

Parasitic worms are the stuff of nightmares — worms as big as twelve feet long can rummage through your intestines, and then leave in the middle of the night. Urban legends tell tales of tapeworms carried by diet pills. Some of the weird schemes for removing these parasites include a combination of duct tape, candy…

io9 Keith Veronese Jun 27

The Red Hulk battles S.H.I.E.L.D. on Avengers plus a Ninja Turtles retro-toon!

Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes returns this week with a great episode featuring the Red Hulk, an episode torn from recent comic book exploits. Regular Show ventures into some deep emotional territory this week, the season finale of Legend of Korra airs, and we travel back to the early 1990s for a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles…

io9 Keith Veronese Jun 23

When arsenic peppermints poisoned nearly 200 people in a single night

Back in Victorian England, they knew how to inflict macabre, terrible death. Case in point: a single mishap led to the death of 25 people and the poisoning of nearly 200 individuals in one night, after they all consumed arsenic-laced peppermint treats. How did lethal levels of arsenic enter a homemade recipe for candy? Top…

io9 Keith Veronese Jun 22

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New TMNT Animated Series: These aren’t the same old turtles!

Who can the 2nd Mass trust, and who’s marked for death, on Falling Skies?

Everything You Need to Know About How to Train Your Dragon Spinoff, Riders of Berk!

The Shiniest Moments From a Closed Door Q&A With the Cast of Firefly

This Week’s Cartoons: A Female Iron Man, A Haunted Convenience Store, and a Wild Spider-Ham!

How Actual Science Can Make Science Fiction Stories Cooler

A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Star Trek: The Next Generation on Blu-ray

The British Plot to Assassinate Rasputin

What would your ideal science fiction convention look like?

Olivia Wilde guest stars on Tron: Uprising and Bender joins the paparazzi

10 Science Experiments That Looked Like the End of the World

Macabre Ship Models Made From Human Bones by POWs

Would you want to survive the end of civilization?

10 Fun Ways to Euthanize Yourself

Captain America wields Mjolnir on The Avengers plus Jake & Finn save hostages on Adventure Time

The Big Rip Theory says the universe could end in tears

What happens if you die on a cruise ship?

How to Kill a Parasitic Worm Living Inside of You

The Red Hulk battles S.H.I.E.L.D. on Avengers plus a Ninja Turtles retro-toon!

When arsenic peppermints poisoned nearly 200 people in a single night

‘Kamen Rider’ Is Ready to Take on the World

Twitter Just Can’t Stop Leaking Movies

The ‘Mass Effect’ Show is Getting Rewritten to Get Greenlit

See the Early Stages of How ‘Project Hail Mary’ Brought Rocky to Life

‘Cognitive Surrender’ Is a New and Useful Term for How AI Melts Brains

HP Omen Max 45L Review: 4K60 Gaming Has Never Been So Easy

Marshall Acton III Home Speaker Drops to a Record Low, the Deal Countdown Has Already Started

Ecovacs Winbot W3 Omni Review: Window Cleaning Robots Have a Long Way to Go

I’m Worried About the Helpless AI Disruptors of the Future

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