Books & Comics

The Pink Power Ranger Is Getting Her Own Comic Book

Boom Studio’s Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers comic is already promising to be a delightful nostalgic romp—but the really interesting part of the studio getting access to the legendary superhero franchise is all the ways that we can start exploring the Power Rangers mythos beyond nostalgia: And it looks like we’re starting with the Pink Ranger.…

Two Previously Unknown J.R.R. Tolkien Poems Have Been Found

The Hobbit author J.R.R. Tolkien contributed two poems to a school magazine in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, back when he was an Oxford don. One is an early version of a poem that later appeared in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (pictured above), while the other is a Christmas poem, set in a landscape not unlike Middle…

No Lie: Saga‘s Lying Cat Now Has Her Own Plush Toy

Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples’ Saga is an amazing sci-fi epic. But lets be honest—its real star is Lying Cat, a Cat that can detect when people aren’t telling the truth and promptly calls them out for it. Now, she’s getting a talking plush, and it’s pretty damn perfect. Sold by Essential Sequential, the…

Hail Satan, Afterlife With Archie and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Are Back This Summer

You might be almost incredulous to hear that Archie Comics are behind two of the best horror comics in recent memory, but it’s true. Unfortunately, both Afterlife with Archie and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina have been missing from comic shelves for nearly a year… but that’s not going to be the case for much longer.…

All the Awesome DC Comics Toys of Toy Fair 2016

Toy Fair is always a wonderful time of year for comics fans, a chance to see the superhero merchandise that will drain your wallet (alongside what your weekly comics subscription does to it already). DC is no exception, and their slate of new toys this year is amazing—including a Batwing the size of your torso.…

Here’s Your Exclusive First Look Of Kameron Hurley’s Upcoming Novel The Stars Are Legion

Kameron Hurley is one of the more exciting authors to break into the science fiction publishing field in recent years. Her upcoming book, The Stars Are Legion is one of our most anticipated books this year, and we have an exclusive first look at it! Here’s what the book is about: Somewhere on the outer…

Over at The Monitor, David Bowles is reviewing some of the best science fiction books of all time. Read his reviews of The Left Hand of Darkness, Ender’s Game, 1984 and Dune, and keep your eyes open for more installments. Dune cover art via Scientific American

Here’s Your First Inside Look at Marvel’s All-New, All-Different Wasp

Janet Van Dyne’s legacy as the Wasp is interwoven through decades of Marvel Comics—but now, a new character is going to take the moniker. Who is she? What’s her agenda? What’s her connection to the Wasp’s legacy? We sat down with writer Mark Waid to exclusively unveil the first details about the new Wasp. https://gizmodo.com/marvel-is-introducing-a-new-wasp-1753252803…

Daredevil and Punisher Get a Crossover Comic Just in Time for Daredevil Season Two

It’s very obvious at this point that Marvel are big fans of letting their wildly successful movies influence their comic books. Case in point? Just as Daredevil season two hits Netflix in March, we’re getting a digital miniseries that will see the Devil of Hell’s Kitchen and the Punisher pitted against each other. https://gizmodo.com/a-look-back-at-the-marvel-movies-influence-on-the-comic-1704762261 Written…

First Look at IDW’s New Scifi Bounty Hunter Series, Satellite Falling

If you were the sole human on a space station full of aliens, you’d probably get a discrete job to avoid standing out. Space sanitation. Maybe Space accounting. Unfortunately for Lilly, the star of IDW’s new series Satellite Falling, her job makes her the most infamous being in her solar system. Check out an five-page…

In Three Pages, This Week’s Darth Vader Comic Shows Us the Ballsiest Thing Vader Has Ever Done

I genuinely love Kieron Gillen, Salvador Larocca, and Edgar Delgado’s work on the Darth Vader comic. The team has completely nailed what makes Vader a terrifyingly powerful, yet funny character. Case in point is the opening to this week’s Darth Vader #16, which features Vader at his most defiant. https://gizmodo.com/pro-tip-never-ask-darth-vader-to-dance-1749505306 Very minor spoilers ahead for…

The Author of Dark-Hunter Is Suing the Author of Shadowhunters for Potentially Obvious Reasons

Scifi/fantasy author Sherrilyn Kenyon is suing scifi/fantasy author Cassandra Clare, claiming that the latter’s Shadowhunters series (also known as The Mortal Instruments) is copying elements of the former’s Dark-Hunter series. Kenyon’s Dark-Hunter books first premiered in the US in 1998, while Clare’s first Shadowhunters book debuted in 2007. Both series are about secret groups who…

Bruce Wayne Just Made a Terrible Mistake

It’s not been a good time for DC’s biggest superheroes making sound decisions lately. Last week, Superman’s idea to restore his superpowers was very dumb, and it lead to him getting a silly new superpower. This week, Bruce Wayne made a decision that has huge ramifications for the future of Batman… which was both dumb…

The Harry Potter Play Will Become the Eighth Harry Potter Book in July

Good news for everyone who won’t be able to make it to Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: the script for the play will be on sale July 31. That’s right after the official opening of the play. And on Harry’s birthday. Announced on Pottermore, the version of the script you can buy will be…

You Could Win All 6 Mind-Blowing Finalists for the Philip K. Dick Award

The Philip K. Dick Award celebrates the best science fiction books released first in paperback form. That combination of excellence and skipping the fancy hardcover edition tends to favor books that are unusual, edgy, or published by smaller houses. And you can win all six of this year’s finalists. The six finalists for the Dick…

This Essay on Being the Only Black Person at a Science Fiction Event is Essential Reading

Now that Lightspeed Magazine has published its ultra-successful issues featuring stories by women and queers (who “destroyed” genres like fantasy and science fiction), it’s the turn of people of color. And the latest update in the Kickstarter for People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction is a must-read. [Full disclosure: I was featured in Women Destroy…

Kazuo Ishiguro Has a Brilliant Response to People Who Think Genre Fiction Doesn’t Matter

If a primary task of fiction is to explore the human experience—who we are and what we mean to each other—then the fantastic and unreal must surely be key elements in that exploration. But plenty of people still claim that fantasy and other genres are less “real” than purely mimetic fiction. And Kazuo Ishiguro has…

Jackie Earle Haley Will Play One of Preacher‘s Most Depraved Villains

AMC’s Preacher adaptation has found one of its big villains—and it’s recruiting Watchmen’s Jackie Earle Haley to play him. The network has announced Haley will play Odin Quincannon across multiple episodes of the first season. A press release issued by AMC describes Quincannon as a “small, decrepit man with the unscrupulous iron will necessary to…

Has Superman been irrevocably broken by years of writers trying to fix a “perfect” hero? Writing forThe Atlantic, Asher Elbein examines why lackluster comic sales and controversial mass media adaptations reveal the struggle to tackle DC’s iconic superhero—but also what makes a good Superman story.

Back These Sexy New Comics From the Publishers of Smut Peddler!

Since it began the Smut Peddler anthology in 2012, Iron Circus comics has been the home of great, sex-driven stories from female creators, across a wide variety of genres, genders, and sexualities. Now the publisher has headed back to Kickstarter to front two new books under the Smut Peddler umbrella. https://gizmodo.com/smut-peddlers-editor-tells-us-how-to-make-great-pornogr-1567693827 The first is Smut…