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Doctor Who‘s Season Finale Wrapped Up a Three-Year-Long Character Arc Perfectly

Doctor Who rarely does big character arcs. By its very nature it’s a transitory program: every week a new adventure, every few years a new Doctor and new companions. That means that a character, especially the Doctor, is established quickly and stays like that till they leave. But this weekend’s season ten finale put a…

Television James Whitbrook

Apparently, a Magical Circus is Important to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2

As filming begins today on the sequel to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Warner Bros. has released summary which doesn’t tell us too much we didn’t know and a cast list that’s a bit more revealing. “Revealing” in that it includes a bounty hunter and a wizarding circus. The new synopsis restates a…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

Captain Marvel Will Have Another Marvel Character as a Co-Star

Robert Downey Jr. once again teases leaving the role of Tony Stark, that live-action Jetsons you always wanted gets a producer, and a picture of Deadpool, sans suit, for Deadpool 2. Plus, images from the Doctor Who Christmas special show more than one Doctor hanging around. Spoilers ahead! Captain Marvel Treat with the usual amount…

Television James Whitbrook and Gordon Jackson

Sand Animation Video Pays a Moving Tribute to Game of Thrones Season 7

There are some art forms that seem unbelievable—photorealism, shadow illusions, fumage. Then, you’ve got sand animation, one of the only types of art that truly exists in the moment, since it cannot be preserved. Unless, of course, you capture it on video. And it’s about Game of Thrones. Sand animation artist Tetiana Galitsyna recently shared…

io9 Beth Elderkin

Butch Hartman Draws Up Some Cool Ideas for Pixar TV Spinoffs

Someone get Pixar President Edwin Catmull on the phone. Fairly Oddparents creator Butch Hartman’s got some awesome ideas on how to bring some of Disney Pixar’s most popular movies to television. Hartman shared some concept art for seven Pixar TV spinoffs in a recent video on his YouTube channel, featuring characters from Toy Story, Monsters…

io9 Beth Elderkin

LiveJournal’s Goat Mascot Is Back to Protest the Site’s Russian Censorship

The Russian-owned blog community LiveJournal previously banned “political solicitation,” part of a decade-long effort to censor Russians who were using the platform to criticize the government. Now, LiveJournal’s former comic artist has returned from an eight-year absence… bringing back LiveJournal’s “Frank the Goat” one more time to protest the site’s abuses from the inside. Back…

io9 Beth Elderkin

Trailer Released for Automata, a Sexy Robot Noir Based on a Webcomic

Penny Arcade has released the debut teaser trailer for Automata, a robot detective series based on their popular webcomic, with Hellboy’s Doug Jones as the investigative automaton. The series, which got over $500,000 on Kickstarter, takes place in an alternate Prohibition-era America where robots (called automatons) are the new liquor. Hated, feared, and regulated. No…

io9 Beth Elderkin

Image Comics Pulls Comic Book Cover That Showed Violent Lynching

Image Comics has pulled the cover for Issue 4 of The Divided States of Hysteria, after readers were upset at how it showed a man of color hanged to death after being castrated. The cover, which can be viewed at the bottom of the article, was for the upcoming September issue of Divided States of…

io9 Beth Elderkin

Take a Stand and Come Discuss Doctor Who‘s Season Finale With Us

Tonight’s Doctor Who sounded the cloister bells, as the Doctor stood for one last time against the Cybermen to save his closest friends, his oldest foe, and people he’d never even met before. There were shocks, there were tears, and we can discuss them all in our final weekly thread of the season! “The Doctor…

Television James Whitbrook

Game of Thrones Fan Saves Woman From Assault with a Medieval Times Sword

When Chicago software consultant Mac Dolan heard the screams of a friend being attacked, he knew he had to step in. So he grabbed his most fearsome weapon: a $100 sword he’d bought from Medieval Times. A strange man had somehow broken into the apartment Dolan shared with his roommate John Zuercher and started physically…

io9 Kelly Kanayama

R2-D2 Auctioned Off For $2.76 Million, Likely Not to a Kid Whining About Power Converters

R2-D2 is a hero of the Rebellion. He’s survived several generations of Skywalkers. He’s the galaxy’s sassiest astromech droid (say that three times fast). And now, an auction house has sold him to an anonymous buyer for $2.76 million. That’s a lot of credits. This isn’t an original R2-D2; that little guy would have probably…

io9 Kelly Kanayama

Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean Ride Will Stop Selling Women, and It’s Long Overdue

Pirates of the Caribbean, the Disney Parks ride that later became Johnny Depp’s regular paycheck, is finally getting rid of the intensely creepy moment that is the Wench Auction, and the only real issue is why it didn’t happen sooner. Kathy Mangum, a Walt Disney Imagineering executive, announced that the Pirates of the Caribbean rides…

io9 Beth Elderkin

Animaniacs‘ ‘Yakko’s World’ Sounds Even Zanier When Sung by 168 Movies

For those who were kids in the 90s, and just about everybody else, The Animaniacs was more than just a cartoon show. It was an education in adult jokes (the “fingerprints” gag in particular is a modern classic), what it meant to be zany to the max, and, of course, world geography. The “Yakko’s World”…

io9 Kelly Kanayama

Game of Thrones Inspired Star Trek: Discovery to Kill More Main Characters

The final frontier is a scary place. Sure, it might be full of adventure, but as we know from previous Star Trek shows, it’s also where you get mind-controlled or forced to fight your buddies to the death. Star Trek: Discovery is taking this one step further by not restricting death sentences to Red Shirts.…

io9 Kelly Kanayama

Buzz Aldrin’s Toy Story Joke Hilariously Soars Over Trump’s Head

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday to revive the National Space Council, signifying a renewed (yet vague) focus on space exploration. Colonel Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, was there to witness the event. He tried to liven the room with a Buzz Lightyear quip, only to have Trump…

io9 Beth Elderkin

A Look Inside the Art Behind the Earliest Days of Steven Universe

Steven Universe has become one of Cartoon Network’s most beloved shows—for everything from its nuanced characters to its toe-tapping music, to its gorgeous and vivid aesthetic. The great news is a new art book promises to reveal boatloads of work that went into making Steven Universe so good, and we’ve got a first look. Published…

io9 James Whitbrook

Let This Video Remind You How PG Movies Messed You Up as a Kid

The first time I saw faces melt in Raiders of the Lost Ark, I thought it was cool. The nightmares that came after? Not so much. Take a gander at some PG/PG-13 scenes from yesteryear and marvel at what filmmakers got away with in work that was designated suitable for young audiences. In terms of…

Movies Evan Narcisse

One of Supergirl’s Best Stories Just Flubbed the Finish

Supergirl: Being Super—a four-issue miniseries about a teenage Kara Danvers living in rural America with zero Kryptonian memories and confusing fluctuations in her powers—concluded this week. It’s been a really wonderful ride and, if it hadn’t taken such a misstep in the final pages of the last issue, it would have been not just one…

Books & Comics Alex Cranz

Ant-Man and the Wasp Is NOT Taking a Page From Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (CORRECTED)

Correction: Peyton Reed got me. No, the below photo is NOT from the set of his film. It’s in fact, according to commenter Robotstorm, from the set of The Incredible Shrinking-Man and taken from Life Magazine. So, I am an idiot. Apologies. -CE (news editor) Ant-Man and the Wasp is coming out in July 2018—two months…

Movies Germain Lussier

Explore the World of Valerian With Gorgeous Concept Art and 360-Degree Imagery

Director Luc Besson is a world-builder, and that’s never been more evident than his upcoming comic adaptation Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. His heroes traverse the galaxy, encountering fantastic places and things, before landing on the biggest cultural melting pot in history: Alpha. Alpha is the literal construction of thousands of civilizations…

Movies Germain Lussier

Doctor Who‘s Season Finale Wrapped Up a Three-Year-Long Character Arc Perfectly

Apparently, a Magical Circus is Important to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2

Captain Marvel Will Have Another Marvel Character as a Co-Star

Sand Animation Video Pays a Moving Tribute to Game of Thrones Season 7

Butch Hartman Draws Up Some Cool Ideas for Pixar TV Spinoffs

LiveJournal’s Goat Mascot Is Back to Protest the Site’s Russian Censorship

Trailer Released for Automata, a Sexy Robot Noir Based on a Webcomic

Image Comics Pulls Comic Book Cover That Showed Violent Lynching

Take a Stand and Come Discuss Doctor Who‘s Season Finale With Us

Game of Thrones Fan Saves Woman From Assault with a Medieval Times Sword

R2-D2 Auctioned Off For $2.76 Million, Likely Not to a Kid Whining About Power Converters

Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean Ride Will Stop Selling Women, and It’s Long Overdue

Animaniacs‘ ‘Yakko’s World’ Sounds Even Zanier When Sung by 168 Movies

Game of Thrones Inspired Star Trek: Discovery to Kill More Main Characters

Buzz Aldrin’s Toy Story Joke Hilariously Soars Over Trump’s Head

A Look Inside the Art Behind the Earliest Days of Steven Universe

Let This Video Remind You How PG Movies Messed You Up as a Kid

One of Supergirl’s Best Stories Just Flubbed the Finish

Ant-Man and the Wasp Is NOT Taking a Page From Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (CORRECTED)

Explore the World of Valerian With Gorgeous Concept Art and 360-Degree Imagery

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