Why Agent Carter Is So Much Better Than Agents of SHIELD

Greeting or salutations! You can’t have both. You can, however, learn the biggest potential shocker of the upcoming season of Game of Thrones, why Tron is a miracle, and everything you could ever possibly need to know about dead blue Jedi. It’s a bargain either way! Get Carter Alison D.: Agent Carter > Agents of…

The New Electra Woman and Dyna Girl Look Kind Of Awesome

I don’t know much about Sid and Marty Krofft’s classic ’70s superhero show Electra Woman and Dyna Girl, and about all I know about the reboot is that it’s a webseries being made by Legendary, starring Grace Helbig and Hanna Hart. Well, that and their new outfits are pretty great. For comparison: A significant improvement.…

A Space Program Is Like Interstellar, But Made Of Cardboard And Fun

A Space Program feels like Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, if Interstellar was made entirely out of junkyard TVs, whiskey, cardboard and fun. This movie feels like a “sweded” space epic, but it’s wonderfully intricate. Watch! Premiering at this year’s SXSW, A Space Program is directed by Van Neistat who used a calamitous collection of household items,…

The 14 Most Loathsome Figures Of The Second World War

World War II is remembered for its cruelty and ferocious violence, a global conflict that claimed the lives of nearly 60 million people. It was a war that featured no shortage of heinous individuals — these 14 being among the very worst. Top image: Hitler and Himmler inspecting the troops in 1938. (Image: Getty) When…

Watch The Full First Powers Episode Right Now

You’ve read the review of Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming’s live-action adaptation ofPowers. Now watch the first episode and decide for yourself, because it’s online and it’s free. The Powers premiere wasn’t perfect, but it certainly was promising. And thank goodness now you don’t have to pay to decide if you want to…

Agents Of SHIELD Doesn’t Keep Us Waiting For The Other Shoe To Drop

After the relatively fast pace of Agent Carter, I was sort of prepared for Agents of SHIELD to be a bit more leisurely, stringing us along in between big reveals and character turns. Which made last night’s “Who You Really Are” a pleasant surprise, given how much stuff transpired. Spoilers ahead… The main storyline in…

Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk Return To Fandom In New Series Con Man

Firefly stars Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk have rejoined forces on Con Man, a new Indigogo-funded project about a struggling actor living in the science fiction convention world. io9 sat down both actors to discuss the show, their careers, and the Mexican restaurant that first brought them together. io9: Nathan, can you tell us a…

The Quest To Find Another Saturn Just Got One Step Closer

If our solar system is any indication, planets with rings around them are quite common, but finding extrasolar ringed planets has proven difficult. Now astronomers have developed a surprisingly simple method for detecting these distant “exorings.” It’ll only be a matter of time before we find the next Saturn. Despite the hundreds of exoplanetary discoveries,…

What Secrets From Your Industry Would Most Surprise Outsiders?

So much of what is common knowledge to people who work in a field is shrouded in mystery for everyone else. Today, we get behind that veil to learn something new. Maybe you want to breakdown the timeline of just how long it takes you to get a book published, from the first draft to…

Newspaper flashback: Here’s a look at Guardian profile of Christopher Lee that was published 43 years ago today. Back then, Lee’s career was only just starting. Who knew it would still be going strong now? And that he’d be a metal Christmas carol singing badass? [Read a digital except here]

Was This Mysterious “Yellow Rain” a Chemical Weapon or Bee Poop?

In 1981, the United States didn’t have the best political reputation vis-à-vis Vietnam. So when the US Secretary of State made allegations that the USSR had sprayed both Vietnam and Laos with chemical weapons, the world went crazy. Then the world got confused. In 1981 the Vietnam War was over, for the United States, but…

A Star Trek Star May Be Our New Green Lantern

Simon West offers an update on the Blob remake. Chloe Bennet discusses the prejudices Inhumans will face on Agents of SHIELD. Plus Brian Michael Bendis talks about the look of Powers, and teasers for what’s to come on Person of Interest, The 100, and The Vampire Diaries. Here be Spoilers! Top image: Powers. Green Lantern…

Like Marty, a Back to the Future Documentary Will Arrive in October 2015

Back In Time, a documentary that started life as a small film about Back to the Future from the point of view of the Delorean, has expanded far beyond its original brief. Just from the trailer you can see just how perfect a celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of Back to the Future the documentary…

Impossibly, the Veil Nebula Appears to Flutter In Space

Only a small portion of the Veil Nebula — located in the constellation Cygnus — is only partly visible to the Hubble Telescope. But what can be photographed is fairly impressive. Image Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA) – ESA/Hubble Collaboration. Acknowledgment: J. Hester (Arizona State Univ.) This is the “south-eastern knot” of the Veil Nebula, which…

Neuroscientists have implanted false memories into the brains of sleeping mice, creating artificial associative memories that persisted while the animals slept and influenced their behavior upon waking. The results, the latest to spring from this burgeoning field of neuroscience, appear this week inNature Neuroscience.

New Clips from iZombie Show How Hard “Full On Zombie Mode” Is

Next week we finally get to see the premiere of iZombie, the CW’s latest foray in the realm of supernatural television. With these two new clips, we’re pretty enchanted with the show’s protagonist, Liv (Rose McIver). The clip above has Liv meeting Clive Babinaux, in a way that does not seem to indicate that he’d…

In the Season Finale of Haphead, an Unexpected Twist

io9 is proud to be presenting the final episode of season 1 of Haphead, the series about gamers in a dystopian future Toronto. Maxine finally discovers how her father died — and it’s a very interesting twist that I didn’t see coming. Plus we get a peek into the future world of biohacking, which is…

Syfy Confirms That Ascension Is Dead

Ascension looked like a return to Syfy’s glory days of Battlestar Galactica-style dark space opera. But thanks to some ill-conceived twists, it ended up feeling kind of pointless, instead. And now, Syfy has confirmed that Ascension will never return. Ascension ran as a three-night miniseries, with the possibility that it could launch an ongoing series…

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventures Continue In This Week’s Comics!

Bill and Ted make their triumphant return in a new ongoing series from Boom! Studios this week, but that’s not all that’s going on in comics. Howard The Duck’s new series begins, the original Spawn returns with a new creative team, and there are plenty of graphic novels and collections to pore over! Dark Horse…

Where The Sky Bison Roam

Emily Tetri is one of the people who made The Legend of Korra so beautiful, painting many of the backgrounds for the show. In this piece, which she made for the upcoming Legend of Korra/Avatar: The Last Airbender gallery show, she gives us Korra and Asami riding through the desert along with a herd of…