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The Most Valuable Comic Book Of All Time Is Up For Auction On eBay

Originally published in June 1938, Action Comics #1 is the premier issue of the Action Comics series, and, most notably, the issue in which Superman makes his first appearance. Now, the finest known copy of “the Holy Grail of Comics” is up for auction on eBay – and the top bid is already close to…

Books & Comics Robbie Gonzalez

This Is The Glossary That Was Given To Audiences Of David Lynch’s Dune

Lots of books come with supplemental glossaries, maps, and appendices – but movies? Movies tend to be self-contained. Not so with David Lynch’s cinematic adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune. This interesting bit of movie memorabilia popped up on imgur yesterday, with the following caption: I went to see David Lynch’s Dune in the theater in…

Movies Robbie Gonzalez

Everybody Gets To Be A Hero On This Week’s Legend Of Korra

As we barrel toward the season finale, The Legend of Korra shows off how all of its characters have grown over the course of the season. The Red Lotus may be far more powerful than any one of our protagonists, but in this episode, we see how our heroes may ultimately defeat Zaheer’s gang. Last…

Television Lauren Davis

TV And Film Still Don’t Know How To Depict Texting (Or The Internet)

BBC’s Sherlock does a pretty top-notch job of portraying text messages, but as Tony Zhou points out in the latest installment of Every Frame a Painting, cinematic representations of the digital world – including texting and the Internet – remain, for the most part, inefficient, ineffective, and uninspired. The good news, says Zhou, is that…

Movies Robbie Gonzalez

You Guys, Somebody Made LEGO Out Of Chocolate

Japan-based illustrator and designer Akihiro Mizuuchi, apparently unsatisfied with regular old plastic LEGO, has gone and designed a mold for casting LEGO bricks out of chocolate. The bricks appear to be at least marginally functional. Enough to snap together into the designs seen here, anyway, until they melt. More importantly, of course, they’re edible. See…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

This Fan-Made Doctor Who Opening Is So Awesome Stephen Moffat Stole It

The video you see above, while incredible, is not official. But, made by one Billy Hanshaw of Leeds, it became such a viral sensation that eventually Who showrunner Stephen Moffat saw it, and he’s using it as the basis of the actual season 8 opening credits! (With Hanshaw’s permission, of course.) Seriously, that’s how good…

Television Rob Bricken

Here’s What It Looks Like When Cities Get Out of Control

People build their houses everywhere overnight, to the point where homes appear to spill over the edges of sidewalks and cling to the feet of superstructures. There’s a certain grandeur to it, and more than a little squalor. Nivanh Chanthara and Fred Rambeau are concept artists who worked together on this illustration. Learn more about…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Behold, A Sphere Made Of Binder Clips

Via the /r/mildlyinteresting* subreddit comes an office-supply creation that puts your cubicle-mate’s obnoxiously oversized rubber band ball to shame. According to its creator, redditor Eduardoballestero, the ball comprises 130 clips and took roughly six hours (~1 hour a day, for a week) to make. He writes: It is decently heavy. I can toss it between…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Outlander Has Been Renewed For A Second Season!

It’s only been out for a wee bit, but clearly Starz is happy with the pretty excellent response their new series Outlander has received, because they just greenlit another season! According to the official press release, Starz has greenlit a second 13-episode season of Outlander, which makes us happy. But what does Ron D. Moore…

Television Meredith Woerner

A Brief History Of The First Robots To Appear In Fiction

Robots are so common in today’s stories as to be almost ubiquitous. Whether we’re talking killer robots, robot swarms, sentient robots, robots with human emotions, or even human/robot hybrids, we’ve seen them all. But when did the very first robots show up in our stories? Despina Kakoudaki joined us today to take our questions about…

io9 Ria Misra

Into The Woods Movie Cuts More Songs, Clears Up Rumors

One consistent thing about Disney’s Into the Woods musical movie adaptation is the news coming out of this picture is inconsistent and troubling as all hell. First they cut the best song from the original musical, then they claimed they didn’t, and now news is hitting that the brand-new Stephen Sondheim song penned just for…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The Best Science Fiction Books, According To Real-Life Scientists

We’ve all seen lists of the worst science fiction books and movies, according to scientists — but what are the best? HuffPost Science reached out to 15 great scientists and asked them to name their favorite science fiction stories — and the results were pretty interesting. Among others, MIT cosmologist/physicist Max Tegmark named Greg Egan’s…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Researcher Examines The Real Biology Of Captain America And The Hulk

While many comic book heroes may have gained their powers through scientific experiments or accidents, there’s more magic than science behind their powers. Or is there? A Stanford biologist looks at how epigenetic science can explain two Marvel characters’ abilities. Post-doc researcher Sebastian Alvarado considers how epigenetics might account for Captain America’s change in physique…

io9 Lauren Davis

Why Didn’t These Triceratops Sneakers Exist When We Were Kids?

Fortunately, if this team reaches its crowdfunding goal, they’ll be available in adult sizes as well. Also looking for crowdfunding help is an exciting new anime, dolls based on real historical women, and a new online science fiction and fantasy magazine. Under the Dog This is one of those Kickstarter campaigns where you most definitely…

io9 Lauren Davis

Who’s The Most Versatile Creator In Science Fiction And Fantasy?

Science fiction and fantasy are huge, diverse genres. They include a million different styles, tones and types of storytelling. And a few especially talented or adventurous individuals have managed to explore a lot of different approaches to science fiction and fantasy in their careers. But who’s the most versatile creator? Please include a clip or…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

NASA Is Developing Origami Solar Panels

Brian Trease, a mechanical engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is working with researchers at Brigham Young University to construct a solar array that uses origami principles for deployment. Such devices could one day beam power down to Earth—and folding them into a small size could minimize launch and assembly costs. The researchers are intent…

io9 Mark Strauss

Could You Solve Enough Puzzles To Make It Out Of This Locked Room?

Real-life room escape games are point-and-click puzzle games made real. You and your team are locked in a room, and you have to solve a series of puzzles in order to get out. So how does it all work? Photo by Calsidyrose. I’m a sucker for point-and-click puzzle games: Crimson Room, Machinarium, The Mystery of…

io9 Lauren Davis

The Main Villains Of Star Wars: Episode VII May Have Just Been Revealed

It’s a big day for the Empire. First we get the possible reveal of the new Stormtrooper helmets, and now we may have learned about the new villains who will be bring grief to the galaxy. And it may be someone we’ve met already… Take your daily Star Wars rumor grain of salt, and remember,…

Movies Rob Bricken

Behold The Real Photo Nick Frost Took While Shooting Shaun Of The Dead

Remember the garden scene from the greatest zombie film ever made, Shaun of the Dead? The one where Shaun (Simon Pegg) and Ed (Nick Frost) discover a zombie in their backyard and mistake her for a drunk girl, and take a pic? Well, it turns out Frost really did snap a real picture, and this…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The Greatest Fake Religion of All Time

Over fifty years ago, a group of pranksters founded a satiric religion devoted to creating conspiracy theories so insane that nobody would ever believe uncritically in conspiracies again. They called themselves the Discordians. And their weird ideas are still influencing us today. Painting of Eris by Emily Balivet History does not record Robert Welch’s reaction…

io9 Jesse Walker

The Most Valuable Comic Book Of All Time Is Up For Auction On eBay

This Is The Glossary That Was Given To Audiences Of David Lynch’s Dune

Everybody Gets To Be A Hero On This Week’s Legend Of Korra

TV And Film Still Don’t Know How To Depict Texting (Or The Internet)

You Guys, Somebody Made LEGO Out Of Chocolate

This Fan-Made Doctor Who Opening Is So Awesome Stephen Moffat Stole It

Here’s What It Looks Like When Cities Get Out of Control

Behold, A Sphere Made Of Binder Clips

Outlander Has Been Renewed For A Second Season!

A Brief History Of The First Robots To Appear In Fiction

Into The Woods Movie Cuts More Songs, Clears Up Rumors

The Best Science Fiction Books, According To Real-Life Scientists

Researcher Examines The Real Biology Of Captain America And The Hulk

Why Didn’t These Triceratops Sneakers Exist When We Were Kids?

Who’s The Most Versatile Creator In Science Fiction And Fantasy?

NASA Is Developing Origami Solar Panels

Could You Solve Enough Puzzles To Make It Out Of This Locked Room?

The Main Villains Of Star Wars: Episode VII May Have Just Been Revealed

Behold The Real Photo Nick Frost Took While Shooting Shaun Of The Dead

The Greatest Fake Religion of All Time

Tesla Goes Ahead and Admits Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Fully Human-Controlled

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

‘Scream 7’ Just Won’t Stop Making Money as ‘Scream 8’ Gets Started

The Curtain Has Closed on Meta’s Movie Rating-Inspired Content Filters

Good News! You Can Finally Change That Ridiculous Gmail Address

ExpressVPN Just Launched ExpressAI: Your Prompts Are Now Invisible

VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow

The Best Gadgets of March 2026

AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

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