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The Creepiest Footage Yet From Bryan Singer’s “Brain Implant” Webseries H+

Bryan Singer’s H+ brings up the biggest potential nightmare with brain implants — what if they get hacked, or hit with a virus? The series already had a preview in L.A. a few days ago — but now, check out an exclusive first look at a two-minute prequel. https://gizmodo.com/in-bryan-singers-h-a-deadly-virus-kills-everyone-who-5925022 Why are one third of the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Here’s Today’s Giant Cosplay Gallery From San Diego

And now, the moment you’ve been waiting for — the very best cosplay yesterday and today seen here at San Diego’s ginormous comic book convention. You’ve got to admire the unlimited level of passionate fandom necessary to put together costumes like these. Which is why we took every single one of the shots above with…

io9 By Ray Wert

Community Will Delve Into Inspector Spacetime Fandom Next Season

During the Community panel at Comic-Con, the stage was packed with writers, producers, and actors from the show. In between impromptu dances and songs, we got some great hints about next season . . . and the cast got a chance to deliver a lot of zingers. Here are some of the best. Top image:…

Television Annalee Newitz

Stop-motion zombie flick ParaNorman combines John Hughes and John Carpenter

Coraline animators Laika are returning to the world of stop-motion horror with ParaNorman, a film that blends cartoon zombies with ’80s-style coming of age comedy. The creators and actors held a panel today at San Diego Comic-Con to talk about the movie’s influences, and why this movie will look like no other stop-motion film. Co-director…

Movies Lauren Davis

Robot attempts to grimace its way out of uncanny valley, doesn’t quite make it

You’ve got to hand it to Nicole Lazzeri and her colleagues at the University of Pisa for creating the robot you see here. Its facial features are some of the most dynamic and convincing we’ve seen yet — but something’s still a little off. In an effort to escape the uncanny valley — that feeling…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Learn to lightsaber duel like a real Jedi!

This week on the io9 show, we play with swords — and find out just how realistic movie sword fights are. We talk to sword experts, plus Esther lives out her childhood fantasy and gets schooled in the art of light saber dueling. For good measure, we list the best sword fights ever committed to…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Sam Raimi cut the “heart” and “brains” from his Oz, but added a “nice flying monkey”

You’ve seen the bananas trailer for Sam Raimi’s giant, Tim-Burton-looking prequel Oz: The Great and Powerful. Now find out all the details we learned at the Comic-Con panel and follow-up press conference. Find out which Oz characters didn’t make the cut, more on that flying monkey army, and whether or not Bruce Campbell will be…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Jack Kirby — the co-creator of Thor and the X-Men — once designed costumes for a college Shakespeare play

Comic book legend Jack Kirby was responsible for the iconic looks of such famous superheroes as Captain America, Hulk, the X-Men, Thor, and the Fantastic Four. But back in the 1960s, Kirby put his mark on the Bard when a theater group at the University of California at Santa Cruz asked the famed artist to…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

10 Robots With Good Reasons to Rise Up Against Humanity

Tell me, what did we ever do to Skynet? I bet it spent its days in an air-conditioned military base, having all its needs attended to and — if it had held out for just a bit longer — would get its pick of the internet’s XXX-rated chat sites. There was no reason for it…

Movies Esther Inglis-Arkell

Behind-the-scenes look at Hunger Games shows how Gary Ross tried to light Katniss on fire

We can’t wait for The Hunger Games DVD to come out on August 18, mostly for any deleted scenes of Gale and Peeta rubbing mud on each others chests — you know that’s in there. Until then, behold this amazing clip in which the crew diligently attempts to not kill Jennifer Lawrence with fireballs.

Movies Meredith Woerner

Could we actually build a robot the size of Pacific Rim‘s massive Jaegers?

Let’s face it, we’re all deeply infatuated with gigantic robots, a science fiction staple that includes such memorable mechanical monsters as Voltron, Gundam, the Transformers, the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers — and even the AT-AT Walkers of Episode V. But none of these enormous mechas hold a candle to the behemoth that was recently unveiled…

io9 George Dvorsky

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

Captain America gown spotted on the Comic-Con floor

First we saw an Iron Man dress with its own glowing Arc Reactor, now Kelsey Michele’s gorgeous Captain America gown design has been spotted in the fabric. We grabbed this photo of a San Diego convention-goer who stitched up her own version of the red, white, and blue number. Maybe we’ll eventually see the whole…

io9 Lauren Davis

The Universe has a Twitter account and it is awesome

Redditor Amathev decided to create a Twitter account for the Universe with the express purpose of responding to tweets containing the word universe. The results have been nothing short of inspired. As to why the Universe is always screaming, Amathev says he “just [imagines] the universe having a loud voice.” Makes sense to us. Follow…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Federal clinics for the poor give just as good care as private practices

Now that the Supreme Court has okayed the Affordable Care Act, the medical profession is going to find itself with a lot more customers — many of which will doubtless be shunted off to Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) and their look-alikes, which tend to treat “underserved” and low-income populations. These centers are aimed at…

io9 Tim Barribeau

Neil Gaiman’s writing a prequel to Sandman in 2013

Given the hubbub and sales that Before Watchmen drummed up, it’s not surprising that DC is looking to dip into their modern classics. And at last night’s San Diego Comic-Con panel for the publisher’s mature-readers Vertigo imprint, DC snuck in a bombshell — Neil Gaiman will be returning to his career-making comic The Sandman with…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Samurai Jack creator explains how Hotel Transylvania will return cartoonishness to CG animation

Dexter’s Laborator and Samurai Jack creator Genndy Tartakovsky is making the leap from 2D animated television to 3D animated features with Hotel Transylvania, his tale of a vampire-run hotel that provides monsters refuge from the dangers of humanity. At his San Diego Comic-Con panel, Tartakovsky talked about his attempt to make CG animation more cartoonish…

Movies Lauren Davis

When animals tell lies

We’ve long shed the idea that the animal world is a noble one, untainted by the supposed sins of humanity. But some people still cling to the idea that it’s an honest one. They’re wrong. Animals lie, it seems, all the time. Not as an instinctive defense, but as a sneaky way of getting what…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Has LEGO Bilbo met his match in zombie Frodo?

This scale model of Bilbo Baggins has been confidently standing his ground at San Diego Comic-Con’s LEGO booth, but trouble may be afoot now that he and Gandalf have been discovered by zombie Frodo. Will a Sting made from plastic bricks be of any use in fighting the undead? Photo credit: Lucia Alba.

io9 Lauren Davis

Scientists explain how to prevent one of the most common airplane disasters

US Airways flight 1549 was forced to make an emergency landing in the Hudson River because it was disabled after hitting a flock of Canada geese. Bird strikes cost the aviation industry more than $1.2 billion every year, and a large number of those are due to Canada geese. The problem is that birds react…

io9 Tim Barribeau

The Creepiest Footage Yet From Bryan Singer’s “Brain Implant” Webseries H+

Here’s Today’s Giant Cosplay Gallery From San Diego

Community Will Delve Into Inspector Spacetime Fandom Next Season

Stop-motion zombie flick ParaNorman combines John Hughes and John Carpenter

Robot attempts to grimace its way out of uncanny valley, doesn’t quite make it

Learn to lightsaber duel like a real Jedi!

Sam Raimi cut the “heart” and “brains” from his Oz, but added a “nice flying monkey”

Jack Kirby — the co-creator of Thor and the X-Men — once designed costumes for a college Shakespeare play

10 Robots With Good Reasons to Rise Up Against Humanity

Behind-the-scenes look at Hunger Games shows how Gary Ross tried to light Katniss on fire

Could we actually build a robot the size of Pacific Rim‘s massive Jaegers?

How Actual Science Can Make Science Fiction Stories Cooler

Captain America gown spotted on the Comic-Con floor

The Universe has a Twitter account and it is awesome

Federal clinics for the poor give just as good care as private practices

Neil Gaiman’s writing a prequel to Sandman in 2013

Samurai Jack creator explains how Hotel Transylvania will return cartoonishness to CG animation

When animals tell lies

Has LEGO Bilbo met his match in zombie Frodo?

Scientists explain how to prevent one of the most common airplane disasters

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