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10 Perfectly Reasonable Explanations for “Superdickery”

Brian Cronin has been blogging for years at Comics Should be Good, and now he’s edited a brand new book of comic book trivia, Why Does Batman Carry Shark Repellent? To celebrate, he’s created a list of 10 reasons why Superman isn’t as much of a dick as you think he is. The nifty website…

Books & Comics Brian Cronin

Who wants to own this creepy robotic version of da Vinci’s The Last Supper?

Do you have $15,000 to blow on disconcerting old automata? Well, have we a bargain for you! For a mere $10-$15K, you can win this automaton recreation of Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper, complete with a tiny mechanical Judas plotting away. Here’s the auction description and a nine-minute video detailing the weirdness: The Lord’s…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

This Week’s TV: You are not ready for Alien Surf Girls!

This week’s TV includes the extra-long season finales of Game of Thrones and Touch. Sir Patrick Stewart tells us all about the bizarre superpowers of some animals, and Henry Rollins talks weird animal religions. Adventure Time has its most freaktastic episode yet. But also, there is a brand new epic about alien girls, who come…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

A space squid battle to remember . . . on a t-shirt!

It’s a space squid vs. a retro rocket! And it’s a luminous, beautiful, funny tee designed by Kevlar51 to add to your collection. If you’re in the States, your excuse is that it’s Memorial Day, and you should have this shirt to honor the brave souls who gave their lives in the deadly space battles…

io9 Annalee Newitz

In her dream house at R’lyeh, dead Cthulhu Barbie waits dreaming

Barbie’s had dozens of careers, so it makes sense she’d give the vocation of “cosmic, insanity-inducing abomination” a whirl. Indeed, Sabrina Zbasnik has given the blonde icon a face full of tentacles and an authoritative wooden stick accessory with which to menace her edible cultists. As Zbansik explains of this project: I would offer up…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Zoonosis: When Cuddling Can Kill

Did you know that H1N1 reached Russia by whale? Or that you can get the flu from a bird and give it to a pig? Find out why viruses tend to jump from animals to us, and why they seem to always pick the cute ones. Viruses have numbers on their side, but not anything…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

A sunrise in China’s Sea of Clouds is shockingly gorgeous

Good morning, internet. If your AM routine is anything like mine, it involves swatting lackadaisically at the snooze button until a panicked adrenaline surge levitates you out of bed. But if my bedroom was mysteriously teleported to the “Monkey Gazing at the Cloud Sea” vista in China’s Huangshan mountain range, waking up would never be…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Tons of Prometheus and Ender’s Game secrets from Damon Lindelof and Roberto Orci!

Prometheus writer Damon Lindelof promises Ridley Scott’s movie is a return to intellectual science fiction, while Ender’s Game co-producer Roberto Orci reveals how the movie preserves Orson Scott Card’s vision. Karen Gillan talks her Doctor Who exit. Plus Carrie casting news! Spoilers from here on out! Top image from The Dark Knight Rises. The Dark…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

io9 Roundup: May 27, 2012

THE TRAGEDY OF SCIENCE FICTION | Cartoonist Tom Gauld launched a new blog this week filled with his funny pictures. While we know science fiction is proper literature, it never hurts to remember that we get the coolest toys. [via CBR] Watch cartoon voice actors read the Star Wars Trilogy as Bubbles, Bender, and Captain…

io9 Lauren Davis

How much does it cost to be an unbeatable evil overlord?

Peter Anspach’s “The Top 100 Things I’d Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord” is required reading for anyone hoping to enter the growing field of supervillainry. But how much does it cost to be a successful and rational evil overlord? The speculative bean counters at Centives have attached a price tag to each…

io9 Lauren Davis

These vintage photos of early car wrecks will make you grateful for crumple zones

The automobile gave individuals a means of traversing great distances quickly and easily, but that convenience sometimes came at a dangerous price. These photographs hit home just how fragile early cars were, and will make you want to thank an automotive engineer. The Boston Public Library collected these accident photos from the 1920s and 1930s,…

io9 Lauren Davis

The earliest known panda-like fossils have been found – in Spain!?

This little feller is Agriarctos beatrix, which roamed the forests of Spain some eleven million years ago. It represents the earliest known member of the giant panda’s evolutionary subfamily, and it was pretty much just ridiculously adorable. Agriarctos beatrix is a member of the Ailuropodinae subfamily, which is one taxonomic level below the Ursid family…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

This colossal prehistoric turtle could snap other turtles in half

For a brief period after the dinosaurs vanished, truly gigantic reptiles like the 50-foot snake Titanoboa and twenty-foot crocodiles dominated the swamps of ancient Colombia. Now we’ve discovered another, much gentler giant – the humongous 60-million-year-old “coal turtle.” https://gizmodo.com/the-ancient-war-between-20-foot-crocodiles-and-50-foot-5840545 First discovered in 2005, Carbonemys cofrinii takes its coal-themed names in both English and Latin from…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

What if Jack Kirby made My Little Pony comics?

Not a dream! Not an imagined story! Well, okay, an entirely imagined story. ComicsAlliance unleashes a battle-ready Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie upon the Internet. CA’s ongoing “Great Comics That Never Happened” series envisions all sorts of alternate-universe comics, from the Betty and Veronica wedding issue to the time Batman played Jeopardy! In this installment,…

io9 Lauren Davis

Miyazaki’s films reimagined as dog-eared Penguin book covers

Hayao Miyazaki’s films are marked by rich landscapes and innovative character designs, but these illustrations reduce those films to their most basic components, imagining them as minimalist Penguin book covers. Jason K sells these as posters and prints at his Etsy store. The texturing on the pieces is wonderful; it gives the impression that these…

io9 Lauren Davis

Take out your Game of Thrones aggression on this King Joffrey practice target

When watching tonight’s Game of Thrones episode, you can try smacking King Joffrey every time he says something petulant, but replacing your TV screen gets expensive after awhile. Instead, fire off a few spit balls at this King Joffrey target. The target, which you can purchase through RedBubble, is also available as a t-shirt, although…

io9 Lauren Davis

Crowdfund human-powered flight, a whale on stilts, and pork-eating cartoonist vampires

Looking for more worthy projects to support this long weekend? We have an interactive story about a whale walking on stilts, a graphic novel following a young vampire who just wants to make comics, a human-powered helicopter looking to break records, and a webseries about aspiring cartoonists. The Story of Flewn: Animator Gabriel Smetzer is…

io9 Lauren Davis

Glowing text messages spill out into the real world

In Lee Jung’s lovely photographs, text messages have escaped the confines of the phone screen and scattered across the real world, illuminating various landscapes with their questions and declarations of love. Creating neon letters, photographing them, and sending the photos to another person’s phone seems like a lot of effort to go to when sending…

io9 Lauren Davis

How the zombie apocalypse starts: Naked attacker found eating man’s face

A scary bit of news is coming out of Miami this weekend after the city police shot a naked man found eating another man’s face. And several circumstances of the story have some people crying zombie. The police were called in yesterday after the attacker was spotted on the MacArthur Causeway off ramp. When the…

io9 Lauren Davis

Douglas Adams’ animated history of the book, from rocks to e-readers

In the early 1990s, the Voyager Company looked into creating “Expanded Books,” digital books that would offer an enhanced onscreen reading experience. Appropriately, one of the titles they converted into an expanded books was a series that revolves around a digital book The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and Douglas Adams recorded a promo on…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

10 Perfectly Reasonable Explanations for “Superdickery”

Who wants to own this creepy robotic version of da Vinci’s The Last Supper?

This Week’s TV: You are not ready for Alien Surf Girls!

A space squid battle to remember . . . on a t-shirt!

In her dream house at R’lyeh, dead Cthulhu Barbie waits dreaming

Zoonosis: When Cuddling Can Kill

A sunrise in China’s Sea of Clouds is shockingly gorgeous

Tons of Prometheus and Ender’s Game secrets from Damon Lindelof and Roberto Orci!

io9 Roundup: May 27, 2012

How much does it cost to be an unbeatable evil overlord?

These vintage photos of early car wrecks will make you grateful for crumple zones

The earliest known panda-like fossils have been found – in Spain!?

This colossal prehistoric turtle could snap other turtles in half

What if Jack Kirby made My Little Pony comics?

Miyazaki’s films reimagined as dog-eared Penguin book covers

Take out your Game of Thrones aggression on this King Joffrey practice target

Crowdfund human-powered flight, a whale on stilts, and pork-eating cartoonist vampires

Glowing text messages spill out into the real world

How the zombie apocalypse starts: Naked attacker found eating man’s face

Douglas Adams’ animated history of the book, from rocks to e-readers

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