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Check out a five-page preview of DC Comics’ Batwing, guest-starring The Dark Knight himself!

Courtesy of DC Comics, here’s an exclusive sneak peek at the next issue of Batwing, starring David Zavimbe, Batman Incorporated’s representative from the Democratic Republic of Congo. In this five-page preview, Batwing teams up with Batman to thwart the agents of the villain Massacre — the heroes use wits, technology, and a panoply of punches.…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

The future of drought in America

While politicians battle over climate regulations, a growing number of urban planners and landscape managers are quietly preparing for a more arid world. A fascinating book review in the New York Times today explores two recent books about the future of the American Southwest, a region that is today gripped by drought – and will…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Ten plotlines you’ll find in science fiction – over and over again

Science fiction is a genre of limitless possibilities, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t a few ideas writers keep coming back to as trusty old standbys. Here are ten of science fiction’s most common tropes…and how they’ve evolved. Obviously, no list like this can ever be considered comprehensive, and we could probably do dozens of…

Movies Alasdair Wilkins

This is either rocket debris lighting up the sky, or Santa spontaneously combusting

You may have heard how a portion of the Soyuz-2 rocket destroyed some poor guy’s house in Siberia. That wasn’t the only shenanigan Soyuz debris pulled last weekend. A portion of the Soyuz rocket that transported three astronauts to the International Space Station flared up the skies over Germany, Belgium, and France on Christmas Eve,…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

This Week’s TV: 8 Marathons that Could Make the Week Fly Past

This week’s television includes the season finales of two beloved shows, Sanctuary and Beavis and Butthead. Plus new episodes of Chuck, Generator Rex and a few other shows. But mostly, this week belongs to marathons. Including two straight days of Twilight Zone episodes, a ton of classic television… and an unusual look at Doctor Who’s…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Did you know that Jesus Christ’s tomb is in Japan?

In the 2,800-person village of Shingō in Japan’s Aomori prefecture, you can visit a tourist attraction that earns almost doodlysquat fanfare despite its world-shattering theological ramifications. I am, of course, talking about the grave of Jesus Christ. What, you didn’t know that Jesus escaped crucifixion and emigrated to northern Japan to become a rice farmer?…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel says science fiction has “collapsed”

Peter Thiel, a founder of PayPal, is known for his extreme views on everything from taxes (there shouldn’t be any) and women’s suffrage (it never should have happened). He’s also a starry-eyed libertarian futurist who has invested heavily in the seasteader movement, which wants to create floating cities in the ocean outside national boundaries. http://gawker.com/5231390/…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Does the new red band trailer for The Devil Inside scare you?

Cleanse the long holiday weekend with blood and demon fire! Behold the new trailer from The Devil Inside, a movie about priests drowning babies and possessed ladies! While we’re weary of yet another found footage film, we’re suckers for a good exorcism. But will it be scary? You decide. The crazy mother is certainly a…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

The Incredible Hulk arrested for selling cocaine in England

A man painted green like the Hulk and sporting “fancy dress” was arrested last spring for selling drugs outside of a nightclub in Coventry, England. Explains The Coventry Telegraph of the Hulk’s run-in with the police: [The Hulk] was drunk and trying to sell cocaine he did not want outside the Skydome in the city…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

An airship emerges from the reddish clouds of dawn

From this distance, it could be a pleasure ship, an apartment complex, or the first stately vessel in a military deployment. But the fortress is none of these things. It is the place where this gas giant’s greatest secrets are kept, hidden in the clouds of the upper atmosphere. It’s rare to glimpse it at…

io9 Annalee Newitz

The Mother of Doctor Who Episodes

Steven Moffat’s first proper Doctor Who script involved a little boy who goes around asking “Are you my mummy?” And motherhood has been a major theme in Moffat’s Who stories ever since. Now, with Moffat’s second Doctor Who Christmas special, I feel like we’re getting to the heart of Moffat’s obsession with moms. Spoilers ahead……

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Robocop + Die Hard + A Dog = Gundog!

For their latest X-Mas film, design firm 39 Degree Studios has put together a 5.5-minute homage to the buddy cop genre in the vein of Man’s Best Friend. If you’re going to run with a single insane visual gag, run with it until you see the whites of the audience’s eyes. https://gizmodo.com/neil-gaiman-reveals-santa-claus-eternal-torment-and-tor-5716063 https://gizmodo.com/the-5-most-absurdly-evil-dogs-to-ever-terrorize-film-5647919

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

The Darkest Hour is the best worst movie of the year

Alien invasion flick The Darkest Hour, released this morning, is like a bad holiday fruitcake that somebody tried to spruce up with a zillion lumps of neon-colored, soggy jellybean guts. Put another way, this movie is what you get when you add the plot of Skyline to the creature effects of The Happening. It is…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Giant Gundam statue once again stands vigilant in Japan

Japan’s 1:1 scale Gundam statue was built, disassembled, and subsequently reconstructed. Now, Gundam statue aficionado DarwinFish105 has recorded the statue’s return to its former home in Odaiba. Here it is looking appropriately epic, surrounded by cloud cover. https://gizmodo.com/this-giant-gundam-time-lapse-video-makes-an-excellent-c-5607693 https://gizmodo.com/theres-nothing-more-artsy-than-a-disassembled-gundam-st-5833070 [Via Anime News Network]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

The battlecruiser Hyperion from Starcraft II, à la LEGO

We’ve seen the plastic spaceship design of LEGO craftsman Sven Junga previously — now check out his take on the Terran battlecruiser Hyperion from Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty. As you can see, Junga is also assembling a larger Terran brick army to boot. https://gizmodo.com/15-year-old-sven-junga-creates-starships-from-lego-bric-5482255 [Via Brothers Brick]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Nice Home Theater! We’ll Help You Set it Up

Welcome to our annual Setting Up Your Awesome New Home Theater guide. You’ve just obtained the final component for your ideal home theater set-up. Now it’s time to hook everything up and turn your living room into that badass entertainment zone you’ve always envisioned. We’ll guide you through the basics. Getting Started (The Basics) You…

Television Roberto Baldwin

Robert Heinlein’s predictions for the Year 2000 (from 1952)

In the February 1952 issue of Galaxy magazine, Robert Heinlein offered his verdict on the conclusion of the twentieth century. He would later revisit these predictions in the 1966 short story collection The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein and discuss the challenges of predicting the future. Here’s what the author gathered, six decades ago: So…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

A bizarre short film about the technology wars between an egg and an apple

From Ben Richardson and Daniel Bird comes Seed, a handsome stop-motion animated short about two devious, surreal consumables drunk on technology. Here’s the synopsis from the filmmakers: An egg and an apple build competing broadcast towers that vie for the attention of a transistor radio. With its complex characterization and narrative of animal evolution, competition…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Superflies bred to be the first astronauts on Titan

Artist Andy Gracie is attempting to breed a strain of fruit fly that could survive on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. The first stage of his work, The Quest for Drosophila Titanus, is part of an exhibition currently touring the UK. What can people see if they visit Dropsophila titanus? Currently, the installation consists of a…

io9 jessica Griggs - New Scientist

In Guatemala, you light Satan on fire to celebrate X-Mas

Here’s another burly Christmas tradition to complement the Krampuslauf (and the even more obscure veneration of Japanese Robotic Velociraptor Santa Claus). In Guatemala, effigies of Satan are burned on the evening of December 7 to kick off the Christmas season. https://gizmodo.com/austrias-krampus-parade-celebrates-santas-child-eating-5868042 https://gizmodo.com/and-now-from-japan-velociraptor-santa-claus-5714939 And we’re not talking about abstract depictions of evil. No, effigies resembling full-blown…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Check out a five-page preview of DC Comics’ Batwing, guest-starring The Dark Knight himself!

The future of drought in America

Ten plotlines you’ll find in science fiction – over and over again

This is either rocket debris lighting up the sky, or Santa spontaneously combusting

This Week’s TV: 8 Marathons that Could Make the Week Fly Past

Did you know that Jesus Christ’s tomb is in Japan?

Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel says science fiction has “collapsed”

Does the new red band trailer for The Devil Inside scare you?

The Incredible Hulk arrested for selling cocaine in England

An airship emerges from the reddish clouds of dawn

The Mother of Doctor Who Episodes

Robocop + Die Hard + A Dog = Gundog!

The Darkest Hour is the best worst movie of the year

Giant Gundam statue once again stands vigilant in Japan

The battlecruiser Hyperion from Starcraft II, à la LEGO

Nice Home Theater! We’ll Help You Set it Up

Robert Heinlein’s predictions for the Year 2000 (from 1952)

A bizarre short film about the technology wars between an egg and an apple

Superflies bred to be the first astronauts on Titan

In Guatemala, you light Satan on fire to celebrate X-Mas

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