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Sneak Peeks At Surrogates, Dollhouse, Supernatural, Warehouse 13 And Doctor Who!

Today’s spoilers include detailed descriptions of some Bruce Willis/Surrogates action footage. New clips from Dollhouse, Supernatural and Warehouse 13. Another comics transplant on Smallville. Plus Gamer, 9, 2012, Doctor Who, Lost, Fringe, FlashForward, True Blood, Stargate Universe and Chuck spoilers! Surrogates: Director Jonathan Mostow showed off some footage from the movie. The opening credits show…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Alton Brown’s Good Eats: The Early Years Selling Now (and Worth the $25)

Taste Test food week wouldn’t have been complete without our fun Q&As with Alton Brown, but his hot-out-of-the-oven book Good Eats: The Early Years is the real news peg. (Book tour dates below!) If you’ve read his I’m Just Here For the Food books, you know that they’re more helpful for overall skills, only sporadically…

Books & Comics Wilson Rothman

The Last Temptation Of Jean-Claude Van Damme

If there’s a greater movie than Cyborg, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, we’re not sure we could stand to watch it. In this sequence, post-apocalyptic pirate-fighter Gibson gets crucified and has a traumatic flashback. Below, the greatest rain fight scene ever. So in the above sequence, the bad guys have crucified Gibson, and he’s reliving the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

In Which True Blood Ruins My Vampire Yahtzee Fantasies

newVideoPlayer(“/evan_rachel_wood_cameo.io9.flv”, 506, 423,””); Last night was the big campy Queen vampire reveal. Will she be pretty? Will she be rich? here’s what vampire Evan Rachel Woods said to me… que sera sera. This episode seemed to tread water a little bit, much like last week’s, but at least we got in some quality Eric time.…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Space War and Mexican Conflict Could Be On America’s Future Agenda

The next hundred years could see the United States merge as a mature global power, only to see a rival nation threaten its space assets, and face aggression from a strong and prosperous Mexico, according to geopolitical forecaster George Friedman. Friedman is an intelligence officer with Strategic Forecasting, a private intelligence agency, as well as…

io9 Lauren Davis

Paul Melko: We Will Always Need Heroic Stories

SF Signal asks up-and-coming author Paul Melko (whose The Walls Of The Universe we reviewed here) whether the ways people consume mass media are influencing pop culture. And he says: https://gizmodo.com/alternate-universes-are-big-business-5107999 I like the idea that we as a species evolved with story as a part of intelligence. When we see disconnected facts, our brains…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Everything that Cures or Prevents Cancer (According to the Media)

Can’t recall which items the media claims prevent cancer and those that cause it? Kill or Cure takes aim at bad science journalism with its tongue-in-cheek index of items the Daily Mail links to cancer. [via Metafilter, Image from SMBC]

io9 Lauren Davis

16 Great Characters with Numbers For Names

This week, we’re gearing up for 9, Shane Acker’s film about nine animated rag dolls, each known only by their number. With that in mind, we list 16 other characters who have numerical monikers. Leaving aside characters with alphanumeric names (like Star Wars’ R2-D2 and C-3PO), characters who also have serials number imparted to them…

io9 Lauren Davis

Get A Dose of Awesome From The Adventures of Dr. McNinja

Webcomics fans looking for robots, vampires, zombies, ninjas, pirates, monsters, dinosaurs, ghosts, and general awesomeness need look no further than Chris Hastings‘s brainchild The Adventures of Dr. McNinja. It’s a glorious pastiche of loving parodies for superfans. The first issue gives you a taste right away of what you’re in for. It’s the middle of…

io9 StephenGoldmeier

Crack Open 9’s Science Journal And Learn Secrets Of The Ragdolls’ Creation

We’ve got 9’s secret ragdoll-making mad science journal, complete with ink blots, sketches and doomsday prophesies. Flip through our exclusive pages, and check out your chance to win the concept art book. Only 999 of these special-edition collector’s “9” movie books were produced – so here’s your chance to win one of the nine copies…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Epic Mickey Is Coming Your Way Soon

Yesterday, we showed you images from a potential “Dystopian Disneyverse” videogame codenamed Epic Mickey. Anonymous sources have since let us know that the game is definitely real, and that we should expect to hear more about it on September 9th. https://gizmodo.com/what-is-this-strange-dystopian-disneyversese-5348876

io9 Graeme McMillan

Nanotech And Lasers Team Up To Cure Cancer

When nanotech and lasers team up, is there anything they can’t do? Apparently not. New research shows a combined nanotube/laser treatment zaps kidney tumors in 80 percent of mice. Nanotech is teaming up with viruses to kill ovarian tumors, too. Scientists at Wake Forest University injected multi-walled carbon nanotubes into tumors and then heated them…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Twilight 80s Edition Imagines Sparkly Bloodsucking River Phoenix

If Twilight had been made in the 1980s, there would have been Brat Packers and teen heartthrobs aplenty to step into Robert Pattinson’s sparkly shoes. MTV imagines Twilight’s alternate 80s cast, complete with Kiefer Sutherland and werewolf Johnny Depp. [MTV]

io9 Lauren Davis

It Had To Happen: The Disney/Marvel Buyout Brings Us MODUCK!

It’s only been a few hours since Disney announced it was buying Marvel Comics, and already the first example of corporate synergy has appeared: MODUCK! But what does the UCK stand for? Apparently we have Jeff Parker (writer of such great comics as Agents Of Atlas) to thank for the MODUCK meme, which combines MODOK…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Green Hornet Pushed Back To December 2010, But Seth Rogen Feels Just Fine

Oddball superhero flick Green Hornet has certainly had its share of troubles. After losing Stephen Chow, twice, the latest Hornet news is that the release date has been pushed back to December. You know, when real movies come out. https://gizmodo.com/is-stephen-chow-completely-off-hornet-5312885 Hitfix spoke with star Seth Rogen after learning news of the movie’s delayed release date.…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 3 Would Have Featured A Surprising Comeback

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles producer (and io9 guest-blogger) Josh Friedman has been tight-lipped about what would have happened in the show’s third season. But star Thomas Dekker has spilled some info, and it sounds pretty amazing. Hypothetical spoilers below… So if you’re as obsessed with the Sarah Connor Chronicles as I am, you’ll remember…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Margaret Atwood Says She Doesn’t Write Science Fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin Disagrees

Margaret Atwood insists that her novels aren’t science fiction, as everything she writes either has happened or could happen today. But in looking at Atwood’s latest novel, The Year of the Flood, science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin disagrees. In her essay collection Moving Targets Atwood explains that she doesn’t consider the books she…

io9 Lauren Davis

Disney/Marvel: Who Knew What, And When?

While Disney’s purchase of Marvel Entertainment surprised the world this morning, how many people really saw it coming? According to Disney executives on this morning’s investors’ conference call, the House of Mouse initially reached out to Marvel “a few months ago,” but Marvel creator reaction this morning suggests that it was kept a secret from…

io9 Graeme McMillan

The Real Batman To Return In 2010?

Wondering when Bruce Wayne will return? Rumors have it that next year will see two new series, The Search For Bruce Wayne and The Return of Batman, answering that question. So when’s the next movie, then? [Bleeding Cool]

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

Classic Movies Get Silkscreen Poster Update

Tyler Stout designs incredibly detailed screenprinted movie posters that give classic science fiction films an updated look while offering newer movies a touch of vintage Hollywood charm. Stout, who also does many of the concert posters for Flight of the Conchords, has an ever-growing series of posters from classic and more recent films (and, for…

io9 Lauren Davis

Sneak Peeks At Surrogates, Dollhouse, Supernatural, Warehouse 13 And Doctor Who!

Alton Brown’s Good Eats: The Early Years Selling Now (and Worth the $25)

The Last Temptation Of Jean-Claude Van Damme

In Which True Blood Ruins My Vampire Yahtzee Fantasies

Space War and Mexican Conflict Could Be On America’s Future Agenda

Paul Melko: We Will Always Need Heroic Stories

Everything that Cures or Prevents Cancer (According to the Media)

16 Great Characters with Numbers For Names

Get A Dose of Awesome From The Adventures of Dr. McNinja

Crack Open 9’s Science Journal And Learn Secrets Of The Ragdolls’ Creation

Epic Mickey Is Coming Your Way Soon

Nanotech And Lasers Team Up To Cure Cancer

Twilight 80s Edition Imagines Sparkly Bloodsucking River Phoenix

It Had To Happen: The Disney/Marvel Buyout Brings Us MODUCK!

Green Hornet Pushed Back To December 2010, But Seth Rogen Feels Just Fine

Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 3 Would Have Featured A Surprising Comeback

Margaret Atwood Says She Doesn’t Write Science Fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin Disagrees

Disney/Marvel: Who Knew What, And When?

The Real Batman To Return In 2010?

Classic Movies Get Silkscreen Poster Update

ASUS Eye Care Monitor Hits an All-Time Low, Only Hours Left to Grab a 27″ Screen at a 15.6″ Budget Price on Amazon

How to Watch Artemis 2, NASA’s First Crewed Mission to the Moon in 54 Years

KitchenAid 4.5-Quart Stand Mixer Is Back at Its Lowest Price, a Last-Minute Spring Sale Deal Outside Amazon Prime Day

‘Pizza Movie’ Has a Hilariously Grisly New Way to Say ‘This Is Your Brain on Drugs’ (Exclusive)

Amazon Makes a Last Push for Govee LED Strip Light at a Black Friday Low as the Spring Sale Winds Down, Works with Alexa and Google Assistant

Forget Shokz, Anker Pushes Soundcore AeroClip Open-Ear Earbuds to an All-Time Low in the Final Hours of Amazon’s Spring Sale

Google Pixel 10 Pro Gets Cleared Out at a Record Low, Now Even Cheaper Than AirPods Pro With Trade-In

Meta’s Two New Smart Glasses Are Slimmer and More Like Regular Glasses

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

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

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