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Summer Glau: When Fans Go Too Far, It’s A Disaster

Boy, you guys really really like Summer Glau. River more Bad-ass than Brock Sampson?! IT’S A DISASTER!!! (click all images to enlarge) DISTRICT 10: So I finally saw District 9 and it was better than I had hoped. I’ll definitely take a sequel. As for him tackling a video game property? I’ll just say I…

io9 GarrisonDean

50-Girls-50 Launches Sexy Space Opera, New Careers

Ever thought that you could make it as a comic book artist? Frank Cho and Doug Murray are looking to give you the opportunity; they’re holding a contest to find an artist for their new good girl space opera comic. Image Comics, who’ll be publishing the Cho/Murray/potentially-you collaboration 50-Girls-50, call the new series “a science…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Finally: Hulks Vs. Intelligensia In New Comic!

It’s the ultimate brains versus brawn contest in Marvel Comics’ just-announced World War Hulks: Alpha, as the smartest men in the Marvel Universe stop to think about the newly-formed Hulk family. Well, the smartest villains, at least. Announced at this weekend’s Fan Expo Canada convention, World War Hulks: Alpha will introduce the Intelligensia, the evil…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Four Gets Smallvilled For Michael Bay’s Pleasure

Despite the massive success of Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen this summer, it’s looking more likely that Michael Bay is about to follow through on his robot vacation threat; he’s hired writers to script a new movie, and it’s bot-free. Variety reports that Bay and Dreamworks have brought Smallville creators Alfred Gough and Miles Miller…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Ten Epic Steampunk Projects We Wish We’d Thought Of First

We’ve all seen the goggles, the brass, the keyboard mods. But a few steampunk projects go above and beyond, boggling the mind and leaving us breathless. Here are ten steampunk projects that succeed in transporting us to other worlds. Dr.Grordbort’s Infallible Aether Oscillators You may have read about Dr.Grordbort’s amazing artillery here before, or perhaps…

io9 Sarah Hope Williams

Make Yourself Into A Zombie Vigilante

Marvel Comics are using the internet to spread the word about their upcoming Punisher storyarc “Frankencastle,” by inviting fans to turn themselves – or anyone of their choosing – into the titular reanimated crime-killer via the magic of the internet. According to Marvel, the DIY paper doll reanimatathon can be explained away like this: To…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Even If You Did Know Jack, Here’s A Reminder

Everyone in the town of Eureka is losing their memories, and if they don’t regain them soon, Jack and Allison will be obliterated due to the ultimate spring clean! What better time for… a clip show? I’ll admit it; as soon as I realized that “You Don’t Know Jack” was less a real episode and…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Television’s Biggest Badass Of All Time, Day Six: River Vs. The Doctor

Who knew River Tam was such an all-purpose badass? She’s crushed two cybernetic organisms, a legendary starship captain and the Slayer. Can she defeat a Time Lord, who’s lived ten lives and saved the universe? Plus a couple bonus rounds. io9 TV badass smackdown day six: River vs. The Doctor(survey) But on the off chance…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

10 TV Shows That Should Never, Ever Be Made Into Movies

Hollywood may have shown lack of judgment when it comes to adapting television shows into movies – Land of The Lost, anyone? – but that doesn’t mean we’re content to stay quiet and not warn them off certain shows nonetheless. This week, we’ve been celebrating the best of science fiction television, but there’s a dark…

io9 Graeme McMillan

A Robot Took My Job! Yay?

Worried that your job is about to be stolen by a lousy robot? According to social futurist Jamais Cascio, that might be one of the better economic futures available to us at this point. But why? Writing for Fast Company, Cascio explores what he considers to be the most likely ways in which our economic…

io9 Graeme McMillan

John Landis Celebrates American Werewolf Blu-ray Release At FrightFest

Twenty-eight years after it was released, John Landis‘s classic An American Werewolf in London is coming to Blu-ray and the director was commemorating this cleaned-up version by showing it at FrightFest in the UK last night. The British horror festival, now in its 10th year, takes over cinemas in London’s West End for five days…

Movies Joel Meadows

Pitch Us Your Best TV Shows

All this week, we’ve been talking about the TV that ate our brains, but now we want to know about the TV that’s eating yours… Not that it exists yet. We want to know what your ideal TV show is. You can pitch us an all-new idea, a spin-off of an existing series or concept,…

Television Graeme McMillan

Smallville’s Ninth Season To Feature Classic Comic Clash?

What is going on over at Smallville? Yesterday, Geoff Johns – who’ll be writing an episode of the show’s ninth season – teased this pic and added “Had an amazing week at Smallville! JLA vs. JSA!!” Interesting… [Twitter]

io9 Graeme McMillan

Eureka Gets Renewed, Goes For A Song In New Season

Eureka has been renewed for a fourth season, which brings good news/tired news for fans of the series; the new season will be its longest yet, but also feature a musical two-parter. Does every show have to sing now? In fact, Eureka plans to up the ante from where Xena, Buffy and the upcoming Batman:…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Camera Trap Gives Us a Peek at the Rare Snow Leopard

A camera controlled by a motion sensor has lived alone on a hillside in Afghanistan for months. At last, it sensed movement. And snapped a photo, which turned out to be this lovely shot of the rare, shy snow leopard. This picture first surfaced on the DotEarth blog, where Henry Fountain explains: Camera traps are…

io9 Annalee Newitz

The Cutest, Sexiest, Weirdest And Wrongest Futurama Porn [NSFW]

Few science fiction shows inspire so many naughty ideas as Futurama. Go looking for regular images of the Planet Express crew, and you’ll probably stumble across porn quickly. We sifted through and found the absolute sexiest and weirdest. It’s NSFW! Seriously, you have to make a major effort to avoid Futurama porn — go to…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Shiniest Stories On io9 Last Week

This week we all fell in love with our televisual screens and discovered new depths between the pixels. So what did you miss from our TV Ate My Brain Week? We’ve got the best of the best lined up right here. Your Complete Guide To Fall Science Fiction TV The fall TV season is just…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Great Masterpieces of Anti-Television Storytelling

Although science fiction has been a mainstay on television since the mid-twentieth century, the genre has been consistently critical of television’s power to brainwash the masses. Here are the classic anti-TV tales from science fiction. While there are dozens more stories I could have included in this list, I’ve focused here on the classics –…

Television Annalee Newitz

NASA’s Quirky and Cartoony Mission Patches

Wired Science has a wonderfully weird collection of offbeat patches to commemorate various NASA missions, featuring everything from Marvin the Martian to Stephen Colbert, and the stories behind them. [Wired Science]

io9 Lauren Davis

30 Rock Salutes Science Fiction: Every Great Clip

We’ve all seen the big spoofs of scifi classics. Family Guy just recreated Star Wars and the Simpsons’ Prisoner tribute was perfection. But nobody salutes science fiction better than 30 Rock’s sly one-liners, which just slip it in there. We’re madly in love with the writing on 30 Rock, mainly because each wickedly clever line…

Television Meredith Woerner

Summer Glau: When Fans Go Too Far, It’s A Disaster

50-Girls-50 Launches Sexy Space Opera, New Careers

Finally: Hulks Vs. Intelligensia In New Comic!

Four Gets Smallvilled For Michael Bay’s Pleasure

Ten Epic Steampunk Projects We Wish We’d Thought Of First

Make Yourself Into A Zombie Vigilante

Even If You Did Know Jack, Here’s A Reminder

Television’s Biggest Badass Of All Time, Day Six: River Vs. The Doctor

10 TV Shows That Should Never, Ever Be Made Into Movies

A Robot Took My Job! Yay?

John Landis Celebrates American Werewolf Blu-ray Release At FrightFest

Pitch Us Your Best TV Shows

Smallville’s Ninth Season To Feature Classic Comic Clash?

Eureka Gets Renewed, Goes For A Song In New Season

Camera Trap Gives Us a Peek at the Rare Snow Leopard

The Cutest, Sexiest, Weirdest And Wrongest Futurama Porn [NSFW]

The Shiniest Stories On io9 Last Week

Great Masterpieces of Anti-Television Storytelling

NASA’s Quirky and Cartoony Mission Patches

30 Rock Salutes Science Fiction: Every Great Clip

Logitech Wireless Keyboard and Mouse Combo Falls Under $25, a Budget Bundle Deal in the Final Hours of Spring Sale

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The New ‘Supergirl’ Trailer Is Filled With Krypto, Lobo, and ’60s Soul

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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

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