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The Best Free Comics To Bring You Up To Super-Speed

Tomorrow is 2009’s Free Comic Book Day, when all manner of publishers release free books to celebrate the medium and try and get some new readers into characters they hadn’t previously considered. Here’re our favorites. If you’ve been craving some superhero action but don’t know what’s going on with your old favorites, DC’s Blackest Night…

io9 Graeme McMillan

A Gorgeous Day for Jet Planes and Space Shuttles

On Wednesday NASA pilots Jack Nickel and Charles Justiz buzzed their T-38 trainers over the two space shuttles at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Robert Markowitz photo via NASA

io9 Annalee Newitz

A Little Alien Knowledge Is Mega-Dangerous, In New Transformers Trailer

The official version of the Transformers 2 trailer is finally out, and it’s jam-packed with crazy action snippets, plus dialogue like "Megatron wants what’s in my mind," that cries out for a snarky response. Baytastic!

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Internet Is Alive. Maybe.

It’s either my worst nightmare or the dawn of a wonderful new future, but scientists are claiming that it’s very possible that the internet could become self-aware and know exactly what you’re looking at. The claim comes courtesy of New Scientist, as part of their “Unknown Internet” series of articles. Worryingly enough, they quote chairman…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Inject New Bones Into Your Body, Just Like Wolverine

You can’t get an indestructible adamantium skeleton, but a new surgical technique can help you fix broken bones with just one shot. That’s right: You can get a bone graft injected via syringe. When you see Logan getting adamantium injected into his bones via giant scary syringes in Wolverine tonight, it may seem like pure…

io9 Annalee Newitz

What Hansel And Gretel Did Next, Courtesy Of Dead Snow’s Director

It’s high concept movie-making the way we’ve always wanted it, as Will Ferrell teams up with the director of Dead Snow for a new movie that tells the next chapter of Hansel and Gretel. The new movie, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters will be written and directed by Snow’s Tommy Wirkola, and produced by Ferrell…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Our First Iron Man 2 Photo Features A Wall Of Iron Men

Tony Stark is looking intense and troubled in our first Iron Man 2 photo. There are also Transformers photos, Star Trek details, and a Terminator Salvation video. Plus Doctor Who, Fringe and Supernatural. Spoiler assault! Iron Man 2: The new movie takes place six months after the first movie, which ended with Tony Stark confessing…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

GoDaddy Tells Us Not to Buy .TV Domains Because Tuvalu Is Sinking?

According to GoDaddy, you should maybe stop buying .tv domains because Tuvalu, who owns all such domain names, is currently sinking underwater. Once Tuvalu no longer exists as a nation, the domains will also disappear. Sure, the island nation is slowly falling underwater, but all hope may not be lost yet. Valleywag points us to…

Television Adrian Covert

When The Soap Opera Devil Possesses You, You Get Laser-Beam Eyes And Projectile Vomit

The Devil possesses Marlena, Days Of Our Lives‘ plucky doctor, and causes her to manifest powers such as laser-beam eyes and projectile vomit, which coats her longtime love-interest John completely. Greatest soap-opera plot ever. This video, which the incredible Dave Campbell linked to, is a compilation of all of the greatest scenes in the “devil…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Post-Apocalyptic Settings for Games Are Cool Urban Wastelands

WorldWorks Games has a set of tabletop gaming sets that would make the perfect setting for a mutant raid on a gas station, or for an I Am Legend scenario. io9 pal Ed Grabianowski explains it all over at Robot Viking: Part of what makes these sets so cool is how rare it is to…

io9 Annalee Newitz

New G.I. Joe Trailer Stuffed With Rockets, Suits, Nanomites And Other Splodey New Toys

The French trailer for G.I. Joe has come out, and the sheer number of gizmos packed into one short clip is astounding. Check out more power-suit goodness, and the hear the first words from Baroness. Tell me that’s not what you want from your big summer action movie. It’s beautiful and completely ridiculous in every…

io9 Meredith Woerner

“Supernatural” Is Midwestern Gothic For The Google Generation

Tonight we near the end of season four in snarky midwestern horror series Supernatural. Douchey angels will fight ethical demons, with ghostbusting brothers Sam and Dean caught in the middle. Here’s why you should watch. Monster Rock Supernatural, ending its third season, fits squarely into the gothic tradition that started with eighteenth century novels like…

io9 Annalee Newitz

New Star Trek Pics Take You Back To Starfleet Academy

Paramount just released its entire gallery of promotional images for next week’s Star Trek movie, including this great shot of Spock (and another alien) at Starfleet Academy. Plus Captain Pike’s away-mission uniform, and Uhura’s workstation. Star Trek hits theaters in the evening on Thursday, May 7.

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Mormon Bookstore Unshelves Twilight Series, Despite Meyer’s Sex=Bad Message

Sounds like the Mormons are turning on one of their own. The church-owned Deseret Book Co. has decided to put Stephenie Meyer‘s Twilight series on “special request.” Meanwhile, there’s new on-set footage from New Moon. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ own book shop has decided to remove their Twilight goods, unless specifically…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Computers Smarter Than Humans Are Inevitable This Century, Says Sawyer

We’re bound to spawn computers smarter than us in the next ninety years or so. So we may as well start hoping they have our best interests at heart, says Wake author Robert J. Sawyer. In Wake, a “webmind” starts to gain awareness and recognize the existence of the outside world. But let’s not assume…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

What Happened, Happened … Unless You Can Change the Past

Why did I read that huge Lost spoiler on io9 last week — and, more importantly, why did it turn out to be true? Spoilers and lamentation after the jump. More lethal spoilers, below. Listen, show, you and I have been through a lot together, but Daniel Faraday? You had to kill off one of…

io9 Lynn Peril

A Doctor Who Rumor More Terrifying Than A Million Daleks

Russell T. Davies wouldn’t really do this, would he? One of those oh-so-reliable British tabloids, the Daily Mail, claims that Charlie Chaplin protegee Claire Bloom, who’s in David Tennant’s final Doctor Who episode, will be playing the Doctor’s mother. I guess he’s already had a granddaughter, so it’s not out of the question. But still.…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Two Stem Cell Research Breakthroughs You Should Know About

Stem cell therapy has the potential to rejuvenate Alzheimers-damaged brains, and has already helped cure some kinds of blindness. And there are two more reasons to be hopeful about stem cell treatments, announced this week. Controlling Stem Cells This morning Cell magazine published an intriguing article about a breakthrough made by several American scientists researching…

io9 Annalee Newitz

A Transforming Tetrahedron Invades Korea

One solitary Transformer has taken over one of Seoul’s oldest buildings. This bizarre-looking building can become a movie theater, a fashion exhibition, a live performance space, and maybe a killer robot. Prada’s shape-shifting “Transformer” can take on different configurations and uses, depending on which side it’s placed on. Designed by Rem Koolhaas‘ legendary Office for…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Russian Nazi Zombies Hate Bootlegs, Love Bathroom Sex

The Russians have crafted a tribute to the Norwegian Nazi Zombie movie Død Snø (Dead Snow) that illustrates what happens when you pirate movies in Russia, and it involves some slightly NSFW undead Third-Reich action. Russian website Zombie Kaput, has released this anti-bootleg PSA in which not only do undead Nazi’s hang out in cars,…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The Best Free Comics To Bring You Up To Super-Speed

A Gorgeous Day for Jet Planes and Space Shuttles

A Little Alien Knowledge Is Mega-Dangerous, In New Transformers Trailer

The Internet Is Alive. Maybe.

Inject New Bones Into Your Body, Just Like Wolverine

What Hansel And Gretel Did Next, Courtesy Of Dead Snow’s Director

Our First Iron Man 2 Photo Features A Wall Of Iron Men

GoDaddy Tells Us Not to Buy .TV Domains Because Tuvalu Is Sinking?

When The Soap Opera Devil Possesses You, You Get Laser-Beam Eyes And Projectile Vomit

Post-Apocalyptic Settings for Games Are Cool Urban Wastelands

New G.I. Joe Trailer Stuffed With Rockets, Suits, Nanomites And Other Splodey New Toys

“Supernatural” Is Midwestern Gothic For The Google Generation

New Star Trek Pics Take You Back To Starfleet Academy

Mormon Bookstore Unshelves Twilight Series, Despite Meyer’s Sex=Bad Message

Computers Smarter Than Humans Are Inevitable This Century, Says Sawyer

What Happened, Happened … Unless You Can Change the Past

A Doctor Who Rumor More Terrifying Than A Million Daleks

Two Stem Cell Research Breakthroughs You Should Know About

A Transforming Tetrahedron Invades Korea

Russian Nazi Zombies Hate Bootlegs, Love Bathroom Sex

Sam Witwer Is Ready for Maul’s Moment

Watch and Follow Live as NASA Launches Its First Crewed Mission to the Moon in 54 Years 🔴

Anthropic Can’t Cover Up Its Claude Code Leak Fast Enough

Zach Cregger Recruits Second Zach for His Aunt Gladys Spinoff

Can You Run a Computer Without RAM? Surprisingly, Yes—But You’ll Be Miserable

How Adult Swim Skipped the April Fools’ Nonsense and Dropped a ‘Smiling Friends’ Claymation Horror Short Instead

Oracle Lays Off Thousands to Offset AI Spending

The Films and Shows You Should Be Streaming in April 2026

The Best Gadgets of March 2026

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

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