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Have We Seen Bruce Wayne’s End Before? (Spoilers)

The final part of Neil Gaiman‘s Batman story, Whatever Happened To The Caped Crusader, hit stores this Wednesday, featuring an unusual final fate for Bruce Wayne. But not so unusual, if you’d already read Continuity. We admit it; it’s unlikely-verging-on-impossible that Gaiman ripped off the 2006 indie graphic novel by Jason McNamara and Tony Talbot…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

Time Travel: Six Reasons Not to Meet Your Mother

Now, if I could travel through time, I’d head for the future, but for some reason, people just keep heading for the not-so-distant past where they run into their own mothers. 1. Your mother falls for you. When Marty McFly heads back to the Fifties in Back to the Future, I’m fairly certain winning his…

io9 Alyssa Johnson

Place Your Bets On Iron Man 2’s Mighty Marvel Cameo

Two new actors have been announced for Iron Man 2, but we were only told who one of them would be playing. Accidental oversight, or plot revelation being kept under wraps? We suspect the latter. Charlie reported that Clark Gregg and Kate Mara have signed on to the Marvel sequel that’s currently in production earlier…

Movies Graeme McMillan

Fringe Teases Explanations And Multiple Bishops In Season Finale

What is Olivia’s power? What about Peter’s secret? The Fringe season finale reveals some secrets and unveils many more, if the stars and producers’ hints at their Paley Festival appearance is anything to go by. Amongst the spoilers revealed during Thursday night’s Fringe appearance at Paleyfest were promises that we’ll find out the connection between…

Television Graeme McMillan

The Star Trek Tie-In JJ Abrams Didn’t Want To See

Spock in a bathtub with another man? Somehow, we don’t think that an image that JJ Abrams wanted people to have in mind with the new Trek so close. Click through for Abrams’ PR nightmare. The video below is actually an ad for the new album from Star Trek-tribute band Warp 11, "I Don’t Want…

io9 Graeme McMillan

KGB Notebooks Online Reveal the Thoughts of Science Spies

If you like retro-futuristic spy tales, you will be intrigued by this collection of KGB spy notebooks, translated online, created during the height of the Cold War. They’re all about stealing science secrets. Posted by the Cold War International History Project, there are several notebooks that have been translated in their entirety, and it gives…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Buck Rogers #0 Makes Fighting Giant Amoebas Look Pretty Fun

Dynamite’s Buck Rogers comic series starts with a whole lot of Buck kicking ass (if giant amoebas had them, which I kind of doubt) and taking names (which, actually, the amoebas also don’t have). The issue starts right in with an unconscious Buck Rogers being held captive by the aforementioned giant alien amoebas, the Ganymedians…

Books & Comics Alyssa Johnson

Iron Man’s Cartoon Tarnishes His Name, Armor

New animated series Iron Man: Armored Adventures premiered in the US last night, finally answering the question “What if they made a cartoon about Iron Man that completely lost everything that made the movie good?” It has to be said, Armored Adventures is so different from the Iron Man movie – or the original Iron…

Television Graeme McMillan

Bioshock’s Cost Too High For Studio

Hope you weren’t holding your breath for Gore Verbinski‘s movie version of Bioshock. Universal have put the movie on hold over concerns about the high budget, and may push filming overseas to keep costs down. Variety report that Verbinski’s adaptation of the video game was preparing to shoot in Los Angeles when Universal executives got…

Movies Graeme McMillan

We May All Die From Swine Flu

Forget avian flu; a “swine flu” that’s already killed eighteen people in Mexico seems to have come to the US, and the World Health Organization are discussing whether or not to declare it a pandemic. The virus may be called a “swine flu,” but it mixes genes from pig, bird and human flus in a…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Why You Should Give Heroes A Second Chance

We can all agree that NBC’s Heroes has floundered pretty badly for awhile. But as the third season ends this week, here’re some reasons why you should tune in again when it returns this fall. The Writing Has Improved No, really. It’s very tempting to give most of the credit for this to the return…

Television Graeme McMillan

Introducing Glowing Puppy Cam

Okay, they’re not on a 24-7 webcam yet, but this cloned beagle is part of a litter of the world’s first translucent dogs. Yes, you read that right. Under certain lights, this puppy’s proteins glow. The pup in question – Ruby Puppy – is one of four cloned by a team of scientists in South…

io9 Graeme McMillan

The Ever-Deepening Mystery Surrounding Wolverine’s Leak

When the workprint of X-Men Origins: Wolverine leaked onto the internet, Fox reacted quickly by stating that the workprint was significantly different to the finished movie, including missing key scenes. A new report disagrees. According to someone who’s seen the finished movie, the workprint pretty much was the finished movie: Well, having seen the finished…

Movies Graeme McMillan

ABC’s Summer Schedule Offers Cut-Rate Sci-Fi Thrills

ABC have announced their summer schedule, and amongst the specials about JK Rowling and Primetime specials, there were a couple of shows that caught our eye. Mostly because they sounded like SciFi Original Movie escapees. To be fair, Earth 2100 has at least some possibilty of credibility; it’s an ABC News special looking at what…

Television Graeme McMillan

Eureka Returns To SyFy In The Wrong Place

We’re as excited as the next man that the return of the SciFi Channel’s Eureka has finally been scheduled. We just think that it’s been scheduled in entirely the wrong timeslot, is all. Quirky genius town dramedy Eureka (And that makes it sound really bad, doesn’t it? Sorry; if you’ve not watched it yet, it’s…

Television Graeme McMillan

Why Avatar Is The New Star Wars, And Who’ll Gain From It

Are you prepared for yet another 3-D revolution? Sony bosses are saying that James Cameron’s Avatar just might “change the world”, and hinting that another franchise may benefit from the ground breaking. Talking to Forbes Magazine about the way that 3-D technology has impacted movies recently, Sony Pictures Co-Chairman Amy Pascal suggested that December will…

Movies Graeme McMillan

They Cloned Bruce Lee — Three Times!

Has there ever been a movie in worse taste than The Clones Of Bruce Lee? Cashing in on the martial-arts legend’s death, the film shows a ruthless scientist cloning Lee three times. The film gathers together three of the most famous Bruce Lee “clones” that starred in movies after his death: Dragon Lee, Bruce Le…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Rian Johnson’s Hellish Future in “Looper”

Brothers Bloom and Brick director Rian Johnson has revealed very few details about his futuristic scifi project, Looper. Until now. David Chen over at Slashfilm cornered Johnson and got him to finally spill some scifi goodies on exactly what Looper is all about. First off, the film takes place about 30 years into the future…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Would Humans and Aliens Really Be Able to Communicate?

Over at the Oxford University Press blog, Michael Quinion, author of Gallimaufry: A Hodgepodge of Our Vanishing Vocabulary, suggests that it might be impossible for humans and aliens ever to communicate. He writes: The alien and the human would be facing much intensive co-operative work to get a basic understanding of each other’s methods of…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Red Faction: Guerrilla Demo Available Now

THQ’s long anticipated third installment of the Red Faction series will be released June 2nd, but you can check out the demo for both platforms (Xbox 360 and PS3) starting today! Click here to find out more information and download the demo, then be sure to buy Red Faction: Guerrilla on June 2nd.

io9 Chrissie Lamond

Have We Seen Bruce Wayne’s End Before? (Spoilers)

Time Travel: Six Reasons Not to Meet Your Mother

Place Your Bets On Iron Man 2’s Mighty Marvel Cameo

Fringe Teases Explanations And Multiple Bishops In Season Finale

The Star Trek Tie-In JJ Abrams Didn’t Want To See

KGB Notebooks Online Reveal the Thoughts of Science Spies

Buck Rogers #0 Makes Fighting Giant Amoebas Look Pretty Fun

Iron Man’s Cartoon Tarnishes His Name, Armor

Bioshock’s Cost Too High For Studio

We May All Die From Swine Flu

Why You Should Give Heroes A Second Chance

Introducing Glowing Puppy Cam

The Ever-Deepening Mystery Surrounding Wolverine’s Leak

ABC’s Summer Schedule Offers Cut-Rate Sci-Fi Thrills

Eureka Returns To SyFy In The Wrong Place

Why Avatar Is The New Star Wars, And Who’ll Gain From It

They Cloned Bruce Lee — Three Times!

Rian Johnson’s Hellish Future in “Looper”

Would Humans and Aliens Really Be Able to Communicate?

Red Faction: Guerrilla Demo Available Now

Artemis 2 Live Updates: Humanity’s Epic Return to the Moon 🔴

NASA’s Artemis 2 Mission Blasts Off

Disney’s Robot Olaf Dying Is the Funniest Thing to Happen in 2026

Kia’s EV3 Is Headed to the US This Year With Up to 320 Miles of Range

This Is the Way to Lego’s April Releases

Group Pushing Age Verification Requirements for AI Turns Out to Be Sneakily Backed by OpenAI

Amazon Facilities in Bahrain Hit Again as Iran Follows Through on Threat, Report Says

Why the PS6 Handheld Will Matter More Than the PS6

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

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