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Adam West Wants To Play Batman Snr. In New Movie

Proving that he just doesn’t know when to quit, former Batman Adam West has a plan on how he can get a role in Christian Bale’s new Batman movies… by playing Bruce Wayne’s father. Who also happens to be Batman. Talking to the Den of Geeks website, West explained that he’d happily appear in any…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Eight Toys You Can’t Leave Comic-Con Without

Click to view The San Diego Comic-Con isn’t just the place to go to meet your favorite geek celebrities, hear about the latest comics, movies or television shows or pick up that long-desired issue of Adolescent Radioactive Black-Belt Hamsters – It’s also where toymakers release a lot of “exclusives” that you can’t find anywhere else.…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Conquering Humans and Pissed-Off Elves in Hellboy II Animated Prologue

Since history is written by the conquerors, sometimes the conquered require a little backstory. With that in mind, Hellboy fans can get a sneak peak of Hellboy II: The Golden Army with an animated version of the Hellboy II prologue comic that Dark Horse gave out at this year’s Wondercon, in which Dr. Bruttenholm pacifies…

Movies Lauren Davis

Gaiman, Zelazny and More Coming To Your iPod

When Amazon.com’s SF audiobooks imprint Audible Frontiers launched earlier this year, we were interested in the potential of something new to entertain us on our morning commutes. With the line now in its third month, we checked in with Audible’s director of content, Steve Feldberg, to see whether it looks like there’s a future in…

io9 Graeme McMillan

The Law Comes To America As Judge Dredd Returns

Ignore the Sylvester Stallone movie from the ’90s – Starting next year, America is going to find out what it really means to know Dredd. Announced yesterday at the Wizard World Chicago convention, Dynamite Comics is going to bring the UK’s futuristic lawman Judge Dredd back to American comics after more than a decade. While…

io9 Graeme McMillan

3-D Journey Makes Studios Nervous

For a remake of a 49-year-old movie based upon a 144-year-old book, the movie industry is looking at upcoming Brendan Fraser flick Journey To The Center Of The Earth as a sign of things to come. Why, you may wonder? Well, it’s got something to do with another retro technology as well as Disney’s tween…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Playing AstroSmash with the Red Shirts

One of the best things about going to a game convention is getting to try new games, which explains how I found myself piloting a Hellbender space fighter in one of Red Shirt Games’ AstroSmash events at this weekend’s Origins Game Fair. It was a blast: My brightly-colored ship (apparently camouflage is not an issue…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

Where Is Batman In The Dark Knight?

Don’t get me wrong; I know that Batman is as much about the gadgets as he is the whole parents-getting-killed-so-he-fights-crime thing. But the last two posters to be released promoting The Dark Knight have both focused much more on the Batcycle than they have the caped crusader; all you can see is his head, on…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Cool and Crap Awards of the Week

At least two things happened in the world of science and science fiction last week. One was cool, the other was crap. Coolest excuse to talk about human-robot love, or bot-on-bot love, without seeming like a total chromosexual pervert. The release of Wall-E, a robot love story, has stirred up everybody’s memories of great robot…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Seven Dubious Methods of Avoiding Pregnancy in Science Fiction

In a universe stocked with sentient robots and faster than light travel, you’d hope that science would have mastered something as mundane as the human reproductive system, yet the fictive cosmos are littered with unplanned pregnancies, bastard children, and all manner of unpleasant critters bursting from one’s internal organs. Is any form of contraception safe…

Movies Lauren Davis

How To Fix Life On Mars: Bring In PRI’s Favorite Son

We’ve given you the lowdown on the US remake of Life on Mars already, and the word is out: It’s going to need a little work. But we think that the problem goes a little deeper than just casting and script – We think that it’s going to take some major surgery to make this…

io9 Graeme McMillan

X Hints At The Spot In New Marvel Teasers

Marvel Comics knows a good tease when it sees one, which might explain the latest, wordless image that they’ve released in support of a mystery project. All we know about this shadowy femme fatale is that she’s somehow connected to the letter X and the number 2009, but if you come under the jump, you…

io9 Graeme McMillan

What’s the Singular of “Fish”?

If you’ve been watching Doctor Who at all this season (and you should, if only for Catherine Tate), you’ll know that the show has been laying subtle ground for giant Earth doom that somehow relates to the recent real-life phenomenon of disappearing bees. In fact, it’s worse than even Who producer Russell T Davies knows:…

io9 Nivair H. Gabriel

RIP Michael Turner

Sad news from the comic industry today with the announcement that artist Michael Turner died late Friday night from complications arising from his ongoing fight against cancer. Turner, who had worked for DC and Marvel Comics providing covers for books like Superman/Batman, Civil War and Uncanny X-Men as well as creating his own line of…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Wanted’s Original Ending Makes Contempt For Audience Into Art Form

While some critics may bemoan Timur Bekmambetov’s movie adaptation of Wanted a beautifully-filmed piece of misogyny, they’re apparently unaware that the movie’s casual hatred and disdain for women is simply a more targeted version of the contempt that the original comic had for its own readers. Under the jump, two of the greatest, most over-the-top,…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Battlestar’s Billy Stays Dead Thanks To Bad Timing

For those who have been spending the first half of Battlestar Galactica’s final season expecting to see deceased presidential aide Billy Keikeya again – perhaps in a shock revelation as the show’s final cylon – then we’ve got some good news and bad news for you. The good news is, the writers want to bring…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Is it Wall-E? Is it Short Circuit? No, It’s Really Not.

One of the weirdest evil robots of the 1970s is in the movie Demon Seed, and he’s referred to in this original preview as “a sensually self-programmed non-being.” This A.I., who kind of looks like cuddly pal Wall-E in this picture, imprisons Julie Christie in her high tech house and rapes her so that she’ll…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Watchmen Shouldn’t Be A Movie

All of the discussion about next March’s Watchmen movie has focused on whether it’ll be faithful to Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ seminal graphic novel. But really, they’re missing the point – Watchmen shouldn’t be a movie at all. It only makes narrative sense as a comic book, because so much of its strengths are…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

In the Future, Your Plant Sings to You

Supposedly plants like it when you sing to them, at least according to 1970s New Agey lore. But now that we live in the future, your plants will become speakers, pumping music out through their leaves. Today in Tokyo, avionic engineer Keiji Koga showed off his “Flora Art Speaker,” a device he’s been working on…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Flying Into The Gaping Maw Of Mars

This is one of NASA’s proposed landing sites for the Mars Science Laboratory, which looks like a set of giant gaping jaws of evil. Do those look like teeth to anybody else? Actually, they’re sand deposits resulting from wind activity, with the lighter parts being bedrock. The green and blue areas are full of iron-…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Adam West Wants To Play Batman Snr. In New Movie

Eight Toys You Can’t Leave Comic-Con Without

Conquering Humans and Pissed-Off Elves in Hellboy II Animated Prologue

Gaiman, Zelazny and More Coming To Your iPod

The Law Comes To America As Judge Dredd Returns

3-D Journey Makes Studios Nervous

Playing AstroSmash with the Red Shirts

Where Is Batman In The Dark Knight?

Cool and Crap Awards of the Week

Seven Dubious Methods of Avoiding Pregnancy in Science Fiction

How To Fix Life On Mars: Bring In PRI’s Favorite Son

X Hints At The Spot In New Marvel Teasers

What’s the Singular of “Fish”?

RIP Michael Turner

Wanted’s Original Ending Makes Contempt For Audience Into Art Form

Battlestar’s Billy Stays Dead Thanks To Bad Timing

Is it Wall-E? Is it Short Circuit? No, It’s Really Not.

Watchmen Shouldn’t Be A Movie

In the Future, Your Plant Sings to You

Flying Into The Gaping Maw Of Mars

Feds Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Don’t Get Too Attached to Any AI App

‘Paradise’ Writer Teases What’s Coming in Season 3 After That Huge Twist

Trump’s New White House App Is Mildly Concerning and Weird for a Lot of Reasons

Bloodsucking Ticks Can Survive Inside Your Home Longer Than You Might Think

The Best New Toys of March 2026

Judge Denies Liking LinkedIn Post Critical of Elon Musk But Reassigns His Cases Anyway

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

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

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