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Sci-Fi Comic Eve of Extinction Explores a World Decimated by a Gender-Divided Apocalypse

Tze Chun was in the news recently when he was tapped to write and executive-produce the in-development animated Gremlins prequel series. But the TV vet (Gotham, Once Upon a Time) also has another new venture: comics publisher TKO Studios. Today, io9 has a sneak peek at one of the company’s upcoming sci-fi titles. It’s called…

Books & Comics Cheryl Eddy

Marvel Apocalypses, Ranked

Today, Thor: Ragnarok hits theaters to threaten a chunk of the Marvel Cinematic Universe with apocalyptic doom. In the comics, however, an apocalypse is not nearly as rare an occurrence as you might think, because the Marvel multiverse has faced utter calamity several times in the past. Here are the 10 best apocalypses that nearly…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

14 Dumbest Ways That Humans Will Survive The Apocalypse

The whole point of a post-apocalyptic story is that someone survives. But when you have a calamity that wipes out 99.9 percent of all humans, then how exactly do you explain the survivors? In honor of the new Maze Runner movie, here are the 14 dumbest ways people survive the apocalypse. 1) God swoops in…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Why The Best Post-Apocalyptic Stories Are Usually Kind Of Silly

What do Judge Dredd, Mad Max and Adventure Time all have in common? They’re three of the best post-apocalyptic narratives we’ve ever seen. And they’re all slightly ludicrous, ranging from outright surrealism to mad social satire. In fact, the best post-apocalyptic storytelling is usually kind of ridiculous. When you think about it, post-apocalyptic stories aren’t…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Here’s How Apocalyptic Fiction Has Changed Over the Last Century

Tumblr user Destination Toast has done a lot of statistical analyses of fandom — all of it very impressive — but the latest analyzes how the kinds of apocalypses in fiction have changed over time. We’re worried about a lot more now than we used to be. The chart below covers the different kinds of…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

Top 11 Greatest Apocalyptic Comedies Of All Time

This past weekend, Last Man on Earth proved that people still love to laugh at the end of the world. But hilarious looks at the end of days are nothing new — the extinction of humanity always brings out the dark humor in people. Here are the top 10 greatest apocalyptic comedies of all end…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Read A Great Apocalyptic Story That’s Already Been Proved Wrong!

The Apocalypse Triptych covers a lot of apocalyptic scenarios in three books. But Jake Kerr has the unusual distinction of A) writing about a really cool asteroid impact scenario B) hinging his storyline on a future scenario that we already know won’t happen. Read Kerr’s essay about being wrong, and then read the story right…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Rob Lowe Stars In “Witty” British Miniseries About A Comet Apocalypse

The apocalypse shows no sign of loosening its grip on mass media. The next end of the world: an eight-mile-wide comet strikes Earth and wipes out all life. But first, a group of surviving humans huddle beneath the English town of Slough and waits for the end, including Rob Lowe. Lowe will cross the pond…

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The 10 Types of Fictional Apocalypses (And What They Mean)

The Apocalypse rules pop culture. Half the biggest literary novels these days are apocalyptic, and meanwhile The Walking Dead is a huge hit. Post-apocalyptic stories are what space opera was in the Space Age. But what are they about? Here are 10 types of apocalypses, and what they each signify. Before we get started, a…

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Black Moon‘s Insomnia Epidemic Is The Most Unsettling Apocalypse Of All

We’re living in a golden age of apocalyptic books right now, with everybody from Margaret Atwood to Cormac McCarthy to Colson Whitehead telling apocalyptic tales. We’ve had a plague apocalypse, and an apocalypse where children’s voices are toxic. But the insomnia plague in Kenneth Calhoun’s Black Moon is still uniquely haunting. https://gizmodo.com/a-post-apocalyptic-book-that-raises-the-bar-on-bleaknes-5936732 https://gizmodo.com/with-flame-alphabet-the-bar-has-been-raised-for-weird-5879311 Top image:…

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A Closer Look At The Evil Virus That Kills Humanity In The Last Ship

In Michael Bay’s new TV show The Last Ship, a deadly virus threatens to wipe out the entire human race — except for Eric Dane, Adam Baldwin, and the other people on a single Navy ship. Here’s an exclusive new promo which shows the oozy nastiness of this virus, up close. Here’s the details about…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

“Thanks Safeway”: A Fake Trailer Comparing Downsizing to Alien Attack

Losing your job due to corporate downsizing can feel pretty apocalyptic — and one employee of supermarket chain Dominick’s captures that feeling perfectly in this video, made after Safeway closed 72 of its Chicago-area Dominick’s stores. The video went up on Dec. 27, and caused enough of a stir in the local media that its…

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Will toy companies keep us from ever getting a superheroine movie?

Welcome to Postal Apocalypse, the only mail column on the internet written by a fake mailman from the future (that I know of)! Today we’re discussing how toys affect movies — or prevent them, why DC seems determined to piss off everybody, and the best songs to sing around your apocalyptic campfire (besides “Every Rose…

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How The World’s End rejects ‘drunken, misogynistic’ manchild films

In The World’s End, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost gather their former best friends to drink their old hometown dry. But when we talked to Pegg, Frost and director Edgar Wright, they told us how this apocalyptic comedy isn’t like your usual “drunken midlife crisis” film. Plus the secret of using genre to tell a…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

10 Completely Ridiculous Ways the World Has Ended

The end of the world is a scary idea, but the way the world ends isn’t always so terrifying. As it turns out, society could collapse or the planet could get destroyed in a variety of dumb and/or ludicrous ways. Here are 10 doomsday scenarios we hope will kill us, if only so we don’t…

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Bill Nye explains how to stop an asteroid

Bill Nye teamed up with Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown of AsapSCIENCE to address one of the most pressing not-if-but-when questions in recent memory: how do we stop a major asteroid from colliding with Earth? Preventing an asteroid from hitting Earth, of course, relies on our being able to detect it far enough ahead of…

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John Hodgman explains the end of the world to you

John Hodgman is the world’s foremost expert on all things canny and uncanny, and everything in between. And today marks the release of Ragnarok, his one-hour comedy special about the apocalypse, via Netflix. To celebrate, we talked to him about the meaning of apocalyptic stories, and why he doesn’t love zombies. https://gizmodo.com/can-you-handle-john-hodgmans-gift-of-knowledge-no-you-5071474 Last year, Hodgman…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

9 Biggest Myths About the Apocalypse

We’ve all spent a little time obsessing about the end of the world (or maybe a lot of time). But are your apocalyptic thoughts based in reality, or fed by pop culture fantasies? Here are nine myths about how the apocalypse will happen. Top image: Dino Riders. 1. A large asteroid hit would turn Earth…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

What’s killing all the people in this exclusive book trailer for Rick Yancey’s The Fifth Wave?

Rick Yancey’s The Fifth Wave is one of the summer’s buzzed-about young-adult debut novels, and we’re debuting an exclusive book trailer right here on io9. The “first wave” wiped out half a million people. And you can see here what the second wave does. What do you think the fifth wave is?

Trailers Charlie Jane Anders

What the Death of the Sun Will Look Like

About 1.2 billion years from now, the sun will begin to change. As the hydrogen fuel in its core is used up, the burning will spread outward toward the surface. This will make the sun grow brighter. This increased radiation will have a devastating effect on our planet. Here’s what that might look like. The…

io9 Ron Miller

apocalypses

Sci-Fi Comic Eve of Extinction Explores a World Decimated by a Gender-Divided Apocalypse

Marvel Apocalypses, Ranked

14 Dumbest Ways That Humans Will Survive The Apocalypse

Why The Best Post-Apocalyptic Stories Are Usually Kind Of Silly

Here’s How Apocalyptic Fiction Has Changed Over the Last Century

Top 11 Greatest Apocalyptic Comedies Of All Time

Read A Great Apocalyptic Story That’s Already Been Proved Wrong!

Rob Lowe Stars In “Witty” British Miniseries About A Comet Apocalypse

The 10 Types of Fictional Apocalypses (And What They Mean)

Black Moon‘s Insomnia Epidemic Is The Most Unsettling Apocalypse Of All

A Closer Look At The Evil Virus That Kills Humanity In The Last Ship

“Thanks Safeway”: A Fake Trailer Comparing Downsizing to Alien Attack

Will toy companies keep us from ever getting a superheroine movie?

How The World’s End rejects ‘drunken, misogynistic’ manchild films

10 Completely Ridiculous Ways the World Has Ended

Bill Nye explains how to stop an asteroid

John Hodgman explains the end of the world to you

9 Biggest Myths About the Apocalypse

What’s killing all the people in this exclusive book trailer for Rick Yancey’s The Fifth Wave?

What the Death of the Sun Will Look Like

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