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The Rejected Green Goblin Make-Up Tests from Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man

What if Sam Raimi wanted his Green Goblin to look more like an actual monster, and less a man in a mask? Then Willem Dafoe would have looked a lot like this. These clips of the rejected make-up tests for Raimi’s Spider-Man are scary… but not necessarily in a good way. Released by Amalgamated Dynamics,…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Father and son lunch box comics make everything in this world better

Every day Rob Kimmel starts half of a mini-comic for his 8-year-old son Ben. He then slips it into Ben’s lunchbox, for Ben to finish at school. The end results are pure wonder, mostly due to the fact that Ben has impeccable taste (he’s a lover of both Tom Waits and Star Wars). We dare…

Books & Comics Meredith Woerner

What if Tintin author Hergé wrote X-Men comics?

We’ve seen many a bizarre Tintin homage in our day, but this comic strip by the illustrator Yop! over at French comics site Mooloozone is especially neat. It’s in French, but the plot should be pretty familiar to any X-fan. The only major difference is Wolverine mentions Loch Lomond. I always assumed he was a…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Read a 5-page preview of Marvel Comics’ brand-new Daredevil: Season One graphic novel!

Courtesy of Marvel Comics, here’s an exclusive first look at Daredevil: Season One, an original graphic novel that will hit comic shops April 2012. This book features a script by Antony Johnston (The Courtyard, Daredevil) and artwork by Wellington Alves (Nova). This graphic novel is part of Marvel’s Season One line, which is designed for…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

R.I.P. Joe Simon, Co-Creator of Captain America and Countless Other Heroes

Joe Simon is a comics legend, for his role in creating the iconic superhero Captain America alone. But in recent years, many of us have gained a new appreciation for all his other great work with seminal artist Jack Kirby. He also co-created the 1940s version of the Sandman, plus some other great Golden Age…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

New Spider-Man website reveals Peter Parker’s surprising backstory — plus awesome wallpapers!

Details and new images are starting to trickle out for the Amazing Spider-Man movie. Including a brand new synopsis, a collection of character bios, and some character-based wallpapers that give us new insight into Peter Parker’s backstory. Spoilers ahead… Above is the first new Spider-Man image (we love the defaced Bugle billboard.) And here’s the…

Movies Meredith Woerner

How I Drew Firefly‘s Mal Reynolds

You may have noticed yesterday that Nathan Fillion tweeted a very dapper portrait of himself as Mal Reynolds from Firefly. This artwork is by Dan Dos Santos, who immortalized the Browncoat for Dark Horse’s upcoming Serenity comic for Free Comic Book Day. Dan took io9 through the process of drawing the most charming captain in…

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Great Comics Artists Who Redefined Batman

Batman’s appearance is intended to provoke superstitious cowardice among the criminal element of Gotham City — but it’s also become a part of our culture. The bat-ears, cowl and dark silhouette are instantly recognizable. And when you think “superhero,” Bruce Wayne’s cape and cowl are among the most likely images to come to mind. But…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Read an exclusive sneak peek of the next issue of DC Comics’ Blue Beetle!

Courtesy of DC Comics, here’s an exclusive first look at next Wednesday’s issue of the teen superhero series Blue Beetle. In this sneak peek, high schooler Jaime Reyes has become the unwitting host for a powerful (and unexpectedly sassy) alien artifact. In addition to preventing Jaime from telling his parents the truth about his powers,…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Why Tintin won’t transform into a giant whiskey bottle in his new Steven Spielberg movie

Hergé’s classic Tintin comics have many a zany visual, so how did Steven Spielberg and his team render the hero’s 2D adventures in 3D for The Adventures of Tintin? To learn about this process, io9 spoke with the film’s animation supervisor — Weta Digital’s Jamie Beard — about bringing the boy adventurer to life. What…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Wonder Woman and She-Hulk give themselves breast exams in Mozambique

Call me crazy, but I’m going to go out on a limb and assume that Marvel and DC didn’t sign off on these Mozambican print spots depicting comicdom’s foremost superheroines mid-breast exam. You can’t really argue that further breast cancer awareness is a bad thing, but I find the implications of the latter two ads…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Cable returns, Guillermo del Toro pens vampires, and a ton of other craziness hits stores this comic book Wednesday!

Boy howdy, there’s a truckload of nifty stuff hitting the spinner racks come Wednesday. Among many things, Secret Wars is back in print, a fairy tale by Persepolis’ Marjane Satrapi gets an English adaptation, and a big story arc on Uncanny X-Force wraps up. Let’s dive in! First Issues From Marvel, there’s the Cable versus…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Gorgeously Painted Superhero Portraits That Belong in Tony Stark’s Private Art Gallery

Painted superhero art can look majestic and brilliant, like the best of Alex Ross, or it can look kind of cheap. But Daniel James Cox’s portrayals of superheroes kicking ass, or just looking candid, are some of the nicest superhero paintings we’ve seen in ages. Cox worked on Fantastic Four: The Rise of the Silver…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Marjorie Liu tells us what’s next for the Astonishing X-Men (and how Gambit decorates his apartment)

In the X-Men comics as of late, Wolverine has relocated his own team of mutant students to train on the East Coast. That isn’t to say that no X-Adults followed their fearless, cantankerous leader. Indeed, in novelist Marjorie Liu and artist Mike Perkins’ upcoming run on Astonishing X-Men, we’ll see those mutants under Wolverine’s purview…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Felicia Day and Sandeep Parikh give us an exclusive preview of the next Guild comic!

io9 recently had the opportunity to catch up with Felicia Day and Sandeep Parikh, the stars of the long-running fantasy gaming web series The Guild. This duo also co-wrote The Guild: Zaboo, the next Guild tie-in comic book to hit the stands. Check out an exclusive sneak peek of the comic’s first six pages and…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

New Amazing Spider-Man poster shows off Spidey’s arachnid shadow

In the world of superhero posters, when it rains, it pours. The poster for The Amazing Spider-Man recently showed up on Superhero Hype. As you can see from the above illustration, Andrew Garfield’s haircut casts a strange darkness. Now I really want to see Peter Parker tell The Lizard to lawyer up. Hat tip to…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

What’s the symbolic significance of this new Dark Knight Rises poster?

A new teaser image for The Dark Knight Rises was just released this afternoon. Did Bane break the Bat? Or was his melon just too damn big for his Wayne Industries Official Reproduction Bat-Hat™? I’m just going to assume that the central conflict in The Dark Knight Rises is that Bane wants a refund for…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

In 1992, Stan Lee gave Todd McFarlane and Rob Liefeld 20 minutes to invent a superhero

As part of his 1992 Comic Book Greats VHS series — which featured (deep breath) such luminaries as Todd McFarlane, Rob Liefeld, Jim Lee, Whilce Portacio, Will Eisner, the Romitas, Sergio Aragones, and Jack Davis and Harvey Kurtzman — Smiling Stan Lee asked Rob “X-Force” Liefeld and Todd “Spawn” McFarlane to invent a superhero in…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Hobo Lobo is a gorgeous, three-dimensional webcomic about the Pied Piper

Innovation isn’t always a good thing in comics; just look at the atrocity that is the motion comic. But sometimes, a little technology can have a surprising and even old-fashioned effect. Hobo Lobo of Hamelin is a witty retelling of “The Pied Piper,” and the side scrolling effect creates the impression that you’re watching the…

io9 Lauren Davis

R.I.P. Jerry Robinson, Creator of Batman’s Nemesis, the Joker

Bob Kane created Batman, and Bill Finger came up with a lot of the character’s look. But without Jerry Robinson, who died today at age 89, the Batman universe would be way less exciting. Jerry Robinson not only created everybody’s favorite psychopath, the Joker, but he had to win over Kane, who didn’t want Batman…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Rejected Green Goblin Make-Up Tests from Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man

Father and son lunch box comics make everything in this world better

What if Tintin author Hergé wrote X-Men comics?

Read a 5-page preview of Marvel Comics’ brand-new Daredevil: Season One graphic novel!

R.I.P. Joe Simon, Co-Creator of Captain America and Countless Other Heroes

New Spider-Man website reveals Peter Parker’s surprising backstory — plus awesome wallpapers!

How I Drew Firefly‘s Mal Reynolds

Great Comics Artists Who Redefined Batman

Read an exclusive sneak peek of the next issue of DC Comics’ Blue Beetle!

Why Tintin won’t transform into a giant whiskey bottle in his new Steven Spielberg movie

Wonder Woman and She-Hulk give themselves breast exams in Mozambique

Cable returns, Guillermo del Toro pens vampires, and a ton of other craziness hits stores this comic book Wednesday!

Gorgeously Painted Superhero Portraits That Belong in Tony Stark’s Private Art Gallery

Marjorie Liu tells us what’s next for the Astonishing X-Men (and how Gambit decorates his apartment)

Felicia Day and Sandeep Parikh give us an exclusive preview of the next Guild comic!

New Amazing Spider-Man poster shows off Spidey’s arachnid shadow

What’s the symbolic significance of this new Dark Knight Rises poster?

In 1992, Stan Lee gave Todd McFarlane and Rob Liefeld 20 minutes to invent a superhero

Hobo Lobo is a gorgeous, three-dimensional webcomic about the Pied Piper

R.I.P. Jerry Robinson, Creator of Batman’s Nemesis, the Joker

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