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VIZ Manga Comic Reader

The VIZ Manga app for the iPad has been out since November, but they’re currently having an introductory sale on all Vol. 1s (first issue in all their series) for $1. Plusses The underlying comic-reading software isn’t based on ComiXology, like Marvel’s app is, but looks similar and works pretty well. On the iPad 2,…

Reviews Jason Chen

This Is the Problem With Scientists

Scientists are great and all, what with their discovery of new and wonderful things and unlocking the secrets of our universe, etc. YAWN. The thing is, can’t they just let some stuff better off alone? Like, gross stuff? [xkcd]

Books & Comics Brian Barrett

What if Harry Potter was an adult burnout? Mike Carey reveals the warped literary universe of The Unwritten

What if J.K. Rowling based Harry Potter on a real boy, who grew up to be a surly young man jaded by the spotlight? And what if this crabby adult then discovered that his childhood adventures weren’t entirely fictional? Such is the (extremely condensed) premise of Mike Carey and Peter Gross’ comic book The Unwritten,…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Read Free Digital Marvel Comics at Starbucks

Starbucks will allow their customers to read Marvel digital comics at their stores for free. They will not give you free downloads, however. Just access to them while you are having a coffee. I hope the catalog is bigger than the sad one available in their iPad app. Not that I care about it a…

Books & Comics Jesus Diaz

How Love Is Like an App Store

How is an App Store like love? Let me count the ways. Or rather, let this comic from Diesel Sweeties do it. Although I would add that given enough time, they both run up a huge bill. [DieselSweeties]

Books & Comics Brian Barrett

“Director’s Cut” of the 1990 Captain America movie coming in May

Just in time for the release of Marvel’s huge new Captain America film, you’re going to get a new expanded edition of the much-reviled 1990 version, director Albert Pyun tells io9. Pyun’s Captain America movie was supposed to be a relatively big-budget feature, until the financial backers pulled out a few days into shooting. As…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

A brief history of Lex Luthor’s cake-stealing antics

In a recent issue of Superman, it’s revealed that Lex Luthor was reprimanded as a child for stealing 40 cakes. What you may not know is that the supervillain has had a long, terrible history of pastry larceny. In last week’s Superman #709, we learn via flashback that a juvenile delinquent Lex Luthor once absconded…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

10 Ridiculous Wonder Woman Storylines the Television Show Should Totally Include

NBC’s new Wonder Woman TV series is making a good effort to be ridiculous. There’s the costume. There’s the insane pilot script. But creator David E. Kelley will have to raise his game to be as nuts as the comics. Seriously, we feel as though Kelley is trying to make Wonder Woman more campy and…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

In Wednesday’s comics, Spider-Man joins the Fantastic Four and Alan Moore wraps up his Cthulhu tale

In your friendly neighborhood comic shop this week, the Fantastic Four rebrand themselves and Alan Moore concludes his psychosexual Lovecraft tale — in short, comicdom’s first family and the diametric opposite of good, clean family fun. Read on! First Issues First off, Jonathan Hickman and Steve Epting transform the Fantastic Four into the Future Foundation…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Avengers family tree explains how Iron Man is connected to Squirrel Girl

Joe Stone is a man on a mission. After designing family trees for the X-Men and Fantastic Four, he’s drafted this diagram for the Avengers, which highlights the sexual exploits Aunt May and the Avengers’ venerable manservant Jarvis.* https://gizmodo.com/x-men-family-tree-breaks-down-mutant-mating-habits-with-5735116 https://gizmodo.com/fantastic-four-family-tree-teaches-that-all-roads-lead-5765591 *Hey, cut them some slack. Almost nobody ages in the Marvel Universe, so they’re among…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Victorian robot porn “Chester 5000 XYV” is a naughty tale of true romance

Jess Fink’s webcomic Chester 5000 XYV is a pornographic sexbot tale with a twist: a Victorian gentleman builds a robot to satisfy his sexually voracious wife, but wife and well-endowed automaton fall deeply (and, of course, passionately) in love. A while back, we profiled Fink’s Star Trek: The Next Generation comics – starring a very…

io9 Lauren Davis

How would you invent the Fantastic Four from scratch?

What if you were the artist of the first issue of Fantastic Four and had to design the characters with no knowledge other than the fact that they’re somewhat mutated astronauts? Warren Ellis posed this question to designers in his Whitechapel Forums, and the artists came up with teams completely different from Reed Richards and…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Halftone for iPhone

If you’re into the app game even a little bit, you probably have something for fancying up the photos you take with your phone. There’s a wealth of options. But Halftone does something a bit different—it dresses your photos up as surprisingly faithful reproductions of comic strips of yore. What is it? Halftone, $1, iPhone.…

Books & Comics Kyle VanHemert

First look at Thor’s Frost Giants?

A ton of magazine scans have turned up online, featuring our first look at several of the characters we’ll be meeting in Thor. Including Ray Stevenson as Volstagg, Joshua Dallas as Fandrall, Renee Russo as Freya… and a Frost Giant! Check out some of the coolest images here. The rest are available over at ComingSoon.net.…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Where did Batman go to college?

According to the editors of Yale Alumni Magazine — which has devoted three separate articles to the topic, in an attempt to court fictional alumnus ducats — Bruce Wayne received a law degree from Yale. Comic historian Chip Kidd lays out the single panel of evidence… It is a detail of the last panel of…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

It’s Jack the Ripper vs. the 11th Doctor in this sneak peek of the Doctor Who comic

IDW Publishing has given us an exclusive preview of the latest issue of their Doctor Who comic series. In this excerpt, the TARDIS travels to 19th century London, where a not-quite-human Jack the Ripper is on the prowl. Here’s the solicitation information for Doctor Who #2, which hits stores tomorrow. You can read the preview…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

The Return of Xombi, the 1990s Comic That Made Alan Moore Freak Out

Xombi was one of the coolest comic books of the 1990s, and it wasn’t hard to see why each cover sported an adoring blurb by Alan Moore. And now this weird horror/superhero title is coming back on Wednesday. We’ve got a sneak peek at the first seven pages of Xombi #1, plus an in-depth interview…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Jeff Smith’s alternate universe-hopping art thief comic RASL may get the movie treatment

According to Deadline, Sherlock Holmes franchise producer Lionel Wigram has purchased the rights to Bone cartoonist Jeff Smith’s pandimensional art thief comic RASL — Smith himself has signed on as an executive producer. In Smith’s highly idiosyncratic comic, Rasl is an art thief who uses fantastic technology to “drift” between parallel dimensions and steal an…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

A sneak peek at Temeraire author Naomi Novik’s first foray into superhero manga

We’ve loved Naomi Novik’s Temeraire series, an alternate history where the Napoleonic Wars fought with dragons. Novik continues to work on Temeraire books, but she’s also taken some time out to create a manga-style superhero high school comic book series. We’ve got 9 exclusive pages from the first volume, “Will Supervillains Be On The Final?”…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Weta Workshop’s steampunk battle on Venus deserves to be a whole movie

Ready your man-melters and infallible aether oscillators! It’s time to crush the Venusian heathens once and for all. Weta Workshop released a new animated promo for Dr. Grordbort’s amazing steampunk rayguns and other super-advanced tools of space Empire. We already loved Greg Broadmore’s bizarre worldbuilding and fantastic toys, but after watching this video we’re now…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

VIZ Manga Comic Reader

This Is the Problem With Scientists

What if Harry Potter was an adult burnout? Mike Carey reveals the warped literary universe of The Unwritten

Read Free Digital Marvel Comics at Starbucks

How Love Is Like an App Store

“Director’s Cut” of the 1990 Captain America movie coming in May

A brief history of Lex Luthor’s cake-stealing antics

10 Ridiculous Wonder Woman Storylines the Television Show Should Totally Include

In Wednesday’s comics, Spider-Man joins the Fantastic Four and Alan Moore wraps up his Cthulhu tale

Avengers family tree explains how Iron Man is connected to Squirrel Girl

Victorian robot porn “Chester 5000 XYV” is a naughty tale of true romance

How would you invent the Fantastic Four from scratch?

Halftone for iPhone

First look at Thor’s Frost Giants?

Where did Batman go to college?

It’s Jack the Ripper vs. the 11th Doctor in this sneak peek of the Doctor Who comic

The Return of Xombi, the 1990s Comic That Made Alan Moore Freak Out

Jeff Smith’s alternate universe-hopping art thief comic RASL may get the movie treatment

A sneak peek at Temeraire author Naomi Novik’s first foray into superhero manga

Weta Workshop’s steampunk battle on Venus deserves to be a whole movie

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