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Glimpse the secrets of Mass Effect’s mysterious Illusive Man!

The Illusive Man, introduced in Mass Effect 2, may have the voice of Martin Sheen, but who is he really? A new comic book, Mass Effect: Evolution, reveals his secrets — and we’ve got the first exciting preview pages. https://kotaku.com/mass-effect-2s-elusive-illusive-man-is-martin-sheen-5404715 Mass Effect: Evolution is on sale January 19, 2011 from Dark Horse Comics, but you…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Lessons that 2010 taught the entertainment industry

This was a year of hard lessons. Movie attendance and ticket sales fell. Television shows struggled and died. Book publishers faced an electronic future. And through it all, some great works of the imagination thrived. What did 2010 teach us? 1. Ruling Comic Con doesn’t guarantee a winning box office. The writing’s been on the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Hollywood contemplates killing off the “middlebrow” movie for a better blockbuster

The box office has spoken — no longer will the public fork over their wages for derivative movies like The Wolfman or Gulliver’s Travels. But does that mean better movies in 2011? Perhaps. The New York Times has an interesting round up of this year’s best performing films, paired next to the worst. It’s pretty…

Movies Meredith Woerner

5 Wolverine stories we hope Darren Aronofsky reads before making his movie

Wolverine is becoming as prolific in movies as he is in comics — and now we need some quality control. Here are five Wolverine moments from the comics that we hope Darren Aronofsky and other film-makers read before filming Logan. 5. The Punisher vs Wolverine For most heroes, a story in which they get thoroughly…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Ring out the last comic Wednesday of 2010 with Batman and Buffy

It’s the final new comics day of the year, but 2010’s saved some goodies for last. There’s new Hellboy from Mike Mignola, bad superhero antics from Ed Brubaker, and plenty more for a smashing time this Auld Lang Syne. In the new miniseries Hellboy The Sleeping And The Dead (Dark Horse), Big Red investigates a…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

The Mystery Behind Bad GPS Directions

There’s something odd about the directions your GPS spits out sometimes, isn’t there? I mean, how often can the damn thing just happen to force you to take three-mile detours through shady neighborhoods with nameless roads? [Wulffmorgenthaler]

Books & Comics Rosa Golijan

Oh, the Guilt That Comes After Every Click of the ‘Unfollow’ Button on Twitter!

No one blames you for unfollowing the guy who keeps making Justin Bieber jokes or the girl who keeps tweeting about her cat, but there’s no escaping the guilt that’ll hit you every time you unfollow someone on Twitter. Of course the real story is that you obviously unfollowed those people by accident and will…

Books & Comics Rosa Golijan

Read the entire Marvel comic based on Dune

In the 1980s, Marvel put out a comic book from Ralph Macchio and Bill Sienkiewicz, based on the David Lynch film version of Dune. Now blogger Joe Bloke has scanned and posted it, so you can experience the awesomeness. Say what you will about Lynch’s version of Dune (which Frank Herbert loved, by the way)…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

All the greatest scenes where someone talks a computer into self-destructing

Want to learn how to make a computer go foom just by talking to it? Here’s a step-by-step tutorial from the master himself, Captain Kirk. And below, we’ve got every scene where someone destroys a computer with carefully chosen words. The Prisoner, “The General” Number Six is so cool, he doesn’t even need to go…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

The Coupon Code That Never Fails

If I hadn’t already wrapped up my holiday shopping for this year, I’d try out this “coupon code” to confirm that it works. Then again, it doesn’t seem like it could possibly fail or backfire in any way, right? [xkcd]

Books & Comics Rosa Golijan

Marvel Comics unveils its next big event: “Fear Itself”

It’s been a while since we’ve seen a massive company-wide event from Marvel, but today they’ve revealed their latest game changer: “Fear Itself,” a seven-part miniseries penned by Matt Fraction that will kick off in March. Details are still slim about this series’ specifics, but a press conference with some of Marvel head honchos today…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

This Wednesday, have yourself a Merry Cthulhu Christmas

What screams holiday cheer more than Alan Moore penning Lovecraftian horror? Only a dozen shoggoths, writhing in a riptide of egg nog, intoxicated by their own tumescence. It’s comic book Wednesday. Dig it. First off, Geoff Johns bring us The Larfleeze Christmas Special (DC), a comic about the meaning of Christmas (and Christmas materialism) from…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Visions of the Dark Knight in unreleased Arkham Asylum concept art

Check out Batman’s power armor! This is just one of the pieces of concept art that artist Carlos D’Anda created for Arkham Asylum, which he’s been posting online. Click through for some awesome villain concepts, plus the Batmobile. Tons more art at the link. [Carlos D’Anda on Deviant Art, via Arkham City] Mr. Freeze Clayface…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

In this exclusive preview of Kill Shakespeare, Iago and Othello duke it out (again)

Here’s an exclusive first look at the latest issue of IDW’s Kill Shakespeare, a fantasy miniseries about the Bard’s creations taking arms against him. In this preview, things become extremely real between Othello and that meddling Iago. The issue hits stores Wednesday, December 22. Here’s the solicitation information: Kill Shakespeare #8 (of 12) Conor McCreery,…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

5 reasons why Hip Knox the Super Hypnotist is the worst superhero of all time

There are scads of godawful Golden Age superheroes, but Hip Knox the Super Hypnotist is one of the worst. Not only is his costume eye-gougingly ugly, but he also uses his powers in profoundly creepy ways. Hip Knox appeared in 1940’s Superworld Comics 3, which was published by none other than Hugo Gernsback. The art…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Greek myths you didn’t learn in school

You probably won’t recognize the ancient Greece of David McGuire’s webcomic GastroPhobia from your grade school textbooks. An exiled Amazon warrior (and single mother) and her precious son inhabit a Greece filled with dine-and-dashing ghosts, frustrated monsters, and unrepentant silliness. Yes, GastroPhobia elevates silliness to an art form. Phobia forms one half of our titular…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

The origins of Superman’s villains, illustrated in the style of Little Nemo

In 1998, Stuart Immonen drew the origins of Superman’s rogues gallery in the style of Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo in Slumberland for an issue of Secret Files. Immonen’s old-school depictions of Doomsday and Lex Luthor’s origins are an absolute hoot. [Spotted on Boing Boing]

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

OK, So Maybe Sometimes TSA Profiling Is Appropriate

Say what you will about targeting specific people in airport security lines; at some point, you just can’t ignore the signs. Although to be fair, the guy in front of Bomberman looks enough like the Chronicles of Riddick main bad guy that I’d want him checked out too. Yes, Chronicles of Riddick. [Virtual Shackles]

Books & Comics Brian Barrett

Watch every single 2000 AD cover fly by in 4 minutes

In honor of Britain’s most venerable science fiction comic magazine, a 2000 AD superfan has made a video collage of every single issue from February 1979 to December 2010. That’s over 1500 issues — a veritable thrill power overload! In this video, 7.5 covers zip by every second. Here’s the the soundtrack listing from videographer…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

A short film adaptation of Black Hole, Charles Burns’ mutant teenager comic (NSFW)

In Charles Burns’ comic Black Hole, a mysterious STD transforms teenagers into deformed aberrations. Filmmaker Rupert Sanders has filmed a live-action version of one of the graphics novel’s scenes, replete with stoned mutants and naked dog ladies. You can watch it at Sanders’ site. The video (which admittedly isn’t the newest thing but is still…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Glimpse the secrets of Mass Effect’s mysterious Illusive Man!

Lessons that 2010 taught the entertainment industry

Hollywood contemplates killing off the “middlebrow” movie for a better blockbuster

5 Wolverine stories we hope Darren Aronofsky reads before making his movie

Ring out the last comic Wednesday of 2010 with Batman and Buffy

The Mystery Behind Bad GPS Directions

Oh, the Guilt That Comes After Every Click of the ‘Unfollow’ Button on Twitter!

Read the entire Marvel comic based on Dune

All the greatest scenes where someone talks a computer into self-destructing

The Coupon Code That Never Fails

Marvel Comics unveils its next big event: “Fear Itself”

This Wednesday, have yourself a Merry Cthulhu Christmas

Visions of the Dark Knight in unreleased Arkham Asylum concept art

In this exclusive preview of Kill Shakespeare, Iago and Othello duke it out (again)

5 reasons why Hip Knox the Super Hypnotist is the worst superhero of all time

Greek myths you didn’t learn in school

The origins of Superman’s villains, illustrated in the style of Little Nemo

OK, So Maybe Sometimes TSA Profiling Is Appropriate

Watch every single 2000 AD cover fly by in 4 minutes

A short film adaptation of Black Hole, Charles Burns’ mutant teenager comic (NSFW)

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