Comics

Chinese Cartoonist Responds to Foxconn Suicides

While we’ve all noticed the great deal of international media attention regarding the Foxconn suicides, the local press offers a response all their own in this Chinese cartoonist’s take on the tragedies. https://gizmodo.com/undercover-report-from-foxconns-hell-factory-5542527 According to MIC Gadget, this is how the image translates: This comic shows the high building of Foxconn with a signboard put…

Books & Comics Rosa Golijan

DC’s Wednesday Comics collection: Beautiful, and bigger than a five-year old

Masterminded by art director Mark Chiarello, Wednesday Comics was a wonderful experiment in weekly serialization, with stories by some of comics’ brightest stars. But I dare you to find a shelf big enough for the stunning hardcover edition.

io9 Marc Bernardin

Design secrets of Iron Man 2: Suitcase armor, Whiplash and crazy improv!

Iron Man 2 is a design marvel, from the realization of Tony Stark’s suitcase armor to the high-powered, heavy-metal set pieces. We talked to production designer J. Michael Riva and conceptual illustrators Ryan Meinerding and Daren Dochterman about this film. Oh, and if you still haven’t seen Iron Man 2, then there are spoilers in…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Fringe shows us its very own alternate DC Universe

The Fringe season finale took us back to the slightly alternate universe – but this time it wasn’t just the characters and Earth’s history that were different. Meet Red Lantern and Red Arrow, two flagship heroes of Earth-2’s DC Universe. The above image, taken from a mock Red Lantern/Red Arrow cover recently released by DC,…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

The Network Killer

Is it a surprise that horror stories like this keep someone who wishes she could code everything in life awake in the wee hours of the night? [XKCD] https://gizmodo.com/if-only-everything-in-life-could-be-coded-5541115

Books & Comics Rosa Golijan

Tim Burton Coming Back To Mai, The Psychic Girl

Mai, The Psychic Girl was the first full-length manga series to be published in English, and for a whole generation of us it was the first manga we fell in love with. Can Tim Burton do it justice? Burton has been trying to direct a Mai film for years now — he was reportedly on…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Your Last Chance To Discover One Of Comics’ Gone-Too-Soon Masterpieces

There are so many top-notch stalwart Vertigo series that it’s hard to keep track of them all, and it’s always a bummer when they’re canceled. G. Willow Wilson’s Air falls into both of these camps: it’s awesome and going under. I feel a tad sheepish recommending a book after its been canceled, but if you…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

The Periodic Table of Superpowers

Have you ever wanted to be able to codify any particular hero’s abilities in a short-but-mystifying series of letters? What luck! Mad genius Chris Sims has made it all possible with this Rosetta Stone of superpowers. [ComicsAlliance]

io9 Marc Bernardin

Fan-made Short Film Inspired by The Nobody

Jeff Lemire’s stellar debut graphic novel, The Nobody — about an invisible man who agitates a small town — gets adapted as a short, moody little film. [Robot6]

Movies Marc Bernardin

FoxTrot Reveals Revolutionary “iPhone 12gv”

Here it is, the inevitable FoxTrot Sunday comic on the iPhone 4G. I really can’t stress how eager I am to get my hands on the iPhone 12gv. The massive bulk is mesmerizing. Head to FoxTrot for the rest. [FoxTrot]

Tech News Jack Loftus

Hot Nerds Reading Comics: A Blog For Supes And Dreamboats

The best Tumblrs tend to do one shtick well. Hot Nerds Reading Comics does two shticks well – eye candy and capes. Baby, whisper sweet nothings at my Man-Thing. My issue of Man-Thing, that is. [via Warren Ellis’ Twitter]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Exclusive Preview: Patton Oswalt Does A Firefly Comic

Float Out is actor-comedian-bon vivant Patton Oswalt’s comic book tribute to Serenity’s throttle jockey, Hoban Washburne. It hits stores on June 2 — but here are the first few pages to whet your Firefly appetite. Here’s the official, kinda spoilery synopsis from Dark Horse Comics: Always ready with a brilliant aerial maneuver and a terrible…

Books & Comics Marc Bernardin

The Fatal Flaw With Portal on Macs

Macs may have supported the two-button mouse well before Portal came free with Steam on Mac, but that makes this comic no bit less funny. [googpeg via digg] https://gizmodo.com/real-gaming-for-macs-is-finally-here-with-steam-5537409

Tech News Mark Wilson

The Future Of Star Wars Is Coming To An End

Dark Horse’s Star Wars: Legacy comic has been surprisingly great, telling the story of a distant descendant of Luke Skywalker who’s neither Jedi nor Sith. And now Dark Horse is pulling the plug. To quote Luke’s daddy, “Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!” We’ve been enjoying the hell out of Star Wars: Legacy since it launched, despite some confusing soap-opera…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Monsters, Mutants, and Mashups by Dan Hipp

The artist behind comics awesomeness like The Amazing Joy Buzzards and Gyakushu is dropping all sorts of technicolor science on his blog — including Frankenstein’s Monster, a shredded Wolverine, and Batman-James Bond amalgams.

io9 Marc Bernardin

“F” Is For “Fastball Special” – The ABCs Of Wolverine

Joe The Barbarian illustrator Sean Gordon Murphy has constructed an alphabet chart perfect for teaching the lil’ amnesiac antiheroes in your brood their ABCs. Remember: without reading, you can’t be the best at what you do! [Sean Gordon Murphy’s Deviantart via Metafilter]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Where’s My Goddamn Strikeforce: Morituri TV Show?

In 1986, Marvel began publishing a scifi comic about humanity’s last, desperate stand against alien invaders that was full of tragedy, valor, and sacrifice. It could be a successor to BSG’s legacy. Why has it all but vanished from memory? Created by writer Peter B. Gillis and artist Brent Anderson, Strikeforce: Morituri took place late…

io9 Marc Bernardin

Things That Will Never Be: Jeff Smith’s Bone, Animated by Hand

While a feature adaptation of Jeff Smith’s wonderful, enduring graphic odyssey is in the works, it’ll be an entirely computer-generated affair — and it won’t have half the hand-hewn charm of this fan-created short. Taking the audio from TellTale’s Bone videogame, animator Andrew Kaiko created this Flash-animated short — based on Smith’s story of three…

io9 Marc Bernardin

8 Websites You Need To Stop Building

We only need to read that Jim has chopsticks lodged down his throat once, so why are there dozens of different, ugly, irritating ways for him to announce it? Here are the websites we’ve got enough of: Reprinted with permission from Matthew Inman aka “The Oatmeal,” a former web designer turned comic artist. You can…

Books & Comics Matthew Inman

Bid Adieu To Norman Osborn And His Brillo-Pad Haircut

Marvel wraps up Norman Osborn’s Dark Reign in earnest tomorrow with end of Siege and its few remaining Avengers titles. Marvel’s Heroic Age is upon us, but there’s no Howard The Duck title on the stands. I call fowl! What Siege-related titles are lined up this week? First off, we have Siege 4 – the…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Chinese Cartoonist Responds to Foxconn Suicides

DC’s Wednesday Comics collection: Beautiful, and bigger than a five-year old

Design secrets of Iron Man 2: Suitcase armor, Whiplash and crazy improv!

Fringe shows us its very own alternate DC Universe

The Network Killer

Tim Burton Coming Back To Mai, The Psychic Girl

Your Last Chance To Discover One Of Comics’ Gone-Too-Soon Masterpieces

The Periodic Table of Superpowers

Fan-made Short Film Inspired by The Nobody

FoxTrot Reveals Revolutionary “iPhone 12gv”

Hot Nerds Reading Comics: A Blog For Supes And Dreamboats

Exclusive Preview: Patton Oswalt Does A Firefly Comic

The Fatal Flaw With Portal on Macs

The Future Of Star Wars Is Coming To An End

Monsters, Mutants, and Mashups by Dan Hipp

“F” Is For “Fastball Special” – The ABCs Of Wolverine

Where’s My Goddamn Strikeforce: Morituri TV Show?

Things That Will Never Be: Jeff Smith’s Bone, Animated by Hand

8 Websites You Need To Stop Building

Bid Adieu To Norman Osborn And His Brillo-Pad Haircut

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‘Supergirl’ Will Feature David Corenswet’s Superman in a Sort of Big Brother Role

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‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ Stinks

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