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Microsoft’s Retail Stores Are Eight Times As Genius

You like Apple Geniuses? Penny Arcade shows an educated guess at how much you’re going to like Microsoft’s retail stores when they open right next to Apple ones this fall. Spoiler: a lot. [PA] https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-opening-shops-right-next-to-apple-stores-this-5315454

Tech News Jason Chen

Doctor Who’s Deja View Offers Unexpected Experiences

Doctor Who: Room With A Deja View hits stores this Wednesday, offering a mystery you know the solution to, a Doctor with only himself to thank, and a comic that makes playing with the medium more fun than you’d expect. The 32 page oneshot from IDW (who just launched a monthly series starring David Tennant’s…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Babbage and Lovelace Fight Crime with the Power of Math

If Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace had managed to complete the Analytical Engine and usher in an age of Victorian computing, what would they do next? According to one comic, the obvious answer is: team up and fight crime. Artist Sydney Padua has been posting The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage on her comics…

io9 Lauren Davis

Estimation, by xkcd

[xkcd via Anna Grimm]

Tech News Adam Frucci

Marvel Takes Iron Man The Mecha Route With New TV Show

Spider-Man may have gotten to be reinvented for Indian and Japanese audiences, but now it’s time for some of his fellow Marvel Superheroes to feel the lure of international franchise building with the publisher’s impressive new Marvel Anime project. https://gizmodo.com/screw-sam-raimi-this-is-the-spider-man-we-want-5163752 Announced prior to its launch at next week’s San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel Anime will see…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

ScarJo’s Secret Sexy Past Revealed In Year One Comic

If you like what you’ve seen of Scarlett Johanssen’s Black Widow from Iron Man 2 so far, Marvel has your future needs covered: Doctor Who writer Paul Cornell will be telling her back story in Black Widow: Year One. The new series, announced in yesterday’s LA Times, takes the character back in more ways than…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Kick-Ass Prepares To Kick Ass At SDCC

Fans hoping to see a trailer for the adaptation of “realistic superhero” comic Kick-Ass at San Diego will be disappointed next week… until they see the footage that director Matthew Vaughan thinks offer a better preview of the movie. Vaughan explained to MTV’s Splash Page blog that he’s wary of Kick-Ass seeming like just another…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Giant Simpsons vs. Marvel Mural in Queens, NYC

A huge mural has just been completed in Queens, NYC, depicting an epic battle for New York fought by Marvel characters done Simpsons-style. We’ve got a bunch of cool images of the cartoon mashup you’ve been wanting. Gusto, who created the mural with help from a team of artists, writes in to tell us about…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Jennifer’s Body Comic Asks: Is Megan Fox A Demon In The Sack?

Jennifer’s Body, the movie about the curvy Megan Fox who just can’t keep her demon fangs off of the boys in her High School, now has its own comic. Meet the first character, and hopefully future victim, from Jennifer’s class. Horror site Shock has posted the first pages from of the Jennifer’s Body comic, illustrated…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Life-Sized Hugh Jackman Action Figure Displays Full Mutton Chop Glory

Before it finds a home at Tussauds Hollywood, a life-size replica of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine will be on display at this year’s San Diego Comic Con, so you can spend some quality time with Logan. [Ones 2 Watch 4]

io9 Meredith Woerner

Blackest Night 101

Blackest Night, the latest DC Comics mega-event, starts today with Blackest Night #1. If you’re looking for some kickass undead superhero action but haven’t been diligently memorizing every obscure tidbit of Green Lantern continuity, here’s everything you need to know. I may just be an eternal optimist (or, you know, a fool), but Blackest Night…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

What Are The Different Lantern Corps, And What Do They Want?

Even if you’ve got a good handle on the admittedly complicated backstory to Blackest Night, that still leaves seven new Corps to keep track of. The colors themselves are actually fairly easy to remember, as they’re the same as the colors of the rainbow. That’s right – it’s time to bust out the old ROY…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

What Roles Are The Various Human Green Lanterns Going To Play?

Since the “mantle” of Green Lantern is actually a position in an intergalactic police force, it makes sense that there are so many active claimants to the title. With five human Green Lanterns currently operating (only the four Flashes come close to matching this), Blackest Night has the difficult job of giving all of them…

Books & Comics Alasdair Wilkins

How Did We Get To This Point?

You could trace the roots of Blackest Night to a whole lot of places. Obviously, there’s Green Lantern: Rebirth and Sinestro Corps War, Geoff Johns’s two previous epics that both laid important groundwork for what’s going to play out over the next eight months. There’s also “Tygers”, Alan Moore’s 1986 story from Tales of the…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Who’s Coming Back To Life?

It would probably be easier to list which dead characters aren’t coming back as Black Lanterns. If I had to guess, maybe Jor-El is safe, if only because Krypton’s explosion probably didn’t leave a body behind. Everybody else? They’re all fair game. (And honestly, I’m not all that sure about Jor-El either.) Four heroes have…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

With All That In Mind, What Books Do I Actually Need To Read?

DC Comics has gotten into a good habit in recent years in making its events fairly easy to follow, with one main book and a limited group of supporting titles. Final Crisis, for instance, was pretty much completely contained to books that actually carried the “Final Crisis” banner, and Blackest Night will be similar. Similar…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Marvel Ends It All… Or Do They?

Marvel Comics have released a teaser ad entitled “The End” – But can we work out just whose end it is based upon our knowledge of what happens afterwards? Although it doesn’t say so anywhere on the ad itself, the image is for the final issue of Jeph Loeb’s Ultimatum series, which has gleefully been…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Your Next Movie Superhero Battles Alien Invasions, Alcoholism

Looking for a science fiction movie that won’t skimp on action, adventure and politically incorrect action heroes who may have a drinking problem while they save the world? Universal may have just the thing you’re looking for with Fear Agent. The Hollywood Reporter’s Risky Business blog noted that the studio is developing Rick Remender’s Dark…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Do Androids Dream Of Word Perfect Adaptations?

Boom! Studios‘ new Philip K. Dick‘s Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? takes the classic Dick novel into the comic medium without losing one word, resulting in an experience that’s unique, rewarding and likely to make you forget Blade Runner. One of the most immediate surprises about DADOES is how true it manages to stay…

io9 Graeme McMillan

The Secret Life Of Superman’s Father Comes To Film

Superman may be viewed as cinematic damaged goods these days, but the same can’t be said about his co-creator, Joe Shuster – His mob-funded bondage art past is about to become the subject of a major motion picture. The Gotham Group has picked up the movie rights to Craig Yoe’s wonderful Secret Identity: The Fetish…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Microsoft’s Retail Stores Are Eight Times As Genius

Doctor Who’s Deja View Offers Unexpected Experiences

Babbage and Lovelace Fight Crime with the Power of Math

Estimation, by xkcd

Marvel Takes Iron Man The Mecha Route With New TV Show

ScarJo’s Secret Sexy Past Revealed In Year One Comic

Kick-Ass Prepares To Kick Ass At SDCC

Giant Simpsons vs. Marvel Mural in Queens, NYC

Jennifer’s Body Comic Asks: Is Megan Fox A Demon In The Sack?

Life-Sized Hugh Jackman Action Figure Displays Full Mutton Chop Glory

Blackest Night 101

What Are The Different Lantern Corps, And What Do They Want?

What Roles Are The Various Human Green Lanterns Going To Play?

How Did We Get To This Point?

Who’s Coming Back To Life?

With All That In Mind, What Books Do I Actually Need To Read?

Marvel Ends It All… Or Do They?

Your Next Movie Superhero Battles Alien Invasions, Alcoholism

Do Androids Dream Of Word Perfect Adaptations?

The Secret Life Of Superman’s Father Comes To Film

This Kindle Paperwhite E-Reader Now Costs About as Much as a Few Paper Books, While Amazon’s Spring Sale Price Still Holds

Lenovo Tab One Becomes an Even Better Budget Tablet Pick Below $100, Now Bundled With a Case in Amazon’s Spring Sale

Jason David Frank’s Final Movie Honors His ‘Power Rangers’ Legacy

AirPods Pro 3 Still at Their Lowest Price While Apple Gradually Pulls Back Amazon’s Spring Sale Offers

With Fire TV Stick 4K Max at 42% Off, Amazon’s Streaming Device Deals Build Momentum in the Spring Sale

The ‘Project Hail Mary’ Party Continues With a Manga Adaptation

No More Cheese Grater: The Mac Pro Is Discontinued

Even the ‘Avatar’ Fighting Game Is Disrespecting ‘Legend of Korra’

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MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

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