io9 Year in Review

The Absolute Coolest Pop Culture Art of 2016

Ranking movies or TV shows is easy compared to more traditional art. There are a finite amount of scifi TV shows and movies you can watch, but pop culture art is damn near infinite. Every sliver of the internet is chock-full of it, not to mention the professional galleries, poster companies, on and on. With…

io9 Germain Lussier Dec 21

9 Fictional Disasters That Were Less Horrible Than the Reality of 2016

It’s been a pretty great year for movies, TV shows, and especially comics—but just about the worst for everything else. Political nightmares, celebrity deaths, more political nightmares… the list of horrors go on, which had the odd effect of making the year’s on-screen disasters look almost… comforting by comparison. Here are some of the nightmare…

io9 Beth Elderkin Dec 20

The Best and Worst Television Moments of 2016

This year’s genre television gave us a lot of high highs and a few very low lows. In no particular order, we’ve rounded up the year’s best moments, along with the worst. The Best of the Best: Janet begs for her life in The Good Place Let’s start with pure fun. I could have come…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Dec 20

The 20 Best Comics of 2016

It has been a frankly amazing year for comics—filled with big events, controversial moments, and an incredible variety of comics, with diversity in genre, characters, and stories giving us shelf upon shelf of amazing books to dig into week after week. It was hard to narrow them down to 20, but without further ado, here…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook Dec 19

The Best, Worst, and Most Unforgettable Movie Moments of 2016

In movies, there’s usually a moment where everything clicks. Where the image, emotion, and sound meet in perfect harmony and no matter what happens before or after, you realize you are in love with this moment. The cinema of 2016 had plenty of these moments, and we picked our 16 favorites. Note: Many of these…

Movies Germain Lussier Dec 16

13 Rumors From 2016 We Wish Had Been True

Thanks to the wonder that is the internet, every truth comes with two lies. There were tons of rumors that circulated this year about our favorite movies, shows, and comic book franchises. Of course, tons of them turned out to be total bullshit—and sometimes, that was a real disappointment. Here are some of the year’s…

io9 Beth Elderkin Dec 15

The 10 Best (and Five Worst) Genre Movies of 2016

The films the io9 team has picked as the best science fiction and genre films of 2016 are a very motley crew. This year we loved superheroes, animation, farting corpses, live action, talking animals, and more. These are films spanning different genres, disciplines, and themes, which experienced varied levels of success. Each is worthy of…

Movies Germain Lussier Dec 14

The 15 Best Moments in Comics This Year

It has been a huge year for comics—so huge, we’re trying something a little different for io9’s year in review. While next week we’ll be bringing you our favorite series of 2016, today is all about the individual moments: the panels and scenes that became our favorite moments to read in comics all year. Suffice…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook Dec 13

The 10 Best (and Five Worst) TV Shows of 2016

Unlike pretty much everything else, science fiction and fantasy had a great 2016. There were so many great shows that we had a lot of contenders for our best list, and only a few for our worst, so we ended up with twice as many TV series to acclaim as disparage. After a fair amount…

Television Katharine Trendacosta Dec 12

Catalog Of Wonders: Our Most Amazing Triviagasms Of 2009

The worlds of the fantastical are full of recurring themes and strange ideas, and we love to find patterns in the chaos. Here are our 10 greatest lists from 2009. Top 10 Greatest Mentally Ill Superheroes. You don’t have to be crazy to put on a shiny costume and battle evil – but it doesn’t…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jan 1

Top 20 TV Moments Of 2008

This year the TV was jam-packed with climactic kisses, deaths and waffles. Here’s our video roundup of our favorite moments, silly and serious, from 2008 TV. Compilation 1: Chuck – Smooch – “Chuck Versus The Ex” John Casey (Adam Baldwin) is the best part of Chuck and makes the floppy-haired nerd boy tolerable. True Blood…

Television Meredith Woerner Dec 29

The Absolute Coolest Pop Culture Art of 2016

9 Fictional Disasters That Were Less Horrible Than the Reality of 2016

The Best and Worst Television Moments of 2016

The 20 Best Comics of 2016

The Best, Worst, and Most Unforgettable Movie Moments of 2016

13 Rumors From 2016 We Wish Had Been True

The 10 Best (and Five Worst) Genre Movies of 2016

The 15 Best Moments in Comics This Year

The 10 Best (and Five Worst) TV Shows of 2016

Catalog Of Wonders: Our Most Amazing Triviagasms Of 2009

Top 20 TV Moments Of 2008

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