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Our Four-Color Picks For Vice President

With the Democratic and Republican Party conventions just a few weeks away, speculation is running wild about who each candidate is likely to pick as his running mate. But who could measure up to the impossible standards that both Obama and McCain will be looking for in their potential Vice Presidents? No real person could…

io9 Andrew Hudson Aug 10

Marvel’s Anti-Canadian Agenda Moves Forward

On the face of it, it looks like a zero sum game; Marvel strips one of their X-Men characters of his Canadian heritage, and then reveals that another long-lived mutant happens to hail from the well-behaved country to the North of the US. But when the replacement Canadian for popular hero Wolverine is official most…

io9 Graeme McMillan Aug 9

Witness The Costumed Awesome Of Comic-Con

We tried our best to bring you the highs, lows and news from last week’s Comic-Con, but there was one essential part of the experience that we’ve kept from you… until now. Under the jump, some of the best costumes from the show, courtesy of Maximum PC’s “Ultimate Geek Gallery.” It’s… a Burger King Joker,…

io9 Graeme McMillan Aug 1

Are We About To Get An X-Men Movie Reboot?

Next year sees the release of X-Men Origins: Wolverine and we already know that X-Men Origins: Magneto is in the works too. But is Fox also looking to reboot that X-Men franchise with a new movie that will introduce the first-ever students at Professor Xavier’s School For Gifted Children? A couple of clues seem to…

io9 Graeme McMillan Jul 30

Awesome Explosions, Weird Cameos, In Wolverine Trailer

Earlier this morning, we posted the trailer for X-Men Origins: Wolverine. The trailer premiered at Comic-Con on Friday, giving fans the weekend to parse every moment of Logany goodness. After the jump, our shot-by-shot breakdown, plus fan reactions to our first glimpses of Deadpool, Gambit, and Emma Frost.The door opens on Logan and Vincent Creed,…

io9 Lauren Davis Jul 28

Marvel’s X-Men Panel Uncovers New Circle of Hell at SDCC

If you remember Inferno, the giant Marvel Comics storyline that dragged Manhattan to hell in the 1980s, then you may be excited to hear that the X-Men will suffer through a sequel, called X Infernus, in which Colossus’ evil sister Magik will strut her stuff again. But will Marvel remember to include the carnivorous mailboxes…

io9 Jeff Lester Jul 25

Now X-Women Can Be Bimbos Too

One of the things that made Chris Claremont’s run on the X-Men such a groundbreaking success was his adamant refusal to let any female character play the stereotypical sexpot role no matter what. As Terry Dodson’s variant cover to this month’s 500th issue of Uncanny X-Men shows however, things can change. Don’t get me wrong;…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan Jul 10

Magneto, Nazi Hunter

Some early script reviews for the X-Men spin-off starring mutant supremacist and Nazi concentration camp survivor Magneto has shown up online, and it’s clear Magneto would be unlike any other superhero movie you’ve seen. In fact, the script by David S. Goyer (Batman Begins, Blade) is more of a dark science fiction epic involving Nazis…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Jul 3

X Hints At The Spot In New Marvel Teasers

Marvel Comics knows a good tease when it sees one, which might explain the latest, wordless image that they’ve released in support of a mystery project. All we know about this shadowy femme fatale is that she’s somehow connected to the letter X and the number 2009, but if you come under the jump, you…

io9 Graeme McMillan Jun 28

San Francisco Is America’s New Superhero Playground

San Francisco has a long and proud history of being on the forefront of popular culture – consider the Beats, the Hippies, and Web 2.0! Wait, ignore that last one. But now the City By The Bay has a new group to call its own: the Mutants. Both this week’s Uncanny X-Men and No Hero…

io9 Graeme McMillan Jun 25

Find Out How To Make A Superhero in This Week’s Comics

Here’s hoping that you’re not looking for something new from the Big Two comic publishers this week, because both DC and Marvel Comics have apparently found themselves so exhausted by their Secret Invasions and Final Crises that they’re pretty much taking the next seven days off. Not that that means that you’ll be starved for…

io9 Graeme McMillan Jun 17

Never Mind This Week’s Comics, Look At The Boxes

I swear to God, it’s absolutely not a comment on the quality of this week’s comics when I tell you that the best thing arriving in comic book stores this week is a lunch box. I promise you, it’s not like this week’s comics are bad or anything, but come on: Look at this lunchbox…

io9 Graeme McMillan Jun 3

Posthumans, Rise Up And Destroy Hollywood!

Why is Hollywood trying to poison everybody against posthumans? Whenever you see someone going beyond standard-issue humanity in movies or TV, it’s portrayed as monstrous and evil. Whether it’s cyborgs, mutants or humans hacking their bodies, Hollywood exercises its anti-posthuman agenda. Meanwhile, novels have been celebrating the customizers and reinventers for years now. What can…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders May 28

Bloody Sexy New G.I. Joe Pics

We’ve got three days’ worth of spoilers to catch you up on here. That includes new clips from J.J. Abrams’ new show Fringe and his old show Lost. Plus new set pics from the filming of G.I. Joe and Transformers 2, and a new synopsis for M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening. And it’s not morning…

Television Charlie Jane Anders May 27

Science Fiction Is The Literature Of Refugees

When you think about the archetypal science fiction story, chances are you think of the bold explorer, setting foot on a newfound planet in the name of a secure homeworld. But possibly the most pervasive narrative in science fiction is actually the story of refugees. They flee from planetary destruction, war, or just from overcrowding…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders May 16

How Superhero Movies Made Comic Books Cooler (If Not Better)

Click to viewEverybody talks about how superheroes have come to dominate movies in recent years. These days, summer is spandex season, and it’s only going to get more superpowered in the next few years. But the success of movies like Spider-Man 2, Iron Man and Batman Begins has had a huge effect on comic book…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders May 15

Marvel’s Baby Boom Just Latest In Long Line

If creator Chris Claremont gets his way, GeNext – Marvel’s new series about the children of today’s X-Men, which launched on Wednesday – is just the start of a new line of comics where we find out about the children of today’s stars of four-color-page and screen. But after numerous previous attempts, is the world…

io9 Graeme McMillan May 15

You’ll Never Guess Who Kid Magneto Hangs Out With

Today’s spoilers include an out-of-left-field revelation about the Magneto solo film. Yes, they’re actually working on that X-Men prequel, focusing on the magnetism-wielding mutant separatist leader. And there are a ton of new Lost revelations, plus two clips and a ton of photos. We’ve also gleaned also some surprising revelations (and a new clip) from…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders May 14

OMFG: Gossip Girl Creator Does X-Men?

Is Gossip Girl and Chuck creator Josh Schwartz writing an X-Men prequel? That’s the rumor going around the internet after Black Book Magazine accidentally reported something that was meant to be off the record on their website over the weekend. According to the now-retracted report, Schwartz said that the project was “a prequel of sorts”…

io9 Graeme McMillan May 7

Some Free Comics You Should Nab While You Can

Sure, so this Wednesday was kind of a weak one for comics, but that’s because everyone was saving the awesome up for tomorrow. What’s so special about tomorrow, you may ask yourself (beside it being Saturday, and therefore requiring no work for the majority of you)? Well, it’s Free Comic Book Day 2008, where stores…

io9 Graeme McMillan May 2

Our Four-Color Picks For Vice President

Marvel’s Anti-Canadian Agenda Moves Forward

Witness The Costumed Awesome Of Comic-Con

Are We About To Get An X-Men Movie Reboot?

Awesome Explosions, Weird Cameos, In Wolverine Trailer

Marvel’s X-Men Panel Uncovers New Circle of Hell at SDCC

Now X-Women Can Be Bimbos Too

Magneto, Nazi Hunter

X Hints At The Spot In New Marvel Teasers

San Francisco Is America’s New Superhero Playground

Find Out How To Make A Superhero in This Week’s Comics

Never Mind This Week’s Comics, Look At The Boxes

Posthumans, Rise Up And Destroy Hollywood!

Bloody Sexy New G.I. Joe Pics

Science Fiction Is The Literature Of Refugees

How Superhero Movies Made Comic Books Cooler (If Not Better)

Marvel’s Baby Boom Just Latest In Long Line

You’ll Never Guess Who Kid Magneto Hangs Out With

OMFG: Gossip Girl Creator Does X-Men?

Some Free Comics You Should Nab While You Can

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