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2023 has been a pretty big year for movies, but not many of this year's blockbusters have quite the hype behind them that Barbie's had. Greta Gerwig's take on Mattel's ever-popular fashion doll line caught folks' attention with its first trailer, and each new glimpse at the film teased out something that would be if...Read more...

Saturday at San Diego Comic-Con had cosplayers out in full force in their pop culture best.Read more...

As millions of people head to the theaters this weekend to see Christopher Nolan's epic Oppenheimer, a new study has been released that tracks the radioactive devastation wrought by the U.S. government's first nuclear weapons test. The Trinity" test, as it was secretly known, was the first nuclear detonation by the...Read more...

Warner Bros. may be playing fast and loose with DC movies in live-action, but over in animation, the studio makes sure to release a handful of movies every year. Sometimes these are fun one-offs (often set in another universe, adapted or others), and others are part of their own ongoing world that's technically meant...Read more...

Earlier in the week, NBCUniversal drew controversy when it suddenly up and pruned a bunch of shade trees in front of its lot. Up until then, those trees were being used by striking writers and actors as shade during their picketing, because it's been really hot in Los Angeles lately. To see them cut down felt like a...Read more...

Without Hollywood stars attending San Diego Comic-Con this year, the schedule was full of surprises. One of the biggest though had to be the inclusion of Star Wars Outlaws. The upcoming open world Star Wars game won't hit consoles or PCs until next year, we've already seen a trailer and even some gameplay. What else...Read more...

About 125 million years ago, a young mammal about the size of a possum bit down on the side of a beaked dinosaur nearly three times its size. The animals died like that, entangled and at odds with each other, a fossilized tableau of the dinosaurian-mammalian power shift that would finally come about 60 million years...Read more...

As Image Comics' Massive-Versecomics line has grown out its world over the last few years with The Dead Lucky and No/One, its lead book Radiant Black has been making some interesting swings. Recently, writer Kyle Higgins literally put the choice of who will hold the titular Radiant Black mantle-co-leads Nathan and...Read more...

Crossovers are hard. The balance of time, fandom-winking wishlists, and the need to have things still actually matter to your characters can make smashing together heroes from across a franchise a challenge-a challenge Star Trek hasn't been afraid to rise up to in the past. It's good news then, that Strange New Worlds...Read more...

Though Prime Video's animated series Invincible focuses on Steven Yeun's titular teenage superhero, the first season highlighted other, more experienced young heroes that could show Invincible the ropes. One of those characters was Atom Eve (Gillian Jacobs), who's getting a little boost to her character ahead of the...Read more...

Buster and Babs Bunny are back with the Tiny Toons crew in a revamp produced by Steven Spielberg of the filmmaker and WB Animation's original 90's series for Max coming this fall.Read more...

Thought you'd had enough Star Trek: Strange New Worlds this week? Think again. To not leave fans who didn't directly beam into San Diego Comic-Con feeling left out today, Paramount has made the surprise move to drop the latest episode of the series-its highly anticipated crossover with Star Trek: Lower Decks-for...Read more...

Not to be outdone by last year's Comic-Con announcement that Strange New Worlds would team up with Lower Decks for a crossover episode in season 2, this year the latest Trek series returned to San Diego to go one weirder: the Enterprise is getting downright lyrical.

San Diego Comic-Con has been very good to Star Trek in recent years, and even as Hollywood labor movements mean the franchise's stars are sitting out of the action in Hall H this year, there was still plenty to be excited about in Star Trek's new panel-like a long awaited first look at the return of Lower Decks.

The end may be coming for Star Trek: Discovery-in March, word came that the series will wrap up in early 2024 after its fifth season-but plenty of thrills will be packed into its final mission. Thanks to San Diego Comic-Con, we have a new trailer that offers the best glimpse of season five's treasure-hunt mystery...Read more...

Comic-Con may be more about movies and TV than comics some years, some times it's more about comics than movies and TV (especially this year). But one thing it always is, thanks to Hasbro: a nightmare on your wallet for Marvel and Star Wars fans.

The Eisner Awards awarded its 2023 winners last night at San Diego Comic-Con. While Image had the most total nominations, and DC the second-most, DC's Nightwing won all three of the categories it was recognized for: Best Continuing Series, Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team, and Best Cover Artist. One of...Read more...

It's time to showcase io9's favorite cosplays of the day at San Diego Comic-Con 2023.

After debuting in 1999, multiple Emmy winner Futurama had an on-and-off existence across Fox, the direct-to-DVD realm, and Comedy Central, with its apparent finale in 2013-until news came last year that Hulu had ordered 20 new episodes. The first 10 arrive July 24, and fans will be glad to know they were worth the...Read more...

If you're a Star Wars toy fan you probably already heard about Hasbro's latest announcement. It's going to release a mega, super, duper version of The Ghost from Star Wars Rebels and Ahsoka though its Haslab program. If 8,000 people pledge $500 to buy the ship before September 7, it'll be made. And considering as of...Read more...

AMC's The Walking Dead went through plenty of characters during its 11-season run, but the departure of Andrew Lincoln's leading man Rick Grimes was a momentous shakeup. Next to him, one of the biggest characters to leave the show alive was Danai Gurira's Michonne, and the pair eventually fell in love before Rick was...Read more...

There's a new Punisher in town, and he's a guy you've truly never heard of.

Star Wars: The High Republic may have began as a golden age for its titular government and the Jedi Order that stood beside it-but later this year things are taking a turn towards darkness, as Lucasfilm's prequel publishing initiative kicks off its third and final phase. But as dark as things will be, the future got a...Read more...

As the planet warms, mosquitoes are slowly migrating to higher places - and bringing malaria to populations not used to dealing with the potentially deadly disease.

With Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Versebeing a theatrical success and Spider-Man 2 set to hit the PlayStation 5 in October, everyone's got Spiders on the brain. Ahead of the film's release, Marvel made an effort to push specific Spider-Man variants such as Pavitr Prabhakar (Spider-Man India) and Hobie Brown...Read more...

Adult Swim's The Venture Bros. had an eventful life up to and including its sudden cancellation in 2018. For as long as gaps between seasons could get, it was just one of those shows that came to define the late night Cartoon Network block and also released at just the right moment. The years changed and the world...Read more...

The mountain of merchandise revealed at San Diego Comic-Con this year included a couple of toys we wish we could un-see. Lego's two foot-tall brick-built Chewbacca's beady eyes are already a staple of our nightmares, and is soon to be joined by a growing Groot Hasbro that makes the character look like he's being...Read more...

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It's been over two years since Mark Grayson fought his father in the season finale of Invincible season 1. In that time, fans have had one question above all others. When is season 2? Well, at San Diego Comic-Con, the team behind the incredible animated adaptation made it official. Invincible season 2 is coming on...Read more...

Netflix's adaptation of Eiichiro Oda's One Piece has been slowly teased out over the past year or so ahead of its release next month. After a grand reveal during the streamer's Tudum event in June, a new trailer at San Diego Comic-Con was released that features a more expansive look at the show.

io9 ventured into Jurassic Park at the 30th anniversary experience for the Steven Spielberg classic at San Diego Comic-Con 2023 and got face to face with a T-Rex... while sitting on an iconic toilet.

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Today, Wizards of the Coast has revealed the upcoming Doctor Who Universes Beyond Magic: The Gathering set at San Diego Comic-Con. The sneak peek includes eleven cards and shows off about twenty additional piece of art. The set will be released in October, but is currently available for preorder online at Amazon or at...Read more...

Daryl Dixon has pretty much always been the most popular character on The Walking Dead. Sure people love Rick and Michonne. They loved to hate Negan and The Governor. But Daryl has always been that perfect balance. That's why it's wild to think that finally, after all this time, he's finally got his own show and now...Read more...

It probably feels a lot longer than that, but Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland's sci-fi comedy series Rick & Morty is turning 10 years old in December. Ahead of the show's seventh season premiering sometime in the fall, Adult Swim held a 10-year retrospective panel for the show at San Diego Comic-Con (hosted by io9's...Read more...

These days, if you want original science fiction films, you usually have to turn to the on demand market. Low budget sci-fi with no name stars is happening all the time. But big budget sci-fi, in theaters, with famous actors? It just doesn't happen that much anymore without.Read more...

Square Roots, an indoor smart farm" co-owned by Elon Musk's brother Kimbal, has closed down four of its five locations and laid off most of its employees on Tuesday. The farming startup opened in 2016, producing herbs, greens, and salad mixes using artificial light in an indoor environment before distributing the...Read more...

AMC's Interview With the Vampire has finally released a teaser trailer for Season 2 of the series, following up on an absolutely stunning activation The Street of Immortality" set up at the Hilton Gaslamp Terrace for San Diego Comic-Con. The teaser was being show at the activation before it was released to the public...Read more...

There was a time, a little less than a decade ago, when owning multiple streaming services did not cost users a full, or even 1.5 times that of a cable package. It was a beautiful time of cheap entertainment that would not-or perhaps could not-last.Read more...

It's been 50 years since Star Trek: The Animated Series boldly brought the classic Enterprise crew to the second dimension-and while Trek's animated legacy certainly has ups and downs right now, it's not stopping Paramount from celebrating in a suitably animated fashion.

After landing on an asteroid nearly three years ago to scoop up a sample from its rocky surface, the OSIRIS-REx mission is finally in the homestretch. NASA is preparing for the special delivery of the rocky sample next month and the agency just pulled off the most realistic rehearsal for the big day.Read more...

Pass into the after worlds with the Good Omens cast and crew in this new featurette from Prime Video, which is one of more than a dozen exclusive behind-the-scenes videos" which will be available via Prime Video's X-Ray. If season one is a comedy about the end of the world, season two is a comedy about the beginning...Read more...

It's a Barbie world at San Diego Comic-Con 2023!Read more...

The climate crisis is raising summertime temperatures, and the sky-high heat is straining electrical grids and healthcare systems. A pilot program launched this year is working to address potential heat injuries before they happen.Read more...

Amazon is building a facility in Florida for Project Kuiper, which aims to launch a projected 3,236 satellites into Earth's low orbit. The company will build the $120 million facility at Space Florida's Launch and Landing Facility (LLF) at Kennedy Space Center.

When Paramount made the shocking decision to go back on a greenlight for season 2 and remove season 1 from its own streaming service, Prodigy suddenly and infamously became the first Star Trek show in a generation where episodes largely legally inaccessible to view in the United States. In a slight bit of good news...Read more...

Andor's second season already found itself embroiled in the early days of the WGA strike, when series showrunner Tony Gilroy faced criticism due to alleged misunderstandings that he was continuing to work on the series in spite of the WGA strike's demands of union members. Now, as Hollywood finds itself facing another...Read more...

Workers preparing land for a future rocket launch site in the United Kingdom's Shetland Islands were surprised when they stumbled on a relic of the Bronze Age: an arrangement of stones, pits and burnt bones that suggest the site was once a cremation cemetery.Read more...

The Biden administration is working on modernizing the country's oil and gas leasing program. Companies that want to drill on public lands will have to pay higher fees and will have to meet stricter requirements on where they can operate, according to a rule proposed by Department of the Interior on Thursday.Read more...

If you start gameifying app features, no matter how ostensibly beneficial, then you should expect players to abuse them. Pokemon Sleep is supposed to help people focus on achieving a better night's sleep, but players have already figured out the oldest trick in the book as a means of grabbing the app's most sought...Read more...