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I’m exhausted. Years of reviewing laptops and I still eavesdrop on Best Buy employees telling customers to either buy very obscure Windows laptops or to “just go with the MacBook and Surface.” Part of the problem is competition. Hold on now, no reason to start sharpening pitchforks–I’m all for having options,…Read more...

Elon Musk has denied having an affair with Nicole Shanahan, the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, according to overnight tweets from the Tesla CEO. The allegations of a relationship were made in the Wall Street Journal on Sunday night and supposedly explains why Brin has been recently divesting from anything to…Read more...

House of the Dragon wowed us earlier in the week with its new trailer setting the stage for a Game of Thrones prequel so full of dragons, civil war, and political intrigue that, well, you’d be convinced it’s a Game of Thrones prequel. But while we had to wait compared to folks who were at Comic-Con yesterday, we’ve…Read more...

After last week’s stunning, mind-bending episode, Westworld could have taken it easy this week. But after its lackluster third season, the show has returned to its roots of heady, thoughtful science fiction, and clearly has no intention of pulling up and retreating. While tonight’s episode isn’t as thrilling as last…Read more...

While Dragon Ball’s Goku may have saved the universe a few times, he was also an absentee father. Sure, he was dead some of the time, but that still left his son Gohan to be partially raised and trained by Goku’s former foe Piccolo. But the two bonded—and that bond will be retested when the new Dragon Ball Super:…Read more...

Just like how great power comes great responsibility, a brand new trailer for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever comes with toy companies’ ability to finally show off merchandise for it without spoiling anything. But this gallery of Hasbro’s Marvel Legends action figures and the traditional legion of Funko Pops might hold…Read more...

This weekend’s San Diego Comic-Con has been nothing short of big, as it likely intended to be as we continue the pandemic age.

After the Marvel Theatrical panel on Saturday night, Marvel sent out a press release to a bunch of press-release-hungry journalists. On this press release was a cast list for Secret Invasion, a show about shape-shifting aliens, which included Regé-Jean Page’s name. Marvel quickly realized the error after publications…Read more...

Back in 2020, Boom Studios had the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers team up with the Ninja Turtles in the aptly named Mighty Morphin Power Rangers/TMNT. As written by Ryan Parrott and drawn by Simone di Meo and Walter Baiamonte, the crossover did exactly what the title implies, with the highlight of the whole thing being…Read more...

The cast and creative team for Archer put on their annual Indigo Ballroom panel for the upcoming season 13 on FXX. While we got a preview for future events, the panel focused on the absence of beloved cast member Jessica Walter.Read more...

It’s the last day of San Diego Comic-Con, and sadly, our cosplay slideshow. Days one and two had fans go all out with their creativity, and the final day was no exception. Without further ado, here’s the final batch of photos we’ve put together for your viewing pleasure.

The Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con made it clear that the Marvel Cinematic Universe is about to get big in more ways than one. With the newly branded Multiverse Saga laying down nearly all its cards, it’s easy to sometimes forget that in the comics, things are just as tumultuous on page as they are on screen.…Read more...

You may recall that a few months back, DC Comics decided to go ahead and kill off the Justice League as the inciting incident for their big event of the year, Dark Crisis. Over the last several months, DC’s been quick to assure us that there wouldn’t be a big multiversal reboot, but since the thing has “Crisis” in the…Read more...

With Evil’s third season now in its second half, members of the cast assembled at San Diego Comic-Con 2022 to chat about the current state of our favorite spooky spiritual investigators—plus offer a sneak peek at what’s to come as we slither toward the season finale on Paramount+.Read more...

Every now and then, Teen Titans Go loves to bring in a real life celebrity who will either gleefully bully the titular heroes, or let said heroes get viciously bullied by the special guest star. (Assuming they don’t team up to fight a musical dragon or some such.) Next on the list of guest celebrities is Zack Snyder,…Read more...

Keanu Reeves has spent the last near decade moving from different parts of the entertainment industry. Both The Matrix Resurrections and Cyberpunk 2077 proved that he could hack it in games, he’s had a really good streak of action and comedy films with John Wick and Always Be My Maybe, and he co-wrote the BOOM graphic…Read more...

We’ve known Chucky would return since late last year—welcome but not entirely surprising news, considering that the series (creator Don Mancini’s continuation of the campy, creepy Child’s Play movies) was a huge hit in its first season. We got a very brief teaser earlier in July announcing the October 5 premiere date,…Read more...

The Orville: New Horizon’s San Diego Comic-Con panel unfortunately didn’t bring much in the way of news—still no word on whether or not the show will be getting a fourth season, for instance—but series creator, writer, producer, and star Seth MacFarlane did drop one promising nugget: the Hulu series will soon also be…Read more...

Marvel Studios just tore the roof off of San Diego Comic-Con’s Hall H, taking to the con for the first time properly since 2019 with a boatload of new looks at what’s to come on screens big and small for the MCU. io9 was there to cover it all—but in case you need a reminder of what just went down, here’s what you need…Read more...

Just how could the MCU continue to expand the world of Wakanda after the tragic passing of Chadwick Boseman? We just got a taste, as Marvel took to San Diego Comic-Con to give us a look at Ryan Coogler’s daunting Black Panther sequel.

Although we don’t have any details on cast or crew, we do have a few new dates to report for the long-anticipated new Fantastic Four film. At the Marvel theatrical panel during San Diego Comic-Con it was revealed that Fantastic Four will release in theaters on November 8, 2024.Read more...

It’s easy to forget that four years ago James Gunn was fired from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. The whole situation was messy—but as a result, when the filmmaker took the stage in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con 2022 to reveal the first footage from the long-awaited, highly anticipated sequel, it was more than just a…Read more...

After Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is the next on the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s docket, so it should be no surprise the studio had something to show from the movie at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. Unfortunately, while it’s not coming online, we got to see it—which means we got…Read more...

Marvel’s She-Hulk is set to premiere later this year, and is aiming to take a more comedic tone than the other Disney+ properties, the trailers billing the new show as a kind of sitcom with some superheroing thrown in. Tatiana Maslany stars as Jennifer Walters, Bruce Banner’s cousin, an attorney who just wants to do…Read more...

Kevin Feige, after teasing Marvel fans during Cinema Con, has officially revealed Phase 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe at San Diego Comic-Con. We’ve known that something big was in the pipeline for a while, so while this isn’t a surprise, it’s always interesting to see the full plan laid out and speculate about…Read more...

This time, this place three years ago, Kevin Feige and like, 50 of his most famous friends helped lift the lid on Marvel’s plans for phase 4 at one of the wildest panels to grace San Diego Comic-Con’s Hall H. Now he’s back. What could he bring with him? Come join us and find out.

For All Mankind might look like a typical show, but it absolutely is not. It’s set in an alternate reality that looks like ours but has one big fork in the road that changed everything after it. In 1969, the United States lost the Space Race to the Soviet Union. And so at the start of the second and third seasons, to…Read more...

There have been numerous casting announcements for the Netflix adaption of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman leading up to San Diego Comic Con, and with each new addition the hype has only grown. From Gwendoline Christie’s Satan to Mark Hamil as Merv Pumpkinhead, and Thomas Sturridge’s haunting Dream/Morpheus, the cast is…Read more...

The television remake of Interview With The Vampire by the late Anne Rice has a trailer and a release date. Taking a pretty clear departure from the source material, and doing its best to stand out from the atmospheric 1994 film starring Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, and Kirsten Dunst, the new show looks like a sexy…Read more...

Star Trek’s been making some pretty bold moves in its current ascendant era of shows, but it’s just announced it’s pulling one of its boldest, most bonkers moves so far: Lower Decks is teaming up with Strange New Worlds.

When we last left the crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos on Lower Decks, things were looking a little rough for them. Captain Freeman got arrested for a war crime she didn’t commit—and now, as we head into season 3, Mariner, Boimler, and the gang have got to find a way to prove her innocence... while pissing off as little of…Read more...

We knew they were coming back, but at last, they’re here! Just revealed at San Diego Comic-Con in today’s Star Trek Universe panel, Paramount+ dropped a brand new series of posters for the third and final season of Picard, giving us our first proper look at the return of the legendary crew of The Next Generation.

You can’t be too surprised, considering the fact that Shudder previously made the excellent Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror, but the streamer’s latest documentary series looks like it’ll be a must-watch. Executive produced by Bryan Fuller (Hannibal), Queer for Fear examines the horror genre through an LGBTQ+…Read more...

This weekend is San Diego Comic-Con, and that means more than just big comics and TV/film-related news. It means that it’s time for the comic industry to celebrate itself via the yearly Eisner Awards, and from the sound of things, the awards show thankfully went fairly smoothly this year...as long as you ignore most…Read more...

The past few years we’ve had to make do with putting on a little show ourselves when it comes to geeky con cosplay, but at last: San Diego Comic-Con is back in person this year, and so are the wonderful costumes! After scouring the floor on for some great cosplay, we managed to find even more for day two!

Black Adam is DC’s next big superhero release so there was no way a star as big and connected to his fans as Dwayne Johnson was not going to show up at San Diego Comic-Con and bring something special. What he brought, besides a good chunk of his cast, was a brand new trailer for the October 21 release that dug a bit…Read more...

Billy Batson is back and this time, he’s got his whole family with him. Shazam: Fury of the Gods is the sequel to 2019's Shazam and once again it’s directed by David F. Sandberg and starring Zachary Levi and Asher Angel. Angel is Billy, a young boy who gets the powers of a superhero (Levi) when he says the word…Read more...

The Last Ronin spent the last year wowing TMNT fans with its tender, yet brutally action-packed alt-reality story, following one last surviving member of the Hamato Clan in a future New York ruled by the descendants of the Foot. It may have come to a pretty definitive end by its fifth and final issue, but the world it…Read more...

The days until Amazon’s Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power series finally releases on September 2 get shorter and shorter. After a trailer earlier in the month, Amazon brought the show to San Diego Comic-Con so its creators, Patrick McKay and J.D. Payne, could talk about their grand plans for the Prime Video series…Read more...

Last year, Nickelodeon announced their plans to continue the beloved universe of Avatar: The Last Airbender. With the titular Avatar Studios at the helm, we learned last month that the studio’s first outing would be not one, but three feature films set in the universe of Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko’s martial…Read more...

She-Hulk flyers distributed at San Diego Comic-Con over the past two days show Jennifer Walters (played by Tatiana Maslany) and the tagline “Super Heroes Need A Super Lawyer,” on top, with a hotline and a quippy “I go green, so you get green,” just underneath. If you call the hotline (which is 1-877-743-4855) you…Read more...

The World Health Organization has declared a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) over the current global outbreak of monkeypox. The declaration comes amid an ongoing rise in cases from dozens of countries this year, including over 2,000 cases reported in the United States.Read more...

A Gremlins prequel has been in the works for HBO Max since before the streamer was even called HBO Max—and now we’ve finally got eyes on it! The cast and crew of the Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai animated series took to the stage at San Diego Comic-Con 2022 to share more.

If The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power does its job, it might make Peter Jackson’s movies look like Mad Max. In a way. The upcoming show took over Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday to yes, debut a new trailer, but also explain a bit more of what the show is about, and what the intentions of its creators…Read more...

John Wick movies come out with a reliable amount of frequency and impressively realized violence, and the first look at the fourth film will make you wish it was March 2023. The preview dropped in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con when leading man Keanu Reeves showed up at a panel featuring returning Wick director Chad…Read more...

Cryptocurrency is rife with scams—we all know this to be true. Everybody’s heard the horror stories: “rug pulls,” “pump and dumps,” the typical “investment” ploy that leaves your bank account high and dry. But there’s a new type of fraud going around and it sounds pretty goddamn weird: it’s called “pig butchering”…Read more...

Texas is on a roll—an energy use roll, that is. This week, amid sweltering temperatures, the power demand on the state’s grid soared to an all-time high on Wednesday, reaching 80,000 megawatts of demand. This marks the eleventh time this demand record has been broken this year alone.Read more...

Welcome back to io9's Toy Aisle: our regular weekly round up of the toys and collectibles worthy of a spot on your shelves. San Diego Comic-Con is in full swing this week, and even with all of the convention’s exclusive toys and collectibles already revealed, we’ve still got Hasbro debuting its new Dungeons & Dragons…Read more...

Maybe it’s because there’s another Spider-Man out there with just an immense amount of style (it’s Miles Morales, obviously), but Peter Parker has been playing catch-up in the visuals department for a while. In the Marvel Animation panel at San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel Studios revealed a first look at Spider-Man…Read more...

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