Do you have lingering questions about Sony’s first foray into the Spider-Man-But-Without-Spider-Man-In-It Cinematic Universe? Lord, I hope so, because it’s time for another Retro FAQ, this time tackling the dumb, superhero-adjacent, surprise hit of 2018: Venom.
Source: io9 – Venom: The Retro FAQ
Between House of X, Powers of X, and the X-Men-focused comics that have followed those limited series, Marvel’s Dawn of X event has more than delivered on its promise of ushering in a new age of mutant ascendency that would fundamentally reshape the larger world—even as the Avengers and co. ended up plunging the world…
Source: io9 – X of Swords #1 Came Out Swinging and Got Right to the Point
As physical comic book stores reckon with the age of the novel coronavirus, there are sea changes coming to the comic book industry as we know it. But one long-lingering aspect that’s become increasingly important is digital trade, and Archie Comics’ new team-up with Comixology is bringing it to the fore again.
Source: io9 – Archie Just Made a Fascinating Step Forward for Digital Comics
Sorry, Thrones fans. Only one Stark-affiliated resurrection per series. No take-backsies.
Source: io9 – Jon Snow’s Resurrection Is Why Lady Stoneheart Never Came to Game of Thrones
When a group of former crooks reunites for a rescue mission, they’ll need to battle a fierce AI and overcome their own differences if they hope to succeed. io9 is thrilled to reveal the cover and an excerpt from Locus and British Fantasy Award-nominated short fiction writer Cassandra Khaw’s first novel, The…
Source: io9 – A Glorious Space Brawl Kicks Off Cassandra Khaw’s Sci-Fi Adventure The All-Consuming World
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Source: io9 – No Man’s Sky Might Finally Be the Endless Space Game We’ve Always Wanted, and It’s Only
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Source: io9 – No Man’s Sky Might Finally Be the Endless Space Game We’ve Always Wanted, and It’s Only
After you’ve gotten to know—and, given the nature of the Suicide Squad, potentially said goodbye to—John Cena’s Peacemaker in The Suicide Squad, you’ll get to see his very violent, peace-loving origins on HBO Max.
Source: io9 – John Cena’s Suicide Squad Hero Is Getting His Own HBO Max Show
It’s been a little while so it’s possible my memory isn’t as fresh on the subject of Middle-earth as it once was. But a thought occurred to me this weekend that I cannot shake: Did J.R.R. Tolkien name the Lord of the Rings trilogy after the bad guy?
Source: io9 – Who Is the Lord of the Rings, Exactly?
The final season of Attack on Titan is nigh. The original Jurassic Park crew would like you to exercise your constitutional rights. Syfy wants to make Santa edgy in a new animated series. Plus, a new look at Raised by Wolves’ climax, and what’s to come on The Boys.
Source: io9 – Your Game of Thrones Spinoff Wait Will Be Just a Bit Longer
The Haunting of Bly Manor’s title alone tells you all of the important basic details you need to know about Netflix’s impending follow up to The Haunting of Hill House’s story about an unsuspecting family that ends up being torn apart by the malevolent energies radiating from their home. As was the case in the…
Source: io9 – The Haunting of Bly Manor’s New Trailer Is Drowning in Creepiness
The new Candyman may be delayed until next year, but you can still get your adapted-from-Clive-Barker fix thanks to Hulu’s Books of Blood. The new horror film dropped a trailer today that hints at some of the author’s trademarks (hello, body horror!) but leaves the overall plot pretty enigmatic. Check it out!
Source: io9 – Hulu’s Adaptation of Clive Barker’s Books of Blood Looks to Contain Plenty of the Red Stuff
Our latest look at Miles Morales’ video gaming escapades last week revealed that his new PlayStation game is giving him a techno-powered foe to fight in the form of the Tinkerer. And while Spider-Man: Miles Morales’ take on the character is very different to what we’ve seen before, they do have comics (and cinematic!)…
Source: io9 – A Guide to Marvel’s Tinkerer, the Miles Morales Game’s Fixer Foe
Though Crises have become a core component of modern-day television adaptations of DC’s comics, there was a point in time where DC and Warner Bros. felt that characters like the Flash could only shine in bright, generally hopeful series like CBS’ The Flash from the ‘90s.
Source: io9 – The ’90s Flash Show’s Creators Wanted to Make a Much Darker DC Series
The Arrowverse is about to get a bit smaller. The CW has announced that Supergirl will be coming to an end after its upcoming sixth season, bringing the story of Kara Danvers (Melissa Benoist) to a close.
Source: io9 – So Long, Supergirl
Tokusatsu is, by its very nature, a practical medium. It’s people in Spandex and rubbery monster suits, it’s special effects, it’s models of cities being blown the hell up by Kaiju. But despite being a genre ripe with superheroic figures—from Super Sentai teams, to Kamen Riders, to Ultraman—it’s never really been a…
Source: io9 – The Indie Team Behind Beast Heart! Strikers Tells Us About Bringing the Tokusatsu Spirit to Comics
Planet of the Apes is a classic. Of course, I’m talking about the original (the Tim Burton remake is another “one good scene” post in the making). There was huge demand for a sequel, one that would expand the story’s world and mythos following that dynamic ending. That didn’t quite happen with Beneath the Planet of…
Source: io9 – The One Good Scene in: Beneath the Planet of the Apes
In Netflix’s Over the Moon a young girl named Fei Fei has just as much deeply-held faith in her prodigious engineering abilities as she does in her belief of the stories about the legendary moon goddess Chang’e that her mother used to tell her when she was young. Which is good, because not only is the moon goddess…
Source: io9 – Over the Moon’s New Trailer Invites You to the Pop Concert to End All Pop Concerts
Beloved gentleman thief Lupin III has been dazzling us for decades at this point, but his latest animated escapades have been teasing us from afar in the form of the utterly sumptuous-looking 3DCG animated movie that came out in Japan last year. But now, we’ve got a tiny new look at it, as gorgeous as ever, with a…
Source: io9 – Lupin the Third’s Gloriously Gorgeous CG Movie Now Has an English Dub Trailer
If a man so plugged into tech that once he literally bonded himself to his fancy supersuit knows when to Log Off, then maybe we all should too.
Source: io9 – Tony Stark Was Right About Something for Once