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- Bonanza Of Heroes Spoilers, Plus Major Transformers Scoop (5,751 views, 27 comments)
- Read The First 10 Pages of Marvel's Enders Game (5,441 views, 42 comments)
- Heroes Has Lost Its Spirit Guide and Is Growing Slime Fingers (5,082 views, 109 comments)
- Could You Live in a World Without Women? (49 comments, 3,240 views)
- What Will Remain of Us 100 Million Years After the Apocalypse? (44 comments, 3,355 views)
Cyborg recruitment
Wow, I don't know what's crazier — that there's a Japanese company called Cyberdyne, or the fact that it's creating cyborg limbs that look sort of like 1960s Cybermen. Or maybe the fact that its cyborg limbs are called "Human Assistive Limb," or HAL for short. What's next? The Brilliant Organ Replacement Group? It's like they're announcing that we're doomed. It's bad enough that Skynet already exists. More pics below the fold.
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Japan Is Creating Your Future Cyborg Overlords Right Now
Wow, I don't know what's crazier — that there's a Japanese company called Cyberdyne, or the fact that it's creating cyborg limbs that look sort of like 1960s Cybermen. Or maybe the fact that its cyborg limbs are called "Human Assistive Limb," or HAL for short. What's next? The Brilliant Organ Replacement Group? It's like they're announcing that we're doomed. It's bad enough that Skynet already exists. More pics below the fold.
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Asian superheroes
The Superheroes of the Far East Are About To Get Really Good
The Busan International Film Festival in South Korea wrapped yesterday, and everyone was buzzing about two major superhero flicks hitting Asian countries this winter. The sequel to 2003's Cicak Man from Malaysia will hit theaters in early December. And audiences eagerly anticipate Jeon Woo Chi, a female Harry Potter superhero flick budgeted at $12 million. Want to get prepped for these movies early? We've got a crash course in Eastern superheroes for you, from Super Inframan to the Spider-man-inspired Mercury Man (left), and beyond. More »
Feast 2
John Gulager Explains The Problem With Monster Peen
All hail the return of adorably quirky monster movie creator John Gulager, whose Feast was a Project Greenlight winner. He's teamed up with the original Feast writers to bring us Feast II: Sloppy Seconds. We sat down with Gulager and grilled him about all the monster barf, blood, and puss that leaks out of Feast 2, and found out the biggest set problem was the monster's jean sausage. Gulager told us how to keep those monster peens in place while filming in a mildly conservative town, plus an exclusive clip of the town's meth head. More »
space porn
NASA's Messenger spacecraft zoomed past Mercury yesterday, sending back a set of luminous images that look like they were taken by celebrated nature photographer Ansel Adams in space. Here you can see the bright pocks left by recent meteors crashing to the planet's surface, opening up complicated webs of cracks. Want to see those cracks close up?
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The Glowing, Shattered Face of Mercury
NASA's Messenger spacecraft zoomed past Mercury yesterday, sending back a set of luminous images that look like they were taken by celebrated nature photographer Ansel Adams in space. Here you can see the bright pocks left by recent meteors crashing to the planet's surface, opening up complicated webs of cracks. Want to see those cracks close up?
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Heroes Isn't Derivative, Claims Executive Producer
Whatever you do, don't suggest that Heroes is derivative to the show's executive producer Jeph Loeb. On the latest edition of comic book creator interview podcast WordBalloon, he shrugs off comparisons to Watchmen ("Oh, like nothing's ever ended with the end of the world ever") and The Fly ("Have you ever seen the Wolfman? Okay, well, he got transformated too! I don't understand"). "People like to see things where they want to see things. Why don't they just stop and just enjoy the show?" he said, continuing with "When you go outside and there's a flower, do you sit there and go 'Hey, that reminds me of Flowers for Algernon'? No, it's a flower, relax." Maybe he should go and talk to the other writers on the show who have said that The Fly "definitely" inspired the Suresh scenes. [WordBalloon]
Whatever you do, don't suggest that Heroes is derivative to the show's executive producer Jeph Loeb. On the latest edition of comic book creator interview podcast WordBalloon, he shrugs off comparisons to Watchmen ("Oh, like nothing's ever ended with the end of the world ever") and The Fly ("Have you ever seen the Wolfman? Okay, well, he got transformated too! I don't understand"). "People like to see things where they want to see things. Why don't they just stop and just enjoy the show?" he said, continuing with "When you go outside and there's a flower, do you sit there and go 'Hey, that reminds me of Flowers for Algernon'? No, it's a flower, relax." Maybe he should go and talk to the other writers on the show who have said that The Fly "definitely" inspired the Suresh scenes. [WordBalloon]
Afternoon reading
Ian Fleming in Space, Courtesy of Paul Cornell and Pyr Books
Want to read an awesome alternate history, space-colony spy story from Doctor Who scribe and comic book writer Paul Cornell? Pyr Books publisher Lou Anders posted a free preview of Cornell's story "Catherine Drewe" online last week — the tale serves as the opener to short story collection Fast Forward 2, which Anders calls "all original science fiction stories — no fantasy or slipstream." Cornell has a great introduction to the story's main character, whom he describes as somewhat similar to Ian Fleming's greatest creation, James Bond. More »
Scifi halloween costume show
Show Us Your Best (or Most Humiliating) Scifi Halloween Costumes
It's Halloween month, and we've already regaled you with instructions on how to make some of the coolest scifi costumes around. Now it's your turn to show and tell us about your best — or worst, or most humiliating — scifi costume moments. We've created an io9 Flickr pool called io9 Scifi Halloween Costume Show where you can post pictures documenting your triumphs and shame. We'll pick the most intriguing ones and post them throughout the month of October as we count down to Halloween. Please stick to pictures of yourself, please! No submitting shots of your frenemies. All the io9 editors have pledged to post pictures of their own costumes, so get ready for Graeme in tights. [io9 Scifi Halloween Costume Show Flickr Pool]
Kick Ass
Kick Ass Set Pics Show Costumed Kiddies Ready To Kill
The Toronto filming is underway for director Matthew Vaughn’s Kick Ass comic-to-movie adaptation. No, Dave Lizewski didn't go bald for the role: That's a stunt man (we're assuming). We've got a few closer looks behind the scenes for you which show the Red Mist (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) and Dave (Aaron Johnson) cruising in Mist's red ride. More »
No Heroics
Move Over Batman — Here's A Real Superhero Bad Boy
You know what today's superheroes need? They need to be more edgy and "bad"... as D-list superhero The Hotness explains in this awesome clip from the latest episode of British superhero sitcom No Heroics. Watching the Hotness try to explain that he's a good guy, but he's also a bad boy — but he's really good at being bad — or something — is refreshing after watching a whole hour of Dark Peter on last night's Heroes. In this episode, the Hotness has decided to try and boost his crappy image by going to a superheroic strip bar full of Wonder Womans. More »
twitter
Twitter Me This: Our Favorite Fake Twitter Feeds
Is fake-Twittering the new fan fiction? We think so! It’s pithy, witty, and boundless in possibilities. Lately it seems like these micro-compositions are omnipresent: Pretty much every Battlestar Galactica, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Batman character has a feed. But we’ve come to learn that some imitations are more potent than others. We've got 10 fab fauxs you need in your life, in no particular order. More »
Chuck recap
This Week's Chuck Takes One Step Forward Then Two Back
Last night's Chuck seemed to have it all: A quiet new status quo for the series, new headquarters, Melinda Clarke camping it up as a Russian vamp and even some convincing character development. So why did it frustrate everyone by ending up back where it started? Spoilers await for those who followed Charlie's advice and have the show on TiVo. More »
Ratings roundup
Will Ahsoka Dance At Heroes And Chuck's Funerals?
These continue to be brutal times for our television heroes — Last night's episodes of Heroes and Chuck both lost a million viewers from the previous week's installments. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles saw a slight uptick, from 5.3 million viewers to 5.6 million, but still came in fourth for its timeslot. What's the good news? Last Friday, Sanctuary and Star Wars: Clone Wars both bowed to impressive ratings — for cable TV, anyway. More »
Exclusive
Post-apocalyptic ice age flick Wynter Dark, about how a reversal of Earth's magnetic polarity destroys the climate, stole my heart when I discovered it would contain wars involving polar bears — and not the wussy Golden Compass kind. In newly-released concept art (above) you can see how the tech-challenged future world has had to resort to carrier pigeons for communication, which is fantastic. Wynter Dark Creative Director Pete Ford talked to io9 about the warring kingdoms of our future, and indulged my many bear-centric inquiries.
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In Wynter Dark, New Yorkers Resort To Polar Bear Weaponry
Post-apocalyptic ice age flick Wynter Dark, about how a reversal of Earth's magnetic polarity destroys the climate, stole my heart when I discovered it would contain wars involving polar bears — and not the wussy Golden Compass kind. In newly-released concept art (above) you can see how the tech-challenged future world has had to resort to carrier pigeons for communication, which is fantastic. Wynter Dark Creative Director Pete Ford talked to io9 about the warring kingdoms of our future, and indulged my many bear-centric inquiries.
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triviagasm
Could You Live in a World Without Women?
With the Y: The Last Man film coming in 2010, we’ll soon get a big-screen treatment of Brian K. Vaughan’s world without men. All-female societies are not uncommon in science fiction, from culturally advanced utopias to post-apocalyptic sex comedies. Far less common are societies where men live, either by choice or circumstance, with few or no women. How do these societies come about? How do they perpetuate themselves without the opposite sex? And what happens to men when the women disappear from their lives? More »
Tomorrow news
Early Edition Gets Disasterous Makeover In Tomorrow News
Journalistic integrity is preparing to take another knock with the announcement that Korean movie producer Mirovision is planning to adapt 1980s comic Tomorrow News into a movie. With a plot that includes strange radio transmissions and advance warning of upcoming disasters, it's like Heroes meets White Noise - or perhaps just a big-budget downbeat version of mid-90s TV show Early Edition. More »
Ultraforce
