Get ready for The Amazing Spider-Man 3 and 4!

We have no idea if The Amazing Spider-Man 2 will be good — but we do know that there will be at least two more movies before Peter Parker is too old to pull off "angsty teen." That's right Sony has announced that they are making Amazing 3 and 4.

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Lest We Forget, Brown Kids Absolutely Deserve More Brown Superheroes

As great as Andrew Garfield was in The Amazing Spider-Man, do you guys remember that major Twitter petition to get Community actor-cum-rapper Childish Gambino Donald Glover in as Peter Parker? Even Stan Lee was down with the idea. Even as the idea of canon superheroes widens to fit more archetypes of girls and women…

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Meet the world's greatest—and girliest—webcomic warrior

The protagonist of Madéleine Flores' webcomic Help Us! Great Warrior knows that just because you're good at swinging a sword, that doesn't mean that you have to put away your teddy bears and bows. She protects her village with the help of snack foods, magic, and some really cute outfits.

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Man of Steel: Worth It Just For The Super-Powered Combat

There's really only one reason to see the new Superman movie: to watch people with superhuman powers pounding the crap out of each other, flying into each other and burninating each other with heat vision. Luckily, The Man of Steel more than delivers on the super-punching front, even as it muddles through in other…

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10 Superhero Reboots That Actually Stuck Around

Superheroes are constantly getting rebooted, to the point where movie trailers should use a computer's "crash and restart" noise instead of a record scratch. Tomorrow, Superman gets a whole new origin in Man of Steel. Sometimes reboots are a flash in the pan, sometimes they actually take. Here are 10 superhero reboots…

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12 Weirdest Moments From Superman: The Movie

There's a brand new movie retelling Superman's origins, coming to theaters this weekend. But we'll always have a warm place in our hearts for Superman: The Movie... even though bits of it are hella bizarre. Here are the 12 weirdest moments from Superman's first ever movie.

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Superheroes in Bondage, as Photographed by Richard Kadrey [NSFW]

Lela Gwenn had a dream: cosplay as some of her favorite heroes, and then get tied up and photographed by Sandman Slim author Richard Kadrey. The model and writer raised over $4000 on Kickstarter to make it happen, and here's your first look at the results, exclusively on io9.

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