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superhero movies

How Superhero Movies Made Comic Books Cooler (If Not Better)

Everybody talks about how superheroes have come to dominate movies in recent years. These days, summer is spandex season, and it's only going to get more superpowered in the next few years. But the success of movies like Spider-Man 2, Iron Man and Batman Begins has had a huge effect on comic book publishers as well, making mainstream comics cooler... if not always better. Here's a list of 9 ways the superhero movie boom has changed comics. More »

9:00 AM on Thu May 15 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
5,598 views, 55 comments

genext

Marvel's Baby Boom Just Latest In Long Line

If creator Chris Claremont gets his way, GeNext - Marvel's new series about the children of today's X-Men, which launched on Wednesday - is just the start of a new line of comics where we find out about the children of today's stars of four-color-page and screen. But after numerous previous attempts, is the world ready for another set of adamantium-diaper-filled comics? More »

7:30 AM on Thu May 15 2008
By Graeme McMillan
1,443 views, 14 comments

morning spoilers

You'll Never Guess Who Kid Magneto Hangs Out With

Today's spoilers include an out-of-left-field revelation about the Magneto solo film. Yes, they're actually working on that X-Men prequel, focusing on the magnetism-wielding mutant separatist leader. And there are a ton of new Lost revelations, plus two clips and a ton of photos. We've also gleaned also some surprising revelations (and a new clip) from Smallville. And finally, we've dug up four new pictures from Saturday's Spectacular Spider-Man, including a first look at the Black Cat, voiced by Tricia Helfer. Spoiler alert! More »

6:00 AM on Wed May 14 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
6,449 views, 41 comments

Latest by Trai_Dep: I could spend a half day going over that abomination and how much it broke from the mythos or was just plain bad. That said, Kelsey Grammer was an inspired choice for Beast. :) more »

x-men

OMFG: Gossip Girl Creator Does X-Men?

Is Gossip Girl and Chuck creator Josh Schwartz writing an X-Men prequel? That's the rumor going around the internet after Black Book Magazine accidentally reported something that was meant to be off the record on their website over the weekend. More »

10:01 AM on Wed May 7 2008
By Graeme McMillan
1,578 views, 23 comments

Latest by Aethyr: @Balius: The problem is that Gossip Girl (the show) has veered wildly off the path of the books. That could anger some purists. more »

more new comics we crave

Some Free Comics You Should Nab While You Can

Sure, so this Wednesday was kind of a weak one for comics, but that's because everyone was saving the awesome up for tomorrow. What's so special about tomorrow, you may ask yourself (beside it being Saturday, and therefore requiring no work for the majority of you)? Well, it's Free Comic Book Day 2008, where stores across the nation are giving away a lot of free books, many of which are worth your attention. Want to know which ones? Click that "more" button. More »

7:00 AM on Fri May 2 2008
By Graeme McMillan
6,502 views, 11 comments

Latest by mr_bigglesworth: ok, just misread the part where the word saturday is used, i'm gonna assume its on saturday then, sorry about my previous post. more »

evolution

7 Totally AWESOME Theories Of Evolution From Scifi

If Ben Stein really wants to convince us all that evolution is a crock, he doesn't need to make a documentary and play semantic games with Richard Dawkins. He just has to sit us down and make us watch this episode of Star Trek: Voyager, where traveling at super-warp speed causes Janeway and Paris to super-evolve into lizards (and make lizard babies.) But it's not just Voyager — science fiction provides a ton of evolution theories that make intelligent design seem downright sensible. More »

5:02 PM on Wed Apr 30 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
7,603 views, 57 comments

Latest by catcubed: @Charlie Jane Anders actually while mutation may not always be positive, evolution -- ie., natural selection -- is always an improvement. It's just that what us humans consider an improvement and what Streptococcus considers an improvement are very different things. more »

x-men

And Now . . . The Children Of The Children Of The Atom

Ever wondered what would happen if the X-Men all got slightly more incestual as a group? The answer awaits you in the first issue of next month's new series GeNext, where classic X-Men writer Chris Claremont gets to fantasize about what would happen if the members of Marvel's mutant favorite franchise got "busy" with each other, as the kids would say. And this one can genuinely label itself as "Because the fans demanded it!" More »

6:30 AM on Fri Apr 25 2008
By Graeme McMillan
4,827 views, 26 comments

Latest by LicenseFarm: Sigh. So bored. The last interesting thing that Marvel did with the mutants was Peter Milligan & Mike Allred's X-Force cum X-Statix, and Grant Morrison's run on New X-Men, a gift to the franchise's future which Marvel promptly more »

military scifi

The U.S. Military is Looking for a Few Good X-Men

The U.S. military is famous for getting inspiration from science fiction — witness the not-very-aptly-named Star Wars defense system — and now they're turning to comic books too. Unfortunately, they're learning from the bad guys. DARPA has just announced a new project called the Magneto Hydrodynamic Explosive Munition (MAHEM), named after Magneto, one of the supreme bad guys from X-Men. And it's exactly the sort of weapon the magnetic-fields-manipulating Magneto would use: a jet of molten metal propelled by magnetic fields into its target. Could it really work? More »

4:04 PM on Thu Apr 24 2008
By Annalee Newitz
1,873 views, 27 comments

Latest by RAHfanboy: @braak: "Yeah, all it required instead was turning the US from the world's largest creditor to its largest debtor." You blame that on SDI? I would blame pandering politicians on both sides of the aisle for spending our way into more »

summer movies

When Did Summer Become Science Fiction Overkill Season?

This summer will be the biggest "blockbuster" movie season ever, with no fewer than 23 would-be smash hits coming out between early May and mid-August. It didn't used to be this way. Back in the mists of time — like, say, in the late 1990s — there were only one or two big science fiction movies per summer, and only a handful of huge summer movies total. But summer movies have gotten bigger and more franchise-driven in the past decade, and science fiction is at the center of that transformation. We chart the rise of summer-movie gridlock, with a list of every summer scifi hit since 1980. More »

10:09 AM on Wed Apr 16 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
4,401 views, 62 comments

Latest by oldandintheway: I'm confused..just what is the purpose of this?? more »

failures of evolution

Meet The X-Men Who Should Be X-ed Out

They've been feared and hated since they first appeared 45 years ago, but for certain members of the Uncanny X-Men, there's another reaction that's much more suitable: Outright derision. Sure, not every character that the creators of Marvel's comic, movie, cartoon and cake franchise can have the staying power and fanbase of Wolverine or Kitty Pryde, but some of the mutants that have belonged to the team in its various incarnations have just been plain embarrassing. It's time that we celebrate some of the most useless X-Men of all time. More »

7:30 AM on Mon Apr 7 2008
By Graeme McMillan
7,733 views, 62 comments

Latest by Porkspam: Uhm I'd take off angel and put on cable or any of those x-force/new mutant charecters. Complete garbage more »

x-men

X-Men To Move West, Have Sex

Marvel Comics plans to publish a much less depressing version of the X-Men, if news reports coming from this weekend's WizardWorld: Los Angeles are anything to go by. Following the culmination of literally decades of angst, death and depression culminating in the accidental shooting of Professor Xavier and its aftermath, July will see the start of a new era for the characters. Writers Warren Ellis and Matt Fraction are joining the writing team, the team is moving to San Francisco, and... well, there some sex, apparently. More »

8:40 AM on Mon Mar 17 2008
By Graeme McMillan
6,162 views, 27 comments

Latest by zenpoet: If its not Rob Liefeld, I won't read it! *gets struck down by God* more »

new comics we crave

Monsters, Browncoats Invade This Week's Comic Stories

Okay, so this week's comics don't have Sarah Michelle Gellar doing the [SPOILER] with a hot young [SPOILER], but that doesn't mean Joss Whedon fans need to be sad. In fact, it's time for River Tam fans to rejoice. Plus, the decline and fall of Frankenstein's Monster is something, right...? Yeah, I know. You'd rather have Buffster in the buff. But take a look at tomorrow's haul anyway. You just may be surprised. More »

9:00 AM on Tue Mar 11 2008
By Graeme McMillan
3,753 views, 13 comments

superhero movie

If This Movie Makes A Fortune, Humans Are Doomed

The Weinstein Company released the final movie poster for Superhero Movie today, and it features Pamela Anderson's boobs, Leslie Nielsen wearing a "With Great Power Comes Hot Bitches" sweater, and not one but two penis jokes (check out Storm's lightning and Dragonfly's popcorn). We're all for parodying superheroes and science fiction, but when it devolves into beer hat jokes and shots of people being embarrassed that their underwear is on display, we doth protest. It would be easy to discount this film if Meet The Spartans hadn't just made $18 million in its opening weekend. If this one grosses anywhere near that, we fear for the fate of our species.

9:33 AM on Fri Feb 29 2008
By Kevin Kelly
4,820 views, 56 comments

Latest by outsdr: I don't see the penises. more »

new comics we crave

Ignore This Week's Comics, Think Of The Glowing Evil Toys

I know: You're sick of comics after last weekend's Wondercon coverage. Who can blame you? If it wasn't comics this, it was comics that, and after three days of that, who'd want to read about the comics shipping to stores tomorrow? There may be Bastards that Krash and Doctors called Who, but it's just even more comics, right? That's why I'm going to start off by telling you about the greatest non-comic item that you might find in your local comic book store on Wednesday. See? Now you're tempted. More »

9:00 AM on Tue Feb 26 2008
By Graeme McMillan
1,544 views, 20 comments

Latest by PriorMarcus: @Hart: Thanks for the post, it's nice to see someone still understands that you can have an opinion which is negative and not want to see the artist burn at the same time. more »

wolverine

Are Wolverine's Extra-Long Claws Overcompensating?

Wolverine looks much the same as always, judging from the first official pic from the Wolverine movie... except that the killer mutant's claws are way longer. Those things look 18 inches long, or more. Could the X-Men spinoff movie be overcompensating for something? Also, star Hugh Jackman dropped some more hints about the film. More »

9:40 AM on Thu Feb 14 2008
By Kevin Kelly
5,301 views, 48 comments

super-romance

Super-Heroes Need Love More Than The Rest Of Us

You may be sick of the flowers and Hallmark cards of Valentine's Day already, but spare a thought for those whose careers make romance an all-but-impossible dream. I'm talking, of course, about superheroes, those brave souls who have to make the choice between getting their rocks off or defeating yet another alien invasion. Yes, they have secret identities, but as many of us already know, the choice to spend at least part of your day wearing outlandish tight-fighting costumes only complicates relationships even if you keep that part of your life secret. With that in mind, let's celebrate the three super-heroes who are the unluckiest in love. More »

8:00 AM on Thu Feb 14 2008
By Graeme McMillan
1,747 views, 15 comments

Latest by sweetea: Then there's Kyle Rayner, Green Lantern. His first girlfriend upon becoming a superhero was killed and stuffed in a refrigerator. His second girlfriend Donna Troy later was killed in battle (but she got better). Third girlfriend and daughter of another more »

How Superhero Movies Made Comic Books Cooler (If Not Better)

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