Everyone’s felt that sinking sense of dread as a too-full train car pulls into the station and you realize that you’re going to have to fight for your life as part of your commute. In the latest trailer for Cartoon Network’s Infinity Train, exclusively on io9 (straight out of SDCC), that feeling’s what kicks Tulip van…

During this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, Heroes in Crisis collaborators Tom King and Mitch Gerads made a point of addressing the intense wave of backlash that followed the series’ finale. To put their response simply: they’re more than aware of some of the reasons why the series threw people for a loop, but they stand…

It’s been months since we last saw Steven Universe and the Crystal Gems as they did what Pink Diamond couldn’t and convinced the Homeworld Diamonds not to the Earth. Now, though, the Gems are back in the first trailer for Steven Universe: The Movie, and things...well, they’ve changed.

Though pre-production for Warner Bros.’ long-awaited Space Jam sequel began earlier this summer, the movie’s going through a rather significant shakeup behind the scenes.

One of the byproducts of DC Universe’s Swamp Thing leaning very heavily into its horror elements is the way the series bypasses the nonstop, brightly-lit action you’d associate with a comic book show. Instead, you get a slow burn of a story that’s broken up by random bursts of alarming darkness that sneak up on you.

Earlier this year, a group of St. Louis police officers were put on administrative leave after their racist social media posts were resurfaced, prompting the police department to launch an investigation into them. Now, the head of St. Louis’ police union is calling for its members to support their fellow cops by…

When Cartoon Network announced there’d be new details about the upcoming Steven Universe movie at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, the thing most everyone immediately latched onto about the new character art was a small, but very significant update to Steven’s appearance that someone unfamiliar with the series might…

While seeing Spider-Man: Far From Home in a public screening this past weekend, two unexpected things about the people in the theater jumped out at me that elevated the filmgoing experience. The first was a moment of alarm when horrific sounds from a Midsommar screening next door began bleeding through the walls. The…

Though DC’s Joker and the Question aren’t exactly the most similar characters personality-wise, they’re both shrouded in mystery and live for their own single-minded pursuits of what they perceive to be the truth. While we’ve learned plenty about them during their exploits over the years, there are still depths to…

Because Marvel’s movies have always been relatively more grounded in reality than the comic books they’re based on (say it with me one more time: “relatively”), certain characters’ more outlandish costumes end up being somewhat toned down in their translation to the big screen in order to make them look realistic. But…

San Diego Comic-Con isn’t the only major annual genre convention that takes place in the U.S., but it’s one of the largest and most significant—both because of its history and because it’s where many big announcements from studios and publishers about new releases are made. These are only some of the reasons that…

Dora the Explorer’s influence is so large that even if you’ve never watched the series yourself (though you almost certainly have, at some point), you how Dora’s fourth wall-breaking call and response schtick works. She says something in Spanish, challenges you to say to say it, you say it, and then everyone’s quite…

The third season of Stranger Things is here and, if you’re like us, you spent most of July 4th weekend glued to your TV, desperate to know what’s next for Eleven and the crew from Hawkins, Indiana, circa 1985.

As robust as Netflix’s portfolio of live-action series is, the streaming giant’s no stranger to greenlighting animated projects. The Cuphead Show, the next big series it wants to get you hooked on, is about two cup-headed brothers who, at least in their video game, are known for getting into some rather devilish…

Unlike Spider-Man: Homecoming, which did a solid job of rethinking characters from the comics in new ways in order to make yet another Peter Parker-centric story feel fresh for the big screen, Far From Home amps things up by cleaving ever-so-slightly closer to the source material. And it does so in ways both big and…

While Stranger Things’ third season spends a lot time focusing on how its younger characters are growing up, the show also explores how their maturation is effecting the adults in their lives—particularly Jim Hopper, who has a difficult time accepting that his adopted daughter Eleven really isn’t the quiet little girl…

Despite the many heroic things he’s done over the years in Marvel’s comics, Frank Castle is, at his core, a particularly deranged vigilante whose sense of justice is so extreme that the proper superheroes he often crosses paths with see him as a more of a problem than an ally.

While everyone remembers The Goonies’ full, very ‘80s-appropriate trailer that introduces its characters and a significant chunk of its plot, there was also a very clever teaser trailer that, for a brief period of time, was shown in theaters during the months before the film’s release.

During this past Monday’s episode of Jeopardy, Debbie Kauffman, Josh Levit, and E.J. Wolborsky duked it out in a battle of the minds for a shot at becoming trivia legends, but the trio of contestants inadvertently ended up breaking some sort of unwritten nerd law when none of them could recall the latest actor to play…

The surest way to let someone know that you’re a pedantic bore is to point out that the Monster in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, is never referred to as “Frankenstein” in the novel. There are people in the world who delight in doing this, and they are a menace to society.