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Good News, Everyone: Futurama's First Art Book Is Finally on the Way

A crop of the art book cover. Image: Abrams ComicArts While fans of Futurama —who’ve learned to be very patient and eternally hopeful—await the show’s next season , premiering July 29 on Hulu , here’s a fun nugget to chew on: The Art of Futurama, an art book timed to the show’s 25th anniversary, is on the way. The book’s not arriving until October, but a first look did drop today; feast your eyes, or eye, as the case may be! Futurama’s 10-episode 12th season begins July 29 on Hulu ; it’ll be a weekly rollout, not a binge release (if you must binge, an urge the hapless Philip J. Fry himself certainly understands, all the other seasons are up on Hulu now). It will also arrive at some point internationally on Disney+. And there are two more confirmed seasons on the way after this one! Here’s what we know so far about season 12, courtesy of Hulu: “On this orbit around the sun, our occasionally heroic crew embarks on mind-bending adventures involving birthday party games to the deat
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X-Men '97 Is Ready to Battle for Everyone's Souls

Image: Marvel The moment mutantkind has been dreading has come—and after the ashes of Genosha taught our heroes to expect the worst , not even the little preparation they have is going to be enough to stem the tide. But as X-Men ‘97 sets the stage for its grand finale, whether or not the X-Men will survive the experience isn’t the question: it’s once again time to see who will capture their hearts and minds in the aftermath. Much of “Tolerance Is Extinction”—the first part of three that will wrap up X-Men ‘97's excellent debut season—this week is about setting the stage for what’s really to come as the X-Men rally and go on the assault against Bastion and his Prime Sentinels . It’s less about the moment-to-moment, but establishing the stakes of what’s really going on here as Operation Zero Tolerance steps out of the shadows and into terrifying light. For our heroes, it’s their backs against the wall, as the Summers (including Cable, no matter how much he tries to avoid his f

Airbnb Hopes You'll Survive the X-Perience of Staying at X-Men '97's Xavier Mansion

Photo: Airbnb New themed stays are coming to Airbnb with Icons, a new category of lodging featuring unique experiences inspired by major icons in music, film, television, art, sports, and more. There will be 11 experiences for 2024; the list includes Disney -inspired stays that will take you to Westchester, New York to stay in the X-Men ‘97 X-Mansion, and New Mexico to float among the clouds in Pixar’s Up house. “Icons take you inside worlds that only existed in your imagination—until now,” Brian Chesky, Airbnb co-founder and CEO, said in a press release. “As life becomes increasingly digital, we’re focused on bringing more magic into the real world. With Icons, we’ve created the most extraordinary experiences on Earth.” Icons will be featured in their own category on Airbnb’s website. Most Icons will either be free or priced under $100 per guest—but you can’t just book them like a regular Airbnb. There will be a countdown display until the time each Icon goes live, and guests c

South Korea Plan for Space Based Solar for More Than All US Nuclear Power

South Korea plans a 120 Gigawatt space based solar project which would generate more power than the US nuclear industry’s 95 gigawatt. Two Korean research institutes are designing a space solar power satellite project with the aim of providing approximately 1000 TWh of electricity to the Earth per year. The 95 gigawatts of nuclear in ... Read more

The Final Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes Trailer Includes a Major Spoiler

What could make the apes so shocked? Gif: Fox Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is just over a week away and if you are still on the fence about it, a major revelation in a new trailer might change that. Fox just released the film’s final trailer and while it’s mostly just a highlight reel of the major beats in the film—as trailers often are—we also learn something quite new and potentially shocking about the film. We won’t spoil it here, but it’s in the trailer, so watch at your own risk; below, we’ll talk about it a bit. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes | Final Trailer Yes, humans can talk in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes—presumably not all of them since you see the apes in total and utter shock at the revelation, but it happens. Why do we care? Because at the end of War for the Planet of the Apes, it was clear the Simian Flu that killed most of humanity had mutated and was now actively devolving humans. All surviving humans began to lose the ability to speak. Kingdo

3 Body Problem's VFX Designer on Creating a Sci-Fi World

Image: Netflix/Scanline VFX Netflix’s 3 Body Problem won over audiences with its sci-fi mysteries , complex characters , and startling visuals . If you’re still haunted by that Panama Canal scene —in which a ship full of people is sliced into ribbons—or the unpredictable landscapes of the VR game world, here’s a peek behind how they came together. In this VFX reel provided exclusively to io9 by the Netflix-owned Scanline VFX, you can get a look at the Panama Canal scene, as well as two memorable sequences from the VR world: the dehydration/rehydration of the “Follower” who’s constantly doomed by choices made in the game, and the scene in which the world loses gravity and everyone begins floating into the sky. Check out the video here! 3 Body Problem’s VFX Team on Creating a Sci-Fi World io9 also got a chance to chat over email with one of the two VFX supervisors at Scanline who worked on this project, Boris Schmidt. He, along with Mathew Giampa, reported to 3 Body Problem’s ov

Surge in New Nuclear Power Completions

Unit 2 of the Shin Hanul nuclear power plant in South Korea has entered commercial operation, Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) announced. The unit is the second of two APR-1400 reactors at the site, with a further two planned. Georgia Power has announced the start of commercial operations at the second of the two ... Read more

Of Course This Is How We Learn More About the Next Captain America Movie

Image: Marvel Since time immemorial, the machine of movie merchandising has revealed plot details—or at the very least got people to wildly and often incorrectly speculate about them—well before a movie’s release. So it’s perhaps fitting then, that the most we’ve seen of Captain America: Brave New World so far is not in a trailer, or a carefully curated press reveal, but a fast food tie-in nearly a year before release. That’s thanks to McDonalds, which has started promoting a new Happy Meal toy campaign that features characters from the next Captain America movie —inadvertently revealing, in chibi plush toy form, our first look at multiple characters from the film in the process. Turn back now, lest the virgin eyes of your Marvel fandom be spoiled and rendered impure by the power of Ronald McDonald : The promotion gives us a few looks at characters beyond Sam Wilson himself, like Falcon and Winter Soldier’s Danny Ramirez as Joaquin Torres , the new Falcon—or the fact that the R

6 Things We Liked About Knuckles, and 4 Things We Didn't

Image: Paramount+ Knuckles hits Paramount+ with a limited series that picks up on the red echidna’s journey to making Earth home. The third Sonic franchise film may be delayed to next year, but in the meantime you can catch up with Knuckles (Idris Elba) on his own side quest with Wade Whipple (Adam Pally). Knuckles finds himself on the run from some nefarious villains as he settles into life on Earth, all while helping Wade on his journey to find his inner warrior and take on a mysterious figure from his past at a bowling tournament. Here’s what we liked and didn’t like about the six-episode Knuckles series now streaming on Paramount+. Liked: Sonic Universe Building Image: Paramount+ The show expands the world of Sonic, setting up that Knuckles needs to find his new Earth tribe. It really establishes that this is a found family story for the younger audiences in a clever way, even if the kid-like characters happen to be voiced by the likes of Idris Elba. Hearing the action