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Tech NewsDoomsday Clocks, Particle Physics Quandaries, and a Talking Mummy: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week
Give yourself a pat on the back, folks, because we’ve almost made it through the first month of 2020. For those of you still grinding hard at your New Year’s resolutions, congratulations! As for those of you who’ve already flung yourself hurdling off the wagon, you’re still just as valid and lovely and tomorrow’s always … Continued
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EartherClimate ChangeDoomsday Is Now Just 100 Seconds Away
We are 100 seconds to midnight, which means doomsday has never been closer. Deadass. On Thursday, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the clock 20 seconds closer to midnight aka the end of civilization. The last move forward was 2018 when the world reached two minutes to midnight amid threats of climate change, nuclear … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsDoctor Manhattan Just Redefined Superman in Doomsday Clock
Geoff Johns’ Doomsday Clock opus has been quietly ticking along at its own pace independent of the rest of DC’s other comics, but a revelation Doctor Manhattan makes in this week’s issue #10 has a significant impact on virtually each and every other character that exists within the publisher’s comics multiverse. As far as plot … Continued
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EartherClimate ChangeThe Doomsday Clock Is Just Two Minutes From Midnight, Again
Last year brought the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’s famed Doomsday Clock as close as it’s ever been to midnight. This year’s update will test if you’re a glass half full or empty person. The clock is at the same daunting precipice it was last year thanks to the “two simultaneous existential threats” of climate … Continued
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The Best and Worst Comics Moments of 2018
One of the upsides to 2018 feeling like a year that was never going to end was that it seemed as if there was an eternity to read comics instead of, say, giving into the existential dread lurking within you. With that in mind, let’s look back at some of the best and worst comics … Continued
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io9MoviesThis Fan Trailer Turns DC’s Silly Crossover Into a Delightful Movie
Doctor Manhattan vs. Superman. Why? I don’t know. Honestly, I don’t care. There’s some knowledge I just don’t need in my life. But I do know that this fan adaptation of Doomsday Clock is great. What happens when multiverses collide? Well, they have to try to kill each other, naturally. In this trailer by creator … Continued
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Geoff Johns Talks About Three Jokers, the Shazam Comic, and His Stargirl TV Show
As DC Comics has transmogrified over the last 20 years, Geoff Johns has been at the very center of—or, at least, extremely close to—the engines of change. His title is different nowadays, but he’s still going to be working on deepening interpretations of the company’s iconic characters. The former president and chief creative officer of … Continued
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io9Television
These Watchmen Set Pictures Seemingly Reveal the Fate of a Major Comic Character
Damon Lindelof recently penned a lengthy letter to fans explaining that his Watchmen television show for HBO would be set in a world that exists after the events of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ beloved comic series. Now, an early set photo might have revealed just how different that world is. Set pictures sent to … Continued
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Watchmen or DC Comics: Which Reality Has Had It Worse?
One universe saw New York ravaged by a giant tentacled psychic horror, the other has beacons of hope like Superman and Wonder Woman. That might make you think the question that Adrian Veidt, Watchmen’s Ozymandias, has on his mind in this week’s issue of Doomsday Clock has an easy answer, but as with so many … Continued
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io9Books & Comics
Doomsday Clock Reveals Exactly Who’s Been Wearing Rorschach’s Mask and Why
Doomsday Clock is the slowest of slow burns. Its biggest mysteries—like just where Dr. Manhattan is in the DC Universe, or how the hell a mime can mime himself a lethal weapon—still remain barely explored, let alone solved. But it’s finally started to lift the lid on one of its most intriguing additions: the new … Continued
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io9Books & Comics
DC Comics Tries to Capitalize on Announcement of Impending Apocalyptic Disaster, Regrets It Immediately [Updated]
Today, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced that for the first time since 1953, the Doomsday Clock—its representation of how close the world is to a catastrophic, civilization-ending disaster—would be moved to two minutes to midnight. DC Comics decided that was a grand way to promote its current event series, named Doomsday Clock, until … Continued
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io9Books & Comics
Doomsday Clock‘s Biggest Mystery Has Been Solved
You might have thought the greatest mystery of DC Comics’ Doomsday Clock had something to do with Doctor Manhattan’s whereabouts or the new Rorschach’s secret identity. It doesn’t. The wildest thing happening in the DC/Watchmen crossover is all about the supervillains Marionette and the Mime. Since they recently arrived in DC’s universe, Rorschach and Ozymandias … Continued
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EartherClimate ChangeDoomsday Has Never Been Closer
If you’re the type that looks forward to the day this lil’ experiment called human civilization comes to an end, then I have some good news for you. The soothsayers at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists have bumped the doomsday clock 30 second closer to midnight. We’re now two minutes from the end of … Continued
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The Mime Is Doomsday Clock‘s Most Intriguing Mystery of All
DC is banking on readers being curious as to just how Batman, Superman, and Watchmen characters like Dr. Manhattan and Rorschach will ultimately collide over the course of Doomsday Clock. But the most fascinating part of the series so far hasn’t actually been any of its heroes—it’s a mime. A criminal mime. In Doomsday Clock’s … Continued
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io9Books & Comics
DC’s Doomsday Clock Boldly Pushes the Watchmen Into an Even Grimmer, More Nihilistic Future
The first issue of Doomsday Clock is here, and with it a chance to explore the world Watchmen left behind—and how it will eventually tie into the wider DC Comics cosmos. While in some ways it’s unsurprising that this world is even grimmer than we left it, there have still been some major changes since … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsDC’s Doomsday Clock Will Be Released Three Minutes Early to Remind Us How Close We Are to the Apocalypse
Traditionally, comics become available at midnight, be it digitally or in the case of big events, through special launch parties. DC’s upcoming Watchmen-infused event Doomsday Clock will arrive slightly earlier than usual… although for a bit of a grim reason. Written by Geoff Johns and with art from Gary Frank, Doomsday Clock will begin to … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy & Security
Report: South Korea May Ask US to Re-Deploy Its Nuclear Weapons
Tensions on the Korean peninsula between North Korea and virtually every other country in the region continue to escalate in the wake of its possible detonation of a hydrogen bomb this weekend. Now the situation seems poised to escalate even further, with South Korean Defense Minister Song Young-moo investigating the possibility of having the US … Continued
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This Doomsday Clock Cover Is Almost Certainly Alan Moore’s Worst Nightmare
Alan Moore’s distaste for DC’s ownership of his and Dave Gibbons’ work on Watchmen is widely known at this point—and considering the fact that neither Moore or Gibbons were contacted for the characters’ use in Rebirth, that distaste is still very real today. This new comic cover is unlikely to help smooth things over for … Continued
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io9Books & Comics
Superman and Watchmen’s Dr. Manhattan Will Clash in Doomsday Clock
At the start of the year, Geoff Johns teased his return to comics writing with a simple teaser image: The glowering brow of Watchmen’s Dr. Manhattan. Now we know just what he’s up to, and it has huge ramifications for the DC comics universe. Revealed through Blastr today, Johns is teaming up with Gary Frank … Continued
