Heroes

 CA - Spoilers Lost] Adam aka Takezo Kensei gets dug up in episode four of the new Heroes season, and he's pissed. Ando, Hiro and the Haitian have one scene ...

By Meredith Woerner A new episodes of Eureka is on at 9 PM on the Sci Fi Channel. This time Carter gets stuck in a time loop on the love of his life's wedding and has to relive it over and over and over. Can't make it though the day without a little scifi? Click to AMC at 3 PM for some post-apocalypse goodness in Escape Fro...

 CA - While I commend NBC for making better web-product than the awful Heroes mailman drek, it's doing to be interesting to see how this plays out. ...

By Charlie Jane Anders It's the far-off year of 1999, and the Americans and Russians are sharing a base deep under the surface of the moon. Chet Kinsman is the chief of the American side, and he's got a plan to avert the war back on Earth. And it almost works, except that his best friend, Frank Colt, betrays him and he wi...

By Charlie Jane Anders The other great thing about YA science fiction is that people come to writing it from all sorts of angles. Some YA authors write non-speculative YA books and then drift into writing books with science-fictional plots. Some "real" SF writers, like Cory Doctorow (and Scalzi, whose new book Z...

 CA - Webisode spoilers ahead. The webisodes are structured as sort of mini-documentaries about life at the Buy More, the Best Buy-clone store where Chuck ...

 CA - No mention of which Hero it would be, but my fingers are crossed that it's not the already-geeky Hiro. Instead, why not show someone with imagination ...

By Graeme McMillan Marvel's third issue of Halo: Uprising (delayed, if rumors are to believed, because Bungie changed the direction of the next Halo game mid-production) isn't the only treat that the House of Ideas has in store for you this week - They're also expanding their Secret Invasion with three new...

 CA - Also, Nathan will be the first to see the returned Linderman. [E! Online again] And NBC released a new Heroes wallpaper showing Peter Petrelli doing his ... Heroes': On set and counting down Los Angeles Times all 2 news articles

 CA - Be glad we never got to see Hiro's dad use his superpower on Heroes, if this deleted scene from the episode "Four Months Ago" is any guide. ...

 CA - Aug 11, 2008 And here's a promo showing Hiro versus his new arch-nemesis Daphne, that's been showing during the Olympics. [Heroes Spoilers] Oh, and here's an NBC Fall TV ... Video: Lucas Makes History at 'Clone Wars' Premiere AssociatedPress

By Charlie Jane Anders One word: Heroes. With the possible exception of a few sequences in New Orleans, the NBC super-mutant show has never shown cities as dangerous or gritty places. We spend lots of time in New York in the first two seasons of the show, and it's always a perfectly nice place to hang out, no more dang...

By Graeme McMillan As is the case each and every week of each and every year, the full list of this week's releases can be found here, with the whereabouts of your local comic book store being found here. Just make sure to support your local Spider-Man while you're there; that guy really doesn't get enough atten...

By Charlie Jane Anders We finally get to see the Middleman and Wendy get physical together... but sadly, the Middleman's not himself, in this exclusive clip from tonight's episode of The Middleman on ABC Family. One of the main reasons we love The Middleman is that it's unabashedly comic-booky, and doesn't seem em...

 CA - Galactica Sitrep] Here are a few more promo pics from the Heroes third season premiere. Nice cricket bat, Maya! [Heroes Spoilers] Are you pumped for the ...

By Charlie Jane Anders Sarah Connor: Only had one episode featuring much post-Judgment Day stuff, and probably won't feature much in season two. Post-apocalyptic worlds are expensive.

By Annalee Newitz Perhaps the most often-used mindwipe plot involves people who forget chunks of their past. This is a central premise in Lost, where the Haitian's special power is to make people forget things they've seen. It's also used to comedic effect in the movie Men in Black, where the agents all have d...

By Graeme McMillan Announced at last weekend's Wizard World Chicago convention, new comic Iron Maiden One takes the real life War On Terror one further, showing the American Government reacting to a new terror attack on American soil by taking the fight to space. It's not the first comic to imagine a super-c...

By Graeme McMillan Heroes Sylar Action Figure: What says "evil brain-eating mutant" more than a paint palette filled with such beautiful colors? This is just one of a number of Heroes exclusives at the con, which also include a future Hiro figure and a glow-in-the-dark watch. Yes, I said a glow-in-the-dark...

By Charlie Jane Anders There have been a few present-day shows with heroic scientists in the past — Surface, NBC's one-year wonder about weird sea creatures, comes to mind. The Sci Fi Channel's Eureka has a whole cast of loveable scientists, who sometimes create some genuinely useful inventions in between cau...

By Charlie Jane Anders Counter-examples: Comic books come to our rescue. Mutants come off quite well in shows like Heroes and movies like the X-Men trilogy, which are either based on comic books or obviously derivative of them. Obviously, we should be using our superior posthuman intellects to boost the comic-...

By Charlie Jane Anders The first time I ever read the word "anti-hero," it was in an article about science fiction, and it's always seemed a very science fictional type of word — like anti-matter, or anti-gravity. Science fiction has its share of one-dimensional white hats, but the characters who capture our im...