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Screenshot: Adult SwimRick and Morty’s seventh season wrapped up Sunday night with “Fear No Mort,” another standout episode in what’s been one of the Adult Swim series’ strongest installments yet. But if you don’t have Adult Swim access and have been dying to see what you’ve been missing—including the new voices for Rick and Morty—here’s some good news: the show will be streaming on Max next month.Hulu’s Hellraiser Reboot Has So-So Sights to Show YouAnnounced yesterday, Rick and Morty season seven will arrive on Max…

With just one episode remaining in Rick and Morty season seven, it’s officially time to celebrate: fans need not have worried about the show’s future after the high-profile departure of co-creator and key voice actor Justin Roiland. Though every episode wasn’t solid gold, there were some serious standouts, including the season finale (we’ve seen it, but no spoilers!), which hits Adult Swim Sunday, December 17.'Even AI Rappers are Harassed by Police' | AI UnlockedAhead of episode nine, the afterworld adventure “Mort:…

A new international trailer for Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom gives us new footage. The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon expands its cast for season 2. Plus, what’s to come on Rick and Morty and Fear the Walking Dead’s final episodes. Spoilers, away!Who Wants DC’s Canceled Batgirl Movie? | New York Comic Con 2022Coyote vs. ACMEPuck News reports that after the overwhelming negative response to its decision to write off the John-Cena-starring Looney Tunes movie, Warner Bros. has made an about turn and will now let the project be…

Image: Adult SwimIt probably feels a lot longer than that, but Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland’s sci-fi comedy series Rick & Morty is turning 10 years old in December. Ahead of the show’s seventh season premiering sometime in the fall, Adult Swim held a 10-year retrospective panel for the show at San Diego Comic-Con (hosted by io9's very own Cheryl Eddy!).Inspiration Behind Immortal Longings | io9 InterviewDuring the panel, an animatic for the show’s upcoming seventh season was shown. The animatic featured Ice-T and is…

Twitter CEO Elon Musk forced blue checkmarks on dozens of celebrities and other high-profile users after they refused to pay for Twitter Blue subscriptions in the latest chapter of the blue checkmark apocalypse this weekend. However, blinded by his urge to troll and embarrass the celebrities who wouldn’t pay him $8, Musk accidentally gave blue checkmarks to several dead people.Musk randomly adorned the Twitter profiles of various deceased celebrities, including Norm Macdonald, Anthony Bourdain, Chadwick Boseman, Kobe…

Justin Roiland attends the #IMDboat at San Diego Comic-Con 2019.Photo: Rich Polk/Getty Images for IMDb (Getty Images)After losing his gigs aboard Adult Swim blockbuster Rick and Morty—which he co-created, and on which he voiced both title characters—as well as Hulu’s Solar Opposites, among other projects, Justin Roiland has seen the domestic violence charges against him dismissed.Variety and other outlets reported the news, quoting Kimberly Edds, spokeswoman for the Orange County District Attorney’s office, as saying “We…

Photo: AP/Getty/Gizmodo (Getty Images)Late Thursday night, a giant, mysterious balloon floated over the United States, apparently by way of the Pacific Ocean all the way to sensitive air space in Montana.On Friday, the Chinese government said the floating thing was not a spy balloon—honestly, fair, because the Pentagon said such an aircraft would have little intelligence gathering value—but rather a “civilian airship” meant for meteorological research that had gone way, way, way, incredibly off course.“The Chinese side…

Screenshot: Adult SwimHere’s the answer for all the Rick and Morty fans who were wondering what was going to happen to the popular Adult Swim series after it came to light that its co-creator and distinctive voice actor, Justin Roiland, had been charged with felony domestic violence: Roiland is off the show, and for that matter—he’s off Adult Swim, full stop.According to the Hollywood Reporter, Adult Swim, Cartoon Network, and Boomerang representative Mairie Moore put it very plainly: “Adult Swim has ended its association…

Twitter’s massive staff exodus this week has some users worried that the best of the platform is officially behind us. Image: Lionel Bonaventure (Getty Images)As Twitter under Elon Musk keeps orbiting the edge of a black hole that could bring about the social media platform’s inevitable demise, we can still have a little bit of fun.Self-proclaimed creative director Nathan Allebach put together a massive Google Doc that has nearly every meme template you could ever dream of using on Twitter. The 107-page Doc lists nearly…

What Twitter looked like back in 2011.Photo: Oli Scarff (Getty Images)Twitter employees left the company in droves Thursday, choosing to take a severance rather than stick around for whatever Elon Musk has in store. And that mass exodus left many Twitter users to assume the site will eventually just stop working. In that apocalyptic spirit, Twitter users were remembering all the things they loved about the site on Thursday, and I couldn’t help but think of all the hilarious tweets that have become lodged in my brain over…