Inverse - 💥 San Diego Comic-Con returns

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July 21 2022

Can you feel something buzzing in the air? Perhaps it is the hubbub of excitement we feel at the return of Comic-Con. After two years without, we're thrilled to be attending this year's Comic-Con in San Diego. Kicking off today, it promises to be a long weekend full of fantastic surprises and thrills.

Regardless of whether you can attend Comic-Con in person, follow our reporter Eric Francisco and editor Jake Kleinman on Twitter and the site for the latest dispatches fresh off the conference floor. And keep scrolling for more news on NASA's Moon ambitions and our review of Jordan Peele's latest movie, Nope.

What's New

SDCC	Entertainment

San Diego Comic-Con returns

Inverse will be on the ground to check out the festivities and interview some of your favorite TV, movie, comic, and game creators. But whether you’ll be in San Diego with us or keeping tabs from home, you definitely want to know what the biggest panels are and when news about your favorite franchises will break.

Here are the most buzzworthy panels to keep up with at Comic-Con this year.

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Space

Innovation

The Artemis I Moon mission finally has a launch window

Celebrate the end of summer with a lunar event like no other... maybe.

The Artemis I mission is supposed to fly a Space Launch System rocket with an uncrewed Orion capsule on top toward the Moon, conduct a series of in-flight tests, and then go through the trial of re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere to see if Orion can survive the descent.

Finally, after a slew of delays, NASA claims the Artemis I mission will likely launch on one of these dates later this year.

Look	Ancient History

Researchers uncover a lost city

Writing this week in the journal Antiquity, researchers describe the remains of a stone fortress they argue may be the lost city Natounia.

Known only from inscriptions on a handful of drachma coins, Natounia appeared to be an important place connected to Parthian rulers. In the days when the Silk Road crisscrossed through Europe and Asia, the powerful Parthian Empire played a pivotal role in connecting the East to the West.

Review:

Movies

Entertainment

Jordan Peele strikes again with Nope

Brimming with tension but laced with gaiety so as to never feel hostile, Nope is an operatic and sweeping thriller that celebrates cinema and simultaneously condemns it as an industry built on obscured violence.

In musing Hollywood’s paradoxical business of creating fantasies by killing dreams, Peele along the way places overdue focus on the offscreen heroes who make the motion pictures possible. Is it the scariest movie you’ll ever see? Nope. Is it unforgettable? Yup.

Read our review

Save the date

Gaming

Our most anticipated games for the rest of 2022

With the recent delay of Starfield, Redfall, and Breath of the Wild 2, some of the year’s biggest games suddenly became next year’s biggest games.

But don’t despair. The next few months of 2022 are still bringing plenty of intriguing games, even if Zelda fans are still nursing their wounds.

See the full list

Meanwhile...

A black hole is speeding through space at several million miles per hour

Here's how to see the summer's best meteor shower

'Dune Part 2' production announcement contains a brilliant Easter egg

The rise and fall of a canceled Star Wars TikTok puppet

On this day in history: The world's lowest recorded temperature, −128.6 °F (−89.2 °C), was measured at Vostok Station, Antarctica.

Song of the day: "Anthem," by Michael Abels

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