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io9Kid Cosmic‘s Craig McCracken Is Over Superheroes Trying to Be Cool
After decades of working in the animation industry and creating series like The Powerpuff Girls and Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends, Craig McCracken’s latest project, Kid Cosmic, crash-lands onto Netflix at a time when the world’s anything but hurting for even more streaming service superhero content. And yet, everything about Kid Cosmic is a sort … Continued
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io9MoviesNetflix Is Turning the Redwall Books Into an Animated Movie and Series
In what might come as a very pleasant surprise to people who were looking forward to Disney’s now-cancelled adaptation of Mouse Guard, Netflix and Penguin Random House are stepping up to the plate to bring a new spin on Brian Jacques’ Redwall series into the world. Today, Netflix announced that it’s tapped Over the Garden Wall … Continued
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io9MoviesStrawberry Mansion Dreams of Mental Taxation Without Explanation
Writing-directing duo Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley’s Strawberry Mansion imagines a world where the time people spend fast asleep isn’t truly their own. Instead, it’s the latest frontier where both businesses and the government see money-making opportunities that people usually only have to deal with in the waking world. While there are a fair number … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsWandaVision‘s Showrunner Says ‘True Emotional Catharsis’ Is on the Way
Between WandaVision’s most recent pair of episodes, the show’s gone from being a kooky, slightly mysterious love letter to television itself (with some superheroes thrown in) to Marvel’s bold attempt at synthesizing some of the Scarlet Witch and the Vision’s most convoluted, iconic arcs from the comics into something new within the MCU. WandaVision’s well-rounded … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsWandaVision Just Pulled Out a Few Shockingly Big Guns
WandaVision hit a major turning point last week when it showed the state of the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe outside of Westview, New Jersey by looking back on how Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Paris), Darcy Lewis (Kat Dennings), and Jimmy Woo (Randall Park) all came to be involved in the situation. This week’s “On A Very … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsMarvel Artist Joe Bennett Responds After Immortal Hulk Anti-Semitism Accusations
In Marvel’s Immortal Hulk #43—out this week from writer Al Ewing and artist Joe Bennett—there is a scene in which Bruce Banner, as a very human-looking version of his Joe Fixit Hulk persona, attempts to make some quick cash and throw people off his tail by pulling off a scam. Small as the scene is, … Continued
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io9MoviesIn We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, the Void Does More Than Stare Back
If you’ve been following the coverage of this year’s all-digital Sundance film festival, there’s a very good chance that by the time you read this review, you’ll have already seen some version of the image above from Jane Schoenbrun’s We’re All Going to the World’s Fair. Whether this is by design is an interesting question … Continued
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io9MoviesThe Pink Cloud Is a Beautiful Pandemic Nightmare About What’s Lurking Inside
The lengths that Iuli Gerbase’s The Pink Cloud goes to in order to show you parallels between its fictional story about quarantining and the countless tales of real people living through our ongoing covid-19 pandemic may strike you as excessive. It could also be seen as the movie’s attempt to tap into our reality just … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsThese ’80s West Coast Avengers Comics May Be the Key to Solving WandaVision‘s Mysteries
With the Scarlet Witch and Vision’s romantic history in Marvel’s comics being the enthralling, convoluted mess that it is, there was a wealth of source material for WandaVision’s creative team to draw from while conceiving the story for Disney+. Because there’s been relatively little of the Scarlet Witch or Vision in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, one … Continued
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io9MoviesGNT‘s a PSA About That Not So Fresh Feeling You Get From Social Media
Like many of the animated shorts premiering at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, GNT’s meant to hit home with its short and filthy story about the perils of being a person living in the age of ad-ridden social media. Blessedly, Aussie duo Sara Hirner and Rosemary Vasquez-Brown’s film steers clear of making any sort of … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsWandaVision‘s Menacing Signal Is Finally Cutting Through the Noise
After WandaVision’s first three episodes, the series was in the position to make a choice whether to keep on focusing specifically on Wanda and Vision’s suburban bubble reality, or finally shift focus to one of its other characters like Monica Rambeau, whose perspectives might provide some important information about the happenings in Westview. Thankfully, WandaVision … Continued
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io9MoviesZack Snyder’s Justice League Hits HBO Max This March
After years of only existing in the primordial chaos of Zack Snyder’s mind, the (closest thing one can consider to the) infamous Snyder Cut of theJustice League is finally being released to the public both by way of HBO Max, and the movie’s premiere is coming soon. Today, Warner Bros. announced that Zack Snyder’s Justice … Continued
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io9MoviesThe Emperor’s New Groove Didn’t Have an [INSERT NOUN HERE] By the Time It Was in Theaters
Because you’re reading io9, you understand that by the time a movie makes its way to theaters or to a streaming platform, the project has gone through countless revisions at almost every step of the production process, from initial conceptualization to reshoots to the day the finished product is available to audiences. Movies don’t just … Continued
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io9TelevisionThe Flight Attendant‘s Take on Mind Palaces Is the Series’ Surprising Strength
In HBO Max’s The Flight Attendant, a barely functional alcoholic with a history of profound trauma finds herself suddenly placed smack dab in the middle of both an FBI investigation and a murder mystery after she wakes up one morning in a hotel—only to find the man she’d hooked up with the night before brutally … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsNetflix’s Sandman Adaptation Has Found Its Dream, Devil, and Demons
In Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series, the lord of the Dreaming’s journey from imprisonment by mortals back into his abstract realm of thought brings him face to face with a number of figures across the unraveling reality. And now, Netflix’s adaptation has found a few of those faces, and the Dream himself. It was going to … Continued
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io9Star Wars: The High Republic Show Host Krystina Arielle Is the Fandom’s Embattled Future
During the January 4 showcase of Disney and Lucasfilm’s upcoming slate of new projects set in the era of the High Republic, Skywalker: Family at War author Kristin Baver took a moment to introduce Krystina Arielle, the new host of Star Wars: The High Republic Show. It’s a bi-monthly YouTube series delving into the details … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsWandaVision‘s Emma Caulfield Sees a Lot of Dotties in Modern Fandom
In WandaVision’s second episode, “Don’t Touch That Dial,” the series begins to show you more of what Westview is like, as Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) and her neighbor Agnes (Kathryn Hahn) head to a meeting with other neighborhood ladies to help organize an upcoming talent show. Though Wanda’s excited by the idea of performing, her hopes … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsOn WandaVision, Even a Synthezoid Can Be a Dad™
So far, Marvel’sWandaVision has very much been Wanda Maximoff’s show and a testament to how the studio was sorely underutilizing her in its movies. But it’s also been a very quirky character study of Paul Bettany’s Vision, the increasingly human-like synthezoid who began his existence as a shared twinkle in Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, Helen … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsWandaVision‘s Nazi Watch May Be Important to the Show, But You Don’t Need to Buy It
In addition to a show-within-a-show, each of WandaVision’s episodes has featured vintage-inspired commercials advertising fictional products. In some way, they all allude to the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe outside the warped bubble reality of Westview where Wanda Maximoff and Vision are now living. But do we really need them to be real products, too? WandaVision’s … Continued
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