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io9Games
Marvel’s Avengers Is Making Me Feel Like Superheroes Kill a Lot Of People
Square-Enix’sMarvel’s Avengers establishes early on that as you and the Avengers journey across the world on a quest to defeat MODOK, you’ll have to fight countless AIM-branded robots based on Stark technology that are all programmed to target Inhumans and eliminate heroes on sight. Because the baddies are all machines, Marvel’s Avengers encourages you to—in … Continued
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The Expanse‘s World Is Getting Bigger in a New Comic From Boom Studios
Ahead of The Expanse’s fifth season making its debut on Amazon Prime, Boom Studios is further fleshing out the universe of space colonists in a new series from writer Corinna Bechko and artist Alejandro Aragon. Set between the events of The Expanse’s fourth and fifth seasons, Bechko and Aragon’s series follows outgoing UN Secretary-General Chrisjen … Continued
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Onyx Equinox‘s New Trailer Introduces Its Heroes Challenging the Gods
Visually fantastic as the first trailer for Crunchyroll’s upcoming series Onyx Equinox was, it didn’t exactly provide all that much information about what the show was going to be about—aside from a group of humans taking on the Aztec gods in a battle to save the world. The latest look at the series, though, introduces … Continued
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io9Books & Comics
Guardians of the Galaxy Just Made Space a Little Bit More Queer
Al Ewing’s current run on Guardians of the Galaxy has been less of a mind bending space opera and more of an action-packed exploration of what it means to be a family grappling with the profound grief tied to the sudden loss of one of their own. The book’s core teams (plural) of Guardians have … Continued
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io9Movies
Mulan Will Be Free for Disney+ Subscribers…Later This Winter
Because the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic has made it unsafe for many movie theaters to open themselves to the public, Disney made the interesting choice of pushing its much-delayed Mulan remake straight to its Disney+ streaming service. But unlike other movies to recently premiere on VOD, Mulan comes with an extra $30 price tag on … Continued
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Lovecraft Country‘s Jurnee Smollett Opens Up About What Makes Leti Who She Is
In the third episode of HBO’s Lovecraft Country, the series shifts gears in an interesting way as its heroes settle back into their lives in Chicago, newly aware that somewhere in America, there are white supremacist magic users vying to take control of the world through occult means. It’s the sort of mental burden that would exhaust … Continued
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io9Movies
The New Mutants Is a Fitting Final Act for Fox’s X-Men Franchise
The New Mutants is a curious quagmire of a film that’s been defined by “what ifs” from the moment it was announced five years ago. What if it followed Apocalypse’s example and dragged the X-Men cinematic franchise further into the gutter? What if it somehow managed to be good? What if The New Mutants actually … Continued
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The Mandalorian Season 2 Will Arrive Just in Time for Halloween
When Jon Favreau said that The Mandalorian’s second season wouldn’t be stopped by the covid-19 pandemic that’s effectively brought Hollywood to its knees, he meant it. This morning, seemingly apropos of nothing, Disney announced that The Mandalorian’s second season will hit Disney+ on October 30 and will be simulcast in the U.S. and the UK. … Continued
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io9Movies
The New Mutants Director Josh Boone Is Confident It’s a Comic Book Film Like No Other
Josh Boone’sThe New Mutants is a movie years in the making. It’s also technically the final piece of the puzzle to 20th Century Studios’ massive franchise of X-Men cinematic spectacles that have been steadily drawing people into movie theaters for decades now. Sometimes the stories were great and sometimes they were patently awful. io9 caught up … Continued
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io9Books & Comics
The Boys Season 2 Is a Scathing Sendup of Our Superhero-Obsessed World
The Boys’ abject disdain for traditional superheroes is palpable, which is one of the things that makes it so enjoyable to watch. One can’t help but realize that the creative minds behind Amazon’s adaptation of the comics really have a deep love for the genre they’re continuing to brutally lampoon in season two. The Boys’ … Continued
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Lovecraft Country Would Like to Point Out that You Can’t Eat at Just Anybody’s House
Lovecraft Countryunderstands that the best horror always allows for its heroes to make at least a few poor decisions in service of the plot. As much fantasy as George, Leti, and Atticus consume, you would think that they’d know better than to be lulled into a false sense of security within an obviously magical person’s … Continued
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io9Books & Comics
Titans‘ Third Season Will Be Bringing Some Gotham City Flair With Familiar New Heroes and Villains
After closing out a rather meandering second season with a finale that left much to be desired, Titans is back and making another go at it on HBO Max—with hopes of finally finding its footing and place among the slate of DC’s other more-than-solid shows like Harley Quinn and Doom Patrol. At this year’s DC … Continued
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io9Movies
Black Adam‘s Justice Society Is Revealed at DC Fandome
While Batmen both new and old are making their way to future movies set in WB’s universe of loosely connected stories based on DC’s comics, another sort of dark, brooding figure is making his way to the big screen in the form of Dwayne Johnson’s Black Adam. Though the Black Adam standalone is still a … Continued
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io9Movies
Captain Marvel Nearly Committed the Cardinal Sin of Bumping Off Ben Mendelsohn
The role that the Skrulls play in Carol Danvers’ transformation into the MCU’s Captain Marvel is a complicated one that poses important moral questions about the role superheroes often play in wars across the galaxy. Ben Mendelsohn’s Talos, a Skrull commander hunting Carol in Captain Marvel goes through a twisting series of events that ultimately … Continued
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io9Books & Comics
The Boys‘ New Big Bad Is Almost Too on the Nose for These Extraordinarily Racist Times
Look to your left. Now look to your right. Did you see a Nazi? If you were reading and/or watching The Boys in anticipation of the developments coming in the second season, chances are good your answer’s a resounding “Ugh, yeah. I do.” Our deepest condolences. Because the worlds of Garth Ennis’ The Boys and … Continued
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io9Games
Looks Like Marvel’s Avengers Is Getting Even More Heroes Down the Line
When the initial roster for Square Enix’sMarvel’s Avengers was first announced, Kamala Khan immediately stood out, because the rest of the squad consisted entirely of heroes who’ve been core parts of Marvel’s cinematic universe up to this point. Since then, we’ve learned that both Hawkeye and Spider-Man are making their way to the game eventually, … Continued
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Lovecraft Country‘s Misha Green Explains How the Horrors to Come Are Bigger Than Magic and Monsters
Like all horror that wants to leave you feeling unsettled and disturbed long after you’ve finished watching it, Lovecraft Country’s first episode is careful to take its time and make you wait almost until the very end for the series’ supernatural monstrosities to make themselves known. If anything, the demons hunting Atticus, Leti, and George … Continued
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io9Games
Miles Morales’ Big Reveal Almost Wasn’t in Marvel’s Spider-Man
The moment Miles Morales shows up in Insomniac Games’ Marvel’s Spider-Man, it’s essentially a foregone conclusion that the teen will be bit by a genetically modified arachnid, giving him an array of spider-related superpowers and setting him swinging across New York City on an adventure of his own. With a Miles-focused follow-up game making its … Continued
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io9Books & Comics
The Sandman Audio Drama’s an Escape From Reality Into a World of Dreams
In the world of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman, which is also the world of DC’s core comics continuity, all living things in existence are in some way connected to the Endless, seven anthropomorphic beings who control various facets of reality. As Dream of the Endless is torn out of his realm by humans searching for … Continued
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io9Books & Comics
Doom Patrol‘s Sex Ghosts Were the Season’s Real MVPs
Early into this season of Doom Patrol, the show’s heroes end up having to deal with a paranormal threat drawn to their manor because of the powerful, reality-bending orgasms that Rita Farr demands Flex Mentallo give her in order to help clear her mind. Though the Doom Patrol’s able to defeat the sex demon threatening … Continued