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Rebecca Sugar and Noelle Stevenson Would Like to Remind You That They Fought to Make Animation More Queer
With both Steven Universe and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power having finished their respective stories and becoming shining examples of this current moment in queer representation in animation, it can be exceedingly easy to forget that up until very recently, queer characters more or less didn’t exist in the animation space outside of being … Continued
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Lovecraft Country Blends Pulpy Horror and Family Drama Into a Story About America’s Demons
HBO’sLovecraft Country is a story about its heroes fighting for their lives as they make their way across 1950s America. It’s also a multifaceted family drama that embraces the idea that the people you share blood with are often the same people who hurt you the most. And yes, monsters. Of all sorts. The various … Continued
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The Boys‘ Heroes and Villains Are All Out for Blood in Pair of New Clips
In The Boys’ second season, the Seven, the world’s preeminent team of corrupt superheroes, are out for blood following the untimely, but honestly justified killing of one of their monstrous members. The Boys are well aware that the Seven want their revenge, but in a series of new clips, you see that the most pressing … Continued
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Pokémon: Twilight Wings‘ Final Episode Captures the Epic Majesty of Battling
The core Pokémon anime series and films have all followed teams of heroes embarking on adventures across the various regions that make up the Pokémon world. But the Pokémon Company’s Twilight Wings miniseries has been a slower, more free-flowing dive into the culture of Galar, where battles between gargantuan kaiju-like Pokémon are a wildly popular … Continued
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Doom Patrol‘s Abrupt Season 2 Finale Burns Bright Before Going Out Like a Light
Besides the usual themes of self-discovery, Doom Patrol’s second season has been all about finding out what to do about Niles Caulder’s increasingly dangerous daughter Dorothy. We knew some kind of standoff was inevitable, but leave it to Doom Patrol to find a way to pull us even deeper into its weirdness, surprise us, and … Continued
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Bill & Ted Tell Us to Party on, Will Release Face the Music Sooner Than Planned
Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Hollywood’s release slate’s been utterly rocked with some films likeMulan, that were meant for theatrical release, now coming straight to streaming. Others likeTenet are in a holding pattern until movie theaters open back up. Bill & Ted Face the Music is doing its own thing with a limited release … Continued
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Marvel Comics Cordially Invites You to Its Next Big Wedding Stunt
It seems like only yesterday that Billy Kaplan, the Scarlet Witch’s reality warping/magic wielding son and formermember of the Young Avengers, was worrying himself sick over the idea that his longtime boyfriend, the Kree/Skrull hybrid Teddy Altman, was actually a subconscious manifestation of his vast powers and not an actual person. Things have changed quite … Continued
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The Ren & Stimpy Show Is Being Rebooted, for Some Reason
In a move reflective of the network’s doubling down on the animation space, Comedy Central’s set its sights on one of the most raunchy and absurd cartoons to come out of the ‘90s. One that’s only gone on to live in infamy. Deadline reports that Comedy Central’s greenlit a revival of The Ren & Stimpy … Continued
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George R.R. Martin Responds to Accusations of Hugo Awards Racism, Apologizes for Mispronouncing Names
As the host of this year’s remote, digital-only Hugo Awards, noted author and procrastinator George R. R. Martin was tasked with being the voice of the ceremony, guiding viewers through the pre-produced segments highlighting the work of this year’s nominees and winners. Though the Hugos didn’t suffer from any of the technical difficulties that plagued … Continued
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Zombie Stories Are Going to Have to Change
At the core of every book, video game, television series, or movie involving a zombie apocalypse is an idea about humanity’s drive to consume, or how easy it would be for civilizations to crumble in the midst of an unforeseen disaster. Like, for instance, the sudden spread of a deadly virus that swept its way … Continued
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In The Boys‘ New Trailer, a Bloody Superhuman Storm Is Brewing
In the upcoming second season of Amazon’s The Boys, Stormfront, one of the original comics’ most terrifying characters, is set to make her arrival as a newly minted member of the Seven, the series’ twisted answer to DC’s Justice Justice League and Marvel’s Avengers. But they are, unbeknownst to the public, all engaged in various … Continued
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Umbrella Academy‘s Mysterious New Character Raises an Interesting Question
Though The Umbrella Academy’s second season mainly focuses on the Hargreeves siblings trying to figure out how they’re involved in JFK’s assassination and how to avert another apocalypse, the show also does a fair amount of worldbuilding. It introduces a number of new characters, one of whom raises a rather interesting question about their universe. Because Number … Continued
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The X2 Cast Allegedly Almost Quit the Marvel Film Over Bryan Singer
Director Bryan Singer became a name in Hollywood after The Usual Suspects but shot to fame after taking on the X-Men franchise. Years later, and after years of rumors of Singer allegedly sexually abusing a number of young men, a damning Atlantic report was released in which four men detailed their personal experiences with the … Continued
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X-Men: Apocalypse Is the Reason Storm and Professor X Won’t Be in The New Mutants
One of the more interesting questions still left aboutJosh Boone’sThe New Mutants is when exactly the movie’s meant to take place within the larger picture of Fox’s X-Men cinematic universe. Unlike the last few films in the franchise that were all clearly set in distinct decades, The New Mutants is difficult to get a solid … Continued
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Doom Patrol‘s Stylish Sendup of The Avengers Hits All the Right Notes
Though Doom Patrol’s second season has already placed its heroes smack dab in the middle of yet another apocalypse-in-progress, the series has been careful to give each of its characters moments of some much-needed levity. It reminds us all that they’re still a bunch of oddballs with the sort of perfectly pedestrian, ridiculous fantasies we all … Continued
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The Umbrella Academy‘s Second Season Is Tackling 1960s Anti-Black Racism Head On
By centering a plot in which its main characters are transported into the past, Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy is joining the ranks of other sci-fi series where Black characters are forced to deal with the overt, public examples of anti-Black racism and violence that define both America’s history and its present. Even though Allison Hargreeves … Continued
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Pixar’s Next Film, Luca, Will Be an Adventure in the Italian Riviera….With a Twist
Though we’re still a ways out from the premiere of Pixar’s next movie Soul, the studio’s already hard at work on its next animated feature Luca, a sun-drenched, summertime adventure inspired by director Enrico Casarosa’s childhood. Today, Disney broke the news about Luca’s impending arrival next summer and provided a few interesting tidbits about what … Continued
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Batwoman‘s Recasting Gives the Show the Perfect Opportunity to Talk about Race and Policing
With Javicia Leslie set to leadBatwoman following Ruby Rose’s sudden departure, the series’ second season is in a rather interesting position to bring something fresh to the CW’s pantheon of superhero TV shows. Though Batwoman isn’t the first of the network’s shows to feature its central hero dealing with the police, the circumstances of Leslie’s … Continued
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Umbrella Academy’s Elliot Page on Giving Vanya Space to Open Up
The first trailer for Umbrella Academy’s second season made it abundantly clear that the Netflix series is pivoting into a markedly different direction than the Dark Horse comics series it’s based on. Where the initial comic arc left Vanya (Elliot Page in the series) quite incapacitated thanks to a gunshot, the TV show ended its … Continued
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Umbrella Academy‘s Stunning Opening Scene Is a Peek Into Apocalyptic Superheroics
Much as The Umbrella Academy’s Hargreeves siblings would all love to have the chance to simply chill out and live their lives as regular people, they’re a bunch of extraordinary, world-famous superheroes who, amongst other things, are prone to bringing about and then narrowly averting the apocalypse. It means that the “normal life” thing is … Continued