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Watchmen‘s Rorschach Lives in a New DC Black Label Series from Tom King and Jorge Fornés
With HBO’s Watchmen and DC Comics’Doomsday Clock event both wrapped up, the world of stories set in a universe that was once devastated by a telepathic squid has gone quiet as of late, but that’s all about to change in a new Rorschach comics series penned by Tom King with illustrations from Jorge Fornés and Clayton … Continued
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The Old Guard Turns Immortality Into Something Worth Living For
Director Gina Prince Bythewood’s adaptation of Image Comics’The Old Guard is a movie that asks you to really reflect on what it is about superheroes and their stories that keeps us coming back. Rather than fully trying to reinvent the comic book movie, The Old Guard instead takes hallmarks of the genre and uses them … Continued
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Lucifer‘s First Season 5 Trailer Brings the Heat and Then Some
In the same way that Lucifer, a show that was on the brink of cancellation before Netflix saved it, seemingly can’t be kept down, Lucifer the person proves that he’s more than capable of rolling with the punches in the series’ new season five trailer. Though Lucifer’s fourth season closed out on the king of … Continued
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Of Course Disney World’s Reopening Video Works as Horror
In celebration of Disney World’s reopening after shutting down earlier this year in response to the still ongoing coronavirus pandemic that’s killed over 130,000 people in the U.S. alone, the Disney Parks and Jobs dropped a video over the weekend enthusiastically welcoming park guests “home.” Here, “home” refers to a theme park owned by a … Continued
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Netflix’s The Old Guard Dug Deep to Bring the Comics to Life
In both Greg Rucka and Leandro Fernández’sThe Old Guard and director Gina Prince-Bythewood’s new film based on the comic book series, a group of seemingly immortal warriors from different time periods all band together to commit their lives to ridding the world of its societal evils. None of the big bads they take on are … Continued
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Doom Patrol Has a Weird Thing for Cop Shows, Too
It’s rare that you see any of Doom Patrol’s mixed bag of metahuman heroes fighting regular, street-level criminals, because their respective power sets tend to be more useful dealing with metaphysical, extradimensional-type threats like massive roaches and mice. Mostly, the Doom Patrol’s left the basic crooks to the Titans and, one imagines, the police, but … Continued
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Fast 9 Going to Space Might Not Be So Ludicrous After All
With eight core films, one spin-off, and an animated series under its belt, Universal’s Fast & Furious franchise revving up for its ninth installment of the Fast family’s ridiculous story about how a group of street racers ended up becoming…superheroes, more or less, whose abilities all revolve around being real good at making cars go … Continued
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The Hork-Bajir Chronicles Was One of Animorphs‘ Most Powerful Books
Much as K.A. Applegate’s Animorph series tell a story about a group of kids bonding with one another while adventuring worlds and physically transforming into a variety of animals, the books are also an examination of the devastating impacts that ongoing wars, imperialism, and slavery have on societies. Though the human heroes were almost always … Continued
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The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina‘s Journey to Hell Could Continue in Comics
The upcoming fourth seasonof Netflix’s The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina will be the series’ last, as the young Spellman figures out a way to deal with the hide the fact that she created a time paradox in order to live her life as a regular teenager and rule as Hell’s queen simultaneously. Though the show’s … Continued
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Release the Schumacher Cut, You Cowards
After years of getting the fandom riled up about the idea of a Snyder Cut of Justice League, Warner Bros. saw fit to move forward with the production of the film for an upcoming release on HBO Max next year. The decision was surprising if only for the fact that Warner Bros. had previously denied … Continued
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Bob Belcher’s Relationship With Food Is the Best Part of Bob’s Burgers
Bob Belcher, the meat-slinging patriarch at the heart of Bob’s Burgers, is a beleaguered small business owner who consistently only manages to keep his head above water by leaning on his family for emotional support. When Bob’s family proves ill-suited to give Bob what he needs, he usually turns to food, which makes sense given his … Continued
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Say Hello to the CW’s New Batwoman
Just as suddenly as Ruby Rose exited the CW’s Batwoman, the network has announced that it’s found a new actor to don the cowl and keep Gotham’s streets safe. Per the Hollywood Reporter, Javicia Leslie is set to become the CW’s next Batwoman in the series’ upcoming second season. One of the big questions following … Continued
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Digimon Adventure Teased Its Big Bad by Establishing a Wild New Canon
For all of the Digimon Adventure reboot’s narrative similarities to the original anime that it’s based on, the new series has been carefully introducing unique elements to its telling of the story about human children partnering with Digimon to save the digital world. While the reboot’s yet to fully introduce all of its important characters, … Continued
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Umbrella Academy‘s Season 2 Trailer Is Here to Rain on Everyone’s Parade
Even after narrowly averting the apocalypse caused by their latest familial drama, Umbrella Academy’s Hargreeves siblings found themselves faced with a devastating fate their years of superhero training could only barely prepare them for. The new season two trailer finds the heroes trying to blend in to a new environment and having to hide their … Continued
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10 Pokémon Shorts That Prove Trainers Are Overrated
Much as Pokémon trainers would love to believe that their pocketable monster friends are well taken care of, each and every single Pikachu-centric short has made it abundantly clear that Pokémon thrive and are at their best when the humans are just gone. Left to their own devices, the Pokémon get to be their whole-ass … Continued
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Warrior Nun Is the Patron Saint of Boring Chosen Ones
Netflix’s adaptation of Ben Dunn’s Warrior Nun Areala is a series that wants you to have faith. Not necessarily faith in the biblical divinity or hellish demonsthat drive the uneven plot forward over 10 episodes, but faith in the narrative trope of an unsuspecting Chosen One™ being called upon to save humanity from the ultimate … Continued
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Get Ready for a ‘Stan Lee Universe’ of Shows and Movies That Has Nothing to Do With Marvel
In the months leading up to Stan Lee’s death, the comics legend was embroiled in a number of legal disputes both against individual people and companies as a whole, like Pow!, the entertainment production outfit Lee co-founded that he also sued in 2018 to the tune of $1 billion for allegedly forging Lee’s signature in … Continued
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Exclusive: Infinity Train‘s Third Season Is Bringing Anarchy to HBO Max
Infinity Train’s second season introduced us to The Apex, an anarchic group of young passengers who, unlike the series’ original protagonist Tulip, saw being trapped on the titular train as an opportunity rather than a curse. Where Tulip understood that the point of the train was to work through the cars while working to get … Continued
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Doom Patrol Got Explosively Horny in the Face of an Apocalypse
Doom Patrol’s always had a habit of coming on a bit strong (in a good way) by doing away with the narrative pacing that most other cape shows tend to stick with over the course of a season in favor of getting to the point. Though “Sex Patrol” is only the fourth episode of the … Continued
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In Defense of Kite Man, Harley Quinn‘s High-Flying Himbo
In basically all of his incarnations in DC’s comic books, Charles “Chuck” Brown (commonly known as Kite Man) has been a C-tier villain soaring through Gotham City’s skies before being brought down by Batman, particularly strong unexpected gusts of wind, or in the case of Tom King’s Batman run, a powerful depression rooted in the … Continued