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io9Books & Comics
Titans‘ Brenton Thwaites on Why Dick Grayson Has to Hit ‘Rock Bottom’ to Become Nightwing
Titans’ Dick Grayson has come a long way from beating up goons in rainy alleyways and snarling “fuck Batman” at anybody who cared to listen. These days, he’s posted up in San Francisco, mentoring a bunch of young superpowered teens, reforming the Titans, and becoming the kind of mentor that Bruce Wayne always tried to … Continued
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io9Movies
Kevin Feige’s New Marvel Title Signals Major Changes for Its Corporate Structure
With the launch of Disney’s new streaming platform right around the corner, there’s been a bit of a structural change over at the House of Mouse. It signals that the studio is nothing but serious about trying to ensure the platform’s success. After shepherding Marvel’s cinematic universe, Kevin Feige’s now taking on even more responsibilities … Continued
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Dave Gibbons Understands Why HBO’s Watchmen Turned Rorschach Into a White Supremacy Symbol
HBO’s Watchmen is set 30 years after the events of Dave Gibbons and Alan Moore’s original comics series, meaning that most of the story’s original heroes and villains are long since dead, inactive, or in Doctor Manhattan’s case, hanging out off-planet away from humanity. But Watchmen’s world is one that’s been fundamentally changed by the … Continued
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io9Movies
Venom 2 Just Added a Curious Mutant Villain Into the Carnage-y Mix
Sony’s upcoming Venom sequel seems to be following in the first film’s footsteps and giving its titular monstrous antihero multiple villains to deal with. But this time around, Eddie Brock might be fighting more than just another symbiote and multiple hapless cops. Deadline reports that Sony plans to work the canonically mutant villain Shriek into … Continued
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Lady and the Tramp‘s Talking Dogs Are Even More Unsettling in the Latest Trailer
Disney’s Lady and the Tramp isn’t just the studio’s latest live-action adaptation of an animated classic that we could all just stay at home it watch, it’s an unsettling look at the current state of the VFX and animation techniques that are making it possible for animals to talk and emote like humans, which is … Continued
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io9Movies
Gary Glitter Didn’t Make Any Money From Joker, But a Record Label Did
Joker, a boring movie we’ve spent entirely too much time talking about at this point, has rightfully come under fire for prominently featuring “Rock n’ Roll Part 2,” a song performed by sex offender Gary Glitter. Glitter (real name Paul Gadd) is currently serving a 16-year prison sentence for “attempted rape, four counts of indecent … Continued
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io9Books & Comics
A New Runaways Season 3 Clip Teases Big Changes for Gert and Old Lace
Runaways is one of the only live-action shows that’s ever been bold enough to feature a CGI (but sometimes practically made) dinosaur that against all odds winds up looking pretty damned good on screen, even when it’s interacting with living actors. The creative team behind the series obviously knows that Old Lace is one of … Continued
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io9Books & Comics
Titans Turned Superboy Into Frankenstein’s Manchild, and It Was Awesome
Titans’ cast of superheroes and villains has gotten so large that the series has largely shifted away from dedicating entire episodes to single characters, but this week’s straightforwardly named “Conner” focused on nothing but the latest live-action incarnation of Superman and Lex Luthor’s genetically-engineered offspring. Superboy’s got two dads, and Titans is very insistent about … Continued
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io9Television
Black Lightning‘s Season 3 Premiere Brought Metahuman Internment Camps to Freeland
The CW’s Black Lightning has always been a show that doesn’t want you to forget how stories about super heroes and villains have the power to shed light on the pressing, real-world issues that audiences have to deal with in their every day lives. Jefferson Pierce and his family are all vigilantes who love putting … Continued
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io9Television
HBO’s Watchmen Wants to Dig into the Heart of American Racism…by Making You Like Cops
The first 15 minutes or so of Damon Lindelof’s Watchmen are some of the most agonizing moments of television this year. They squarely focus on the brutalization of multiple black Americans during the infamous Tulsa race riots—a day when mobs of crazed white people descended upon, attacked, and murdered black Oklahomans because they felt empowered … Continued
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io9Books & Comics
Dallas Cop Seen Wearing Punisher Logo During Altercation at Community Oversight Meeting
At the first public meeting of Dallas’s newly formed Community Police Oversight Board earlier this week, dozens of residents who came to share their concerns about law enforcement were surprised to learn the board had no intention of letting anyone from the community actually make a comment. And at least one officer wearing the symbol … Continued
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io9Books & Comics
Titans‘ Boy of Steel Lives Up to His Name in New Clip
In Titans’ second season, the series is set to further explore the lives of the DC Universe’s Trinity by way of their younger counterparts, who all made names for themselves by aping their elders’ aesthetics and using their connections to the older heroes to strike fear into the hearts of villains. While we’ve seen a … Continued
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io9Books & Comics
The World Might Not Be Ready for Tom King, Mitch Gerads, and Evan Shaner’s Strange Adventures
Tom King’s made a name for himself by telling stories about classic white guy heroes who find themselves on the verge of mental collapse as their worlds suddenly become complicated in ways one doesn’t often see in comic books. At this year’s New York Comic Con, the writer announced that Adam Strange will follow in … Continued
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io9Movies
io9 Discusses Todd Phillips’ Polarizing Joker, a Movie With Little to Say
What do you get when a multi-million dollar corporation decides to capitalize on one of its most popular characters by centering them in a movie that taps into conversations about white domestic terrorism in the United States, incels, and the ways in which folks with mental illnesses are often abandoned by society? You get films … Continued
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io9Books & Comics
Hickman’s ‘Dawn of X’ Will Launch a New Wolverine Comic and Turn Every Mutant Into an X-Men Hero
As riveting as Jonathan Hickman’s House of X and Powers of X series have been, it can be easy to forget that the two comics are only the beginning of Marvel’s larger “Dawn of X” arc that’s ushering in a new era of mutant resurgence. Soon, those books will come to an end and make way … Continued
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Titans Might Have Yet Another Death in the Family Courtesy of Slade Wilson
When Slade Wilson first crossed paths with Dick Grayson and the original Titans team, the assassin’s attack left the young heroes so devastated that once they believed they’d defeated him, they vowed never to come back together out of fear that doing so might somehow lead to more tragedy. But eventually, Titans brought the heroes … Continued
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io9Television
Looks Like Cowboy Bebop’s Live-Action Ein Is an Extremely Good Boy
While everyone knows that cats are fantastic, the live-action Cowboy Bebop’s first production video is a reminder that dogs, too, are good. Great, even. Following the casting news for Cowboy Bebop’s core cast of humans, what wasn’t clear was how the series was going to go about depicting Ein, the group’s trusted corgi pal who’s … Continued
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Lauren Cohan Is Coming Back to The Walking Dead, Which Is Being Renewed for Season 11
During this year’s New York Comic Con, the cast of The Walking Dead took to the stage in Madison Square Garden to discuss what’s next for the show as it heads into its tenth season. For the most part, the cast was mum about specific spoilers, but just as the panel was coming to an … Continued
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io9Books & Comics
The Walking Dead‘s Youthful New Spin-off Looks Surprisingly Fun in First Trailer
While The Walking Dead’s second spin-off doesn’t have a title yet, that didn’t stop the cast from coming to New York Comic Con to discuss the series on a panel that, surprisingly, opened with a rather interesting trailer that’s just made its way online. Set 10 years after the beginning of The Walking Dead’s apocalypse, … Continued
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Steven Universe Has a Futuristic New Name and Opening Sequence
It’s been over four years since Steven Universe debuted a new opening sequence showcasing just how much Steven and the Gems have grown and changed. But now that The Movie has warped the Crystal Gems into p future, it makes all the sense in the world that the series’ next season would begin with an … Continued