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io9Books & Comics
New Daredevil Season 3 Teaser Promises That Wilson Fisk Is Ready to Dance With the Devil
The third season of Netflix’s Daredevil will see a broken, beaten, and darker Matt Murdock facing down against Wilson Fisk once more. But when Matt does inevitably come face to face with his nemesis again, Fisk intends to be more than prepared. While Netflix’s corner of the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been busy weathering undead … Continued
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io9Movies
All the Cosmic Clues and Mysteries We Saw in the New Dark Phoenix Trailer [Updated]
The first Dark Phoenix trailer is here, and short and cryptic though it may be, it’s still chock-full of intriguing hints about what’s in store for the X-Men and their most formidable foe yet. Jean has always been portrayed as one of Xavier’s earliest and most talented students, and it appears Dark Phoenix is going … Continued
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io9Games
This Is the Not-So-Secret Story of How Oregon Trail Took Over the World
We’re living in a golden age of immersive, narrative video games that can transport us to worlds both familiar and fantastical. As odd as it might be to consider it, none of this would be possible if it weren’t for Oregon Trail. There’s nothing quite as impressive as tricking kids into learning about subject matter … Continued
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io9Movies
Dark Phoenix Will Be the Most Cosmic X-Men Movie Yet and Introduce Some Obscure Mutants
When Fox first announced that Dark Phoenix would skew closer to the original X-Men story of how Jean Grey ultimately becomes one of the most powerful mutants to exist, the implication was always that this take on the story would involve space travel and an encounter with beings from another planet. In a recent interview … Continued
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io9Books & Comics
The First Episode of Marvel’s Avengers: Black Panther’s Quest Is Available to Watch Right Now
We’re still more than a ways out from the next time we’re undoubtedly going to catch up with T’Challa and the rest of the Wakandan royal family in the next live-action Black Panther film, but if you need another heart-shaped herb fixed sooner than later, Disney XD has you covered with Marvel’s Avengers: Black Panther’s … Continued
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io9Trailers
Dark Phoenix’s First Breathtaking Trailer Has Arrived
She is fire and life incarnate and she’s here in the first Dark Phoenix trailer to usher in both the beginning and end of all things. God help us all. The Dark Phoenix Saga is one of the most important stories in X-Men history that fundamentally changed the core team’s dynamic and made readers see … Continued
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io9Books & Comics
The Gifted‘s Season 2 Premiere Offers an Eerie Reflection of Current Events
Over the course of its first season, Fox’s The Gifted set the stage to tell a timely story about just what all it means to be a misunderstood, disenfranchised second-class citizen in a world that hates and fears you. With “eMergence,” the second season picks up six months after the finale of the first, with … Continued
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io9Books & Comics
Daredevil Season 3’s Dreamy New Teaser Introduces Yet Another Iconic Suit
Daredevil’s upcoming third season is set to get Matt Murdock back, forgive me, to his old habits begging God for forgiveness and wearing all black when he’s doing his thing. The latest teaser for the show, though, promises that someone else is about to suit up in one of their iconic comics’ looks. It’s been … Continued
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io9Movies
Tom Hardy’s Venom Murders a Bunch of Sports Nerds in This Weird New Ad
Sony’s upcoming Venom solo movie has always been something of a conundrum given that, you know, Spider-Man’s nowhere to be seen. With the right story, that wouldn’t biggest of problems, but what is a problem is this confusing new ad in which Tom Hardy suits up and kills a bunch of innocent sports nerds. In … Continued
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io9Movies
Bunker-Bound Solitude Is the Enemy in This Exclusive Clip From Domain
The entire point of having a tricked-out doomsday bunker is being able to survive, but in the latest clip from director Nathaniel Atcheson’s upcoming film Domain, the lucky few survivors of the apocalypse are quickly realizing they’re not as safe as they think they are. In Domain, a group of humans are weathering the end … Continued
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io9Books & Comics
Lev Grossman’s Magicians Are Coming to Comics
While Quentin Coldwater might technically be the central focus of Lev Grossman’s book series The Magicians—as well as Syfy’s adaptation of the series—a new comic book from Boom Studios is set to explore the life of one of Brakebills’ largely unsung heroines. Alice Quinn is the central focus of Boom’s new series written by Lilah … Continued
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io9Games
In Marvel’s Spider-Man, Mary Jane Watson Is the Most Compelling She’s Ever Been
Mary Jane Watson is one of the most important players in Spider-Man’s expansive mythos, but in the five decades she’s been appearing in Marvel’s comics (and other properties based on them), her character’s never really been fleshed out in a way that made her feel like a three-dimensional person. That fact is what makes Mary … Continued
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io9Trailers
The Newest Bumblebee Trailer Is Packed With Other Transformers
There’s no way that Paramount’s upcoming Bumblebee movie could have worked without a bunch of other Cybertronian Transformers worked into the mix and the latest trailer shows off just how many of them are due to get in on the action. From the looks of it, Bumblebee’s going to be equal parts coming-of-age story and … Continued
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io9Television
Oliver Queen’s Butt Naked and Kicking Ass in the Latest Arrow Season 7 Trailer
Showering can be dangerous no matter who and where you are (see: soap and hard, slippery surfaces). But it’s especially precarious for vigilantes locked up in prisons full of criminals they had a part in apprehending. We’ve known for some time that Arrow’s seventh season would focus on Oliver Queen going to prison, surviving a … Continued
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io9Books & Comics
In This Week’s Best New Comics, the NYC Subway Isn’t So Bad and Gender Is an Illusion
Every morning, millions of people across the world crawl from their homes and make agonizing journeys underground through the dark, dank portals we commonly refer to as subway systems. In exchange for money and pieces of our souls, these portals get us where we need to go—and, unfortunately, the prices we pay for those journeys … Continued
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io9
This Google Doodle Perfectly Captures the Magic of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
There was always a quiet, somewhat melancholy charm to Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood’s opening theme that drew you in and put you in the right headspace to drift off to the Land of Make-Believe. In celebration of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood’s 51st anniversary, Google’s reimagined the show’s opening sequence in a gorgeous stop-motion animated clip that blends … Continued
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Eddie Brock’s Not a Very Good Journalist in the First Venom Clip
One of the few parts of Eddie Brock’s character Sony decided not to fiddle with too much in its upcoming Venom solo film is his passion for journalism—something that ultimately brings him into contact with the alien symbiote that changes his life. After months of questionable trailers and lascivious posters, Sony’s finally dropped the first … Continued
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io9Books & Comics
There Are Really Only 2 Episodes from Iron Fist‘s Second Season You Have To Watch
Even though we thought there were a surprising amount of things to like about Iron Fist’s second season, in the weeks since it dropped on Netflix, more than a few people have asked whether they should invest the time in watching the entire thing. The answer, unsurprisingly, is complicated. Do you have to watch season … Continued
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io9Books & Comics
DC Regrets Showing You Batman’s Batawang
If you picked up a physical copy of writer Brian Azzarello and artist Lee Bermejo’s Batman: Damned this week, then you were treated to a passing glimpse of a totally-nude Bruce Wayne in the Batcave. From the sounds of it, DC regrets greenlighting the decision to show off Batman’s penis. According to The Hollywood Reporter, … Continued
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io9Television
Actress Brec Bassinger Is the Hero of DC Universe’s Stargirl
While none of the DC Universe streaming platform’s original shows based on comics have actually begun airing yet, Warner Bros. and DC are quickly moving forward with the production of the recently announced Stargirl series. Bella and The Bulldogs’ Brec Bassinger has been cast as Courtney Whitmore, the teen who becomes the hero Stargirl after … Continued