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Credit: Netflix Netflix is in talks to renew DC adaptation Lucifer for a sixth season on the streaming service, according to Deadline. Lucifer started out on Fox where it aired for three seasons before moving to Netflix for two more seasons – a total of five.  No further details of the potential renewal were reported. 

Credit: Marvel Studios Ant-Man and the Wasp actor Michael Peña says he doesn’t know what’s going to happen in the currently in-development Ant-Man 3 – and he even seems to be keeping mum about the fate of his character Luis following the death and return of half the Marvel Universe’s population. “I have no idea

Credit: Netflix / Mattel Credit: Netflix / Mattel Netflix and Mattel Television’s animated Masters of the Universe: Revelation won’t air until likely 2021, but when it does, it will feature an impressive list of voice talent including Mark Hamill (as Skeletor!), Sarah Michelle Gellar, Kevin Conroy, Lena Headey, Alicia Silverstone, Justin Long, and even…Jason Mewes?

Credit: Marvel Comics Marvel Comics has announced a new super-team – The Union, protectors of the United Kingdom. Few details of the new series, launching in May, have been announced – Marvel’s release only included an R.B. Silva-drawn image of the team’s roster, headed up by Union Jack, an the creative team of writer Paul

Credit: DC Credit: DC DC’s current volume of Supergirl will come to a close this May with #42, as revealed in DC’s just-released May 2020 solicitations . The issue, written by Jody Houser with art by Rachel Stott, pits Supergirl against the U.S. military, from whom the Girl of Steel is now a fugitive. DC has

Credit: DC Credit: DC DC Black Label will launch a new Sandman Universe limited series from writer G. Willow Wilson and artist Bilquis Evely as announced in the publisher’s just-released May 2020 solicitations . Titled The Dreaming: Waking Hours, the series picks up where the previous Sandman Universe volume of The Dreaming, which concludes with April’s

Credit: DC Credit: DC DC’s sometimes-bad guy Man-Bat will return to the spotlight – and to villainy – in his own series this May, as announced in DC’s just-released May 2020 solicitations . Written by Dave Wielgosz with art from Sumit Kumar, Man-Bat #1 will set Kirk Langstrom back to terrorizing Gotham City following a setback

Credit: DC Credit: DC There have been several heroes to use the name Manhunter – including the man who eventually became Leviathan. Now Kate Spencer, another Manhunter, will return to action this May for a five-issue limited series that puts her on the path to the secrets of her superhero identity’s history, as announced in DC’s

Credit: DC Check out a gallery of all of the new DC May comic book covers here. DARK NIGHTS: DEATH METAL #1written by SCOTT SNYDERart by GREG CAPULLO and JONATHAN GLAPIONcard stock foil cover by GREG CAPULLO and JONATHAN GLAPIONBatman variant cover by DAVID FINCHSuperman variant cover by FRANCESCO MATTINAWonder Woman variant cover by STANLEY “ARTGERM”

Credit: Netflix Stranger Things season four has kicked off production, and to mark the occasion, Netflix has released a teaser that confirms the return of David Harbour’s Chief Hopper, who seemingly perished at the end of season three. Check it out: [embedded content] “We’re excited to officially confirm that production on Stranger Things 4 is

Credit: Lucasfilm / Disney Indiana Jones star Harrison Ford has opened up about when production will begin for the upcoming fifth installment of the venerable franchise, telling two separate outlets that it will begin in as early as April or as late as this summer. Speaking in an interview with CBS Sunday Morning, released February

Credit: DC Credit: DC Press Release “In brightest day, in blackest night,No evil shall escape my sight.Let those who worship evil’s might,Beware my power, Green Lantern’s light.” Since the first Green Lantern was introduced in All-American Comics #16 in May 1940 by artist Martin Nodell and writer Bill Finger, the Green Lanterns have been fan-favorite characters with millions of comic

Credit: DC January 2020’s Direct Market comic book sales were slightly down versus January 2019, largely in part to a lower title count than last year. But more on that later. Credit: DC According to figures released by Diamond Comic Distributors Friday morning, the Wonder Woman #750 anniversary issue was the top comic book in January,

Credit: Warner Bros. Speaking in an Entertainment Weekly roundtable with the rest of the film’s principal cast and director Patty Jenkins, Wonder Woman 1984 star Pedro Pascal (who plays Maxwell Lord in the film) says the sequel would feel right at home in the1980s period in which it’s set. “I was born in 1975, and

DC has released an early look at one of several stories from the upcoming oversized Flash #750, this one a Silver Age style Flash tale by writer Marv Wolfman and artist Riley Rossmo. In Wolfman & Rossmo’s “Flash of All Worlds”, a Silver Age style Barry Allen takes on Mirror Master in a classic funhouse

Credit: Lee Weeks (DC) Greetings, ‘Rama readers! Ready for your weekly pellets? Best Shots has your back, with this week’s Rapid-Fire Reviews! Let’s kick off with Jalopy-Driving Justin Partridge, who takes a look at the latest issue of X-Men… Credit: Marvel Comics X-Men #6 (Published by Marvel Comics; Review by Justin Partridge; ‘Rama Rating: 9

Credit: Nick Roche (Marvel Comics) Credit: Nick Roche (Marvel Comics) It should come as no shocker that Marvel’s resident robot rights activist Machine Man should be a big part of the current Iron Man 2020 crossover. Arno Stark and the original Iron Man 2020 continuity first appeared in issues of a Machine Man limited, so

Strange Adventures #2 cover Credit: Evan “Doc” Shaner (DC/Black Label) Self-portrait Credit: Evan “Doc” Shaner Evan “Doc” Shaner has renewed his exclusivity deal with DC. The artist shared the news on Twitter, saying the deal was for “another couple years” without giving specifics. Strange Adventures #3 cover Credit: Evan “Doc” Shaner (DC/Black Label) “I’ve had

Credit: Marvel Studios Actor Haaz Sleiman tells NewNowNext that he’s portraying the husband of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first openly gay superhero on the big screen – Brian Tyree Henry’s Phastos of The Eternals. “I just shot a Marvel film with the first openly gay superhero, The Eternals,” Sleimann told NewNowNext. “I’m married to the gay superhero

As presaged in previous Marauders issues and the recent tease for #11, the preview of February 19’s Marauders #8 is the first on scene to find what is apparently the dead body of Kate “Kitty” Pryde. MARAUDERS & #8GERRY DUGGAN (W) • STEFANO CASELLI (A) • CoverS by RUSSELL DAUTERMANTHE TREASURE OF ISLAND M!As Verendi’s

Credit: DC Credit: DC Credit: DC The continuity of Batman: The Animated Series will return in a six-issue digital-first limited series starting this April, titled Batman: The Adventures Continue. The title will be written by Batman: The Animated Series co-creator Paul Dini and longtime writer for the show and its spin-offs, Alan Burnett. The series

Credit: Image Comics/Skybound Entertainment Credit: Image Comics/Skybound Entertainment Credit: Image Comics/Skybound Entertainment Justin Jordan and Matteo Scalera’s Dead Body Road is returning for a new volume this May from Image Comics and Skybound Entertainent subtitled Bad Blood. In this new volume, Scalera is drawing covers while Benjamin Tiesma is joining as the new series artist.

Credit: Mike Henderson (Marvel Comics) Active duty U.S. Army Sergeant First Class Phillip Kennedy Johnson will lead Marvel’s Captain America into the upcoming Empyre comic book event for a three-issue series with artist Ariel Olivetti. First reported by CBR, Empyre: Captain America is described as a “tremendous honor” by the veteran. “Cap is the truest

Credit: A24 A24 has released the trailer for The Green Knight, a horror movie twist on the classic King Arthur legend of Gawain and the Green Knight. Directed by David Lowery, The Green Knight stars Dev Patel as Gawain alongside Alicia Vikander and Joel Edgerton. Here’s the trailer: [embedded content] The Green Knight is due

Check out a preview of February 26’s The Legend of Korra: Ruins of the Empire Part Three. The Legend of Korra: Ruins of the Empire Part Three TPBThanks to Commander Guan and Doctor Sheng’s brainwashing technology, all hope for a fair election in the Earth Kingdom is lost. Korra works with Toph, Su, and Kuvira

Credit: David Baldeon (Marvel Comics) X-Factor is about to relaunch in the “Dawn of X” era courtesy of writer Leah Williams and David Baldeon – and to mark the occasion, Baldeon has taken up X-Factor tradition and given the team a line of matching uniforms. Here are Baldeon’s designs for, from left to right, Rachel

Credit: Jesús Merino/Vicente Cifuentes/Romulo Fajardo Jr. (DC) Credit: Jesús Merino (DC) Artist Jesús Merino has renewed his exclusivity agreement with DC, extending it for three additional years. He recently drew a story in January’s Wonder Woman #750, and will return for a two-issue stint with April’s #755 and #756. “Somebody in DC had the great

Credit: Andrea Sorrentino (DC/Black Label) Credit: Andrea Sorrentino (DC/Black Label) Writer Jeff Lemire and artist Andrea Sorrentino are following up their three-issue DC Black Label series Joker: Killer Smile, with a one-issue Batman-centric epilogue titled Batman: The Smile Killer. First reported by Syfy Wire, Batman: The Smile Killer is scheduled to debut May 13. This

Credit: Stjepan Šejić (DC/Black Label) Stjepan Šejic’s DC Black Label series Harleen is complete and now out in a special hardcover, but as the author tells Newsarama the story is far from over. And he doesn’t just mean for Harley Quinn. After Harleen‘s hardcover release February 5 (coinciding with Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous