Month: April 2019

Credit: DC Get your first look at DC Universe’s Swamp Thing in this new “reveal” video released by DC. Take a look: [embedded content] This comes just hours after reports surfaced of troubles on the Swamp Thing set. Swamp Thing is scheduled to debut May 31 on the DC Universe streaming service.

John Cena Credit: Kathy Hutchins / Shutterstock.com Wrestler and actor John Cena is reportedly in talks to join the cast of writer/director James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad, according to Variety. The role Cena is reportedly in talks for has not been revealed. The cast already includes Margot Robbie, reprising her role as Harley Quinn, and Idris Elba,

Credit: Boris Pelcer (BOOM! Studios) Credit: Boris Pelcer (BOOM! Studios) More details about BOOM! Studios’ surprise launch of a new Angel ongoing title have been revealed in the company’s letter to retailers. The series, which was announced just one week ago, debuted Wednesday. “Welcome to the very first issue of our new Angel monthly comic

Credit: Marvel Comics It’s been a bad week in the Marvel Universe. Across four of this week’s biggest books, heroes are dropping like flies – with big name heroes apparently dying left and right. But just how permanent is death in the Marvel Universe? For some of this week’s marquee casualties, there’s a light at

Credit: DC Production on DC Universe’s Swamp Thing has unexpectedly shutdown as the show will be shortened, according to Wilmington, North Carolina’s Star-News newspaper. According to several unnamed “sources within the local industry,” Warner Bros. Television suspended work on the show Tuesday, April 16 and said the show was being re-written to end with episode

Alison Pill Credit: Kathy Hutchins / Shutterstock.com Harry Treadaway Credit: Featureflash Photo Agency / Shutterstock.com CBS All Access’ still-untitled Jean-Luc Picard-centric Star Trek spin-off series has added three actors in regular roles, via Deadline. Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World actor Alison Pill, Penny Dreadful‘s Harry Treadaway, and American Crime Story‘s Isa Briones have all been cast in

Credit: Michael Avon Oeming/Taki Soma (IDW Publishing) Credit: Michael Avon Oeming/Taki Soma (IDW Publishing) Got Dick? Michael Avon Oeming does, and so will readers beginning April 24 when Dick Tracy Forever! #1 (of 4) debuts from IDW Publishing. Oeming is writing and drawing the series with his long-time collaborator/wife Taki Soma coloring this ‘square one’

Phoebe Waller-Bridge Credit: Featureflash Photo Agency / Shutterstock.com Credit: Jamie McKelvie/Matthew Wilson (Image Comics) While Phonogram has been on hiatus for three years, writer/co-creator Kieron Gillen still has it on his mind – and has come up with an intriguing idea for who could play one of the characters should the project ever be adapted

Credit: Christian Ward (Valiant Entertainment) The creative team behind the previously-teased X-O Manowar relaunch have been revealed on Twitter by Valiant Entertainment editor Heather Antos. “You heard it here first! A brand new X-O Manowar ongoing series from Dennis Hopeless, Emilio Laiso, Ruth Redmond, and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, with covers by Christian Ward coming your way

Credit: Marvel Comics Credit: Moy R (Marvel Comics) West Coast Avengers has come to an end with this week’s #10 from writer Kelly Thompson and artist Moy R.  Thompson penned a letter, printed in the back of the issue, which thanks both her fellow creators and fans for their commitment to the title. Here’s the

Credit: Comic Toolbox Credit: Comic Toolbox Press Release A 10-ISSUE MAXI-SERIES FROM SIMON FURMAN & GEOFF SENIORCO-CREATORS OF DEATH’S HEAD & ACCLAIMED TRANSFORMERS CREATIVE TEAMA BOLD NEW PUBLISHING PARTNERSHIP – BRINGING COMICS DIRECT TO STORES AND FANS With over 30 years experience producing comics for Marvel, IDW, Dynamite, Titan and more, the fan-favourite creative team

Credit: Dynamite Entertainment Credit: Dynamite Entertainment Press Release For the first time ever, the Angels meet the Bionic in the crazy 80’s in Charlie’s Angels/Bionic Woman, from Dynamite Entertainment. Bringing together Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Charlie’s Angels and Universal’s Bionic Woman is a first in comics and a winning crossover event in print. Charlie gives his

In 1980, we kinda thought that the good guys were always going win. Sure, there had been losses, and Thunderbird had died, but we honestly didn’t think that things would ever go so badly that a hero would take their own life to save the universe. Then there was Jean Grey. In the final issue

Credit: Marvel Comics This week’s Avengers: No Road Home #10 by writers Mark Waid, Al Ewing, and Jim Zub and artists Sean Izaakse, Marcio Menyz, and Erick Arciniega marks the weekly series’ finale – and the start of some new chapters for the heroes of the story. Here’s how the heroes of No Road Home’s

Credit: Marvel Comics Credit: Marvel Comics Credit: Marvel Comics Press Release Marvel’s most iconic heroes meet their match against some of Marvel’s most vicious villains in a fight that can only be known as ACTS OF EVIL! From Ms. Marvel to Venom, epic encounters will ensue as Marvel’s greatest heroes battle against enemies they have

Credit: Rob Liefeld (Marvel Comics) Credit: Rob Liefeld (Marvel Comics) Rob Liefeld has said that the recently-introduced Major X character at Marvel has been in his drawer for decades, and now that he has debuted – and his secret identity revealed – he returns this week with Major X #2 For those that missed it,

Credit: 20th Century Fox Dark Phoenix‘s Jean Grey, Sophie Turner, has posted a message for “X-Men fans” on the X-Men Movies Twitter, promising a “special surprise” coming on Wednesday. Check it out: X-Men fans, @SophieT has a message for you. pic.twitter.com/deJ2sdTb4Y — X-Men Movies (@XMenMovies) April 16, 2019 Could a new trailer for the movie,

Check out a preview of this week’s Peter Cannon Thunderbolt #4. Peter Cannon Thunderbolt #4writer: Kieron Gillenartist: Caspar Wijngaardcovers: Kris Anka (A), Paulina Ganucheau (B)              Caspar Wijngaard (C),FC  |  32 pages  |  Superhero  |  $3.99  |  Teen+A thousand dimensions from ours. All Earths’ best hopes, resting on our heroes’ fight. They’ve got everything… except a

Credit: Marvel Studios Avengers: Endgame directors Joe and Anthony Russo have taken to Twitter to ask – nay, demand, with the help of Thanos himself – that fans not spoil the film’s many surprises. ”To the best fans in the world,” begins the note, seen below. “This is it. This is the end. The end

Credit: Jordi Perez/Dearbhla Kelly/Kim McLean (Vault Comics) Credit: Jordi Perez/Dearbhla Kelly/Kim McLean (Vault Comics) Ideas live in our minds, but when put into the world they have a life of their own. They can influence good or bad outcomes. Writer Danny Lore and artist Jordi Perez’s Queen of Bad Dreams takes this idea to set

Credit: Lionsgate Credit: Lionsgate Lionsgate’s R-Rated Hellboy reboot eeked out a $22 million opening weekend globally, according to Variety. That breaks down to $10m internationally and $12m in North America, which is 25% less than the $16m tracking numbers expected. The film was shown in 3,303 locations in North America, and 41 markets abroad. According

Credit: Disney XD Disney Channel has renewed its Big Hero 6 animated series for a third season, according to Deadline. The renewal arrives ahead of the second season’s May 6 premiere. The series is adapted from the Disney animated film, which is in turn a loose adaptation of the Marvel Comics characters. The upcoming second season features

Credit: Skybound/Image Credit: Skybound/Image Credit: Skybound/Image Credit: Skybound/Image Writer Justin Jordan and artist Rebekah Isaacs will create Reaver, a brutal new fantasy series for Skybound through Image Comics. Launching in July, Reaver tells the story of “Hell’s Half-Dozen” – a collection of six of the worst criminals the world of Madaras has to offer. In

Credit: Jim Cheung/Walden Wong (Marvel Comics) Walden Wong Credit: Walden Wong Press Release The Inkwell Awards released the list of winners of its 11th annual awards for excellence in the art form of comic-book inking. Nominees were chosen by a separate and independent nomination committee. This year the process was enhanced by inviting professional ink

Credit: Nintendo Nintendo of America has unveiled the cover art and release date for the Switch-exclusive Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order. The sequel, the first game in the Ultimate Alliance series since 2009’s Ultimate Alliance 2, will arrive exclusively on Nintendo Switch on July 19. The search for the Infinity Stones is on.

Credit: The CW BD Wong Credit: DFree / Shutterstock.com BD Wong is voicing the DC supervillain Godspeed for CW’s The Flash. The casting was revealed in Tuesday’s “Godspeed” episode of the show. Godspeed is revealed when Nora West-Allen (played by Jessica Parker Kennedy) is attacked while investigating a string of medical lab robberies. Wong comes

Credit: Dave Wilkins (Marvel Comics) Credit: Dave Wilkins (Marvel Comics) Wolverine and Blade are facing off in a new one-shot coming this July from writer Marc Guggenheim and artist Dave Wilkins, as first reported by Monkeys Fighting Robots.   Wolverine vs. Blade Special #1 is due out this July, and according to Guggenheim has been in

Credit: FX The showrunners of FX’s Y: The Last Man (which has been shortened to just “Y“) have announced their exit from the series over disagreement with the network. Aida Mashaka Croal broke the news on her own Twitter, in a letter co-signed with co-showrunner Michael Green. “Sad news for fans of Y: The Last