Month: January 2020

Credit: Cleopatra Entertainment The official trailer for New Jersey doom rocker Glenn Danzig’s directorial debut Verotika has premiered via Entertainment Weekly. Verotika is a horror anthology film inspired by Danzig’s line of Verotik Comics – and it’s described as a “cult” film and “midnight movie”.  You can see why for yourself right here: Verotika is

Credit: Marvel Comics Credit: Marvel Comics During Marvel’s upcoming Empyre event, the Fantastic Four will venture into space to confront the united Kree/Skrull empire. And as they’ve done in the past, they’ll call upon a substitute squad to fill in on Earth while they’re gone. As revealed via CBR, Spider-Man and Wolverine will rejoin the FF in

Last year, Marvel Comics and Wacom, a Japanese-based company popular with artists for their graphic tablets, joined forces to conduct a nationwide talent search throughout China. Now Marvel is beginning to show off the work of artists they discovered during the search in a series of “Chinese New Year” variant covers. “It was a thrill

Credit: The CW Following the “special episode” of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Tuesday night which capped off “Crisis on Infinite Earths,” The CW has released a trailer for the upcoming season that is less about the surprising new status quo and more about timey-wimey stuff… wait, wrong show. Take a look: [embedded content] DC’s Legends

Credit: Steph Desiato (Flat Squirrel Productions) One of the big problems facing the comic industry is “way too many books,” according to Image Comics Publisher Eric Stephenson. “Comic book stores can’t keep up with ordering them, there’s just too much to keep track of, and if a specialty market catering to this specific type of

Credit: CW With the just-wrapped “Crisis on Infinite Earths” crossover, CW has rebuilt its Arrowverse reality from the ground up, uniting its heroes on one Earth, as a team – and even introducing some legendary DC heroes to the Arrowverse. Among the cameos and special guest stars (Ezra Miller, anyone?) a reference introducing one classic

Credit: Marvel Comics Credit: Marvel Comics Press Release Writers Al Ewing, Dan Slott and Valerito Schiti bring you 2020’s earth-shattering event, EMPYRE! In preparation for this monumental addition to the Marvel Mythos, we’ve been revisiting the classic stories that have led up to it. In four stunning teasers, the industry’s top artists have reenvisioned events

Dawn of X connecting variant Credit: Mark Bagley (Marvel Comics) X-Men group editor Jordan D. White says that a “Dawn of X” crossover is in the works – with big plans for Marvel’s mutants coming in December. “We’ve announced a couple of new books, and we have a few more to announce yet,” White told Marvel.com. “We’ve

Credit: Marvel Comics Credit: Marvel Comics Marvel comics has announced iWolverine, a series spinning out of the just-launched Iron Man 2020 event. The title was first mentioned in a checklist inside this week’s Iron Man 2020 #1. Though no plot details have been released, the series’ title implies that a version of Wolverine – possibly

Credit: The CW Credit: The CW The Arrow-verse’s “Crisis on Infinite Earths” crossover concluded Tuesday with a two-hour finale between episoes of Arrow and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. What happened? Let us tell you… Don’t remember what happened before? Read our recaps of the Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 at the links. Spoilers

Credit: The CW The CW’s The Flash lead Grant Gustin has shared his thoughts on last night’s surprise appearance by DC Films’ Flash (played by Ezra Miller) in the final parts of the “Crisis on Infinite Earths” crossover. Make sure to click through to see the ‘behind the scenes’ set photos Gustin shared. When asked

Credit: Babs Tarr (Image Comics) Credit: Image Comics Over the past few years, several Image Comics creators have hit ‘pause’ on their creator-owned titles with the publisher, and announced plans to switch to an OGN-only format. Motor Crush, Moonstruck, and Crowded have all announced the change, and it’s not just at Image: Kurt Busiek’s long-running

Check out a preview of this week’s Vampirella/Red Sonja #5. Vampirella/Red Sonja #5writer: Jordie Bellaire  |  artist:  Drew Mosscovers: Julian Totino Tedesco (A), Babs Tarr (B), Ben Oliver (C), Leonardo Romero & Jordie Bellaire (D), Shannon Kingston Cosplay Cover (E), Drew Moss “Then and Now” Variant (F), Drew Moss “Then and Now” Variant (RI-B/W)FC  | 

Credit: DC Spinning out of the recent animated film Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (and the limited series it was based on), DC has released figures for that crossover franchise – include Ra’s Al Ghul and Shredder figures exclusive to Gamestop. Here’s the basics: Both figures stand at about six inches each, with Shredder about a

Credit: DC Credit: DC Four unlikely allies will come together as a new version of classic DC espionage organization Checkmate this April in a six-issue limited series from Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev. Spinning out of the duo’s revent series Event Leviathan in which the malicious mysterious espionage group Leviathan – led by the

Credit: Peter Bollinger (Scholastic) Credit: Chris Grine (Scholastic Graphix) K.A. Applegate’s memorable Animorphs franchise returns this year – not as prose novels, but graphic novels. Scholastic Graphix has announced (via A.V. Club), Animorphs: The Invasion by writer/artist Chris Grines, based on the first installment of the long-running prose novel series. “It’s a huge relief to

Credit: Marvel Comics Several new titles – and new issues of exisiting titles – have been announced on Marvel’s The Pull List video show. Tying into the upcoming Black Widow film, Taskmaster and the duo of Red Guardian and Yelena Belova are getting their own titles (the latter, titled Widowmakers). There’s also a one-shot, Black

Credit: Marvel Studios A purported synopsis for Marvel Studios’ Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness has surfaced on film industry site Backstage. Backstage posts casting notices for productions taking place in London, New York, Atlanta, Los Angeles, and other cities. The publication posted a synopsis for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness as part of

Credit: Marvel Studios [Editor’s Note: New visual evidence from a just-released special look at Black Widow may provide new clues about what the trailer’s potential misdirection is all about. We’ll get into it as you read on in an updated version of our December 2019 story…] The first Black Widow trailer dropped toward the end of last

Credit: Marvel Studios Walt Disney Studios released a preview of their complete 2020 film slate Tuesday morning, and included is a new, expanded synopsis of November’s Eternals that ties the events of the film directly to Avengers: Endgame and also indicates it is culling plot elements from Neil Gaiman’s 2008 limited series. Here’s the new,

Credit: Marvel Comics Wil Moss and a Loki cosplayer from C2E2 2016 Credit: Wil Moss Six-year Marvel Comics veteran Wil Moss has been promoted to Senior Editor. Moss oversees Thor, Black Panther, Strikeforce, Immortal Hulk, Captain Marvel, Valkyrie: Jane Foster, and other titles, as well as the recent War of the Realms event. “Hey guess

Credit: Phil Noto (Marvel Comics) Credit: Phil Noto (Marvel Comics) A third promotional image for Marvel’s upcoming Empyre event series has been released. “The Aftermath of the Kree-Skrull War led to an unholy alliance…” reads the copy accompanying the image. Like the first two, this image by Phil Noto is apparently a scene from Marvel’s

Credit: Raina Telgemeier (Graphix) Credit: Jillian Tamaki (First Second) A Florida-based conversative group is asking state’s Attorney General to deem certain books – including several notable graphic novels – as pornography and prosecute public schools that allow students to have that material, according to Tampa Bay Times. The Florida Citizens Alliance has shared a list

Robin arrives in the 31st century in this preview of January 15’s Legion of Super-Heroes #3 (via DCComics.com). LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #3written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDISart by TRAVIS MOOREcover by RYAN SOOKcard stock variant cover by JIM CHEUNGYou knew there was no way Jon Kent was going to leave his best friend behind! Welcome to

Credit: Sony Pictures Jared Leto cuts a strong line between your average superhero and his superhero in Sony Pictures’ Morbius – it’s all about the gray area. “Inside of Morbius, there’s a person who has a moral code. There’s a good person. Ultimately it’s that common struggle between good and evil. And, I guess, we’ll

Credit: Marvel Comics Credit: Marvel Comics Credit: Marvel Comics Writer Leah Williams and artist David Baldeon will launch a ‘Dawn of X’-era volume of X-Factor focusing on “The Five” – the mutants who collectively resurrect dead mutants. Announced through Polygon, X-Factor brings together a team of Prodigy, Polaris, Rachel Grey, Eye Boy, and Daken under the

Credit: Sony Pictures A fresh, hot, bloody Morbius trailer just dropped – and in a rare move, it actually included a kinda crazy “stinger” of sorts. Similar to a Marvel Studios style post-credits scene, the final shot of the trailer includes an apparent appearance from another Spider-Man villain – but not Sony’s Venom.  [embedded content]

Credit: Sony Pictures The first trailer for Sony Pictures’ Morbius has premiered. Starring Jared Leto in the title role as the vampiric Michael Morbius, the film is the first expansion of Sony’s Universe of Marvel Characters, which kicked off with the Spider-Man-adjacent Venom. Check it out: [embedded content] “One of Marvel’s most compelling and conflicted