Check out a preview of next week’s Thor #3. THOR #3DONNY CATES (W) • NIC KLEIN (A)Cover by OLIVIER COIPELVariant cover by RYAN BROWNGWEN STACY VARIANT COVER BY DALE KEOWNTHE BATTLE OF TWO STORMS!It’s Mjolnir versus Stormbreaker as Thor’s old ally Beta Ray Bill makes a thunderous entrance! But what has put the twofriends at
Month: February 2020
Credit: FX Barry Keoghan Credit: lev radin / Shutterstock.com FX’s beleagured Y: The Last Man television series has lost its leading man Barry Keoghan, according to Collider. Keoghan was announced to play Yorick Brown, and already filmed a pilot for the show before a “big reboot” in the show’s direction and showrunners. The Killing‘s Eliza
Credit: Amanda Conner/Paul Mounts (Image Comics) There’s a big superhero film hitting theaters this week – Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) – and much of Margot Robbie’s take on Harley Quinn is taken squarely from Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti’s indelible mark on the character. In fact, the husband-and-wife
Credit: IDW Publishing Credit: IDW Publishing Two beloved and nostalgic toy franchises are crossing over this summer in a genre-bending, weekly comic book event. My Little Pony / Transformers a four-issue comic book event will launch May 6 from IDW Publishing and licensor Hasbro. Framed by IDW as “the wildest crossover of Hasbro creations ever”
Credit: Kathy Hutchins / Shutterstock.com Traffic actor Benjamin Bratt has joined the cast of HBO Max’s Ava Duvernay-directed TV pilot adaptation of DC/Vertigo’s DMZ, according to Deadline. Bratt will reportedly play Parco Delgado, the leader of one of the gangs that has seized territory in the war-torn demilitarized zone that comprises much of New York City, and
Credit: Lewis LaRosa (Bad Idea) Credit: Bad Idea A group of former Valiant Comics executives and creators have teamed up to form Bad Idea, a new publisher focused on high-end comic books available through an extremely limited number of stores – 20 to be exact, to start out with. Bad Idea’s plans are to produce
Credit: Marvel Comics Credit: Marvel Comics Press Release The line in the sand has been drawn! The seeds were planted in the pages of HOUSE OF X and now a battle blooms! Every mutant on Earth lives on Krakoa…except one. Franklin, the son of Reed and Sue Richards of the Fantastic Four, has a life-altering
Credit: Marvel Studios Doctor Strange co-star Rachel McAdams will not return for the film’s 2021 sequel Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, according to Variety. This unconfirmed report was slipped into the larger story of Marvel Studios courting Sam Raimi as replacement director for the film, replacing the exiting Scott Derrickson. The Hollywood trade
Credit: DC Credit: Tony S. Daniel (DC) Batman #88Written by James Tynion IVArt by Guillem March and Tomeu MoreyLettering by Clayton CowlesPublished by DCReview by Pierce Lydon‘Rama Rating: 5 out of 10 Three issues in, and James Tynion IV’s time with Batman so far has been… fine. Currently, the book feels unsettled. Tynion has been
Credit: Columbia Pictures So Marvel Studios might shift their recent directorial strategy somewhat and instead of hiring a younger and/or up-and-coming director as is their recent modus operandi, they may look veteran Sam Raimi’s way in replacing Scott Derrickson to direct May 2021’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Yes… that Sam Raimi… Avi Arad,
Meet Sir Francis Lodge – vampire, pirate, and more – in this preview of March 4’s Vampironica: New Blood #3. VAMPIRONICA: NEW BLOOD #3 (of 4)Who is Sir Francis Lodge? And how did Vampironica’s ancestor play such a pivotal role in the emergence of vampirism in America? Join us for a journey through time as
Credit: John Jennings (Rosarium Publishing) Credit: John Jennings (Rosarium Publishing) Press Release On Monday, February 10, 2020, Rosarium Publishing will launch its Kickstarter campaign for Box of Bones, a graphic novel project from Ayize Jama-Everett and two-time Eisner Award winning, New York Times Best Selling artist John Jennings. When Black graduate student, Lyndsey, begins her
Credit: McFarlane Toys/DC Credit: McFarlane Toys/DC Credit: McFarlane Toys/DC There have been dozens of Harley Quinn figures since her inception, but this one blurs that line between DC Universe Classics and a Batman: The Animated Series style. Though technically not branded as part of the TAS line in this wave, Timm’s distinctive linework shines through
Credit: McFarlane Toys/DC Credit: McFarlane Toys/DC Credit: McFarlane Toys/DC What is it about archer characters that make their figure damn near impossible to pose right? Oh, right. Their bows. The sculpt alone is masterful as McFarlane Toys captured actor Stephen Amell’s likeness that differs ever so slightly more than the previous line of Multiverse figures.
Credit: Randy Bish (Moordam Comics) Credit: Randy Bish (Moordam Comics) 125 years after his debut, the Yellow Kid is returning in 2020 for his first original comic book. Writer/publisher Chris Yambar and artist Randy Bish have created the now-public domain character’s first non-reprint comic book, Hully Gee, It’s The Yellow Kid (‘Hully Gee!” is one
Credit: Netflix Credit: Netflix Locke & Key: Season One, Episode one, “Welcome to Matheson”Directed by Michael MorrisWritten by Joe Hill and Aron Eli ColeiteStarring Darby Stanchfield, Connor Jessup, Emilia Jones, Jackson Robert Scott, Petrice Jones, Laysla De Oliveira.Airing on Netflix February 7‘Rama Rating: 9 out of 10 After almost a decade of false starts and
Credit: CW The Peanuts Movie actor Alexander Garfin and Little Fires Everywhere‘s Jordan Elsass have been cast as the sons of Clark Kent and Lois Lane for CW’s Superman and Lois according to Deadline. Elsass will play Jonathan Kent, described by the trade as “clean-cut, modest and kind-hearted, with an aw-shucks attitude that somehow doesn’t seem dated.”
Credit: DC DC has announced its Free Comic Book Day 2020 offerings, leading with Generation Zero – a one-shot which ties in to the newly-revised DC timeline that became canon with Wonder Woman #750, and sets the stage for the “future of the DC Universe.” Featuring a new story by Flash Forward writer Scott Lobdell
Credit: Bad Idea Newsarama has received a teaser from former Valiant Entertainment spokesperson Hunter Gorinson promoting a new comics publishing company launching this year – one that has a host of fellow Valiant alums. “Your new favorite comic book publisher,” reads the teaser text, included with the above graphic. “Announcement tomorrow. Art by Doug Braithwaite,
By Pierce Lydon, Best Shots Reviewer February 5, 2020 09:30am ET Credit: Warner Bros. Credit: Warner Bros. Birds of Prey (and The Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)Directed by Cathy YanScreenplay by Christina HodsonStarring Margot Robbie, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Rosie Perez, Ella Jay Basco, Ewan McGregorProduced by Margot Robbie, Bryan Unkeless, Sue Kroll‘Rama
Credit: Kris Anka/Brian Reber/Ferran Delgado (Marvel Comics) Credit: J. Scott Campbell (Marvel Comics) Kris Anka returns to Marvel this week for the first of a two-part story in Black Cat. Felicia is one of the California-based artist’s favorite Marvel characters, but this has become even more of a special arc as the former Uncanny X-Men
Credit: Paramount Pictures Snake Eyes star Henry Golding has posted a first look photo at the film on his personal Instagram. The black and white photo, seen below, appears to showa person in ninja-esque garb. Could it be Golding as Snake Eyes? Possibly, but if so it’s without the character’s iconic mask. Check it out:
Hot Wheels Credit: Marecku / Shutterstock.com Credit: Joel Magee Toy collector and historian Joel Magee, who bills himself as “America’s Toy Scout”, has uncovered an extremely rare Hot Wheels car he says is worth up to $100,000. Discovered as part of a small collection among relatively-more common Hot Wheels, the car is a Hong Kong-manufactured
Check out a preview of April 29’s Unpresidented, a hardcover collection of Kieron Dwyer’s political cartoons. UNPRESIDENTED HCWRITER / ARTIST / COVER: KIERON DWYERAPRIL 29 / 152 PAGES / FC / T+ / $19.99TRIM SIZE 9 x 6Taking aim at hypocrisy, greed, stupidity, and cultural chaos in the age of Trump, UNPRESIDENTED features a wide
When a Harley-centric follow-up to Suicide Squad was first being dreamt up, ths idea of a Birds of Prey films was percolating concurrently with a Gotham City Sirens movie – the latter another team comic book, but with Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy and Catwoman. While that’s not what we ended up getting, it’s easy to
Sam Raimi Credit: Featureflash Photo Agency / Shutterstock.com Credit: Marvel Studios Sam Raimi is in talks to direct Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness following the previous departure of director Scott Derrickson, according to Variety. The Hollywood trade reports production is scheduled to begin in May, necessitating a quick hiring for whoever takes the
Credit: Erik Larsen/Edgar Delgado (Marvel Comics) Credit: Marvel Comics This week’s Captain America: The End #1 ended the issue with a credits page that mistakenly credited Stan Lee as co-creator of the titular hero. While the book reads that “Captain America created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby,” it was actually Joe Simon and Jack
DC is showing off pages from artist Jorge Jiménez’s debut along with writer James Tynion IV and colorist Tomeu Morey on March 4’s Batman #90, a chapter that leads in May’s “Joker War” in Batman #95. The pages show of Jiménez’s inks of Harley Quinn, Catwoman, the Designer, the Joker, Riddler and Penguin next to Morey’s
Credit: Judd Winick (Random House Books for Young Readers) Credit: Judd Winick (Random House Books for Young Readers) When Judd Winick decided to return to his first love, cartooning – launching the all-ages Hilo graphic novel series in 2015 – he had no idea how long he’d be able to continue. After all, Winick had
Credit: Marvel Comics Credit: Marvel Comics Ant-Man #1Written by Zeb WellsArt by Dylan Burnett and Mike SpicerLettering by Cory PetitPublished by Marvel Comics‘Rama Rating: 7 out of 10 Credit: Marvel Comics Scott Lang makes his return as a headliner in Ant-Man #1, and while it takes a bit for this story to warm up, once