Month: May 2020

Credit: Marvel Comics Credit: Marvel Comics This week, new weekly comic books from Marvel Comics returns after a long hiatus due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic – and one of the titles leading the charge is Venom #25 from writer Donny Cates and artist Mark Bagley. Following one of the longest pauses in mainstream weekly

Credit: DC Credit: DC Justice League #45Written by Robert VendittiArt by Eddy Barrows, Eber Ferriera and Romulo Fajardo, Jr.Lettering by Tom NapolitanoPublished by DCReview by David Pepose‘Rama Rating: 5 out of 10 Credit: DC With the Spectre running wild, the Justice League find themselves at each other’s throats, and while that cape-versus-cape action is enough

Credit: Nick Anderson Credit: CBLDF Press Release Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, the comics industry’s voice for free speech advocacy, is leading a coalition protesting the removal of a cartoon satirizing President Donald Trump by Pulitzer Prize–winning editorial cartoonist Nick Anderson from the online marketplace Redbubble. The cartoon constitutes speech protected by the First Amendment,

test Birds of Prey: Sirens of Justice #1Writer: Gail SimoneArtists: Inaki Miranda, John Kalisz and Travis Lanham“Fight or Flight”When a new hospital collapses into a sinkhole in the middle of Gotham City, Harley Quinn tries to convince Huntress and Black Canary to investigate. But can the Birds of Prey really trust the Clown Princess of

Credit: DC Hero Initiative, the charity dedicated to helping comic book creators in medical or financial need, has announced their line-up for a new week of a series of live experiences featuring comic book creators providing question-and-answer sessions, tutorials, and original art in Zoom online webconference rooms.  The new “Hero Initiative Live” events are currently available

Credit: DC Credit: DC Credit: DC DC has added Birds of Prey to the line-up of stories being made available digitally for the first time. “Fight or Flight” by Gail Simone was originally published earlier this year as part of the Birds of Prey 100-Page Giant and will debut digitally Wednesday May 27 under the title Birds of

Hasbro has embraced the style of the 90s Spider-Man animated series with a collection of Marvel Legends figures based on the classic era and show. Along with Spider-Man, an interchangeable Gwen Stacy/Mary Jane figure, Green Goblin, Electro, and more Spidey characters, Marvel Legends has also unveiled an Age of Apocalypse style Apocalypse, a new A.I.M.

Credit: Luciano Vecchio Credit: Luciano Vecchio Marvel’s New Warriors artist Luciano Vecchio has taken the ball from Newsarams’s week long “Amalgam Again” event and run with it, creating several entries of his own so far to pay homage to the late 90s Marvel/DC Amalgam event that created mash-ups of their characters. This time, Vecchio has unleashed

Credit: DC Credit: DC Because DC has embraced a “multi-distributor model” that now includes Diamond Comic Distributors, Lunar and UCS, the publisher apparently needed to create a new monthly solicitation catalog that wasn’t exclusive to Diamond, and Friday they announced that will take the form of DC Connect. “This downloadable, digital-only catalog features solicitation information

Thursday DC showed off all the ‘Decade’ variants to June 23’s Green Lantern 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular #1. Friday they’re showing off interior pages from the $9.99 100-page prestige format special.  The first look includes pages from 4 stories, including:  Last Will by Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis “The team that brought you Sinestro Corps War

Credit: Marvel Comics Credit: Marvel Comics Marvel Comics is getting back in the swing of weekly comics starting May 27 after a long pause on shipping new issues due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. And one of the titles leading the return to the direct market is Avengers #33, the launch of a new arc

Credit: Universal Pictures Back to the Future II writer Bob Gale has responded to fans who noticed Netflix’s recently streaming version of the film’s content, which included a small edit that removed the cover of an adult magazine from a scene in the movie. The scene, in which Marty McFly conceals an adult magazine in

‘Avatar’ poster Credit: 20th Century Fox Director James Cameron will resume filming his planned Avatar sequels in New Zealand following a halt due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Producer Jon Landau broke the news on his Instagram, sharing a photo from the set of the film along with a message, stating “Our Avatar sets are

Credit: Jorge Corona (BOOM! Studios) BOOM! Studios has released a trailer for its upcoming new series Wynd from writer James Tynion IV and artist Michael Dialynas, who previously collaborated on The Woods.  The series tells the story of a young boy named Wynd who lives in a world where magic is forbidden – who must

Credit: DC Credit: DC As Brian Michael Bendis’ Superman returns with issue #22, the story features a space battle drawn by Kevin Maguire as well as some more down-to-earth fall-out from Clark Kent’s exposed identity. Bendis shared with Newsarama his plans for Superman — as well as mentions of a Torso TV show and upcoming

Credit: ABC Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 7 premieres later this month, beginning the end of the long-running Marvel Cinematic Universe spin-off show. Lead actor Clark Gregg has anchored the show for all seven seasons, even predating it as one of the characters who launched the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2008’s Iron Man. Now, with his

Credit: Big Talk Films Director Edgar Wright has announced that his film Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, which adapts the Brian Lee O’Malley comic book of the same name, will return to cinemas in the near future. Wright tweeted the news following a watch-along of the film, stating the re-release was originally planned for this

Credit: Marvel Comics Credit: Marvel Comics Following this week’s previous report that Sony is developing a female-led superhero team film potentially focused on Madame Web, another expansion to Sony’s Universe of Marvel Characters has been reported – this time a solo movie for Jackpot, a minor Spider-Man villain/ally who debuted during the “Brand New Day” era.

In June DC is celebrating the publication of May 1940’s All-American Comics #16 by artist Martin Nodell and writer Bill Finger, the first appearance of Alan Scott-Green Lantern. And when Green Lantern 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular #1 publishes on June 23, the $9.99 prestige-format special will feature a series of decade variants featuring all the major Green Lanterns since, including Hal Jordan, John Stewart,

Credit: Kathy Hutchins / Shutterstock.com The big screen’s newest police Commissioner James Gordon, actor Jeffrey Wright, is doing a little talking about The Batman while production of Matt Reeves’ now-October 2021 film is on pause.  Thursday, Wright was a guest on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show, where according to the Hollywood Reporter he offered these

Marvel Comics has released its August 2020 solicitations, largely pieced together from titles that were not released in April and May along with titles that were rescheduled from June and July due to comic book distribution interruptions stemming from coronavirus. Here’s a gallery of all 50 comic book covers from Marvel’s August solicitations. You can

Credit: The CW Ruby Rose announced this week that she would leave the lead role of Batwoman before the show’s second season, with CW to recast. But with no explanation for her departure, speculation as to the reason for her exit has been rampant. Now Variety reports they’ve uncovered the reason for Rose’s exit. Citing multiple unnamed sources,

Credit: Marvel Comics Marvel Comics has released their August 2020 solicitations, which, along with the debut of the new Maestro limited series and companion collection of the original, is mostly resolicited items that did not go on sale as scheduled during Diamond Comic Distributors’ suspension of services.  We’ll be adding the full solicits in the

Credit: Netflix The first trailer for Netflix’s The Old Guard released Thursday morning, delving into the secret history of the immortal mercenaries.   [embedded content] Credit: Netflix Based on the Image Comics series by Greg Rucka and Leandro Fernández, here’s Netflix’s official decription of the “gritty, grounded, action-packed story that shows living forever is harder than