Month: June 2021

With the pandemic likely having delayed the release of Stranger Things Season 4 until sometime in 2022, fans of the franchise have had, and will have, plenty of time to speculate about what might be coming in the show’s fourth and even fifth seasons. One of best places to look for clues is the Duffer brothers’

Now it’s been long enough to officially call the PlayStation 5 a “current gen” system, comparisons can begin to be made between PS5 and PS4 games. The fact that the previous generation lasted about eight years means it’s only natural that games released near the beginning of the generation have begun to show their age, with certain games being more

Over the years, the Hulk has easily earned his reputation as one of the strongest Avengers. Unfortunately, that extreme power demands an immense amount of trust from any other hero working alongside the Green Goliath. The early Avengers comics provided the strongest evidence of this, as many of the original members saw the Hulk as too dangerous.

Army of the Dead director Zack Snyder weighed in on the film’s time loop theory and whether there’s actual evidence for the idea. The time loop theory is based on a scene that takes place about halfway through Snyder’s zombie movie. Upon reaching the vault inside Bly Tanaka’s abandoned Vegas casino, the safecracker Dieter and

Much to the community’s dismay, it is becoming increasingly obvious that Nintendo has little direction for the F-Zero series and will likely not be releasing a new title in the foreseeable future as a result. However, there is still hope that the franchise may persist, but that hope lies in a different studio. The team

WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for DC Horror Presents: The Conjuring: The Lover #1 from Scott Snyder, Denys Cown, Chris Sotomayor and Becca Carey, on sale now. With The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It out now, DC is exploring more of this malevolent universe through backstories in The Conjuring: The Lover. The first issue provides

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Batwoman Season 2, Episode 15, “Armed and Dangerous,” which aired Sunday on The CW. Those familiar with Luke Fox in the DC Comics Universe know the character takes up the Batwing mantle after his predecessor, David Zavimbe, retires his cape and cowl. All the same, it was somewhat surprising

Despite the Demon Slayer anime’s title sharing the name of his very profession, Zenitsu Agatsuma is petrified by demons. Prone to extremely long-winded fits of hysterical screaming, some fans find the Thunder-Breathing swordsman to be over the top and annoying. However, his outright terror in the face of disfigured, evil monsters is much more relatable than

When the Assassin’s Creed series was in its early days, players were brought into the universe through the bartender-turned-Assassin Desmond Miles. He never knew about the Assassin Brotherhood and Templar Order, and Desmond never asked for the responsibility of saving the world. However, across each entry, Desmond slowly became ingrained in the Brotherhood, becoming an

The far reaches of the Marvel Universe are filled with the kind of threats that far outclass anything that can be found on Marvel’s main Earth. In 2010’s The Thanos Imperative, by Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning, Miguel Angel Sepulveda, Brad Walker and Andrew Hennesy, nightmarish, undying creatures from the Cancerverse dimension gave the Guardians of

WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Season 1 of Sweet Tooth, now streaming on Netflix. The first season of Netflix’s Sweet Tooth is an emotional rollercoaster that details Gus (Christian Convery) making the trek to Colorado to find his mom, the mysterious Birdie. He doesn’t want to be alone in a dangerous world that hates

Office relationships are a common trope in romance webtoons, where the line between professional and personal relationships can become blurred. As such, the subgenre typically plays on the power dynamic between boss and employee, acting as a form of forbidden love. As these co-workers spend more time together both inside and outside of the office, their professional

Jean Yoon, Mrs. Kim (or “Umma”) on the hit Canadian sitcom, Kim’s Convenience, is supporting her TV son, Simu Liu, in his complaints about how the cast of the sitcom was treated and that the lack of Asian voices in the writer’s room made the working experience on the show very difficult, especially some planned

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for “The Pageant of the Masters of Nocturnal Artistry” by Jason Aaron, R.M. Guera, Giulia Brusco, and VC’s Cory Petit, from Heroes Reborn #5, on sale now. In the Avengers-free reality of Heroes Reborn, Squadron Supreme member Nighthawk has long suspected that something is off about his world. After having

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Season 1 of Sweet Tooth, now streaming on Netflix. Netflix’s Sweet Tooth brings to life Jeff Lemire’s DC/Vertigo story about young Gus (Christian Convery), who’s taken to Colorado to find his mom by Jepperd (Nonso Anozie) and Bear (Stefania LaVie Owen). Throughout Season 1, he realizes the journey isn’t

Yuji’s limitless potential and Megumi’s stoic personality are nothing new to the world of shonen anime, but that doesn’t mean that Jujutsu Kaisen hasn’t introduced some incredibly innovative story aspects since its anime debut. RELATED: Jujutsu Kaisen: 10 Ways It Makes Boring Shonen Tropes Exciting Jujutsu Kaisen has pulled in a number of anime fans by bringing something new to classic

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Episode 9 of Mars Red, “Suspicion,” now streaming on Funimation. The main bad guy of Mars Red, General Nakajima, had a cunning plan to convince Japan’s military brass to open the coffers to finance special vampire attack units. Step one: hide his expenses behind Code Zero, a sad, under-funded sad

Zack Snyder is open to the idea of making a Dragon Ball Z movie and more generally interested in the idea of doing live-action remakes of anime. At the 14:49 mark in Tyrone Magnus’s YouTube interview with the Justice League/Army of the Dead director, Magnus asked Snyder, “Would you do an anime movie?” Snyder answered the

WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Savage Avengers #21 by Gerry Duggan, Patch Zircher, Java Tartaglia, and VC’s Travis Lanham, on sale now. The Marvel Universe has never been a particularly safe place, though rarely has it been quite as dangerous as in the pages of Savage Avengers. . Most recently, Conan has come face to

WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, now in theaters and on HBO Max. The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It proves to be more of a mystery than the other Conjuring movies that focused on hauntings confined to one location. In this case, the Warrens have

The post-credits scene of Season 2 of The Mandalorian made a lasting impression on Star Wars fans, even in the wake of Luke Skywalker’s cameo earlier in the episode. Boba Fett arrives at Jabba’s palace and kills Bib Fortuna, who apparently took over the Hutt’s empire after the events of Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of

Loki head writer Michael Waldron has commented on the possibility that the Disney+ series will feature a connection to a Marvel Cinematic Universe adaptation of Secret Wars. “We’ll see,” Waldron told Murphy’s Multiverse. “You’ll probably know, as well as I do, not everything is just in there. If the purpose of that whole was to just indoctrinate the audience and

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Link Click Episode 6, “Search of the Child”, now streaming on Funimation. In Episode 5 of Link Click, Cheng Xiaoshi’s trust in Lu Guang is broken. Lu Guang knew which moment Cheng Xiaoshi would be time-traveling to and also knew that three people he was going to meet would inevitably die

Channing Tatum’s R-rated George Washington and the rest of the Founding Fathers unite in a trailer for Netflix’s America: The Motion Picture. The trailer begins by reminding us this animated film comes “From the Founding Fathers who brought you Archer, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, The Expendables and Magic Mike.” The Magic Mike part then comes into play when a scene of

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Persona 5 Royal. While not Persona 5 Royal‘s most significant addition, Showtime attacks are cool combination moves that involve two of the Phantom Thieves teaming up to unleash a powerful attack on a single opponent. These are unlocked over the course of the main story and are triggered randomly in battle. Showtime

WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Heroes Reborn: American Knights #1 by Paul Grist, Chris Allen, Marc Deering, Guru-eFX, and VC’s Cory Petit, on sale now. Heroes Reborn has seen every corner of the Marvel Universe reshaped by the erasure of the Avengers from its timeline. While plenty of iconic villains still exist to

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for One Piece Chapter 1015 by Eiichiro Oda, Stephen Paul and Vanessa Satone, available in English now from Viz Media. An air of doubt and uncertainty has hung over Onigashima after Luffy was defeated by Kaido in the last few chapters of One Piece. What’s worse is that Kaido used

In most corners of the DC Universe, Batman is typically portrayed as a well-trained, formerly globe-trotting and vastly experienced fighter who pushes these skills to expert level in his quest to rid Gotham City of crime. That was definitely not the case, however, in Geoff Johns and Gary Frank’s Batman: Earth One. Set in the