Month: October 2021

Nintendo announced that Kingdom Heart‘s Sora will be the final character joining Super Smash Bros. Ultimate‘s extensive roster of fighters. Revealed during a live stream event, Sora was confirmed via a cinematic trailer. Narrated by game director Masahiro Sakurai, Sora’s design and moveset are explained in great detail. While he features a straightforward control scheme, Sora’s

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Only Murders in the Building Season 1, Episode 7, “The Boy from 6B,” now available on Hulu. In Only Murders in the Building, the sleuths have been thrown for a loop at every single juncture. Charles (Steve Martin) and Oliver (Martin Short) are all over, scrambling for clues for the

If there’s one thing horror anime are most known for, it’s copious amounts of gore. But while some horror anime used their blood and severed limbs to punctuate an already nightmarish story, others are little more than gorefests. RELATED: 10 Shojo Anime That Were Unintentionally Hilarious This isn’t always a bad thing but, as a result, these

October is a big month for award-winning comic book creator Scott Snyder’s creator-owned publishing imprint Best Jackett Press. Partnering up with ComiXology and Dark Horse Comics, Snyder is teaming up with superstar artists to release three new and original titles — We Have Demons, Clear, and Night of the Ghoul. Snyder reunites with acclaimed creator Francesco Francavilla for Night of

South Korea’s Squid Game has become nothing short of a sensation, the talk of the internet and adored by fans and critics alike, the deadly game show has captured the attention of audiences in a way that few shows ever have and become one of Netflix’s biggest hits. The kiddie playground pastimes turned massacres for

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for the story “Bloody Mary” from Are You Afraid Of The Darkseid #1, now on sale The forces of Apokolips are some of the most dangerous in the entire DC Universe, with the capability to wage war on a galactic scale at the behest of Darkseid. Even some that aren’t

IDW Publishing’s Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures #9 is bringing a major sequel trilogy character into the High Republic era. Written by Daniel José Older and illustrated by Toni Bruno, the issue sees the Jedi Padawan on Takodana, where they encounter none other than Maz Kanata. Her appearance was previously teased in Issue #8. RELATED: Star Wars: How

Some villains are evil because they are simply rotten or because they hunger for power and status. Others have no regard for anyone but themselves as they blaze forth toward their goals. However, some villains are only villainous because they care about others, such as their loved ones, rather than only about themselves. RELATED: 10

Sanji is the Straw Hat Pirates’ cook and joined Luffy on his journey to become the Pirate King during One Piece‘s Baratie arc. Being an Easy Blue recruit, Sanji is one of the most important characters in the story and his dream is to find the legendary ocean, the All Blue. RELATED: 10 Anime Characters Who Did

Whether they be big or small, all people have some kind of life-long dream. Dreams are proverbial food for the soul. They serve as far-off beacons representing a coveted achievement or state of being that helps guide people to do something meaningful with their lives. RELATED: 10 Iconic Anime Dances More Famous Than Their Anime And

Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece is the story of Monkey D. Luffy, a boy who sets out to sea to become the Pirate King during the Great Age of Pirates. Leading the Straw Hat Pirates, Luffy has become one of the most capable pirate captains over the years, and fans have been introduced to a plethora

Following its launch this past summer, DC Comics’ publishing imprint DC Horror is releasing a new title just in time for Halloween: Soul Plumber. Created by The Last Podcast on the Left creators Henry Zebrowski, Marcus Parks and Ben Kissel with fan-favorite artist John McCrea, the six-issue miniseries follows a disgraced seminary student named Edgar

Gunslinger Spawn‘s power meter is revealed ahead of his new solo series. Spawn creator Todd McFarlane teased fans with an upcoming look at the power meter for Gunslinger Spawn. The power meter is a way of measuring the necroplasmic energy that the various Hellspawn characters have left. In the first ever Spawn comic, Al Simmons had

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Boruto: Naruto Next Generations Episode 217, “Decisions,” now streaming on Crunchyroll. We’ve seen the Naruto anime’s titular protagonist power up big-time thanks to Kurama in several key fights. The Nine Tails Demon Fox has granted him immense chakra, putting him on par with past Hokages such as Hashirama and Tobirama, with

There have been Marvel video games for nearly as long as there have been video games, with Spider-Man first swinging in on the Atari 2600 in 1982. Ever since, comics fans have been able to take control of their favorite heroes to fight evildoers on the small screen. RELATED: 5 Ways Maximum Carnage Is The Better

Not only is Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings a hit, topping $200 million at the box office, but its themes of family have also helped to heal real-life relationships. Shang-Chi director/co-writer Destin Daniel Cretton and co-writer Dave Callaham spoke to Yahoo! Entertainment reporter Kevin Polowy about audience response to the film. Cretton said, “I have

The modern incarnation of Rugrats, which brought the classic cartoon babies back for a new generation of young audiences, has a lot in common with the original series. However, on top of adopting a CGI art style, the show has found other ways to quietly adapt for the times. One of these additions is a new character: Gabi, Phil

Cinema is rich with sensory delight: color gradients and aural landscapes define every film that’s ever been created since the dawn of the medium. That said, relatively few movies (and by extension, their directors) verge on true brilliance when it comes to their stories and the styles in which they unfold. RELATED: 10 Modern Movies That Everyone Seems To Either Love Or Despise

Apparently, the orange hair photo Jameela Jamil shared on social media isn’t for her role as Titania on the She-Hulk Disney+ series. To prove her point, Jamil quote-tweeted the original photo of herself in an orange wig and claimed, “This highly flammable, 18 dollar wig off the internet is not for Marvel! Glad you liked

Zoan-type is a class of Devil Fruits in One Piece that allows the user to turn themselves into an animal or a human-beast form, also known as the Hybrid form, at will. Out of all the Devil Fruits users, Zoan-type users are known to be the strongest when it comes to close-quarters combat since their

WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for The Sandman Universe/Locke & Key: Hell & Gone #2, available now from IDW. The final chapter in the much-anticipated crossover event between The Sandman and Locke & Key universes has finally arrived, bringing to a close Mary Locke’s journey through the Dreaming and Hell itself. Along the way,

Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Ball has risen the ranks to grow into one of the most popular shonen series of the generation, and it remains one of the most celebrated programs in the medium. Dragon Ball has grown in significant ways since its inception in the 1980s, and it’s incredible to consider the scope that the

In its first Halloween special “Blood Moon,” Big City Greens used scares alongside a few traditional elements to pit Cricket, Tillie, Bill and Gramma against zombie versions of farm animals. Season 2’s Halloween special raises the stakes with the sci-fi/horror-inspired “Squashed,” which features the Green family’s latest attempt to have a simple Halloween upended by a

For years now, video games have been evolving into being more than just improved graphics and enticing gameplay. Storylines and general narratives have been making single-player campaigns a viable and alternative option to the ever-popular multiplayer game modes. Naturally, some of these plots have organically found their way into other formats. Whether it is in

As the calendar flips to October and spooky season officially kicks off, it’s time for slashers, ghouls and demonic beings to get the spotlight. A perennial horror favorite is Pennywise, the creepy clown entity from Stephen King’s IT. Clowns and the uncanny valley feel of their painted faces are often synonymous with horror, but Pennywise is

No matter where they show up in fiction, powerful characters draw a lot of attention – and a lot of fans. It’s perhaps unsurprising that one of the favorite anime characters of the year is Satoru Gojo. While not the protagonist of the shonen Jujutsu Kaisen, Gojo often steals the show. His power levels are so extreme

Warning: The Following contains spoilers for The Rookie: Season 4, Episode 2, “Five Minutes,” which aired October 3 on ABC. Season 4 of The Rookie kicked off last week with a high energy premiere, but the show killed off Jackson West – an original member of the cast – in gut-wrenching fashion. His death left