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Marvel Comics has provided CBR with covers and solicit information for product shipping July 2021. Discuss these solicitations here on CBR’s Marvel Comics forum, Spider-Man forum, Star Wars forum, or X-Books forum and share with fellow fans what titles spark your interest. Marvel Solicitations – Last Six Months AMAZING FANTASY #1 (OF 5) KAARE ANDREWS

It may not look like it but it’s not easy to find a replacement for Captain America. It takes more than some super-soldier serum and a shield to make someone worthy. RELATED: FATWS: 10 Ways Bucky Would Make A Better Captain America Than Sam As proven in Falcon and the Winter Soldier, John Walker is not fit

In some works of fiction, power over plants is connected to the classical element of earth, although this isn’t always the case, with power over plants being treated as power over life itself. In Chinese mythology, “wood” was considered an element all on its own, separate from earth. As both Greek and Chinese myths are

WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Guardians of the Galaxy #13 by Al Ewing, Juan Frigeri, Federico Blee and VC’s Cory Petit, on sale now. The massive new Guardians of the Galaxy team is big enough that the group can split into two teams to tackle multiple threats at once. Both squads are more

As a genre, shonen has a wide variety of tropes that it rarely strays away from. One of those is the existence of rival protagonists who often find themselves butting heads with one another. Almost every popular shonen has an example of this, be it Sasuke and Naruto or Vegeta against Goku. RELATED: Riposte: 15 Best

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Episode 5, “Truth,” now streaming on Disney+. It’s safe to say Avengers: Endgame had the most emotional finale in the Marvel Cinematic Universe thus far, wrapping up many threads and passing the baton to a new generation of heroes. Tony Stark’s death may have been

Since its debut in 2016, Re:Zero has become not only one of the most popular and critically acclaimed isekai out there, but one of the most successful new anime in recent years. It won fans over with its determined hero, loveable side characters, fully realized fantasy world, and impressive animation. RELATED: 10 Best Isekai Anime Out There

While the Mortal Kombat universe is filled with powerful warriors, Shaolin masters, Outworld warlords and divine Elder Gods, none of them can match the combined might of the Kamidogu, magical artifacts that were integral to the story of the 2015 Mortal Kombat X comic by Shawn Kittelsen, Dexter Soy, Daniel Sampere and Ivan Vitorino. First

While in the past many avid moviegoers didn’t think WWE — or wrestling superstars in general — could transition to the big screen, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has certainly proven them wrong. The Edge, Undertaker and Big Show have also made cameos in movies and TV shows, but the Rock certainly took it to new heights

The Nevers is an HBO series that explores a world where those with supernatural powers — the Touched — are cast out from society, leading them to only trust those that are like them. In the HBO series’ upcoming episode, “Ignition,” Amalia (Laura Donnelly) decides to recruit an unlikely ally to join her mission — to

A group of authors, in connection with the literary and free expression group PEN America, sent an open letter to a Texas school district to explain their opposition to the banning of a number of books, primarily graphic novels, from school reading lists. Leander Independent School District (ISD) is a school district based in Leander,

In past Star Wars subseries, such as The New Jedi Order, authors included a dramatis personae and timeline at the beginning of each book. On these pages, the authors listed the major characters and side characters to help readers keep track of players in the story, and the timeline helped ground the novel’s overall story arc. While

Attack on Titan‘s final chapter released earlier this month, ending the critically acclaimed manga that started in 2009. The chapter answered many questions that fans had and ended most of the main character’s arcs in the best way possible, such as Levi, Jean, and Connie getting to see their fallen friends one last time or

Originally released in 2016, Brigador is a criminally overlooked mech game that combines cyberpunk style with great gameplay to create a challenging mech game that is exhilarating and a pleasure to look at. In it, the Great Leader is dead, and Solo Nobre is at war — so it is time to blow everything up. Brigador

Behind every great hero is an even greater villain. And it’s worth noting that a hero’s growth is oftentimes dependent on the challenges their villain presents. Some of the best clashes between heroes and villains are those which contain fundamental perspective differences—that is, disagreements between their basic understandings of the world and the directions each thinks society

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Episode 5, “Truth,” now streaming on Disney+. On The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, John Walker was just recruited by a new character who appears to be a future major player in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Countess Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

Katekyo Hitman Reborn! is finally becoming legally available in several non-English-speaking countries. On Monday, Crunchyroll announced that the classic Shōnen Jump anime Katekyo Hitman Reborn!, typically translated as just REBORN!, would become available in several new countries. REBORN! was previously only available in English-speaking countries, but now Crunchyroll will stream the anime to the Americas, Australia, New

The latest Resident Evil multiplayer project might succeed where recent attempts haven’t, as the iconic horror franchise is the latest to cross over with Dead By Daylight. The collaboration was announced during Capcom’s Resident Evil Showcase event with a teaser trailer. All we know for sure is that the crossover has a June release date, and the RE antagonist will join the game’s

Shortly after Simu Liu’s birthday — which ended in Marvel Studios surprising him with a Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings trailer debut — a fan made a Shang-Chi-themed poster paying homage to the starring cast of the CBC’s sitcom Kim’s Convenience. Liu shared the fan-made poster with fans on Twitter, noting, “Okay which one of

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Nightwing #79 by Tom Taylor, Bruno Redondo, Adriano Lucas & Wes Abbott, on sale now. Like any family unit, the Bat-Family has their own mix of interpersonal drama, inside jokes, and biting observations about one another. It all speaks to the bond that’s formed between the group of heroes,

Marvel’s television revolution is in full swing, and Loki will look to build on the momentum generated by WandaVision and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Kevin Feige has teased that the show will be “intriguingly different” and hype around the series has led fans to speculate on just what the story may be about.

There are a lot of reasons readers have fallen in love with Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse since Shadow and Bone kicked off the franchise in 2012. One of the biggest is that Bardugo’s books are incredibly difficult to put down thanks to their tight plotting, easy-to-love characters and compelling Eastern European-inspired fantasy world. However, as poorly executed adaptations of young

The entire list of Quibi original content, including a “Marvel vs. DC” series, are being rebranded as “Roku Originals” when they make their debut on Roku. Slugfest is the title of the Marvel/DC documentary, which is narrated by Kevin Smith and produced by the Russo Brothers (Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame). RELATED: Roku Officially Buys Rights

The anime industry has only become more ambitious and creative over the past decade and each year brings with it a bunch of challenging new anime content. There’s a lot of focus on the ongoing anime series that turn into hits over multiple seasons, but there’s often even more reverence that’s held for anime feature

The X-Men’s new Krakoa era has radically reinvented the status quo for Marvel’s mutants. Since the Jonathan Hickman-masterminded relaunch that started with House of X/Powers of X, various creative teams have had the opportunity to help establish the mutant nation. In Way of X #1, writer Si Spurrier brings his psychological storytelling back to the

The newest Magic: The Gathering expansion set is Strixhaven: School of Mages, which is based on the five enemy-color pairs. In this set, players will find that instants and sorceries are a big deal in gameplay, and that factors into games of booster draft Limited. Here’s how to draft Strixhaven, starting with the five archetypes. Nearly all M:TG