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Check out the first look at February 12’s Archie #711, the second part of the “Archie and Katy Keene” storyline. ARCHIE #711 (ARCHIE AND KATY KEENE PART 2)Katy Keene’s musical debut has got everyone talking—unfortunately, it also means that no one’s talking about Archie’s newest single. With even his girlfriend, Sabrina, clamoring to be Katy’s

Credit: DC Credit: DC DC’s April 2020 solicitations will debut at 12pm ET Friday, and artists Mitch Gerards and Doc Shaner are getting ahead of the game by tweeting covers to April’s Strange Adventures #2, written by Tom King and illustrated by … them.  Here’s a look at the full solictation for the issue, along

Credit: Denis Makarenko / Shutterstock.com Director Bong Joon Ho is having a moment, but don’t expect the Academy Award-nominated director of Parasite to parley his success into a gig at Marvel Studios. Bong, who last year garnered some attention for saying he had no interest in making superhero films because he “can’t stand people wearing tight-fitting

Credit: Funko Funko and Diamond Comic Distributors are partnering on a figure capturing the iconic moment Tony Stark sacrifices himself/defeats Thanos in Avengers: Endgame with a Previews-exclusive I Am Iron Man Glow-In-The-Dark Pop! Figure. Credit: Funko “Featuring the signature Funko style fans have come to know and love, this dramatic battle-damaged Tony Stark kneels on

Credit: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and NetherRealm Studios have released a new Mortal Kombat 11 gameplay trailer showcasing the upcoming addition of DC’s The Joker. “Unpredictable, violent and incredibly dangerous, The Joker is chaos personified,” reads the official description. “The infamous clown has terrorized the streets of Gotham City and targeted

Credit: Netflix Netflix has summoned forth a new trailer for The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina season 3, which premieres January 24 on the streaming service. Here’s the trailer: [embedded content] And the official synopsis for season 3: “Though she defeated her father Lucifer, the Dark Lord remains trapped within the human prison of her beloved

Credit: DC Universe WarnerMedia’s HBO Max streaming service is set to debut this May, and have some of the content that its sister streaming service, DC Universe, has – as well as some DC shows that won’t be on the DC-themed service. HBO Max’s Chief Content Officer Kevin Reilly said this week that the relationship

Credit: Cameron Stewart (DC) Credit: Joëlle Jones (DC) Catwoman has an anniversary coming up, and DC is celebrating it in a ‘super spectacular’ style. On April 15, the publisher plans to release Catwoman: 80th Anniversary Super Spectacular #1 – a one-shot anthology similar to the recent ones for Action Comics #1000 and Detective Comics #1000.

Credit: Cleopatra Entertainment The official trailer for New Jersey doom rocker Glenn Danzig’s directorial debut Verotika has premiered via Entertainment Weekly. Verotika is a horror anthology film inspired by Danzig’s line of Verotik Comics – and it’s described as a “cult” film and “midnight movie”.  You can see why for yourself right here: Verotika is

Credit: Marvel Comics Credit: Marvel Comics During Marvel’s upcoming Empyre event, the Fantastic Four will venture into space to confront the united Kree/Skrull empire. And as they’ve done in the past, they’ll call upon a substitute squad to fill in on Earth while they’re gone. As revealed via CBR, Spider-Man and Wolverine will rejoin the FF in

Last year, Marvel Comics and Wacom, a Japanese-based company popular with artists for their graphic tablets, joined forces to conduct a nationwide talent search throughout China. Now Marvel is beginning to show off the work of artists they discovered during the search in a series of “Chinese New Year” variant covers. “It was a thrill

Credit: The CW Following the “special episode” of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Tuesday night which capped off “Crisis on Infinite Earths,” The CW has released a trailer for the upcoming season that is less about the surprising new status quo and more about timey-wimey stuff… wait, wrong show. Take a look: [embedded content] DC’s Legends

Credit: Steph Desiato (Flat Squirrel Productions) One of the big problems facing the comic industry is “way too many books,” according to Image Comics Publisher Eric Stephenson. “Comic book stores can’t keep up with ordering them, there’s just too much to keep track of, and if a specialty market catering to this specific type of

Credit: CW With the just-wrapped “Crisis on Infinite Earths” crossover, CW has rebuilt its Arrowverse reality from the ground up, uniting its heroes on one Earth, as a team – and even introducing some legendary DC heroes to the Arrowverse. Among the cameos and special guest stars (Ezra Miller, anyone?) a reference introducing one classic

Credit: Marvel Comics Credit: Marvel Comics Press Release Writers Al Ewing, Dan Slott and Valerito Schiti bring you 2020’s earth-shattering event, EMPYRE! In preparation for this monumental addition to the Marvel Mythos, we’ve been revisiting the classic stories that have led up to it. In four stunning teasers, the industry’s top artists have reenvisioned events

Dawn of X connecting variant Credit: Mark Bagley (Marvel Comics) X-Men group editor Jordan D. White says that a “Dawn of X” crossover is in the works – with big plans for Marvel’s mutants coming in December. “We’ve announced a couple of new books, and we have a few more to announce yet,” White told Marvel.com. “We’ve

Credit: Marvel Comics Credit: Marvel Comics Marvel comics has announced iWolverine, a series spinning out of the just-launched Iron Man 2020 event. The title was first mentioned in a checklist inside this week’s Iron Man 2020 #1. Though no plot details have been released, the series’ title implies that a version of Wolverine – possibly

Credit: The CW Credit: The CW The Arrow-verse’s “Crisis on Infinite Earths” crossover concluded Tuesday with a two-hour finale between episoes of Arrow and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. What happened? Let us tell you… Don’t remember what happened before? Read our recaps of the Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 at the links. Spoilers

Credit: The CW The CW’s The Flash lead Grant Gustin has shared his thoughts on last night’s surprise appearance by DC Films’ Flash (played by Ezra Miller) in the final parts of the “Crisis on Infinite Earths” crossover. Make sure to click through to see the ‘behind the scenes’ set photos Gustin shared. When asked

Credit: Babs Tarr (Image Comics) Credit: Image Comics Over the past few years, several Image Comics creators have hit ‘pause’ on their creator-owned titles with the publisher, and announced plans to switch to an OGN-only format. Motor Crush, Moonstruck, and Crowded have all announced the change, and it’s not just at Image: Kurt Busiek’s long-running

Check out a preview of this week’s Vampirella/Red Sonja #5. Vampirella/Red Sonja #5writer: Jordie Bellaire  |  artist:  Drew Mosscovers: Julian Totino Tedesco (A), Babs Tarr (B), Ben Oliver (C), Leonardo Romero & Jordie Bellaire (D), Shannon Kingston Cosplay Cover (E), Drew Moss “Then and Now” Variant (F), Drew Moss “Then and Now” Variant (RI-B/W)FC  | 

Credit: DC Spinning out of the recent animated film Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (and the limited series it was based on), DC has released figures for that crossover franchise – include Ra’s Al Ghul and Shredder figures exclusive to Gamestop. Here’s the basics: Both figures stand at about six inches each, with Shredder about a

Credit: DC Credit: DC Four unlikely allies will come together as a new version of classic DC espionage organization Checkmate this April in a six-issue limited series from Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev. Spinning out of the duo’s revent series Event Leviathan in which the malicious mysterious espionage group Leviathan – led by the

Credit: Peter Bollinger (Scholastic) Credit: Chris Grine (Scholastic Graphix) K.A. Applegate’s memorable Animorphs franchise returns this year – not as prose novels, but graphic novels. Scholastic Graphix has announced (via A.V. Club), Animorphs: The Invasion by writer/artist Chris Grines, based on the first installment of the long-running prose novel series. “It’s a huge relief to

Credit: Marvel Comics Several new titles – and new issues of exisiting titles – have been announced on Marvel’s The Pull List video show. Tying into the upcoming Black Widow film, Taskmaster and the duo of Red Guardian and Yelena Belova are getting their own titles (the latter, titled Widowmakers). There’s also a one-shot, Black

Credit: Marvel Studios A purported synopsis for Marvel Studios’ Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness has surfaced on film industry site Backstage. Backstage posts casting notices for productions taking place in London, New York, Atlanta, Los Angeles, and other cities. The publication posted a synopsis for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness as part of

Credit: Marvel Studios [Editor’s Note: New visual evidence from a just-released special look at Black Widow may provide new clues about what the trailer’s potential misdirection is all about. We’ll get into it as you read on in an updated version of our December 2019 story…] The first Black Widow trailer dropped toward the end of last

Credit: Marvel Studios Walt Disney Studios released a preview of their complete 2020 film slate Tuesday morning, and included is a new, expanded synopsis of November’s Eternals that ties the events of the film directly to Avengers: Endgame and also indicates it is culling plot elements from Neil Gaiman’s 2008 limited series. Here’s the new,