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Credit: Dark Horse Comics Credit: Dark Horse Comics Press Release Dark Horse is excited to announce a new miniseries from writers Cullen Bunn (Harrow County, The Sixth Gun) and Brian Hurtt (Poppy! And the Lost Lagoon, The Sixth Gun), and artist Tyler Crook (Harrow County, B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth). Described as “a soapy, eerie new

Peter Parker is little on the edge when he’s got the Venom symbiote on in this preview of next week’s Symbiote Spider-Man #1. SYMBIOTE SPIDER-MAN #1 (OF 5)PETER DAVID (W) • GREG LAND (A/C)VARIANT COVER BY RON LIMVARIANT COVER BY ARTGERMVIRGIN VARIANT COVER BY ARTGERMVARIANT COVER BY SKOTTIE YOUNGHIDDEN GEM VARIANT COVER BY TODD MCFARLANEVARIANT

Credit: New Line Cinema Credit: New Line Cinema Shazam! is poised to become the world’s mightiest movie this weekend, likely storming the box office like lightning and putting its hero in the hearts of families everywhere. While this family-oriented blockbuster largely stands apart from the previously established DC film universe, there’s one ongoing superhero movie

Simon Helberg and Amanda Conner Credit: Jimmy Palmiotti Credit: Amanda Conner Amanda Conner and colorist Paul Mounts have contributed some artwork that is expected to be shown on Thursday’s Big Bang Theory episode. Jimmy Palmiotti Credit: Amanda Conner This will be the second time their work has appeared on the show; back in 2015’s “The

Credit: Marvel Studios Credit: Marvel Studios The late night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live! will host a week of Avengers: Endgame related guests and content from April 8-12, according to Deadline. The slate of guests includes Robert Downey, Jr./Iron Man, Chris Hemsworth/Thor, Scarlett Johansson/Black Widow, and Paul Rudd/Ant-Man on Monday April 8. On Tuesday April 9, Danai

John Cho Credit: Kathy Hutchins / Shutterstock.com Mustafa Shakir Credit: lev radin / Shutterstock.com Netflix has announced the cast of its upcoming live-action TV series adaptation of the classic anime Cowboy Bebop on its official Twitter account. Headlining the cast is Star Trek‘s John Cho as bounty hunter Spike Spiegel. Here’s the official Netflix description of

Credit: June Brigman/Veronica Gandini (Ahoy Comics) Credit: AHOY Comics Press Release Diamond Book Distributors, the industry’s leading source for graphic novels and a division of Diamond Comic Distributors, is pleased to announce that it has signed a distribution agreement with AHOY Comics. Diamond Book Distributors will exclusively distribute AHOY Comics trade paperbacks to the traditional

Credit: DC Credit: DC The mythical “World Forger” finally showed up in Scott Snyder’s Justice League this week, and he claims that the only way to save the Multiverse from certain destruction is to eliminate everyone who might choose to be bad. Wait. Would the Justice League buy into such an idea? To preemptively stop

Credit: Marvel Studios Avengers: Endgame early tracking numbers are pointing to a massive $175-250 million (or more) domestic opening weekend for the blockbuster film, according to all the major Hollywood trades Thursday morning. Remember, these are early tracking figures, and not a box office prediction. One year ago the first tracking figures for Avengers: Infinity War pointed

Shazam! star Zachary Levi stops by James Corden’s late night show to help the host discover what his ‘Captain Marvel’ powers are in this clip.  Sure, Shazam is supposed to get the powers of Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles, and Mercury, but this is in the name of comedy. [embedded content] Shazam! opens Friday.

Mark Strong Credit: Featureflash Photo Agency / Shutterstock.com Sebastian Shaw Credit: Marvel Comics Mark Strong says he turned down the X-Men: First Class role of Sebastian Shaw, which eventually went to Kevin Bacon. Strong revealed that writer/director Matthew Vaughn, who the actor worked with previously on Stardust, gave him first dibs on the role. “Matthew

Yasmine Putri is doing a series of horror  movie homages as variant covers for DC’s DCeased limited series, which debuts May 1. Here is the three covers released so far, with #1 (It), #2 (Nightmare on Elm Street), and #3 (The Nun). So far, all three are homages to horror films from DC’s sister company

By Oscar Maltby, Best Shots Reviewer April 3, 2019 11:30am ET Credit: Joey Vazquez/Felipe Sobreiro/Clayton Cowles (Marvel Comics) Credit: Stefano Caselli/Triona Farrell (Marvel Comics) Marvel Team-Up #1Written by Eve L. EwingArt by Joey Vazquez and Felipe SobreiroLettering by Clayton CowlesPublished by Marvel ComicsReview by Oscar Maltby‘Rama Rating: 8 out of 10 Credit: Joey Vazquez/Felipe Sobreiro/Clayton

Rachel Weisz Credit: Twocoms / Shutterstock.com The Mummy actor Rachel Weisz is in talks to join Marvel Studios’s Black Widow solo film, according to Variety. Weisz’s potential character has not been named. If cast, she would join star Scarlett Johansson who will reprise the film’s starring role. David Harbour and Florence Pugh have also reportedly been cast

Credit: New Line Cinema Credit: New Line Cinema We have a longstanding theory here at Newsarama that one of the surest ways you can guarantee audiences are going to have fun at your superhero film is let your superhero have a lot of fun being a superhero. Robert Downey Jr. set the MCU tone for

Credit: Netflix Hellboy actor David Harbour has been cast in Marvel Studios’ Black Widow solo film, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The details of Harbour’s reported role have not been disclosed. Scarlett Johansson will reprise her role as the titular superspy, with Florence Pugh also reportedly cast in an unnamed role. No projected release date for Black

Credit: Jack Kirby (Marvel Comics) Credit: Humberto Ramos (Marvel Comics) Marvel Comics has revealed what all is coming to its Marvel Unlimited streaming service in the month of April. It includes several recent series and limited series, some which just came out in the past month. In addition to these week-by-week aditions, Marvel also says

The official Marvel Thailand Twitter account has released 12 new character posters for Avengers: Endgame. Or particular note in these posters are Clint Barton wielding a bow in his Ronin garb and Steve Rogers sporting a more classic looking Captain America costume. Avengers: Endgame is due out in Thailand April 24, and comes to North

Credit: Janet Lee (Viking Books for Young Readers) TROT & CAPN BILL ADV GN VOL 01 SEA SIRENS(W) Amy Chu (A/CA) Janet LeeTrot, a Vietnamese American surfer girl, and Cap’n Bill, her cranky one-eyed cat, catch too big a wave and wipe out, sucked down into a magical underwater kingdom where an ancient deep-sea battle

Credit: Lan Pitts (Newsarama) ReedPOP has announced several changes to passes for its annual New York Comic Con – which takes place this year from October 3 to October 6. The most notable change is, due to popular demand, 4-Day passes for New York Comic Con will once again be available (in 2017, ReedPOP eliminated

Credit: Phil Hester Phil Hester is revisiting his Eisner-nominated The Wretch with a 12-page story to be included a new omnibus collection from OmahaBound. The nearly 400-page the Wretch omnibus will collect all of the character’s stories, ranging from the two limited series to the various short stories along the way. OmahaBound has gone back

Credit: Marvel Comics Malekith’s army has arrived on Midgard with this week’s War of the Realms #1 from writer Jason Aaron and artists Russell Dauterman and Matthew Wilson, and with it comes great tragedy for Thor and his Asgardian ilk. With the War of the Realms already claiming multiple casualties, here’s your war-report from the

By C.K. Stewart, Newsarama Contributor April 3, 2019 07:00am ET Credit: Ile Gonzalez (DC Zoom) Credit: Ile Gonzalez (DC Zoom) Super Sons: The PolarShield ProjectWritten by Ridley PearsonArt by Ile GonzalesLettering by Saida TemofontePublished by DC Zoom‘Rama Rating: 3 out of 10 Credit: Ile Gonzalez (DC Zoom) One of the first wave of graphic novels

Credit: AfterShock Comics AFTERSHOCK SHOCK HC VOL 02(W) Marguerite Bennett, Cullen Bunn, Andrew Dabb, Aaron Douglas, Garth Ennis, Justin Jordan, Joe Pruett, Jim Starlin, R. L. Stine, Jill Thompson, Tieri, Frank, Ray Fawkes, Steve Rasnic Tem, Kevin J. Anderson (A) Russell Braun, Tim Bradstreet, Leila Leiz, Ariela Kristantina, Eleonora Carlini, Yuzuki N’, Larry Stroman, Jamal

By Justin Partridge, Newsarama Contributor April 2, 2019 12:35pm ET Credit: Russell Dauterman/Matthew Wilson (Marvel Comics) Credit: Arthur Adams (Marvel Comics) War of the Realms #1Written by Jason AaronArt by Russell Dauterman and Matthew WilsonLettering by Joe SabinoPublished by Marvel Comics‘Rama Rating: 9 out of 10 ”You want these hands, Malekith? Believe me, you’re going

Credit: Arjuna Susini/Dee Cunniffe (AfterShock Comics) Zac Thompson Credit: AfterShock Comics When writer Zac Thompson was nine years old, his father suffered a massive stroke that changed the course of his and his family’s lives going forward. Now as an adult, the Age of X-Man: Marvelous X-Men co-writer is using comic books as a way

Check out a preview of this week’s Hack/Slash vs. Chaos! #4. Hack/Slash vs Chaos! #4writer: Tim Seeleyartist: Celorcovers: Tim Seeley (A), Craig Cermak (B), Jonathan La Mantia (C)FC  |  32 pages  |  $3.99  |   Mature  At the Nexus of All-Things, Cassie faces off against Evil Ernie…and her mother The Lunch Lady for control of the

Warner Bros.’ planned live-action adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira has secured $18.5 million in tax credits through Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way production shingle to film in California, according to Deadline. The Akira adaptation was awarded an $18.5m credit to film in California for an unspecified timeframe. While details on the long in-development adaptation are scarce, Deadline also reports that