Month: October 2019

With Donny Cates taking over the writing duties on Thor, there was room for a new writer to pick up Guardians of the Galaxy. And at Marvel’s Next Big Thing panel at New York Comic Con, the new team was announced: Juan Cabal (Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man) on art, and Al Ewing (Immortal Hulk) writing.  Ewing is currently lighting
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This Van Helsing review contains spoilers. Van Helsing Season 4 Episode 2 “This is for the good of mankind as well as my daughter.” For a brief moment I feared Van Helsing was about to let a golden chainsaw moment slip by untouched, but our hero, once again, comes to the rescue.  Though things calm
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Deathstroke, DC Comics’ ruthless, cycloptic, sword-swinging mercenary-turned grizzled anti-hero, is currently in the midst of a long-overdue pop culture surge, and it’s not stopping anytime soon, with the The CW’s latest adaptation plans, an animated series! The announcement arrived during the CW’s upfront presentation in May, where, amongst a treasure trove of CW/DC news, network
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DC Universe announced a number of new projects at New York Comic Con, and the most stunning announcement is probably BizarroTV. The show, named after the backwards-talking supervillain (?) from the Superman family, is planned as an anthology series that will feature a live action and animation mix with, “a showcase of experimental styles and
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This post is sponsored by First Second. All opinions expressed in this post are based on the writers’ personal views. The Adventure Zone series is a unique storytelling experience. A graphic novel series that began life as a game of Dungeons & Dragons played by podcasters Justin, Travis, and Griffin McElroy and their dad Clint, it
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Marvel has revealed a new virtual reality experience called Avengers: Damage Control.  Details are surprisingly thin about what this thing actually is, but from what we can gather from the business speak and congratulatory information released thus far, Damage Control is going to be a VR event that you will have to book tickets for
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Warner Bros. is developing a Harley Quinn animated series for its DC Universe streaming service. Harley’s star continues to rise as a character, and Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn was a major factor in the success of the Suicide Squad movie. The Big Bang Theory‘s Kaley Cuoco will voice Harley in the new series. Harley Quinn is, of course, perfect for animation. She made
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This South Park review contains spoilers.  South Park Season 23 Episode 2 One thing I’ll say for this season of South Park is, so far, they’re doing a pretty good job having their serialization cake and eating it too. The only meaningful narrative through line from the premiere to this episode is Randy becoming a mob
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He is the greatest villain of them all. He is the evil that tests Batman and makes the hero better. He is an uncontrollable force of chaos, more akin to a hurricane than a criminal, who strikes without warning. He believes that life is a chaotic farce and everything exists as part of a twisted
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This Walking Dead article contains spoilers. Rumors of Rick Grimes’ demise were greatly exaggerated.  AMC made a meal out of promoting The Walking Dead season 9, episode 5, “What Comes After” as “Rick Grimes’ final episode.” Traditionally on The Walking Dead, somebody’s “final episode” means they’re about to suffer a gruesome death. As we now know,
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In its ongoing bid for total media domination, Netflix is turning to one of the oldest kinds of media: books.  The streaming giant announced today that it would be adapting the Grisha fantasy trilogy. The Grisha trilogy comes from American author Leigh Bardugo and is made up of the novels Shadow and Bone (2012), Siege and Storm (2013), and Ruin and Rising (2014). Another novel, Six of
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We’ve teamed up with our friends at XSplit to give away premium licenses of their live streaming and video-mixing software. Three random readers will each win a three-year premium license, which gives you access to XSplit Broadcaster, XSplit Gamecaster, and XSplit VCam. All other entrants will receive a one-month premium license (you’re practically guaranteed a
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Horror and television have always been a bit of an awkward fit. What’s scary and what’s bingeable sometimes seem mutually exclusive. Horror requires that you suspend your disbelief and the longer it asks of your attention span, the higher the risk that the tension wanes. Still, in the modern streaming era, there are plenty of
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DMZ, the cynically-prophesizing DC Comics-published Vertigo title depicting a United States left literally divided after a second Civil War, is the next comic book-inspired small screen project embraced by HBO. Indeed, the premium cable channel has brought in a prominent name in Ava DuVernay – who happens to have her hands full with DC film
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It appears that all the major mainline Fallout games are going to be bundled in the Fallout Legacy Collection set to release later this year.  This news comes from a posting on Amazon Germany which seemingly shows the collection off ahead of its intended reveal date. Based on the information posted on that site, it
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This The Terror review contains spoilers.  The Terror Season 2 Episode 8 The Terror: Infamy falls back into bad habits in the oddly paced and questionably written “My Sweet Boy.” Despite a run of excellent episodes that solved a few mysteries and introduced some new ones, the show seems content with just getting to the
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This article comes from Den of Geek UK. Release Date: Sept. 25, 2019Platforms: iOS (reviewed), AndroidDeveloper: NintendoPublisher: NintendoGenre: Racing It’s never nice to be disappointed by a game, but sadly that’s exactly what has happened – for rather a lot of people, it seems – with the launch of Mario Kart Tour. We were excited by the prospect of playing
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