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A Ms. Marvel TV series is coming to streaming service Disney+, based on the Hugo-award winning and critically acclaimed comic book series of the same name. The first Muslim superhero to headline her own series for Marvel, Ms. Marvel has already made it to the small screen as part of the Marvel Rising animated series, but

Star Wars: The Force Awakens ushered in an entirely new generation of fans looking for more adventures in the galaxy far, far away, but with the whole issue of Legends canon vs. the new canon and a whole slate of new books, comics, and movies arriving in the next few years, it can be hard

Superman: Year One, an oversized three issue limited series from DC is a new exploration of the Man of Steel’s origin story from Frank Miller and John Romita, Jr. The book has grabbed headlines for its unconventional approach to Clark Kent’s early days. We sat down with Mr. Romita for an in-depth look at how

As revealed in Marvel Comics’ November solicitations, the publisher’s main Star Wars book is coming to an end with issue #75, which will also conclude the current “Rebels and Rogues” storyline by Greg Pak and Phil Noto. Since its launch in January 2015, with an issue that sold 1 million copies, Star Wars has been the

Being normal is not necessarily a virtue. It rather denotes a lack of courage. Not at HBO Max, however. The not-yet-launched streaming service is making its own laws. The streamer will produce a series adaptation of Alice Hoffman’s novel The Rules of Magic, which is a prequel to Practical Magic, according to Variety. The 1998

This Marvel article contains spoilers. When Disney+ hits, one of the many shows tying into the Marvel Cinematic Universe is What If, set to be on-demand in summer 2021. The show will be animated, albeit using many of the actors from the various MCU movies. Based on the What If comic series, which was created

Kelly Sue DeConnick is a pretty big deal. Her creator-owned work has won her, among other accolades, a Hugo nomination and a British Fantasy Award win for Bitch Planet, the brutal political satire exploitation book she did with Taki Soma and Valentine De Leandro; and an Eisner nomination with Emma Rios for the staggeringly beautiful

This Batman article contains MAJOR SPOILERS. The release of Batman #77, the third part of the climactic “City of Bane” arc, has some…very big changes for Batman’s friends and family. In fact, this may be the big status quo change writer Tom King teased a few months back, a change he was surprised DC was

This Young Justice: Outsiders review contains spoilers. Young Justice Season 3 Episode 22 “Terminus” is, plot-wise, probably the biggest “Oh shit” episode of a fairly momentous season for Young Justice. It’s substantially narrowed from the most recent run up – there’s really only an A-plot, with a B-story for Black Lightning that I suspect is just

The forthcoming book Marvel: The Golden Age 1939 – 1949 was scheduled to feature an introductory essay by Eisner Award and Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist and author, Art Spiegelman. Spiegelman’s essay (which can and should be read in full here) draws a parallel between the rise of authoritarianism in Europe before World War II and

He-Man and the Masters of the Universe is one of those properties that has been around for so long that there are multiple takes on it and they’re all over the place. Like Batman, Spider-Man, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Ghostbusters, there are incarnations that are badass and incarnations that are wonderfully…not so badass. It

We loved what Marie Lu did with Batman canon in her young adult book Batman: Nightwalker, and we can’t wait to see what she comes up with for Rebel, the next installment in her bestselling Legend series. read more: An Interview with Marie Lu Rebel, which comes out on October 1st, plunges readers back into

Grant Morrison and Liam Sharp’s The Green Lantern wraps up in October with issue 12, and DC just announced what’s coming next: the destruction of the entire Green Lantern Corps. No, scratch that: the complete erasure of the Green Lantern Corps from existence. Following up on the events of The Green Lantern #12, Morrison and

Brian Michael Bendis and DC Comics are about to bring back the Legion of Super-Heroes in the pages of Superman, before launching them back to where they belong, headlining their own monthly book. It’s been a minute since the Legion has graced the pages of DC Comics, but Bendis and artist Ryan Sook are ready

Raising Dion is another superhero series that’s joining Netflix’s original content; a lineup recently stemmed after an across-the-board cancellations of its Marvel shows. However, this 10-episode serial genre offering (bearing a uniquely heartfelt family twist,) has a major ace up its sleeve with a co-star who’s one today’s hottest box office draws, Michael B. Jordan.

Picking up where The Batman Who Laughs left off, Batman/Superman kicks off at the end of August promising to infect heroes from around the DC Universe with dark multiverse Joker venom. But the identities of the infected have been mostly hidden, until now. We already knew that the first one to catch giggles would be

Mr. Mercedes Season 3 is officially set for Audience Network. The renewal of Mr. Mercedes Season 3 arrived shortly after the late-summer-launched Season 2 wrapped its run on October 24, 2018, and has a late 2019 release date. Stephen King has called it the show’s best so far… The series will continue its process of adapting Stephen

Jonathan Hickman, Pepe Larraz, RB Silva, Marte Gracia, and the rest of the team are now two issues into House of X and Powers of X, the intertwining X-Men event comics meant to reset the marvelous mutants, and in four issues over one month, they’ve managed to change everything we know about the X-Men. This

Dark Nights: Metal did more for DC’s cosmology than any event they’ve had since Crisis on Infinite Earths. And as the gift that keeps on giving (alternate timelines), DC is capitalizing by pushing out evil versions of major crossovers. The latest two: Blackest Night and Infinite Crisis. These stories join previously announced alternate takes on Batman: Knightfall

Early last year, DC introduced a series of Walmart exclusive comics featuring new stories by some of comics’ top creators. One of those featured a Batman tale written by Brian Michael Bendis with art by Nick Derington. These stories were kind of difficult for many fans to find on a consistent basis, so DC’s faithful

Carry On, Rainbow Rowell’s follow-up to her fandom-centric Fangirl, is at once both a clever, cathartic critique of the Harry Potter series and other Chosen One narratives and its own fantastical love story—and now it’s getting a sequel! Rowell has written a sequel to her young adult book about queer wizards Simon Snow and Baz and their

Stories of one special man bearing the weight of the world are so common in fantasy, it can be hard to find a new angle to make the story unique. In Blood of an Exile, debut author Brian Naslund manages to embrace the old tropes while also presenting a world where its species are connected,

Once & Future, a space-set reimagining of Arthurian legend, was one of the most fun reading experiences I’ve had this year. Cori McCarthy and Amy Rose Capetta‘s young adult novel casts Arthur as teen girl named Ari living in a future where humanity has populated the galaxy. The story is highly-inclusive, action-packed, and ended on a killer cliffhanger.

If you’re not currently reading Justice League by James Tynion IV, Scott Snyder, and an assortment of DC’s best artists, you’re missing out on some of the wildest, most cosmic storytelling in mainstream superhero comics right now. Over the last year or so, Justice League has played with the very laws of reality which govern

Matthew Vaughn‘s film adaptation of Neil Gaiman‘s Stardust is more than a decade old, but it hasn’t lost any of its magic. With an all-star cast that included Daredevil‘s Charlie Cox and Homeland‘s Claire Danes, a director who would go onto make X-Men: First Class and Kingsman: The Secret Service, and a story from the mind of Neil Gaiman, Stardust is a funny, clever, and heartfelt fairy

Children of Blood and Bone arrived in 2018 as a refreshing YA fantasy offering that eschews the genre’s obligatory array of sexy monsters and post-apocalypstic scenarios, centering itself in the arena of African mysticism, focused exclusively on African characters. With the novel’s 25-year-old Nigerian-American author, Tomi Adeyemi, already set to release a sequel novel this

When The Expanse Season 4 launches on Amazon in December, the science fiction drama based on the bestselling series of books by James S.A. Corey will be available in the “same” place around the world for the first time ever as an Amazon Global Original.  Previously, The Expanse aired on Syfy in the United States, streamed

This article contains major spoilers for the Preacher comics and probably the TV series, too. It’s also completely unsuitable for younger or more sensitive readers. In the world of Preacher, horror is the eleventh commandment. TV fans are now in on what countless DC Comics and Vertigo fans have known for years, that when it

Alicia Silverstone and Mark Feuerstein have joined the cast of Netflix‘s The Baby-Sitters Club adaptation, which has already begun filming in Vancouver. Silverstone will play Kristy’s mother, Elizabeth Thomas-Brewer, while Feuerstrin will play her love interest, Watson Brewer. This is more parental focus than I ever remember from The Baby-Sitters Club books (though Elizabeth and

Garfield is getting ready to ravenously devour lasagna and malign Mondays as part of Nickelodeon. That’s because Viacom Inc., the channel’s corporate parent, has acquired property owner Paws, Inc., making it officially part of the Nick stable. The announced acquisition of the Garfield intellectual property and its placement with Nickelodeon is part of its ongoing