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This article contains nothing but Spider-Man: Far From Home spoilers. We have a spoiler free review right here. When Spider-Man: Homecoming came out, the post-credits scene didn’t exactly break any new ground. After the mid-credits hinted at more appearances of Mac Gargan and the Vulture, the post-credits was Captain America trolling us in the form of a PSA

This Walking Dead article contains spoilers. The Walking Dead comic has come to a surprising end, with zombie Rick Grimes six feet under and the remaining survivors of the long post-apocalyptic ordeal moving on with their lives in the new world. In this week’s The Walking Dead #193, writer Robert Kirkman and artist Charlie Adlard

This article contains nothing but Spider-Man: Far From Home spoilers. We have a spoiler free review right here. If you’re looking for Marvel Comics references and MCU connections in Spider-Man: Far From Home, you won’t be disappointed. Far From Home is a true follow-up the momentous events of Avengers: Endgame, and manages to tell a recognizably Spidey focused

Robert Kirkman will bring his blockbuster comic book series The Walking Dead to an end this week with issue #193, THR confirms after a letter from Kirkman to fans the surprise double-sized issue leaked online yesterday. This comes as a major shock to fans who expected the series to continue beyond the high-profile death of

Time heals all wounds, even when it comes to Game of Thrones’ divisive series finale, the infamous episode that shook the foundations of pop culture. Fans seeking a greater sense of closure than the show offered will likely have to wait quite a while before George R.R. Martin delivers The Winds of Winter and A

Writing this preview is tougher than normal for me, because I haven’t been as certain that I’m going to write about a comic book again in December since that issue of Deathstroke with the Creeper. However, especially over the last six issues, The Wild Storm has been one of the best comics I’ve ever read,

The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers comic just took a huge leap. After the universe shattering events of Shattered Grid and the aftermath of Beyond the Grid, the Power Rangers comics are entering a new era. Not just because of writer Ryan Parrott taking over the comic but the comic has shifted time periods to mid season

SPOILER ADVISORY: If you haven’t seen Full Metal Jacket, watch it before reading this article. Watch it if you don’t read this article. If you’ve already seen it, watch it again whether you read the article or not. The casualties of the Vietnam War went beyond soldiers and civilians. The geopolitical morass engulfed journalists, novelists

This post is sponsored by Tor Books.  Since the release of Ender’s Game in 1985, author Orson Scott Card has expanded his Ender’s universe in many different directions—good news for anyone who is a fan of the original book and for readers who love rich, ever-expanding science fiction universes and have yet to dive into the Enderverse.

Hi, friends. We’re giving away five copies of Orson Scott Card’s latest Enderverse book: The Hive. The second novel in the prequel trilogy following the events of the Second Formic War, Card co-wrote The Hive with Aaron Johnston. Here’s the full, official synopsis: New York Times bestselling authors Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston return to

Strangers Things standout Millie Bobby Brown has a new role on her agenda. According to Deadline, Brown will be starring in and producing a film series based on The Enola Holmes Mysteries novel series for Legendary Entertainment. The Enola Holmes Mysteries are a series of novels from Nancy Springer that follow Sherlock Holmes‘ much younger sister

Weapons that tear holes in reality, letting in thousands of eyes and teeth. Military strategies depending on clocks and calculus. Yoon Ha Lee’s Hexarchate series brings truly unique world-building to space opera. Baroque and character-driven, his series is also governed by strict mathematical laws. Reading a Yoon Ha Lee novel feels a bit like playing

DC Comics is launching a new horror comics line curated by author Joe Hill in October. It’s called Hill House Comics and it follows in the footsteps of other “pop-up” lines at DC such as Gerard Way’s Young Animal. Hill, who is best known for horror novels such as NOS4A2 and his comic book series

Den of Geek had a chance to speak with Gary Dauberman, writer and director of Annabelle Comes Home. Dauberman makes his debut behind the camera on the film, but has written a number of scripts in the Annabelle/Conjuring universe as well as working on the screenplays for It and It: Chapter Two with director Andy

You ever wonder what was going on with like, Ox, Montana, and Fancy Dan while Spider-Man was off fighting the Skrull invasion in Secret Invasion? Or what Rupert Thorne was up to as the multiverse was collapsing around Batman in Crisis on Infinite Earths? Action Comics #1012 is pretty much precisely that for the criminal

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has covered a lot of ground in the past 35 years. There are so many different takes on “four reptiles in eye masks who fight crime with ninjitsu” that it’s honestly hard to keep count of all the different continuities. From the gritty Frank Miller homages of the earliest comics to

Max Gladstone is having a busy summer. Though Gladstone is arguably best known for his Hugo-nominated Craftverse series, that’s the one universe that doesn’t have a book coming out this summer. Instead, readers can follow a team of once-Vatican-sponsored operatives trying to save the world from the pending magical apocalypse—or find a way to change

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance recently wowed would-be audiences with a trailer for the Netflix TV series that teased a sublime mix of old-school puppetry and animatronics with just the right amount of complementary CGI effects. Intriguingly, the show – a prequel set several years before the 1982 Jim Henson-directed classic that lends its

The iconic comics imprint that brought readers The Sandman, Preacher, Hellblazer, Fables, Y: The Last Man, and others will close its doors in 2020. According to THR, DC Comics plans to shutter Vertigo Comics, as well as young adult imprints DC Zoom and DC Ink, starting in January. Replacing them will be three, age-specific imprints:

This Batman article contains major spoilers.  The Dark Knight has had a very tough time in Tom King’s 70+ issue run on Batman, and it looks like things are about to get much worse. In this week’s issue #73, Bruce has been ushered away from Gotham City after being defeated by Bane and betrayed by

One of the most popular fantasy franchises of the literary world, The Wheel of Time, is getting a live-action television adaptation. Originally authored by Robert Jordan, the 80 million-selling 1990-2013 book series depicts a sprawling mythology, amalgamating feudal and magical tropes with elements of Eastern mysticism. Indeed, the books bear philosophical influences from European and

This post is sponsored by Flatiron Books. All opinions expressed in this post are based on the writer’s personal views. In the past decade, our popular culture has become increasingly interested in post-apocalyptic stories—perhaps because, as writer Laurie Penny theorized in The New Statesman way back in 2014, it can increasingly feel like we are all

Star Wars: Alphabet Squadron is the first in an upcoming trilogy of books showing the troubled lives of a group of pilots in the early days of the New Republic. In the spirit of Michael A. Stackpole and Aaron Allston’s X-Wing series of novels but with a grimmer, morally ambiguous tone to fit the new canon, Alphabet

There’s so much to look forward to in our speculative fiction future. Here are some of the fantasy books we’re most excited about and/or are currently consuming… Join the Den of Geek Book Club! Best New Fantasy Books in June 2019 Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey Type: NovelPublisher: Tor BooksRelease date: 6/4/19 Ivy Gamble

Some of the best fantasy, science fiction, and horror storytelling is happening in the young adult book world—if you need some specific examples, check out Den of Geek’s picks for the best fiction books of 2018. There’s so much to look forward to in our speculative fiction future. Here are some of the young adult

There’s so much to look forward to in our speculative fiction future. Here are some of the science fiction books we’re most excited about and/or are currently consuming… Join the Den of Geek Book Club! Best New Science Fiction Books in June 2019 Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone Type: NovelPublisher: Tor BooksRelease date: 6/18/19

The Hunger Games will soon make its return to the pop culture panorama in the form of a prequel novel, which will see author Suzanne Collins return to the dystopian society of Panem, except at a time well before Katniss Everdeen even existed, much less ignited the titular contest as the Girl on Fire. Collins’s

Krypton season 2 introduces…I was going to say “most unexpected,” but Adam Strange is already here so I guess Lobo is more like one of the most unexpected characters on the show. Lobo! The Main Man! The Last Czarnian! An unkillable force of the universe with no morals and a hunger for big bounties! But there’s

This article consists of nothing but Krypton season 2 spoilers. Who would have ever thought that the best DC Comics show on TV would turn out to be a Superman prequel? Well, to be fair, it’s either Krypton or the bonkers and bizarrely sweet Doom Patrol. But Krypton managed to avoid nearly every single prequel

After nearly five years away from comics with only a scant cameo to show for it, the Legion of Superheroes, the best superteam in the entire DC Comics stable, is finally returning. In September, a two issue introductory series that will serve as a guide through all of DC’s various future timelines begins. Legion of