I checked this out last week and Runaways #32, solicited before lockdown, is still on the Marvel Comics schedules, for February 2021. Well, Marvel has decided to bring things forward a lot sharpish. The long-awaited Runaways #32 is bring brought right back onto the schedules for next Wednesday, the 28th of October. No time for […]

Now that we know NBC's Saturday Night Live will be sticking around for a sixth straight live episode on November 7 (the first Saturday after the Donald Trump/Joe Biden POTUS election), we can shift our focus back to this week's SNL guest host and musical artist. In the following promo clip, Adele, H.E.R., and Kate […]

October isn't over yet, but Niantic is already looking ahead. Ahead of the Galarian Ponyta drop hinted at for tonight (we're betting 9 PM Pacific to tie-in to the Crown Tundra release), Pokémon GO released their announcement for November features. While they were very coy about what Pokémon would be featured in raids, they spelled out the […]

Earlier today, Bleeding Cool reported that legendary comics retailer Buddy Saunders of MyComicShop in Texas revealed a little of what went down between DC Comics and Midtown Comics/UCS Comic Distributors. In the same e-mail, sent to the mailing list of the biggest comic book sellers in the world, he also talked about his political inclinations. Especially […]

Rebecca has some big shoes to fill with the classic novel and an award-winning Hitchcock adaptation, and this Netflix adaption falls pretty short. Director: Ben Wheatley Summary: A young newlywed arrives at her husband's imposing family estate on a windswept English coast and finds herself battling the shadow of his first wife, Rebecca, whose legacy […]

Respawn Entertainment has dug up and resurrected the Apex Legends Halloween event "Fight Or Fright" for 2020 with new challenges. As it is with most events in the game, you're basically playing for pride, cosmetics, and some weird things to add to your character/profile. Not to mention some new challenges to take part in and […]

We are looking at January now but back in July, Marvel Comics announced it had the Aliens and Predator licences from Disney-purchased Fox, after decades at Dark Horse. We might get to see what Marvel will be doing with them later in 2021. But for now, Marvel is running a bunch of Marvel Vs Aliens […]

AEW Dynamite and WWE NXT lost viewers again this week, unable to compete against the World Series of baseball airing on Fox as well as Tucker Carlson and all of his friends on Fox News. The World Series topped Wednesday night in viewership and ratings across all of television, while Tucker Carlson topped cable. With […]

Teravision Games revealed their first self-published game this morning with the VR title Captain Toonhead Vs The Punks From Outer Space. The game looks as insane as the title sounds as you will be playing a gun-toting superhero in this FPS Tower Defense adventure title, presented entirely in VR. There's a lot of crazy enemies […]

Simon Dark is a comic book character in the DC Comics universe, created by Steve Niles and Scott Hampton, who had a series running from 2007 to 2009. A creator-participantcomic book, but set in Gotham City, the comic focused exclusively on Simon Dark and only a few casual comments to indicate he and Batman were […]

Fans of The CW's Batwoman aren't going to have to wait until January 2021 (or later) to get their first look at Ryan Wilder. Nope, they're going to get their first full look next week- kinda. While it's not quite Javicia Leslie's Ryan Wilder, it will be Wilder's first appearance on the comic book side […]

Kingdom Hearts fans will get a rare opportunity to learn more about the game's soundtrack with a Q&A with Yoko Shimomura. Square Enix will be hosting a special event tomorrow, October 23rd at 8pm PDT on the game's official Facebook page where they will have the renowned composer answering your questions. The event is being […]

This is the listing from Marvel's January 2021 solicitations (to be published in May), for The Complete Kirby War & Romance books, with the bookstore cover and the direct market exclusive variant, celebrating the non-superhero work of Jack Kirby that was his staple for much of the nineteen fifties, especially war and romance comic books […]

Liam Neeson's Qui-Gon Jinn is one of the most beloved characters of the Star Wars prequels despite his lone live-action appearance in The Phantom Menace (1999). While he's made vocal cameos in Dave Filoni's animated series The Clone Wars and in 2019's The Rise of Skywalker (uncredited), the actor hasn't made a return appearance since. […]

Kaiyodo has announced its newest Revoltech figure from the world of DC Comics. The deadly Clown Prince of Crime, Joker, has arrived as he stands 6.8" tall and 40 points of articulation. The Joker will get a wide variety of accessories including two interchangeable heads that will feature moveable eyes. Other included accessories will be […]

For the longest time, Brett Booth – artist on Titans, Teen Titans, Flash, Nightwing, Flash Forward and Justice League at DC Comics – has been wanting to work for Marvel again. With a little X-Men under his belt, I understand that Marvel editorial thought his art style was too old fashioned, too "nineties" and associated […]

Staged is probably the one truly successful new BBC TV series pitched, produced, and about the lockdown. Its premise is simple: it follows actors David Tennant and Michael Sheen in lockdown as they bicker and fail to get on with rehearsing a play through zoom. It's the kind of show only the BBC would make […]

Avengers: Age of Ultron finally showed the unity of the Avengers we all wanted to see. The team was together once again to clean out Hydra's remaining hives after the fall of SHIELD. Peace was far from over, though, as the team is divided after Iron Man meddles with Loki's staff, accidentally creating an artificial […]

No more Frankensteining – here are the full Marvel January 2021 solicitations for Marvel Comics. And there are still plenty of surprises. As King In Black gets well underway… VENOM #32 DONNY CATES (W) • IBAN COELLO (A/C) VARIANT COVER BY RYAN STEGMAN SKETCH VARIANT COVER BY RYAN STEGMAN MARVEL VS ALIEN VARIANT COVER BY […]

Only a day after Superman & Lois star Elizabeth Tulloch (Lois Lane) took to social media to announce that she, Tyler Hoechlin (Clark Kent aka Superman), and the rest of the cast and crew were in front of the cameras to film the pilot (with an image of the pilot script, directed by Lee Toland Krieger […]

Niantic has announced their November updates for Pokémon GO, including the monthly Research Breakthrough. In this year of type-themed breakthroughs, which has replaced the fan-favorite Legendary Breakthroughs that used to bring Pokémon like Zapdos, Articuno, Moltres, Lugia, and Ho-oh to players, Niantic has switched gears to feature Pokémon of varying rarity, including some that can […]

The first of Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips and Jacob Phillips' Reckless graphic novels from Image Comics is published on the 16th of December. But plans for the sequel are afoot. Sean Phillips revealed the title and cover on social media earlier in the month. Friend of the Devil. It has also just got its Amazon […]

The Conjuring 2 almost didn't feature one of its most fearsome and iconic creatures. Director James Wan took to his Instagram account to post concept art and actual on set pics of an animatronic demon that was to terrorize the Warrens in the second film. It is a gnarly looking monster, a leftover design from […]

An interesting rarity from Nintendo as the company has released Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & The Blade Of Light. The weird reality we live in when it comes to Nintendo is that there is a library of titles across multiple consoles that were only released in Japan and maybe a few other areas, but they […]

In May 2017, the Glasgow-based SUBaCOMIC comic book subscriptions website and eBay Shop was launched, owned by the folks who own Red Hot Comics in Glasgow. This year in April, as comic stores began to shut down, they launched SUBaCOMIC as a full retail website. As of this week, they have gone one step further. […]

Netflix has posted the first teaser for Ryan Murphy's The Prom. Newcomer Jo Ellen Pellman plays the lead role of Emma, who is told she cannot bring her girlfriend to the dance. Four theater stars, played by Meryl Streep, James Cordon, Nicole Kidman, and Andrew Rannells, come to her town to help her, trying to resurrect their […]

McFarlane Toys has been dropping new figure reveals like crazy lately. We have already seen a nice set of upcoming DC Multiverse figures like Gorilla Grodd. This time things get a little more animated as their newest set of reveals from the hit anime series My Hero Academia. McFarlane Toys is no stranger to My […]

Afterlift time! A few weeks ago, ComiXology and Dark Horse Comics announced they'd be bringing select ComiXology Originals titles to print beginning in 2021. The first up is Afterlift, by Chip Zdarsky and Jason Loo, arriving in February. They are also offering a retailer incentive – comic shops that ofter five copies or more of […]

With the upcoming limited legal thriller set to premiere this December, Showtime has released a second official trailer for the Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad)-starring Your Honor. Written by Peter Moffat (The Night Of) and stemming from executive producers Robert and Michelle King (The Good Fight), Cranston, and Moffat, the ten-episode series rips through all strata of […]

CORSAIR revealed a brand new headset today as they are releasing the HS75 XB Wireless Gaming Headset for Xbox consoles. To be specific, this headset works for not just the Xbox One, but also the Xbox Series X/S, as well as PC. Like a lot of their headsets, this one comes with a  fully detachable […]

Z2 is the first publisher announced as participating in this year's Local Comic Shop Day event, an annual affair which sees participating retailers able to order specially limited items, will take place on Wednesday, the 25th of November. This year. Z2's offering will be a version of Alex de Campi's Kickstarted True War Stories graphic […]

With The Eric Andre Show returning to Adult Swim on Sunday, October 25, at midnight (Sunday-Monday) for the fifth season, the main man himself has been making the rounds to promote a new season of things we've run out of adjectives we can use to describe. Spending some time with Jimmy Kimmel on his ABC […]

Hot Toys is back with some brand new collectibles from the cinematic hit, Avengers: Endgame. With their new series Cosbi, they are bringing 9 of your favorite heroes and villains in blind box format. This is done to maintain the rarity and collectability of each Avenger and they will include a connected puzzle base for […]

The Webtoon comic book Acursian, from John Barrowman, Carole Barrowman, Erika Lewis, Beni Lobel and  Tommy Lee Edwards, ran from 2018 to early 2002, and will now be published in print from Legendary Comics after two years of being available, digitally, for free. It is still available on Webtoon in its original format. Acursian (an Old English […]

When Emily Swallow (The Mandalorian, Supernatural) read the script for Haunting of the Mary Celeste, she knew it was an opportunity she couldn't pass up. I spoke to her about a variety of topics concerning the film, from how the film drew her in from a genre perspective, the flexibility of indie production, and the […]

The legendary pianist, composer, singer, and songwriter Elton John is back as he teams up with Barbie. That's right, Elton John is getting his very own unique Barbie Dolls, and she is The One fans have been looking for. This limited edition collecting pays tribute to the singer's unique style as she wears rainbow-striped platform […]