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RIP Everyone: A Whole Lot of People Died in the First Episode of CW’s Crisis

I don’t think it’s a spoiler to say that “a lot of people died” in the first episode of Crisis on Infinite Earths, a five-episode miniseries of nearly a dozen DC universes where the plot is “everyone is gonna die.” We all knew going into the huge CW Arrowverse crossover that heroes and cameos would…

Books & Comics Alex Cranz

Watchmen’s Post Credits Scene Answered One Important Question While Raising Another

It took Watchmen eight episodes to do it, but the series finally managed to make Ozymandias’ side story interesting. But the new revelations about what the world’s smartest man is up to continue long after this week’s credits have finished rolling. One of the only things Adrian Veidt ever really wanted out of life was…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

Doctor Manhattan Has Brought Watchmen’s Story About Time Full Circle

As a young boy, Watchmen’s Jon Osterman had no idea that he would one day grow up to be the closest approximation of a god that anyone would ever live to see or that he would fundamentally alter the course of history in nearly unimaginable ways. But this week’s episode posits the idea that for…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

Scarlet Witch Will Finally Get Her Big Title in WandaVision

This weekend is CCXP, Comic Con Experience São Paulo, and during a recent panel there MCU head honcho Kevin Feige dropped some fascinating details about Marvel’s upcoming slate of programming and movies. Alongside some exclusive footage that hasn’t yet been released online, there was some interesting conversation about WandaVision, the Disney+ series that will star…

Books & Comics Julie Muncy

In the Biggest Trailer Yet, Crisis on Infinite Earths Is Looking Grim

“The multiverse needs you!” Yeah, because things are not going well. In the latest trailer for CW’s big, almost-here Crisis on Infinite Earths, everyone is on the brink of despair. Supergirl is mourning her failures; heroes from other universes are warning of the coming disaster; and other Earths are blinking out, one by one. It’s…

Books & Comics Julie Muncy

Crisis on Infinite Earths for Infinite Dummies

There are three types of people in this weird world of ours: people who are losing their minds with excitement for the Arrowverse’s imminent Crisis on Infinite Earths; people who are interested in DC’s epic, live-action superhero crossover event but don’t know enough about all the comics and continuity to understand or enjoy it; and…

Books & Comics Rob Bricken

Weirdly Enough, the UK Won’t Get All of Crisis on Infinite Earths

It’s sort of like how American English takes the letter “u” out of perfectly good words like it’s some kind of upstart revolutionary, but this time, it’s inverse, and the Brits are taking out…Batwoman? Yes, while the U.S. gears up to watch the first episodes of the five-part Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover on the…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Help, I Can’t Get Watchmen‘s Hauntingly Perfect ‘Life on Mars?’ Cover Out of My Head

Unlike some people on Watchmen, I’m not even sure a hammer to the head might help at this point. There were a lot of incredible, audacious goings-on in the latest Watchmen, an episode of television that managed to make me bolt up in surprise multiple times despite being wrapped up toasty warm in several layers…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Legends of Tomorrow‘s Batshit Delightful Season 5 Trailer Welcomes You to Mr. Parker’s Cul-de-Sac

Not content with merely stepping into the shoes of one heroic icon for the Arrowverse recently, Brandon Routh is trying another for Legends’ next season: the other other Superman, Mr. Rogers. Routh slipping on a cozy red sweater and singing a silly little jingle in a Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood homage (“Welcome to my cul-de-sac, friend/That’s a…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Even Sex Toy Makers Think Watchmen‘s Big Blue Dildo Is ‘Extreme’

In the third episode of HBO’s Watchmen series, Laurie Blake aka Silk Spectre pulls out a gigantic electric blue dildo. It’s an obvious sight gag—her ex is a blue man who can control his size, right down to the most intimate level. That said, it does raise some questions. Like, how would the “Electromagnetic Lithium…

Books & Comics Victoria Song

These Are the Exact Dimensions of Watchmen‘s Doctor Manhattan Dildo, Which Could Be More Than a Dildo

Who doesn’t love a challenge? When Watchmen’s take on Laurie Blake was introduced in the series’ third episode “She Was Killed By Space Junk,” she was initially presented as being a stone-cold, sardonic federal agent who’s long since traded in her Silk Spectre costume for a gun and badge. As one of the members of…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

Read Your Way Into 2020 With December’s Sci-Fi and Fantasy Book Releases

December tends to be the lightest month for book releases, but we’ve still got plenty to get excited about for you here, including a new dystopian fantasy from Annihilation author Jeff VanderMeer. Read on! Accepting the Lance by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller The Liaden Universe series continues with this sequel to Neogenesis, which sees…

Books & Comics Cheryl Eddy

Damon Lindelof Talks About Setting Up Last Night’s Epic Watchmen Twist

Mere hours have passed since the seventh episode of HBO’s Watchmen aired, and we’re still a little shook. We already knew the show was great and was building to big things, but how many of us saw that coming? If you haven’t seen the episode yet, power down whatever you’re reading this on and go…

Books & Comics Germain Lussier

Titans‘ Season 2 Finale Was a Travesty of Epic Proportions

If the world were a better place, Titans’ second season finale would have been an excellent culmination to a heartfelt story that made you care about its characters and the journeys we’ve seen them embark upon. But the world kind of sucks and Titans’ most recent episode is an absolute mess. Unlike the writers responsible…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

A Jaw-Dropping Watchmen Just Revealed Its Most Important Origin Story

The lives of each and every single one of Watchmen’s characters is part of a larger story about how the world is on the verge of becoming an even more wildly dangerous place. But what few characters understand is how the roles they’re going to play in the events yet to come were defined by…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

Sink Your Teeth Into This First Look Inside Vampironica: New Blood

Thanksgiving? So 24 hours ago. Fangsgiving? Here. For. It. After the wild events of Jughead: The Hunger vs. Vampironica revealed that there’s a whole dang Archie Comics Multiverse out there, Riverdale’s toothy take on Veronica Lodge—high-strung social flower by day, Vampiric queen of the night by, err, night—is back in action for a brand new,…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Sure Seems Like One of Watchmen‘s KKK Villains Is Donald Trump’s Father

This week’s episode of Watchmen told the story of Hooded Justice, the first American masked vigilante. It detailed how he ushered in an era of superheroes by dedicating himself to an ongoing crusade to rid New York City of the Cyclops, an organization of KKK members plotting to sow chaos amongst the city’s black population.…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

Watchmen‘s Nicole Kassell Opens Up About Paying Homage and Breaking Free From the Comics

Watchmen became a different kind of show following Agent Laurie Blake’s introduction earlier this season, but after this week’s episode, the show has transformed once again. Despite the series’ shifts into new forms, executive producer Nicole Kassell recently explained to us that as wild as things have become for Angela Abar and the rest of…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

New Crisis on Infinite Earth Pictures Gather Some Serious Heroes (and a Potential New Atom)

When you’re the one normal dude in a picture that is otherwise a sea of brightly colored pleather and Spandex, you’re going to stand out. But Osric Chau stands out for more than one reason in the new batch of pictures from the CW’s impending DC TV crossover. After a sneaky tease earlier today, the…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Titans Needs to Make Up Its Mind About What Kind of Show It Is

The difficult thing about Titans is that for every few lackluster episodes that give you the impression that the writers are just kind of making things up as they go along, there are other episodes that genuinely feel like fascinating explorations of some of DC’s most iconic heroes. “Faux-Hawk” is one of Titans’ stronger episodes,…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

RIP Everyone: A Whole Lot of People Died in the First Episode of CW’s Crisis

Watchmen’s Post Credits Scene Answered One Important Question While Raising Another

Doctor Manhattan Has Brought Watchmen’s Story About Time Full Circle

Scarlet Witch Will Finally Get Her Big Title in WandaVision

In the Biggest Trailer Yet, Crisis on Infinite Earths Is Looking Grim

Crisis on Infinite Earths for Infinite Dummies

Weirdly Enough, the UK Won’t Get All of Crisis on Infinite Earths

Help, I Can’t Get Watchmen‘s Hauntingly Perfect ‘Life on Mars?’ Cover Out of My Head

Legends of Tomorrow‘s Batshit Delightful Season 5 Trailer Welcomes You to Mr. Parker’s Cul-de-Sac

Even Sex Toy Makers Think Watchmen‘s Big Blue Dildo Is ‘Extreme’

These Are the Exact Dimensions of Watchmen‘s Doctor Manhattan Dildo, Which Could Be More Than a Dildo

Read Your Way Into 2020 With December’s Sci-Fi and Fantasy Book Releases

Damon Lindelof Talks About Setting Up Last Night’s Epic Watchmen Twist

Titans‘ Season 2 Finale Was a Travesty of Epic Proportions

A Jaw-Dropping Watchmen Just Revealed Its Most Important Origin Story

Sink Your Teeth Into This First Look Inside Vampironica: New Blood

Sure Seems Like One of Watchmen‘s KKK Villains Is Donald Trump’s Father

Watchmen‘s Nicole Kassell Opens Up About Paying Homage and Breaking Free From the Comics

New Crisis on Infinite Earth Pictures Gather Some Serious Heroes (and a Potential New Atom)

Titans Needs to Make Up Its Mind About What Kind of Show It Is

Michael B. Jordan’s First Post-Oscars Film Looks Way Cuter Than ‘Sinners’

LLMs Will Protect Each Other if Threatened, Study Finds

The Octopus Penis Arm Doesn’t Just Deliver Sperm—It Sniffs Out the Sweet Spot

Revisiting the Ending of ‘Chainsaw Man’ Through the Lens of Japanese Folklore

U.S. Considers Ban on Chinese Air Bags Blamed for Deaths of 10 People in Survivable Crashes

Samsung’s New Frame TVs Look Even More Like Actual Paintings

You Can Now Watch Rocky From ‘Project Hail Mary’ Sleep With the Perfect Accompaniment

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