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Where to Start With the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Franchise

There’s never really been a better time to be into heroes that carry both a convenient half-shell and a love of pizza in their hearts: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as a franchise has spent over 35 years telling stories of radical reptilian action across myriad mediums. Want to know where to start? Here are some…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Batwoman Ripped Off the Bat-Bandage, For Better or Worse

Batman is one of those characters whose casting has a tendency to unleash a certain passion in folks. With every casting there’s criticism. Michael Keaton was too funny to play Batman. Christian Bale was too skinny. Ben Affleck was too Ben Affleck, and Robert Pattinson is apparently too sparkly because over 10 years later people still…

Books & Comics Alex Cranz

Photo: Elise Fourmy / Photo: Yaya Han / Photo: Jay Justice / Photo: Martha Howard

Cosplay Is a Business and It Is Suffering

The business of bringing characters to life is suffering, and there seems to be no end in sight.

Books & Comics Beth Elderkin

Watch Taika Waititi and All His Friends Read James and the Giant Peach for Charity

“Do your own accents, make an effort.” Taika Waititi knows how to direct, even when running an online book club for charity. The Academy Award-winning filmmaker has partnered up with the Roald Dahl Story Company for a 10-part series where he and several other stars do a group reading of the classic story James and…

Books & Comics Beth Elderkin

The CW-DC Universe Won’t Return Until 2021, and Will See a Scaled-Down Crossover

Fans hoping for a little more of that CW escapism here in 2020 are going to have to stick to reruns. The CW just announced its upcoming schedule and with it the news that Batwoman, Charmed, Black Lightning, The Flash, Superman & Lois, Riverdale, Nancy Drew, and others won’t be airing new episodes this fall.…

Books & Comics Germain Lussier

A Guide to Star Wars Comics That Can Help Fill the Clone Wars-Shaped Hole in Your Heart

Star Wars: The Clone Wars has now ended, bringing about closure to our definitive understanding of a conflict and characters that fundamentally shaped the sci-fi saga. And not just the prequels but everything from Rebelsto The Mandalorian, much further beyond the original three movies. Missing it already? Have no fear: there is, as they say,…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Tacky Branding Is Not the Way Back from the Coronavirus Shutdown

Like many other branches of the entertainment industry’s consumer-facing side, comic book shops have been hit hard by the covid-19 pandemic. Millions of people are staying home, and in many cases shuttering their businesses, for fear of risking exposure to a currently incurable virus that’s killed hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. Despite the fact…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

Doctor Who‘s Big New Event Is All About Cheating Death (and That Assholish Tenth Doctor)

Remember that hot five minutes the Tenth Doctor was like “I’m the last of the Time Lords, I can do whatever the damn hell I want” before everything went bad for him and he went “oh crap ctrl+z ctrl+z!!!”? Well, looks like he’s back. And this time he’s trying to stop literal dispensers of death?…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Everything You Need to Know About DC’s Justice Society Before It’s Reborn (Again) on Stargirl

The Justice Society of America is dead. Long live the Justice Society of America! DC Comics’ first superteam is one of its most iconic and convoluted mythoi, the nexus of the publisher’s approach to its own fictional history. Its members have been rebirthed, re-imagined, retconned, and revived endlessly since their inception, and they’re about to be…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Doom Patrol‘s Season 2 Premiere Is Coming in Fast and Hot

While we knew that Doom Patrol’s second season would air on both DC Universe and the new HBO Max streaming service, what we didn’t know is just how soon the new episodes would actually begin dropping. Thank Danny, the wait won’t be all that long. Plus we have a few other new HBO Max premiere…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

Image: Sam Keith, Mike Dringenberg,Todd Klein, Daniel Vozzo

The Sandman Audio Drama Has Found Its Dream in James McAvoy

Though it’s typically in bad taste to talk about one’s dreams (as they tend to be incomprehensible to other people), the latest casting news surrounding Audible’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman comic is worth poring over because from the sounds of things, the audio drama’s going to be something worth listening to. Entertainment Weekly reports…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

Wait, Now Swamp Thing Is Coming to the CW Too?

As we get ever closer to the launch of HBO Max, the limbo DC Universe finds itself in feels like it’s just getting weirder and weirder. We’ve already learned Doom Patrol will air on both Max and Universe. Harley Quinn is currently broadcasting on Syfy after launching on the streamer. Stargirl is pulling double duty…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Here’s What Shanghai Disneyland Looked Like on Its First Day of Reopening

Masks and temperature checks were mandatory, and the usual crowds were nowhere to be seen.

Books & Comics Matt Novak

God’s Dead and Nothing’s Normal in This Noir-Tinged Look Inside Cosmic Detective

Even in a world of cosmic horrors and supernatural oddities, a case is a case, and a hardboiled detective has still gotta work the work, dine at the diner, and…traverse the broken nightmare landscape hidden inside the trunk of his car? The latest graphic novel from Jeff Lemire, Matt Kindt, and David Rubin, Cosmic Detective,…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

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The Star Wars Expanded Universe and the Promise of Multitudes

As someone from a mixed-race background, I was used to never seeing myself in my favorite movies, including the Star Wars films. Because I rarely saw myself directly in the media I consumed, I learned to work with what was available. I imagined that there was a planet somewhere in this galaxy that was inhabited…

Books & Comics Julia Shiota

Just When You Thought Twilight Was Dead, Midnight Sun Resurrects Itself

Curious what was going on in Edward Cullen’s head? Author Stephenie Meyer finally has the answer. More than a decade after revealing, then pulling, the companion novel that would re-tell Twilight from the vampire’s point-of-view, Meyer has announced that Midnight Sun is finally getting released this summer. Meyer announced the new release date of Midnight…

Books & Comics Beth Elderkin

Marvel Comics Is Publishing Comic Books Again Starting in Late May

Good news, true believers. Marvel’s going to be shipping comics again, though it’s not clear how many people are going to be out and buying. As revealed in a press release, starting Wednesday, May 27th, Marvel Comics will be shipping new comics again, releasing in both physical and digital forms. This includes both weeklies, to…

Books & Comics Julie Muncy

My Chemical Romance‘s Mikey Way Is Penning a Haunting, Nostalgic New Comic

There are a great number of different ways that people can attempt to run away from their demons, some of which are healthy while others are profoundly self destructive. That’s a realization at the heart of a new series at Z2 Comics: Electric Century, from writers Mikey Way (of My Chemical Romance fame) and Shaun Simon…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

The Arrowverse Just Introduced DC’s Enchantress, Will They Treat Her Better Than Suicide Squad?

Legends of Tomorrow continues its reign as the greatest television series of all time, and now the show has cast its eye on the magical Enchantress from DC Comics. The DCEU may have bungled up her onscreen debut in Suicide Squad, but it looks like the Legends may finally do her justice. In the latest…

Books & Comics Beth Elderkin

Plan Your Escape to Another Dimension With May’s New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

May is traditionally a pretty robust month for book releases, but as you can probably guess, 2020’s selection is a little slimmer than usual. Several titles that were due this month have shifted to later dates, for obvious reasons—but despite everything, we still have tons of new sci-fi and fantasy to share. Dig in! Aurora…

Books & Comics Cheryl Eddy

Where to Start With the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Franchise

Batwoman Ripped Off the Bat-Bandage, For Better or Worse

Cosplay Is a Business and It Is Suffering

Watch Taika Waititi and All His Friends Read James and the Giant Peach for Charity

The CW-DC Universe Won’t Return Until 2021, and Will See a Scaled-Down Crossover

A Guide to Star Wars Comics That Can Help Fill the Clone Wars-Shaped Hole in Your Heart

Tacky Branding Is Not the Way Back from the Coronavirus Shutdown

Doctor Who‘s Big New Event Is All About Cheating Death (and That Assholish Tenth Doctor)

Everything You Need to Know About DC’s Justice Society Before It’s Reborn (Again) on Stargirl

Doom Patrol‘s Season 2 Premiere Is Coming in Fast and Hot

The Sandman Audio Drama Has Found Its Dream in James McAvoy

Wait, Now Swamp Thing Is Coming to the CW Too?

Here’s What Shanghai Disneyland Looked Like on Its First Day of Reopening

God’s Dead and Nothing’s Normal in This Noir-Tinged Look Inside Cosmic Detective

The Star Wars Expanded Universe and the Promise of Multitudes

Just When You Thought Twilight Was Dead, Midnight Sun Resurrects Itself

Marvel Comics Is Publishing Comic Books Again Starting in Late May

My Chemical Romance‘s Mikey Way Is Penning a Haunting, Nostalgic New Comic

The Arrowverse Just Introduced DC’s Enchantress, Will They Treat Her Better Than Suicide Squad?

Plan Your Escape to Another Dimension With May’s New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

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‘Invincible’ Season 4 Is Doing Right By Debbie

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