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A Short Guide to Everyone Featured in the First Birds of Prey Teaser 

Short as the first Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) teaser is, it’s actually chock full of our first looks at basically the entire leading cast of characters. The problem’s just that they all flash by so quickly, you could easily miss them. There’s plenty of Harley Quinn in the … Continued

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Harley Quinn Brings Fantabulous Fashion to Birds of Prey Video Introducing Black Canary, Black Mask, Huntress & More

While Warner Bros. upcoming Birds of Prey movie will introduce a number of DC’s formidable heroines like Huntress and Black Canary to the DCEU for the first time, it’ll also feature the return of one Harley Quinn who, judging from the film’s title, might embark upon some sort of redemptive arc. New year, new movie, … Continued

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The Fathers Project Imagines a Radical World Where HIV/AIDS Never Happened

While we’re now able to look back and see, statistically, how the earliest days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic devastated the North American queer community, it’s impossible to quantify the impact that lost generation of lives could have had on the world had they lived. Leo Herrera’s The Fathers Project web series imagines a world in … Continued

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James Wan Will Only Venture Into Aquaman’s Sequel Depths if the Script Is a Pearl

By the end of the weekend, James Wan’s Aquaman will have become the most financially successful superhero movie Warner Brothers and DC have ever produced together—a title previously held by The Dark Knight. That’d be a huge accomplishment for any filmmaker, but for Wan in particular given the studio’s recent pivot to focusing on director-driven … Continued

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Twins Are Demonic and Jocks Are Theater Geeks in This Week’s Best New Comics

When you’re in school, you’re supposed to be focusing on your studies—but the heroes (and villains) in this week’s best new comics understand that a well-rounded academic experience includes things that aren’t listed on any syllabus. It’s not just about what you’re learning in class, but rather what you’re experiencing along with your peers. The … Continued

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Exclusive: Michael B. Jordan Opens Up About His New Animated Series gen:LOCK

Rooster Teeth’s new animated series gen:LOCK from Gray Haddock is a near-future sci-fi fantasy set in a world where war is waged with hulking, humanoid mechas operated by hotshot pilots. The anime which inspired gen:LOCK are written all over the show, and its hero, Julian Chase (Michael B. Jordan) immediately reads as exactly the kind of … Continued

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The Latest Trailer for Amazon’s The Boys Is About How Messy a Superpowered World Would Be

In Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s The Boys, superheroes enjoy the kind of global celebrity that the real world’s most popular Instagram influencers are blessed with. The visibility and power that comes along with that reality, naturally, leads to a number of them lapsing on their better judgment. Make of that what you will. Like … Continued

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The Latest Umbrella Academy Trailer Is an Exhausting Family Reunion

Despite what people like Charles Xavier might tell you, being recruited as a child to become a globe-trotting superhero who fights epic, life-changing wars is a surefire way to ensure that you’re stuck in therapy for the bulk of your adult life, should you survive your upbringing. This is something the heroes of Netflix’s Umbrella … Continued

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Watch Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse‘s Signature Style Evolve in These Early Animatics

Modern animated films are hugely collaborative efforts that take years to bring from concept to fruition—something that makes it fascinating to look back at a project’s earliest stages to see just how it evolved over the course of production. There are a number of key shots in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse—like Miles’ epic leap off … Continued

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Steven Universe Just Gave the Fandom Everything It Ever Needed

“Poor Yellow. Her impurities absorb all the blue in her light. She’s so strong, but so weak when it comes to Blue. Oh, and Blue. Her impurities soak up all of the warmth in her spectrum. She thinks she needs you, Pink.” That, dear readers, is what we in the business commonly refer to as … Continued

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Supergirl‘s Dreamer Might Have the Best Costume in the Entire Arrowverse

The CW’s interconnected Arrowverse is home to a wide variety of superhero costumes that range from being “functional, but kinda tacky” to “impractical, but nifty to look at in a comic book-y way.” Few of them can truly said to be damn-near perfect (because, even though Thunder’s costume is choice, Black Lightning technically isn’t an … Continued

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Gotham‘s Other Harley Quinn Finally Got Her Due Courtesy of Catwoman

Gotham’s dysfunctional villains have been so interesting to watch develop because the show introduces each of them at various stages in their journeys to becoming part of the classic Batman rogues’ gallery we’re all familiar with. Some characters’ paths have been in line with the traditional comics lore, while others are wildly reinvented. In the show’s … Continued

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Jigsaw Is The Punisher‘s Most Fascinating Puzzle Because Frank Castle Can’t Solve Him

Though neither Frank Castle nor Billy Russo were fully aware of it at the time, their final confrontation in The Punisher’s first season was overlaid with a thematic weight that was larger than the sum of its parts. Their fight was a chance for Frank to avenge his family’s deaths, yes, but it was also … Continued

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Young Justice: Outsiders Just Keeps Getting Bigger and Busier

Young Justice: Outsiders presumes you have a fair amount of familiarity with the characters’ backstories and plot lines from previous seasons, as well as DC Comics’ larger canon. The DC Universe show could have easily stuck with its core cast of heroes and continued along with their already complicated arcs, but Outsiders is doing something … Continued

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Fast Color‘s First Trailer Finds a Family of Superheroes Living in a Dying World

In Julia Hart’s Fast Color, to be born with special abilities like the movie’s hero Ruth is to be both powerful and misunderstood, and it’s something that puts Ruth’s life and the fate of the world in dire circumstances. In Fast Color’s first trailer, we meet Ruth (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), a young woman who can tap … Continued

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Kevin Hart in Talks to Star in the Monopoly Movie Nobody Asked For

For reasons that can only be explained by Milburn Pennybags, Hasbro is reportedly moving forward with its plans for a Monopoly feature film directed by Tim Story, and the project’s found its first lead actor. Deadline reports that, despite the recent wave of backlash he’s received for making homophobic comments in the past, Kevin Hart … Continued

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In the First gen:LOCK Trailer, Humans and Epic Mechas Become One

In the futuristic world of Rooster Teeth’s upcoming animated series gen:LOCK, international conflicts are no longer fought with traditional weapons, but with sophisticated, humanoid mechas that can only be piloted by unique individuals. The series follows Vanguard pilot Julian Chase (Michael B. Jordan), who is called upon to join the latest battle to protect his … Continued

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John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum’s First Trailer Finds Its Murderous Hero on the Run

John Wick has always been a rather notable man but in the first trailer for John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, his, let’s say “popularity,” is at an all-time high. After being excommunicated from the Continental for violating the High Table’s rules by killing another assassin on neutral ground, the worldwide hit has been placed … Continued

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New Captain Marvel Posters Feature the MCU’s Hero Pet and Some Faces From the Uncanny Valley

The interstellar, alien settings of Captain Marvel’s story are going to require quite few impressive visual effects to pull off, but a lot of the work that’s going into the movie is focused on de-aging Samuel L. Jackson and Clark Gregg so that the actors can reprise their roles as Nick Fury and Phil Coulson—albeit … Continued

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A Primer for Mysterio, One of Spider-Man’s Strangest Villains

After years of fighting more modernized versions of his rogues’ gallery, Spider-Man is finally getting the chance to fight a villain who, at least visually, is going to be every bit as campy and downright weird on the big screen as Stan Lee and Steve Ditko originally envisioned him in Marvel’s comic back in the … Continued