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07 Sep

Labyrinth: How Did Jareth Become the Goblin King? His Comic Book Origin Story Explains

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Warning: contains spoilers for the Labyrinth: Coronation Comics. Maybe yours is the kind of mind that’s never worried about why in the 1986 film Labyrinth, Goblin King Jareth – ostensibly a human man, albeit one who can turn into an owl – rules a species with which he shares zero physical characteristics. If so, then go in peace, friend, and enjoy life. You likely already are. If, however, yours is the sort of mind that regularly lets you leave home in slippers because it’s busy wondering how they get the horses to the Olympics, then step this way. The Labyrinth mystery has been…
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26 May

Batman 89: Billy Dee Williams Finally Becomes Two-Face in Burtonverse Comic

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The Batman Burtonverse is coming back in a big way. Not only is Warner Bros. bringing back Michael Keaton as Batman in the upcoming Flash movie but DC Comics is set to publish a 6-issue limited series that explores what happened next after Tim Burton’s first Gotham City outing rolled credits. Batman ’89 brings together the movie’s original screenwriter, Sam Hamm, with artist Joe Quinones, who has been tied to a revival of the Burtonverse in the comics for quite some time. Quinones previously pitched a similar miniseries to DC, at the time to be written by Kate Leth (Hellcat).…
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14 Apr

Rick Grimes Will Return to The Walking Dead Comic to Battle Aliens

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The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman has always liked to tease that the real cause of the zombie outbreak in his long-running comic series was extraterrestrial in nature. Back in January 2020, Kirkman responded to a question on Twitter as to the zombie outbreak’s origin with a simple “space spore.” This was a joke, of course, but it was also a stealthy shout out to what The Walking Dead could have been. Kirkman originally developed The Walking Dead as a Night of the Living Dead comic. But when Image Comics encouraged him to develop his own idea so that he…
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05 Apr

The Walking Dead: What “Here’s Negan” Changes from the Comic

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This article contains spoilers for The Walking Dead season 10 episode 22. Negan (no last name given…or needed) is one of the most unexpectedly beloved characters on The Walking Dead. Loquacious, charismatic, and unfailingly vulgar, Negan practically jumps off the page of Robert Kirkman’s comic series, and makes a big impact through Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s performance of the AMC series. Over 193 issues of Kirkman’s comic, it became clear that the writer was just as enthralled with the brutish villain as the fans were. It would have been easy to kill Negan off at the end of the extended All…
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02 Apr

Animorphs: A Panel By Panel Comic Breakdown of Adapting a Scene From The Visitor

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Reading the first Animorphs graphic novel was a delightful shock. Not only had one of the greatest sci-fi novels for kids finally returned in a new form but it was also extremely faithful to the original book. Every scene was lifted from the novel and almost all of the dialogue was kept intact. A few small changes were made to remove dated pop culture references or to better fit the visual medium but overall it’s easily one of the closest adaptations of any piece of media out there. So how is it done? Taking a whole novel and turning it…
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31 Mar

Was The Walking Dead Planning to Go Past the Comic Stories?

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When AMC announced that its franchise-spawning series, The Walking Dead, was coming to an end, it was surprising, yet expected. While the ratings-dominant heyday of the prolific series is well in the rearview mirror, the mothership show continues to guide what remains an immensely profitable franchise. Yet, as TWD approaches the endpoint of its source material, Robert Kirkman’s comic books, fans assumed that the show was ending on its own terms. However, star Jeffrey Dean Morgan says that plans were still being made for more seasons when AMC axed the series, which would have surpassed the comic’s storylines. In a…
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01 Mar

Jupiter’s Legacy Comic Comes to Life in Netflix Series First Look

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At first glance, comics would appear to be the easiest print medium to adapt into a visual medium like film or television. But as we all know from decades spent watching comic book adaptations (some great, some good, some…not good) that’s not always the case.  There are bound to be subtleties of art, lighting, and movement that visual media could misinterpret or outright miss. With its latest comic adaptation, and its first project from Millarworld, Netflix looks to be striving for as close a visual adaptation as possible. Jupiter’s Legacy will be based on the comic book series of the…
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23 Feb

Teen Titans: How the Mystery of Red X Shapes the Team’s New Comic

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How do you kill a superhero? That was the question we wanted to pose to writer Tim Sheridan who, in his first issue of Future State: Teen Titans, kills a metric ton of famed caped crusaders. Part of Infinite Frontier, the massive publishing initiative that’s rewriting the (possible) future of the DC Universe, the series begins with a massacre. But it also sets up a mystery: what happened at Titans Tower? And why are some of our favorite heroes dead?   “The only thing that interests me is giant, big, sweeping, earth-shattering consequences. And the best way to understand and feel…
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26 Jan

Link Tank: Comic Book Writer Tom King on Batman and Love

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Check out this exclusive interview with comic book writer Tom King on his Batman run, Bruce Wayne and love, and more. “Since his rise in the mid-2010s as a must-read comic book writer with an unlikely background in the CIA, 42-year-old Tom King has used superheroes — both ones you know (Batman) and ones you don’t (Mister Miracle) — to explore themes often avoided in the stereotypically masculine genre: Love and marriage.” Read more at Inverse. Microsoft has apparently filed a patent for a chat bot technology that mimics real, deceased people. “From customer service to Marvel marketing gimmicks, chat…
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13 Nov

Link Tank: What Could Comic Conventions Look Like in 2021?

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With social distancing having been in effect since March with no end in sight, let’s speculate what comic-cons will look like in 2021. “We—and the convention-going community as a whole, especially our fellow artist alley peeps—hoped that things would be okay come summer, then fall, then winter. Deep down, though, I knew that the season was over for 2020. Having that many people gathered in a space for a weekend was too risky, so the question became, ‘What about 2021?'” Read more at The Mary Sue. If you botch your turkey from Whole Foods this Thanksgiving, you may be one…
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31 Oct

Give Comics Hope: Here’s How You Can Help Save Comic Book Stores

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This article is presented by: Often I tell my friends that if the 15 year old version of myself could know about the Marvel Cinematic Universe or that there have been three Archie-inspired TV series or that Watchmen was given a television sequel that enhances/surpasses(?) the graphic novel his head would explode. You see, I remember when comic book culture was frowned upon, considered the domain of outcasts who could never function in “normal” society. Now it dominates all. This isn’t me being the human equivalent of the “old man yells at a cloud meme” either, just stating a fact…
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16 Oct

The Empty Man Trailer Teases Horror Film Adapting Cullen Bunn Comic

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The Empty Man, a supernatural horror film, has become a surprise straggler in a shrunken pandemic-era lineup of films still actually headed to theaters… and it’s coming sooner rather than later, as evidenced by 20th Century Studios’ release of the trailer. James Badge Dale headlines the horror flick, which adapts The Empty Man comic book series from Boom! Studios (for which Fox is a stakeholder,) created by esteemed writer Cullen Bunn with art by Vanesa R. Del Rey. The film also serves as the feature directorial debut of David Prior, who worked off an adaptation screenplay he wrote, bringing nearly…
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16 Oct

Helstrom: The Comic History of Marvel’s Son of Satan

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On Oct. 16, Hulu will be releasing the latest Marvel tie-in series Helstrom. It’s not so much like one of those upcoming Disney+ MCU shows that feature high-profile superheroes telling stories that will be important to the overall fictional universe. It’s more like Daredevil or Runaways where quality be damned, you’re never going to hear anyone in the movies make anything close to a reference to it, but it counts as part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe anyway. The series is about siblings Daimon Helstrom and Ana Helstrom, who have seemingly normal lives, but oppose demons and evil people on…
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14 Oct

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Comic Ends With A Giant Zord Battle

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The Boom Studios Power Rangers comics have given us things the TV show never could. Hundreds of Rangers in combat on the moon, monsters impossible even for Toei to create, and storylines that we could have only dreamed of. However, one of the best things to come out of the Boom comics are the Zord battles. As cool as they are in the show, the ability to render a Zord battle on the drawn page is something to behold. The things that can do when they don’t have to move a person in a costume or a model around have…
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23 Sep

Raised by Wolves Comic Reveals New Backstory Details

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This article contains mild spoilers for Raised by Wolves. In a joint effort between HBO Max and DC Comics, a new 8-page mini story in the Raised by Wolves universe has been made available that provides a peek into the life of the original group of children living on Kepler-22b with their android caretakers before the Mithraics arrived. The comic is totally free and available to read via Read DC, Comixology, Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, and other platforms, giving fans of the show, which is still midway through its first season, another way to enjoy the story. The short comic…
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22 Sep

How The Venture Bros. Helped Comic Book Tropes Evolve

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There’s nothing new about comic book and superhero parodies. Many films within the current superhero cinema system like Deadpool even turn a self-aware eye to the source material, while shows like The Tick poke fun at the medium with exaggerated character types. A lot of the material that pokes fun at comics, however, does so for the simple joys of parody or to highlight the intrinsic silliness of superheroes. Adult Swim’s classic and now sadly-concluded animated series The Venture Bros. goes about things a bit differently. The Venture Bros. didn’t begin as a direct analysis of the form and genre,…
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10 Sep

How Does The Walking Dead Comic End?

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The following contains spoilers for The Walking Dead comic. AMC once claimed they wanted their hugely successful Walking Dead series to run in perpetuity. Turns out they were only partially serious about that. Because while The Walking Dead franchise will live on in Fear the Walking Dead, The Walking Dead: World Beyond, and at least two new announced spinoffs, The Walking Dead proper is soon coming to an end. The network has announced that season 11 will be the end of the road for the long-running zombie hit. Between season 10’s remaining seven episodes and season 11’s confirmed 24, The Walking Dead…
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22 Aug

How Gotham Knights Connects to a Classic Batman Comic

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The Bat-Family are back baby! Well, they’ve never really been gone but despite their occasional appearances in the smash-hit Batman: Arkham games series we’ve never gotten a dedicated game focused on Batman’s numerous wards until now. Gotham Knights showcases Barbara Gordon’s Batgirl, Jason Todd’s Red Hood, Tim Drake’s Robin, and of course Dick Grayson’s Nightwing teaming up to protect a Gotham that’s left defenseless after the apparent death of Batman. Now, where might we have seen a story like that before… Batman: Battle for the Cowl was a 2009 miniseries written and drawn by Tony Daniel, with inks by Sandu…
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11 Aug

New York Comic Con Festivities Cancelled, Event Moving Online

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New York Comic Con, the most attended comic book and pop culture convention in the United States, is officially moving online less than two months ahead of its previously scheduled October kickoff. The grim news, while hardly shocking, does come with the small silver lining that the event will live on via live digital panels on YouTube. ReedPop, the large public event-based company behind NYCC and a number of other pop culture gatherings, also announced Tuesday several major television panels have already agreed to move to YouTube panels, including Starz’s American Gods, CBS All Access’s catalogue of new Star Trek…
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27 Jul

Link Tank: Every SDCC Trailer From Comic-Con@Home

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The San Diego Comic-Con virtual event, Comic-Con@Home, was this past weekend. Here are every trailer that got dropped during the event. “Comic-Con@Home is coming to a close today, wrapping up what is easily the most unusual con experience to date. The virtual con has been a mixed bag: while it gives folks across the globe access to the SDCC experience for free, many fans miss the sense of community and in-person excitement that only the IRL convention can deliver.” Read more at The Mary Sue. What do the words “biscuit”, “trolley”, and “rubber” mean to you? Very different things, depending…
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