The Justice League is going to die (well, most of them anyway) and lead to a Dark Crisis. And no, not in an Elseworlds title or Injustice game. Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, and more are really going to perish in the DC continuity. Though there is a matter of when …
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Who is The Last Ronin? It was the biggest question of 2020 for the TMNT fanbase. Now, three issues and nearly two years after the release of the first chapter, readers have not just the answer to the Last Ronin’s identity, but how his brothers and father died, how Shredder’s …
Read More »The Justice League is dead. But it leaves a long legacy of great comic book stories
The end-all-be-all of Justice League stories … literally … will be on sale on April 27 when Justice League #75 arrives. Sorry for the spoilers (heh), but it’s titled ‘Death of the Justice League’ and it’s about … you guessed it, the death of most of the current Justice League …
Read More »Can you name all the superhero Hawks?
Can you name all the superhero ‘Hawks?’ Newsarama can name 16. Can you add any more? As of Avengers #55, the Avengers have a new member. We’re not going to spoil it right here, but we’ll go as far as to say they’re one of the many superheroes with some …
Read More »Mephisto leads Marvels supervillains to watch out for in 2022
In April 20’s Avengers #55, classic Marvel villain Mephisto rears his head as one of the biggest coming threats in the Marvel Universe with an entire cadre of his own Multiverse ‘Variants’ known as the Council of Red at his side. To match the building threat of Mephisto and his …
Read More »Dick Grayson AKA Robin is the star of DCs wild new Worlds Finest
Batman/Superman: World’s Finest is bringing the Silver Age crashing back to modern comic book shops. The new series, which is drawn by Dan Mora, written by Mark Waid, colored by Tamra Bonvillain, and lettered by Aditya Bidikar, features Superman and Batman teaming up to do battle with a shadowy villain …
Read More »The surprising superheroes that have wielded Thors hammer
Jane Foster is well known as one of the longest-running and most powerful heroes to wield Mjolnir (and one of a very few who can claim the name ‘Thor’), and now we’ve got our first glimpse of Natalie Portman as Jane Foster as the Mighty Thor in the new Thor: …
Read More »This Thor: Love and Thunder trailer shot is taken directly from Marvel comics
The first trailer and synopsis for Thor: Love and Thunder show comic book writer Jason Aaron’s fingerprints all over the July film’s plot, from the main villain Gorr the God Butcher to Jane Foster taking up Mjolnir to become the Mighty Thor. But the just-released trailer also highlights the critical …
Read More »Marvels most underrated superheroes
Every character is somebody’s favorite character, and that applies equally to comic book characters, perhaps especially in comics as there are so many to choose from. Marvel and DC both have character catalogs four and five figures deep, with many of them weird, wacky, and/or seemingly uncool at first glance. …
Read More »Best Batman villains
DC’s main Batman ongoing series gets a new creative team in July and along with them a brand new supervillain, Failsafe, who new writer Chip Zdarsky describes as Batman’s Doomsday. Those are pretty big words, comparing Failsafe to the villain responsible for Superman’s death, but there you go. Go big …
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