Joe Manganiello Says Ben Affleck’s The Batman Will Encompass All the Things...
A video posted by Ben Affleck (@benaffleck) on Aug 29, 2016 at 7:03am PDT If you’re having reservations about Ben Affleck’s solo Batman film, Joe Manganiello is here to assure you that everything is...
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Best of 2016 Last-Minute Comics Gift Guide for Friends Who Need a Little Help...
Slim and Lou, the comiXologist podcast crew, are here digging into our libraries to recommend some of our favorite comics of the year, but this isn’t just any 2016 year-end list. This list doubles as...
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The Mary Sue Deadpool Hoodie Giveaway!
2016 was the year of Deadpool … getting pirated rampantly apparently, but that’s probably only because his long-awaited feature film debut went so well! (No, we’re still not counting his appearance in...
View ArticleFox Orders a Pilot For Another X-Men TV Show and It Sounds Kinda Cool
FX’s Legion might not be the only X-Men show heading toward television. SlashFilm reports that Fox, the network that currently airs DC’s Batman series Gotham, has ordered the pilot for an untitled...
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Image Comics Is Raising Money for Planned Parenthood With Women’s History...
via Image Comics, cover by Leslie Hung Each day, more people seem to be joining the fight against Trump’s administration. For one, artist David Mack is selling a gorgeous watercolor print of Kamala...
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Gail Simone and Cat Staggs Deftly Turn Tropes Upside Down in Crosswind #1
A frequent criticism of literary or visual media is the use of what have colloquially come to be known as “tropes.” (Yes, I see you, fellow pedants. A trope is actually meant to refer to figurative...
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Marvel Hints at Captain America’s Redemption and I Literally Could Not Care...
What do you do with a problem like turning your greatest Nazi-fighting superhero into an agent of Hydra, upsetting fans for months? Continue to milk the storyline unto infinity, if you’re Marvel...
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BOOM! Studios Delivers the Nuanced Female Characters of Our Dreams in Jane...
Beautiful life exists outside the binary of DC or Marvel. I’m still getting over this tweet that Kaila included in her post about those heinous “Christian” parents: gender is like comics, if you only...
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Review: Spiritus #2 Takes You on an Escape From a Prison for the Mind
(By Tim Daniel and Michael Kennedy, letters by Lauren Norby) Corporal punishment only exacts its retribution as long as the body and consciousness remain coupled to receive it. When corporal becomes...
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DC Comics Is Receiving an Award for Their Depiction of LGBTQIA Characters,...
The Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Entertainment Network (GLSEN) announced that they’re awarding this year’s Visionary Award to DC Comics, citing the publisher’s “commitment to showcasing diverse...
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Justice League Variant Covers Show Us Wonder Woman and The Flash in Action,...
In November, DC Comics will begin publishing cinematic variant covers attached to existing titles, in the hopes that fans will want to collect ’em all. Now they’ve released two featuring battle-ready...
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Interview: Cartoonist Abby Howard Makes Dinosaurs Cooler Than Ever
This post was originally published on The Portalist. It has been reproduced here with permission. For more from The Portalist, follow them on Facebook. While Abby Howard hasn’t traveled through time...
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That’s It, Star Wars, Mandalorian Sabine Wren Needs Her Own Comics - Sabine...
As we await the debut of Kelly Marie Tran as Rose in The Last Jedi, another onscreen Asian woman heroine needs her due. In Star Wars Rebels, Mandalorian Sabine Wren (voiced by Tiya Sircar) is an...
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Jessica Jones, Miles Morales Co-Creator Brian Michael Bendis Moving to DC Comics
Writer and artist Brian Michael Bendis had a major hand in some of the best things Marvel comics have done recently—including the introduction of Jessica Jones and Miles Morales as Spider-Man—so...
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This Thanksgiving, I’m Thankful for Tessa Thompson
Once upon a time, when I was work at a certain independent New York City bookstore, I was in the basement, and I saw Tessa Thompson. This was after Creed, but before Westworld, but I knew who she was...
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A Brief Timeline of Sexual Harassment and Assault in the Comics Industry
A timeline of sexual harassment and assault in the comics industry is lamentably challenging to truncate, but a girl can try. The comics industry, like too many others, has a big problem with sexual...
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Things We Saw Today: The List of 2017’s Best-Selling Graphic Novels Proves...
A company called BookScan, which tracks the “sell-through” of books (that’s the ratio of retail sales to wholesale distribution), and comics news business site ICV2 have collaborated to produce a list...
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Tiffany Haddish & Melissa McCarthy to Star in a Film Adaptation of the Gritty...
Deadline has announced that Tiffany Hadish and Melissa McCarthy are in talks to star in a movie together. While your immediate reaction might be along the lines of “that’s too much funny for one...
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Review: Treat Yourself to Twisted Romance #2 This Valentine’s Day
Anthologies are a bit like speed dating for comics. Maybe you’ll have a fling with a genre or style outside your usual interests. Maybe you’ll fall head over heels in love with a new creator’s work....
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Let’s Play Bingo, Love: A Look at Tee Franklin’s Queer Romance Graphic Novella
If you don’t know, now you know: Tee Franklin is a queer, Black, disabled woman who works in the comics industry as an advocate for both the LGBTQIA and disabled communities. In 2015, she started the...
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