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The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special trailer looks to deliver the perfect Christmas present

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Christmas is coming early for Marvel fans this year, assuming they subscribe to Disney+, with the streamer announcing a November premiere date for the second Marvel Studios Special Presentation after this month’s Werewolf By Night, the James Gunn-directed The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special. In the newly-released first trailer, we see Drax (Dave Bautista) […]

Comic Book Preview – Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons: The Complete Adventures

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Grab your dice, pencils, and spellbook as IDW and Oni-Lion Forge have packed together over 300 pages of monsters and mayhem in Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons: The Complete Adventures, available this week. Check out the official preview below… When Morty asks Rick for help learning how to play D&D to impress the […]

Batman: The Adventures Continue returning for third and final season

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DC Comics has announced that its Batman: The Animated Series follow-on Batman: The Adventures Continue is set to return for a third and final ‘season’ of seven issues with writers Alan Burnett and Paul Dini revisiting the DC Animated Universe once more alongside artist Jordan Gibson. Check out the covers to Batman: The Adventures Continue […]

Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania trailer kicks off Phase Five of the MCU

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With Black Panther: Wakanda Forever set to bring the curtain down on Phase Four of the MCU, Marvel Studios has now offered a peek at the next chapter of the Multiverse Saga with the first trailer for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Once again directed by Peyton Reed, Quantumania sees Scott Lang (Paul Rudd), Hope […]

Stranger Things: The Many Ghosts of Dr. Brenner miniseries announced by Dark Horse

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Dark Horse Comics has announced that its next Stranger Things series is set to delve into the dark past of the enigmatic Dr. Brenner (Matthew Modine) with the launch of the four-issue Stranger Things: The Many Ghosts of Dr. Brenner in January.  The year is 1968. Dr. Martin Brenner, a disgraced American scientist, returns to […]

Dune: House Harkonnen comic book series launching in January

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Boom! Studios has announced Dune: House Harkonnen, a twelve-issue comic book series adaptation of Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson’s bestselling Dune prequel which will launch this January. “Speaking for the Frank Herbert family, I am extremely pleased to be able to provide beautifully-illustrated comic editions of Dune: House Harkonnen for Dune fans,” said Brian Herbert. “This is the […]

Salma Hayek feels up Channing Tatum in Magic Mike’s Last Dance first look

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Having stepped in as a replacement for Thandiwe Newton after the Westworld actress fell out with producer and star Channing Tatum, Salma Hayek now features in the first look at the upcoming Magic Mike’s Last Dance. Released on Instagram by Tatum, the first image from the third Magic Mike film sees Hayek’s unnamed character copping […]

Netflix’s Black Samurai enlists Chad Stahelski and Leigh Dana Jackson

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Netflix has tapped John Wick helmer Chad Stahelski and Raising Dion executive producer Leigh Dana Jackson for an adaptation of Marc Olden’s 70s blaxploitation novels Black Samurai, The Hollywood Reporter has revealed. Olden’s Black Samurai books were published in the 1970s and follow Robert Sand, an American soldier in Japan who learns the way of […]

Riverdale meets Mad Max: Fury Road with Archie vs. the World

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Archie Andrews and the Riverdale gang are set for a Mad Max-style makeover this January with the release of the all-new one-shot comic Archie vs. the World. The comic comes from writer Aubrey Sitterson (No One Left to Fight) and artist Jed Dougherty (Savage Hearts), who previously collaborated on the story ‘Jughead the Barbarian’ in […]