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The Week in Spandex – The Pre-San Diego Comic-Con Edition

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Welcome to an abridged, pre-San Diego Comic-Con edition of The Week in Spandex… Well, it’s almost that time of year again. In just a few short hours the San Diego Comic-Con International 2017 will get underway, and as usual it promises to be a huge weekend for fans of superhero movies and television. Warner Bros. […]

Arrow executive producer on the “evolution” of the show in season 6

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Big changes are afoot for the sixth season of The CW’s DC superhero show Arrow, as the series ditches its traditional flashback format and heads into new territory. It has been previously suggested that season six will mark a “reboot” of sorts, although executive producer Wendy Mericle has described it more as an “evolution” during […]

The Week in Spandex – Spider-Man: Homecoming, Avengers: Infinity War, Black Panther, Justice League, Wonder Woman 2, The Incredibles 2 and more

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In this edition of The Week in Spandex, we look at Spider-Man: Homecoming, Venom, Avengers: Infinity War, Black Panther, Thor: Ragnarok, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, The Defenders, The Punisher, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Inhumans, Agents of S.H.I.E.L..D., The Gifted, X-Men: The New Mutants, X-Men: Dark Phoenix, Justice League, Wonder […]

Stephen Amell reveals which Flash villains he’d like to see in Arrow

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While Arrow has established quite the Rogues Gallery of its own, star Stephen Amell has revealed that he’d be keen to see Oliver Queen taking on other villains from the Arrowverse, and has two particular bad guys from The Flash in mind. “King Shark would be fun,” said Amell at the Heroes and Villains Fan […]

Stephen Amell confirms Manu Bennett return in Arrow season 6

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Having returned to the series for its season five finale, it seems we’ll be seeing a lot more of Slade Wilson in the upcoming sixth season of Arrow, with Stephen Amell confirming that Manu Bennett will be back as Deathstroke, along with another character who has been absent since the first season. “I can report […]

The Week in Spandex – Spider-Man: Homecoming, Avengers: Infinity War, Thor: Ragnarok, X-Men: Dark Phoenix, Aquaman, Wonder Woman, The Batman and more

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In this edition of The Week in Spandex, we look at Spider-Man: Homecoming, Avengers: Infinity War, Thor: Ragnarok, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, Deadpool 2, X-Men: Dark Phoenix, Justice League, Aquaman, Wonder Woman, The Batman, Green Lantern Corps, Supergirl, Arrow, The Flash, Hellboy Rise of the Blood Queen and more… The fourth […]

Stephen Amell is gunning for an Arrow/Supernatural crossover

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Star of Arrow, Stephen Amell, is really interested in a cross over between his show and Supernatural. Crossovers are of course all the rage today with cinematic universes permeating every part of TV and film culture. The CW is fully on board with this current trend, having produced crossover events in the past with its […]

The CW’s next DC crossover will increase the emotional stakes and payoffs

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After last year’s big crossover between Supergirl, The Flash, Arrow and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, executive producer Marc Guggenheim has revealed that they’ll be taking a different approach when the DC heroes reunite again this year – focussing instead on raising the emotional stakes and payoffs rather than trying to outdo the ‘Invasion!’ arc in […]