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Telltale Games announces Batman: The Enemy Within, The Walking Dead: The Final Season and The Wolf Among Us 2

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On the eve of San Diego Comic-Con International, Telltale Games has just dropped a rather major announcement on its next three titles – Batman: The Enemy Within, The Walking Dead: The Final Season and The Wolf Among Us 2! In this latest chapter, both Bruce Wayne and Batman will be forced into precarious new roles. […]

Watch the Batman: The Enemy Within launch trailer

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Next week Telltale will release Batman: The Enemy Within, the sequel to last year’s highly acclaimed Batman: The Telltale Series. Ahead of the first episode’s release, Telltale has unveiled the launch trailer for the game that shows off Batman’s battle with the deadly Riddler and the re-emergence of The Joker. Watch it here… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POH1JkHt2TM&feature=youtu.be Batman: The Enemy […]

Preview of Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II #6

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DC Comics and IDW’s Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II crossover comes to an end this Wednesday with the release of the sixth and final issue; check out a preview here… It’s the final battle as the Bat-family and the Turtles face off against Bane and the Foot Clan on Liberty Island. With America’s great symbol of […]

Ben Affleck’s Batman future reportedly in doubt

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Well, this probably isn’t the kind of headline Warner Bros. wants on the eve of its huge DC Films panel at the San Diego Comic-Con International tomorrow, but according to The Hollywood Reporter the studio is quietly working on a plan to phase out Ben Affleck’s Batman from the DCEU, with the outlet even going […]

What Sets Christopher Nolan Apart From Other Blockbuster Directors

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With the release of Dunkirk, Eric Bay-Andersen explores the aspects of Christopher Nolan’s films that set him apart from his contemporaries… Over the past twenty years, Christopher Nolan has amassed a body of work so impressive that a new film by him is now an event in the cinematic calendar. But it’s not just the […]

DC and Dynamite announce The Shadow/Batman sequel series

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DC Comics and Dynamite Entertainment have announced the upcoming release of The Shadow/Batman, a sequel to the Batman/The Shadow miniseries from the creative team of writer Steve Orlando and artist Giovanni Timpano. Here’s the covers to the first issue of the six-issue miniseries, along with the official solicitation… The World’s Greatest Mystery. The World’s Greatest […]

DC announces Batman and Harley Quinn digital comic book series

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DC Comics has announced the upcoming launch of the new digital comic book series Batman and Harley Quinn, serving as both a prequel and sequel to the next instalment of the DC Universe Animated Original Movies line. It’s the team-up we’ve been dreaming of as the cute psychopath Harley Quinn joins the brooding Dark Knight […]

Comic Book Review – Batman by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso

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Ricky Church reviews Batman by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso… This deluxe edition hardcover from the award-winning team of writer Brian Azzarello and artist Eduardo Risso collects the six-issue Batman epic “Broken City,” an examination of the Dark Knight and the city he protects. While hunting the murderer of a small boy’s parents, Batman is caught […]

The LEGO Movie Franchise: The Marriage of Movies and Merchandising

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Sarah Myles on The LEGO Movie franchise and the marriage of movie merchandising…  Forty years ago, there was a seismic shift in the film industry, when Bernard Loomis of Kenner Toys decided that Star Wars was ‘toyetic.’ That shift, all those years ago, has led us on a journey of courtship between movies and merchandising, […]