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Suicide Squad director shares previously unseen footage of Jared Leto’s Joker

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While the #ReleaseTheAyerCut campaign hasn’t attracted the same level of support for that of Zack Snyder’s Justice League, director David Ayer has teased fans of the DC supervillain ensemble Suicide Squad by sharing a brief, three-second clip featuring Jared Leto’s Joker. The filmmaker’s original cut of the 2016 movie was subject to enforced reshoots and […]

Zack Snyder reveals his Justice League cut will not be a series, but a four hour movie

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As we approach the end of a saga which feels as though it has gone on longer than any of its titular heroes comic book runs, Zack Snyder appears to have offered an answer as to how his cut of Justice League will be presented when it lands on HBO Max sometime in March this […]

Comic Book Review – Doomsday Clock: The Complete Collection

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Ricky Church reviews Doomsday Clock: The Complete Collection… It is funny that within the last couple of years we’ve gotten not one but two sequels to the groundbreaking graphic novel Watchmen in two different forms of media and context. HBO’s Watchmen delivered a miniseries that is a direct sequel to the graphic novel while DC’s Doomsday Clock is, […]

Comic Book Review – Lois Lane: Enemy of the People

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Ricky Church reviews Lois Lane: Enemy of the People… Lois Lane has always been tied to Superman’s legacy as his love interest and thought of, more often than not by mainstream audiences, a damsel in distress who Superman is always in need of rescuing. However, despite not having any superpowers of her own she is […]

DC announces new Batman & Scooby-Doo Mysteries series

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The Caped Crusader and the Mystery, Inc. gang are set to team up once again this April as DC launches the new all-ages digital first series Batman & Scooby-Doo Mysteries. Written by Ivan Cohen and Sholly Fisch with art from Dario Brizuela and Randy Elliott, Batman & Scooby-Doo Mysteries teams the Dark Knight with Scooby-Doo […]

Comic Book Preview – Future State: Shazam! #1

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DC releases Future State: Shazam! #1 this Tuesday, and we’ve got the official preview of the issue for you here; check it out here… No one’s seen Billy Batson in years-not since the incident known as the Final Battle of Titans Island. Now leading a small band of heroes, even his allies have begun to […]

The CW scraps plans for this year’s Superman and Batwoman Arrowverse crossover

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Back in May of last year it was announced that 2021’s Arrowverse crossover would bring together Batwoman and the newly-launching Superman & Lois for a World’s Finest-style event, but now comes word from Batwoman showrunner Caroline Dries that those plans have been axed due to the coronavirus pandemic. “We’re not really able to cross over […]

Harry Lennix confirms Martian Manhunter appearance in Zack Snyder’s Justice League

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Back in October 2019, when the prospect of The Snyder Cut ever seeing the light of day seemed little more than a pipe dream, director Zack Snyder revealed that he planned to have Man of Steel’s General Swanwick (Harry Lennix) revealed as a disguised J’onn J’onzz – a.k.a. Martian Manhunter – in his version of […]

New Batwoman star Javicia Leslie on differentiating her character from Ruby Rose’s Kate Kane

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This Sunday sees the premiere of Batwoman season two on The CW, and with it comes a new character under the cape and cowl as Javicia Leslie makes her debut as Ryan Wilder, replacing Ruby Rose who exited her role as Kate Kane after a single season. Speaking to Variety about her new crime-fighting role, […]