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Hartley Sawyer fired from The Flash over racist and misogynistic tweets

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The CW has announced that Hartley Sawyer has been fired from his role as Ralph Dibny, a.k.a. Elongated Man, in the DC superhero show The Flash after a host of racist and misogynistic tweets made by the actor resurfaced on social media. “Hartley Sawyer will not be returning for season seven of The Flash,” reads […]

Comic Book Preview – The Joker 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular #1

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Ahead of its release this week, DC Comics has unveiled a new preview of The Joker 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular #1, an over-sized one-shot celebrating eighty years of the Clown Prince of Crime. Check it out here via ScreenRant… SEE ALSO: DC Comics unveils The Joker 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular Decade Variants Since […]

Damon Lindelof discusses Watchmen’s cliffhanger ending

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With a second season starting to feel increasingly unlikely, it appears that we may never get an answer to the big cliffhanger at the end of HBO and Damon Lindelof’s acclaimed comic book adaptation Watchmen – did Angela inherit the abilities of Doctor Manhattan? Well, it seems we can’t look to Lindelof for answers, as […]

Batwoman showrunner opens up about why they made the choice to replace Kate Kane

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With Ruby Rose exiting The CW’s Batwoman after only one season, the show and its creators are in an interesting position. Many believed they’d simply recast the role of Kate Kane, played by Rose, but news recently broke that they will be introducing a new character altogether. Someone named Ryan Wilder will take on the […]

Wonder Woman 1984 director denies rumors of Cheetah and Wonder Woman romance

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While love will be in the air in Wonder Woman 1984, director Patty Jenkins says it will not be between the two female leads. When speaking to SFX (via Heroic Hollywood), Jenkins opens up about the fan theory of romance between Gal Gadot’s Diana Prince and Kristen Wiig’s arbara Ann Minerva and why the movie didn’t have […]

David Ayer defends Jared Leto’s “comic book accurate” Joker in Suicide Squad

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Sandwiched between two Oscar-winning performances as the Clown Prince of Crime sits Jared Leto’s interpretation of the iconic Batman villain The Joker, his role in 2016’s Suicide Squad coming in for some pretty heavy criticism from the moment we got our first look at his heavily-tattooed and ‘damaged’ design. Suicide Squad has been back in […]

Comic Book Preview – The Batman’s Grave #7

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The Batman’s Grave continues this week with the release of issue #7, and we’ve got a preview for you here courtesy of DC Comics; check it out… There’s a lunatic on the loose and a dead body inside a supposedly impregnable home. Members of the justice system are being murdered, and nobody knows what’s happening. […]