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DCeased and Under the Moon: A Catwoman Tale lead bestselling comics and graphic novels of May 2019

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DC Comics topped the comic book and graphic novels sales charts this May with DCeased #1 and Under the Moon: A Catwoman Tale respectively, but that still wasn’t enough to wrestle Marvel from first place in the publisher charts. Here’s last month’s direct sales figures from Diamond Comic Distributors…Top Ten Comic Books of May 20191. […]

X-Men: First Class director would have made Apocalypse before Days of Future Past

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Matthew Vaughn, the director of X-Men: First Class, says that he would have done X-Men: Apocalypse before X-Men: Days of Future Past instead of after.Now that Fox’s X-Men franchise is coming to an end with Dark Phoenix, there is plenty of retrospection going on, especially as the characters’ futures are unclear. One person looking back […]

Comic Book Preview – Silver Surfer: Black #1

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The Sentinel of the Spaceways returns this coming Wednesday as Marvel launches its new Silver Surfer: Black series, and you can take a look at a preview of the first issue right here…Spinning out of GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY #1, almost the entire galaxy’s defenders have been blown through a black hole, including the Silver […]

Movie Review – X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019)

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X-Men: Dark Phoenix, 2019.Directed by Simon Kinberg. Starring Sophie Turner, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Jessica Chastain, Tye Sheridan, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Evan Peters and Alexandra Shipp.SYNOPSIS:Jean Grey begins to develop incredible powers that corrupt and turn her into a Dark Phoenix. Now the X-Men will have to decide if the life of […]

Sophie Turner and Jessica Chastain say X-Men: Dark Phoenix was constantly rewritten on set

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Sophie Turner and Jessica Chastain, two of the stars of X-Men: Dark Phoenix, say that the film was constantly being rewritten on set.It seems like critics aren’t responding particularly well to X-Men: Dark Phoenix – the last film in Fox’s franchise. While each viewer will have to make up their own mind on the film, […]

Spider-Man: Far From Home images featuring Spidey, Nick Fury and Maria Hill

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Following a new poster and TV spot for Spider-Man: Far From Home, Sony Pictures has now released another batch of images from next month’s Marvel Cinematic Universe sequel featuring Peter Parker/Spider-Man (Tom Holland), Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), and Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders); check them out here…SEE ALSO: Spider-Man: Far From Home international trailer serves up […]

Dark Phoenix producer can’t wait to see the X-Men join the MCU

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Hutch Parker, a producer for X-Men: Dark Phoenix, says he is looking forward to seeing what Marvel Studios do with the X-Men.Once X-Men: Dark Phoenix has had its run in cinemas, it will be officially over to Disney and Marvel Studios when it comes to creating new X-Men content for the big screen. While this […]

PREVIEWS Exclusive Marvel Nova Prime Funko Pop! Vinyl figure incoming

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Diamond Comics Distributors has unveiled the PREVIEWS exclusive Nova Pop! Marvel vinyl figure; check out the promotional images here…In 1976, Nova debuted in Marv Wolfman and John Buscema’s The Man Called Nova #1. Now, the elite superhero is making his maiden voyage to comic shops as a PREVIEWS Exclusive Funko POP! Vinyl figure along with […]

Marvel’s Jessica Jones season 3 trailer and poster released

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With just a week to go until the third and final season of Jessica Jones arrives on Netflix, the streaming service has released a trailer and poster for its final Marvel series which you can check out here…SEE ALSO: Krysten Ritter gets behind the camera in Marvel’s Jessica Jones season 3 featuretteNew York City private […]