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Comic Book Preview – Batman/Superman Authority Special #1

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DC Comics releases Batman/Superman Authority Special #1 this Tuesday, and we have the official preview of the issue for you here… Following Mongul’s brazen attack on Earth, Superman’s world has been turned upside down: conflict between Atlantis and the surface world, the discovery of an immensely powerful new element, dead refugees with mysterious ties to […]

Comic Book Preview – Superman ’78 #3

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DC Comics’ Superman ’78 continues this Tuesday with the release of the third issue of the six-part series, and you can check out the official preview here… In order to save Metropolis, Superman must surrender to Brainiac or watch his city burn to the ground! After being taken aboard Brainiac’s ship, Superman finds a shocking […]

Exclusive Interview – Tim Daly on 25 years of Superman: The Animated Series and Superman’s pop culture relevance

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Ricky Church chats with Tim Daly about Superman: The Animated Series… Superman: The Animated Series recently passed two big milestones as it celebrated its 25th anniversary and was finally released on Blu-ray this week. Led by the minds behind Batman: The Animated Series, Superman is a near-definitive take on the Man of Steel and his vast mythology with […]

Exclusive Interview – Injustice director Matt Peters on the appeal of a dark Superman and the fractured friendship with Batman

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Ricky Church chats with Injustice director Matt Peters… Across DC’s vast multiverse of alternate stories on some of their most famous characters, one of the most recent is the hit video game Injustice featuring a Superman who has taken over the world to enforce a long-lasting peace in the wake of a devastating tragedy to him while […]

Michael B. Jordan’s Superman project Val-Zod gains writers Darnell Metayer and Josh Peters

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Michael B. Jordan’s Superman project has now gained writers and an official title. According to Deadline, Val-Zod will be a limited series on HBO Max with Darnell Metayer and Josh Peters writing the series. The character Val-Zod, created by Tom Taylor and Nicola Scott, is a different version of Superman within the DC multiverse of Earth-2. Much […]

Smallville 20th Anniversary: A Retrospective Look

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As it celebrates its twentieth anniversary, Ricky Church looks back on Smallville… When I was a young teenager, I had actually been drifting away from comics and superheroes a bit. After Batman & Robin it became clear no more Batman movies were going to be made for a while and cartoons like Batman: The Animated Series, […]

Eternals director Chloe Zhao discusses the Marvel movie’s Superman reference

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Okay, so it’s not quite Avengers vs. Justice League, but if you’ve been paying attention to the marketing for Marvel Studios’ Eternals, you may be aware that the film includes the MCU’s first direct reference to the Distinguished Competition. A recent promo for the film features a scene where Phastos’ (Brian Tyree Henry) son make […]

Exclusive Interview – Injustice screenwriter Ernie Altbacker on Superman’s arc, adapting the prequel comic and comparisons to Civil War

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Ricky Church chats with Injustice screenwriter Ernie Altbacker… Across DC’s vast multiverse of alternate stories on some of their most famous characters, one of the most recent is the hit video game Injustice featuring a Superman who has taken over the world to enforce a long-lasting peace in the wake of a devastating tragedy to […]

Exclusive Interview – Injustice producer Rick Morales on adapting the game, Batman and Superman’s fractured friendship and similarities to Mortal Kombat

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Ricky Church chats with Injustice producer Rick Morales… Across DC’s vast multiverse of alternate stories on some of their most famous characters, one of the most recent is the hit video game Injustice featuring a Superman who has taken over the world to enforce a long-lasting peace in the wake of a devastating tragedy to […]

Superman name-dropped in new promo for Marvel’s Eternals

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Following on from its world premiere, Marvel has released a new featurette Eternals which sees stars Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Brian Tyree Henry, Angelina Jolie, Don Lee, Lauren Ridloff, Lia McHugh, Kumail Nanjiani, Barry Keoghan and Salma Hayek introducing us to their characters, as well as offering a look at some new footage from the […]