Month: August 2017

The last school bell has rung and it’s finally HOME TIME! Even though they’re twins, Lilly and David don’t agree on much… except that the last summer before high school is the perfect time for relaxing with friends. But their plans for sleepovers, fantasy games, and romance are thrown out the window when the whole
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In Abandoned an’ Forsaked, we examine comic book stories and ideas that were not only abandoned, but also had the stories/plots specifically “overturned” by a later writer (as if they were a legal precedent). Today, inspired by this week’s TV Legends Revealed about a Hulk/Spider-Man TV crossover that nearly was (as well as an amusing
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The unicorn craze has reached Tokyo! The city has a new life-size RX-0 Unicorn Gundam statue keeping watch over its citizens. The statue replaces the illuminated 59-foot Gundam statue erected in Tokyo for the 2015 holiday season and taken down last spring. If you thought 59 feet was high, wait until you see the Unicorn
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Black Lightning is back, and he’s bringing an old friend with him. Tony Isabella, the original creator of Black Lightning, returns to the character with Black Lightning: Cold Dead Hands. The six-issue miniseries, with art by Clayton Henry (Harbinger), will explore the life of a younger Jefferson Pierce. As DC Comics describes the series, this
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Welcome to Comic Book Legends Revealed! This is the six hundred and forty-first week where we examine comic book legends and whether they are true or false. As we’ve been doing it for some time now, one legend today, one tomorrow and one Sunday. Let’s begin! COMIC LEGEND: Marvel insisted on the Hulk fathering a
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The dramatic new teaser trailer for The CW’s Riverdale has arrived. RELATED: Riverdale ‏Teases Slender Man-Style Character for S2 The short teaser that was released earlier today teases a shadowy, villainous figure for the second season of the Archie Comics adaptation. It was only a few days ago that series creator Roberto Aguirre Sacasa teased
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It’s become something of a running gag at this point — renowned astrophysicist and author Neil deGrasse Tyson taking to social media to poke holes in genre entertainment, by pointing out how real-life science is frequently incompatible with science-fiction. But according to Tyson himself, he’s not doing it to ruin anyone’s fun — he’s hoping
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Netflix has released the first teaser for The Punisher, a 30-second montage of scenes from the upcoming series which debuted early this morning at the end of the streaming service’s latest Marvel series, The Defenders. RELATED: The Punisher: Bernthal Says Frank Castle is No Real Hero “All the things that I’ve done… memories, they never
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Another summer, another massive Summer Comiket (NatsuComi) packed with some phenomenal goods, fans, and of course, cosplayers! The 3-day Comiket 92 event was held Aug. 11-13 at Tokyo Big Sight, and a whopping 500,000 fans visited with 160,000 on the first day, 150,000 on the second, and 190,000 on the third. If you think you’re
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Hatsune Miku is teaming up with JR Group’s NewDays convenience store for a special pop-up collaboration marking the tenth anniversary of the popular Vocaloid star. The NewDays x Hatsune Miku 831 Collaboration Shop will operate for a limited time only at NewDays stores and JR Akihabara station where Hatsune Miku will become the mascot character
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The Disastrous Life of Saiki K., an upcoming live action movie based on Aso Shuichi’s popular comedy manga, has revealed a video of three intermissions! Directed by Fukuda Yuichi, who is also the director and screenwriter of the movie, these clips feature Yamazaki Kento (Saiki Kusuo) in surreal situations where he’s barely visible. In the
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Commemorating the 20th anniversary of One Piece’s serialization, a special collaborative illustration by manga artists Sakamoto Shinichi and Komi Shinya is appearing in issue 18 of Grand Jump that went on sale on Aug. 16. Oda Eiichiro responded with an awesome illustration of his own, which can be found in the same issue! It also
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Miike Takashi’s live action adaptation of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable is currently screening in Japanese cinemas! If you haven’t got the chance to see the movie itself yet though, don’t despair. You can get a feel for how the landmark franchise has been adapted in four newly released video clips! The first clip
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There’s no telling exactly how fast the Waverider from DC’s Legends of Tomorrow can move, but presumably it can hit speeds exceeding 88 miles per hour. That’s good, because the time ship is going to have some competition when the Legends travel back to the far-flung era of the 1980s, as series star Brandon Routh
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Original Gremlins writer Chris Columbus is returning to pen the script for Gremlins 3 almost three decades after Gremlins 2: The New Batch, which took the franchise in a more lighthearted direction. In an interview with Slash Film, Columbus teased that the script would resemble the first movie’s twisted tone and deal with the issue
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More footage of the Royal Family has been released in Marvel’s latest Inhumans teaser trailer. RELATED: Inhumans Pilot Was Shot Fast & Cheap, But With ‘Radical’ Concepts Starting off with a shot of the Moon, the latest Inhumans teaser introduces the Royal Family to audiences, revealing all eight members’ names and roles. Despite persistent criticism,
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Sean Gunn is used to acting under the direction of his brother, James Gunn, but he appreciates the Russo Brothers’ style. RELATED: Chris Hemsworth Was ‘Weirdly Shaken’ By Meeting Chris Pratt While Kraglin Obfonteri isn’t expected to join fellow Guardians of the Galaxy members in Avengers: Infinity War, Sean Gunn still had the opportunity to
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While much has changed in Death Note‘s journey from smash-hit manga and anime to live-action Netflix film — most notably the setting, and the ethnicities of the characters — at least one thing remains the same: the quirky posture of the enigmatic detective L. RELATED: Light Meets Ryuk in New Death Note Clip In this
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Earlier this month, the Tokyo Philaharmonic Symphony celebrated the 25th anniversary of Takeuchi Naoko’s Sailor Moon by holding an unforgettably beautiful concert! The event, titled “Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Classic Concert,” was held at the Tokyo Geigeki Theatre on Aug. 2 and Aug. 3. True to the spirit of the series, the first part of
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Nothing says summer in Japan quite like watermelons, and it doesn’t have to be one of those incredible square ones. Heck, you’ve almost certainly seen an anime episode where the characters try break a watermelon on the beach during summer vacation and end up getting into some serious shenanigans! Now that it’s August, though, autumn
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Superman returns! In the latest poster for Justice League, that is. The Man of Steel may have died at the hands of Doomsday in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice last year, but the movie’s end suggested he wouldn’t be out of the picture for long, and that certainly is the case here. Though Justice
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Director Ron Howard has shared a photo from the set of the Star Wars Han Solo film showing an Imperial helmet resting on what appears to be a microphone and control panel. RELATED: 15 Unused Star Wars Costumes (That Disney Doesn’t Want You To See) The filmmaker captioned the image, “The Empire Looms Large,” which
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