Pepe the Frog creator Matt Furie is taking steps to reclaim his creation. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Furie — who created Pepe as a “peaceful frog-dude” — has filed a copyright lawsuit against InfoWars in California federal court. Before becoming a wide-spread meme, Pepe the Frog was originally envisioned as a laid-back amphibian that says,
Legendary X-Men comics writer Chris Claremont, who collaborated with artist John Byrne on the seminal “Dark Phoenix Saga,” says he wishes Jean Grey had remained dead. In comic books, it is an unwritten rule that only Peter Parker’s Uncle Ben and Bruce Wayne’s parents are truly, permanently dead. Speaking to SYFY WIRE, the acclaimed X-Men
Following his release from prison last summer in Marvel’s The Defenders, Luke Cage is back in the teaser for the second season of his Netflix series. The 26-second promo arrives this morning with a release date, June 22, and a helpful rundown of the hero’s powers: can’t be burned, blasted, or broken. And anyone who
The (self-proclaimed) world’s first virtual YouTuber Kizuna AI has been appointed as the first ambassador for a Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO) campaign titled “Come to JAPAN”, which aims to increase American tourism to Japan! With this, JNTO hopes to increase fans’ interest in visiting Japan through her online reach on YouTube and various social
Oda Eiichirou’s popular manga One Piece is to hold a special Easter event titled One Piece Easter 2018 from Mar. 21 at Tokyo One Piece Tower! The Tokyo Tower One Piece attraction is celebrating its third anniversary in 2018. For Easter, it will feature a series of illustrations of the manga’s beloved characters wearing bunny
From Max Factory comes a dark new figma of Jeanne d’Arc (Alter) from the popular mobile game Fate/Grand Order! Despite the fact that she is a saint, as an Alter, Jeanne captivates and inspires fear with her merciless nature and dreadful silhouette. Even her armor radiates darkness, with swatches of torn fabric and gradients from
Until recently, Tom Cruise was in the running for the secondary male lead role in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. However, as Cruise is currently preparing to jump into Top Gun 2 (aka Top Gun: Maverick), it seems the concurrent summertime filming schedules have caused a conflict. Because of this, filming for Top Gun: Maverick is
With Marvel’s Jessica Jones finally set to return for its second season on Netflix later this week, the cast has begun to tease what we can expect, including series newcomer Janet McTeer. The Academy Award-nominated actress was first announced as part of the Season 2 cast nearly a year ago. At the time, the only
Another picture of Zachary Levi’s Shazam costume has hit the internet, and this one shows the front of the suit. Shazam! is currently filming on location in Toronto, which has led to multiple leaked images surfacing from the set. Just last week, we got our first look at the titular character’s costume from behind. Now Batman-News.com has
Dark Horse Comics has announced a new graphic novel anthology from Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham titled Likely Stories. The announcement follows on the heels of the reveal that DC Comics will launch a Sandman Universe line as part of its Vertigo imprint, based on the seminal series and overseen by Gaiman. Buckingham is known for having
Rampage, starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, has moved its release date up a week in light of news that Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Infinity War would be doing the same. Warner Bros. has moved Rampage up from its original date of April 20 to April 13 to give the film a cushion before Infinity War takes over the box office. RELATED: Rampage’s Spoiler-Filled
WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for last week’s episodes of Star Wars Rebels, “Wolves and a Door” and “A World Between Worlds,” which aired Feb. 26 on Disney XD. Last week’s episode of Star Wars Rebels saw the return of fan-favorite character Ahsoka Tano, with Ezra Bridger reaching back in time to Season 2 to seemingly
It sounds like coming back from the dead was an understandably traumatic experience for Tony Stark. That will be the focus of Dan Slott’s upcoming Tony Stark: Iron Man #1, the writer’s first project since departing Amazing Spider-Man. Marvel Comics today revealed the first black and white pages for the upcoming Tony Stark: Iron Man
Since assuming the mantle of Ms. Marvel four years ago in her Marvel Comics series, Kamala Khan has used her own word to describe her shape-shifting powers: embiggen. Primarily, her abilities come allow her to make her entire body, just or parts of it, larger, although not on the level of Giant Man. Although the
New character descriptions shed light on where Earth’s Mightiest Heroes are as the Marvel Cinematic Universe heads into Avengers: Infinity War. Revealed on the Toys R Us website hub for merchandise related to the film, the bios give insight into some of the heroes’ motives, and provide fans with an up-close look at their new
Beloved Batman actor Adam West was among the faces notably absent Sunday from the 90th Academy Awards ceremony’s “In Memoriam” montage honoring industry figures who died in the previous year. Best known for playing the Caped Crusader on the 1960s Batman television series and in the 1966 film, West passed away in June at age
From anime and manga to video games and cute merchandise, Japan has a ton of hugely popular characters that people all over the world associate with the country! In fact, even prefectural and business mascots are becoming more well known overseas. Out of this huge pool of characters, which ones really stand out as being
Hozuki’s Coolheadedness will be working alongside Village Vanguard Cafe to bring fans a hellish new collaboration cafe to dine and shop at! The collab cafe will only be available at Lumine EST in Shinjuku from Mar. 6 to Apr. 15 with a menu of 19 different items. As well as the delicious food itself, fans
Air Gear’s Ogure Ito, known professionally as “Oh! great”, will adapt Nisio Isin’s popular light novel novel Bakemonogatari into a brand new manga set to begin serialization with Weekly Shonen Magazine 2018 vol. 15, to be released Mar. 14. The announcement was teased with a visual released in mid-February, which featured an illustration of the
SPOILER WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for director Rian Johnson’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi, in theaters now. Rian Johnson may have killed off Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, but that hasn’t deterred the man who played the character since 1977, Mark Hamill, from believing that the Jedi is still alive
It’s Sunday at Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle, and Marvel wrapped its convention programming with the “Next Big Thing” panel, featuring several of its high-profile creators filling in fans at the Washington State Convention Center on the latest in their books. On the panel: Creators Donny Cates, Charles Soule, Kris Anka, Ed Brisson, Matthew
Some new promo art has hit the Internet, and it might spoil which character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe has the Soul Stone after all. Reddit user Suprxeme posted the art online, which depicts several heroes superimposed over the Infinity Stones. The picture is from the movie tie-in novel, IncrediBuilds: Marvel: Infinity Gauntlet Deluxe Book and Model Set. Infinity
Speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference in San Francisco, CBS CEO Les Moonves discussed Star Trek: Discovery, and the serialized approach to the latest TV Trek outing. Moonves insisted that the show wouldn’t be quite as serialized if it was on broadcast television. “Star Trek could have gone on CBS, it
Twenty-five years ago, it was Morphin Time for the first time, and BOOM! Studios will celebrate the quarter-century anniversary with June’s Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Anniversary Special one-shot, announced Saturday at Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle. CBR has details. The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Anniversary Special is set to commemorate 25 years since the
Finally, the long awaited Flashpoint movie has its director. Or in this case, directors. RELATED: REPORT: The Flash Film to Include Killer Frost, Captain Cold, Heatwave Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley have finally been confirmed as the folks who’ll be helming this Flash solo movie. First announced in 2014 as part of Warner Bros.’
Marvel took the stage at Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle on Saturday afternoon with the “Make Mine Marvel” panel, featuring some of the publisher’s current creative talent talking the latest at the House of Ideas. It’s Marvel publishing’s first major convention panel since some major developments at the company, including Brian Michael Bendis leaving
Talking all things Superman at his spotlight panel for Emerald City Comic Con, Eisner Award-winning writer Brian Michael Bendis offered a renewed approach to a classic Superman motto: Truth, Justice and the American Way. Bendis said he’s found new relevance in Superman’s “truth, justice and the American way” adage, which helped inspire him to take
The Walking Dead has been a pop-culture phenomenon since debuting in 2010. With Season 8 in full swing, despite fluctuating ratings, it still remains one of the most talked about shows on air. Now, it appears that AMC wants to keep the ball rolling regarding the zombie-apocalypse that Robert Kirkman first created for Image Comics by developing various spinoff
As part of its slew of announcements from Emerald City Comic Con, Dynamite Entertainment revealed plans to bring beloved crime-solver Nancy Drew to comics in a new series from the all-female creative team of writer Kelly Thompson (Jem and the Holograms, Hawkeye), artist Jenn St-Onge (Bingo Love, The Misfits), colorist Triona Farrell (Mighty Morphin’ Power
As fans patiently wait for the release of Avengers: Infinity War, some brand new posters shine the spotlight on Thanos’ Black Order. The Infinity War trailer did a great job of keeping the characters a secret, but after D23 revealed statues of the Black Order last July, we always knew that they would play a part.