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io9Books & ComicsKara Zor-El Will Speak Softly and Carry a Big Sword in Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow
At a time when DC is putting out comics about a new futuristic era of superheroics, writer Tom King and artists Bilquis Evely and Mat Lopes are bringing Kara Zor-El front and center with a story that’s all her own. In Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, Kara and Krypto are all too familiar with what it … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsNow That WandaVision‘s Said the Scarlet Witch’s Name, Here’s What It Means
In the final moments of WandaVision’s most recent episode, the name that’s been on everyone’s mind ever since Wanda Maximoff first showed up in Captain America: The Winter Soldier’s post-credits sequence was spoken. Wanda’s come a long way from levitating blocks at a Hydra facility and putting nightmares into people’s minds. The reveal of her … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsRiverdale‘s KJ Apa Wishes Fans Understood That He’s Not Archie Andrews
In Riverdale’s third season, Archie Andrews (K.J. Apa) got himself thrown in the clink after deciding to plead guilty to a murder he didn’t commit. Though the choice was meant to demonstrate the lengths Archie would go in order to spare his loved ones, it ended up becoming Riverdale’s excuse for veering further into fanfic … Continued
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io9Get in…on Some Official Evangelion Glasses, Shinji
Neon Genesis Evangelion is so dense with symbolic meaning that it can be easy to overlook some of the smaller, simpler ways the series uses seemingly mundane objects the characters hold dear to convey their thoughts and feelings about ideas like love and pain in the story being told. Though Gendo Ikari’s the only core … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsWandaVision Became a Nightmarish Web of Cathartic Reruns
WandaVision’s first season transformed Marvel’s Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen). She’s been a newlywed, a mother, and something far more fascinating and complex than all of her other new identities combined. It’s all been in service of its larger overarching story about the Avengers’ least understood hero who will presumably come to be known as the … Continued
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io9We Should All Be More Like Los Espookys‘ Inner Demon
In Los Espookys—an HBO comedy from Fred Armisen, Julio Torres, and Ana Fabrega—a group of horror movie-obsessed friends come to the realization that all the time they spend waiting around for life to happen could be better used turning their passion for jump scares into money-making opportunities. Slacker Renaldo (Berardo Velasco), dental hygienist Ursula (Cassandra … Continued
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io9MoviesZack Snyder’s Army of the Dead Teaser Invites You to Roll the Dice in the Apocalypse
In the first teaser trailer for Zack Snyder’s upcoming Army of the Dead, little’s explained about how whatever contagion that’s caused a zombie outbreak in Las Vegas first made it out into the public, other than that it isn’t long before most of the city’s population is turned into a legion of the undead. Scott … Continued
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io9MoviesGodzilla and King Kong Are Legends First, Monsters Second
There was plenty to like about how Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ Kong: Skull Island and Michael Dougherty’s Godzilla: King of the Monsters spent ample time playing to the visual majesties of their respective kaiju. But both movies suffered dearly whenever their focuses turned toward the human characters, whose relatively insignificant dramas were meant to somehow ground the otherwise … Continued
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io9MoviesSpider-Man 3 Finally Has a Real Title, and It’s Bleak
After Spider-Man’s cast trolled the internet with a series of jokey, would-be titles for the third installment of Marvel’s current web-slinging movie series, the studio has finally announced what we’ll actually be calling the next chapter in Peter Parker’s life on the big screen. Tom Holland will star in the officially titled Spider-Man: No Way Home. … Continued
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io9In This Exclusive Snowpiercer Clip, Miss Audrey Has a Vital Role to Play
Though the train-bound passengers of TNT’sSnowpiercer came close to revolutionizing their society in the show’s first season, the arrival of Sean Bean’s Mr. Wilford threw a massive metaphorical wrench into things. He wasted no time in grinding the train to an utter halt, and today, io9 has an exclusive clip from tonight’s episode, “Keep Hope … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsWandaVision Just Gave Us 2 Very Different Origin Stories
Just as WandaVision’s stakes have grown—both literally and metaphorically— the show’s begun answering of some its most mysterious questions with revelations that have only made it that much more difficult to parse what the show’s building to. “Breaking the Fourth Wall,” WandaVision’s seventh episode, lives up to its name…up to a point, as Westview has … Continued
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io9Television20 Must-Watch Muppet Show Episodes on Disney+
Jim Henson’s The Muppet Show—the one and only—is finally going to be more easily accessible to fans with its arrival on Disney+ this week. You might be so excited you’re just going to dive in headfirst, but if you’re down to skip around a bit, we have some suggestions for the best of the best. … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsIn a New WandaVision Clip, the Scarlet Witch Is Hitting the Same Wall You Are
In addition to excitement about where WandaVision will go next, one of the more common feelings that has been in the air over the past few months is a general state of existential dread and disillusionment that’s been precipitated by millions of people having to quarantine in place to combat the ongoing covid-19 pandemic. For … Continued
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io9TrailersDisney’s Cruella Trailer Is Pretty Much a Batman Villain Origin Story
It’s tough to say just how much public interest there was in a movie exploring the early days of 101 Dalmatians’s would-be dog-murdering fashion icon Cruella de Vil. But it’s easy enough to see how, with two live-action Maleficent movies under its belt, Disney figured it could keep the villain origin machine chugging. Cruella’s freshly-dropped … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsWandaVision and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Are Having a Spellbinding Conversation About Nostalgia
Dramatically different as Wanda Maximofff and Sabrina Spellman’s respective paths to the small screen were, the most recent seasons of both Disney+’s WandaVision and Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina have been particularly keen on telling stories about our relationships with television and nostalgia. Unlike WandaVision—with its conceit about characters from all across Marvel’s Cinematic Universe … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsWandaVision Knows What It’s Doing, But the Scarlet Witch Doesn’t
As WandaVision’s been carefully dropping nostalgic breadcrumbs along the winding narrative path leading to grandmother’s house where the truth lives, the show’s been playing not-so-subtle tricks of the mind meant to make you wonder who the villain of it all truly is. All signs up to this point have pointed to Wanda herself being the … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsNubia Rises in This Exclusive Future State: Immortal Wonder Woman #2 Preview
In DC Comics’ Future State: Immortal Wonder Woman, the Themysciran princess is one of the last heroes left standing in a universe ravaged by ceaseless evils. In time, those evils apparently became so great that even beings like Darkseid begin to fear them. While DC’s comic explores Diana’s fight against this far-off threat in one … Continued
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io9Lovecraft Country‘s Most Terrifying Monsters Come to Life in This Exclusive Clip
Of all the changes that differentiated HBO’s adaptation ofLovecraft Country from the horror novel it was based on, few were quite as disconcerting and genuinely messed up as Topsy and Bopsy, a pair of demonic twins summoned by racist cops to stalk and torment young Diana Freeman across Chicago. It just so happens that io9 … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsBlack Panther: Sins of the King Blurs the Line Between Life and Death
Though Serial Box’s Black Panther: Sins of the King audiobook is set firmly outside the continuities of Marvel’s Cinematic Universe and its comic books, the new narrative drama is coursing with the same epic, politically charged energy that first made T’Challa and the nation of Wakanda some of the most iconic myths to spring from the … Continued
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io9MoviesMayday Is a Circean Myth About Surviving the World’s Cruelty
The situations that bring Ana, the disoriented heroine of writer-director Karen Cinorre’s Mayday, to the movie’s remote, windswept island are as disturbing as they are integral to the movie’s message of survival. After losing herself in a storm of the world’s brutality, Ana comes to on a seemingly deserted island, unsure of what’s happened, and … Continued
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