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Let’s All Pray Something Like The Rain Never Happens in Real Life

The apocalypse in Netflix’s new eco-disaster series The Rain happens with frightening speed. One minute, high schooler Simone is joshing with her friends and flirting with a boy. The next, her family’s racing down the highway in their car and then leaving it behind to run through the woods on foot. And when the clouds … Continued

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In Long Lost, Family Secrets Open the Door to an Intimate Kind of Horror

Piper and Frances, the two sisters at the core of Long Lost, are grown-ups figuring out how to make sense of adult needs and responsibilities. When that process gets interrupted by a series of weird happenings that pull them back to their hometown, they find themselves learning disturbing things about their family history. When Long … Continued

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Sabrina Is an Excruciating Portrait of How the Fake News Era Is Crushing Our Souls

For a handful of pages in Nick Drnaso’s new graphic novel, the title character of Sabrina is a real person. We see her eat, talk, and laugh with her sister. But after she’s brutally killed on camera, strangers on the internet pick apart her death like it’s a twisted sign of the times. Published by … Continued

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When the Legion of Superheroes Got Freakin’ Weird

There hasn’t been a Legion of Super-Heroes comic in a very long time. At one point, the massively popular 31st Century super-team seemed like it’d be around forever. But, in 1989, the Five Years Later run radically re-invented the team in a way that fans hated. First created in the 1950s by writer Otto Binder … Continued

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Anon Is a Scifi Movie That Shows How the Singularity Is Going to Screw Us All

In the alt-reality of Anon, everyone’s brain is hooked up to a massive shared network and authorities can see what you’re seeing whenever they want. There’s no real crime but no privacy either. If you try to keep your life to yourself, you’re a major threat to society. Written and directed by Andrew Niccol (Gattaca), … Continued

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A New Trailer for Stephen King’s Castle Rock Shows Us Horror Around Every Corner

Hulu’s upcoming horror series Castle Rock draws from the reservoir of Stephen King fiction, pulling together people, places, and powers that have shown up in various creations by the horror maestro. A new teaser for the show gives us a taste of how bleak it’s going to be when it starts on July 25. [Full … Continued

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Superman and Lois Are Going to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner This Week 

Action Comics Special #1 looks like it’ll be featuring a scene where Lois, Clark, and members of the Justice League go to the annual fete where people tell mean jokes about Washington, DC insiders. Apparently, you can add super-timing to the list of Kal-El’s weird superpowers. This comic marks the end of the current run … Continued

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American Gods‘ ‘Darker, More Dangerous’ Season Two Will Arrive in 2019

With the first season’s showrunners leaving and the exit of a major star, it’s been a tense time waiting for the resurrection of American Gods. But Neil Gaiman’s just given a new look at the Starz show, which will be coming back in 2019. Gaiman tweeted out a picture of himself and several American Gods … Continued

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Flayed Corpse Is Full of Horror Stories You’ll Feel Guilty for Laughing at

The stories inside horror anthology Flayed Corpse and Other Stories feature unseen terrors killing people in horrifying ways, and lifelong cape comics enemies farting in each other’s presence. It may gross you out at times, but the weird mix of humor, gore, and psychological exploration is also hard to walk away from. Written by Josh … Continued

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A Scifi Version of Heart of Darkness Is Happening for Some Reason

Heart of Darkness is widely considered a classic of English-language literature, one that’s influenced and been adapted in a variety of ways, including the movie Apocalypse Now. One more adaptation is on the way, and it’s going to send the Joseph Conrad novel to space. Variety reports that Sony’s streaming service Crackle—which, man, how is … Continued

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New Venom Trailer Finally Shows Tom Hardy Turning into the Marvel Comics Anti-Hero

The first teaser from a few weeks back didn’t give people what they really wanted: a symbiote-powered metahuman with a questionable sense of morality. But the trailer that just dropped does exactly that. “We” are pleased. The newest clip gives the broad strokes of the upcoming Sony adaptation: Eddie Brock—played by Tom Hardy—is an investigative … Continued

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Netflix’s The Rain Trailer Shows the Horror of a Precipitation Post-Apocalypse

The first teaser for The Rain offered up only glimpses of the Danish-made horror drama coming to Netflix. A new trailer just dropped, and it gives a deeper glimpse of what life is like in a world where water from the sky killed millions of people. Today’s The Rain trailer shows us how the two … Continued

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The Best Superman Stories of the Modern Era

As of last week, Superman celebrated his 80th year as the world’s most recognizable superhero. Tons of conversations have been happening about favorite stories and moments in the Kal-El canon, and it’s worth thinking about the ones that came out since dawn of the new millennium. Superman’s been in near-constant publication in comics and other … Continued

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Buckle Up, Netflix Is Making a Fast & Furious Animated Series

Netflix announced today that it’s teaming up with Dreamworks Animation to create a spinoff show based on the popular feature film franchise, The Fast and the Furious. Hint: It’s about family. The series is said to be built around Dom Toretto’s teenage cousin Tony, who is also very good at doing superhuman things with very … Continued

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Universal FanCon Announces ‘Postponement’ Less Than a Week Before Its Debut [Updated]

Next Friday, April 27, an all-new, inclusive fan gathering was supposed to be welcoming cosplayers, creators, and enthusiasts from all over to Baltimore, Maryland. But today, one week before the event was supposed to begin, news came out that the debut Universal FanCon has suddenly been postponed. After raising a first round of funding via … Continued

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The Story That Made Me Realize How Lonely Superman Must Be

When I was a kid, it seemed impossible that Superman might have any problems. Sure, he had adventures that threw setbacks in his path but he always overcame those. It wasn’t until I read Action Comics #500 that I ever thought that the Man of Steel could have the same kinds of persistent emotional vulnerabilities … Continued

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I Don’t Want to Be Good at Math

Not if it means this… The child remembers the time before the Changes came. Cars didn’t groan under his unholy weight. He didn’t see a cursed hell-slab staring back at him from the mirror. The compulsion to add up calories for an entire month’s worth of meals was something he couldn’t even imagine. Now, it … Continued

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Privacy Is the Ultimate Crime in the New Scifi Thriller Anon 

Lots of people have been freaking out in the wake of the massive Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal that broke weeks ago because we live in a world where people cherish the idea of keeping some parts of their lives to themselves. Anon happens in a world where it’s the opposite and all our data is public. … Continued

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Marvel’s Preposterously ’90s TV Series Night Man Is Coming to DVD for Some Reason

While we’re currently living in a superhero TV show renaissance, there was a period in the late 1990s when comic book characters managed to transition to low-budget live-action. You probably remember Lois & Clark and The Flash, of course, but you may also have a hazy memory of a faux Batman who played saxophone by … Continued

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Director John Ridley Talks About Making a Movie of His Own Comic, The American Way

Yesterday, news broke that screenwriter John Ridley will be writing and directing a film adaptation of his The American Way comics. Today, he talked to io9 about where his head’s at in transforming his story from medium to another, and one big change that’s going into the script. Ridley quickly agreed to answer some questions … Continued