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io9Books & ComicsThe Boys Showrunner Eric Kripke Has No Time for Nazis and Their Sympathizers
Watching The Boys, one could easily come away from the show with the impression that series creator Eric Kripke has a bone to pick with the superhero adaptations that have fundamentally altered the shape of modern day Hollywood. In reality, though, Kripke’s beef is less about stories about caped heroes, and more about the messages … Continued
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io9Toys & CollectiblesOld Friends, Old Foes, and Old Ghost Blasters Return as the Best Toys of the Week
Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular roundup of the coolest toys we’ve seen on the internet over the past seven days. This week we’re rounding up some of the best stuff from Hasbro’s recent PulseCon virtual event, as well as the return of a classic ‘80s Ghostbusters toy and the re-appearance of a Star … Continued
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io9Toys & CollectiblesThe New Transformers Show Gets Some Wildly Expensive Figures, and More of the Coolest Toys of the Week
Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular round-up of all things shiny, articulated, and plastic (or mostly plastic). This week, the Marvel S.H. Figuarts line continues to mine Endgame, the War for Cybertron gets your wallet caught in the crossfire, and Disney classics get some lovely new action figures. Check it out! Super7 Disney Ultimates … Continued
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io9Avengers: Endgame Did Agents of SHIELD‘s Final Season a Huge Favor
Agents of SHIELD is going out with a time-traveling bang. Although the Marvel Cinematic Universe pretty much abandoned its first foray in television a while ago, the show’s seventh and final season has been a hell of a lot of fun as Agent Coulson and the team traipse through time, trying to prevent a group … Continued
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io9Toys & CollectiblesVolleyball Decides the War for Cybertron, and More of the Weirdest Toys of the Week
Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular round up of the coolest toys and merch on the internet lately. This week: as San Diego Comic-Con draws (virtually) ever nearer, we’ve got tasty exclusives from robot volleyball to New Asgard. Plus, Lego gets artistic again, and Mario manages to make Jenga somehow even more stressful. Hasbro … Continued
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io9Toys & CollectiblesGorgeous Marvel Cinematic Universe Concept Art Is Coming to a Wall Near You
Oftentimes, the first image we see from a new Marvel Studios film is its concept art. The studio uses that art, not just to help in the development of the film, but as promotional material to hand out at events like San Diego Comic-Con. When that happens, though, the images are on flimsy, cheap paper, … Continued
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io9MoviesNoted Sports Fan LeSean McCoy Didn’t Realize How Seriously Nerds Take the MCU
Let the record show that there aren’t really all that many demonstrable differences between sports nerds and genre nerds, two groups of people who obsess over and become overly emotionally involved in the minutiae of larger than life, titan-like people. On April 26, 2019, NFL running back LeSean McCoy (who’s currently a free agent) made … Continued
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io9Toys & CollectiblesAmerica’s Ass Leads the Way in the Most Patriotic Toys of the Week
Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s round-up of the latest in plastic goodness hitting the internet lately. This week, Captain America faces his past in a return to the Figuarts line, you can now grow your own Baby Yoda, and Hot Toys gets into a dangerously retro game with a “brand new” Boba Fett. Check … Continued
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io9MoviesThe Russos Wouldn’t Mind if Endgame Made Even More Money When This All Blows Over
Well. They want to welcome fans back to theaters. But really, what’s padding a little number one record while you’re at it? It feels like much, much longer—and did so even before we entered the collective period of time-displacement that is the novel coronavirus lockdown—but we just passed the one-year anniversary of Avengers: Endgame’s release. … Continued
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io9Toys & CollectiblesHot Toys’ Newest Avengers: Endgame Figure Can Perform the World’s Most Expensive Action Figure Headbutt
Although if you do recreate Carol’s matchup with Thanos in all its headbutting glory, please be delicate. I’m already anxious just thinking about the potential paint damage that might come from thwacking one action figure worth several hundred dollars into another. Yes, Hot Toys has taken a brief break from making us all squeal over … Continued
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io9MoviesTessa Thompson’s 11 Best Genre Roles (So Far)
Tessa Thompson is a versatile actress who’s done way more than just sci-fi and fantasy stuff—you’ve probably seen the Creed movies, and you should check out Little Woods if you haven’t yet. But she sure is in a lot of genre projects, which is a big reason why we love her so much. Behold, our … Continued
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