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A Truly Amazing Batman: The Animated Series Figure, and More of the Best Toys of the Week

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, which after a post-Toy Fair break, is back and ready to tempt your wallet with all sorts of lavish toys and collectibles. This week, we’ve got a very special Lego minifigure, almost comically deadly darts, and a Jabba worthy of any great Hutt’s display cabinet. Come take a look! Lego … Continued

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Batman Just Kicked Superman’s Ass in the Pettiest Way Possible

Even though Batman and Superman have fought and won against one another multiple times in the past, it’s always worth paying attention when they do, because the heated, ongoing debates about how Bruce could ever body Clark are never going to end. Everyone knows that Batman is the greatest detective in DC’s universe, and he … Continued

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Gotham Finally Did It

The problem with a show as relentlessly bonkers as Gotham is that it’s hard to make one episode’s craziness stand out from another. But last night’s episode, “A Beautiful Darkness,” shocked me on more than one occasion, mainly because Bruce Wayne met a DC character I never, ever expected he’d meet. It was Batman, of … Continued

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DC Comics’ Multiverse Is Expanding With a New Black Label Imprint and Some Big Names

DC Comics’ approach to handling its multiverse is distinct from most other comics publishers’ approaches because of the way it includes a set of iconic stories that, technically-speaking, aren’t considered canon. If you like that sort of thing, their new Black Label should excite you. And well, if you’re a comic fan, you’ll probably also … Continued

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Turns Out Black Cat Is One Hell of a Troll

DC Comics’ Catwoman has been in the news lately thanks to her glitzy engagement to the Dark Knight. But when it comes to cat-themed super-thieves, who’s going to question Felicia Hardy herself stealing the spotlight for a knowing wink at Gotham City’s newest power couple? Last week’s Spectacular Spider-Man #300 continued the ongoing insanity of … Continued

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The Weirdest and Wildest Moments From DC and Young Animal’s Milk Wars 

While plenty of comic events are basically the same—universal extinction-level threat, a team (or even teams) of heroes coming together to fight the good fight—DC and Young Animal’s Milk Wars has been the weirdest and most fantastically unsettling comics event from a mainstream publisher in recent memory. It’s not just that Milk Wars’ story about … Continued

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Here’s Your First Look at Gotham City in Warner Bros.’ Abu Dhabi Theme Park

Fans who’ve always wanted to visit Gotham City can soon do just that… but they’ll have to travel to Abu Dhabi first. Batman’s fictional home is just one of several areas that’ll be part of Warner Bros. World Abu Dhabi, a brand new theme park that opens this summer in the United Arab Emirates. It’ll … Continued

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Benjamin Melniker, One of the Men Who Brought Batman to the Big Screen, Has Died

Benjamin Melniker, a legendary Hollywood producer who helped bring Batman to the big screen, died Monday at the age of 104. A former MGM executive, Melniker was involved in some of the biggest movies of all-time, such as Ben Hur, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Dr. Zhivago. However, after leaving that company, he teamed up … Continued

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The Strange, Sad Saga of Batman’s Forgotten Girlfriend

Bruce Wayne’s engaged now, all set to marry Selina Kyle, the woman he’s chased across rooftops for a good chunk of his adult life. But as Batman and Catwoman get ready to tie the knot, it’s worth looking back at one particularly knotty relationship in the Dark Knight’s history. If you ask most people to … Continued

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Total Shipshow: Wonder Woman and Batman Is the Relationship Gotham Needs

Batman might currently be cozied up to Catwoman, but there’s another leading lady who deserves to wear the batring. Since it’s Valentine’s Day, it seemed like the perfect time to debut our brand-new video series, “Total Shipshow,” where we have people tell us all about their favorite ships. This week, Managing Editor Jill Pantozzi shares … Continued

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This Statue Perfectly Captures Ben Affleck’s Sadness at Having to Play Batman

Ben Affleck’s time as Batman has had highs, but it’s mostly been defined by the endless discussion about just how done he is with the Bat-mantle, and how long it’ll be until he announces his exit from the role. Which honestly makes this new statue a perfect collectible for the Batfleck era. Prime 1 Studio … Continued

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Here’s Your First Look at the English Dub of the Incredible-Looking Batman Ninja

We’ve already seen Junpei Mizusaki’s wild-sounding Batman Ninja in action. But now we finally know when to expect it—and what the amazing adventures of a modern-day Batman in Feudal Japan are going to sound like in English. Roger Craig Smith (the video game voice actor whose roles include Resident Evil’s Chris Redfield, Assassin’s Creed’s Ezio, … Continued

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An Incredible Black Panther Steps Into the Spotlight, and More of the Best Toys of the Week

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s weekly roundup of the most amazing toys we’ve seen all week. Usually, this is where we’d tell you what sort of wonderful toys we’ve got in store for you, but seriously: Look at that Black Panther figure. Look at it. Hot Toys Black Panther T’Challa gets a new suit … Continued

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Report: Joaquin Phoenix Is in Talks to Play the Joker for Some Reason

It’s only fitting that at a time when we’re not sure just who’ll portray Batman in Warner Bros.’ future DC movies news would break that the studio was looking for another actor to play the Joker. This time around though, the buzz is about who WB wants to star in the non-DCEU, standalone Joker film. … Continued

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This Trailer Showcases Everything That’s Wild About Gotham‘s Teen Batman Adventures

Fox’s Gotham is a wild ride. A cheesy, flamboyant take on Bruce Wayne’s youth that’s somehow morphed into the madcap adventures of Teen Batman-But-Not-Batman, it’s—well, it’s something else. And this video, a recap of the first half of hte fourth season and a preview of the second, is a perfect summation of the precise je … Continued

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A Very Fancy Emperor Palpatine, and More of the Coolest Toys of the Week

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s weekly roundup of all the cool new toys that could drain our wallets in the near future. This week, Hot Toys gets imperial, the John Wesley Shipp figure of our dreams arrives, and Hasbro unleashes Carnage (and Venom). Come take a look! Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Lego Sets You … Continued

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In The Enemy Within, the Batman Helps Create the Joker Like Never Before

One of the most-invoked psychological readings of the Batman/Joker relationship is that the Dark Knight’s existence summons his archenemy into being. Various stories have had different takes on it over the years, some positing that the Joker persona was always going to emerge in Gotham. The new episode of the Batman: The Enemy Within video … Continued

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The Joker Looks Ready to Explode in the Next Episode of Batman: The Enemy Within 

All season long, the episodic chapters of Telltale Games’ latest Batman video game have been making players interact with the man who will become the Joker. Thanks to a new trailer for Batman: The Enemy Within, it looks like we’ll finally be seeing the events that make him explode in next week’s installment. Ever since … Continued

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Batman and Catwoman’s Engagement Just Ran Into a Complication and Her Name Is Wonder Woman

As thoughtful and emotionally satisfying as writer Tom King’s recent run on Batman has been, one of the major drawbacks is that every time something even remotely good happens to someone, you know it won’t be long until some kind of twist of fate snatches their happiness away. Despite the mayhem and madness that’s kept … Continued

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The Solo Flash Movie Has Yet Another Director—Two of Them, In Fact

It’s been well over a year since the Flash solo movie has had a director attached—but now, Variety reports that Warner Bros. is in negotiations with John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein to helm the film. Additionally, the trade reports that Warner Bros. previously approached Ben Affleck to potentially direct the film, but he declined. … Continued