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io9Everything About Batman and the Signal Is Fantastic Except For Signal’s Terrible New Costume
Duke Thomas, the Gotham-based vigilante formerly known as Robin, is getting back to his roots this November in Batman and the Signal, a new series chronicling his adventures as a sort of Batman-by-day who patrols the city while Batman’s indisposed. As the sun sets, Signal passes the baton to Bats. Almost everything about the series … Continued
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io9The New Telltale Batman Video Game Keeps on Changing Dark Knight Lore in Twisted and Satisfying Ways
There’s a meddlesome good-thing/bad-thing dynamic I experienced as I sat down with the next installment of Telltale’s Batman video game series: I kept waiting to be shocked. Then when the shock came, I wished it hadn’t happened at all. Last year, Batman: The Telltale Series won my affection by presenting a fractured-mirror version of the … Continued
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io9Mister Miracle Is About a Superhero Trying to Save the Universe and His Soul at the Same Time
Mister Miracle has been mostly absent from DC’s comics for the past few years—a strange, weird relic of an older age. That makes him perfect for a revival in the form of his brand new ongoing series from Tom King and Mitch Gerads, a fascinating and intense exploration of personal trauma that brings something haunting … Continued
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io9Reminder: Justice League: The New Frontier Has the Craziest Voice Cast Ever
Justice League: The New Frontier is one of DC’s better animated movies primarily because it understands who the members of the League are and what they stand for together, as a team. But, as solid a plot as the movie has, it’s also worth remembering the insane levels of talent contained in the voice cast. … Continued
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The Raw Emotions That Will Make Mister Miracle One of the Best Comics You Read This Year
Hundreds of thousands of people think that Tom King is a good writer. He’s won some of the comic book medium’s most prestigious awards for work like The Omega Men, Vision, and Sheriff of Babylon. But he’s still nervous about his work. I got the chance to talk to King at this year’s San Diego … Continued
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io9Kevin Conroy Steps Into Christian Bale’s Batsuit for Iconic Dark Knight Speech
During his time starring in Batman: The Animated Series, and in the countless video games, direct-to-video movies, and other spin-offs since then, Kevin Conroy has defined Batman’s voice for an entire generation. Which is why it’s such a delight to hear him become Christopher Nolan’s own Dark Knight. Over on Nerdist’s Talkin’ Toons, Conroy and … Continued
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io9The Trailer for the Next Telltale Batman Game Shows a Sadistic Riddler and Very Cool Surprises
Last year, Telltale Games’ episodic Batman game confidently carved its own unique interpretation of the Dark Knight mythos by shaking things up and doing the unexpected. The new trailer for the Bat-sequel teases more of the same. In the just-released promo clip, Edward Nigma—if that’s who this Riddler is—menaces Gotham’s citizens; he’s a rising threat … Continued
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The Justice League‘s Kids Are Coming From the Future To Kick Their Parents’ Asses
It’s a plot line we’ve seen time and time again. The children of heroes we know today travel into the past from an apocalyptic future to inform their parents of the colossal mistakes they’re destined to make. In its upcoming (and questionably named) Legacy arc, DC’s getting into the parental drama again. As overdone as … Continued
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Screenwriter John Ridley on Making Scifi and Superheroes for the World We Live In
Maybe you’ve seen Three Kings, Twelve Years a Slave or American Crime. Maybe you know that the Oscar-winning writer/producer behind those works also scripts comics, too. Last week at San Diego Comic-Con, John Ridley talked about why. Ridley was at Comic-Con, at least in part, to talk up The American Way: Those Above and Those … Continued
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Young Justice Creators Talk About Bringing Back the DC Comics Superhero Show for a Third Season
Nobody thought it could happen. Then it did. Back in October 2016, it was announced that Young Justice—the fan-favorite Cartoon Network series about DC’s teenage superheroes—would be coming back from the dead for a third season, and last week at San Diego Comic-Con, we talked to some of the show’s creators about what to expect. … Continued
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The Writer of Marvel’s New Runaways Comic Book Wants To Make Sure Readers Have a Good Time
When the Runaways, Marvel’s group of specially-gifted children who run away from home after discovering that their parents are part of a supervillain cult, return in a new series this fall, writer Rainbow Rowell wants to make sure that you know exactly how to get into the series and have a good time. In a … Continued
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DC Has an Epic Plan To Save Itself From the Comics Apocalypse It Helped Create
The comic book industry is in the throes of an existential crisis of its own making. With sales down across the board for basically all of the major publishers, shops like Marvel and DC have been scrambling to figure out how to bring old readers back into the folks while also appealing to new audiences—and … Continued
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Frank Miller’s Giving the Man of Steel Another New Origin Story in Superman: Year One
Frank Miller’s Batman: Year One took the detective who made DC comics the powerhouse that it is today gave him one of the most character-defining origin stories in modern comics that’s gone on to color much of the way that we see Batman today. Now, Miller’s doing the same for Superman. Announced during a DC … Continued
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io9Supergirl Is Done Being Kara Danvers in the First Look at Season Three
Kara Danvers has managed to dedicate her entire life to protecting the earth as Supergirl while also maintaining her civilian identity a secret. Much like her cousin, though, the constant stresses of leading a double life have been a significant an ever-present issue threatening to tear her apart. In the first trailer for Supergirl’s third … Continued
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Ben Affleck Says He Loves Playing Batman But Doesn’t Get Around to Denying the Rumors He’s Leaving
During Warner Brother’s presentation of its upcoming DC superhero movies, Ben Affleck addressed the new rumors that he’ll soon by leaving the DC Expanded Universe. To say that his answer was vague is being generous. Batman, Affleck said, is the coolest character in any of the comic book movie universes and he’s been nothing but … Continued
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Batman’s Newest Protege Is Getting the Solo Series He Deserves
The series of events that led to Duke Thomas becoming a masked vigilante were shaped by tragedy and pain, but like most of Bruce Wayne’s young proteges, the traumas of his past are what drives him to patrol Gotham’s dangerous streets. Following the events of We Are Robin, Duke gave up being Robin to stand … Continued
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Catwoman Will Give Her Answer to the Dark Knight’s Marriage Proposal in Batman #32
At a Friday morning breakfast held by DC Comics, superstar writer Tom King said that, prior to starting on the main Batman title, one of the challenges he had to reckon with was the idea that “nothing new can be done with this character.” That’s one of the reasons that he had Batman ask Catwoman … Continued
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io9New Professor Marston & the Wonder Women Trailer Delves Into Wonder Woman‘s Queer, Feminist, Kinky Origins
Long before she became the feminist icon symbol that she is today, Wonder Woman originally began as a fantasy dreamt up by William Moulton Marston, the inventor of the polygraph, Marston’s wife Elizabeth, and the couple’s third, Olive Byrne. Professor Marston & the Wonder Women is that trio’s story. Many of the defining character traits … Continued
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DC’s Superheroines Are Becoming a Badass Anti-Fascist Biker Gang in the New Gotham City Garage Series
Much like its Bombshells universe, where classic characters like Wonder Woman and Batwoman were reimagined as WWII-era heroes fighting undead Nazis, the publisher’s new Gotham City Garage began as a collection of highly-stylized, limited edition statues. Now, it’s becoming a comics series of its own. Penned by writers Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly, with a … Continued
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DC Super Hero Girls Is DC’s Most Popular New Series
DC Super Hero Girls, the collaboration between DC Comics and Mattel featuring DC’s most iconic female characters reimagined as teenagers attending school together, began as a series of online shorts meant to advertise a companion set of dolls (or action figures). Now, though, it’s become so much more. Since its early days on YouTube, the … Continued