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Titans Actor Curran Walters Talks About Jason Todd's Relationship With Batman's Other Ward
When Curran Walters’ Jason Todd made his surprising debut on DC Universe’s Titans last week, it forced Dick Grayson to consider the idea that while he’s been off in Detroit trying to let go of his former life in Gotham as Robin, Batman (and apparently the rest of the city) were already well on their way to leaving him in the past.
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Legacies Are What Define This Week's Best New Comics
It’s not often that bo staffs and laser guns end up being lumped in with one another, but the plots of this week’s best new comics just so happen to make that very much the case.
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CW's Supergirl Casts Lex Luthor and Now No One's Age Makes Sense
If you always felt like Ducky in Pretty in Pink was a Nice Guy destined for supervillainy you would be correct.
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Marvel Comics Scraps New Darth Vader Series After Chuck Wendig's Controversial Exit
Almost a month and a half after it was first announced at New York Comic-Con, Marvel has pulled the plug on its latest Star Wars miniseries, Shadow of Vader, bringing an awkward end to the saga the publisher created by booting writer Chuck Wendig from the book in the first place.
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Season 6 Is on the Way, But Agents of SHIELD Is Officially Getting a Season 7 Too
ABC has just given Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD a huge vote of confidence with an order for a seventh season of the show, months before the sixth season even premieres.
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Optimus Prime Replaces the Matrix of Leadership With a Watch, and More of the Wildest Toys of the Week
Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular roundup of all the wonderfully weird and wallet-draining toys we’ve seen floating around the internet. This week: Fantastic Beasts comes to Hot Toys, Monopoly’s got something to say about kids these days, and the fluffiest answer to Super Smash Bros. possible.
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Oscar Isaac Describes 'Excruciating' Time on X-Men Apocalypse, Is All of Us
Actors, they’re just like you and I. We all have expectations when we get into something. We all just sign on to multimillion-dollar superhero blockbusters hoping to have a fun time with interesting co-workers. And sometimes, what we wind up with instead is being trapped in a look akin to Ivan Ooze from Power Rangers: The Movie. Relatable, right?
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Marvel Entertainment Chairman Named in NYPD Bribery Trial Over a Gun Permit and Movie Tickets
Marvel Entertainment chairman Ike Perlmutter is notorious for his political conservatism and aversion to being photographed. But a new report out of Manhattan Federal Court alleges Perlmutter’s assistant worked with a police officer to acquire a gun license renewal in New York City for her boss—presumably using power and status to expedite the process through illegal quid pro quo.
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The Producer of Castlevania Is Making a Devil May Cry Series That's Part of the Same 'Bootleg Multiverse'
Yes, you read that correctly.
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Game of Thrones' Final Season: A Definitive List of Everyone Who Will Live or Die
Valar Morghulis. We’re approaching the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones, and we’ve seen so many deaths over the years. Your Starks, your Lannisters, your zombie babies. And now we’re down to a trim, core cast of characters. Except not really. There are still so many people alive on this show who could die in season eight.
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In Elseworlds, Ruby Rose's Batwoman Has No Patience for This Crossover Nonsense
The rest of our erstwhile DC/CW heroes in the upcoming Elseworlds crossover might be getting their Freaky Friday on and embracing the team-up madness, but Kate Kane? She’s got work to do. Bat-work to do.
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Marvel's Darth Vader Comic Is Doing Something Extremely Wild With the Dark Side
We barely know what the Force is in Star Wars. Pushing, sensing, lifting rocks, projecting yourself across millions of miles—it just scratches the surface of that mysterious ephemeral energy that binds us all together. But the latest arc of Darth Vader might have opened a bonkers new door. Hell, it might have blown the door clean off.
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io9 Co-Founder's Sci-Fi Novel Autonomous Optioned by AMC
Well, here’s some exciting news. Autonomous, the 2017 sci-fi novel written by io9 co-founder Annalee Newitz, has been optioned by AMC to potentially be brought to television. Newitz co-wrote a pilot script along with Amanda Segel (Person of Interest, Nikita, The Mist) who’ll executive produce and run the show, should it get picked up.
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The End Has Come for Mister Miracle, But Has It Come for Scott Free?
Tom King and Mitch Gerads’ haunting, beautiful take on Jack Kirby’s Fourth World in Mister Miracle has presented many a puzzling trap—literally, mentally, spiritually—for its escape artist hero to get out of. He’s done so, time and time again, but its final issue asks us to question that, as well as what it means for him to escape in the first place.
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Marvel's Spider-Man Would Like to Remind You That Peter Parker Is Hot
One of the best aspects of Insomniac’s most recent Spider-Man game is the dozens of alternate costumes from Marvel’s Spider-Man comics that you can equip in order to gain special abilities and give Peter Parker a new look. You’ve got your Spider-Punk, and your vintage comics Spidey, but let’s be honest here. The most impressive of the game’s suits is the one at the top of this page.
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Birds of Prey Has Found Its Cassandra Cain
Is there still hope for a Ghostbusters 3? Tom Hanks joins Miguel Sapochnik’s new post-apocalyptic project. The CW wants in on the world of fairytales. Plus, Felicia Day returns to Supernatural, Godzilla vs. Kong just keeps on casting half of Hollywood, and more snippets from Mary Poppins Returns. Spoilers, away!
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James McAvoy Goes on a Rampage in the Latest Footage From Glass
Under no circumstances should James McAvoy be allowed to gallop ever again after this movie.
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We Bare Bears' Tribute to the X-Men's Greatest Villain Is Amazing
Cartoon Network’s We Bare Bears is a show about a trio of talking bear brothers trying to live their best lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. And the series never shies away from the opportunity to infuse its characters’ lives with bursts of the fantastical—if only to remind us just how fantastically wild its premise is.
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Bill & Ted Face the Music Is Auctioning Off a Totally Triumphant Walk-On Role for Charity
In honor of Veterans Day, Homes For Our Troops—a nonprofit that helps build accessible homes for injured veterans—is running a celebrity-powered eBay fundraiser. You can bid on stuff like George Clooney’s fancy motorcycle—but the real top prize involves a pair of excellent time-traveling dudes.
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The Everyday Weirdness of Xombi, One of the Most Under-Appreciated Comics Ever Made
In the mid-1990s, David Kim lived in a world where bicycle piranha would secretly feast on chained-up two-wheelers. He fought against incarnations of misdirected rage and rode in elevators where you had to read stories aloud to get to the right floor. He was the main character of Xombi, a comic about an unkillable man, an experiment that died too soon. Twice.