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The anti-superhero film scored the top August opening of all time, but there could be trouble on the horizon for the supervillains. The news couldn’t have been better for Warner Bros.’ DC Extended Universe as Saturday morning dawned over the Aug. 5-7 weekend. Despite horrible reviews, director David Ayer’s Suicide Squad took in a mighty $65.1…
Still, the anti-superhero film beats ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ to nab the top August domestic debut of all time while opening to $132 million overseas; elsewhere, ‘Nine Lives’ — featuring award-winning actor Kevin Spacey as a feline — doesn’t have much of a meow. David Ayer’s Suicide Squad may have opened to an August-best $135.1…
Turns out it was just mind control after all, despite Marvel’s claims that it wasn’t. (SPOILERS) Source: ComicBook.com According to an EXXXCLUSIVE report on ComicBook.com, Marvel is already planning to reveal that their shocking twist that Steve Rogers has always been a Hydra agent, which occurred less than a month ago in Captain America: Steve…
And Brian Bendis is powerless to stop it! Get it? Power-less?! Source: TVLine According to a report from TVLine, Sony’s Playstation Network has canceled Powers, the television adaptation of the comic about monkey sex from “The Great One” Brian Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming. The decision was reportedly made after someone at PSN realized that…
Entire teams of fill-in artists have been called in to help get the twice-monthly books out on time, while pre-Rebirth books get more delays. Source: Newsarama Last month, we reported on DC Comics‘ difficulties with getting habitually late artist Bryan Hitch to complete the Justice League of America comics he was contractually obligated to create,…
Azzarelo was all class at the SDCC Killing Joke panel. Sorry, our mistake, we meant he was all “ass.” Source: io9 Putting an end to any debate over the subject, screenwriter Brian Azzarello offered an intelligent, well-reasoned defense to criticism of DC’s animated Killing Joke movie, which reportedly sees Barbara Gordon obsess over an emotionally…
The most current addition to the Marvel universe comes at a relevant time for the studio. Marvel Studios is not, if it ever were, one big happy family. Unlike other recent articles this is not exactly about the recent split between Feige and Perlmutter. That’s been dealt with again and again. This is about the…
Comic book fans have argued for decades over who has the sharpest mind in Marvel’s 9,000-plus-character universe. There are about eight unaided contenders in the primary fictional canon and they’re all male and most are white. Genius scientist Reed Richards, also known as Mister Fantastic, is widely regarded to be the brainiest among them. But…
The biggest problem with The Killing Joke movie’s portrayal of Batgirl goes beyond a poor approach to a female character. Its biggest problem is that what it adds to Alan Moore and Brian Bolland’s original 1988 comic is so pointless, that its shoddy treatment of Barbara Gordon becomes all the more insulting. In the wake…
The Killing Joke is a 30-year-old Batman graphic novel that goes to ugly places, especially in what it does Batgirl. And when folks expressed anger at Barbara Gordon’s portrayal in a new, controversial scene in the upcoming film adaptation during a DC panel, things got ugly in real life. Batman: The Killing Joke is most…