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Sparkler Comics #4 Group (United Features Syndicate, 1941)
John (who renamed the title for regular feature Nancy and Sluggo at that point).  But Sparkler Comics was relatively unique among United Feature's output.  In addition to reprinting comic strips like Tarzan, Nancy, and others, Sparkler Comics introduced a non-newspaper strip superhero called Spark Man.  A wonderfully strange and unjustly forgotten hero of the Golden[...]
Doctor Who to Disney/Marvel Studios: We Can Do Superhero Moments, Too!
Let's face it, Doctor Who is a superhero – and superheroine – now A full-on, outright superhero He didn't use to be In the original show, he was an adventurer, stumbling from one situation to the next, a vehicle or a format for generating stories in the old pulp tradition He was a pastiche of[...]
Sparkler Comics #4 Group (United Features Syndicate, 1941)
John (who renamed the title for regular feature Nancy and Sluggo at that point).  But Sparkler Comics was relatively unique among United Feature's output.  In addition to reprinting comic strips like Tarzan, Nancy, and others, Sparkler Comics introduced a non-newspaper strip superhero called Spark Man.  A wonderfully strange and unjustly forgotten hero of the Golden[...]
Killing Eve: Laura Neal Developing "Grounded Superhero Comedy" Series
Fellow guest Barry Humphries delighted in the gratuitous violence in the show and suggested that all children should watch the show as early as possible. But what else is to come for Neal? When asked, she was rather reticent but told Anderson that she has a UK-based project which she describes as "a grounded superhero comedy with[...]
Critics Choice Super Awards
The inaugural event will honor those who work within several industries with superhero, science fiction, fantasy, horror, action, and animated movies and series, according to the press release The ceremony will be broadcast on The CW Network on Sunday, January 10, 2021, at 8 p.m ET "The time has come to recognize the brilliance, creativity,[...]
Marvel Launches New Politically Correct Woke Superhero Comic to Insult Long-Time Readers
Marvel Comics have again insulted all comic book fans everywhere by announcing a new superhero team full of politically correct, woke, so-called diverse characters And yes, all sane individuals have been calling for Marvel to stop gender-flipping, race-flipping, orientation-flipping their characters and create new ones, but now we have all changed our minds and are[...]
SCOOP: New Marvel British Superhero Team Comic Launches In Empyre
And naturally, for a British superhero team, they will debut in the new Marvel event comic, Empyre The sun never sets  – I mean it's right there in this artwork ripped from an upcoming presentation which really looks like RB Silva's work Hey, we did it to DC yesterday, we're doing it to Marvel today[...]
Is This the End of Marvel and DC's Defense Of The 'Superhero' Trademark?
For over fifty years, Marvel and DC Comics have co-owned the trademark for the word 'SUPERHERO' and have challenged any other firm or individual trying to partially trademark the term for their own purposes In 2009, the term "Super Heroes" was registered as a typography-independent "descriptive" US trademark co-owned by DC and Marvel With both[...]
abc
may be set to shuffle off the network's programming coil after its upcoming seventh season, the network is looking to stay in the Marvel Television superhero business a little while longer According to a report from Deadline Hollywood, the broadcaster is in "active talks" for a new Marvel series – one that would focus on[...]
"Paradox Girl": For the Girl Who is Everything
Paradox Girl is a superheroine whose power is time travel She has done it so many times in her own timeline that she doesn't even have a beginning or end any more There are so many of her past and future selves littered about that they're tripping over each other She causes as much trouble[...]
James Gunn's 'Brightburn' Asks: What if Clark Kent Grew Up Evil? [Review]
Nobody dies cleanly or quickly – there's a lot of slow determination, and even slower bleeding out deaths. Sure, we've seen what we would have taken as a good superhero go evil before, via kryptonite, radiation, or mind control Here this isn't because they're being controlled, it's because they have basically unlimited power, and are a[...]
In April, 'One-Punch Man' Heads to Hulu for Season 2… If He Feels Like It [VIDEO]
Alongside Genos, his faithful disciple, Saitama begins his official hero duties as a member of the Hero Association, while Garou, a man utterly fascinated by monsters, makes his appearance. One-Punch Man follows the misadventures of Saitama, a former salary man who decided to train to become a superhero but has become so powerful that he's bored[...]
CW Seed constantine
He loves superheroes, but it was refreshing to do something without tights and capes for a change He also spoke a bit about how little he had to do in regards to the character of Constantine himself Bourassa said that the character is so well designed that it's just a one to one translation into[...]
Legendary Pictures Has Greenlit a Superhero Heist Movie
The superhero genre is, without a doubt, the biggest thing right now So it's time for subversion and this time it comes from Legendary Pictures. According to The Hollywood Reporter the studio has picked up an untitled superhero heist movie from Chris Baugh and Brendan Mullin with Baugh directing and both of them writing and producing. The[...]
James Gunn Responds to Jodie Foster's Criticism of Superhero Movies
Namely, the state of studios' expectations and results of mass superhero saturation. Jodie Foster in the 2013 film, Elysium "Going to the movies has become like a theme park," Foster said in an interview with the Radio Times which has since gone semi-viral because of her mention of superhero flicks "ruining the viewing habits of the American[...]
Batman #36 cover by Clay Mann and Jordie Bellaire
I haven't held an especially negative opinion of Batman in some time; I just didn't like him. Dark Nights: Metal and the Nightmare-Batmen tie-ins did some of the legwork in my shifting opinion. I also adore the Batman Arkham game franchise, with the exception of Arkham Origins, which is an absolute trainwreck It did have Deathstroke though In[...]