In the aftermath of World War II and the Nuremberg Trials, the collective deem that justice has been served to the victims of the Holocaust and strive to move on emotionally and politically.  One man, however, armed with his dead wife’s lipstick, takes up arms in a war-torn Europe to hunt down ex-Nazis and personify […]

With the September days quickly giving way to October, it’s time for new about The CW‘s “Arrowverse” shows returning to start flying in every direction. With Arrow shuffling off the network’s programming coil after an abbreviated 10-episode eighth season (making The Flash the “elder states-show” of the “Arrowverse” as it speeds into its sixth season), […]

Borderlands 3 has arrived and there ain’t no rest for the wicked for the Vault Hunter! Are you ready to take on psychos, monsters and be a total badass doing it?! Well, today is your day and with the gun expert Marcus on your side, you too can experience your adventure in the Borderlands. Chronicle […]

Strikeforce #1 hits stores from Marvel Comics next week, by Tini Howard, German Peralta, and Jordie Bellaire, and we’ve got a preview below. And aren’t we all tired of superhero comics where heroes fight villains? It’s so rare when the heroes fight the heroes instead. It’s only happened in *checks notes* Civil War, Avengers vs. […]

Andrea Savage‘s truTV series I’m Sorry focuses on a comedy writer-mom (Savage) who can’t help but tell it like it is and censors nothing – and usually ends up getting herself into a slew of awkward situations because of it. From sex talks and pubic hair to child molesters, I’m Sorry is a perfect sitcom […]

Rey is the star of the newest Star Wars franchises. With her first appearance in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, she has opened a whole new whole world. With these new movies, Star Wars and Rey’s influence has expanded onto a whole new generation. The newest movies have been somewhat of controversy with some saying […]

(Please note this interview was conducted the week before Rose City Comic-Con and due to technical issues we haven’t been able to publish it until now. Any and all questions and answers that follow were obtained before the convention and do not cover anything that  happened after the interview at the convention, 9/13 – 9/15/2019, […]

The world is full of misunderstood protagonists and even villains. From San in Princess Mononoke to Eric Killmonger in Black Panther, sometimes characters are misunderstood or have a strong moral weight to their arguments (respectively). But a lot of times these characters are adopted by fans as misunderstood and they are actually garbage people. And […]

…And there was much rejoicing. Throne of Eldraine, Magic: The Gathering‘s 82nd expansion set, has been fully revealed at long last, and with it, its tokens and a release notes document. In the document (featured in full here), as always, are notes on rulings that have come up in Magic R&D’s development sessions for the […]

Legendary creators Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz return to The New Mutants for New Mutants: War Children #1, along with colorist Chris Sotomayor and letterer Clayton Cowles, in stores next week from Marvel Comics. We’ve got a preview. And if you’re wondering whether Claremont and Sienkiewicz have still got the magic… well… Of course they […]

The Princess Bride star Cary Elwes has spoken out in light of news that there are people who wish to remake the classic film. “There’s a shortage of perfect movies in this world,” Elwes wrote in a quote-tweet. “It would be a pity to damage this one. There’s a shortage of perfect movies in this […]

Super7 has been releasing a huge great variety of products lately. With NYCC just around the corner, it is no surprise Super7 has announced a huge NYCC Exclusive line up. We will be seeing a massive wave of ReAction figures come out of the con. First up is 4 Universal Monsters and all four monsters […]

Marvel Comics #1000 was a big-selling title for Marvel – but not their biggest. The ten-dollar price tag saw to that. Still, there are lots of copies around and about. The D23 Mickey Mouse cover sells comfortably for $200 a pop, and some of the rarer covers get a slight premium, but the standard covers […]

Following the Stumptown premiere at Rose City Comic-Con (RCCC), the audience was treated to a rare Q&A with creator Greg Rucka, executive producers Jason Richmond and Matt Olmsted, and most of the cast – including Tantoo Cardinal, Cole Sibus, Adrian Martinez, Camryn Manheim, and Michael Ealy. Rucka took the stage first, to thunderous applause, followed […]

Batarang, the most iconic tool from Batman’s arsenal. One thing that connects all of our generations of Batman besides the suit is the batarang design. Ikon Design Studios is releasing a nice assortment of batarang with included displays that can easily enhance your own bat cave. Both of these replicas will be cast in solid […]

Marvel Comics Presents #9 hits stores from Marvel Comics next week, wrapping up what we’re pretty sure was originally meant to be a 12-issue series but got reduced to 9. That means Marvel has to squeeze 4 parts of Wolverine’s The Vigil storyline into a single issue, and they’re throwing in more Wolverine for the […]

The Craft is one of the ‘90s memorable cult classics and  a new generation of witches takes over for its remake in Gideon Adlon, Lovie Simone. Zoey Luna, and Cailee Spaeny with Zoe Lister-Jones directing and writing for Blumhouse and Columbia, according to Deadline Hollywood. The Craft (1996) was directed by Andrew Fleming, who co-wrote […]

Gang Beasts is a multiplayer party game where players control gelatinous characters and take part in slaptstick fight sequences. It’s a party game meant to be taken lightly, which is great, except that the player base is so small it makes the online matchmaking pointless. The concept and execution are relatively solid, however, unless you […]

Tom King may have been fired from the main Batman book (whatever the official PR line may be) , finishing his planned run in the spinoff Batman/Catwoman mini-series (at the more traditional Tom King length of twelve issues). Well, in his final few issues, King may be revisiting the reality of the man who Bane […]

With everyone and their mother ready to have their own streaming service by next year, cable giants like HBO and Showtime are looking to lock in impressive programming slates that they hope remind viewers that cable isn’t going anywhere any time soon. In a post-Game of Thrones world, both cablers are looking for that next […]

Batman Black and White series first debuted back in 1996. It was a limited-run series from DC that features 8 page Batman stories in Black and White. Volumes 2 and 3 of the series are more recent with a 2013-2014 publication. The Batman Black and White series have been quite popular but the statue series […]

Avengers #24 hits stores from Marvel Comics next week, from Jason Aaron, Stefano Caselli, Luciano Vecchio, Jason Keith, and Cory Petit, and we’ve got a preview below. Last issue, the Cosmic Ghost Rider made his entrance into the present of the Marvel Universe after possessing Avengers’ Mountain. And now we get to see some dream […]

Since the recent rebirth of Star Trek on television – beginning with CBS All Access‘ Discovery and now Picard as the first non-Starfleet-centric television series – the franchise is making new and bold decisions deviating from traditional formula storytelling. Here are some other characters we think deserve a shot at their own series. Worf There […]

DC Ladies are getting more and more popular lately With the focus being moved around the board from the male frontrunner to a female front runner. I love the stories that have come out from these changes. From introductions to new characters like Naomi to shifting Harley Quinn away from the Joker’s shadow. These female […]

Back in May, IDW announced a new Magic: The Gathering comic book series by James Asmus and Eric Koda, focussed on Chandra Nalaar and dubbed The Trials Of Alara. Intended for publication in August, the first issue of Magic The Gathering: Chandra: The Trials Of Alara wasn’t published. Nor was the second. The comic was […]

NBC’s much beloved sitcom Friends is celebrating its 25th anniversary, with the cast and fans subjecting us to memories of how 6 friends living in NYC found the pool of available singles too small for their liking and instead chose to keep an oddly high percentage of their bodily fluid exchanges among them. Interestingly enough, […]

Tripwire Interactive and publisher Deep Silver released the Killing Floor: Double Feature eariler this year to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the franchise. The Double Feature includes both Killing Floor 2 and Killling Floor: Incursion which is a VR spin-off of the franchise. Both games stick to the basic formula of having players brutally murder a bunch of […]

In Britain, train tickets can be hella expensive, unless you know when to book them, how long to hold off, and know what’s happening any time between 12 weeks and 6 weeks before you really really need them. For example, buying a single ticket from London to Harrogate (Changing at Leeds), the new location for […]

We’re T-minus two weeks from the start of the new seasons in The CW‘s Arrowverse, and as we get closer and closer to the “Crisis on Infinite Earths” crossover mayhem this December, it’s time to break out ye olde prognostication stick and “divine” for you exactly what will happen. To be clear, these aren’t spoilers. […]

Magneto is just as iconic as the X-Men themselves. He appeared right alongside the X-Men in X-Men #1 written by Stan Lee. Since that day Magneto has varied his strategies and paths. In the Marvel Now series, he teamed up and join Cyclops in Uncanny X-Men after Wolverine took over as headmaster in the Jean […]

Amazing Spider-Man #30 hits stores from Marvel Comics next week, tying into the Absolute Carnage super-mega-crossover event, from Nick Spencer, Ryan Ottley, Cliff Rathburn, Nathan Fairbairn, and Joe Caramagna. We’ve got a preview below. The recap page warns us that this issue could contain spoilers for Absolute Carnage up to #3… but what kind of […]

So I went off to a movie theatre to watch a stage play. A filmed stage play shown like a movie because I couldn’t be in the country where the play was on. It’s a surreal, meta experience. The play is the original one-woman stage version of Fleabag. Phoebe Waller-Bridge is performing it for the […]

Klabater and Polyslash’s We. The Revolution is a unique in both gameplay concept and art-style, as it puts players in control of a Tribunal Judge during the French Revolution. Players will need to pass sentences, play the politics, and do everything in their power not to be the next one brought to the guillotine. The game […]

DC Comics is clearly worried about whether or not their comic books have “Year of the Villain” branding on their cover and whether it’s accurate or not. Which is why retailers have been told, in time for FOC and Batman Day, that the upcoming Batman #81 will no longer have DC’s Year Of The Villain […]

With season 14 set to premiere on Wednesday, September 25, FXX‘s It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is now tied with ABC’s The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet as the longest-running live-action comedy series. Now that’s a title Mac (Rob McElhenney), Dennis (Glenn Howerton), Charlie (Charlie Day), Dee (Kaitlin Olson), and Frank (Danny DeVito) would be more than happy to […]

Team 17’s My Time at Portia is a cute, relaxing crafting game where players restore the neglected family workshop and fulfill commissions, grow crops, raise animals, and befriend the inhabitants of the post-apocalyptic town called Portia. Players need to gather, mine, and craft their way to being the top workshop in town, and they may just […]

The Chimera Nottingham comic book shop in Beeston, Nottingham is to close at the end of October. Co-owners Heather and Andy Chimera posted to Facebook, Times are changing and Chimera is changing with the times. Sunday the 6th of October will be our last day of trading in the current store (105 High Road, Beeston, […]

With Damon Lindelof‘s “remix” of Alan Moore and David Gibbons‘ celebrated comic book series Watchmen set to have its world premiere at this year’s this year’s New York Comic Con (NYCC) 2019 ahead of its October 20 premiere on HBO, the cable giant is starting to roll out the promotional machine with a striking look […]

Tencent Games and PUBG Corp. have added a new update to PUBG Mobile Lite this week, as 0.14.1 will add in some new features and season content. We have the full details of what’s been included for you below, but basically you’re getting new vehicles, a title system, an awesome arcade mode, new speedier vehicles, […]

Earlier this week, Bleeding Cool revealed a plot twist to the JJ Abrams/Henry Abrams/Sara Pichelli series Spider-Man #1. On the back of this, Spider-Girl #59, which featured the first appearance of an earlier son-of-Peter-Parker-and-Mary-Jane-Watson, Ben Parker, has rocketed on eBay  with copies selling for up to $65, with lots of copies sold in the $40 […]

If you’re a fan of the Walking Dead universe, things are pretty sweet right now – especially from the perspective of AMC‘s Fear the Walking Dead. Following up on an epic appearance at this summer’s Comic-Con International: San Diego (SDCC), we learned that the series been picked up for a sixth season – and as […]

Going into The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II, I’d never played the original game. So my background information on the title was limited to the official game description and what I could piece together from the opening sequence of the game’s story. Which is probably not the best way to pick up a […]

Welcome to the pretty-much-mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. A run around the day before and the day ahead. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. The 14 most-read stories yesterday James Tynion IV is DC Comics’ New Batman Writer in 2020 – Is Something Killing The Robins? DC Comics to Announces […]

With the September days quickly giving way to October, it’s time for new about The CW‘s “Arrowverse” shows returning to start flying in every direction. With Arrow shuffling off the network’s programming coil after an abbreviated 10-episode eighth season (making The Flash the “elder states-show” of the “Arrowverse” as it speeds into its sixth season), […]

Larian Studios’ Divinity: Original Sin II – Definitive Edition for the Nintendo Switch is quite possibly a perfect game. Which shouldn’t be a surprise, because Divinity: Original Sin II was pretty damn perfect when it released back in 2017 for PC. It’s a modern RPG designed to look and feel reminiscent of classic RPGs like Baldur’s Gate or Planescape: […]

Readers who just can’t enough of the writing of DC Comics Publisher Dan Didio are in for a treat! Didio has teemed with artist Chris Jones to produce an 8-page crossover comic between the DC Universe and Chicago TV host Svengoolie. Didio was a fan of Svengoolie growing up and always wanted to put him […]

With the September days quickly giving way to October, it’s time for new about The CW‘s “Arrowverse” shows returning to start flying in every direction. With Arrow shuffling off the network’s programming coil after an abbreviated 10-episode eighth season (making The Flash the “elder states-show” of the “Arrowverse” as it speeds into its sixth season), […]

I was in the middle of writing up my late review of Devil May Cry on the Switch when the code for Devil May Cry 2 hit as well. So I’ve decided to bundle them both into the same review to save us all some time. This is far from the first time I’ve played either game, […]

Following up on the success of the hit comic from earlier this year and continuing to cash in on the political strife which threatens to destroy America, Devil’s Due will publish another Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Freshman Force comic this December starring the titular congresswoman and conservative boogieman along with her three squad members in […]

Alison Brie and Betty Gilpin are headed back into the squared-circle for a fourth and final season, with Netflix announcing the series end on Friday. While a premiere date is still too far off, showrunners-writers-executive producers Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch will return for the final 10 episodes of the series the duo created alongside executive […]

Night School Studio’s latest game, Afterparty, will release on October 29, 2019. Just in time for Halloween. Which is the perfect release window for a game about partying it up in the afterlife with the king of hell. The game will retail at $19.99 USD, though Xbox Game Pass subscribers will get access to the game […]

Bleeding Cool reported earlier today that we had the word that tomorrow, for Batman Day, DC Comics was to announce who was to write the ongoing Batman comic book series in 2020, taking over from Tom King, with issue 86 in January. And then that the person in question would by James Tynion IV. James […]

Combine our professional obsession with uber-creative genius Ryan Murphy (Glee, Pose, 9-1-1, Feud, and a billion more) with our love for 80’s horror/slasher film, and it’s easy to understand why we’re excited for FX‘s American Horror Story: 1984. In fact, executive producer Tim Minear only confirmed our excitement when he said this about the upcoming […]

RemiLore: Lost Girl in the Lands of Lore is the kind of anime game that has a very specific fanbase in mind. And I am not that fanbase. So this was a bit of a mis-match between game and reviewer, but I’ll try to do my best regardless. The game is a hack-and-slash rogue-like adventure […]

Comic book store Telegraph Art & Comics of Charlottesville, Virginia has moved from one location, home to a previous store, Atlas Comics, to a new bigger location, dubbed Telegraph Uptown. Their Grand Opening, earlier this month had comic creator Laura Lee Gulledge as a guest, who ran a comics creation class, and showing off her […]

This year’s Comic-Con International: San Diego (SDCC) was definitely an eventful one for The CW‘s Riverdale – with special announcements, casting news, and blooper reel (more on that below) – as well as the cast and executive producer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa having fun discussing the past season’s wild ride of storylines while teasing what fans can […]

The Parker Hybrid Tote is a combination tote-bag and backpack designed by Solo NY. It’s one of Solo’s more elegant backpack designs, and you can hide the backpack straps away and use it as a tote instead. Which gives the bag some versatility and makes it a great commuting tool. The tote has a fully […]

Bleeding Cool has been hearing for some time there were issues between comic book publishers IDW and their imprint Black Crown run by former DC Vertigo’s Shelly Bond. And for another month IDW solicitations did not contain any mention of Black Crown titles. Their most recently published title, Eve Stranger is delayed. Issue 3 came […]

With The CW‘s Supernatural about to wrap up its series’ run on the network after the upcoming 15th season, fans have been throwing around a wide range of theories on what the series-ending season will mean for the Winchchesters – which is understandable, all things considered. Without getting into any major spoiler areas (yeah, we […]

Crystar is a game about a young girl who travels to purgatory and purifies the torments of restless souls by crying about it. The game even has a “cry to gain more power” mechanic. The game is described by Spike Chunsoft and developer FuRyu as “driven by catharsis,” which is why Rei gains strength from […]