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 bigger news, slightly knocked back yesterday, involves the future of Image Comics – and its aim to sell more than DC Comics with a new […]

Welcome back to NBC‘s The Good Place! Everything is fine. …Well, not exactly, but at least Brent stopped saying “Daddy like” all the time, so that’s something? We join our Soul Squad as they run a new neighborhood as an experiment with four new humans to test if humans really can become better people after […]

Riot Games decided now was as good a time as any to bash on Blizzard as the company threw shade at them over a Teamfight Tactics announcement. The company released a few details this week on various projects during their new weekly livestream, but one of the big items of the day was a mobile […]

The hype for Scott Snyder, Charles Soule and Giuseppe Camuncoli‘s Undiscovered Country is real. I’m hearing from sources close to Image Comics that the highly anticipated launch set for November 6th release has officially FOC’d with the highest order numbers Image has seen for a new series in nearly five years, with a total bigger that […]

I’ve been warning you all that I’d be crying a lot this season. Knowing that our Supernatural “End of Days” is drawing closer with each episode gives us all season long to go through the mourning process. Since every chronicled moment with be the last whatever, I lament penning my last Supernatural premiere review. Have a […]

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is going to be ditching loot boxes and introducing a few other mechanics instead. Activision took to the official Call of Duty blog with a statement. The team is focusing on “creating the best game possible” while also “bringing the community together.” Beginning with Modern Warfare, the team will be […]

Here’s a look at Pepe Larraz‘s new cover for the House Of X/Powers Of X hardcover, hitting comic book stores on December 11th, and bookstores on December 24th. A two week lead for the direct market, handy in the run-up to Christmas. That’s the standard cover, while the Direct Market-only version not available to bookstores […]

It’s been a long haul, people – but by now, millions of you know it was more than worth the wait. Amazon Prime Video‘s adaptation of Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson‘s comic book series The Boys has been sticking some righteously sweet superhero three-point landings since it premiered on Friday, July 26 – and spoiler? Check out Bleeding Cool’s two-scoops-of-spoilers-filled […]

VIZ Media announced today that their upcoming game Cat Lady from developer Rose City Games is being put into Early Access. You can try the game out now ahead of time for $10 on Steam, as they will eventually release it sometime in the Spring of 2020. But like a lot of Early Access titles, […]

As Kevin Feige locks his iron-tight grip of creative control around Marvel Comics, parent company Disney is expanding its relationship with a competitor for a new line of graphic novels adapting Disney and Pixar films. Starting this December with Toy Story: The Story of the movies in Comics, Dark Horse will pump out all-ages graphic […]

Paul Dano is in negotiations with Warner Bros for Matt Reeves’ The Batman with Robert Pattinson in the title role. Variety reports the role as the Riddler, but the studio won’t confirm. The Dano casting news comes on the heels of Jonah Hill pulling out of the project. Variety speculates Dano may have been Hill’s […]

Rockstar Games released a brand new trailer this week for Red Dead Redemption 2, showing off the game in glorious 4K on PC. You can check out the trailer and the proper description for it below as we slowly wait for it to be released on November 5th. And yes, it looks far better on […]

Marvel just brought back Acts of Vengeance as Acts of Evil, so it’s no surprise the House of Slightly Used Ideas is looking to revive another classic Summer Annual crossover event. This time, however, it will be a Winter five-issue limited series as Atlantis Attacks #1 is coming in January from Greg Pak and Ario […]

Greetings, friends, classmates, and most importantly foes. This week’s episode of The CW‘s Riverdale was back to our regularly scheduled cuckoo-crazy shenanigans after last week’s tribute episode to the late Luke Perry (and his character Fred Andrews). Before we get into exactly what shenanigans happened in this week’s episode, you should be warned that spoilers […]

With Death Stranding on the way in a matter of weeks, it stands to reason some info is going to leak. Because that’s normally how these things go. The game makes its way out into the world, journalists and influencers get their hands on it, and people end up talking out of turn about something. […]

Image Comics has announced 920London, an original graphic novel by Remy Boydell, co-creator and artist of The Pervert and other works, hitting stores in April 2020. We’re not likely to top the headline with anything we say here, so why don’t we skip right to the press release. PORTLAND, Ore. 10/17/2019 — The critically-acclaimed co-creator […]

With HBO‘s “remix” of/pseudo-sequel to Alan Moore and David Gibbons‘ celebrated comic book series Watchmen having had its world premiere at this year’s New York Comic Con (NYCC) 2019 and time “tick-tocking” away until its October 20th premiere, we’re rolling on with “Watchmen Week” with more insight on the series. Today, Jean Smart (Agent Blake) […]

So just in case you were wondering if you needed to clear some hard drive space for The Outer Worlds, YES! Yes, you absolutely do. This week, Obsidian Entertainment revealed when the game would go live globally for PC, PS4, and Xbox One users. But with that news came a bit of a shock as […]

DC Comics has revealed the solicitations and covers for January’s Batman #86 and Batman #87, the first two issues in the post-Tom-King era after City of Bane concludes in Batman #85 and King is banished to his Batman and Catwoman title. James Tynion IV will be the new writer with art by Tony S. Daniel […]

As the “Stephen King-ification” of the world rolls along, HBO‘s adaptation of the author’s bestselling supernatural novel The Outsider is offering viewers their first official teaser for the upcoming limited series. Andrew Bernstein (Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, The Umbrella Academy) is on board to direct several episodes (along with executive producer/cast member Jason Bateman) and serve […]

My Hero Academia is easily a modern anime treasure. With a great cast of characters, we are introduced to a world of superheroes that we have never seen before. Not only do the heroes shine but the vast variety of villains really captivates audiences. There are a lot of collectibles out there for the My Hero […]

Digital comics purveyor and Amazon subsidiary ComiXology announced four new original comics to be published just in time for Halloween. Four comics in total will launch on October 23rd and October 30th. First, Dracula: Son of the Dragon by Mark Sable and Max Douglas and Josie and the Pussycats in Space by Alex de Campi […]

It appears Sons of Anarchy spinoff Mayans M.C. co-creator Elgin James won’t have to wait as long as he thought to be the lone showrunner, with Kurt Sutter reportedly fired from his role as series co-showrunner. The news comes a little more than a month after Sutter announced he would be stepping down from his […]

Nintendo announced today that its current console, the Nintendo Switch, has surpassed $15 million in sales in North America to date. They noted that sales were up 20% in September, which they attribute to the release of the Lite versions of the console. Not to mention the Switch has been the best-selling console for the […]

Todd McFarlane is holding a party for the release of Spawn #301 at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Chandler, Arizona, on Saturday October 26th from noon to 5pm and all Spawn fans are invited. Those who can make it to Arizona, that is. The Spawn Historic 301 event is open to the public and admission is […]

Marvel fans are mad at Martin Scorsese right now for saying the Marvel movies weren’t Cinema but more like a theme park. I’m not interested in arguing the pros and cons of that argument. Scorsese is one of the most respected filmmakers in the world, so his opinion would carry a lot of weight. Kareem […]

The folks over at Netmarble, not to be outdone by other popular game apps, decided to throw a Halloween event into BTS World. Starting today after you update the game, you can get new storylines involving all seven members of the band in special ghost stories. Basically, you’re playing band manager as everyone else is […]

It appears that The Last God: Book One of the Fellspyre Chronicle #1, Philip Kennedy Johnson‘s new comic book with Ricardo Federici, Dean White and Jared Blando has not received the kind of orders from DC Comics that they may have been looking for. It’s the first issue of what is intended to be a […]

There were so many ways to start an article about CBS TV Studios‘ efforts to develop an hour-long dramatic psuedo-sequel take on the hit 1995 comedy Clueless. But sometimes? The jokes are so easy you almost feel insulted… Based on exclusive reporting from Deadline Hollywood, the new series would focus on Dionne (played by Stacey […]

Aliens is another classic science fiction film that has greatly impacted pop culture. The first two really captivated audiences, and well, the third one didn’t really sit well with a lot of fans. However, we were introduced to the quite unique and iconic Aliens Kenner figures. Some of these included a vast variety of animal […]

Later today, Marvel Comics will tell retailers that they are sending Doctor Doom #1 back for a second printing, to be in stores for the 20th of November. Retailers already know that Cult Classic: Creature Feature #1 has sold out of a generous over-printing at the distributor. The second print, with a new cover, will […]

CBS All Access‘ 10-episode limited event series adaptation of Stephen King‘s The Stand has added yet another familar name to the emsemble cast, with Greg Kinnear (Little Miss Sunshine, House of Cards) set to join the streamer’s post-apocalypse-set project. Kinnear joins previously-announced cast members Alexander Skarsgard, Whoopi Goldberg, James Marsden, Amber Heard, Heather Graham, Odessa Young, […]

Wild River Games and THREAKS have released a new launch trailer for Battle Planet – Judgement Day as it comes out on PC and console today. If you want to check the game out, you’ll spend a lot of it running for your life on different planets. In what the devs rever to as a […]

There’s no competition. Undiscovered Country #1 from Scott Snyder, Charles Soule and Giuseppe Camuncoli dominates the advance reorder chart this week, with two placements for two covers, first and seventh. With the Jonathan Hickman showrun Dawn of X books fitting in around them as well as the launch of the new Legion Of Super-Heroes which, […]

With Hulu’s critically-acclaimed Stephen King “shared universe” series Castle Rock having premiered its second season at New York Comic Con (NYCC) 2019 and the series set to debut on October 23 to strong early reviews, the horror anthology from creators Sam Shaw and Dustin Thomason, and executive producers J.J. Abrams and King, is taking a moment to introduce […]

Bethesda Softworks provided an update for players today regarding the Wastelands update coming to Fallout 76, as the content has been pushed. The short version is that the devs want the final product to be polished before it gets dropped into the game, so it has been pushed back to Q1 2020 while they work […]

Last week we told you that speculators were already honing in on Matt Kindt and Matt Smith’s Folklords #1 as the next big creator-owned hit comic. Much like we suspected first, the new series has the signs of being another hit creator-owned book for Boom Studios by appealing to Middlewest fans by inverting the traditional […]

USA Network and Bill Pullman‘s Detective Harry Ambrose are back on the case for a third season of award-winning mystery-thriller anthology The Sinner. Though the season’s case files won’t be made available to viewers until 2020, it’s never too early to get a look at what “sins” await Ambrose. In this case, a fatal hit-and-run […]

Robocop is one of those cult classic iconic movies. He is on par with the Terminator and Judge Dredd. All three have significance in the 80s and a major impact on science fiction films. Hiya Toys bring us back to 1990 with our RoboCop 2 RoboCop figure. He does come with two accessories one being a hand with the data probe […]

DC Comics may be experimenting with the idea of overshipping again, with The Last God #1, but the are much more comfortable with the idea of making certain comic books returnable. Retailers have just been told some new retunable titles, and what hoops retailers will have to jump through in order to send back hypothetical […]

The world of Zombieland provides a unique sandbox for the cast and crew where they’re not constricted to focus on the bleak. Speaking with Uproxx, director Ruben Fleischer said Emma Stone had a crossover idea to feature some of the cast of AMC’s The Walking Dead for Zombieland: Double Tap. “Emma had a funny idea […]

PUMA announced this morning that the company would be releasing a new line of shoes and apparel tying into their partnership with Tetris. Both companies had come together back in February 2019 for a partnership deal, but this is the first time we’re seeing the fruits of that deal. We have the details below on […]

Yesterday, looking at the new X-Men #1 out this week by Jonathan Hickman and Leinil Francis Yu, we noted what appeared to be… convenient living quarters for Scott Summers – Cyclops and his wife Jean Grey – Marvel Girl. And adjacent to them, Logan – Wolverine. Whose interest in Jean Grey – and hers of […]

While the cast and crew of AMC‘s The Walking Dead roll along with their deep-dive production-wise on the tenth season, life in the franchise’s universe has become a lot like the NFL: neither have off-seasons anymore. With a strong ensemble cast (and a “Big Bad” fronted by Samantha Morton in an award-earning turn as Whisperers […]

Curious about the next entry in the SEGA AGES line? It looks like the action-packed side-scroller Shinobi is coming up soon for Japanese gamers. Shinobi is making an appearance in the line some time ago, but it’s been without release dates so far. However, it looks like it’s closer to a debut for Japanese gamers […]

It appears that the dollar comic reprint of Batman #497 that DC Comics recently published had a few pages printed out of order. Well, what do you expect for a dollar? But DC Comics are taking this more seriously and are sending all retailers replacement copies, matching the numbers that retailers ordered, as well as […]

We’ve officially made it to one of the greatest months of the year: October – which means The CW‘s “Arrowverse” shows have started sticking some sweet superhero three-point landings with the returns fans have seen so far. Arrow is shuffling off the network’s programming coil after an abbreviated 10-episode eighth season (making The Flash the […]

Predator, the original film has always been a movie that has intrigued me. I’m curious if back in the day I knew they were going to watch an alien movie and not a war movie. The storytelling of an alien visitor hunting humans isn’t a new concept but that film really made an impact on […]

I mean, it’s no Doomsday Clock or Shazam, or course. But Batman Vs. Ra’s Al Ghul continues to slip down the schedules. Last week, Bleeding Cool reported that the Neal Adams series would see its third issue slip from the planned 16th of October to the 20th of November, and its fourth issue from the […]

In the interest of full disclosure, my knowledgebase tends to lean heavily more towards the film side – but after watching the second season opener to USA Network‘s The Purge, I’m finding myself gaining a better appreciation for the franchise. More importantly, I’m getting a better appreciation for the franchise’s entire universe – the most […]

When I say Magic: The Gathering is without question my favorite game, I mean that beyond the shadow of a doubt. I love the fantasy themes blended with the underscoring tropes of modern science-fiction, I love the characters and setting, and I love the gameplay. When I say that my favorite color of Magic is black by […]

As first revealed by Bleeding Cool, Roy Thomas returned to Marvel Comics to tell a two-part Conan comic book story with Alan Davis and Cam Smith, starting in Savage Sword Of Conan #10, published yesterday. It also features the first appearance of Simino, a new character based upon Roy Thomas’ manager and friend of Bleeding […]

The CW‘s Arrow is back with its tenth-to-last episode and it’s super “Crisis”-y. Our episode opens on a familiar island, Lian-Yu, and a hooded figure clad in green running through the jungle. (Does every season of Arrow start like this?) Yes, it’s our hero Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) and he’s coming home to Starling City […]

GRIP: Combat Racing is getting a blast from the past as they will be adding the DeLorean 2650 to the game in a new DLC package. For a mere $2, you can now add this special car to the game and race in style. Well, race in ’80s style, and pretend Doc Brown decided to […]

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 bigger news, slightly knocked back yesterday, involves the future of Image Comics – and its aim to sell more than DC Comics with a new […]

This week on The Disney Channel’s Lucasfilm Animation series Star Wars Resistance, Kaz’s (Christopher Sean) horrible decision making once again places the Colossus in danger. At the close of last week’s Season 2 premier, “Into the Unknown,” Kaz made a decision that continues to echo through the lives of everyone on the Colossus. Trying to […]

Scorpion and Subzero are probably the two biggest names to come out of the Mortal Kombat franchise. These two front runners have always had something special, with one being the master of fire and the other ice. Big Bad Toy Store is showing off their love for Scorpion with the newest figure from Storm Collectibles. […]

Forty years ago, Chris Claremont, John Byrne, Terry Austin, Glynis Wein, and Tom Orzechowski brought us the Dark Phoenix Saga in the pages of Uncanny X-Men. It was a storyline that so revolutionized comics that it is still rehashed over and over again to this day. In addition to being rehashed within the pages of […]

Welcome to one of those instances when a story starts out one way, and then takes a turn when you realize that the article you’re reading buried a pretty interesting lead. Case-in-point, EW – which posted a preview of this Sunday’s new episode of Family Guy, “Disney’s The Reboot.” If you couldn’t tell from the […]

It seems like every single game on the planet is getting a Halloween event, and Mortal Kombat 11 is no exception as they have one on the way. The team at NetherRealm Studios will be dropping a week-long event next Friday on October 25th and running it until November 1st. During that time you’ll be […]