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Teen Titans Go! to the Movies features (clockwise from left) Raven (voice of Tara Strong), Cyborg (Khary Payton), Starfire (Hynden Walch), Robin (Scott Menville) and Beast Boy (as a cat, Greg Cires).
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Aug. 14, 2018 -- It’s the Dog Days of Summer, when news about genre movies and TV and is mostly about the future, not the present. But there is a lot of it, so let’s check the Hollywood teletype:
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It’s been six weeks since Marvel’s “Fresh Start” initiative began, which is re-launching many of the publisher’s major titles. Here are three of the most interesting:
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On the eve of Comic-Con International: San Diego, the "Trinity” of DC Comics has already been making news.
But are Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman better for the all these changes? The Magic 8-Ball says “Ask A
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Netflix’s Luke Cage Season 2 features a gallery of fascinating characters, most of whom have appeared in the comics. Well, sort of. There have been some changes:
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June 7, 2018 -- The comics-based TV shows keep making a lot of news as their seasons wrap up. Here are some big “what th-?” reality bombs:
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Andrew Lincoln (left) will leave his role as Ric
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In the movies, Henry Pym (Michael Douglas) is so abrasive he’s driven most of his colleagues away. The comics version suffered mental instability that has achieved the same thing.
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NBC’s Powerless premiered Feb. 2, and it’s based on the same DC Comics universe as TV shows like Arrow and movies like Batman v Superman. It’s just not connected.
Just as the DC superhero movies and DC superh
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March 22, 2018 -- Syfy’s Krypton, which debuted March 12, varies considerably from the comics. But that’s OK, because the comics themselves have never been consistent about Superman’s home world.
Krypton has alw
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Freeform's Marvel's Cloak & Dagger stars Aubrey Joseph as Tyrone Johnson/Cloak and Olivia Holt as Tandy Bowen/Dagger.
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If ever there was a Marvel property suited for adaptation to tel
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May 24, 2018 -- Cable and broadcast networks have announced the annual culling of their TV rosters, and for most genre shows the news was good. However, for four comics-based series it’s a good news/bad news sit
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April 19, 2018 -- Avengers: Infinity War is almost upon us – close enough that we can figure out what Marvel Comics it’s lifted from, and to what extent.
As most people know by now, none of the Marvel Cinematic
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March 29, 2018 -- Legion Season 2, which premieres April 3 on FX, promises time jumps, psychic possession, strange bedfellows and fabulous dance routines. Oh, and possibly the end of everything.
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Action Comics #1 came out in 1938, and by giving the world Superman, transformed the comic book fad into the comic book industry.
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Deadpool (left) and Cable are antagonists in Deadpool 2. They began that way in the comics, too, before becoming uneasy allies.
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May 17, 2018 -- If you’re not
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So the Jan. 24 episode of The CW’s Legends of Tomorrow filled us in on how George Lucas was inspired to create Star Wars by heroes from other time periods (involving blasters, trash compactors, “You’re our
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March 8, 2018 -- Some viewers may be dismissive of the latest casualty on The Walking Dead as just another Sunday in the zombie apocalypse. But it could well be a turning point for the show.
Before we continue,
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The Archies is a fun, funny comic book miniseries focusing on the Riverdale gang forming the band everyone knows from the song “Sugar, Sugar,” and the 1960s cartoon from which it sprang. Blackout is a hard-hitt
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Marvel Comics has announced the return of Fantastic Four in August, a title that has not been published since 2015.
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April 5, 2018 -- The big news this week from the world of
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Returnees for Avengers: Infinity War include Okoye (Danai Gurira), Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman), Steve Rogers (Chris Evans), Black Widow (Scarlet Johansson) and the former Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan
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