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If you plan to see Black Panther, you’ll be introduced to an exciting and eclectic group of people, concepts and even geography. Here’s a primer to help you prep, with notes on where the film diverges from th
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Cress Williams plays Jefferson Pierce, a father and schoolteacher who reluctantly emerges from superhero retirement in the The CW’s Black Lightning.
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Black Lightning, a new superhero show, debu
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Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. stars (from left) Clark Gregg as Phil Coulson, Ming-Na Wen as Melinda May, Elizabeth Henstridge as Jemma Simmons, Chloe Bennet as Daisy Johnson, Iain De Caestecker as Leo Fitz, Natalia Cordova-Buckl
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March 15, 2018 -- When Syfy premieres Krypton March 21, the new series will drop a lot of names that have appeared in DC Comics over the decades. No doubt the show will use these characters in new and surprisin
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The week of Jan. 15 saw five genre shows appear on The CW – four returning from mid-season break, plus one rookie. But what’s the story behind the stories? Here’s Captain Comics with some Fun Facts to Know and T
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Krysten Ritter reprises the role of the title character in the second season of “Jessica Jones.”
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March 1, 2018 -- Jessica Jones returns March 8 for her second season on Netflix,
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If you’ve got Black Panther fever and can’t wait for the movie to premiere Feb. 16, here’s a (graphic) novel idea: Catch up on the best of Black Panther comics!
First, this is a must: Read the introduction of th
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Forget Batman v Superman. The most interesting battle is Marvel v DC.
The rivalry between the two publishers goes back to the Golden Age of Comics (roughly 1938-1950), when DC was still National Comics and Ma
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Marvel Comics rolled out a major publishing initiative last September called “Legacy.” While it clearly didn’t succeed at everything they hoped, the results are worth exploring for fans of Marvel comics, movies
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It’s customary to look back at this time of year, and as it happens, 2017 was pretty good to fans of nerd culture. Here’s the Captain’s Top 10 list:
10. HORN OF PLENTY: At the beginning of 2017, comic-based show
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Marvel Films has finally put a Black Widow movie on its schedule, tentatively for 2020. Some would argue 20th Century Fox has beaten them to it.
Fox’s movie is Red Sparrow, which premieres March 2 and features J
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Mid-season finales for a variety of genre shows have come, leaving us a lot to think about before the shows resume next year. With a hearty “Spoiler Warning Ahoy,” let’s dive in to three of the best thumb-sucke
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There are going to be a lot of new faces on the second season of Supergirl, which premiered Oct. 10 on its new network, The CW. One of those faces could lead to a whole “Legion” of more.
That face belongs to
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Marvel Films and Television has two sets of super-powered teenagers on TV, with a third coming next year on the big screen. Given how popular stories about teen-age angst are, the seeming redundancy should be n
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The Mouse has finally eaten the Fox, and most of Marvel’s characters are under one roof. Now what?
As everyone this side of Latveria knows, Disney bought Fox’s entertainment division for about 54 billion simole
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An even dozen major superhero movies are scheduled for 2018. Let’s count down in reverse order of the Captain’s enthusiasm:
12. VENOM (Oct. 5): Sony Pictures is trying to jump-start a Spider-Man-villain univers
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Marvel Legacy #1 features a wraparound cover with most of Marvel’s major characters. Variants have a lenticular cover, the sort of expensive gimmick that some say is part of Marvel’s sales problem.
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Happy! is the name of a new comedy-drama arriving Dec. 6 on Syfy. Trying to describe it, though, is not always a happy thing.
Happy! is based on a graphic novel by two comics legends, writer Grant Morrison (The I
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A poster for CW’s “Crisis on Earth-X!” mimics cover designs for Justice League of America from DC Comics in the 1970s and 1980s.
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This year’s Arrowverse crossover on The CW this year looks like
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The Defenders on Netflix teams (from left) Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter), Danny “Iron Fist” Rand (Finn Jones), Matt “Daredevil” Murdock (Charlie Cox) and Luke Cage (Mike Colter).
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The Def
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