It’s easier to explain, by all the evidence, why I should love Boy Kills World, than it is to understand why I don’t. There’s plenty here to like when it comes to individual moments, especially if absurdly bloody, video game-styled fights are things you tend to enjoy. Yet something about the way they’re all strung together doesn’t quite work — the world-building is too slapdash to make much sense, but the tone never gets as campy as the over-the-top gore (and Sam Raimi‘s producing credit) might suggest. Splintering The old joke about the underlying plot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — a mar ..read more

The original Masters of the Universe toy line was based on fantasy archetypes, but as it progressed, each figure tended to come with an action feature, above and beyond the spring-loaded waist. New figures would either do something completely different, or be the reverse-image version of a pre-existing counterpart on the opposing force. If a good guy has a swinging metal fist, a bad guy has a swinging metal karate chop hand, and so forth. Let’s Gush Water squirting entered the line first with Kobra Khan, a human-spitting cobra hyrid, and then with Dragon Blaster Skeletor. The good guys now ne ..read more

Remember when Robosen put out the auto-transforming Optimus Prime, and we collectively thought it maybe cost a bit more than we’d like, but heck, for one robot that awesome, maybe we could save up? And then they put out an auto-transforming Grimlock, that walked in both robot and dinosaur mode, and it cost even more, and we thought, damn, that’s even cooler…can the budget stretch for just one more? Well, enough of you clearly did buy both of those — we can all agree to collectively forget the non-transforming Bumblebee and movie Optimus — that Robosen is making more Transformers. Inevitably ..read more

(Photo Credit: Marvel TV) Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. star Ming-Na Wen says Disney and Marvel Studios have yet to ask her to reprise Agent Melinda May in Marvel Cinematic Universe. “No, they have not . . . it’s weird, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. sort of became a separate entity for whatever reason because it was on the network as opposed to streaming,” Wen said to Katee Sackhoff on The Sackhoff Show. “I think there’s some — and this is where my obliviousness also helps because I don’t understand it, so you’re asking the wrong person, I just know that there’s some sort of division ..read more

Ahead of its debut on Paramount+ this summer, a new teaser trailer for Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has been released. Shared on Twitter by IGN, the trailer begins by reminding viewers that Paramount+ is the home of “all things Turtles,” showing clips from the previous TMNT cartoons. The video then features a montage of scenes from the upcoming Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which will be set between the events of the 2023 movie Mutant Mayhem and the untitled 2026 sequel. Check out the Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles teaser trailer below: Watch the exclusi ..read more

Mike Mignola and his frequent collaborator Ben Stenbeck are launching a new shared universe for Dark Horse Comics. Dark Horse Comics has announced that Mignola, who is best known for creating Hellboy, is writing and illustrating a new anthology book full of folklore stories titled Bowling With Corpses and Other Strange Tales From Lands Unknown. Bowling With Corpses and Other Strange Tales From Lands Unknown will be published by Curious Objects, Mignola’s imprint at Dark Horse, and will introduce readers to a new universe that will be further explored in forthcoming stories and projects.  ..read more

In the original Arrowverse timeline, Grant Gustin‘s The Flash was reported to have vanished alongside the Reverse-Flash in an explosion of light on April 25, 2024. To celebrate “Crisis Day,” Gustin shared a Flash-related throwback photo on his Instagram account. “We made it – April 25, 2024. I can confirm that Flash has in fact not vanished,” Gustin captioned the Instagram post. “Fun fact: searched ‘April 25th’ on my phone to find a fun Flash pic to post, but that’s when we were always on hiatus. This is the only Flash related April 25th photo in my phone. April 25th, 2016.” The accompanying ..read more

(Photo Credit: Lucasfilm / Disney+) The Book of Boba Fett star Ming-Na Wen is holding out hope that Lucasfilm and Disney+ will eventually renew the Star Wars series for a second season. Speaking with her The Mandalorian co-star Kate Sackhoff on the latter’s new podcast, The Sackhoff Show (via Twitter), Wen shared that she wanted another season of The Book of Boba Fett as much as the fans did. “So do I,” she stated. “I think the fans and Tem [Morrison] and I, we should all do The Book Of Boba Fett Season 2. I think there’s a lot more stories to be told, and it hasn’t really quite finished and e ..read more

(Image Source: Marvel / Sanford Greene) “With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility.” That phrase is synonymous with Spider-Man and his beloved Uncle Ben. However, in the new Ultimate Universe, an entirely different character who imparts that lesson to Peter Parker in Ultimate Spider-Man #4. Written by Jonathan Hickman with art by David Messina, Ultimate Spider-Man #4 shows the first friendly contact between Peter Parker and Harry Osborn. In this reality, the two are relative strangers, rather than best friends since college and roommates, and Harry Osborn is revealed as a heroic version of ..read more

(Image Source: Marvel / Kael Ngu) The idea behind the original Ultimate Universe was to put new spins on classic Marvel Comics characters. This gave established readers a reason to read new books, while creating more easily accessible series for newcomers. The new Ultimate Spider-Man series continues this trend, putting new spins on beloved Spider-Man characters in a new reality. However, the latest issue does this with one character whose inclusion is something of a surprise. Written by Jonathan Hickman, with art by David Messina, Ultimate Spider-Man #4 centers around a dinner double-date. T ..read more