Our new comic book picks of the week, part one with the big DC Rebirth titles.
Batgirl #1
Barbara Gordon goes Beyond Burnside in her brand new series by Hope Larson and Rafael Albuquerque.
Babs undergoes training with the world’s best fighters in Japan. A chance meeting puts a target on Batgirl’s back and pulls her into a global mystery.
Nightwing #1
Is Dick Grayson Better Than Batman in the first arc by Tim Seeley and Javi Fernandez? Grayson is back in black and blue. There’s been a deadly power play in the Parliament of Owls. Dick is forced to take on a new mentor who challenges him to rethink everything Batman taught him and how to bring bad guys to justice. Continue reading NIGHTWING, BATGIRL, TITANS & OUTLAWS In DC REBIRTH This Week
Marvel unleashed a tidal wave of updates on their upcoming movies at San Diego Comic Con.
Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige announced the Oscar winner who will play Captain Marvel, the villain of the next Spidey movie plus Black Panther, Guardians of the Galaxy (Star-Lord’s father!) news and unveiled the new Doctor Strange trailer. Here we go:
Spider-Man: Homecoming:
New Marvel concept art confirmed Spidey will face the Vulture in the reboot directed by Jon Watts.
Wentworth Miller in DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Photo by Dean Buscher/The CW courtesy The CW Network/DC Comics
Prepare to meet your Doom!
The Legion of Doom!
Big news from DC Comics panel devoted to super team of The CW at San Diego Comic Con.
Next season, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow will unleash the show’s version of the Legion of Doom. This rogues gallery will feature several infamous familiar faces from The CW’s shared DCTV universe.
The Legion of Doom will be Arrow villains Malcolm Merlyn (John Barrowman), Damien Darhk (Neal McDonough), the Reverse-Flash (Matt Letscher) and Captain Cold (Wentworth Miller) from The Flash. Continue reading LEGION OF DOOM On LEGENDS OF TOMORROW
Get ready for a trip inside the mind of the most powerful and misunderstand mutant in the X-Men mythos.
Marvel revealed the first trailer for Legion, coming to FX next year.
It’s the story of David Haller (played by Dan Stevens), “a troubled young man who may be more than human. Diagnosed as schizophrenic, David has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years. But after a strange encounter with a fellow patient, he’s confronted with the possibility that the voices he hears and visions might be real.”
In the comics Legion is the son of Professor Charles Xavier. No official word on if the series will follow comics canon but David is classified as a mutant and we see a very familiar image inside the show logo near the end.
The long simmering war between the Mutants and Inhumans will finally explode this winner.
Marvel announced via MashableInhumans vs. X-Men will be next big event series following the events of Death of X.
Jeff Lemire (Extraordinary X-Men, Old Man Logan) and Charles Soule (Uncanny Inhumans, Death of Wolverine) will co-write the six-part event with Leinil Yu on art. Continue reading INHUMANS VS X-MEN Announced
DC Comics biggest icons united for the big screen!
Warner Brothers and DC Comics give fans a surprise bonus from the San Diego Comic Con panel. Following the debut of the Wonder Woman trailer, the hits kept coming with the first trailer for Justice League.
Justice League courtesy Warner Brothers and DC Comics
Batman (Ben Affleck) and Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) search the globe for metahumans to get ready for a fight from an “enemy coming from far away.”
Bruce Wayne recruits Aquaman (Jason Momoa), Barry Allen/The Flash (Ezra Miller) and we see the before and after of Victor Stone/Cyborg.
We get a look into the past and the idea that Mother Boxes (technology seen in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice) are buried across Earth. Those alien computers are the signal that a powerhouse villain is approaching.
