WALLY WEST Speeding To THE FLASH Season Two

The New 52 Wally West courtesy DC Comics
The New 52 Wally West courtesy DC Comics

Barry Allen will have a competitor racing up behind him on the second season of The Flash.

Warner Bros. and The CW announced Keiynan Lonsdale will be joining this season as Wally West.

This character from the Flash Universe became the speedster known as Kid Flash in the Teen Titans and later became The Flash.

In The New 52 comics continuity Barry was the only Flash and Wally was an African-American. Continue reading WALLY WEST Speeding To THE FLASH Season Two

FANTASTIC FOUR Sequel Power

Fantastic Four courtesy Fox via Twitter
Fantastic Four courtesy Fox via Twitter

The world is waiting for a new Fantastic Four.

The team behind the X-Men franchise is helping reboot Reed, Susan, Johnny, Ben and Doom.

Will Fox’s reboot with a modern take on Marvel’s First Family be the launch of a new franchise?

If the new take starring Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Bell blasts off, where will the sci-fi adventurers go in a potential sequel? Continue reading FANTASTIC FOUR Sequel Power

DEADPOOL RED BAND Trailer

courtesy 20th Century Fox
courtesy 20th Century Fox

Cracking jokes and killing. Wade Wilson doing what he does best.

The anticipation is over.

The first trailer for Deadpool is here.

And it IS RED-BAND.

This is the Merc With a Mouth as raunchy, rude and ultra-violent as if he jumped right out of the comics

After Ryan Reynolds revealed it on The Conan O’Brien Show it’s here courtesy 20th Century Fox now for the world to experience.

Warning! It is RED-BAND but with a hilarious nod to the other superhero Reynolds once portrayed. Continue reading DEADPOOL RED BAND Trailer

DARTH VADER’S MYSTERY WOMAN

Darth Vader #8 courtesy Marvel
Darth Vader #8 courtesy Marvel

What kind of woman teams up with the Dark Lord of the Sith?

Kieron Gillen introduces Aphra, a woman who fights with Darth Vader. He may need her as the Rebels and bold bounty hunters make their moves.

Star Wars: Vader Down is the first big crossover of Marvel’s Star Wars books. Set after the events of A New Hope, the Sith Lord is obsessed with finding the young Jedi who destroyed the Death Star.

It will lead to an opportunity the Rebel Alliance can’t pass up: Vader stranded without the Empire. Continue reading DARTH VADER’S MYSTERY WOMAN

GAY HERO In A LEADING ROLE

Astonishing X-Men #50 courtesy Marvel
Astonishing X-Men #50 courtesy Marvel

Marvel’s Hercules is 100% heterosexual.

In an earlier, alternate universe Herc he was in a relationship with James Howlett, aka Wolverine so fans were naturally curious about Herc when he returns.

Marvel’s Editor-In-Chief clarified when the Olympian God makes his comic book comeback this November he will be straight.

But it raises a question: where are the GLBT characters in a leading role in a Marvel book?

If not Herc, then who? Continue reading GAY HERO In A LEADING ROLE

HAWKMAN Cast for LEGENDS OF TOMORROW

Hawkman Special #1 courtesy DC Comics
Hawkman Special #1 courtesy DC Comics

DC Comics announced a major casting for DC’s Legends of Tomorrow on The CW. Falk Hentschel has been cast as Carter Hall aka Hawkman on the upcoming spinoff.

The actor will join Ciara Renee who is playing Kendra Saunders aka Hawkgirl. Carter and Kendra are the modern days version of an ancient Egyptian couple. The soulmates are reincarnated in the modern era and can access the power of the “Hawk God” turning them into winged warriors. Continue reading HAWKMAN Cast for LEGENDS OF TOMORROW

Top New Comics Picks for August 5, 2015

Age of Apocalypse by Gerardo Sandoval courtesy Marvel
Age of Apocalypse by Gerardo Sandoval courtesy Marvel

Age of Apocalypse #2 Magneto’s X-Men vs. Cyclops and Havok? Original event writer Fabian Nicieza and artist Gerardo Sandoval take you back to this bizarre counter world where Professor X never existed, Apocalypse rules and Jean Grey and Wolverine are renegade lovers. But in this Secret Wars tie-in, a fan-favorite New Mutant may be the key to bringing down Apocalypse. Continue reading Top New Comics Picks for August 5, 2015