Author: Neil Vagg

Following a very public shift behind-the-scenes, DC Comics use this year’s Batman Day to announce the new creative team taking over the flagship title. It has been confirmed that writer James Tynion IV (Detective Comics), penciller Tony S. Daniel (Deathstroke), inker Danny Miki (Superman: Year One), and colourist Tomeu Morey (Catwoman) will take over Batman starting with issue #86 in January 2020. Here is the full press release from DC: NEW CREATIVE TEAM COMING TO BATMAN IN 2020! James Tynion IV, Tony S. Daniel, Danny Miki, and Tomeu Morey Teaming Up for New Adventures of the Dark Knight Beginning in…

Ad Astra landed at the global box office this past weekend, but the the Brad Pitt film had to settle for second best behind a mammoth box office haul from Downton Abbey. Ad Astra grossed an estimated $19.2m at the North American box office. Just a shade ahead of the $19m estimated for Rambo: Last Blood but a fair distance behind the $31m taken by Downton Abbey. Whilst the reported production budget for Ad Astra sits at around $80-100+ million, this opening weekend performance is not the start the studio was hoping for. Opening weekend audiences were 54% male and 73%…

The legendary speedster is bolting back onto our screens with the launch of The Flash: The Complete Fifth Season on Blu-ray and DVD today! In order to prepare you for the inevitable binge watching before Season Six, we’ve created a lighting fast catchup of where Season Four left us in its finale ‘We Are The Flash’ . Team Flash battles the Thinker, a villain with a mighty intellect granted after surviving a traumatic particle accelerator explosion. The Thinker, originally, Clifford DeVoe, wants to fix the slow dumbing down of humanity due to our reliance on technology, and creates a team…

Insight Editions has announced that it will be bringing early copies of Batman: The Definitive History of The Dark Knight to New York Comic Con. Not only that but author Andrew Farago and cover illustrator John Guydo will be on hand on Saturday, October 5th to sign copies of the book! If you head down to the Inside Editions booth (#1946) between 1pm and 2pm you can grab your copy! We’ll be there! Will we see you in the queue? Check out the Insight Editions website for more information on Batman: The Definitive History of The Dark Knight. Follow us…

BOOM! Studios today unveiled a first look at FIREFLY #10 from New York Times best-selling writer Greg Pak (Star Wars, Ronin Island) and artist Dan McDaid (Judge Dredd), along with series creator & story consultant Joss Whedon (the visionary writer/director behind Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Marvel’s The Avengersand more) continue the iconic worldwide pop culture phenomenon’s sold-out return to comic books in partnership with 20th Century Fox. Available in stores October 2019. Zoë is back, with a Browncoat army, to save Mal and depose Boss Moon! But a lot has changed since she left—and she could never have guessed that Mal and Boss Moon…

BOOM! Studios fast-tracks second printing variant for first issue of historic Buffy & Angel event in October 2019 BOOM! Studios announced today that HELLMOUTH #1, the highly anticipated premiere issue kicking off an all-new Buffy and Angel event series from writers Jordie Bellaire (Buffy The Vampire Slayer) & Jeremy Lambert (Doom Patrol) and artist Eleonora Carlini (Saban’s Go Go Power Rangers), has sold out at the distributor level before its on-sale date of October 9, 2019. In order to meet the overwhelming demand from retailers and fans, BOOM! Studios is fast-tracking the release of HELLMOUTH #1 SECOND PRINTING VARIANT, so it can…

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has announced the UK home video release dates for all of its latest DCTV seasons on DVD and Blu-ray™. With Gotham season 5 and Arrow season 7 already available next up for release is Supergirl season 4 which arrives alongside season 5 of The Flash. Both arrive on September 23 whilst Legends of Tomorrow’s fourth season arrives on November 4. Here’s the full press release from WB on Legends of Tomorrow season 4! DC’s Legends of Tomorrow: The Complete Fourth Season  Time Jump to November 4, 2019 To Own the Blu-Ray™ and DVD Exhilarating Extras Including All-New Featurette,…

As with Supergirl and the other DCTV shows on the The CW network, we’ve seen plenty of photos from the season premiere of The Flash. But until now we’ve not had official synopses to help us prepare ourselves for what to expect when the shows return to our screens next month. Now we finally have a glimpse in to the episode “Into The Void” which looks like it will directly deal with the fallout of Flash’s huge season 5 finale. Here’s the full synopsis: “Into the Void”Team Flash spent the last year dealing with not one but two Cicadas, the…

We’ve previously seen not one, but two sets of photos from the upcoming season premiere of Supergirl. The episode, called “Event Horizon” has now received an official synopsis for The CW teases an “unexpected” visitor. Here’s the full blurb for the episode which airs on 6th October: “Event Horizon”SEASON PREMIERE – Kara (Melissa Benoist) is surprised to find that CatCo has a new owner who has brought in a star reporter. New couples emerge and explore their budding relationships while J’onn J’onzz (David Harewood) receives an unexpected visitor.Jesse Warn directed the episode written by Derek Simon & Nicki Holcomb. Original…

Warner Bros. has released a first-look image for DC’s Superman: Red Son, along with the full voice cast for the animated film. The cast of the latest direct-to-video film includes Jason Isaacs (Batman: Under the Red Hood) as Superman; Diedrich Bader (Batman: Brave and the Bold) as Lex Luthor; Amy Acker (Angel) as Lois Lane; Vanessa Marshall (Star Wars Rebels) as Wonder Woman; Phil Morris (Doom Patrol) as James Olsen; Paul Williams (Goliath) as Brainiac; Sash Roiz (Grimm) and Phil LaMarr (Supergirl) as Hal Jordan and Jon Stewart; and Roger Graig Smith (Arkham Origins) as Batman. Red Son’ will also introduce a number of…