The Mandalorian airs new episodes weekly via the Disney+ streaming service and comes to the UK in March 2020. Synopsis The Mandalorian helps a rookie bounty hunter who is in over his head. Review The Mandalorian is becoming an incredibly divisive show for me. This week I find myself continuing to struggle with the lack of a strong overarching plot and the series’ continual reliance on a story-of-the-week. Given that the series has struggled to settle on a run time, this being a particularly short episode by comparison, it’s a shame that it chose to go to familiar territory in…
Author: Neil Vagg
Neil Vagg
Neil is the Editor-in-Chief at GYCO. He has a BA in Film & TV and an MA in Scriptwriting; he currently works 9-5 in an office and 5-9 as a reviewer. He has been reading comics for as long as he can remember and is never far away from any book which has the word Bat in the title.
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2020 is already setting itself up to be one of the biggest years in comics. BOOM! Studios is no stranger to original, unique graphic novels and now the publisher has announced Origins. From an all star creative team including writer Clay McLeod Chapman and illustrator Jakub Rebelka, Origins looks set to take a look at life AFTER humans. Check out this full preview from the publisher below. All Star Creative Team Announces New Original Graphic Novel About Life After Humans in October 2020 BOOM! Studios announced today ORIGINS, a brand new original graphic novel by Arash Amel (A Private War), Joseph…
With only a week to go until the film hits cinemas, Disney has pulled one last surprise out of its hat for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Just as the polls were closing and the votes were being counted here in the UK, Disney was dropping this SPOILER FILLED final trailer for the upcoming film. Hit play if you dare because there is plenty of new footage and some fairly major reveals particularly revolving around Adam Driver’s Kylo Ren. https://youtu.be/BoOrt05GxuA The film will see the return of Daisy Ridley (Rey), Adam Driver (Kylo Ren), John Boyega (Finn), Oscar Isaac (Poe…
Warner Bros. has announced that Shazam 2 will be hitting cinemas a lot sooner than we had expected. So soon, in fact, that it will be in cinemas just four months after the release of Black Adam! Late last night the studio confirmed that Zachary Levi will be returning to our screens on April 1st, 2022. It is expected that the first film’s director, David F. Sanberg, will return for the sequel. For those keeping score that means the upcoming slate of DC Comics films now looks a little like this: February 7, 2020 – Birds of PreyJune 5, 2020 – Wonder…
Plenty of fans were expecting the announcement of a new Batman game during last nights The Game Awards. Whilst that didn’t come to pass we did get to see a version of the new, CCXP trailer for Birds of Prey. This latest preview is packed with new footage of the supporting cast and if there’s one takeaway from watching this, it’s that Huntress (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) has some anger issues! You can watch the preview in the tweet below. https://twitter.com/IGN/status/1205325305562501120 Birds of Prey (And The Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) stars Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, Mary Elizabeth Winstead…
2020 is going to see the dawn of a brand new superhero from the legendary cartoonist Mike Allred, X-Ray Robot looks set to the one of the must-have comics of 2020 and we’ve got a new preview courtesy of our friends at Dark Horse Comics! Mike Allred Creates a Brand New Superhero at Dark Horse Comics From visionary cartoonist, Michael Allred (Madman, iZombie), colorist Laura Allred (Madman, Catwoman), and letterer Nate Piekos (Stranger Things, The Mask) comes the out-of-this-world road trip X-Ray Robot! Max is a family man seeking a more interesting life. While conducting a new experiment at work the…
Overnight, actor Tom Hardy shared a couple of behind-the-scenes shots from the set of Venom 2. It seems the actor may have thought twice about giving fans a glimpse at the set as the images were quickly deleted. Thankfully for us our friends at CBM grabbed the snaps have shared them for all to see. There’s nothing too spoilers here, as long as you remember that Woody Harrelson is likely returning as Cletus Kasaday. The first image shows director Andy Serkis directing the action, whilst the second shows off what appears to be the front gates of St. Estes Home…
2020 will see two of DC Comics longest running titles, Wonder Woman and The Flash, both reach their landmark 750th issues. DC had previously announced plans for both series to use the 750 number on those special issues but now there’s been an update to the story. The publisher has now confirmed that following those 750th issues both series will return to legacy numbering for the foreseeable future. Check out full details below including some preview artwork for both series’ upcoming releases. WONDER WOMAN AND THE FLASH RETURN TO LEGACY NUMBERING IN 2020 WITH LANDMARK #750 ISSUES Following the blockbuster 750th issues of The Flash and Wonder Woman, new adventures…
BOOM! Studios has been doing some excellent work in the world of Joss Whedon’s Firefly of late. Since the publisher took on the license they’ve not only re-introduced the monthly comic series but have also introduced some great one-shots and expanded the universe with series such as The Outlaw Ma Reynolds. This latest series, from Greg Pak, Davide Gianfelice and George Kambadais hits comic stores in January and you can check out a full preview below! Your First Look at FIREFLY: THE OUTLAW MA REYNOLDS #1 From BOOM! Studios Discover the Most Fearsome Outlaw in the ‘Verse in a New…
It feels like The Flash movie has been in development for decades now. We’re not going to recap the various behind-the-scenes changes but suffice it to say the journey to the big screen has been long. The Flash, played by Ezra Miller (Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them), debuted in 2016’s Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice and was next glimpsed in Suicide Squad and most recently appeared in Justice League. Now we know that his solo debut will arrive in cinemas on July 1, 2022. IT director Andy Muschetti is still expected to be in-charge behind the camera…