- io9Comic Book Shows Black Lightning‘s Series Finale Had Absolutely Zero Chill and No Heat Despite the fact that Black Lightning never really got a chance to fully benefit from the kind of interconnected, multiversal-hopping madcaps that the CW’s other comic book shows enjoy, it spent four seasons carving out a distinct space on the network where Black superheroes could stand front and center as the focus of their own … Continued
By Charles Pulliam-Moore
- io9Comic Book Shows Titans Season 3 Premieres in August With New Villains and New Heroes HBO MAX confirms season three of Titanswill hit streaming in August 2021. One could say the show is somewhat connected to the CW/DC universe as Greg Berlanti helped develop the show as Berlanti is responsible for the expansive DC universe at the CW network. Greg Walker and Sarah Schechter act as executive producers on Titans. … Continued
By Valerie Complex
- io9Comic Book Shows The Flash Reveals Impulse’s DC TV Outfit in the Most Disturbing Way Imaginable We’ve already seena few unofficial peeks of Flash actor Jordan Fisher as Barry and Iris’ speedy son from the future, Bart Allen, in his superhero costume. It doesn’t look bad—although you wouldn’t know this from the CW show’s official reveal of Impulse, which is absolutely horrifying. Before you check out the full image, as reported … Continued
By Rob Bricken
- io9Comic Book Shows Loki Will Show the Marvel Mischief Maker Apart From Thor When Loki premieres on Disney+ June 9, the main character will not be the Loki you know and love. Yes he’s played by Tom Hiddleston, and yes the series takes place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But when the story starts, this Loki hasn’t been redeemed yet. He hasn’t lived through Thor: The Dark World … Continued
By Germain Lussier
- io9Comic Book Shows Loki’s New Trailer Pits Marvel’s God of Mischief Against Smarmy Cartoons, Crashing Planets, and Nudity In a world where a raccoon and a tree are two of the most powerful characters, why not an animated clock? Her name is Miss Minutes and after sneaking a peek on a new poster, she makes her debut in the latest footage from Marvel’s Loki. Loki debuts on Disney+ June 9, which is only … Continued
By Germain Lussier
- io9Comic Book Shows The Arrowverse Brings Back Diggle, But Not in the Way You’d Think When we last saw John Diggle (David Ramsey), he had regained his family, and come across a mighty mysterious but also mighty familiar box with some sort of glowing green object inside (cough, Green Lantern ring, cough). We’ve known Diggle would be returning to take a tour of the CW’s other DC shows—except now there … Continued
By Rob Bricken
- io9Comic Book Shows Loki Scoffs at the Idea of Space Lizards in a New Clip From His Marvel Series In Marvel’s upcoming Loki series, the Asgardian god of mischief who appeared to peace right on out of the timestream in Avengers: Endgame somehow ends up being apprehended by the Time Variance Authority, an extradimensional organization in charge of maintaining the ordered flow of time. In a new clip from his very own Disney+ show, … Continued
By Charles Pulliam-Moore
- io9Comic Book Shows Anthony Mackie Talks Black Panther’s Legacy and Traveling to Wakanda When the new title of Black Panther dropped (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever), everyone was lit. Since then, actors in the MCU have discussed the Black Panther experience. First actress Lupita Nyong’o spokeabout returning to the Black Panther set without Chadwick Boseman. Then Michael B. Jordan expressed his excitement on the new title and whether Killmonger … Continued
By Valerie Complex
- io9Comic Book Shows Marvel’s Secret Invasion Series Taps Thomas Bezucha and Ali Selim to Direct Marvel’s Secret Invasion series is crazy stacked with A-Listers like Oscar winner Olivia Coleman (The Favorite), Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones), Kingsley Ben-Adir (Bridgerton), with Samuel L. Jackson reprising his role as Nick Fury, and Ben Mendelsohn coming back as Skrull shapeshifter Talos. And now the show has its directors Thomas Bezucha (Let Him Go) … Continued
By Valerie Complex
- io9Comic Book Shows Monica Rambeau Scenes Were Cut From WandaVision and Here’s Why! WandaVision writer Jac Schaeffer has been holding OUT! On Entertainment Weekly’s The Awardist podcast with Schaeffer discusses why a specific scene from Monica Rambeau’s (Teyonah Parris) story had to be cut. “My pitch was mapped to the stages of grief, it ended up being kind of a reductive thing,” said Schaeffer. “I don’t know if … Continued
By Valerie Complex
- io9Comic Book Shows What the Hell Is Batwoman Doing to Kate Kane? When Ruby Rose announced she was leaving Batwoman last May, the show had a problem—several problems, in fact. Rose was of course the star and lead of the series, but every single part of the series was built solely around Kate Kane, so the CW’s writers needed to figure out what to do with the … Continued
By Rob Bricken
- io9Comic Book Shows The CW’s Black Lightning: What We Learned About the Final Episode The CW has scattered information across the internet about the last episode of the electric DC comics hero television show Black Lightning. Cress Williams (Jefferson Pierce/Black Lightning), Nafessa Williams (Anissa Pierce/Thunder), Christine Adams (Dr. Lynee Stewart), China Anne McClain (Jennifer Pierce/Lightning), James Remar (James Gambi), Marvin Jones III (Tobias Whale), Jordan Calloway (Khalil Payne/ Painkiller) … Continued
By Valerie Complex
- io9Comic Book Shows Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Foretold WandaVision‘s Plot in Song Before the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) moved to Westview, New Jersey in hopes of starting a new life with the person she loved, there was Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s Rebecca Bunch (Rachel Bloom). She’s an over-stressed lawyer who, like Wanda, confidently believed that she could will a new life for herself into existence simply … Continued
By Charles Pulliam-Moore
- io9Comic Book Shows Marvel’s Loki Will Mischievously Show Up on Disney+ a Few Days Early Leave it to Loki to screw everything up. The next Disney+ series from Marvel Studios was set to debut onFriday, June 11, following the scheduling pattern set by WandaVision and The Falcon and The Winter Soldier. But it seems that’s not how Loki does things: the show will now debut June 9, which is a … Continued
By Germain Lussier
- io9Comic Book Shows Legends of Tomorrow Had a Huge Reveal No One Cares About, Not Even the Legends When Legends of Tomorrow made its incredibly welcome return for season six this Sunday, it revealed a major secret about one of the show’s main characters that somehow fans haven’t bothered to be bothered by. Hell, even the Legends don’t care, and here’s why that’s awesome. There’s so much that’s great about DC’s Legends of … Continued
By Rob Bricken
- io9Comic Book Shows Doctor Strange 2 Had to Be Rewritten When Marvel Cut Strange From WandaVision Benedict Cumberbatch was signed to appear as Doctor Strange on the finale of WandaVision. Then Marvel decided against it and had to change everything. Rolling Stone spoke to Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige and he explained how this surprising news all went down. Basically, because Marvel had announced Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) would be appearing in … Continued
By Germain Lussier
- io9Comic Book Shows Invincible‘s Season 1 Finale Was About the Fight Everyone Should Be Ready For Amazon’s adaptation of Invincible—the Image comic from writer Robert Kirkman and artists Cory Walker and Ryan Ottley—did a surprisingly solid job of weaving plots from the original series into a new and distinct animated story. The show’s season one finale centered on a pivotal moment from the comic but left it generally untouched in a … Continued
By Charles Pulliam-Moore
- io9Comic Book Shows CW’s Naomi Wows Fans With Kaci Walfall in Show’s First Official Image The DC Comics character is coming to the CW, and a new official image has been released.
By Valerie Complex
- io9Comic Book Shows Legends of Tomorrow’s Jes Macallan Talks Ava Sharpe Stepping Up and Missing Sara Lance It’s Jes Macallan’s time in the spotlight! As Legends of Tomorrowenters its sixth season, Sara Lance is on a spaceship far, far away as an alien captive. With the team without a leader, Ava Sharpe is stepping up. Much like her character, Macallan, is taking charge behind the camera with her first directorial experience on … Continued
By Valerie Complex
- io9Comic Book Shows Marvel’s Secret Invasion Continues to Build Its Cast Marvel’s upcoming Disney+ show Secret Invasion is quickly turning into an Avengers-level collection of talent. Of course we already knew Samuel L. Jackson and Ben Mendelsohn would reprise their MCU roles. Then Kingsley Ben-Adir joined the mix. Then Olivia Colman. Then Emilia Clarke. And now a new cast member is joining the already stacked ensemble. … Continued
By Germain Lussier
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