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Illustration: GizmodoThe 2022 San Diego Comic-Con was held in person last week for the first time since 2019, and exhibitors made up for the long time away with a huge number of new movie and TV show trailers. The big comic book movie news came when Marvel returned to Hall H and debuted trailers for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and She Hulk: Attorney at Law; DC struck back with new trailers for Shazam! Fury of the Gods and Black Adam.But of course, Comic Con has gotten a lot bigger than just comic books: By our current…

Image: Warner Bros.This weekend’s San Diego Comic-Con has been nothing short of big, as it likely intended to be as we continue the pandemic age.There’s been some big news for just about everyone under the sun: Marvel fans got a mostly clear timeline on the next two Phases and three years of our lives, with some welcome (and somber) returns for fan favorites, along with interesting teases of newcomers who are surely expected to be a big deal for the next few years. DC fans, meanwhile, were given yet another look at the…

Screenshot: Warner Bros.Billy Batson is back and this time, he’s got his whole family with him. Shazam: Fury of the Gods is the sequel to 2019's Shazam and once again it’s directed by David F. Sandberg and starring Zachary Levi and Asher Angel. Angel is Billy, a young boy who gets the powers of a superhero (Levi) when he says the word “Shazam.” By the end of the film, that power extended to his family as well and now with a whole family of God-like heroes, well, the Gods are bound to take notice.SHAZAM! FURY OF THE GODS -…

Screenshot: HBO MaxIt feels like it’s been ages since the excellent Harley Quinn animated series graced our TV screens. In reality, it’s only been a bit over two years since the season two finale aired, but the fact that it ended with Harley and her BFF finally admitting their romantic feelings for each other and sharing a kiss has made it rather hard to wait for DC’s (super)power couple to return. So thank goodness Harley’s finally on her way back to TV, and there’s a new trailer promising romance, chaos, and Clayface…

Image: DC Comics (Artist: Jorge Jiminez)Tim Drake is getting new solo series, penned by Meghan Fitzmartin. Tim Drake: Robin, continues the story she began last year in Batman Urban Legends, where he begins questioning core aspects of his identity as ‘Robin’ and a sleuth-in-training. He also begins questioning his sexuality and eventually realizes he has feelings for one of his closest friends, Bernard. Rainn Wilson’s First Fandoms: Star Trek And D&DFan-favorite artist Riley Rossmo will be illustrating the series,…

Amber Heard will return as Mera in Aquaman 2, but it will be a smaller role.Image: Warner Bros.Despite what you may have heard or read, Amber Heard is still in Aquaman 2, aka Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. Tuesday, the site Just Jared published a post saying that the actress, who has been in the public eye of late due to her defamation case with ex-husband Johnny Depp, had been “cut” from the film and would be “recast.” Soon after publishing, though, an update was added that said “Sources close to the Aquaman production…

Image: J. Bone and Aditya Bidikar/DC ComicsDC Comics’ latest collection of queer stories from queer creatives all over the DC Universe for Pride—and Pride in general this year—comes at complicated time for queer communities. Trans people face daily, horrifying denials of their rights, and places around the world attempt to erode the small, vital steps towards LGBTQ+ progress made this century. But the ways the collectionaddresses that pain alongside its joys holds a particular resonance this Pride... with a little help…

Finally, the Rock has come back as Black Adam.Image: Warner Bros.By now, you’ve probably seen the first trailer for the long-awaited, highly anticipated DC movie Black Adam, starring Dwayne Johnson. Johnson has been dreaming of playing the character for years—but now that the first trailer is here, fans might be wondering where the movie and the character stand in the larger DC universe. io9 was among a group of journalists who spoke to Johnson and Black Adam director Jaume Collet-Serra, as well as producers Beau Flynn…

Image: Warner Bros.DC’s Black Adam movie has hypothetically existed for a good amount of time. If it weren’t for a sizzle reel of 2022 DC movies a few months ago, plus the Rock’s recurring promise that “the hierarchy of of power in the DC Universe is about to change,” you could reasonably think this and The Flash were Schrodinger’s superhero films. But wouldn’t you know it, we’re meant to finally get a trailer this week, and along with that trailer, we’ve got some splashy new posters to gawk at.Johnson tweeted a foursome…