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Before The Sandman ever premiered on Netflix, the choice of professional Handsome Menace Boyd Holbrook for the role of the Corinthian — the teeth-for-eyes nightmare who invented serial killers — all but guaranteed a fandom attachment to him. And just in time, there’s a book precisely for the beautiful, precious people making gifsets and writing Corinthian/Reader fic in second-person perspective: Nightmare Country by James Tynion IV and Lisandro Estherren. Actually, it’s more than just in time. The book is five issues…

In my experience as a writer and as a History teacher, I’ve found that people as a whole seek comfort in tightly-packaged identities. We tend to prefer handy snippets of generalized information that helps us identify or understand something or someone. It’s kind of like coming up with a simple mathematical formula. Apple pie plus Fourth of July fireworks equals American. Baguettes plus the Eiffel Tower equals French. Tamales and flan plus family gatherings equals Hispanic. And thus, stereotypes are born. The recent…

via Warner Bros. It’s been yet another fun day at the office for Warner Bros. and DC Films, with another set of unfortunate news stories pissing off the fandom all over again, in what’s admittedly become something they’ve gotten used to. Batgirl may be dead, but the studio is holding “funeral screenings” for the abandoned blockbuster so that the cast and crew can say goodbye before it becomes a tax write-off, while sequels Shazam! Fury of the Gods and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom have been delayed yet again,…

via DC Films Warner Bros. Discovery has decided to delay two major DC movie sequels until next year, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom and Shazam! Fury of the Gods. Though the Aquaman sequel was already slated for a release next year, it has now been delayed from March 17, 2023 to December 25, 2023. Shazam! 2 had been slated for a release later this year, going from a December 21, 2022 date to March 17, 2023, according to Variety. These delays are not the first time these specific films have seen a shuffled release…

Hollywood star Dwayne Johnson has revealed that if it wasn`t for him the titular character that he`ll play in `Black Adam` could`ve debuted in 2019`s `Shazam!`, had Warner Bros. went ahead with its original plan. According to Variety, the `Shazam!` movie went into development in 2014 and its script originally included origin stories for both the title character and Black Adam. Both the super-powered fictional individuals have a shared history in the DC comics, so it seemed fitting to launch their big screen iterations…

Screenshot: HBO MaxThere’s more disheartening news out of the Discovery and Warner Bros. merger as the latest casualty of cuts have fallen on DC’s animated series Young Justice. According to TV Line, season five will not be moving forward. “HBO Max from go had only ordered a single season of the onetime Cartoon Network and DC Universe series, and that plan has not changed. There are currently no plans for a season five,” the report reads. The series has already had a history of cancellations going back to its Cartoon…

So, Warner Bros wants to “reset” the DC superhero universe … again. According to the Hollywood Reporter, chief executive David Zaslav recently told investors that the studio (now Warner Bros Discovery after mergers) has a new 10-year plan for the comic book mega-saga that it hoped would ape the success of Marvel. All of which, the recent cancellation of Batgirl aside, sounds more fantabulous than Harley Quinn executing a backflip – until we recall how many times we’ve been here before.The original plan for DC was to build…

Photo via Warner Bros. The list of DC properties getting the axe over at HBO Max continues to grow, with Strange Adventures being the latest casualty. The show was supposed to be an anthology series that featured some of DC’s lesser known characters. Clerks filmmaker Kevin Smith, who was supposed to direct and co-write an episode, confirmed the decision on his podcast Hollywood Babble-On. Smith put the show’s axing in the same vein as Warner Bros. Discovery’s cancelling of the Batgirl movie, which already cost…

'DC League of Super-Pets' has Johnson voicing Krypto, Superman's dog, and features other pets of DC superheroes, who are in need of help from their four-legged friends Dwayne Johnson. Pic/AFP Hollywood star Dwayne Johnson, on Saturday, took to social media and posted a full post-credit scene from the animated 'DC's League of Super-Pets' movie. According to Deadline, the post shared on Instagram shows Johnson as multiple…

What the hell is currently happening at DC Films? News out of the subdivision of Warner Bros. has been nothing short of bombastic this week, with the studio pulling the plug on a planned Batgirl feature to a hint towards a 10-year plan for the DC universe that may or may not mirror what Kevin Feiuge helped to build at Marvel Studios. Because yeah, every studio wants that. Delivering it is a whole ‘nother matter. As questions surround the state of leadership at WB in the wake of the arrival of new company CEO David…