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Screenshot: YouTube: Television Archives/KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza HutRemember fast-food kids meals with specially marketed pop culture toys? They just don’t make ‘em like they used to. In the 1990s, Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut, McDonald’s, and Burger King often chose chaos with their tie-ins, like the Batman Forever glass mugs or the Hercules plates. Heck, even when big event films like the Star Wars prequels came out, fast food mascots like the Taco Bell chihuahua and KFC’s Colonel would get their own in-universe sagas. io9…

Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania hit theaters this weekend, and you will know that’s the case even if your only connection to comic books is through Marvel Snap. Throughout February, Marvel Snap is in its “Into the Quantum Realm” season. It’s all centered around content themed on that microscopic world from the new Marvel movie. It introduces cards based on Ant-Man movie characters like M.O.D.O.K., Ghost, Stature, and Kang the Conqueror, as well as new locations based on places that have been in Marvel Cinematic…

With filming due to start in just a couple of months, the hype for Daredevil: Born Again is really starting to crank up, and even though we’re still yet to hear everything we want to about the incoming Disney Plus revival, there’s still plenty of reasons to look forward to what the House of Ideas is cooking up for the super-sized series. Elsewhere, James Gunn continues to feed Guardians groupies in crumbs as She-Hulk does what She-Hulk does best by inspiring spurious scorn. James Gunn promises we’ll revisit a key…

Image via Marvel Studios Anyone who grew up throughout the 2000s decade may remember the days when an exciting new movie was gearing up for a release, and you happened to spot the film’s video game adaptation at your local rental store. These were, of course, no more than marketing ploys for the real thing, but after playing the game, often a shoddily crafted platformer that could realistically be beaten in under an hour, it managed to make you less excited for the movie. Nevertheless, superheroes have always…

We’re less than a week away from Dark Crisis, DC’s latest multiverse-shattering event series, kicking off, and the publisher is ramping up for the occasion with a slew of new tie-in reveals. Yesterday DC announced two new one-shots tied to the events of the main Dark Crisis series, as well as that issues of The Flash and I Am Batman would cross over with the event. Here’s an updated checklist for the event for those keeping score at home: On the one-shot front, Dark Crisis: The Deadly Green #1 and Dark Crisis: The Dark…