Chicago’s answer to San Diego’s Comic-Con and New York’s NYCC gets bigger each year. Chicago’s C2E2 (Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo), held over three days at McCormick Place, drew droves of fans eager to attend the star-studded panels and participate in cosplay showcasing. Guests arrived donning their best costumes, many of them homemade, embodying their favorite […]
Ben Affleck Directing and Starring in Solo Batman Film Written by Geoff Johns
Following this week’s release of new photos of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice comes news that Ben Affleck will not only don the cape and cowl following 2016’s Dawn of Justice and 2017’s Justice League, but he’ll also direct a solo Batman film co-written by legendary DC Comics writer and Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns. Johns has had his hand in shaping […]
Damsel in Distress: The Lack of Female Superheroes in Hollywood
In the ’90s, my parents encouraged my tomboy ways and let me play with the boys toys, as if back then letting girls play with boys toys was taboo. They’re just toys, right? Almost 20 years later, I went to Target to grab some superhero merchandise for the opening night of The Avengers: Age of Ultron. […]
10 Badass Superheroines and Supervillains in Comics
Recently, there has been tension in the superhero world over the lack of strong women in comics. While there is a huge gap between the number of men versus women in the comic book world, there are powerhouse superheroines fans seem to phase over. Don’t be fooled, some of the names that you might recognize […]
Small Sample of Mondo Gallery’s Batman 75 Posters
2014 marks Batman‘s 75th anniversary. Over its near century-long existence, Batman has experienced so many stylistic changes, tonal shifts, friends, enemies, allies, villains, costumes, and more from its roots as a detective book to the campiness of the ’60s show to the dark film revival over the past decade. Through it all, there are many Batboys and Batgirls […]
Ryan Gosling, Josh Brolin on rumored shortlist to play Batman in Batman vs. Superman
Pre-production on the unofficially titled Batman vs. Superman film hasn’t even begun yet (pre-pre-production?), yet rumors are flying out over which actors Warner Bros. want to portray Batman in the upcoming film. Earlier in the weekend, a report came out that WB was looking for an older actor to portray the Dark Knight, preferably somebody in their […]
The Dark Knight Trilogy: Ultimate Collector’s Edition revealed
While Christian Bale won’t be coming back as Batman anytime soon (if at all), DC and Warner Bros. have a special little sump’m sump’m to make sure his legacy as The Dark Knight won’t be forgotten any time soon (as if that would happen in the first place). This fall, the “The Dark Knight Trilogy: […]
Christian Bale is done with Batman
While Christian Bale (The Dark Knight Rises) and Christopher Nolan (Inception) have previously said they wouldn’t return to the Batman universe, many people still held out hope that Bale would take up the cowl in the proposed Justice League film DC and Warner Bros. have tried to get off the ground for awhile now. However, Bale […]