Star Wars fans will never forget the first time they watched chapter 13 of
The Mandalorian, “The Jedi.” In that episode, one of the greatest character in franchise history, Ahsoka Tano, finally made the jump from animation to live-action, a space she’s sure to grow in even more with a new show on the horizon.
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In the episode Ahsoka met the Mandalorian bounty hunter Din Djarin, the young Jedi Grogu, and inquired about the villainous Grand Admiral Thrawn. It was a momentous occasion for the former apprentice of Anakin Skywalker, and now artist Mark Englert has put all of that together into one beautiful image.
From the beginning of the modern era of cinematic superheroes the launch of the
X-Men film franchise the struggle for viable live-action TV incarnations of these same heroes was an uphill battle. Following the blockbuster success of
Iron Man and the subsequent development of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there was a natural expectation that audiences’ appetite for larger-than-life stories of mutant powers and struggles between good and evil would translate smoothly to the small screen. Instead both network and cable television struggled for years with how to integrate superhero storytelling into the medium. With
Heroes’ creative collapse after a single season, TV continually tried and failed to replicate the model of cinematic superhero narratives.
Birds Of Prey’s costumes changed the game for female superheroes
Graphic: Natalie Peeples, Screenshot: Birds Of Prey
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Oscar ThisThe nominations for this year’s pushed-back Academy Awards will be announced on March 15, but voting officially begins next week. With Oscar This, The A.V. Club stumps for unlikely candidates the long shots and dark horses we’d love to see compete on Oscar night.
broke through to broader awards-season glory, the superhero genre enjoyed some recognition at the Oscars. Various Batmen, Hellboys, Spider-Men, Guardians Of The Galaxy, and Suicide Squads have all been honored for their visual effects and/or makeup designs over the years a tradition that dates back to 1979, when Richard Donner’s
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Morbius is a troubled vampire if we’ve ever seen one. Not only does he not want to be a vampire, he also feels responsible both for becoming a vampire (the unintended consequence of an attempt to cure his rare blood disease) and for the death of his assistant and friend Emil Nikos (who was unfortunately present at the time). Because of the circumstances around Emil’s death, Morbius feels responsible for watching over Emil’s teenage son, Christos, who is also suffering from you guessed it a rare blood disease. The Marvel One Shot issue
Morbius: Bond Of Blood follows Morbius as he tries to track down a cure for Christos and deal with his own guilt about the nature of Emil’s death.
The debut pilot for the CW's latest DC Comics show feels like unlike anything we've seen in the Arrowverse so far, taking Supergirl's Tyler Hoechlin and Elizabeth Tulloch as Superman and Lois Lane and giving them a heaping dose of complex family drama.