Static, Hardware, Icon and Rocket Get New Creative Teams for Milestone Returns Series

As promised, DC Comics revealed today Milestone Returns: Infinite Edition’s writers, artists, and covers of the upcoming Static, Hardware, and Icon and Rocket series, as well as a couple of interior pages for each. To put it bluntly, the Dakotaverse is looking completely awesome.

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Source: io9 – Static, Hardware, Icon and Rocket Get New Creative Teams for Milestone Returns Series

Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away Is Heading to the Other Kind of Theaters

The Academy Award-winning movie Spirited Away is being spirited to the stage. A theatrical production of the film is coming next year, written and directed by John Caird, the Honorary Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

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Source: io9 – Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away Is Heading to the Other Kind of Theaters

Comic Creators Denys Cowan, L.L. McKinney, and Kwanza Osajyefo on What the Future Holds for the Rise of the Black Superhero

Editor’s Note: The Rise of the Black Superhero is a three-part series breaking down the past, present and future of Black superheroes across comics, film, and tv. This is part 3. Read part 1 and part 2.

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Source: io9 – Comic Creators Denys Cowan, L.L. McKinney, and Kwanza Osajyefo on What the Future Holds for the Rise of the Black Superhero

Pacific Rim: The Black Reveals Its Villain, and It's Not a Kaiju

Man, the young stars of Netflix’s upcoming Pacific Rim anime spin-off The Black just can’t catch a break. They get abandoned by their parents for years in an extremely post-apocalyptic Australia filled with giant, human-hating monsters, and now they have to deal with this jerk?

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Source: io9 – Pacific Rim: The Black Reveals Its Villain, and It’s Not a Kaiju

Netflix's Shadow and Bone Trailer Is the Miracle We Need

The Grishaverse is alive and alight in the new trailer for Shadow and Bone. Based on Leigh Bardugo’s bestselling Grisha trilogy and Six of Crows books, Shadow and Bone follows orphan and mapmaker Alina Starkov (Jessie Mei Li, who will also appear in Edgar Wright’s upcoming Last Night in Soho) as she discovers the…

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Source: io9 – Netflix’s Shadow and Bone Trailer Is the Miracle We Need

We Should All Be More Like Los Espookys' Inner Demon

In Los Espookys—an HBO comedy from Fred Armisen, Julio Torres, and Ana Fabrega—a group of horror movie-obsessed friends come to the realization that all the time they spend waiting around for life to happen could be better used turning their passion for jump scares into money-making opportunities.

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Source: io9 – We Should All Be More Like Los Espookys’ Inner Demon

George R.R. Martin's 'In the Lost Lands' Movie Finds Milla Jovovich and Dave Bautista

Don’t panic if you haven’t heard of it before. “In the Lost Lands” is only a short story George R.R. Martin published in Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine back in 1985, but that isn’t stopping Hollywood from turning it into a new fantasy movie, courtesy of Guardians of the Galaxy’s Dave Bautista and longtime cinema…

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Source: io9 – George R.R. Martin’s ‘In the Lost Lands’ Movie Finds Milla Jovovich and Dave Bautista

A New Handmaid's Tale Season 4 Teaser Brings Us Rebellion and a Release Date

In this latest peek at the upcoming fourth season of The Handmaid’s Tale, we see that Gilead is teetering on the brink of civil war at last—and June (Elisabeth Moss) is leading the charge. She’s got the support of a growing rebel army and, from the sounds of it, the rest of the world is finally rallying to her cause.

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Source: io9 – A New Handmaid’s Tale Season 4 Teaser Brings Us Rebellion and a Release Date