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Collecting insects is an optional component to The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD, but it adds depth to the customization of your inventory. The ability to brew high-grade potions is a luxury in the standard game, and a necessity if you dare to challenge hero mode.

You will come across many insects on the beaten path during your adventure, and you can catch them with the Bug Net item that you can purchase from Beedle’s shop. While most bugs pop up at random throughout the world, some rarer types will require you to look a little harder. Later in the game, you can play a bug-catching mini-game, where you will be rewarded with five bugs of a specific type, depending on your performance.

Once you have some bugs, take them to the Potion Shop inside the Skyloft Bazaar. There, bugs can be used to power up standard potions and greatly increase their effectiveness. Insects can also be a great source for acquiring Rupees. If you approach Strich at night in his room in the Knight Academy, he will buy three random insect types, at values ranging from 1 to 50 rupees.

We’ve got everything you need to know about Skyward Sword’s bug population on the table below, from where you can find each type, to what it’s used for, and what it’ll fetch you in a sale.

Check out the rest of our Skyward Sword HD guides, including our beginner’s tips, a rundown of how to complete all side quests and find all 80 Gratitude Crystals, and for the locations of all Pieces of Heart and Goddess Cubes. You should also read our Skyward Sword HD review.

Insect	Description	Infusion Uses (And Insects Required)	Sale Value (Each)
Blessed Butterfly	Blue butterflies found throughout Skyloft and the surface. These often mark the locations of Gossip Stones and Goddess Walls.	Stamina Potion + (2), Air Potion + (2)	5 Rupees
Gerudo Dragonfly	Dragonflies that spawn throughout the desert, and are usually found in pairs. Mildly difficult to catch.	Revitalizing Potion++ (1), Stamina Potion + (2)	30 Rupees
Sky Stag Beetle	They tend to lazily hang on tree trunks in Skyloft. They’re easily caught by rolling into trees, no net required!	Stamina Potion+ (2), Air Potion+ (2)	20 Rupees
Eldin Roller	These quick beetles are tricky to catch, but you’ll find them all over the Eldin Volcano region. Easily dug up near the entrance of the Fire Sanctuary.	Heart Potion++ (1), Guardian Potion+ (2)	40 Rupees
Faron Grasshopper	Grasshoppers appear all over Faron Woods, most conveniently, near the sealed grounds.	Guardian Potion+ (1), Stamina Potion+ (1)	40 Rupees
Deku Hornet	These irksome bugs are all over Faron Woods. You can easily capture swarms by dislodging their hive and netting the enraged hornets as they seek revenge on you.	Heart Potion++ (3), Revitalizing Potion+ (3)	1 Rupee
Skyloft Mantis	These are some of the rarest and most difficult insects to catch. Easiest to locate at the pumpkin patch in Skyloft.	Air Potion+ (2), Revitalizing Potion+ (2)	20 Rupees
Lanayru Ant	These ants are quite common in the desert, and can be found in bulk near the Lanayru Sea. Look for them under piles of sand you’ll need to clear with your Bellows.	Revitilazing Potion++ (3), Air Potion+ (2)	20 Rupees
Sand Cicada	The Lanayru cicadas are hard to find, but easy to catch. Check around the desert entrance.	Heart Potion++ (1), Revitalizing Potion++ (1)	50 Rupees
Volcanic Ladybug	You’ll find ladybugs all over the cave walls of the Eldin Volcano region. They’re slow-moving and easy to catch.	Heart Potion+ (1), Stamina Potion+ (3)	30 Rupees
Starry Firefly	Only found at night in Skyloft. You can easily collect them by sleeping at Beedle’s Airshop. They also like to hang around by the water’s edge.	Guardian Potion + (3)	30 Rupees
Woodland Rhino Beetle	These forest beetles are pretty plentiful in Faron Woods. The easiest place to find them is on vines near the Sealed Grounds.	Heart Potion+ (1), Revitalizing Potion+ (2), Revitalizing Potion++ (2)	20 Rupees

Warning: Full spoilers follow for Black Widow.

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Screenwriter Eric Pearson would seem to have the Marvel Cinematic Universe running through his bloodstream at this point. After enrolling in the Marvel screenwriting program in 2010, he wrote the four Marvel One-Shot short films that were released from 2011-2013. That led to his working on the Agent Carter TV show before he co-wrote the screenplay for Thor: Ragnarok while also handling various uncredited script doctoring assignments for the studio. And his latest MCU project, Black Widow, just hit theaters and Disney+ Premier Access.

Pearson chatted with IGN to fill us in on the process behind penning the return of Scarlett Johansson’s Natasha Romanoff, which just broke pandemic box office records. We discussed the changes made to the Taskmaster character, what’s really up with Red Guardian and Captain America, the big Easter egg he really wants to drop in the MCU, and more.

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Red Guardian’s Captain America Stories

David Harbour’s Red Guardian/Alexei Shostakov is one of the highlights of Black Widow, a blowhard Russian version of Captain America who tells seemingly tall tales about fighting Cap back in his glory days. The movie has some fans debating the question of whether or not Red Guardian and Captain America ever really battled it out, because while it’s true Cap was on ice in 1984 when Alexei says they fought, we also know Steve Rogers has travelled through time (and therefore could’ve shown up in 1984). For his part, Pearson doesn’t think Alexei is lying. Which doesn’t necessarily make his stories true…

“I think that Alexei Shostakov believes every word he says,” says Pearson. “Whether or not it’s true, time will tell probably. I love him as a dopey adversary. Steve Rogers is great because he’s a scrawny guy who only wishes he were bigger so he would have a chance to fight the bad guys. And in the arms race of the Super Soldier serum, the Soviet Union — I just like to find the comedy in it — and they gave it to a guy who’s narcissistic and already big and strong. And all he wants to do is be Steve Rogers on the front lines with his shield. But instead, in kind of being ahead of the game of the Cold War, they make him go undercover. So he literally has to pretend he’s not strong. That is really fun for me. And that makes it fun for Alexei as a character who constantly feels the need to remind people that he’s great. And especially when you’re thinking of an embarrassing dad, what could be worse? Someone who’s talking about how great they are.”

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Of Crimson Dynamos and Dreams of Latveria

At one point in Black Widow, Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova refers to Red Guardian as “Crimson Dynamo” — either by mistake, or purposely to bruise his ego. But Crimson Dynamo is actually another Russian hero from the Marvel comics; he’s sort of an Iron Man from behind the Iron Curtain. And indeed, Red Guardian and Crimson Dynamo have both served on the Russian superhero team the Winter Guard. (The original Crimson Dynamo in the comics also shared a name with Mickey Rourke’s character’s father in Iron Man 2.) Pearson says the reference is more for fun than any concrete evidence that the other Winter Guard characters exist in the MCU, however.

“I’m not sure if they do or do not exist,” he says. “Weirdly, I remembered the Crimson Dynamo [while writing]. That was a pure callback back from having read comics as a kid. And the idea of just someone calling him the wrong superhero name, I just put that in there. Whenever I’m writing for one of these, I always try and add in extra references, just in case an Easter egg works. For Thor: Ragnarok, there were a couple of different times [we did that]. There was Beta Ray Bill showing up here, or he’s over here, just little passing by things. And ultimately we decided it was too distracting and didn’t work. [Though Bill did still get a different shout-out in the film.] But in this one, I remember just writing the dialogue, knowing [the character]. I did a quick check to be like, ‘I am thinking of a Marvel character, not a DC character?’ I was like, ‘Yep. It was Marvel. I’m just putting it in.’ And then it never got flagged. And I think it gets a pretty good laugh too.”

That said, even for someone who has worked so extensively with Marvel, Pearson is still not sure what goes on behind closed doors that determines which Easter eggs make it through and which don’t. He does have a particularly notable Marvel reference that he’s been trying to push through, though.

“I might’ve had a reference to [Doctor Doom’s home country] Latveria in there — I might have, but I don’t think so. I don’t think that lasted very long,” he laughs. “I’m always trying to throw Latveria into stuff. … It’s like one of those things where you want to be the first one to say it on an Instagram post or something!”

The Transformation of the Taskmaster

One of the biggest ways the Black Widow movie differs from the Marvel comics is in its depiction of the secondary villain the Taskmaster. In earlier versions of the story, the character was a guy named Tony Masters (like in the comics) who Nat had a run-in with in Captain America: Civil War or Captain America: The Winter Soldier and they had “some sort of past,” says Pearson. “But it felt less than [satisfactory] to just be like, ‘Hey, I’m this guy with this power for some reason. And I hate you.’ I wanted to make it resonate more for who she is and her journey.”

In the film we eventually learn that she’s Antonia Dreykov, the daughter of primary villain General Dreykov (Ray Winstone), who was badly injured in an attack by Natasha years earlier. Essentially mindless now — or trapped in her own mind — she is like a walking, not-talking killing machine who her father utilizes for high-stakes missions.

“We knew that Taskmaster would be there as this kind of Terminator-like villain, a physical villain,” says Pearson. “I was focusing on the bigger picture of the Red Room and Dreykov and what’s the appropriate adversary, big picture-wise, for Natasha. And it really just fell into place. … Okay. They stole the key to freewill and the ability to deconstruct the brain from Ohio [during the undercover assignment in the film’s opening flashback scene]. Okay. Dreykov is running this, and [Nat] tried to kill him, and it didn’t work. Okay. She’s got a dark secret from her past that she’s really ashamed of. And in the opening, we see her as a child, most passionate about trying to protect Yelena. So protecting little girls, girls that are younger than her, that’s very important.”

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So from there, it became a question of what would be the darkest thing that Nat could have done? The thing that she’d be the most ashamed of?

“Oh, she intentionally put a young girl [in danger],” continues Pearson. “That felt like something that was a good emotional wound for Natasha to have to overcome. And then also for Natasha, as someone who likes to be in control of their life and information, the idea of a secret from the past, or a loose end, is something that she would hate. So this thing that you thought you did, it actually wasn’t that way. Plus, we’ve got this mystery of Dreykov’s daughter. … I was like, well, this seems to make sense a lot, and it gives her something to not expect in the final confrontation of like, ‘Oh wait, no, there’s a face to my haunted past that’s really traumatizing.’”

Yelena Belova and Not Passing the Black Widow Torch (Yet)

Marvel certainly seems to be positioning Pugh’s character Yelena to replace Natasha as the MCU’s new Black Widow, even if the Black Widow movie’s post credits scene sets her up as an adversary for Clint Barton in the upcoming Hawkeye Disney+ series. Either way, Pearson says that he never saw Yelena in a “passing the torch” sort of way.

“I didn’t see it that way, just because every time you try and look forward too much in writing a Marvel movie, they remind you of how much work you still have to do on this movie,” he laughs. “It also feels kind of arrogant and obnoxious to be like, ‘Oh, yeah, this character is going to just go on to run millions of franchise.’ Well, you haven’t done one yet. You have not completed one movie with this person yet. So why don’t you stop patting yourself on the back and do some work? That’s the attitude that I’ve found there. And also, as far as me as a fan though, I would love to see more stories of all of these people.”

From Pearson’s first talks with Marvel about Black Widow, there was already in place the film’s basic idea around Nat’s secret family — their past together, then the years spent apart, and then “getting the band back together,” as he puts it. When it came to Yelena, the writer felt Natasha needed “a good foil” — not an adversary, but someone who could take on Natasha where her defenses are greatest, namely her emotional dimensions.

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“There’s a clear delineation in Natasha Romanoff’s life,” says Pearson. “She had a traumatic upbringing in the Red Room, and then she defected and went to S.H.I.E.L.D., where she got to reinvent herself exactly how she wanted to be. And you see that in Winter Soldier and these other movies, where you never really know what you’re getting from her. She’s only speaking when she wants to. She’s controlling how much you know her, how much she knows you. This movie, we had to knock all that down. So the best way to do it was with these people who know her in a way that she can’t control. And for Yelena to come in… contrary to Nat, she’s like an emotional volcano. She’s just so willing to state her opinion, say what she thinks, talk about how her feelings were hurt. She’ll just say it all. What could make Natasha Romanoff more uncomfortable? It was great to come at it from, ‘Okay, I’ve got to dig into Natasha. It’s Natasha’s movie. And now we’ve got this powerhouse in Florence, but how are we going to get the best out of Natasha? It’s by having the appropriate Yelena to screw with her.’”

What did you think of Black Widow? Let’s discuss in the comments!

Insomniac Games shed the “conventional wisdom” that games need to be difficult in designing Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart.

In an interview with Axios, Rift Apart game director Mike Daly explained that the team’s thinking on difficulty had changed and that the studio no longer felt the need to design games that were satisfying as a result of difficulty.

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“We have to sort of shed this conventional wisdom that games kind of need to be a hardass for you to get satisfaction out of it,” Daly said. “We no longer think about, like, ‘What will make the most elite players feel good about themselves?’ And more like, ‘What will enable everybody to have the experience they want to have?’ Because that’s sort of the most important thing to us.”

Axios pointed out many of the ways Ratchet & Clank has grown more accessible to players, citing things like the game’s “ping” and hint system, its Activity Cards, and skippable puzzles.

Insomniac Games’ director of core technology, Mike Fitzgerald, said making puzzle levels in a Ratchet & Clank game completely skippable like they are in Rift Apart “would have been unthinkable three to five years ago.”

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The PlayStation Plus-exclusive Activity Cards go a long way in making the Rift Apart experience easier for players, too, be it a player finds themselves stuck on where to go next or looking for something quick to do in the game. As Axios pointed out, the Rift Apart cards are used to signpost in-game tasks as well as hidden items or trophy-related quests.

They also reveal how long certain tasks will take to complete so a player with just 20 minutes to play can easily jump into something in Rift Apart that shouldn’t take more than 20 minutes. Axios says these times are estimates on the developer’s behalf that are then compared to other players’ average times using Sony’s online PlayStation Network.

For more about Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, check out our thoughts on the game in IGN’s Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart review and then watch this video to see IGN’s Top 5 weapons in the game. Read this story about how Insomniac Games is working on a multiplayer project after that.

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Wesley LeBlanc is a freelance news writer and guide maker for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @LeBlancWes.

July has finally arrived, and with it comes some incredible events like EA Play Live and its Spotlight Series, San Diego Comic-Con (which is taking the form of the all-digital event known as Comic-Con at Home), TennoCon, and much more.

IGN is carrying the streams for many of these events and, as usual, this July 2021 event hub and watch guide will provide you with everything you need to know to watch each and every show, including when they start, a list of places you can watch them with us, and what you can expect to see at each show.

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Where to Watch EA Play Live and TennoCon

If you’re interested in watching TennoCon and all the events that will make up EA Play Live, we’ll be hosting the stream here and across our many channels on platforms like YouTube, Twitch, Twitter, Facebook, and more. Here’s the full list of places you can watch these events: 

• IGN.com (homepage)

• IGN’s Facebook Channel

• IGN’s Twitter

• IGN’s Twitch Channel

• IGN’s Youtube Channel

• IGN’s iOS App

• IGN’s Android App

• IGN’s PlayStation 4 App

• IGN’s Xbox One App

• Roku

• IGN App for Android TV

• IGN for Amazon Fire TV

• Apple TV

• IGN 1 on Samsung TV Plus

• Pluto TV

• Plex Live TV

July 2021 Event Dates and Info

Saturday, July 17

TennoCon

Warframe fans rejoice! TennoCon – Warframe’s online convention – is taking place on Saturday, July 17 and promises to reveal “what lies in wait for the future” as the New War approaches. The TennoCon stream begins with a Welcome to TennoCon 2021 event at 9:30am PT/12:30pm ET/5:30pm BST. If you are in Australia, that translates to Sunday, July 18 at 2:30 am AEST.

There will be streams throughout the day, but the main event – TennoLive – begins at 2pm PT/5pm ET and will feature a “celebration of all things Warframe with the year’s biggest news, reveals, and prizes hosted by the devstream crew.”

The full TennoCon schedule is as follows;

9:30am PT/12:30pm ET – Welcome to TennoCon – Get the full rundown of the day’s events, giveaways, and more.

10am PT/1pm ET – Sounds of the System – Join us as we pull back the curtain on how your favorite sounds in the Origin System are created! Caution: May contain brussels sprouts.

11am PT/2pm ET – Live Developer Q&A – Get answers to your questions straight from the source!

12pm PT/3pm ET – The Art of Warframe – Make sure you catch this in-depth look at the creative process of designing iconic Warframe characters, environments and worlds as we chronicle the story of Warframe up to now.

1:15pm PT/4:15pm PT – Community Art Show and Cosplay Contest – We’re showcasing the extraordinary creativity of the Warframe Community all throughout TennoCon! Don’t miss these amazing creations, Tenno.

2pm PT/5pm ET – TennoLive – Don’t miss the day’s main event! A celebration of all things Warframe with the year’s biggest news, reveals and prizes hosted by the Devstream crew.

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Monday, July 19

EA Play Live Spotlight Series – Madden NFL All-Access: Scouting – How the Community Is Shaping Madden 22

The EA Play Live Spotlight Series is a collection of four events that share more about EA’s games ahead of its EA Play Live main showcase on July 22. Two of these events – The Future of FPS and EA <3s Independent Studios – have already taken place and have featured some of the developers behind Apex Legends, Battlefield 2042, It Takes Two, Lost in Random, and Knockout City sharing more details on their games and what the future holds for them and the industry as a whole.

The next EA Play Live Spotlight Series event – Madden NFL All-Access: Scouting – How the Community Is Shaping Madden NFL 22 – is set to take place on Monday, July 19 at 10am PT/1pm ET/6pm BST. If you live in Australia, this translates to Tuesday, July 20 at 3am AEST.

This event will share stories of how “fans have impacted the development of franchise mode and helped bring to life highly requested features like Staff Management, weekly game strategy and a new scenario engine.” Furthermore, we will also get a first-ever deep dive reveal of the brand-new scouting feature that will arrive in Madden NFL 22 in September.

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Tuesday, July 20

EA Play Live Spotlight Series – FIFA Next Gen Gameplay Powered by HyperMotion Technology

The fourth and final EA Play Live Spotlight Series event is FIFA Next Gen Gameplay Powered by HyperMotion Technology on Tuesday, July 20 at 10am PT/1pm ET/6pm BST. If you live in Australia, this translates to Wednesday, July 21 at 3am AEST.

While EA hasn’t revealed too much of what we can expect from this Spotlight Series event, it did share that Wired UK’s Amit Katwala will be hosting a panel of FIFA developers including lead gameplay producer Sam Rivera, FIFA gameplay director Kantcho Doskov, gameplay producer Shaun Pejic, and global community engagement (FIFA) manager Gabriel Zero.

We also know that HyperMotion Technology is one of the big selling points of FIFA 22 and was revealed alongside the game, its cover star Kylian Mbappe, and its release date of October 1, 2021.

HyperMotion Technology combines “Advanced 11v11 Match Capture and proprietary machine learning technology to deliver the most realistic, fluid and responsive football experience for next-gen consoles and Stadia, unlocking the raw emotion, passion and physicality of the world’s game.”

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Thursday, July 22

EA Play Live

All of these EA Play Live Spotlight Series events are leading to the EA Play Live main showcase that will feature new gameplay reveals, a few giveaways, and other surprises. EA understands that fans may be wondering what’s left for its main event after the Spotlight Series, but it promises the answer is, “a lot.” EA Play Live, which is being hosted by WWE superstar Austin Creed and will being on Thursday, July 22 at 10am PT/1pm ET/6pm BST. If you live in Australia, this translates to Friday, July 23 at 3am AEST.

EA isn’t revealing everything that will be part of the show, but it does share that the event will run for around 40 minutes and will begin with a short pre-show that serves as a recap of sorts. While we know we will see more from Battlefield 2042, Apex Legends, and Lost in Random, it kind of feels as though we know more of what won’t be there than what will.

BioWare has confirmed that it will not be present at the show, so that means no Dragon Age 4 or a new look at the next entry in the Mass Effect franchise. EA has also confirmed that there will be no Star Wars games at EA Play Live, and the teams working on games set in that galaxy far, far away will have more to share in 2022.

There has also been a rumor floating around that EA will reveal a series revival at EA Play Live that is reportedly a remake of Dead Space.

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Wednesday, July 21 – Sunday, July 25

Comic-Con at Home 2021

While we won’t be streaming SDCC, we are here to help you know exactly what will be featured at the show and when each event airs so you won’t miss a thing. SDCC in 2021 is an all-virtual event known as Comic-Con at Home 2021, and while it won’t feature the likes of Marvel and DC Films, there is a ton to look forward to.

Some of the biggest panels to look forward to during Comic-Con at Home 2021 will surely be the Snake Eyes panel on July 21, the Batman: The Long Halloween Part Two panel on July 23, The Walking Dead final season panel on July 24, and many more.

SDCC runs from July 21-25 and the full schedule is as follows:

Wednesday, July 21, 2021

1pm – 2pm PT

• Unmasking Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins

Thursday, July 22, 2021

3pm – 4pm PT

• Jasper and the Spirit Skies Volume 1 Launch Party (We did it!)

• Teaching and Learning with Comics

• The Science of Art

4pm – 5pm PT

• Content through Comics: Teaching STEM and Humanities with Graphic Novels

• Graphic Novels are the New Textbooks

• The POW(!)er of Graphic Novels to Support Youth Literacy: Successes in Libraries

5pm – 6pm PT

• Educational Role-Playing: Breaking the Mold with the Game Academy

• Yes They’re Teaching With These Now: Creating and Publishing Comics With The Lesson Plan In Mind

6pm – 7pm PT

• GeekED Rewind 20-21: The True American Horror of Lovecraft Country

• Slaying Real Monsters Building Communities Through Role Playing Games

Friday, July 23, 2021

10am – 11am PT

• API AAPI Creators: The Original Comics Pioneers!

• Battle Brackets: Best Vehicles

• Causeplay: In Service to Others

• Couch Surfing with Simon Schuster

• Dragon Ball Z

• Ducks All the Way Down: Metafiction in Comics

• Entertainment is Female: A Conversation with Hollywood Executives

• Heels

• Hip-Hop And Comics: Cultures Combining

• Licensed: Overstreet: Licensed Comcis

• Paramount+: Peak Animation with the Star Trek Universe, The Harper House, and Stephen Colbert Presents Tooning Out The News

• Rashad Doucet and Jason Reeves in Conversation with Daniel Barnes and DJ Kirkland

11am – 12pm PT

• Afrofuturism, Funk, and the Black Imagination

• Amazon Panel

• Comics for Justice

• Critically Acclaimed Artists’ Secrets–Bringing Comics Stories to Life

• Legion M: How the Power of Fandom Is Changing Hollywood

• Mattel WWE Elite Squad Fan Panel

• Past is Prologue: The Fascinating New Comic Creator Bios

• Rhapsody PR’s 13th Annual Behind-the-Music panel

• The Dragon Prince: Inside the Creative Process

• Tor Teen: Who Runs the World: Stories of Female Empowerment

• Tuca Bertie

12pm – 1pm PT

• Action Figure Insider: Toy Presidents

• Bringing That Black Magic

• HBO Max Cartoon Network Studios: Adventure Time: Distant Lands

• Joe Gatto, Jameela Jamil, The Justice League, and YOU

• Marvel Comics: X-Men

• Max Allan Collins–Three Hard Cases: Ms Tree, Kie Hammer Nolan!

• Native Americans in Pop Culture with Taboo

• Netflix Geeked: Masters of the Universe: Revelation

• Stan Sakai and the Usagi Chronicles

• The Incredible Impact of Dungeons Dragons on Culture and Entertainment

1pm – 2pm PT

• Afrofuturism: Black to the Future 4 (the Ladies)

• Batman: Fear State

• Crunchyroll Virtual Industry Panel

• Doctor Who Comics Panel

• Entertainment Weekly: Brave Warriors

• Garbage Pail Kids: Yuck-tastic Books and More

• Mega Construx drops new Kozik MOTU collab and sneak peeks!

• Orbit’s New Voices in SF&F

• Shi: The Warrior has Returned

• Stan Lee, Marvel, and Rolling Stone: 50th Anniversary

• The Hero’s Journey: Strong Storytelling in Video Games

• V/H/S/94

2pm – 3pm PT

• Baking Cupcakes, Angsty Gothics, and More Romantic Protags

• Bandai Event Exclusives: From Us to You

• Comics Kitchen: Incredible Food-Themed Graphic Novels from Top Shelf

• Creating Comic Art with the iPad

• Dive into Arcana Studio

• Motherland: Fort Salem – A Look Into Season Two

• NeoText: Here’s to The Future

• Star Wars: The High Republic – We Are All The Republic!

• Teenage Euthanasia

• Video Games, Art, and Mexican Culture

• What’s New in Independent Comics

3pm – 4pm PT

• 35 Years of Dark Horse: Past and Present

• Batman: The Long Halloween, Part Two

• Celebrating Color: Beyond Comic Book Art

• Duncanville

• Graphic Novels Lost and Found

• Kevin Eastman Studios Panel

• Neurotic Superheroes and the Writers Who Love Them

• Space Teams: Solving Real NASA Problems with Virtual Simulations and Competitions

• Storm King Comics Breaks Open Sacred Hearts

4pm – 5pm PT

• Angeline Boulley and Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé on Thrillers

• Breaking Into Comics and Staying In!

• CBLDF: Defending Comics Today

• DC Read With the Lights On

• Greatest Geek Year Ever: 1981 Week–Why’d It Have to be Snakes Edition

• Mega64 Panel for Those Experiencing Intense Side Effects

• Netflix Geeked: Fear Street Trilogy

• Rick and Morty

• Todd McFarlane Takes over the Universe!

5pm – 6pm PT

• Abolishing Traditional Ideas of Latinas through Latina Superheroes

• Blade Runner: Black Lotus

• Destination Fear: Tales from Route 666

• Exploring our Origins with NASA

• From Idea to Hired: Books, TV, Film, & More

• Gay Geeks and Where to Find Them

• Her Universe Fashion Show

• Hermes Press Frank Thorne Memorial Panel

• Klingon Lifestyles Presentation

• Scott Shaw! Oddball Comics: The Batman Edition

• Vampirella: 50 Years and Counting

6pm – 7pm PT

• Beyond Star Trek: Menagerie and The Expanse: Space Law Sci-Fi vs. Sci-Fact

• Heavy Metal Publishing

• Hollyweird Science: Sometimes You Just Gotta Break It

• Not-So-Strange Bedfellows: The Relationship between Comics and Professional Wrestling

• Queer Horror

• Slasher: Flesh & Blood

• The Audible Sounds of Scifi

• The Indie Life

Saturday, July 24, 2021

10am – 11am PT

• 2nd Annual Hollywood Game Changers: A Conversation with the Women Behind Popular Film and TV Projects

• Art and the Holocaust -the art of Holocaust survivor Dr. Viktor Frankl

• Behind the Veil: The Winchester Mystery House Comic Book Series

• DUNE Publishing Highlights 2021

• Go Beyond the Farthest Star with Tarzan, Jane Porter, and John Carter!

• HBO Max and Warner Bros. Animation: Looney Tunes Cartoons

• Rhapsody PR’s Behind-the-Lens: Crafting Magic panel

• The Art of IDW

• The Business of Comics: Creativity and the Power of Branding

• UDON Entertainment 2021

• Women on the Dark Side

11am – 12pm PT

• Apex Comics Publishing Group 2021-2022 Exclusive Previews

• Comics Arts Conference Session #1: Comic Art in Museums: 90 Years of Progress

• Fierce Reads: Taking the (Gen)eral out of Genre

• Finance for Creatives

• Jet Off with the Orcs in Space Crew

• Launching Your First Kickstarter

• Riot Games: Changing the Face of Gaming

• SImpsons Season 33 and Beyond!

• Surviving the Impossible

• Truth, Justice, and A Better DC Universe: A New Future for The Man of Steel

• Ultra City Smiths

• Women Rocking Hollywood 2021: Supporting Female Filmmakers in a Post-Covid World

12pm – 1pm PT

• AHOY Comics: Expect More!

• comiXology Originals: CONversations with Marc Bernardin and Jock

• Disney Television Animation: Amphibia and The Owl House

• Filtering, The Invisible Rot Inside Your Story

• Must-Know YA from AAPI Voices

• Rick and Morty vs Dungeons and Dragons Campaign

• Robert Kirkman @ Home

• The Sergio, Mark, and Thomas Panel

• TV Guide Magazine’s 2021 Fan Favorites

1pm – 2pm PT

• Blade Runner Comics Panel

• Boldly Going: 55 Years of Star Trek–The Best of Inglorious Treksperts

• Diversity and Comics: Why Inclusion and Visibility Matter

• Fear the Walking Dead

• HBO Max and Warner Bros. Animation: Jellystone!

• Hot Wheels: Designing Fans’ Exclusives & What’s On the Horizon

• Keenspot Turns 21! Ninjas & Robots–Junior High Horrors–The D Ward Spotlight

• Magic: The Gathering Panel with Mark Rosewater

• NBA Players Are Anime Fans Too

• Once Upon a Baker’s Dozen

• Storytelling Through Music

2pm – 3pm PT

• Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda

• Cartoon Network Studios: Craig Of The Creek

• Dark Knights: Death Metal: The Soundtrack

• Diamond Select Toys and Gentle Giant Ltd.

• Dynamite Entertainment: All the Big Reveals

• Fanbase Press: Compiling a Comics Anthology

• Legendary Comics 2.0: 2021 and Beyond!

• New Science Fiction in Contemporary Comics

• Ray Harryhausen: Celebrating the Legacy of a Titan

• The Walking Dead: World Beyond

• Tor: Calling All Book Lovers

• Voice-over Superstars in Animation and Live Action

3pm – 4pm PT

• Career Paths into Game Development

• Central Park

• Drawing the Lines of Terror with Junji Ito

• Gaming in Graphic Novels: A Programming Match Made in Heaven!

• Hooray for Gay YA!

• Netflix Geeked: The Last Mercenary

• Podcasting 101

• Roswell, New Mexico Cast Conversation and Sneak Peek

• The Official Aspen Comics Panel 2021

• The Patrick Star Show

• The Walking Dead

• Top Cow Panel: The Darkness 25th Anniversary

• Will Eisner and the Metropolis

4pm – 5pm PT

• Dark Horse Comics: From Page to Screen and Screen to Page

• Family Guy

• First You March—Then You Run-Celebrating Congressman John Lewis’ Legacy

• For Indy Comics Creators: How to Powerfully Brand Yourself

• Horror Noire

• Jack Kirby’s Favorite Stories

• Kodansha & comiXology Originals: Then, Now, Tomorrow

• Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms

• Out In Comics Year 34: Mainstreaming

• This is the Law: Judges on the Mandalorian

• Tor: Fantasy Evolutions and Revolutions

5pm – 6pm PT

• American Dad

• Beyond Love and Rockets: Other Works by Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez

• Black Excellence in Film & TV

• Funimation Industry Panel with Akeem Lawanson

• Indigenous Water Protectors Are Real-Life Superheroes

• Marvel: Universe of Super Heroes Exhibition–the Fantastic Four and Beyond!

• Netflix Geeked: Lucifer

• One Face, Two Looks

• Ray Bradbury & the World of Comics

• Terry Moore 2021 Updates

• Young Adult Dark Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Horror

6pm – 7pm PT

• Cartoon Voices

• Changing the Status Quo with Film and TV Creatives

• Creepshow

• gen:LOCK Season 2

• Heavy Metal Partners and Imprints

• La Era de Plata: Mexican Silver age in comics (En Español)

• No Tow Trucks Beyond Mars

• Stargate Atlantis Cast Reunion

• X-Men Fandom Surprise Party: The Sequel

Sunday, July 25, 2021

10am – 11am PT

• Comics Arts Conference Session #2: Eisner’s A Contract With God In Depth

• Cosplay–The Spice of Life!!!

• Doctor Who

• Housebroken

• In Conversation with Alex Ross: The Alex Ross Marvel Comics Mural and Poster Book

• Making A Living Being Creative: Film and Television

• Manga Publishing Industry Roundtable

• The Legacy of Del Close, Creator of DC Comics’ Wasteland

• V. E. Schwab’s ExtraOrdinary Comics Panel

11am – 12pm PT

• Animals in Graphic Novels and Games

• BrickJournal: Building with LEGO During Covid

• Comics Made Me Who I Am Today: Kids Graphic Novelists and Their Influences

• Day of the Dead: Adapting a Legend

• DC Wonder Women: Wonder Woman Across the Multiverse

• Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway: From Animation to Imagineering

• Narrative Design for the Computer Gaming Industry

• Psychology and Pop Culture: An Empirical Adventure

• Re-imagining
  the Past, Present, and Future of Science Fiction and Fantasy The
  Comics Craft of Genre and Developing Image Comics Characters That Leap
  from the Page

• The Mysterious Benedict Society

• Underlined Buzz Panel

12pm – 1pm PT

• DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Cast Conversation and Sneak Peek

• Dive into an Ocean of Science with Surfside Girls!

• Drawing Apart: New Coming-of-Age Comics

• Indie
  Toy Makers Unite! A conversation with those making indie action
  figures. Legacy of Aztec Culture: 500 Years After the Fall

• LMGI: Hollywood Location Scouts

• Telling True Tales

• The Adventure Zone and Bubble: Podcasts to Comics

• The Annual Jack Kirby Tribute Panel

• The Great North

• Tidings from Middle-earth: LOTR on Prime and more

1pm – 2pm PT

• Behind the Score of Lovecraft Country

• Black Nerd Problems

• Cutting Edge Art Creation for Comics

• Dexter

• Don’t Fear A Red Planet

• Globalization of Comics: Authors and Industry Breaking International Barriers Let’s Make a Comic with RH Graphic!

• Meet the Creators and Cast of Netflix’s Norsemen

• RWBY

• The Secret Origin of “a Superstitious and Cowardly Lot”

• Where Do We Go From Here?

2pm – 3pm PT

• Comics Journalism 2021: Representation Matters

• Flip it and Reverse it: YA Authors Reimagine Genre

• How to write psychologically rich characters

• More Science in Your Fiction with The League of Extraordinary Scientists & Engineers

• Music in Motion Pictures and Television: The Soundtrack of Comic Book Characters and Superheroes

• Netflix Geeked: Army of Thieves

• Robotech: The New Beginning

• The Art of Stardust with Charles Vess and Neil Gaiman

• The Legacy of Chucky

• The Mighty Crusaders: Archie Comics Super Heroes

3pm – 4pm PT

• Behind the Scenes with the Creative Team of Image Comics’ Bestselling Superhero Series Radiant Black

• Bob’s Burgers

• Irish Hijinks with Thomas Lennon and Ronan Boyle

• Meet the New Voice Talent Behind Anpanman

• The Science of Star Wars

• Tor: The Pitfalls of Perfect Worlds

• Writing for TV: From First Draft to Getting Staffed

4pm – 5pm PT

• A Conversation with the Cast & Executive Producers of EPIX’s Chapelwaite
• How to Create Your Own Novel: From First Idea to Publishing

• Jack Kirby: Architect of Science Fiction Land

• Penguin Teen – Carving Out Space: Six YA Female Authors Discuss Their Craft
• Uncovering the Science of Sci-Fi with Ripley’s Believe It or Not!

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The Continental, a John Wick spinoff about the fictional chain of hotels for assassins, has hired director Albert Hughes and seemingly reworked the premise into a three-night limited event series.

The Hollywood Reporter says that The Continental will now be three, 90-minute specials with a budget that now rivals some movies. Sources say filmmakers now have a $20 million budget to use for the limited event.

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Hughes, who previously directed films like The Book of Eli, will direct the first and third episode and serve as an executive producer across all three installments. The director for the second episode has not been hired yet.

The Continental is set 40 years before the events of John Wick and will focus on a young Winston, played in the films by Ian McShane. The series will be about how The Continental chain was founded in 1970s New York.

Originally a movie about Keanu Reeves’ retired hitman avenging his murdered dog, the John Wick franchise has spawned its own mini-universe thanks to the world-building laid out by creator Derek Kolstad.

The fourth and fifth John Wick film is already in development, while a potential movie spinoff called Ballerina, based on the mysterious ballet troupe in John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum, is currently in the works.

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The team behind John Wick also created films like Atomic Blonde and Nobody, and while neither film is officially tied to the John Wick universe, the creators have teased there could be potential crossovers, but only in limited ways like in easter eggs.

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Matt T.M. Kim is IGN’s News Editor.