With the Venom movie featuring Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock now in theaters, we’re looking to the comics for what to expect for a possible sequel featuring the Spider-Man antihero.
Warning: beware spoilers for Venom!
The Venom mid-credits scene introduces Woody Harrelson’s Cletus Kasady and directly sets the stage for the rise of Carnage in Venom 2. While we wait for the sequel to take shape, now would be a good time to go back and read some of the classic Venom vs. Carnage stories from the comics. Here’s a little recommended reading to tide you over.
Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, a comic series that looks closely at the daily, neighborhood life of Peter Parker, is coming in January 2019.
Announced during the NYCC 2018 Spider-Man panel and detailed on Marvel’s official website, Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is being written by Tom Taylor with art by Juann Cabal – the two previously worked together on the All-New Wolverine series. Taylor is also known for his work on the Injustice: Gods Among Us comic series that acted as a prequel to the video game of the same name.
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This morning Square Enix announced a new Kingdom Hearts compilation coming to PS4 at the end of this month.
The Kingdom Hearts: The Story So Far collection is a combination of Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5+2.5 ReMIX and Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue, which themselves are made up of different Kingdom Hearts games. We’ve put together a slideshow of every game review for every game featured in the Kingdom Hearts: The Story So Far collection.
WWE is taking its show on the road for Super Show-Down, a special PPV. It is taking place, today, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Australia and is airing live on the WWE Network. Super Show-Down started at 7 PM AET, which is 2 AM PT, 5 AM ET and 10 AM PT, so it’s a very early show and many people may be skipping out on watching live. Don’t worry though, we have you covered.
The Australian event will have 10 matches over the course of the evening, four of which will be title matches. The main event of the evening will be none other than The Undertaker vs. Triple H, who have had a longstanding rivalry over the course of 20 years in the company. Additionally, Charlotte will get a rematch against Becky Lynch for the Smackdown Women’s Championship and Ronda Rousey joins the Bella Twins to take on the Riott Squad.
There is no Kickoff Show for the event, so the 5 AM ET start time is when the main card will begin. Check out the match card below, as well as the start times for different time zones.
The matches may not happen in the order listed. In case you’re not caught up, don’t worry; we put the final results in spoiler blocks.
Super Show-Down Match Card
Cedric Alexander (c) vs. Buddy Murphy (Cruiserweight Championship)
Asuka & Naomi vs. The IIconics
The New Day (c) vs. The Bar (Smackdown Tag Team Championship)
Daniel Bryan vs. The Miz
John Cena & Bobby Lashley vs. Kevin Owens & Elias
Becky Lynch (c) vs. Charlotte Flair (Smackdown Women’s Championship)
Ronda Rousey & The Bella Twins vs. The Riott Squad
AJ Styles (c) vs. Samoa Joe (WWE Championship)
The Shield vs. Braun Strowman, Dolph Ziggler, & Drew McIntyre
The Undertaker vs. Triple H
Super Show-Down Start Times
7 PM AET
10 AM BST
5 AM ET
4 AM C
2 AM PT
Main Card
The New Day (c) vs. The Bar (Smackdown Tag Team Championship)
New Day wins by pin at 9:38
Becky Lynch (c) vs. Charlotte Flair (Smackdown Women’s Championship)
Charlotte wins by DQ at 10:36. Becky Lynch retains the title.
New York Comic-Con 2018 Day 2 is officially complete and we saw a lot more cosplayers on the show floor. Here is everyone we were able to meet during Day 2. We will continue to keep adding pictures throughout the weekend. Be sure to keep checking back.
There was even more comic book representation on the second day. We ran into a whole new Spider-Squad, this one composed of the best-dressed Spider-People we’ve ever seen. We also saw a trio of captains–two Captain Americas and one Captain Marvel. The X-men couple Rogue and Bandit were in attendance as well, and we also spied The CW’s Green Arrow, Netflix’s Matt Murdock and Elektra, Marvel’s Dr. Strange, and DC Comic’s Joker, Harley, Poison Ivy, and Catwoman.
In terms of video game and movie characters, we teared up a little when we saw Destiny 2’s Cayde alive and well, and then we had to crane our necks to take in Transformers’ Bumblebee. The newest Dr. Who was also at NYCC, and we also met Avengers: Infinity War’s Black Widow and Nier: Automata’s 2B and 9S.
Day 2 of NYCC had plenty of trailers too. The new extended look of the upcoming Aquaman is probably our favorite, as it provided our first good look at Black Manta in action and Aquaman donning his comic book gold and green suit. We also saw teases for plenty of Netflix series, including The Dragon Prince Season 2, Daredevil Season 3, and Umbrella Academy. We also got to hear the cast of Starz’s American Gods talk about Season 2 and watch the premiere of DC’s Titans.
New York Comic-Con 2018 runs from October 4 to October 7. We’ll be writing up our impressions of what we see and hear all weekend long.
These are our spoiler-free first impressions of Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, which debuted its premiere episode at New York Comic Con. All episodes will be available to stream on Netflix beginning Oct. 26, when we’ll have a full review.
Much like Riverdale put a new spin on teen high school dramas, Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina will completely change your perception of Sabrina Spellman (Kiernan Shipka) – at least if you grew up with the wholesome teenage witch portrayed by Melissa Joan Hart in ABC’s TGiF lineup.
Here, Sabrina’s spells involve Latin incantations rather than pithy poems, Salem the cat isn’t a sassy puppet (although we kind of wish he was), and the leader of the witches isn’t Penn Jillette, but the devil himself (there’s a whole lot more Satanism in this show than you might’ve been expecting). Of course, for fans of the Archie Comics title of the same name (written by showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa) none of this will seem shocking at all – and viewers who dig the tone of this wicked teen tale will probably want to rush out and stock up on reading material.
Fox brought the next X-Men movie, Dark Phoenix, to New York Comic-Con to show off new footage, and writer-director Simon Kinberg, stars Sophie Turner and Tye Sheridan, and producer Hutch Parker were also on hand to discuss the film.
The team debuted a 14-minute sequence from Dark Phoenix which shows the X-Men’s trip to space and how Turner’s Jean Grey becomes the Phoenix. Spoilers for the scene follow, but note that it takes place early in the film.
Check out the first trailer for Dark Phoenix below, and keep reading for a breakdown of the footage:
The sequence began with a space shuttle launch — don’t forget, this film is set in the 1990s. But there’s some kind of mysterious disturbance on NASA’s monitors, and the shuttle crew loses communication with Mission Control. They’re in danger, and back at the X-Mansion Professor Xavier and Beast are watching the news of the space accident. Xavier asks if the upgraded X-Jet can make it up to space, and Beast discourages this notion. But then the president himself calls — there’s an X-Phone in the Oval Office! A black phone with a big X on it! — and the decision is made to attempt a rescue.
