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Superman in My Adventures With Superman, crouching and ready to face an unknown threat
My Adventures with Superman will return to adapt a classic ‘90s comic arc

Adult Swim offers a first look at Cyborg Superman

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Homelander (Antony Starr) gives a salute in The Boys season 5
The Boys showrunner breaks down season 5's latest supe death

According to Eric Kripke, the show actually takes place in a "reasonably just universe"

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Meet the woman who marathoned X-Files for 9 straight days in a bunker (and has a new Scully theory)

The endurance test is out there

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Murderbot star Alexander Skarsgard in his robot outfit
The next Murderbot book 'may be the last' in the beloved series

'It feels like, to me, we’re coming to the end of Murderbot's story.'

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Carl has a fluffy white cat named Princess Donut on his shoulder as he runs from an explosion on the cover of the graphic novel version of Dungeon Crawler Carl
We have the first 10 pages of the Dungeon Crawler Carl graphic novel

The world has ended and Carl is stuck outside in his underwear

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An image of Darth Maul, a red-skinned Zabrak with black markings on his face, holds a lightsaber in a defensive stance.
A Star Wars: Maul reveal hints at a much-needed return by a prequel character

Maul's refusal to go Solo may end up benefitting him greatly

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Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) stand in front of trees in The X-Files episode Dreamland 2
30 years ago, a forgotten X-Files episode changed the course of the show
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How Assistant Director Skinner became an integral part of The X-Files

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Steve and Dustin lie on their backs in an industrial space full of pipes, both looking astonished or scared, in Stranger Things: Tales from ’85
Netflix's new Stranger Things show wanted to create a monster as scary as Jaws

The animated spinoff draws on The Goonies, The Real Ghostbusters, Jaws, and Alien

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Darth Vader points his red lightsaber at Luke Skywalker during their fight in Cloud City in The Empire Strikes Back
The latest Star Wars comic really, really wants you to visit Galaxy's Edge

And it's not afraid to use Glup Shittos to do it

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Darth Plagueis on The Acolyte creeping in a cave
Disney's controversial, canceled Star Wars show is suddenly a streaming hit (and we think we know why)

The Acolyte is getting a second chance

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Nikki, a large girl with a spiky pink peak in her hair, holds a mallet and smiles as she prepares to play a carnival game while Will watches in Stranger Things: Tales from ‘85
Stranger Things: Tales from ’85 expanded the party to solve the problem with Will

The spin-off’s showrunner has big plans for more adventures

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A split-screen shows Lonnie Lincoln smiling and Spider-Man in Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man
A lesser-known Spider-Man villain is quietly connecting Marvel’s movies and shows

Versions of Tombstone are appearing in three different adaptations

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Detail from the cover of Octavia Butler's Wild Seed, showing a black woman in a headdress that incorporates melded bits of body parts from various animals — a monarch's wing, a zebra's eras, a rhino's eye, a cheetah's face, and more
The long-lost 'Star Trek novel' that Octavia Butler disavowed is returning to print 40 years later

Butler disavowed the book and kept it from being reprinted — but here's why it's worth reading anyway

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The shadow of a lifeless man drifting through space backlit by a cross-like burst of light
Event Horizon's sequel comic just brought back a 232-year-old character from the original movie

Is this a retcon?

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A small pig with a huge open-mouthed grin on his face falls spread-eagled toward the camera in Andy Serkis' 2026 Animal Farm
Andy Serkis defends his beleaguered Animal Farm movie: 'exactly what Orwell would have wanted'

Many reviews of Serkis' animated rewrite of George Orwell's bleak classic have been brutal. Serkis remains unfazed.

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Cassian Andor gets ready to pilot a TIE Fighter in a still from Andor season 2
Star Wars’ pivot from the Skywalker Saga to genre stories is great for the franchise

A new horror novel, Hiding from the Dark, is the latest spin on Star Wars' new direction

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The core cast of 2004’s Battlestar Galactica pose together, all looking at the camera confrontationally
The Battlestar Galactica reboot is finally returning to streaming

On May 1, you can watch Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonnell tear each other apart in space again

eleven in a rage on Stranger Things season 4
Stranger Things: Tales from '85 creates a blatant plot hole in the Stranger Things timeline

Who the hell is Nikki?

Star City: A Soviet cosmonaut prepares for launch
Apple's next big sci-fi epic makes spy work scarier than space

The prequel sets up a tense hunt for an American spy

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A black-and-white author portrait of Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham, who write together under the name
The Expanse creators don't want their new series to fall into a Star Wars rut

'Star Wars is never going to stop. And Star Trek is the same way. If you have a big universe, it is expected you will just keep dipping in that well.'

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