Author: Austin Barnett

Austin Barnett was born and raised in Mount Sterling, Kentucky where he spent his teenage years getting lost in the world of video games, comics and fantasy novels. As an adult Austin moved with his lovely wife to the hills of eastern Kentucky, where he still tends to get lost in the same worlds he did as a teen. In his free time Austin likes to attend Comic Conventions and work on his novel he will probably never finish.

Confirmed earlier today by IGN, Devil May Cry will be developed into a Anime television series. The anime series will be produced and overseen by the man who brought us the beloved Castlevania series to Netflix, Adi Shankar. Shankar, in a recent statement about the news, said: “I acquired these (Devil May Cry) rights myself so the jabronis in Hollywood don’t f*** this one up too.” He also notes that the success of Castlevania was able to make this happen. Adding to the news is the fact that the announced Devil May Cry series will be set in the same universe as Castlevania which has been…

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Hulu is jumping on the George R.R. Martin bandwagon as it nears a multiple-series deal to develop Martins Wildcard series for television as reported by The Hollywood Reporter. The shows will be a shared universe on the streaming platform and could be it’s answer to Marvels superhero shows on its competitor Netflix. George R.R. Martin is mostly known for his Game of Thrones book series that has become one of the most watched television shows in the world on HBO. He has other works though that are just as amazing and mesmerizing one of which is Wildcards. The Wild Cards franchise is a shared universe…

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In a recent report by Variety, it has been confirmed that Pedro Pascal has been cast as the lead in the upcoming Star Wars live action television series The Mandalorian. Pascal is best known for his roles in Game of Thrones and Narcos and with titles like that we know that he is no stranger to action. It is a wonder Disney/Lucasfilm was even able to score an emerging talent of Pascal’s caliber with not so small parts in the upcoming movies; If Beale Street Could Talk and Wonder Woman 1984. It is already pretty blatant that Disney is not holding back to make The Mandalorian an amazing series…

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When HBO’s Watchmen television series, based off the graphic novel by Alan Moore, was ordered to series the nerd world erupted in delight. Since that announcement not much has been heard about the upcoming series. Recently however, a new story has come to light and that is the casting of Oscar Award winning actor Jeremy Irons in the show. As reported by slashfilm.com Jeremy Irons has been cast in the role of a much older Adrian Veidt, aka Ozymandias, a key character in the original comic series. This wont be Jeremy Irons first comic book role nor his first DC comics character…

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Round three has come and Marvel does it again with another character mashup and this time it’s Spider-Man and…. Moon Knight?? That’s right! Marvel has combined two more amazing characters to create Arach-Knight. Coming from Marvel comics Infinity War alternate timeline created when Gamorra stole the time stones. Arach-Knight doesn’t pull the punches in the dark and supernatural. Our hero, Peter Parker, has his origin changed up a little bit with a Batman-esque type feel as both his Aunt May and Uncle Ben our murdered in central park on their way home from the museum by an actual Green Goblin,…

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It looks as if Marvel is exploring another medium for it’s comic book characters in the form of Podcast with its first release of Wolverine:The Long Night earlier this year on Stitcher Premium and other Podcast streaming platforms. Comicbook.com has reported that Marvel will be releasing a sequel to the first podcast with Wolverine: The Lost Trail. Like the first season of the Wolverine podcast, the second season will run for ten episodes on Stitcher in January 2019 followed by a mass release later that year on other platforms. With the first season The Long Night having followed two government agents hunting down…

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Popculture.com has revealed that a young Professor McGonagall will be appearing in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. The part was originally played by Dame Maggie Smith in the Harry Potter fims. Seeing how the Fantastic Beast takes place many years before Harry Potter the film had to find a much younger actress whom they have found in Fionna Glascott. Harry Potter fans know Minerva McGonagall as a key character in the series. As the head of Gryffindor House and the Transfiguration teacher during Harry’s years at Hogwarts she was rather stern but fair teacher who had a soft spot for Harry and…

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The zombie trope is what the younger kids call “lit”. It has become the most well received and most popular theme in Television Shows and Movies from the Walking Dead to World War Z, both of which based off books I may add. Here is a list of novels I recommend any fan of the Undead to read. 1. Dread Nation First on the list is Dread Nation by Justina Ireland. Set in the United States after the Civil War, which came to an early end when the dead began to rise on the battlefield. The novels main protagonist is Jane McKenne,…

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I haven’t had to many scary experiences in my life. If I had none have really ever stood out enough for me to remember to well, except for one. It was October 22nd about six years ago, that was the day I encountered some sort of cult in the woods. My Aunt and Uncle live on a very large farm located in East Central Kentucky, on the edge of that farm is a thick wooded area myself and my cousins seemed to always dare each other to go in when we were younger. It had been a few years since…

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Variety has broke the news that NBC has began earlier development on a Television series based off Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter novel and a character from the series. It has not yet been confirmed if this will also act as a direct sequel to the movie of the same title. The televison series will be titled The Last American Vampire and has been described as a supernatural thriller. The series will follow an up and coming analyst named Abby, in the FBI, who has been recruited into a special divison within the agency that deals in unique and bizzare cases. After following a lead on…

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