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.

Its official! Deadline reports that Epix and Warner Bros. has finally cast Batman’s quintessential butler, Alfred Pennyworth, in their upcoming Pennyworth television series. Jack Bannon (Fury) will portray Alfred Pennyworth in his youth in the Batman prequel eries from Gotham show runner, Bruno Heller. Pennyworth will consist of a 10 episode first season and will begin production October 22nd in the UK at Warner Bros. studio which has seen movie productions such as Harry Potter and The Dark Knight Rises. It will be the first ever television series shot at this studio. Based on DC characters created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger, Pennyworth will follow…

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When news broke that the Hellboy movie franchise would be going through a reboot without Guillermo del Toro and star Ron Perlman at the helm a lot of fans of the Darkhorse comic series were more than a little upset. The more we have learned about the project though the more people started to come around to the idea and when an image of actor David Harbour in full Hellboy makeup leaked online a while back expectations were sky high for the reboot. As you may have heard by now attendees at New York Comic Con got a glimpse of the…

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Marvel is back at it again with it’s Infinity War character mash-up comics with Iron Hammer written by Al Ewing. Iron Hammer, like the other upcoming character mash-ups will be a short lived 2 issue series so we won’t get to much of the character to really enjoy in my opinion. Issue 1 of Iron Hammer introduces us to Sigurd Stark, a combination of Tony Stark/Iron Man and the Almighty Thor. Sigurd is a tech genius/ billionaire in Europe with no memory of his past just extensive knowledge of technology of which he built his fortune from. The issue is an origin…

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With the fifth and final season of Gotham not premiering until 2019 their will be a lot of speculation as to who the new villains will be this season and what the plot of the final season will center around. Recently Gotham announced that it had cast Nikita actor Shane West as Eduardo Dorrance as reported by Deadline. Eduardo Dorrance will be a war buddy of Jim Gordon (Ben McKenzie) and has arrived with an elite group of soldiers to restore order to Gotham’s No Mans Land. For fans of DC comics the name Eduardo Dorrance should sound fairly familiar as that…

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DC comics launched it’s new Black Label offshoot with the release of it’s first book Batman Damned!. Black Label is DC’s new publishing offshoot that will launch stories of some of our favorite heroes in a muBatch darker and grounded light than ever before, geared towards a more mature audience. Batman Damned does not disappoint with the darkness and maturity. Written by Brian Azzarello and drawn by Lee Bermejo this new story gives off a dark and gritty Noir detective series feel within its artwork, dominated by shades of black and gray’s, and its overall plot. This possibly one of the darkest…

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Marvel comics has recently announced that it would be doing a mashup of characters in a few upcoming series in their Infinity War run of comics. I recently got a look at one of these mashups with the release of Marvel’s Soldier Supreme. It is an easy guess as to who the mashup characters are within the title. In Soldier Supreme, we get a combination of Doctor Strange and Captain America. This creates one of my favorite versions of a comic character to date with a magic wielding super soldier for the United States military during World War 2; Stephen Rogers…

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Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan most recently found itself a new life and home with the Amazon series starring John Krasinski. Now, we have reports stating that actor Michael B. Jordan (Black Panther, Creed) has been cast as another Tom Clancy character in an upcoming film series. As reported by The Verge, Paramount is adapting two of Clancy’s books, Without Remorse and Rainbow Six, into movies. Both novels feature the character John Clark, a former Navy Seal turned CIA field operative, as the main character. With some of Clancy’s work already adapted into movies, such as The Hunt For Red October, this would be…

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The Marvel Empire continues its expansion into all media formats with its most recent mass release of Wolverine: The Long Night. The Long Night stars Richard Armitage (Castlevania) as Wolverine. The 10 episode series follows two federal agents as they are led to the fictional town of Burns,Alaska, to investigate a string of grizzly murders. The federal agents, Pierce and Marshall, have a drifter named Logan in their sights as their prime suspect. The series stays true to a murder mystery and captivates the listener with dark details. The suspenseful moments make the listener feel like they are in the scene with…

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With the Marvel Cinematic Universe always expanding with new characters, it comes to no surprise as they continue to broaden their horizons on more heroes; this time outside of America. A personal source from Ain’t It Cool News, referred to as Super Grip, came to them with a rumor that Marvel was in the early development stages of a Captain Britain and Black Knight movie. The movie is said to be directed by Guy Ritchie (Sherlock Homes) and will possibly replace the slot left open by the halted Guardians of The Galaxy Volume 3.  Here is what “Super Grip” had to say: “I…

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Henry Cavill has made the jump from adapting a comic book superhero in the DC Universe, to adapting a monster hunting warrior from the Witcher Novel/Video game series. As reported by Comicbook.com, Cavill has been casted as Geralt of Rivia, the Witcher series main protagonist in the video games and the Witcher novels by Andrzej Sapkowski. The Netflix series will be based more on the book series (the original source material) rather than the video games. Cavill, best known for his role as Clark Kent/Superman in the DCEU, is the only officially listed cast member at the moment. With his casting though,…

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