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8/10 VisionQuest Vision Is How Ultron Gets Out
James Spader's Ultron is living in Vision's attic, and he just told Vision to be the king. Two episodes in, sixty years of comics say exactly where this is going.
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8.5/10 Lanterns John Stewart Has Been Refusing the Suit Since 1971
The Lanterns finale never puts John in the suit, rewrites the oath, and puts yellow in his lantern. The comics did all three first. The real problem is where the climax went.
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8/10 Lanterns Why Hal Never Let Go
Everybody is crying at the note. The note is the delivery mechanism. Episode 7 buries its real sentence in a baseball, and it took a dead copy of Hal Jordan to say it out loud.
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KPop Demon Hunters KPop Demon Hunters Star Arden Cho Traded Cards With Fans at NYCC
The speaking voice of Rumi signed KAYOU cards at New York Comic Con, then started swapping with fans to finish her own collection.
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My Little Pony A My Little Pony Fan Pulled a Card and Got to Create His Own Pony
KAYOU's Chase the Magic winner designed a brand-new Pony with comic artist Andy Price, then got the finished art on stage at NYCC. Plus the new Pony cards hitting shelves this month.
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DC Absolute Universe Absolute Justice Is Coming, and They're Building It Like a Movie
I was in Room 405 on Friday for DC's Absolute Universe panel at New York Comic Con. Absolute Justice from Jason Aaron and Juan Ferreyra, Batman finally finds the Joker, Barbara Gordon steps up, Superman heads for space and Wonder Woman gets an Absolute Cheetah. Here's everything.
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The Painting in VisionQuest Episode 2 Is a Receipt for Who Built Vision's Body Vision stops at a painting of a burning synthetic man and calls him the first of us. 
The Absolute Justice League Is a Board of Directors, and Brainiac Picked the Seats Everybody knows the Justice League is the villain in DC's Absolute Universe. 
VisionQuest Told You to Read Theseus's Own Story. In It, the King Is Crowned by His Father's Death. Ultron's best line in VisionQuest episode 2 points past the Ship of Theseus to the myth itself. 
Clayface Movie: The Pitch Outlived Everyone Who Said No Mike Flanagan pitched a Clayface horror movie in 2021, got told no, pitched it again, got a… Featured News
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Tubi Is Making R.L. Stine's The Babysitter, and Showed the First Afraid of Clowns Clip at NYCC Tubi used its R.L. Stine panel at New York Comic Con to announce a live-action adaptation of… 
Skybound Visions Puts Bumblebee, G.I. Joe and Turok in the Hands of Tate Brombal, Doug Mahnke and Stephen Graham Jones Skybound and Image used New York Comic Con to launch Skybound Visions, a line of standalone… 
Dragon Ball Super: Beerus Opened NYCC With 3,000 Fans and a Kamehameha Dragon Ball took day one of New York Comic Con with the world premiere of Dragon Ball Super… 
Masako Nozawa Has Voiced Goku Since 1986, and She Still Plays Every Scene at Full Power For the Dragon Ball Super: Beerus premiere, Toei sat down Masako Nozawa and Koichi Yamadera… From Our Contributors
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