FLASH WAR Aftermath: War, HUH, Yeah – What Is It Good For?

July 23, 2018

Well DC fans, we got something… but it indeed wasn’t a war. The story was more of a race than anything else. A race that ended in some heated discussion between our leading speedsters and some brand spanking new forces. But did this summer event do anything to progress Joshua Williamson’s 50 issue FLASH run any further? Was this “war” the blockbuster it was pushed to be? OR was this another story by DC pushed to make us forget about the delays and answers we have all wanted since REBIRTH?

WARNING: FLASH WAR SPOILERS AHEAD

FLASH FACTS

FLASH WAR, written by Joshua Williamson, art by Howard Porter, colors by Hi-Fi, and letters by Steve Wands began in FLASH # 47 and came to its conclusion with issue 50 on July 11th, 2018. So, where do we go from here moving forward?

MOVING FORWARD

Well, let’s attack the speedster elephant in the room. Bart Allen is back! Now, that got me pumped. Look above: this was an amazing splash page and cliffhanger for Williamson and Porter to end with to get fans excited. But, I feel this is all readers get any more. A story that leads to a reveal that leads to another reveal… and so on.

I honestly am excited to see Bart Allen back BUT are we going to get anything out of it OR are readers going to be drug along for another year with minimal answers? At first, I thought the Bart Allen reveal was just DC’s way of bribing readers to hang in there for another year without answers. But is DC the architect behind this war?

Williamson is…

In a recent interview on the Gotham By Geeks Podcast, Williamson was interviewed stating his part in the creation of this story. He wanted Wally in his book. So, he pitched a war to DC brass (Barry vs. Wally), and they bit on it over a year ago. DC wasn’t trying to push an agenda or answers to questions. This was all Williamson! This was never meant to give readers any answers to any question related to REBIRTH. This was all a ploy for Williamson to play with a new toy.

Ain’t Nobody Got Time For That

Another big reveal from Williamson was that time travel is now off the table for now. So, all this does is show the reader that Wally can’t try again to somehow change the past or future to get his kids back. It also guarantees that Bart is stuck in our time for now.

How can you access the Speed Force but not access time travel? Is Williamson saying our Flash’s have their abilities, but they just can’t go as fast? We see Wally run off at the end of the issue so he at least still has speed Force abilities.

And don’t forget that Commander Cold is also stuck here now as well. One can assume Williamson will have a showdown with the Captain and the Commander at some point. Are these the stories we’re going to get this coming year?

Use the Force Zoom

How does Zoom get these dazzling new forces? I understand that Wally ran so fast that he somehow broke the Speed Force BUT how does that release these two new forces? AND why do we need them?

Was the entire point of this “war” to drag us along to show us two new forces and give us Bart Allen? Heck, I’m still confused about JUSTICE LEAGUE right now. In JUSTICE LEAGUE, our heroes are dealing with something called the Still Force. Are these forces related? AND how many forces do we need? We went for years with only one force, and in a month we’ve got three more.

When it’s all said and done, will we all get our Planeteer Rings? Let’s put all the forces together and form Captain Planet!

Forced Plot Holes

After all of Wally’s memories come back, why would he trust Zoom? I know he wants to save his kids, BUT it’s not like they’re in any more danger than before. They’ll still be stuck in the Speed Force tomorrow after you formulate a better plan. Instead, Wally trusts the villain who has tried to hurt him and his family repeatedly in the past simply because he says he’s changed. I have three kids. I get wanting to jump immediately to their rescue, but I’m not trusting the person who’s tried to kill me in the past. I’m trusting my best friend, Barry.

In the Gotham by Geeks Podcast, listeners can hear Williamson’s love for comics, the Flash, writing, AND the scene when Wally pleads with Barry to help him get his kids out of the Speed Force. In the podcast, you can hear his passion as he explains the scene so thoroughly. My point is: where was that passion in the book? Why didn’t you channel what I heard in the podcast and put it into the dialogue of this war? After listening, I certainly can tell Williamson cares deeply about this book. But maybe he just needs to slow down and articulate the characters and their feelings much better.

Williamson said in the Gotham by Geeks Podcast that he’s working on issue 58! We just got 50! That’s four months ahead. Creative teams need to work ahead, but that puts him at Thanksgiving. Slow down. Give readers good dialogue with better explanations that have the same care and compassion for the character that I heard you have in the podcast.

Let’s get Hyped!

Why are we confusing readers even more by using Hypertime? So, now that Hypertime is reintroduced AGAIN, DC and Williamson can explain everything away now by saying; “…cause Hypertime…”

What happened to the missing ten years?

HYPERTIME!

Why are there 3 Jokers?

HYPERTIME!

How did the Comedian enter the DCU and not die?

HYPERTIME!

How do new 52 Superman and Pre-Flashpoint Superman merge?

HYPERTIME!

Where is the JSA and the Legion of Superheroes?

HYPERTIME!

Williamson just created his ticket out of any situation, and it’s bogus! I will be extremely disappointed if Hypertime is used to answer any of these glaring plot holes in the DCU.

Batman R.I.P.

Did anyone else notice this gem during the war? There is one casualty in this war: Batman. In issue FLASH #49, Zoom threw Batman so dang hard and so dang far that there is no conceivable way he survived. In case you forgot, take a look above.

Conclusion

The story wasn’t bad, AND I can tell Williamson loves the Flash BUT this war was misrepresented and gave us ambiguous answers. Howard Porter’s art is always fantastic, but this just felt like THE BUTTON all over again. THE BUTTON gave us no answers, more questions, and no real direction at its conclusion. Readers left this war with more speculation. THE BUTTON was fun to read but looking back on it now; it told us NOTHING! Basically, that’s precisely what FLASH WAR was: this year’s BUTTON.

Readers get no answers about Wally at all; other than his memories are restored. But, we learned that BEFORE the “war.” Why doesn’t everyone else remember Wally, especially when he touches them? Why are his kids trapped in the Speed Force? Is Manhattan related to his disappearance at all? Again, we get no answers but leave with more questions. Readers get no war, or a real fight, or ending to this story. We get Bart Allen (which I’m excited for if it’s done well) and new forces (which I’m not excited for).

In defense of DC and Williamson, they never said FLASH WAR would give us answers to any of the REBIRTH questions we had. However, as a HUGE fan of DC characters, comics, and this universe, when do I pack up and move on? At some point, fans will quit you, babe! I’m getting tired of the same song and dance. Stop giving readers pretty flowers (Bart Allen) as a way to say “sorry.” They aren’t going to cut it anymore. Williamson said in the Gotham by Geeks Podcast that he finally started to hit his stride. What?!?!? It took 50 issues to figure this out? Come on man.

I left this issue saying: FLASH WAR, huh, YEAH, what is it good for?

Absolutely nothing.

Say it again!

What did you guys think of FLASH WAR? Comment below or hit me up on Twitter @dispatchdcu

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Interview with OUTCAST Creator Robert Kirkman and Producer Chris Black

Joshua Versalle

July 23, 2018

Outcast, Cinemax’s suspense-horror series returned with the first episode of its sophomore season on July 20th. We sat down with Chris Black (executive producer) and Robert Kirkman (creator of the show and comic book) to discuss the upcoming season of the show, Star Trek, and working with young actors on a horror show. Below are highlights from the interview, which took place at a press tour in April 2018. The second season is discussed, so light SPOILERS follow:

What are you guys excited about for season two? What are you excited for people to see?

Kirkman: I think it’s a more intense season. I think that we established Rome and we establish the characters and everything in the first season, but season two gets much deeper into the mythology and kind of reveals how much bigger the problem is and how much more entrenched in the city of Rome it is. And we also expanded some new characters and some new directions that aren’t necessarily completely present in the comic, which is exciting. So there’s some new cool twists and turns along the way and I think it’s going to be awesome.

Are there any character arc this season that you guys are particularly looking forward to?

Kirkman: I think the Sidney storyline with Brent Spiner’s character goes into some interesting places and Wrenn Schmidt’s character, Megan has some of the best scenes.

Black: You took the words out of my mouth. I think watching what Sidney goes through and where he ends up at the end of the season and his struggle for dominance and control and bringing him into contact with other characters on his side of the table in terms of other people who were involved in the ongoing issue of possession is really fun. And Megan’s character, Wrenn, who’s such an extraordinary actor, bringing her out of the first season, dealing with everything that happens with her and her family. I think we could, we take her to a really dark place and then try to pull her out of it, which I think really generates an interesting storyline and it’s just always fun to watch those actors work.

Speaking of Star Trek, do you think Quentin Tarantino has a good a Star Trek script in him?

Kirkman: I don’t think Quentin Tarantino has a bad anything script in him. I think he is a genuine Star Trek fan. I’m very excited for that.

Black: Having worked on one of the Star Trek iterations, I think anything that takes it in a new and fun direction is great for the franchise experience. So it’s something if he brings something new and exciting. I can’t wait.

Holly (played by Callie Brook McCliny) and Amber (played by Madeleine McGraw) play a much larger roles (this season) Are there any particular challenges being that it’s such a dark show at times?

Black: (joking) It’s just fun to torture and traumatize them. Look, I mean, they’re just such professionals. It’s, and you forget sometimes that, that they’re, you know, eight, nine years old because at a certain point you just deal with them and interact with them the way you would adult actor because they, they’re pros, they get it, they’re excited about the stuff you bring them.

So with Outcast, it seemed like when you guys develop the TV show sort of similarly timed to when you started writing the comic book to an extent, right? With Walking Dead obviously you had a ton of material from when you started. Is there a big difference between how you work on the two shows?

Kirkman: There would be times where I’d be like, Oh yeah, I can’t make this work in the comic. We could maybe pull this off in the show. I feel like it made me less precious just because I was like, yeah, I’m doing this and then yeah, we can totally do all kinds of different stuff in the, in the show. But I’m not very precious with Walking Dead either. So I don’t really know. I mean, I love the differences between the two mediums. I love being able to surprise people, so I’m always pushing to change the adaptations so that people that have read the comics are going, “that’s not right”, because I figured that’s exciting.

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Franchise Opportunities: Here In The World Is CARMEN SANDIEGO

Robert Yaniz Jr.

July 23, 2018

A lot of trailers and hot news stories came swirling out of San Diego Comic-Con 2018 this past weekend (even as the real topic on everyone’s minds percolated outside Hall H). However, despite all the shocking reveals (welcome back, Star Wars: The Clone Wars!) and promising first looks (how about that Shazam trailer though?!), one bit of news that caught my eye in the midst of all the admittedly more click-friendly scoops is the update we received on the latest for the Carmen Sandiego brand.

We learned last year that Netflix had big plans for the franchise in the shape of a new animated series set to debut in 2019, with Jane the Virgin star Gina Rodriguez voicing the character. In today’s age of nostalgia, such a reboot seemed par for the course, but then came word back in March that Rodriguez isn’t only slated to do voice work as Carmen but also play her in a live-action film that Netflix is developing alongside its animated counterpart.

Now, courtesy of Deadline, we have learned that screenwriter Mark Perez has been brought onboard to write the film. While his credits are less than perfect (ahem, The Country Bears), Perez recently wrote the hilarious crime comedy Game Night starring Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams (read my review), and his particular blend of humor, character-based storytelling and tangible stakes certainly may bode well for the world of Carmen and her Villains International League of Evil (V.I.L.E.). But let’s take a step back, for those who may be unfamiliar with the decades-old media franchise.

game night — Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams in Game Night.

The whole thing kicked off with the 1985 release of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?, a geogaphy-centric educational computer game that sends players on a wild chase around the globe to track the elusive criminal mastermind of the title. In the ensuing years, Carmen and the ACME Detective Agency faced off countless times in subsequent video games, game shows, animated series, books, comics and assorted other media. Jennifer Lopez and Sandra Bullock have even been attached to play Carmen Sandiego — who is normally depicted wearing a red trenchcoat and matching fedora — on the big screen, though that ultimately never came to fruition.

As someone who grew up not only with the computer games and the PBS game show, it has always felt like a missed opportunity to me that Carmen Sandiego never got her own family-friendly series of caper films before. The concept of a badass master criminal with impeccable fashion sense and a network of over-the-top subordinates across the world who specializes in stealing global landmarks and the like feels like something ripped right out of the Despicable Me series (which now makes me realize that Bullock essentially got to play a version of Carmen as Minions‘ Scarlet Overkill). Moreover, the idea of a Hispanic woman being depicted as the Blofeld-level genius behind an international criminal organization would have been an even fresher and more welcome bit of representation back in the series’ heyday than it will be today.

That being said, the combination of Rodriguez — who has proven herself adept at both comedy (on her TV series) and drama (stealing scenes from Oscar winner Natalie Portman in Annihilation this year, for instance) — and Perez sounds like it might finally be able to scratch an itch that honestly I had forgotten I even had at this point. Considering the broad premise at the heart of the Carmen Sandiego franchise, a film version really boils down to getting the tone just right. Play it too over the top, and you risk coming across too silly. Ground it too much, and you’re taking away the playfulness that made the games worth a trip down to your school’s computer lab.

Game Night managed to tow the line perfectly, keeping the hilarity on point without sacrificing the danger that its lead characters are in. Granted, that film is a hard-R romp intended for a far more mature audience than the Carmen Sandiego project, but adjusting your writing style for a specific audience is much easier to pull off than finding the right voice to blend the various elements of a very particular kind of story together.

Perez’s hiring is an inspired move on the part of the producers — including Rodriguez herself — and the folks at Netflix, capitalizing on his recent success and identifying his ability to translate the source material into what should be a thrilling romp for the whole family when it hits in the next year or two. For this fan of old-school Carmen Sandiego, the entire Netflix initiative to revive the franchise has just been upgraded from nostalgia-driven cash-grab to delayed wish fulfillment brought to promising new life. Well done, Netflix.

Agree or disagree with my thoughts? Comment below to let me know or chat movies with me on Twitter @crookedtable!

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Ryan Reynolds Reveals The Other Superhero Role He Wanted To Play

Jonathan Bruce

July 23, 2018

Ryan Reynolds is a big star in Hollywood, and he’s known for his comic book roles. After playing Hannibal King in Blade Trinity, he would move on X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Green Lantern. While the films were disappointing, he did find redemption with Deadpool and its 2018 sequel.

Indeed, Reynolds reveals he almost got to play The Flash, according to reports.

As We Got This Covered notes, Reynolds said he’s had quite a few comic book movie offers in his time. When quizzed on which role he would have loved to play, the actor jokingly claimed interest in Wolverine.

“I would say Wolverine, but God, I would be terrible,” he jokes.

On a more serious note, Reynolds did say he nearly had the role of Wally West. “Honestly, I wanted to be the Flash — the Wally West version,” he says. “But I think all of those ships have sailed.”

Back in the 2000s, David Goyer did write a script for a Flash movie built around Wally West. Reynolds was in his twenties at the time and lobbied for the film. While that did not come to pass, the actor did express interest in doing voice-over for the character in a cancelled video game. Sadly, that did not happen either.

While he’s far to old now, Reynolds circa 2006 would have made a great Wally West. For now, we’ll just have to wait for the Flash’s solo movie with Ezra Miller as Barry Allen.

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SDCC: Sony Reveals Details Of Morbius The Living Vampire Film

Jonathan Bruce

July 23, 2018

Marvel Studios chose to sit out this year, but Sony did make its presence felt at San Diego Comic Con.

What’s more, the studio is preparing its upcoming Morbius the Living Vampire film, starring Jared Leto. Based on reports, they are looking for two actors for major roles.

According to That Hashtag Show, Sony is searching for an actor for the antagonist and an actress for the love interest.

Riz Ahmed and Malek are in contention for the villain role. The character is said to be a former friend of Morbius before turning evil. Based on these facts, it could be Emil Nikos, who is Morbius’ old friend and first victim. As shown in the comics, he became a vampire himself.

While details are few, Sony is looking for an actor around 30 to 40 years old to play the villain. This would make Ahmed and Malek just right for the role. At 35, Ahmed is well known for his roles in Nightcrawler and Rogue One. He is also playing Riot in this year’s Venom, starring Tom Hardy.

The 37-year old Malek has a string of film and television credits to his name. He is famous for his starring turn on the Mr. Robot television series. Malek’s also generating Oscar buzz for his performance as Freddie Mercury in the upcoming Bohemian Rhapsody.

As for the female lead, the report describes her as an “intelligent, cutthroat businesswoman.” This could very well be Martine Bancroft, who’s known as Michael’s former lover. In the comics, she becomes a vampire herself.

The report also states Sony is eyeing a fall 2018 start for production. This would indicate the movie is aiming for a 2019 release.

Morbius is to be the next instalment of Sony’s planned Spider-Verse. The studio is also preparing a Silver Sable film.

Stay tuned for details…

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PREACHER Feature: “The Coffin”

Joshua Versalle

July 22, 2018

“The Coffin” has everything: the return of the Messiah, tips on fighting in bathrooms, aspiring vampires, and a certain guardian angel/imaginary friend.

Preacher Feature is a weekly look into the AMC show Preacher based on the comic book of the same name by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon. In this column, Josh Versalle gives a breakdown of the events from the show, including how they relate to the comics, and speculates as to what’s going on and what might be coming up. That means we’re headed into SPOILER territory, pardner, so if you haven’t got the grit for it, turn back now.

Need to catch up on last week’s action? Look no further.

“You up for a fistfight?”

When Jody and TC find out that Cassidy has escaped the Tombs again, they aren’t too happy about it, and they start a fight with Jesse and Tulip. Not strictly a fistfight, the combatants in this brawl (which is set to Warren Zevon’s Werewolves of London) utilize everything from a .45 to an improvised toilet paper/hair dryer torch, but the most powerful weapon of all turns out to be the voodoo handkerchief Gran’ma has soaked with Jesse’s blood. Faced with the power it holds over Jesse, Tulip is forced to stand down and, as punishment, Jesse is sent to the coffin and Tulip is chained up in the attic.

Gran’ma, despite being Humperdoo-only-knows how old, still has the appetites of a much younger woman (I guess feeding on souls keeps your libido young, too). So, she and TC do a little Civil War role-playing. When TC can’t remember his lines, Gran’ma flies into a rage and says she’s going to eat Tulip’s soul.

“How ’bout a patrol, Marshall Custer?”

While underwater, Jesse starts hallucinating. In this hallucination, he’s an old-timey marshal, fighting outlaws with a man who looks and sounds an awful lot like the star of such classic westerns as True Grit and The Searchers (more about this below). This cowboy inspires Jesse to escape from the coffin in order to rescue Tulip, and Jesse sends a cigarette up though the exhaust tube to blow up the pump and blow the lid off the coffin.

Of course, we all know Tulip isn’t the type to need rescuing, and by the time Jesse gets back to the house, she’s already outsmarted Jody and TC and choked out Gran’ma. The trouble is, when Gran’ma brought Tulip back from the dead, she bound Tulip’s life to her own, so if Gran’ma dies, Tulip goes with her. Jesse, Jody, and TC manage to revive them both, but now he’s farther than ever away from escaping Angelville.

“Call for you from Masada”

Things aren’t going so well for Herr Starr and the Grail, either. Other than an impressive tap dance routine, Humperdoo (the inbred descendant of Jesus Christ) doesn’t have a lot of skills. Starr recognizes this and that’s the whole reason he recruited Jesse to be his Messiah. But Starr’s boss, the All-Father of the Grail (Jonny Coyne), is a man whose faith is matched only by his appetite. The All-Father believes, despite all evidence to the contrary, that Humperdoo is exactly the man to lead the world after the Grail initiates the apocalypse. Luckily for Starr, the resourceful Featherstone has a plan…

“So, how long have you been a vampire?”

Dating isn’t easy for anyone, let alone a vampire who had to leave the woman he loves and his only friend, so Cassidy turns to the internet. It turns out, there’s a dating site for everyone, even vampires. His date turns sour, though, when the “vampire” (played by Lucy Faust) he meets tries to put in a set of novelty fangs. Upon seeing him reveal his real fangs, she runs away in terror. Downcast, Cassidy proceeds to get pissed. Even his stout constitution is no match for the combined intoxicating powers of whiskey and elephant tranquilizers and he passes out, making it easy for the Grail to abduct him. Featherstone’s plan isto use him as bait to lure Jesse back to them. While they are filming the hostage video, Cassidy’s “vampire” date and her gang break in and rescue (or double-abduct) Cassidy.

From Panels to Screen:

This episode is packed with connections to the comics. Let’s start with the titular coffin. Foreshadowed in season two, the L’angelle’s preferred method of punishment for little Jesse was locking the poor kid in a coffin and then dropping it underwater for days at a time. With no food, no light, and very little air, how was Jesse to survive this sadistic punishment? With the help of his imaginary friend, who took the form of John Wayne.

As seen on the cover of Preacher #11, by Glenn Fabry (above) – Jesse, who as a boy in the comics was raised on movie Westerns, took solace in the company of a sort of guardian angel who appeared to him in the image of the Duke. This “John Wayne” figure was a prominent character in the comics, but until this episode wasn’t been seen in the show, although John Wayne’s movies have been examined, in the season two episode “Dallas”. The lighter Jesse uses to escape the coffin, with “Fuck Communism” stamped on the side, is a memento of his father, who was given the lighter by none other than John Wayne on a USO tour while Jesse’s dad was a marine in Vietnam.

The group of vampire wannabes that abduct/rescue Cassidy, Les Enfants Du Sang, are also featured in the “Dixie Fried” story arc of the books (Preacher 27-33, Cassidy: Blood & Whiskey). Their arrival was also foreshadowed on Denis’s computer in the season two finale, “The End of the Road”.

All-Father D’Aronique, the grossly overweight and “lethally clever” head of the Grail, makes his debut in this episode and Starr mentions a “merciless torturer”, which seems to be a reference to Frankie Toscani, aka Frankie the Eunuch.

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Review: ATTACK ON TITAN: Season 3 Episode 38

Anthony Wendel

The return of Attack On Titan opens its third season with a flow similar to the very first episode of the series. It displays a slow start but kicks things into overdrive by the end. Does this mean it’s an instant hit?

Summary

The Survey Corps find themselves having to protect Eren and Historia from a growing conspiracy.

Review

The first thing to address is the new opening for this season of Attack On Titan. Instead of bringing back Linked Horizon for their fourth run on the opening theme, a different group stepped up. The song, Red Sawn by Yoshiki from X Japan, featuring Hyde from L’Arc-en-Ciel, is much different than the openings by Linked Horizon. While the other openings felt like battle anthems to rally the troops to fight the titans, the new song feels emotional and uplifting as it reflects the cast’s growth. It’s a very big change but the song is beautiful so although the style has been changed, it still fits for the series overall.

The episode for goes flashback to catch the audience up on what happened in the previous season. There is a bit of talk about what is happening to Levi’s squad. The team has two goals. The first is to train Eren with his Titan abilities so they he will be able fix the wall to keep out the wild Titans. The second goal is to protect Historia from those who want her dead. Both of these aspects are touched upon in this episode. It’s quickly revealed the MIlitary Police are the ones have their sights set on Historia and will do whatever it takes to get her back.

This plot to capture both Historia and Eren seems like it will be the center point of most of the season. If the plot keeps this level of intense intrigue the entire time then fans have a lot to look forward to this season.

Attack On Titan is streaming on Crunchyroll and VRV.

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X-MEN BLACK October Event to Spotlight the Mutant Villains

Michael Stagno

July 22, 2018

This October, the X-Men madness begins, as Marvel has announced the X-Men Black event, which will highlight the darker side of mutantkind.

Big news out of the Marvel X-Men panel at San Diego Comic-Con today as five different creative teams, will adapt five new tales as one-shot stories, for Magneto, Mojo, Mystique, Juggernaut and Emma Frost.

MAGNETO #1, by writer Chris Claremont and artist Dalibor Talajic.
MOJO #1, by writer Scott Aukerman and artist Nick Bradshaw.
MYSTIQUE #1, by writer Seanan McGuire and artist Marco Failla.
JUGGERNAUT #1, by writer Robbie Thompson and artist Shawn Crystal.
EMMA FROST #1, by writer Leah Williams and artist Chris Bachalo.

The event begins this October. Stay tuned for specific release dates. Click HERE for the full article from Marvel.

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SDCC: CW Releases ARROW Season 7 Trailer

Manuel Gomez

July 22, 2018

The CW has released the trailer for the upcoming seventh season of the show Arrow.

If you are an Arrow fan, then you know last season ended with one of the biggest shake-ups in the show’s history; the outting of Oliver Queen as the Green Arrow and his subsequent arrest. Now fresh from San Diego Comic-Con International we finally have look at what we can expect this fall. Check it out below.

Things certainly look bleak for Team Arrow! And although we got some answers in the trailer (Oliver has been in prison for five months, the team has been inactive), we are left with many questions too: Who is that new vigilante? Are we getting a return of past villains (both Bronze Tiger and Blockbuster are in the trailer) and where are the ‘Long Bow Hunters’?

What do you guys think? Are you excited for the seventh season? Comment and discuss below!

Arrow season seven returns to the CW on October 15th, 2018.

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SDCC: Next DOCTOR WHO Season Will Not Feature a Classic Villain

Kieran Freemantle

July 21, 2018

Daleks, war-hungry aliens that cause fear and terror across the universe and scaring children since 1963. They are The Doctor’s greatest nemesis, providing some of the best stories in the classic and modern eras. However, it looks like the Daleks are not returning for the 11th season of Doctor Who.

The new showrunner Chris Chibnall confirmed this news when speaking to the Radio Times in the UK. Chibnall is quoted telling the Radio Times “We’ve got lots of new villains, lots of new monsters, lots of new characters for you to fall in love with.” Chibnall also states “It’s a great moment to bring everybody on board. It’s a big, inclusive, accessible mainstream series of 10 really, varied, exciting standalone stories. So you won’t see very much from the past.”

When speaking at San Diego Comic-Con Chibnall said “We’ve got two weeks left of shooting, and we haven’t seen them [Daleks] yet.”

This could all be a bluff from Chibnall with the aim to surprises audiences with a big return for blobs in battle armor, but it is unlikely. During the modern era the Daleks have been overused to the point that any sense of menace from them has disappeared – a break of a season or two so that the show could build up a massive return for them and be a huge threat once again. They could have a storyline that does them justice.

Doctor Who is set to return in October this year.

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