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UPDATED, 8:15 AM: Amid all the turmoil in the MCU of late, Disney now has one less battle to fight. After more than two years, Disney and subsidiary Marvel have reached a settlement with the estate of acclaimed comic book artist Steve Ditko. Lawyers for the Mouse House and the Ditko estate filed…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of the Gen V Season 1 finale episode “The Guardians of Godolkin,” which debuted Friday on Prime Video. "You took that blast like a f*ckin' champ," Gen V's Andre Anderson (Chance Perdomo) tells Marie Moreau (Jaz Sinclair) at the end of the Season 1 finale…

Keith Giffen, a veteran writer and artist whose work included DC's Lobo and the Jamie Reyes version of the Blue Beetle and Marvel's Rocket Raccoon, has died at the age of 70. His death was affirmed by longtime collaborator Paul Levitz on Facebook. The family of the comics veteran announced his death…

EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Wu (American Born Chinese, Badlands) is co-writing and developing a comic book series with veteran Marvel, DC and Valiant artist Sean Chen, with plans to adapt the property for film and TV starring Wu. The project, Evermind, will debut via Kickstarter on Tuesday. Evermind…

Walking Dead outfit Skybound Entertainment is turning its graphic novel Heart Attack into a sci-fi series. Skybound has teamed with Japanese network Fuji TV on the project, with the former distributing globally and the latter producing and broadcasting locally. From Mortal Kombat 2’s Shawn…

EXCLUSIVE: Ketchup Entertainment has landed the rights to Millennium Media’s latest Hellboy pic Hellboy: The Crooked Man starring Jack Kesy in the titular role. The superhero horror movie is a reimagining of the franchise based on the Dark Horse Comics character of the same name, created by Mike Mignola…

Nathan Louis Jackson, the award-winning playwright who made a splash with the debut of Broke-ology in 2008 and who went on to write and produce TV shows such as Luke Cage, S.W.A.T., 13 Reasons Why and Shameless, died on August 22, according to multiple reports. While no cause of death was given, his wife…

On Wednesday’s episode of Saturday Night Live alums Dana Carvey and David Spade’s “Fly on the Wall” podcast, it was revealed that Hillary Clinton was upset with Julia Sweeney’s SNL impression of a teenaged Chelsea Clinton. The former Secretary of State “wrote a letter” to SNL creator Lorne Michaels…

EXCLUSIVE: Paul Verhoeven’s 1992 thriller Basic Instinct is the inspiration for a new comic book series by Sumerian Comics. Sumerian is teaming with Cuban illustrator Vanesa R. Del Rey to create the first comic book series based on the movie, which starred Sharon Stone as enigmatic writer Catherine…

Two months ago, when comedian Matt Rife announced his ProbleMATTic World Tour with Live Nation, he moved around 600,000 tickets over the span of just 48 hours, experiencing the culmination of 12 long years on the road. Remarkably, this was just the artist presale, with Rife ultimately going on to…

There’s a conspicuous hole in Seth Rogen’s miles-long resume as an actor, producer and writer. He’s never done a Marvel or DC film. This despite dabbling in superheroes with work on “The Green Hornet,” “The Boys,” and “Invincible.” Speaking with Polygon about the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Tu…

Lou Alexander, a comedian who worked the national nightclub circuit in the U.S. and Canada in the 1950s and 1960s before becoming an agent and manager, died earlier this month in Beverly Hills. He was 91 and no details on the cause were available, according to his friend, Jeremy Vernon. Alexander…