The show follows a single mother running a hotel named the Underv🍌ale, which is populated by ghosts, including the spirit of her estranged brother.

From the first look 𓄧pictures, ♑which you can see below, we're getting some serious Hazbin Hotel and Scooby Doo vibes.

Roller also executive produces, along with Rick and Morty co-creator Dan Harmon, Chris McKenna, and Steve Levy. Will Fort🙈e, Eliza Coupe, Skyler Gisondo, Natalie Palamides and Jimmi Simpson make up the cast.

"I'm thrilled to be working with Netflix and an amazingly talented cast and crew to bring to life the stories of the dead, the evil, and🔥 the struggling hospitality workers at the Undervale Hotel," Roller told Netflix.

"Haunted Hotel is wildly inventive and I'm very grateful to Matt, Chris, Dan, and their team for bringing their talents to Netflix," Billy Wee, Netflix's director of Adult Animation, also said. "They are phenomenal collaඣborators and I can't wait for fans all over the world to experience this hilarious show."

This is a pretty big year for the streamer, with 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Wednesday season 2, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Stranger Things season 5, and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Squid Game season 3 all arriving before the end of the year – Stranger Things's release schedule was unveiled at 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Netflix Tudum 2025, and it'll be arriving in♏ three parts this holiday season.

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The show's creators Mike Judge and Greg Daniels and new showrunner Saladin K. Patterson have also opened up in an interview with , explaining some new de♋tails of where we'll find King of the H🤡ill's beloved characters when the new season premieres on August 4.

First, here's the new credits sequence:

As you can see, Hank and Pegg𒐪y seem to have moved out of their old Arlen neighborhood for some time. It turns out Hank's been selling propane and propane accessories in Saudi Arabia for some time, and now he's finally moving back into his old place. And though he's been in Saudi Arab♔ia, he's been living in a corporate community meant to offer its American employees an idealized version of their home country.

"We liked the idea that he had been gone for a while, and the most Mayberry kind of freezer that you could put the family in was an Aramco base, which is like an idealized kind of white-picket-fence America," 🅠G💦reg Daniels. "They had gone to Saudi Arabia and they were just coming back and had missed out on a lot of recent, uh, cultural changes."

"A lot has happened in the world since the original run of the sh🌸ow ended. There's just a lot more for Hank to complain about," adds Mike Judge.

Bobby is all grown up (though Pamela Adlon is still voicing him with much the same tone). Dale is running for mayor of Arlen. And what's more, Dale's political beliefs, once considered on the fringes, hav💎e somehow become mu💎ch more mainstream.

Still, showrunner Patterson says that, as ever, King of the H⛎ill will focus on the foibles of modern day life and the relationships of the characters as opposed to biting politi♐cal satire.

"I think focusing on small, relatable things was the way that we were able to steer clear of things that were go♍nna feel like gratuitous satirℱe, on-the-nose, or just ineffective," says Patterson. "You know, 'Oh, I see what they're doing here. That's a conservative point of view, that’s a liberal point of view.' It's kind of easy and simple, right?" Patterson says.

"Hank always represented the sensible middle, the old show did a great job handling the extremes and kind of pushing people towards what the common-sense middle was," the showrunner continues. "Wꦛell, Hank's been gone, and while he's gone, the country's changed so much that where Hank stood in the middle isn't really the middle anymore."

"It always was a very specific show. It's about these characters who live around this alley. It's a character comedy,” Daniels states. "I hope no one has an expectation that it's a late-night show. 📖Animation takes a long time. We're not ripping headlines. It's about character and culture."

As someone who loves King ౠof the Hill and has, let's say, strong opinions about the characters, I'm genuinely encouraged that the creators and showrunner are focusing on the things that have always made the show great, especially the ways that the characters grow and evolve through their relationships with each other. I'm still a bit on the fence about the revival (the𒁃 concept of bringing back an old show years after its original run doesn't have the best track record), but I'm optimistic for the potential in the show's updated premise.

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In a new interview with GamesRadarꦆ+, the voice actors were asked why they think Jerry's pitifulness is still so funny 12 years in – and their responses were kind of surprising, albeit in different ways.

For Parnell, Jerry is the "everyman" that grounds all of the show's zany goings-on elsewhere for those tuning in. "Every now and then, we'll get to see ꦕJerry be a little bit of a badass," he teases. "But yo🌼u know, it's a very fun character to play. It's fun to play someone that's put upon the way that Jerry is. I think people can relate to that aspect of [him] – you know, he doesn't always know what's going on. He's not usually in command of much, including his family. He's just sort of trying to make the best of it, and roll with it. He's come to accept, for the most part, this reality of having Rick in his life, with all of the dimensions and everything. I just think [he's] an every person that people can relate to."

Having premiered on May 25, the new chapter of Rick and Morty sees🅷 the former wrestle (briefly) with his thoughts on the afterlife and face off against gun-wielding extraterr🦋estrial Pope-types, as he continues to subject the latter to all kinds of cosmic chaos.

"It’ll feel like a return to form and kind of like a 'we’re back, baby' kind of feeling, and hopefully, season 9 will be that but, you know, even more so. But it’ll be because it’s been a gradual proཧ🍸cess of just trying to get our wind in our sails again."

When asked for her "take", Chalke replies: "I mean, first of all, he's one of 🐬my favorite characters. The cool part about doing a show for this long is that you don't normally have the luxury of doing 80 episodes. So to, like, see all the versions of Jerry and his confidence shift... We just recorded [episode 9] and it's one of my favorite Jerry episodes, where we see such a differen💞t side of him."

The former Scrubs star goes on to praise her scene partner, saying that Parnell does an "incredible job" of balancing Jerry's nuances. "The writing... they never stop giving [us] a bottomless supply of different journeys for these characters. It's kind of crazy. You read the script and you're like, 'This is not like any of the 79 that came before it'" she adds. "So I feel like, over the eight seasons, we've seen so many differen♌t versions of Jerry. But I ♍feel like it's neat, because at the beginning, you know, with Beth and Jerry's relationship specifically, you kind of thought maybe it would just be one way, and that wasn't the case at all."

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Now, writer Amanda Overton, who penned scripts for both sea🌃sons of 🐲the Netflix series, has opened up on the ideas floating around in her head since Arcane came to a close last year.

"I wasn’t a mot🎀her when we were writing season 1 and 2, and now I am. And I was like, ‘There is so much more to explore in terms of motherhood, or how phases of life shift," Overton told .

While there's an entire roster of League of Legends characters to grapple with, Overton's thematic throughline here is something that could extend to revisiting some familiar f🦄aces.

"[I’d be interested in] older characters – what happens when Vi and Caitlyn are older, and now they’re adults, and what choices do they ma๊ke?" Overton pondered.

The finale of Arcane saw Ambessa and her Noxian forces surge into Piltover, bolstered by the unlimited power oꦓf Viktor. Utilizing his time powers, Ekko eventually helped save the day, while Vi suffered two major losses in the shape of the re-animated Vander and Jinx, whꦛo seemingly sacrificed herself but whose fate was left ambiguous.

From there, it seems, the League of Legends-verse can go anywhere. In the same Screen Rant intervi𒊎ew, showrunner and executive producer Christian Linke was a little more cautious in his outlook.

"I think, for now, it’s a moment for us to take a step back [and] look 🐬at the whole map, if you will," Linke said.

That's in direct contrast to his words immediately following the end of Arcane, perhaps hinting at a slཧightly more measured approach moving forward.

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:In a Twitch chat, he explained that one project had been in development for a year, with Riot Games co-founder Marc Merrill 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:later clearing up some of after confu🥀sion reigned over whether multiple shows were in the works.

"To clarify, he didn’t say 3 separate shows – said exploring 3 regions," he tweeted. "We are exploring a bunch of different shows (✤and games)."

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Speaking to GamesRadar+, Linke affirmed that any new project – be🃏 it a show or🦄 a movie – would still be years away.

Linke explained, "Yeah, it takes time – depending on if it's a series or a movie. We're exploring both in many, many directions. A lot of it comes down to finding the right people, the right vision, the right idea, the right story. That'll take years, and 𒁏once we have confidence that something's happening, we'll talk more about it."

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"I think this season gave us great opportunities to explore the range of the characters as they are on the page, and bring that same range we have inside us to the roles," Ian Cardoni tells GamesRadar+ about how getting a second seℱason under his belt has transformed his take on Rick.

"I think fans will really enjoy the different iterations of Rick. I w💜as telling Harry I have enjoyed watching his Mortys throughout the season too… I think there's been an element of taking some more ownership over these roles and rea🌊lly trying to serve the writing that we've got."

Belden echoed those thoughts, saying, "There's a lot of gifts we've been given by the scripts. I honestly think we've worked these vocal muscles in getting these voices down over the course of season seven. I think now that we've honed that, we can turn our attention to other things – serving the script, embodying the characters a little 🌺bit more, and just bringing these incredible stories to life in the way that fans have come to expect of the show."

Cardoni and Belden 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:took over from Justin Roiland after the co-creator and voice actor departed Rick and Morty after charges relating to felony domestic battery and false imprisonment were revealed. The charges were later dropped due to "insufficient evidence." More allegations s💦urrounding Roiland emerged in a later report from . Roiland’s lawyer stated they were "false and defamatory."

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'Summer of All Fears' begins with much older versions of the Sanchez siblings in a world very differe🔯nt from our own. Phone chargeꦑrs are all anyone seems to talk about, which might have something to do with the reason why Summer is in the midst of launching an electrical sky grid that will make said chargers obsolete.

With her mission accomplished, Summer and Morty are thrust back into the real world where we discover they've lived 17 years in a matrix of Rick's design, all to teach them one brut🌌al lesson: "Never take Grandpa's phone chargers." The problem is that only a few days have passed in the real world, and both kids still remain trapped in the same teen bodies they started out with.

"I fell in love and ran a country," argues Summer, desperate to hold onto those memories b💟efore Rick mi✅ndwipes her and Morty. Grandpa agrees, allowing them both to remember everything that happened in the matrix. What could go wrong, right?

A new horizon

At first, Summer and her mother get on better than ever. "I love this version of you," says Beth as they share a third mimosa together on a casual Wednesday afternoon. Rick too is impressed by this new "old🐓er" version of Morty who's gotten a lot more crafty when it comes to building machinery.

Everyone bonds and everything is schwifty. The end. Except, with this being Rick and Morty, things sooꦗn turn south in the biggest, most deranged 🐷way possible.

Suꦆmmer begins to patronize her mother rather cruelly, as if those extra 17 years of existence make her better somehow. The pai🐈r end up in a store for middle-aged women who are actually vampires in disguise, because… Well, because Rick and Morty's gonna Rick and Morty.

Meanwhile, Morty tricks Rick into a new 🌸matrix to teach his Grandpa a lesson of his own: "Don't put pe💮ople in the matrix." With Rick out of the way, Morty races off on a suicide mission triggered by PTSD he developed following the "Phone Wars" he lived through in the matrix.

By the end of the episode, Rick frees himself in time to save his nephew and everything resets, as per usual. Except, for a moment there, it really looked like Morty and Summer were going to keep their aged-up minds. "I have a feeling things a🙈re going to be different now," says Matrix Summer, as if she has a plan to stick around longer. But then Rick resets both of their brains♎ last minute, reverting the show back to exactly how it was before.

One last scene teases how the ramifications 🍸of this episode could still linger, however, when Summer comes across a video that "Matrix Summer" left behind to reveal the memories she's lost while sharing advice for the future. Our Summer doesn't care though, cutting the video off mid-sentence – "Urgh, send a text" – and then calls her friend 🃏Trisha to ask about something far more important: "What are we huffing tonight, biiiitch?"

A missed chance to re-energize

So the writers were just toying with us all along, leading us to believe that Matrix Summer might have a bigger impact before switching things up and pulling the rug out from under us. It's a cheeky twist that definitely kept me on my toes, but it's also a missed opportunity for Rick and ♊Morty's future.

With at least two more seasons confirmed and fan interest waning, introducing "Matrix" versions of two key characters could have re-energized the series, shaking up the family dynamic in entirely unexpected ways♛. We've only known this new Morty and Summer for one episode, but there could have been a lot of potential here for something exciting and even game-changing.

There's the way Summer speaks down to her mother, and presumabl🌠y her father too, renegotiating her vapid teen experiences with an adult mind that – let's not forget – started an actual war in the matrix.

Morty's numerous deaths in said war could have been interesting to explore as well, building on the nihilist thread that's already integr☂al to his and Rick's storyline especially. Plus, wouldn't it have been fascinating to see an "older" Morty hold his own more against his grandpa? Who needs Evil Morty when you've got "Matrix" Morty?

One-off episodes number among the show's best, but it's the serialised storylines that generate the m✃ost discussion between🤪 fans online. And when handled right, they're also memorable in their own right, such as Rick Prime's role in season seven and the fate of Rick's wife, Diane.

Had the writers decided to keep Matrix Morty and Su🐼mmer 𒁏around, they could have serialised the plot of season eight with this throughline while remaining free to explore the usual adventure of the week episodes too.

There's also precedent for this, as farಌ back as the sixth episode of season one (titled 'Rick Potion No. 9') when Rick and Morty accidentally mutated the whole world into "Cronenbergian" monsters. Rather than ♔fix their mistake, Rick simply found another universe almost identical to his own where he and Morty replaced freshly deceased versions of themselves who they buried in the backyard.

While 'Summer of All Fears' didn't have to be a game-changing episode of that magnitude, it wouldn't hurt to see more ambition of that kind, 11 years in. After all, the trailer for season eight describes Rick and Morty as "the best high concept sci-fi rigamarole in the universe." While the premiere is a decent crack at this, the show is not quite at that level anymore, which means something needs to change if we're really gonna make it to "澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Rick and Morty forever, 100 years."

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"That's an example of something that I wouldn't take off the table," says Harm🍷on. "But I think the reason it hasn't happened is because of the other rule, which is I would never force that ju🎃st because."

"B😼ack in Community's writers room," he continues, "there would be these bucket list things, and that would include a ꦉmusical episode, and those might be cautionary tales."

Basically, any episode concept that begins with some version of, "Oh, we have to do this," is just asking for trouble, according toꦰ Harmon. "If that's the only impetus, then maybe don't do that," he adds, noting that Rick and Morty is generally "more cautious about that stuff."

But if you, like me, have been specifically waiting for a true Rick and Morty music🍸al, there's still hope.

"A well-done musical episode, there's no reason for it to not happen other than a poorly done one would be a terrible thing," says Harmon. "I would say nothing's off the table, including like an ﷽episode with no dialog, almost like a silent movie, like a 'show, don't tell,' thing, and what other kind of meta – we could do an episode in all one take! All one drawing!"

How that last idea might work exactly ཧremains a mystery. But Harmon and Marder have a good laugh imagining how that would possibly work.

"No edits!" concludes Harmon.

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For Marder, a "complete season" is one that does both episodic storytel𒐪l๊ing and serial narratives. "I think there's always an eye on doing all of it in a season," he says. But that doesn't mean everything always goes exactly to plan.

"There's just no ignoring that we could be starting off a day trying to tackle something," says Marder, "and then someone w🍌ill throw out an idea that is so inescapable, and it'll excite Dan [Harmon], and it'll excite me so muc♛h that we don't even need to articulate that we're moving on to this for now, because it is sparking so much joy."

"You didn't come in on a Tuesday expecting to hear it, and you can't unhear it once you've heard it, and suddenly that's episode eight," he continues. "They all just sort of as♔semble, and then we find a method to the madness and a shape to a season that makes it feel like we broke it in the order that you're seeing it in, but it's really just finding the things that we find most attractive and most compelling and get the most sort of excitement going in a room on any given moment."

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"Geez, I don't know what that would be," says Harmon when I ask if there's any guideline t🌌o what Rick and Morty is at this point. "I mean, obviously it's centered on the characters, but even that we subvert. I mean, who ꦕare these people? Like, literally who? How do you know when they are them?"

I think it's defined by the fact that it is like a limitless sandbox for a narrative show that has as much freedom as an anthology show," he continues. "And that is a paradox, because that's what defines it, is i♉ts lack of definition, I guess."

Marder, however, actually thinks this is directly beneficial to Rick and Morty as a whole. The lack of strict definition lets the team be play⛄ful and uninhibited.

"I🍨 think that's what's keeping it going," says Marder. "I think the lack of guardrails has kept the idea flow smooth and light and loose in a way that a show, if we were just stuck in a one little set every week, would be really head-banging at this point. So I think the fact that we can do anything has kept us fresh."

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Based on the highly popular mobile game, Netflix has greenlit a new serie𝐆s ti🅠tled CLASH. The news was announced by the game’s developer Supercell on . "We’re partnering with Netflix to bring the war-waging world of CLASH to life like never before," reads the caption. "More details are coming later, but we just couldn’t keep it a secret any longer." Check out the post below.

Moments later, Netflix sent out a press release confirming the news, stating that the animated series will be set in the world of both Clash of Clans and Clash Royale, and will build upon the games. Much like Clash of Clans, the show will follow "a determined, but in over his head, Barbarian who must rally a band of misfits to defend their village and navigate the comically absurd politic🌄s of war."

Clash of Clans launched in 2012 and is set in a fantasy world where 🔜players step into the shoes of a chief and look after their own village. Players can connect their accounts with others to create clans and participate in Clan Wars. The game has since turned into a world-famous franchise, with both Clash of Clans and Clash Royale racking up over four billion downloads worldwide.

The show is currently in pre-production and has found a showrunner in Entergalactic’s Fletcꦓher Moules, who has previously worked with Supercell on original Clash of Clans animated videos. Screenwriter Ron Weiner, best known for his work on 30 Rock, Futurama, and Arrested Development, serves as head writer.

Of the new partnership, Netflix’s Vice President of Animation Series John Derderian said: "Working with the incre🅘dible team at Supercell, Fletcher Moules and Ron Weiner, we’re bringing 💎all the fun, chaos and spirit of the world of CLASH to life in a whole new way."

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MacLeod will debut as Milhouse in the season 36 finale 'Estranger Things' in which she briefly voices the long running supporting c🎃haracter in a flash-forward scene where he appears as an adult alongside older versions of Bart and Lisa. She's only got one line, and since Milhouse will appear as an adult, it'll offer just an indication of what her regular performance as the character will sound like.

"When Bart & Lisa stop watching Itchy & Scratchy together, Marge fears that they’ll start to drift apart... ꦛbut she has no idea how bad things ജare about to get!" reads the episode's brief synopsis.

Pamela H🅺ayden retired from The Simpsons in 2024 after 30 years of voic🎃ing Milhouse as well as many other Springfield mainstays including bully Jimbo Jones, who will himself be voiced in future by comedian Mo Collins, as well as Rod Flanders, Malibu Stacy, and many more.

Kelly MacLeod previously had an appearance on The Simpsons in the 2022 episode 'Bart The Cool Kid' performing the song 'Two Badges, On🌳e Mind.' MacLeod got her start as a singer with the band Private Life, going on to a small acting career in 2009's short film Slice of Pie while al🐻so joining a new band called The Sweet Potatoes.

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Bill retrieves a food order from Mega-Lo Delivery. Boomhauer is buried in an iPad. And perhaps most hilariously of all, Dale vapes while wearing a V🍃R headset. Only Hank seems vaguely perturbed by the intrusion of all the tech, including the drone that's delivering a new six-pack of the gang's favorite Alamo Beer.

I've seen every episode of King of the Hill at least 20 times - call it "comfort viewing" in my🦹 house - and like Hank in the image, I've been inherently skeptical at the idea of the show coming into 2025. The modern trend of reviving every show and franchise hasn't always hit the mark, and sometimes it's been downright dreadful.

But seeing how the 2025 King of the Hill revival has managed to channel the essence of each character in♔to a single teaser image does give me hope that the show willꦐ find a way to feel fresh while also honoring the characters we know so well.

While I've still got some trepidatiꦿon at seeing my favorite show brought back in a particularly volatile social era, perhaps some of King of the Hill's satirically charged take on finding kindness in an ever stranger world will be exactly what we need.

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Courage the Cowardly Dog hit Cartooꦆn Network some 25 years ago, and I had the esteemed honor (they sent me an invite via Instagram DM and I screamed) to attend a special screening dubbed the Courage the Cowardly Dog Scare-a-thon. The sold-out screening, hosted by the , featured an intro and Q&A from none other than creator John R. Dilworth - and a surprise appearance from composer Jody Gray and writer William Hohauser.

I'll call you Courage, we'll have a grand time

If you aren’t familiar with Courage, it’s a cartoon show that uses mixed mediums (everything from claymation to CGI) to tell the story of a dog (Marty Grabstein) who lives in the middle of Nowherꦰe, Kansas with his beloved owner, a sweet, elderly woman by the name of Muriel (voiced by Thea White) and her crotchedy husband, Eustace Bagge (Lionel Wilson; Arthur Anderson). But, as the opening narration will tell you, "creepy stuff" happens in the middle of nowhere - and it’🔥s up to Courage to save Muriel from the likes of zombie directors, chickens from outer space, evil gerbil doctors, Egyptian pharaohs, and foxes with nefarious intentions.

To put it blankly: it was a black comedy horror cartoon for kids - and at times (or most of the time) the music and animation were so scary that it was impossible to watch with the lights off. One of the hosts of the screening eve🥀n commented that the episode "King Ramses’ Curse" ended up "giving us all nightmares," which made Dilworth giggle. At the screening, he told us that Nowhere, Kansas was inspired by a series of photos of desolate areas from documentary photographer Dorothea Lange, and that Muriel was based on a Scottish woman that he was "in love with." He recreated his pitch to Cartoon Network, which was more or less the opening narration, and he did so by juggling three balls and wearing a space helmet. You can’t make this up.

Five episodes were shown: the very first Courage short, "Chicken from Outer Space" (in which Eustace eat eggs from an alien chicken and turns into one himself), "King Ramses’ Curse" (which includes the famous, "Return the slab or suffer my curse"), "Demon in the Mattress" (where Muriel buys a possessed mattress off a sketchy TV commercial), "Freaky Fred" (which sees Courage fight off Muriel’s terrifying barber nephew who broke out of a psych✅ ward), and "Perfect," the second half of the series finale.

The things I do for love

Now, this was not your average screening - I go to many as a writer/reporter, and the audience is fairly quiet and respectful. This was more akin to a concert: every episode title screen was met with loud, enthusiastic screams - like One Direction had entered the building. We knew the iconic lines (most notably, "Kick 'em in the dishpan, woo woo woo" and Freaky Fred's drawn-out "Naughty"), and we said them out loud. We laughed like we were seeing these episodes, some that were our favorites from childhood, for the very fir🔴st time. For me, it was my first time seeing "Perfect," and it was a beautiful send-off: the episode makes use of several different types of animation, with each segment directed by a different animator. I cried a bit, knowing that it was the series finale, and that even though the series was syndicated and available on streaming - it still, in a way, marked the end of being a little kid.

A Q&A followed, with Dilworth taking some rather silly (but earnest) audience questions. What stuck🦩 with me, though, was Dilworth talking about how much he loved working on the show. "N𝔉ever got dull, never got tired," he said. And as for pushback on the scary episodes? The network didn’t care as long as they were "quiet" and "didn’t go beyond the budget."

The event only lasted around two hours, and I was so sad when it was over - because I had to leave the theater and go back to being an adult. There was something so special about being in that packed room with all of those people, the majority of ꦬwhom were tattooed millennials with brightly colored hair (like myself) and beyond blissfully happy to be there. It was healing, in a way, to celebrate something you loved when you were small with 100 people who were all there for the same exact reason. Though it’s spring in New York, I’ll be stuck inside for the next two weeks, marathoning the rest of the episodes - but this time, with the lights off.

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The project in question is an animated musical short for season 4 o🦂f the Netflix sci-fi anthology Love, Death, and Robots. The short is a recreation of the 2003 Red Hot Chili Peppers concert at Slane Castle in Ireland...with string-puppets. You can watch the trailer below.

The concert, which took place on August 2𓂃3, 2003, was - at the time - one of the biggest ever for the band with 80,000 fans in attendance after tickets sold out in just under two hours. The supporting acts included Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, PJ Harvey, Feeder, and Morcheeba.

Love, Death, and Robots first hit Netflix in 2019, and was in🐷itially conceived as a re-imagining of Fincher and creator Tim Miller's long-delayed reboot of the 1981 animated sci-fi movie Heavy Metal. The project was in development hell for some 11 years, reportedly due to the creative differences between both the crew and the studios (H/T ).

Netflix agreed to pick up the project, but only on the condition that the project was a series rather than feature-len⛎gth film. Fincher previously directed the episode "Bad Traveling," for season 3 of the series, which starred Troy Baker a♒s the captain of a shark-hunting ship under attack by a man-eating crusteacean.

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Here's the trailer, which declares the venerable𝓡 cult favorite animated series "the best high concept sci-fi rigamarole i🍒n the universe" - something its legions of fans will likely agree with wholeheartedly.

"Rick and Morty is back for Season Eight! Life has meaning again!" declares Adult Swim's official description of the new se💙ason. "Anything is possible! Look out for adventures with Summer, Jerry, Beth, and the other Beth. Maybe Butter Bot will get a new task? Whatever happens, you can’t kee🎃p Rick and Morty down for long. People have tried!"

Indeed Rick and Morty has survive🌜d its share of controversy as a show, maintaining a steady audience of devotees despite creative changes in previous seasons.

In its own weird way, Rick and Morty is indeed the culmination of decades of po𒈔p cu✃lture, taking its cues from some of the most complex sci-fi stories around, combined with a uniquely cynical take on the classic trope of a boy and his old man scientist pal.

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So, I've rewatched all of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Naruto in order and looked through every villag🅠e's records to bring you what's unarguably the definitive ranking of all the Akatsuki members. Well, I say every member; I haven't included Juzo or Orochimaru on thi𒆙s list because Juzo is a Naruto filler character, and we don't know enough about Orochimaru's power level when he was part of the team. If that annoys you, well, I'm sorry, but they'd both be under Sasori (you can argue amongst yourselves as to where).

I've also treated Black Zetsu and White Zetsu as single members because, although they're technically two people, no one in the group treated them as two individuals, so I'm not going to either. Does that make me lazy? Naaaah. Now, let's get into one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best anime series around: here are the 10♚ strongest Naruto Akatsuki members r🥃anked!

All the Akatsuki members ranked by strength

10. Zetsu

Easily the weakest meꦛmber of the Akatsuki, Zetsu himself admits he's not built for combat in the same way his colleagues are. Instead, this sneaky shinobi has several versatile jutsu, most notably the Mayfly technique. This unique jutsu allows Zetsu to merge his body with the ground and travel anywhere he likes while being completely undetectable, even by the most proficient sensor ninjas.

Zetsu also has a powerful transformation technique, which, when combined with🌸 his other moves, makes him a master of infiltration and assassination. It's also worth noting that while Zetsu may not be a powerhouse in the league of Itachi and Pain (to be fair, few ninꦚjas are,) he's not going to lose to any random schmuck. His unique physiology gives him the ability to use the Wood Release and every other nature type, so he's more than capable of throwing hands if he needs to.

9. Hidan

Poor Hidan. When your signature jutsu involves dying, you know you're in trouble. Yes, Hidan might be an S-Rank ninja, but realistically, he's a one-trick pony – it's just that his one trick is pretty deadly. You see, Hidan is completely immortal, courtesy of the god Jashin. This means he can be impaled, beheaded, incinerated, and survive. To make matters worse, he's got a technique▨ that allows him to transfer any of the damage he takes on to the person who damaged him.

He's basically a walking, 💝talking voodoo doll. Sounds cool, right? Well, no. Hidan’s technique isn't automatic, and it takes a ritual to perform. This means if you know his secrets and can stop him from setting up his jutsu, he's basically as useless as an ice cream handbag in the desert. Be🌄yond this technique, Hidan has no other jutsu and an IQ lower than Sasuke's mood on the Uchiha massacre anniversary. Basically, he's rubbish, and I presume he was only allowed into the Akatsuki to make up numbers.

8. Konan

A powerful kunoichi, Konan has an incredible power that makes her one of the deadliest ninjas in the world. Through unknown means, she can transform her body into paper, allowing her to form wings, weapons, shields, and anything el☂se she c𒊎an imagine. In the anime, we see her put this power to deadly use, smoothing and skewering her opponents with terrifying ease.

Konan combines her incredible power with an impressive level of strategy and high analytical skills. It was this that 🐼allowed her to work out Obito's weaknesses and push the seemingly invincible Uchiha to the brink of🧸 death. So why's she ranked so low? Sadly, we never see her win a fight, and sadly, she has a really lame weakness. Yes, what happens when paper gets wet? It falls apart – just like Konan.

7. Deidara

If we were ranking the Akatsuki by sheer awesomenessꦕ, then Deidara would be top of the list, but sadly, this is a power ranking, and I'm afraid he doesn't crack the top five. Why? Well, while his explosive clay techniques are impressive, and he puts them to creative use, the sad fact is that Deidara only really knows how to do one thing, which is blow things up.

Now, I must admit he does that wonderfully; his C4 technique, which releases microscopic bombs, is particularly terrifying, and he did manage to defeat Gaara single-handedly. Yet against an opponent capable of neutralizing his bombs like Sasuke or fast enough to lock him in genjutsu, he's essentially powerless. Indeed꧒, Deidara admitted he was weaker than his master, Sasori… speaking of which.

6. Sasori

By far the most underrated member of the Akatsuki, Sasori had the ignominy of being the first member of the group to die. However, that doesn't mean he's weak. In fact, Sasori was a sort of one-man army that canonically defeated an entire country with his legions of puppets. Oh yeah, you read that right. Sasori uses puppets, but these aren't the puppets you see on Sesame Street. Each of Sasori's puppets is a deadly weapon, full of blades, projectiles, and gallons of poisonous gas, allowing him to fight ♌his opponent from a safe distance.

But waitꦐ, there's more because these puppets are made from the bodies of his dead opponents, which lets him use any of their techniques, kekkei genkai, or jutsu. Sounds pretty powerful, right? It gets worse. Sasori has converted himself into a living puppet, so even if you defeat his hundreds of puppets, you have to deal with his most potent weapon yet: himself. So, if he had all that going for him, how did Sasori lose? He let himself lose. It sounds like Kishi just wrote himself into a corner to me.

5. Kakuzu

Kakuzu's a super strong ninja who, similarly to Sasori, often gets underestimated. Why don't Naruto fans rate Sasori? Sadly, the Akatsuki's unofficial 💝treasurer had the bad luck to try and fight the show's protagonist right after a training arc (if he'd ever watched an anime, he'd know that's a recipe for disaster). In all seriousness, though, Kazuku was a beast; he had access to every nature type, knew offensive and defensive techniques, and could combine elements on the fly.

However, what made him such a terrifying threat was his signature jutsu, the Earth Grudge Fear, which granted him several unique powers, including immortality (sorry, Hidan), regeneration, and the ability to transform his body into weird black tendrils, which he could manipulate a𒈔t will. All of this made Kakuzu powerful enough to go toe-to-toe with Hashirama, the First Hokage. So, with all that in mind, why isn't he in the top spot? Well, honestly, Kakuzu might be a beast, but everyone else on this list is a monster.

4. Kisame

Arguably the most inhuman of the Akatsuki, Kisame was completely loyal to the group's mission, which made him a ferocious fighter, especially when backed into a corner. Not that he needed much help in that regard, because Kisame, as befits his shark-like appearance, was an incredibly dangerous ninja. His basic skills were impressive enough; he was a master of water ninjutsu, an accomplished swordsman, and his taijutsu skills were high enough that he could hold off Team Gai using just 60% of his power.

What really made Kisame such a threat, though, was his sword, Samehada. This living weapon had a ravenous appetite for chakra, and with a single swing, Kisame could steal the energy of any opponent he fought. Not only that, the sword could effectively neutralize any jutsu thrown at Kisameไ. Incredibly, though, that wasn't the limit of the pair's power. Kisame and Samehada cou🥂ld fuse, becoming a horrifying shark-like monster with incredible chakra reserves. This form was capable of bringing ninja as powerful as Killer-B to their knees and made Kisame one of Akatsuki’s top fighters. His only weakness? Well, Samehada is a fickle beast, and let's just say it's not afraid of betraying its master if it finds a more delicious chakra source.

3. Itachi Uchiha

Itac♕hi is a ludicrously powerful ninja. He graduated from the academy at age six and was an Anbu at age 11. Even by the standards of the incredibly talented Uchiha clan, Itachi was seen as a prodigy, a genius among geniuses, who'd lead the clan to great things. Then he murdered them all. Yes, at the tender age of just 13, he wiped out one of the ninᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚja world's strongest clans and cemented himself as a legend. That may seem obscene, but his powers and skill made it child's play. In all seriousness, Itachi has superb taijutsu and ninjutsu skills, but it's his genjutsu abilities that make him such a powerhouse.

With a glance from his Sharingan, he can cast illusions so powerful they're indistinguishable from reality, allowing him🍸 to easily defeat even the most powerful opponents. Unarguably, though, what makes Itachi one of the Aktsuki's most prized fighters is his Mangekyou Sharingan, which gives him access to Amaterasu (black fire that can burn through anything), Tsukuyomi (the most powerful genjutsu in the series), and Susano, a sort of kaiju-sized chakra avatar. Itachi also wields the Sword of Totsuka and the Yata Mirror. Oh, and he can rewrite reality by sacrificing the sight in his eyes. So, how was he defeated? Well, he does have one weakness: he loves his little brother.

2. Pain

The self-proclaimed God of the Shinobi world, Pain doesn't just talk the talk. He walks the walk. What makes him very nearly the top dog? Well, he has the Rinnega⛦n, special eyes that are supposedly a gift from the gods, which give Pain p꧂owers beyond imagining. He can manipulate gravity, summon unique and powerful animals, absorb chakra, tear people's souls from their bodies, hear your thoughts, shoot missiles from his head (yes, really), and absorb chakra. He's essentially every member of the Akatsuki in one body… actually no. He's every member of the Akatsuki in six bodies because Pain, real name Nagato, doesn't go into battle himself. He splits his power into six bodies (known as the Six Paths of Pain) that he controls remotely, which allows him to stay safe regardless of what happens to his puppets.

Not that much happens to his puppets because of how obscenely strong they are. This guy took down the entire Konoha military single-handedly, killed Jiraiya and Kakashi, and basically made every leaf shinobi who wasn’t called Naruto look like they were fresh o🌳ut of the academy. Eve🅠n when Naruto arrived, it turned out that the title character was barely a match for Pain, and it took the combined efforts of the Toad Sages, three kaiju-sized toad summons, and a last-minute save from Hinata and Naruto's ghost parents for them to defeat the Six Paths. The only reason Nagato lost? He fell victim to Naruto's most powerful ability, the talk-no-jutsu.

1. Obito Uchiha

Now I know what you're thinking after Pain and Itachi; how broken must Obito be? Well, he's more broken than a LEGO set that's just f❀allen off a 30-foot skyscraper into a pool of plastic melting acid. Obito is bonkers🎶. Not only does he have the usual Uchiha abilities – the Sharingan, powerful chakra, and all that good stuff – he was trained by Madara, the strongest Uchiha in history, has the same body as Zetsu, giving him Wood release, and he's got a Rinnegan just like Pain.

Yes, you read that right he's effectively a grab bag of every power we’ve listed so far (Except Hidan's po꧑wers because he sucks), but there's more. Like Itachi, Obito has unique Mangekyou Sharingan powers that let him control time and space. Using this power, which is called Kamui, he can teleport himself, become completely in⛦tangible, and suck people into fissures into the space-time continuum. He can literally blink you out of existence. Terrifying right?

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While Netflix's sugar high Dante is "young here," Bosch tells me in a recent interview, "eventually, if we get enough seasons, and the story continues, we're going to see him really kind of go through all of these things, and then change and become who we're more familiar with." Netflix just announced that 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Devil May Cry season 2 is on its way, so it's possible Bosch's plan will start f🌸ruiting soon.

"Hopefully, once we get to these more iconic moments, 🦩there will be so much more weight behind the character," Bosch says, "because now you've been with him through this journey, discovering who he is and finding himself."

Devil May Cry's first season, created by Castlevania producer 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Adi Shankar, 📖spends a lot of time waiting for Dante to realize things about himself that fans of the games already know – who he is, what he's made of, and how far he's willing to go.

That kind of Freudian interrogation has♉ been present in the larger Devil May 𝕴Cry universe before – "we've seen glimpses of the things that happened to him as a child," as Bosch reminds me. "And some people, if you've read some of the manga or even the novels, you would see other really dark things that he's gone through."

But, Bosch continues, "I think, in this [adaptation], we're reꦚally exploring those." So while Netflix's Dante lacks the laugh lines and wicked c🐬onfidence he exudes in the Devil May Cry games, there's a lot of room for him to grow.

Devil May Cry Nero actor didn't realize he was auditioning to play Dante in the new Netflix series until the show's producer said he wrote the lead role just for him: "A different weight on my shoulders."

The first season of Devil May Cry, which runs for 8 episodes, has already received praise from critics and audiences alike, debuting at number 4 on𝄹 Netflix's global top ten list, with a Rotten Tomatoes critic score of 95% fresh.

Here's how Netflix describes the show:

"In this animated adaptation of the🀅 popular Capcom game and from the vision of Adi Shankar, sinister forces are at play to open the portal between the human and demon realms. In the middle of it all is Dante, an orphaned demon-hunter-for-hire, unaware that the fate of both worlds hangs around his neck."

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"What I wanted to do with this was three things. First of all, the original anime was very much like a monster of the week-style format, until you got to the last three episodes – then it was an arc," 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Shankar told GamesRadar+ ahead of the release of Devil May Cry season 1. "But this one, I wanted it to feel like a giant movie, like a Hollywood blockbuster from between 1999 and 200💦4. References being The Matrix, Underworld, Bad Boys, Equilibrium – I could go on, and on, and on. But I wanted it to feel like a Hollywood blockbuster, and, really, I wanted the audience to experience Devil May Cry in that mold."

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Titled simply Scooby-Doo, the new show is executive produced by none other than Greg Berlanti, well-known as the producer behind DC comic adaptation shows including Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, and more, as well as The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. He'll be joined by production comp𝐆any Midnight Radio, consisting of producers Josh Appelbaum, André Nemec, Jeff Pinkner, and Scott Rosenberg, known for Netflix's live-action adaptation of Cowboy Bepop♈.

In the series, Shaggy a𓂃nd Daphne are pals attending a summer camp, while Velma is a townie living nearby, and Fred is a new kid in town with a mysterious past. They'll come together when they find Scooby, a Great Dane puppy who may be the key to solving a murder.

"A modern reimagining of the iconic mystery-solving group of teens and their very special dog," reads the official logline for the Netflix streaming series. "During their final summer at camp, old ♕friends Shaggy and Daphne get embroiled in a haunting mystery surrounding a lonely lost Great Dane puppy that may have been a witness to a supernatural murder. Together with the pragmatic and scientific townie, Velma, and the strange, but ever so handsome new kid, Freddy, they set out to solve the case that is pulling each of them into a creep♑y nightmare that threatens to expose all of their secrets."

As fans well know, the classic Scooby-Doo almost never exper🍰ienced anything to do with actual supernatural beings, instead unmasking various criminals pretending to be ghosts, monsters, and other magical creatures in order to further their schemes. We're expecting this could likely carry over to the new show as well, despite the outwardly supernatural set-up for the plot.

"One of my first and 🌠favorite job♛s in Hollywood was sitting with Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera while they signed animation cells," says Berlanti in a statement. "Josh and Scott and everyone at Midnight Radio have crafted a story that captures their amazing spirits and their genius creation. We are grateful to them and everyone at Warners and Netflix for the partnership in helping bring this iteration of Scooby-Doo to life!"

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Though Captain Planet has largely been dormant since the cartoon's original run, now he's coming back in the form of a new Dynamite Entertainm🅺ent comic book by writer David Pepose, art🍌ist Eman Casellos, colorist Jorge Sutil, and letter Jeff Eckleberry, which brings the Planeteers and their mission into the 21st century.

With environmental concerns more pressing than ever, the time is right for Captain Planet to return. But before Captain Planet #1 arrives in April, Newsarama spoke with wr𒁃iter David Pepose to dig into what it takes to bring a charactღer like Captain Planet into the modern age while holding onto the best parts of its nostalgic core, and of course the ways that the concept fits into our current reality.

Newsarama: David, we've known each other for a long time, and something that I think is kinda funny is that Captain Planet #1 was announced almost 10 years to the day that you started talking about how much you wanted to make it a comic. It was sincerely within a day or two. How does it feel to finally get to do it, and how is the experience different from what you always imagined?

David Pepose: It's funny, it really feels like the biggest manifestation of my career to date. This is something that I've talked about, especially with you, for over a decade now. I've always seen potential in Captain Planet, seeing all the ingredients for success, how multicultꦗural and diverse it is in such an organic way. It almost feels like Giant-Sized X-Men #1. Seeing the way that new pop culture strains can be kind of injected into Captain Planet's DNA to really heighten all those core qualities. I feel like it's a book that's always been ahead of its time, and now the world is finally caught up.

It's been such a blast to write. Sometimes you work on assignments and it sounds really exciting, and then you get into the nitty-gritty of it, you realize the kind of unexpected challenges. But for Captain Planet, it really feels like a leap of faith being rewarded, like all my instincts have been vindicated. Had I written this book 10 years ago, I wouldn't have been ready for it. But I think with all the lessons that I've 𓆏learned in my creator-owned books and my work at Marvel, and Dynamite, and Mad Cave, I've really been able to bring a decade of practice to Captain Planet, and it's all the better for it.

You mentioned how relevant the concept of Captain Planet is in 2025, given how serious environmental issues have become. On the other side of that coin is the sort of hokey pop culture reputation the original cartoon has. There are so many memes, and the Don Cheadle video and stuff. How do you move on from the kitchiness of the cartoon while holding on to what is important about the core concept, and the good parts of the nostalgia?

I think that's an excellent question. For me, the appeal of Captain Planet is that it's the world outside your window. This isn't๊ set in a fictional universe, this is set in our real world, and the core cast members are ordinary people like you and me. They're not superheroes. They don't have codenames. They don't even have costumes. So I think it's about taking that ethos and translating it into our book. I think that's similar to what I've been doing on Space Ghost and in my upcomin♉g Speed Racer book.

A big directive I had for all these nostalgic cartoon based comics is, you know, they're very much a product of their time. Captain Planet was very firmly rooted in the early '90s. And so, for me, it's a question of how we take those core elements and just imagine what would happen if it was introduced in 2025 instead. Seeing the ways storytelling has evolved since then, s🌸eeing the way geopolitics have changed in the last 35 years, and then letting the characters reflect that.

We're thrilled to see that people seem excited⛄ to see that Captain Planet has grown up and evolved with the times, but that it hasn't sacrificed any of the meanings of the the original core message.

As you mentioned, you're carving out a niche for yourself writing comics tied to classic animated shows. You're writing Space Ghost right now, and you've got Speed Racer coming up. What's it like having all three of those on your plate, and how do you make sure to stay true to those concepts without repeating yourself?

ꦓI think the big thing is that the genres and tones and modes of storytelling can be a little different between all three. I think the central premise of the way that I attack all these books is the same, which is, how do you take these core elements, these core landmarks, of these original properties, and how do we put just a little bit of a polish, a little bit of a twist on them to make them sparkle like new?

For me, it's always about accessibility. You know, Captain Planet, Space Coast, Speed Racer, they're all brand new continuity, so you don't have to watch the ori🌠ginal cartoons in order to appreciate the stories we're telling. I think any of these properties thatౠ have the kind of staying power that these three do, there's clearly something core in the concept that has let them withstand the test of time, and that's the thing that I really try to excavate.

And so I think readers have been really excited to see these properties that they maybe only half remember and say, oh, there's like a whole universe here to explore, one that can surprise us, and one that is right for reinterpretation and re-imagination. I think that's why the cartoon nostalgia books have been so successful. Whether it's the Energon universe or Thundercats or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, people want to be surprised. I think🐟 all three of the books I'm writing, they have such amazingly untapped potential. I feel really honored an🐬d really privileged to be the guy who gets to excavate that.

Earlier you compared the Planeteers to the cast of Giant Size X-Men, and I think that's such a cool comparison. What can you tell us about the Planeteers as they appear in this comic? Which characters have you found yourself drawn to?

Well, for starters, I should talk about Captain Planet himself. I think both in terms of his visuals and his concept, he really represents, I think, the evolution of this series. You know, for those who might remember Captain Planet in his '90s heyday, there w⛄as the mullet, there wa♏s the crop top. It was very much, like I said, a product of its time.

And so, working with artist Eman Casallos, one of the first things we discussed was, let's give Captain Planet an update in terms of his design. Ins♌tead of rooting it so firmly in a particular year, we wanted to channel how timeless this character is, that he's this immortal elemental champion, made out of not flesh and blood, but rocks and sto🅺ne and ice and flame. It was Eman who wound up pitching us the Captain Planet dad-beard, and of all his designs, everybody immediately glommed onto the beard, like "that is so cool!"

That speaks so much to Captain Planet. I think, as a 𝔍character, you know, I don't see him as a grim and gritty character, right? If anything, I see him as this classic heroic, reassuring figure. He's s🍒omebody whose core mission is that he doesn't want to see anybody die. And so the idea of having him be this fatherly mentor figure, the dad beard, makes perfect sense.

And on top of it, you knowﷺ, people are suddenly saying "sexy Captain Planet" later. [Laughs]

I saw those comments. [Laughs] It's definitely out there. I think that's funny, but as you said, it's important to find those little touchstones in the cast. Tell me a little bit about how you've given the same fresh coat of paint to the Planeteers.

For me, the thing that's so important about the Planeteers is, the core part of their relation💙ship with Captain Planet is that it's symbiotic. "The power is yours" - that means we can't just wish it all away. Human being🐟s on the ground level are the only thing that can save our world. So that's the core of this series to me - ordinary people are suddenly granted extraordinary powers.

When Eman and I were talking about this, we ﷺobviously weren't going to give them costumes, not even matching outfits. We wanted to make sure that these look like people that you could run into on the street.

So for example, Kwame really is like a nat✅ural born leader in t𒐪hat he was a former soccer star from Ghana whose career was sidelined after sustaining an injury. I pitched him as the Cyclops of the group.

I love that. Kwame was always my favorite Planeteer.

I love Kwame too. And so when we meet him, he's kind of trying to figure out what his new trajectory is, but he's got that ins🌄tinctive team building element. Eman put in a lot of small touches, like his hoodie has the number of his favorite football player, and leaning into the walking stick that he had in the original Captain Plꦚanet, and giving him a knee-brace.

Wheeler didn't necessarily need a ton of revisions visually, but I love the way that we've re-contextualized his backstory. We'🤪ve made him an auto worker from Detroit, and I think that's really important, because there's all these different angles and facets of the environmental conversation. And I think Wheeler serves as our point of view character. His hero's journey is reall🐎y all about justifying the Planeteers as a team.

Linka might be my favorite of the bunch. Out of all the Planeteers, she's done the biggest 180 from when Captain Planet first debuted. Back in 1990 she was the conservative Planeteer from the Soviet Union. Things have changed pretty dramatically in the last 35 years, so Linka is the most leftist Planeteer now. She headlines an underground eco activist punk band, kind of in the vein of Pussy Riot. She's our team scrapper. She's like our Illyana Rasputin🌜, our Wolverine. She's super fun, and Eman Casellos draws her so, so incredibly.

Gi is very similar to the way I 𓄧🍸wrote Black Knight in the pages of Savage Avengers. Having a team scientist is very important. You know, it always is helpful in terms of a storytelling tool. In the original cartoon, Gi, who's from South Korea, was a marine biologist. I love the idea of somebody who loves the science of all this. She's genuinely enthusiastic. This is her passion. And I think she's the heart of the team, in a lot of ways. She's very bubbly and effervescent, and a lot of people tend to underestimate her, but as we'll see as the series goes on, she's the one who knows the stakes better than anyone. So for her, hope is a revolutionary act. It's either that, or the alternative is to curl up into a ball of despair.

And speaking of smoldering and broodiness, Ma-Ti is probably our biggest glow up of the entire series. And that was by design. A lot of people saw Ma-Ti in the original cartoon as the punchline. You know, what is the power of Heart? And for me, it's tactical telepathy. So the way that we've re🍰contextualized Ma-Ti is that, you know, he's from, he's an indigenous person from Brazil, and he and his people have been forced off their lands by corrupt mining interests. Ma-Tiwas about to stage a kind of a violent revolution, until he encounters the power of Heart, and it cleanses his mind of all rage and anger and violence, and turns him into this avowed pacifist - who can absolutely wreck you. He's our x-factor of the team. He's our Batman. He's our Shang-Chi. He doesn't need to throw a punch because he's got the power of Heart, which means he can summon animals. He can reach inside your mind. He can make you see things that aren't there. He's really cool.

I'm very excited for readers to get to see what happens when the Planeteers finally combine th꧂eir powers. It's going to be more explosive than you might think.

You've brought up Eman Casellos a lot as a key part of the creation of this comic. How has it been developing your working relationship with him, and how has he surprised you?

Surprise is the perfect word to describe Eman. I was not familiar with his work before we started working together. He's worked on books like Pathfinder over at Dynamite and, boy, I couldn't be more blown away. He came to this book swinging. You know, I could tell from the jump, he believed in this concept, and he came to this hungry and so he really is the best of both worlds. He's got a style that evokes a little bit of Gary Fran⛎k, a little bit of Steve Dillon. But there's also bits of Doug Mahnke and Frank Quitely that you can see in the finer details.

And Eman really nails the big, epic, action blockbuster moments, the Avatar: The Last Airbender style elemental bending. But the thing that I love most about Eman is that his characters really act. There's so much great expressiveness and body language, and you get to he really elevates everything that I send him, and he really b🅰reathes such incredible life into these characters. He's not a household name, but I hope to change that with this book. He really has just gone the extra mile every step of the way.

I can't ask for a better collaborator than Eman Casselos. And I think when you see the work that he's been putting in on Captain Planet, along🌊 with our colorist Jorge Sutil, and our letter Jeff Eckleberry, you're going to see, this isℱ a really good looking book, and so I'm really thankful that we get to also have a cool story attached to it.

The other really big part of Captain Planet is his villains, his rogues gallery. We know that Lucian 'Lootin' Plunder will appear. What else can you tell us about the villains we'll see in this comic?

I think for me, Captain Planet has always been, it's been two sides of the coin. There's😼 environmental disasters and catastrophes, but there's also the human greed that fuels all of that. And so a character like Lucien Plunder, or as they said in the original cartoon Lootin Plunder, he felt like the perfect villain to start all this out. He's sort of this ruthless Elon Musk type billionaire who, you know, he's looking to amass wealth and power, and he's kind of masking it and couching it in this very utopian kind of speech, almost like a Lex Luthor type. And out of all the elements that have been so timely about this book, that's the one that feels perhaps the most uncomfortably so. Every single day that I read the news, or I read the headlines, I'm like, oh, there's Lucian Plunder at it again.

So he, you know, he feels like a really good villain as sort of like a tent pole that we can then kind of spin other Captain Planet villains off of and so we'll be seeing characters like, you know, Dr Blight and her AI assistant Mal. They're going to have, I think, like a really crucial role during our origin story. Duke Nukem is going to appear. Eman Casellos did a really cool job with a redesign on that character, in a way that I think speaks to the h🅠eightened elements of the original cartoon, but also kind of keeps them still plausible in our street level world. Argos Bleak is another one who's sort of like our Eric Prince Blackwater mercenary type. He's Plunder's right hand man. And yeah, we have some other villains in that we're going to keep a little close to the vest. But suffice to say, there's going to be lots of threats for Captain Planet and the Planeteers to face, and they are going to escalate accordingly.

People used to say the Eco-Villains are bad, right? That they were too unsubtle. And I'd argue that reality has gotten a lot less subtle. So it's up to us as people from all around the world to really kind of come together if we want to help save our wor🅘ld.

That kind of dovetails right into the last question I want to ask you here. What does it mean to you to be writing this comic, not just as a dream of yours, but also in 2025, right now? And what do you hope that readers will take from Captain Planet as the series goes on?

You know, I think the reason I've championed trying to write this book for so long is my core philosophy as a comic creator and as a comic fan is that there's always room to build a bigger table. I take that philosophy to everything I write, whether it's the concepts that I do or the characters that I gravitate toward𓂃s. I think Captain Planet is the truest distillation of all that. You know, this is a book where our goal is to make everybody feel seen, to offer everybody a room at the table. And I think that maybe speaks to who I am and where I come from. You know, I grew up Jewish in the Midwest. I learned very, very quickly that I was not part of the dominant culture. And so I want everybody to be able to enjoy the same safety and rights and co💧nsiderations that I'd ask for my family.

And I know that there's 🐲only so much that I can do as a straight, white comic book writer. But I do feel like representation is important, and I think showing people that we are stronger together than we are apart, that's what a book like Captain Planet really means to me. It's a book that is designed to promote inclusiveness, to promote empathy, to s♏how that you know you can come together and be friends with people from all different walks of life, and that, together, we can fight for a better world. I can't wait for readers to take this journey with us and to see why Captain Planet is one of the great superheroes that they've never thought about.

The current Space Ghost comic was one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best comics of 2024.

Despite Hulu announcing Solar Opposites season 6 earlier this year, it has now been revealed that it will be the last installment in the series. ꦉThe show confirmed the news on its official page writing, “Crashing out for one last mission. The final season of Solar Opposites premieres this fall on Hulu.” Check out the post below.

Although an exact date is yet to be revealed, Solar Opposites' final season will premiere this fall. The season’s official synopsis reads, "Witness the wild chaos of this unhinged alien family as they get into hilarious misch𝕴ief, all while the final chapter of an epic drama unfolds for the shrunken people they’ve imprisoned in their Wall. As the Solar Opposites navigate their unforgettable farewell, expect laugh-out-loud surprises at every turn."

First launching in 2020, Solar Opposites stands at an incredibly impre🍒ssive 98% score on . The show has grown quite the fan base too, who are of course saddened by the news. "Final? No!... You guys are literally the reason I shelled out for a Hulu subscription," , while , "I NEED a lot more seasons of Solar Opposites. This show means so much to me."

However, the series will go out with a bang, boasting an all-star cast including Dan Stevens, Thomas Middleditch, Mary Mack, and Sean Giambrone. The s🐭ixth season will also welcome guest stars Tiffany Haddish,💯 Kieran Culkin, Christina Hendricks, Ken Marino, Alfred Molina, Natalie Morales, Jerry O’Connell, and Beck Bennett.

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Thankfully, one of the show's creators and most instrumental architects, Greg Weisman, has returned to Gargoyles several times over the years with c💝omic books that continue the story, with the most recent era of the fr♌anchise kicking off at Dynamite Entertainment back in 2022.

Now, in the latest chapter of the Gargoyles comic, Weisman is joined by one of the original producers of the cartoon, Frank Paur, and colorist Robby Bevard for Gargoyles: Demona, which digs into the secret history of arguably the show's most striking character, its embattle👍d femme fatale Demona.

Newsarama caught up with Weisman ahead of the story's kickoff on Free Comic Book Day with a special release before the full se💖ries launches in May, digging into the history of Gargoyles, what it's like getting back together with another of the series' original c𒉰reative voices, and what makes Demona so special as a character.

Newsarama: Greg, as one of the creators of Gargoyles, you've been telling stories with these characters off and on for over 30 years. How does it feel to have been able to revive Gargoyles in comics, and to have now dug so deep into the characters and their world?

Greg Weisman: I love it. I love having 🥃the Gargoyles characters back in my life on a semi-full-time basiꦗs. But I'm greedy. I want to tell even more stories in this world with these characters!

Gargoyles is a franchise full of great characters, but Demona has always been special, even beyond her place in Gargoyles. What do you see as the things that make her so compelling as both a villain and a protagonist?

Demona has legitimate gripes. But she's al🎀so her own worst enemy. Her psychology is complex, so it can carry real emotional heft, which is a great thing for a storyteller. Plus she's powerful and vulnerable. Ruthless, fanatical and occa💯sionally charming. I think she was fairly unique as a villain in the '90s, and I think she's still fairly unprecedented even today.

Demona's new limited series digs into her past across the years the other Gargoyles were slumbering up till the era of the current continuity. How much of this backstory has been in place behind the scenes prior to this, and how much of this is you taking what we know and running with it?

Well, to be clear, we're not even attempting to cover the entire millennium of her life in just one five-issue mini-series. But we are planning to cover five snapshots of her life across the first couple centuries 🃏of that millennium. All of this fits into the master plan that I've been building for the last thirty-plus years of my life,ꦑ but many of the details are things that Frank and I have worked out as we've been plotting these issues.

I have to ask about Demona's big secret - her other daughter besides Angela. What can you tell us about her?

Angela is Demona's biological daughter, who was raised by humans. Angelika is not Demona's biological daughter, but they raised e🦩ach other for nearly two hundred years. I think it should be interesting for the audience to view the contrasts between Demona and Angelika, and between Angelika and Angela.

You're working with Frank Paur on Gargoyles: Demona, who was also a producer on the original Gargoyles show. What's it been like reuniting with Frank, and what does working with him allow you to do as a writer?

It's been so great workiඣng with Frank. No one else has the same understanding, the same shorthand that he and I have together when it comes to Gargoyles. Plus, Frank's pencils and inks on the book are just gorgeous. And he and I are both loving the coloring that Robby Bevard is doing on the book. Robbꦫy was the colorist for much of the old SLG run. So it's all a bit like getting the band back together for me.

As someone who's been a fan since childhood, I've always wanted more stories that dig into Demona's secret years. What do you hope fans new and old will take away from this comic?

Pain. Ecstasy. Mystery. History. Mythology. A little Shakespeare. You know... standard Gargoyles terrain. Which will be dug up in a fresh new way, with our single most dangerous character headlining. Established characters will resurface. New characters will be introduced. Each issue tells a s🐻tory in a different pulp genre, with its own stakes, environments and mood. I'm hoping readers new and old take away something they couldn't put down or put away even after the fina✨l page.

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This is part of the streamer's new plan to prioriꦦtize adult and family programming, as children's entertainment dওoesn't drive as much viewership.

That doesn't mean everything Looney Tunes-related has gone from the streamer, though, as there are some more recent iterations of the franchise still availabꦗle🐠 to watch (but even with these spin-offs, there's not a complete catalog).

These include six seasons of 2020’s Looney Tunes Cartoons, two seasons of 2015’s New Looney Tunes, two seasons of 2002’s Baby Looney Tunes, two se🦋asons of 2023’s Tiny Toons Looniversity, five seasons of 1995’s The Sylv🤡ester and Tweety Mysteries, and two seasons of 2022’s Bugs Bunny Builders.

The removal of the original shorts comes just over a year after Warner Bros. scrapped courtroom comedy movie Coyote vs. Acme, despite ꦅthe fact that production was fully complete. The film was set to see Wile E. Coyote take Acme Corporation to court after every product he orders from them backfires on him in his vendetta against the Road 🍌Runner. A down-on-his-luck human attorney (Will Forte) takes on the case, who in turn discovers that his intimidating former boss (John Cena) is now Acme's CEO – so he's even more determined to win it.

"My thoughts were that it’s fucking bullshit," 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Forte recently said about the film getting shelved. "It is such a delightf🍌ul movie. It deserves so much better than it got. I can’t tell you possibl﷽y why the decision was made to not release it. But it makes my blood boil."

For more, check out our guide to the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best shows on HBO Max.

In the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Invincible season 3 ending, the Hellboy paro༺dy Damien Darkblood (Clancy Brown) is plotting away in Hel🐠l.

Last we saw him – way back in the first season – he was banished by Cecil (Walton Goggins) after cracking the Guardians of the Globe mystery. Now, he has summoned a demonic lord (played by Bruce Campbell) and plots to conjure a "surface dweller of great power" and use him to bring his master back to his rightful place on the 'infernal throne' o🐲f Hell.

As comic readers may know, however, this is a major deviation from Robert Kirkman, Cor♋y Walker an🦩d Ryan Ottley's source material.

Speaking to , Kirkman explains that he "always wanted to fi♚gure out" how to get Darkblood back into the show. His plan? To use a scrapped storyline that never made its way into the pages and panels of the 🌠Image Comics series.

"T🎐here’s a storyline from the comic that I never got around to doing. Every superhero story has some chapte🧸r where they go to hell and they fight the devil. It happens in DC and Marvel comics. It’s a big deal," Kirkman explains.

"I never got around to doing anything like that in Invincible. I kept getting s♛idetracked and there was never a goꩲod time. So it’s entirely possible that we may be doing something like that in the show, and that scene at the end of that episode is setting that up."

While Kirkman was reluctantꦑ to offer more, he did inadvertently let slip a detail about 🦄Bruce Campbell's hellbound character – and he could be Old Scratch himself.

"Could be the devil. Could be. We’ll just have to see," Kirkman teased. "Maybe I shouldn’t have spoiled t🀅hat."

Expect to find out more in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Invincible season 4, which has been officially greenlit and is slated for 2026. If you need something to fill the Viltrumite-shaped hole in your life, check out these picks for the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best shows on Prime Video.

After the Invincible War in season 3 episode 7, this week's episode upped the ante as Steven Yeun's Mark Grayson faced off against Jeffrey Dean Morgan's Conquest (among other꧙ things), and fans are saying it's a highlight of not just the season, but the show – and animation – more generally.

"PEAK EPISODE with good animation," one fa🍃n. "What an improvement from the comics. Improving Eve's powerset, drawing parallels, AND THAT NEW CONQUEST MONOLOGUE WAS SO FUCKING GOOD. Jeffrey Dean Morgan will be stuck in my head as Conquest now."

"Yeah this is easily the best episode holy fuck," another. "Okay no꧟w that🅘 all episodes are out, we can agree that this is the BEST season, right?" someone else.

"That might have possibly been the greatest episode of animated tv I'♕ve ever laid my eyes upon easily the best episode in inv✱incible i am absolutely speechless," another viewer .

Viewe😼rs were also full of praise for Yeun's performance, particularly in the episode's more emotional moments. "Steven Yeun's voice acting in this and the last episode has been nothing short of astonishing. God damn," someone .

"Shivers down my spine. This is the coldest mom🐎ent in Invincible, and Steven Yeun absolutely nailed it," another fan , attaching a cไlip of Mark confronting Conquest.

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The footage opens with the introduction of Dante as a "top-level threat," before the demon-hunting hero quips he "works better with music" and sticks something on the jukebox. Then a montage of cataclysmic events kicks 🌟off, led by White Rabbit, a relatively obscure villain from the franchise serving as one of main baddies here.

We get multiple clips of both White Rabbit and Dante carving and blasting through enemies, hinting at an eventual clash🍌 that should be a mighty fireworks display. Ebony and Ivory, Dante’s signature guns, get plenty of screentime, his blade Rebellion only getting a look in t🐭owards the end.

The closing shot brings in a familiar face for anyone who knows the video games: Vergil, Dante’s estranged brother and a recurring ಌthorn𒀰 in his side. This is a surprising inclusion, since Vergil would’ve made such an easy surprise twist, but perhaps what’s in store will be even more gob-smacking.

This is another production from Adi Shankar, the creative mastermind behind Castlevania, Captain Laserhawk and more for Netflix. Each hails from a different game🌞s studio, Devil May Cry coming from Capcom while Castlevania is owned by Konami and Captain Laserhawk is an amalgamation of Ubisoft properties. Shankar has become a dab hand at managing these adaptations and delivering results.

An anime show based on Devil May Cry was produced back in 2007, from Madhouse, the company behind Death Note, Cardcaptors and Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End. It was short-lived,🍌 at just one season, so here's hoping this project lasts longer.

Devil May Cry arrives on Netflix April 3, 2025. Have a look at our list of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best horror movies on Netflix for more of what goes bump in the night.

The episode, 'Lois C.K.,' centers on Lois becoming a comedian. During one of her sets, a crowd-member stands out among the pos🌳itive reception, clapping and laughing along. He's a recurring background gag, simply known as the Fat Laughing Clapping Guy, who’s made extremely sporadic appearances over the direction of the TV series.

His first recorded occurrence was back in season 5, where he showed up in episode 6. He did so again the same season, 🅺in episodes 10 and 23. He had similar regularity in seasons 6 and 7, making surprise appearances to, well, laugh and clap.

Then he gradually disappeared, being drawn into scenes in season 🏅8 and 13 without his usual boisterous nature. He's been absent ever since, relegated to the vault of Family Guy obscurity, the fodder of aficionados and quiz questions on the minutiae of television in the 2000s and 2010s.

Until now, that is. The Fat La꧑ughing Clapping Guy is back where he belongs, jovially providing applause with his signature guffaw to the occasional scene involving the Griffins in some capacity or another. This season was part of Family Guy's 25th anniversary, perhaps adding to why such a de𒀰ep-cut got aired out.

Maybe Seth MacFarlane missed him, or maybe someone in the writers room wanted someone in the crowd to add a little heft to the scene, creating the perfect time for this man’s resurgence. Whichever it is, we have one request: Don't make it another 11 years. Peruse our list of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:new TV shows for more obscure legends in the making.

Essentially, Pokemon Legen🥂ds: Z-A is adding real-time combat with positioning. What moves you're using, when, and where your opponent is and what they're doing actually come into consideration in the new Pokemon game. While that might sound pretty bog-standard for modern video games, it's a massive departure for Pokemon as a game with its, at least historically, turn-based battles. Every major Pokemon game has, by and large, been about standing in one spot and slapping your opponent with moves over the course of several turns.

Meowth, that's right

If you're an old man like me, or maybe just old in general, you might recall that the Pokemon anime series isn't… exactly like this. Pretty much from the start, Ash and Pikachu were dodging, dipping, ducking, diving, and dodging pretty much out of the gate🍃. Mechanically, the games have always allowed evasion where a move might miss, but there was never a responsive element in the way that the anime might often use.

In the games, an enemy Horsea using Water Gun doesn't allow me to carefully and tactically respond with Thunderbolt to take advantage of the water even if Ash (may he rest in peace) might have Pikachu respond with Iron Tail to bat away certain attacks. The two fighting styles were entirely distinct, and if you both watched the anime and played the games, the differenc🐟e was (and is) pretty stark.

While not specifically ref🐲erencing the anime series, the does make a point to call out that the combat is a series first. "In previous titles in the Pokémon video game series, Pokémon took action once per turn," the description reads. "In Pokémon Legends: Z‑A, Trainers and their Pokémon will move around in real time during battles, and Pokémon will unleas꧂h their moves when their Trainers command them to."

You don't need to take my word for it. Or even the Pokemon website's word for it. You can see this real-time combat in action in the latest Pokemon Legends: Z-A trailer for yourself. And given there's still several months ahead of its release later this year, it seems fair to specuওlate that we've only seen the tip of the Bergmite, so to speak, thus far.

Admittedly, this is all in anticipa🎃tion of a system that might not be as robಞust as I'd like. I'm excited about a couple bits of gameplay footage from a much larger game, and who knows whether what we've seen and been told is actually representative of the final Pokemon Legends: Z-A experience. It wouldn't be the first time a new Pokemon got me excited only to let me down.

But maybe Pokemon Legends: Z-A really does pull it off. Real-time combat, even aside from the anime of it all, is a huge change of pace that might make combat feel truly impactful. All signs point to the Legends series being a place where Game Freak is willing to experiment a little bit and p🍌ush the boundaries. Pokemon Legends: Arceus has a laundry list of differences compared to, say, Pokemon Sword and Shield. And as someone that grew up with both the Pokemon games and the Pokemon anime, it seems perfectly reasonable to hope that the two finally perfectly dovetail decades later.

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Fittingly, the Negan actor picked the worst possible time to show up. Fresh from stopping the Invincible War as an entire multiverse's worth of Marks flooded into his world, Invincible (Steven Yeun) is exhausted and desperately trying to help rebuild𝓡 major cities.

Enter Conquest. "Stand ready for my arrival, worm," the Viltrumite snaps at Mark. "You were given orde🐬rs. You were given time. You were given more leeway than most and, yet, I find this planet unprepared for the arrival of our Viltrum Empire."

Mark, though, isn't in the mood. "This isn't a good time," he replies. Conquest explains♉ that's why he's here – because they "anticipated" his resistance, and wh൲y they sent him to deal with the matter.

So, who is Conquest? That would be telling, but (if it follows the comics) he's an immensely powerful figure that has a huge bearing on Mark's future as a hero. His power level also matches that of Omni-Man (J.K. Simmons), meaning t💟hat Invincible is in for the fight of his life as the two collide at the en𝐆d of Invincible season 3's penultimate episode.

The 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Invincible season 3 finale synopsis was even released earlier this year, teasing the arrival of🌠 Conquest. It reads: "With the world still reeling, a dange༒rous stranger arrives – testing Mark to his limits and beyond."

Of course, The Walking Dead fans will be all too awar🎉e of what happened the last time characters played by Jeffrey Dea𝓀n Morgan and Steven Yeun faced down on screen.

In The ꧋Walking Dead season 6's finale, Negan strode onto the scene and brutally killed several members of Rick's group thanks to his trusty barbed wire bat Lucille – including Glenn (Steven Yeun).

Let's just hope Steven Yeun's character gets away with his face stil🐓l intact this time.

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Featuring the voice talents of Hugh Dancy as Otto Octavius, Vincent D'Onofrio as Wilson Fisk, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Charlie Cox as Daredevil, and Oscar-nominee Colman Domingo as Norman Osborn, the show sees Peter Parker (Hudson Thames) getting to grips with being a web-slinging do-gooder. Non-canon to the MCU, it's set in an alternate timeline where Osborn becomes Peter's mentor instead of Tony Stark. 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Gwen Stacy is set to appear in the next chap𝕴ter.

"We will have a Spider-Man season every year if I have anything to say about it," the executive producer told during the promotion of live-action MCU outing 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Daredevil: Born Again. "What usually happens, as you kn🉐ow, in animation, is that there's a bigger gap between season 1 and season 2 than in subsequent seasons, and that'll be similar [with] Friendly.

"We will have to wait a little bit more than a year for season 2," he went on, candidly telling fans to expect it sometime in late 2026. "But then after that, it ♉should come out on an annual cadence, hopefully."

Considering it took four years to make season 1🧜, Winderbaum's hopes may seem a little ambitious, though showrunner Jeff Trammell shared similar sentiments during a recent SCAD TVFest. What's perhaps most interesting is that Winderbaum's comments seem to hint at Your𓄧 Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man running far beyond the currently confirmed three seasons.

"I came in with, 'I can tell four se🐻asons of this easily.' Now that's evolved to however long they want to do it," Tramell previously . "I'm ready to keep doing it. I love this world that we've built, and there are so many pieces that we haven't even introduced yet that I'm excited to get to. 

"I think it's cool to come up with a plan but also know that they're going to throw things that are like, 'We're going to pivot here. Let's do this,' or, 'Don't use th𝕴is character,' or, 'Let's use this character'," he continued. "So, just being🌳 flexible in wanting to tell those stories is a big thing, too."

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All four episodes of the animated stop-motion show are currently available to watch on the official until March 9. The Pokemon T🌌witter account also confirmed that new episodes are still in production, despite the wait – new episodes were first confirmed a year ago, back in February 2024.

The show, which debuted in December 2023, marks the first collaboration between Netflix and Pokemon and follows Haru (voiced in the English dub by The Boys star Karen Fukuhara), who goes to work at a resort where Pokemon go to relax. Per the official synopsis, "as Haru figures out ho💦w to make her guests happy, she ends up discovering a new side to herself." It was a hit with critics, and has a perfect score of 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Haru is a new character in the Pokemon universe, but the series also included 🐠plenty of familiar faces, including Psyduck, Pikachu, Eevee, Dragonite, and Magikarp. Each episode released so far, directed by Iku Ogawa, clocks in at between 15 and 20 minutes, so it's perfect for binge-watching. It hasn't been confirmed just how many new episodes we're getting just yet.

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"We’ve seen and enjoyed the crazy memes and the hysteria of the subreddit while waiting for the Feb update, and wanna correct some of the♏ misinformation going around," he writes.

Rather than sticking to the original plan of running a "larger-scale global playtest" in March, there will be a🐼 "much smaller one." This is so that the team can work on the game itself and ensure that more𝓡 of you can play it later this year.

The autocombo system in 2XKO is also being reworked. Pulse Fuse is an ability you can select at the start of a match and works similarly to Tekken 8's beginner-friendly control scheme where basic combos can be activated with shorter button sequences, but doesn't really allow for the full moveset of a character to be utilized. Now, "Pulse is removed and replaced with an autocombo setting that each player can toggle on or off during champ select." This means you'll be able to use a different Fuse but newbies can🎶 still get the benefits of Pulse.

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Replacing Pulse is a new Fuse called Sidekick. If you choose it, "your point and assist never switch. Instead, your assist champ stays si😼delined to support your point champ, who gai🐽ns additional health."

This Is a result of feedback from those of yo♓u who wanted to play more of a supporting role in the fights so that you can learn the game at your own pace rather than fighting for your life on the frontlines.

As for any other "cool stuff" you may have seen the team "cooking", Rivera say🌞s "we are not quite ready to talk aboꦓut that just yet."

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The news was confirmed by , who wrote: "GKIDS is proud to announce the acquisition of global home entertainment rights to #Arcane Season 2! A full product array, including 4K UHD, will be out later this year." No release date has been🔜 announced yet, but fans can sign up for updates on the website to be kept informed.

GKIDS were also behind a physical release of Arcane season 1, which contained three hours of bonus features. It seems likely that season 2 will follow suit and contain some extra goodies for fans of the beloved aꦚnimated show.

Netflix doesn't release all of its shows and movies on physical release, but some of the biggest titles have made it there. Stranger Things and Wednesday have had DVD releases, as well as award-winners like Marriage Story and Roma. In an age when streaming platforms have been known to remove shows and movies at short ♛notice, it's great something like Arcane avoiding such a fate.

Arcane came to an end with its second season, but conversations are ongoing about potential spin-offs. Speaking to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Direct in December 2024, showrunner and co-creator Christian Linke said: "[There] definitely are like, 'Hey, let's continue their stories in their own kind of franchises and stories.' So definitel෴y, Arcane is just the first. We want to continue telling stories.💟" Watch this space.

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According to , Avatar: Seven Havens will consist of♏ 26 half-hour episodes spread across two seasons, also known as Books 1 & 2 in Avatar style.

Avatar creators Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko are helming the new Nickelodeon Animation series, which is currently in product✨ion.

Per the official logline, “In a world shattered by a devastating cataclysm, ♕a young Earthbender discovers she’s the new Avatar after Korra – but in this dangerous era, that title marks her as humanity’s destroyer, not its savior. Hunted by both human and spirit enemies, she and her long-lost twin must uncover their mysterious origins and save the Seven Havens before civilization’s last strongholds collapse.”

This is the third animated Avatar: The Last Airbender series, after the initial series debuted in 2005 and the follow-up, The Legend of Korra, aired for two seasons from 2012-2014. S𒐪even Havens will take place after Th🌳e Legend of Korra - and it's wild to think that the flagship show premiered 20 years ago.

A featuᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚr๊e-length animated Avatar movie, Aang: The Last Airbender, is set to hit theaters in January 2026, pushed back from its initia༺l October 2025 release date, with Dave Bautista leading the vo🦩ice cast. Two more movies are on the way.

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Enter Marshall, an eccentric and (one might argue) genius that's discovered a mushroom that can heal basically everything. The problem is that everyone else ꦦ– DEA agents, pharmaceutical companies, global conglomerates, and even rival scientists – seem to be invested in him not actually sharing that discovery with the world.

Common cause

"Like everybody in the world, or at least the United States, we've had encounters with the healthcare system an🐈d insurance," says Hely when asked by GamesRadar+ about the genesis of the series, "and it's like going up against a gigantic sci-fi tentacle monster that's hard to deal with and hard to get to the humanity of, but even that system is made up of people that are motivated by their little problems and struggles."

"Little problems" here might be relative given that Marshall and Frances, an old high school lab partner he runs into who ends up helping out, that just so happens to be the assistant to a bi𓆏g pharma CEO, also have to deal with a goodly amount of trained kille𒊎rs that aren't afraid to maim and murder. If you've seen Scavengers Reign, which Bennett also co-created, start at that level and tone it down just a couple of pegs and you'll have a good idea of the amount of body horror and gore to expect.

It's not all horrible and dark, mind. Common Side Effects can often be extremely funny, sometimes while also being horribly dark but not always. The DEA agents like to li🔴p sync and dance, a pharma CEO referred to as "the devil's idiot butler" obsessed with an exploitative mobile game, Marshall is often paranoid for good reason but sometimes he can freak out over nothing to comedic effect, and there's a shot that lingers on a man playing a fishing game in VR that very much does 💞not look like he's playing a fishing game in VR.

"Even the people that are like masters of the universe are often like goofballs," says Hely, "and they have to eat and shit the way everybodꦇy else does, and they often have strange little quirks and bizarre interests. From the President on down, you're seeing people who are just odd, weird, sometimes funny, sometimes a little scary, but human, and we try to put that into all of our characters."

But even beyond the creators' control, there's an inherent darkness to this all thanks to the🔴 simple fact that . Common Side Effects, which again deals with the healthcare industry and all of its inherent evils, started airing on February 2, 2025.

"They did move around the show a little bit," says Hely when asked if there was a possibility the whole thing got canned in the wake of Thompson's death, "and there was a press release that was going to come out on the day of the shooting [...] and so they actually pushed the press release, but that led it to go to a week later, when it was in the news againꦇ because they'd arrested the alleged shooter."

"It definitely seems like we're plugged into some themes, and we're hitting a nerve, and tying into an electrical streak in the culture," continues Hely. "But I think that just came out of us being interested in things that are bothering a lot of ﷽people, and questions that a lot of people have about how we have this weird healthcare system, why we spend so much money on it, and yet we seem to be sicker than ever. What the possibilities are to find a healthier way to live. All that is s💃tuff a lot of people are thinking about."

"In addition to tꦓhat, I would say that we've been working on this project for five to six years," adds Bennett, "and I would say that just making adult animation and trying to make a serialized story always feels like a risk, and so there's always concern that we're going to get canned for that reason alone."

"Credit to Adult Swim for taking a chance on🍰 something that's a little electric," Hely concludes.

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But it's Mark's bloodsplattered disposal of his nemesis, not any 🌼Viltrumite threat, that sets in motion a t🧔erse, paranoid season that sees Invincible's situation souring quickly on some fronts. As friends rapidly turn into foes, he becomes more erratic and aggressive.

Unlike other Amazon superhero series The Boys, it's immediately noticeable that Invincible doesn't pull any punches this year with shaking up the status quo. Case in point: Mark (Steven Yeun) frequently butts heads with Global De🦹fense Agency director Cecil (Walton Goggins) as their warring philosophies threaten to tear apart more than just a frosty working relationship, while the season's underlying theme – metamorphosis – is only further pushed forward by the exponential growth of new half-brother Oliver.

"You can be the good gu꧑y or the guy who saves the world. You can't be both," Cecil sp🐎its during the show's electric opening three episodes (a towering tone-setter, wisely batched together for release this week on Prime Video).

It's not an especially🉐 new thread for superhero stories to pull on, but it's helped immensely here by two things: Mark ditching the ye☂llow costume and entering his blue suit era (comic fans know only too well what a portent of doom that is) and a far more distinct, refined approach to its storytelling.

Power play

This season, every single episode either comes bundled with a great villain-of-the-week that meaningfully progresses Mark's arc or involves a killer high concept hook. They include dealing with Powerplex (Aaron Paul, whose presence only swells Invincible's roster of incredible talent), a new figure who holds a personal vendetta against Invincible. There's even development to be found as Mark battles against the power vacuum left behind by Machinehead in Chicago, the sort of s🀅cenario that would often feel isolated and skippable in previous seasons.

Everything here is in service of Mark's str꧟uggles – and occasional failures – in juggling being a brother, son, and a hero. That's not to say other supporting characters fade into becoming background noise, but the creative team's decision to rein everything else in slightly so it can properly tell Mark's story is only a net positive for Invincible in sꦅeason 3.

The show's renewed focus on its main story means that when Invincible does take narrative detours, they feel more impactful – such as the surprisingly powerful and risky dialogue-free co🅷ld open charting the rise and fall of two villains, or the standout second episode that delves into Cecil's backstory in a frenetic 45 minutes to understand what makes the shadowy GDA director♔ tick.

The only downside to the scattershot approach is that there are several plotlines that could have warranted multiple episo♛des, with Mark's brief foray away from his usual surroundings into completely uncharted territory – one we aren't at liberty to spoil here – being something that could have been explored further. However, that fast-moving attitude ensures nothing outstays its welcome: Invincible season 3 is all killer and no filler.

Art Attack

If the first season was about Mark's first tentative steps as a hero and the second season was about flying as far away from his father's long shadow as possible, season 3 finally digs into the person Mark wants to become – and it's all the better for it. Every interaction with Eve (Gillian Jacobs), The Guardians, and a rogues' gallery filled with fresh and familiar faces alike carry more emotional weight because of how increasingly comfortable the show gets in poking away at M﷽ark's flaws.

Despite its step up in storytelling, however, there are still some nits to pick when it comeꦅs to Invincible. Yes, the animation still doesn't stack up when placed alongside best-in-class examples such as Demon Slayer's furiously-drawn cacophonies of color. But there is a marked improvement this year, with a handful of big set-pieces being evidence enough of a real step up in quality. At some point, viewers will have to admit defeat on this front: the style is ultimately chained to the comic book aesthetic, even if it's at the expense of allowing its artists to cut loose and treat viewers to a real spectacle.

The main thing that sticks in the craw is the show's continued lack of urgency in some areas. While nothing ruinous, the six episodes we were given for review still features Omni-Man tiptoeing towards an inevitable escape and return to Earth, while Anissa is a surprise non-factor. While understandable given how closely it's following parts of its s💜ource material, Invincible failing to capitalize on her devastating debut last season is a slight disappointment.

Invincible season 3, though, is a show operating at the peak of its powers. The rapid pacing, improved animation, and Mark's own development has supercharged the Amazon series beyond even its formidable first two seasons. A full, uninterrupted run of episodes does wonders, too – and ensures whoever was responsible for splitting the second seasons across tw𓆏o calendar years won't be making that same mistake again.

Now, if it can stick the landing in the final two episodes (and hopefully feature Om🍎ni-Man finall🌞y heading back to Earth), we could be looking at an early contender for one of the year's best shows. Forget leaping buildings in a single bound, the sky is the limit if Invincible continues on this trajectory.

Invincible season 3 is streaming weekly on Prime Video from February 6. Never miss an🅷 episode with our Invincible season 3 release s🅘chedule.

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"What's funny is it was kind of only in the main timeline for the initial two months of development," Trammell tel🔯ls GamesRadar+, "and then it was like, 'Oh, well, this kind of limits us; let's go another route.' So the first episode is essentially the first script I ever wrote for the show. Nothing really changed. So it's not like, 'Oh, this was this, and then we scrapped i🐼t, but we saved this scene,' like it's all from its pretty much inception Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, and that has always kind of been the case."

While the show isn't what we'd consider canonical to the MCU's "Sacred Timeline," it does feature several direct references and remixes – the same story beats, told slightly differentl👍y and feat🥀uring slightly different people.

"We always wanted the audience to know, this is the Peter you know from Homecoming," continues Trammell, "but things are different. So I think leaning into that as much as we could of like, 'Yep, you've seen this; you know how this goes, but do you?'

"And that's the throughline of the show: we are giving you these characters that you know, but we're changing what you🍒 know about them to keep them fresh, keep you on your toes, and always kind of keep you guessing."

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"Jeff [Trammell, head writer] is building bric🤡k by brick and this show starts to pay off, you feel that in season 1, you grow connected to these characters, so that when everything starts to lock into ꦉplace and pay off by the end of the season – I don't know about you guys, but I feel it really deeply in my soul. And it just gets deeper and deeper in subsequent seasons. We're greenlit for through season 3, so in a couple weeks I'm going to hear his pitch for the third season."

Hudson Thames voices Peter Parker in the new series, which follows an alternate timeline where Normaꩵn Osborn (voiced by Colman Domingo) becomes his mentor instead of Tony Stark. The voice cast also includes Hugh Dancy as Otto Octavius, while Charlie Cox and Vincent D'Onofrio reprise their roles as Matt Murdock, AKA Daredevil, and Wilson Fisk, AKA Kingpin.

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man premieres on Disney Plus on January 29 – for more information, check out our Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man releas♕e schedule.

Taking to Twitter, MacFarlane shared a clip from Family Guy that's become a meme. The scene shows Peter Griffin and the others moments from drowning, when Peter decides to share one of his deepest secrets: he doesn't care for The Godfathe✅r. His reasoning? "It insists upon itself."

"Since this has been trending, here’s a fun fact: 'It insists uℱpon itself' was a criticism my college film history professor used to explain why he didn’t think The Sound of ൲Music was a great film. First-rate teacher, but I never quite followed that one," MacFarlane explained.

Just search "it insists upon itself" on Twitter and you'll see how often people use it as a critique ꧒of other movies – and now people are debating whether it's a valid critique at all.

🥃"Dude I've seen so many threads of people taking the 'it insists upon itself' joke seriously over𝔉 the years and I'm lowkey happy as hell MacFarlane has set this shit straight," . "IT'S NONSENSE"

"I do think 'It insists upon itself' CAN be used as a legitimate criticism," . "The Departed for example, is a movie that genuinely insists upon itself. Like 🌠holy shit I get it the movie is about rats I don’t need you to remind me every 5 minutes🙈 and have a CGI rat at the end."

"'It 🙈insists upon itself' actually being the perfect way to describe so many things," .

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But for the most part, Netflix spin-off Castlevania: Nocturne actually succeeded in channeling the best of the franchise in season 1, building 🅰on decades of worldbuilding already established in Konami's legendary video game series with bloody action and a devilish grin.

Yet even with its new cast of delightful characters and a welcome change in setting, the first season of Nocturne still never quite soared to the heig🧜hts of Castlevania🦄 at its best.

Whether you blame the departure of controversial writer Warren Ellis, pressure to match the original, or something else entirely, it always felt like there was something missing in the first chapter, as if it was the younger sibling trying to keep up without fully understanding what made the original so spec♏ial in the first place.

With the arrival of season 2, Castlevania: Nocturne now has the added pressure of living up to that legacy while also building on the new arc established in season 1. Kind of like a certain vampire with a huge legacy of his own who showed up out of nowhere last time in a surprise cliff🥀hanger…

Levelling up

Set 300 years after the end of Castlevania, Richter Belmont and his merry band of vampire hunters continue fighting to stop 🙈Erzsebet Báthory in the new season. This 'Vampire Messiah', already on the verge of godhood, is now closer than ever to obtaining the full power of an actual goddess named Sekhmet amidst the French Revolution circa 1792.

But thankfully, the gang have levelled up too. Having unlocked his gifts at the end of season 1, Richter is now living up to the Belmont name and then some by incorporating control over the elements into his wh𝓰ip-based brawling. Meanwhile, Annette's mastery over earth and metal continues to grow as she sets out on a quest to obtain more power at t👍he behest of her ancestors who believe she may be the key to defeating the Vampire Messiah.

And then there's Maria Renard, a summoner whose ability to conjure dark entities takes on🐻 a frightening new dimension (literally) in season 2, compounded by the loss of her mother to vampiric forces. Her storyline especially is a highlight this season. When Maria stares into the abyss, it stares back at her with eyes she can control, or at least try to, depending on her mental state. The corrupting nature of this unknown gift, which calls upon energies other ꦆgifted magic-users don't understand, plays out separately to the main narrative, but this is where the show excels most.

Between Tera's struggle as a newly-fledged vampire and how this is echoed through Maria's own descent into darkness, the Renard mother-daughter dynamic is a highl❀ight that speaks to the thematic backbone of the original Castlevania where Alucard wrestleᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚd with his half-human, half-vampire lineage.

A backwards Dracula

Ah yes, Alucard, the son of Dracula, who barreled into the fray at the very end of Nocturne season 1 with all the force of blood bursting out of a severed artery. Des🐻pite the two shows sharing a universe together, and 🥂despite the fact that Alucard is immortal and so could theoretically appear in sequels until the end of time, his arrival was nonetheless shocking in the best way possible, bridging the universe established in Castlevania with this new roster in an ambitious bout of expansive world-building.

This franchise often knows exactly what its fans want at the🍨 right moment, be it a perfectly-placed Easter egg or a perfectly timed bout of choreography, and Nocturne is no exception, opening with a solo Alucard fight that reminds us why viewer🐓s would line up for a bite from his truly.

From that point on though, the show wisely moves him to the side, being ever present with his condescending quips without drawing too much attention away from the central characters and their story. Because it is their story now, A✤lucard had hi𓆏s time, and making him the star again would risk diminishing returns while doing a disservice to what Nocturne has already established.

That's not to say Alucard has just been includಞed for the sake of it. In the show's quieter moments, his past, including events we have and have not seen, play into conversations with the new, younger cast, be it through advice on evil dads and the transformative power of love or what it means to live forever (especially when the Belmont bloodline is also around forever to bother you still).

Some of the banter between Alucard and Richter is🗹 reminiscent of the old days with Trevor Belmont, Richter's great, great, great, great-something-grandad, although the dialogue can feel a bit forced on occasion, especially compared to how easily it used to flow in the original show. Some of the voice actors fare better than others with the material, but James Callis remains the perfect Alucard, concerned yet aloof, while Pixie Davies captures that innocence Maria fights to retain staring so much into the void.

What does continue to flow well though is the action. Every fight, every moment in fact, is packed with the kind of innovation superhero cinema is sorely lacking these days in comparison. The t😼eam behind Marvel's Blade would do well to begin their research here, assuming the film ever comes out, because 🅷it's hard to find more thrilling battles than the ones regularly peppered throughout Nocturne.

There are grand, jaw-dropping sequences that will have you jumping out of your seat in disbelief, including a level-up for Maria that's reminiscent of Games of Thrones, but there's just as much wow factor in the little moments t💮oo, whether it's Richter steadying himself with iced-up knuckles, Maria's hair moving like Sailor Moon's as she seeks vengeance, or even just Tera using melting ice to shield her vampire form from the sun overhead.

Lacks bite

No punches are pulled, especially in one long fight that stretches over the final two episodes, so it's a shame that the villain at the heart of this conflict lacks punch. That's true of both villains in fact because neither Erzsebet Báthory nor Drolta Tzuentes are particularly engaging this tim𒆙e around. And I say that as a huge fan of the latter in season 1. Compared to the vicious Council of Sisters from Castlevania, and the deliciously evil Carmilla especially, these new Big Bads are big in the power stakes, but are kind of bad, or at least a bit dull, when it comes to the charisma you'd expect from a world chock-full of likeable monsters.

Olrox, the old Aztec vampire in love with a Christian soldier, helps balance this out with his much welcomed re♉turn in seaso✤n 2 although even his story is a bit underdeveloped. Edouard is also under-used now that he's kept almost entirely separate from the rest of the gang, except when he's trotted out to sing his gorgeous opera notes that further emphasize the contrast between his now-horrific demon visage and the beauty that can still be found at times in this cruel, bleak world.

Bleak, yet stunningly so, the carefully rendered locations expand from rural France to the streets of Paris, inside the Louvre and even Ancient Egypt in season 2, not to mention other spirit realms that only ওAnnette can see. Th💜e animation is dazzling at points, as is the love story that sits at its center, although the chemistry between Annette and Richter lacks some heart compared to the emotive beats of other arcs like Maria's.

I won't spoil how all these thread🔯s tie together by the end of the season, but just know th🎐at it doesn't end on quite such an abrupt cliffhanger as the first chapter did. If this is the end of Nocturne, it's a decent one that ultimately does the franchise proud, even if it doesn't quite match the dizzying, blood-curdling heights of Castlevania's flagship show.

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's report claims Arcane was a "financial miss" and Riot "didn’t have a robust plan to recoup the cost of the show before it launched." Executive producer Paul Bellezza tells Bloomberg the show cost $250 to produce and market, but 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:that figure has been disputed.

The report states Netfl⭕ix paid $3 million per episode, and Tencent also paid $3 million for distribution rights tꦚo the show in China. This would mean the show only directly made $108 million, less than half the contested budget.

Riot co-founder Marc Merrill took to to defend the show, writing: "People who look at the world through a short term, transactional, cynical lens, really struggle to understand Riot [...] These people think we make thing🧸s like Arcane to sell skins, when in reality we sell skins to make things like Arcane."

The showrunners have frequently talked up the artistry of the show, and how proud they were to be able to give those working on it the time to make it something great. Considering all the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:hidden details in Arcane, I'd say it was money well spent.

"Riot is a mission driven company where Rioters are constantly striving to make it better to be a player," Merill continues. "That is why we have successfully done that over and over again across multiple games and now multiple businesses / mediums - games, sports, music & animation. Do we get everything right? Nope. But we are not focused on the short term extraction of profits - we are focused on deᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚlivering exceptional value to our audience over the long term, again and again and again."

The writers of Arcane took some liberties with the game's lore to make their story work better for the TV, but our own League of Legends fans simply don't mind, the show is just that good. What works in one medium doesn't always 🦩work in another, and bending the rules to make a better piece of art.

"To𓆏 be clear, Arcane cru💃shed for players and so it crushed for us," Merill writes. 

Arcane was a massive success by all fan and critic measures. 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Our review calls it "One of the greatest video game adaptations of all time." The hit-animated show ran for two seasons and I saw tons of people online saying they were going to try 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:League of Legends, the game it's 🔜based on.𓄧 They're in for a real shock.

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In an interview with GamesRadar+, Arcane writer Amanda Overton speaks about potential future plans for the series and her particular interest in the region of Ionia. "I'm really excited for looking at Ionia," she begins, "because I think they have a much more Eastern-centred narrative storytelling and visuals, tha🌳t is something completely different from what Arcane did in Seaꩲson 1."

Part of her desire to shift the focus to a new region is to keep things fresh, something that has pushed her away from looking more closely at Noxus. "With Noxus, we did bring a lot of Noxus into Arcane♈. So to me, it would be like 'let&ap🐓os;s do something totally new'."

I𝐆onia is by no means a certainty, however, as Overton is clearly enamoured with champions from all corners of the world. "There's just so many great champions to dig into. There are so many rich areas there. I hope that they get to see what a matriarchy looks like, because I don't think we've seen that on TV before - up in the Freljord, having a matriarchy, I was like 'hell yeah, I've ne✨ver seen that'."

Indeed, it's the sheer number of potential characters that has truly piqued Overton's interest. "There are so many great little characters, and to me, I'm always looking for ways to tell stories where you can have characters who can find similarities in their differences," she explains. "With so many different types of intelligent life in Runeterra, and so many fun characters, they are allꦦ so different that you could find so many great stories with such great conflicts, looking for similarities in the champions' differences."

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Its season one premiere on December 10 was momentous to Prime Video, , since the show overshadowed similar recent releases like season three of Critical Role's The Legend of Vox Machina. At the moment, Secret Level is Prime's biggest new animated series launch. ﷽It's perhaps achieved this status by appealing to a wide range of gamers with its 15-ish minute adaptations of disparate games like Armored Core, Pac-Man, and Unreal Tournament, though Secret Level is more successful in some of its attempts than in others.  

"You'd think, as a nerd, I'm going to understand what all the other nerds want,☂" Miller . "That's not always the case, but that's the intention." 

We found Secret Level to be 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:unbalanced overall, though its best episodes indicate an impressive, deep-brain unde✱rstanding of what makes video games fascinating without trying to be one.🔯 

"I feel this way about virtually anything I adapt, which is there&ap👍os;s a reason that people love these games, or a story, or a book, or anything else you might adapt," Miller said. "I've talked to writers sometimes, and they'll literally say [that they dislike their source material] out lo🐓ud. And I'm like, 'Well, why the fuck did you take the job?'" 

Secret Level does not ye♛t have a season two release date, though its second batch of episodes releases today o💞n Prime. 

Secret Level's Pac-Man episode had one big request from developers: "We would like the audiences to wonder, 'What the f*ck did they do to Pac-Man?'"

The trailer opens to a cold and creepy graveyard with Anette’s voice narrating what 🌞happened in season 1. We then get a very Castlevania-s♏tyle vampire jumpscare and the rest of the clip shows just how bloody season 2 will get as the vampires are still at war, and dragons are added to the mix. With the Belmont's causing trouble and Juste trying to hold his family together, it looks like this could be a much darker season. Watch the full trailer below.

Based on the classic Castlevania video game series, Nocturne is set 300 years after the end of the original Castlevania show and follows a power-hungry vampire ruler at large during the French Revolution. Season 1 p๊roved to be a hit with critics, landing a near-perfect 96% score on . Ho༒wever, in season 2, our favorite fanged characters face their biggest battle yet.

The official synopsis from Netflix reads: "Now joined by the legendary Alucard, Richter Belmont and his band of vampire hunte♔rs are in a desperate race against time. Erzsebet Báthory, the Vampire Messiah, who already seems invincible, seeks the full power of the goddess Sekhmet so she can plunge the world into endless darkness and terror."

The voice cast for season 2 includes Edward Bluemel, Pixie Davies, Thuso Mbedu, Sydney James Harcourt, Nastassja Kinski, Zahn McClarnon, Franka Potente, James Callis, Richard Dormer, Iain Glen, Elarica Johnson, and Aaron Nei♊l.

Original Castlevania producer Kevin Kolde serves as showrunner alongside creator and writer Clive Bradley. The show is directed by Sam Deats and Adam Deats.

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P🦋urnell plays Lucy in Fallout and Jinx in Arcane. Both adaptations debuteꩲd to stellar reviews and a great reception from fans.

“Here’s the truth, and I feel guilty saying this, but I’m not a gamer, and I don’t know how I’ve managed to land two video game adaptations that have both been good," Purn𒁏ell said at MCM x EGX 2024 (via ). "I don’t know how that’s happened, but it has. I don’t know the answer.”

She added: "I actually think I need to stay away from video game adaptations now, because I’m going to get typecast. I’m going to be ღthe video game girl. There are wꩲorse things to be than that, I suppose."

Arcane season 2 recently came to an end, and Purnell bid an emotional goodbye to her cꦍharacter on Instagram. "𓆏I’m gonna try to not do a long soppy post about what this means to me but I do just want to say - it has been my greatest honour and joy getting to play Jinx," she wrote. "I have learnt and experienced so much. But most of all, I want to thank you guys, for all the love and passion, and support you have shown us over the years."

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"F🌠irst of all, the $250 million 🦄headline is not even accurate because that includes marketing expenses," Merrill told .

"The actual creation budget is significantly less than that. One of the fascinating things is that once a meme sets into people’s heads, showing up with facts counter to that narrative, it’s sometimes hard to dislodge a perspective, which is just fascinating to observe. It wasn’t quite $250 [million]. It was significaꩵntly less than that."

🦋While Merrill was reluctant to give an exact figure, he was open to a "ballpark" numb꧅er that requires a bit of math to work out: "It’s somewhere between 60 to 75% of that estimate."

Calcul🌠ators at the ready: that brings Arcane's production budget to anywhere from $150 million to $187 million, between $65 million and $1ℱ00 million less than what was originally touted.

Previously, had mentioned the $🌠250 million figure – a number that seemingly took on a life of its own and snowballed into creating its🏅 own discourse around animation production.

Most creatives were 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:broadly supportive, with production designer and artist Jason꧟ Scheier, who worked on Blue Eye Samurai, saying on Tw🌜itter, "Let this be the example for the standard if you want artistry and quality."

Arcane's executive music producer Alex Seaver also 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:waded into the discussion. On the rising costs of production, he told , "We didn't lease out the work to traditional people in film and television, which can totally work. But for something like this, the special sauce is that it's made in the building and we do all the animation in Paris at Fortiche."

Arcane season 2 may have come to an end, but there's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:a new League of Legends show in the works. Co-creator Christian Linke 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:also isn't ruling out a movie project down the line. For more on the show, dive into our breakdown of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Arcane season 2 ending and why we're not getting an 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Arcane season 3.

The star, who voiced Jinx in both seasons of Arcane, took to her to share her emotional message alongside a special trailer for the series. "I’m gonna try to not do a long soppy post about what this means to me but I do just want to say - it has been my greatest honour and joy getti🌜ng to play Jinx," said Purnell. "I have learnt and experienced so much. But most of all, I want to thank you guys, for all the love and passion, and support you have shown us over the years.🌊"

The Fallout star then shared how much the fans mean to her, stating that she has "loved meeting so many of you and hearing the ways you connect with this character and this show," adding that it is "easier to close this chapter knowing that she helped so many of you.💧" Purnell endeꩲd the touching tribute with: "Jinx will always be a part of me, and I her. It’s been a wild ride. I’ve loved every minute. Thanks for joining." Check out the full post below.

Animated Netflix show Arcane came to a close this November with an explosive second and final season. In the series, bas꧋ed on the popular multiplayer online battle arena game League of Legends by Riot Games, Purnell plays League of Legends champion Powder who is renamed as Jinx as she has a habit of ruining everything.

Created by Christian Linke and Alex Yee, the show follows Jinx and her sister Vi (Hailee Steinfeld) as the two find themselves on different sides of a brewing war. Season 2 picks up from where season 1 left off and sees "Jinx's attack on the Council set the stage for a dire escalation of the conflict between Piltover and Zaun," as per the official synopsis from Netflix. But the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Arcane season 2 ending brought the sibling squabble to a fiery halt.

Arcane season 2 also stars Katie Leung as Caitlyn, Reed Shannon as Ekko, Amirah Vann as Sevika, Mick Wingert as Heimerdinger, Ellen Th🦩omas as Ambessa, and Brett Tucker as Singed.

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Speaking to GamesRadar+, Secret Level's executive producer Dave Wilson said the shake-up to the traditional game was spawned by a meeting with the developers. "We just took that and sort of disemboweled what Pac-Man is m♒eant to be," he explains. "They challenged us, the developers. The developers hopped on a call with us and were like – mind you, this was a translator saying this – 'We would like the audiences to wonder, "What the fuck did they do to Pac Man?"' So it's not just our🍨 responsibility when audiences watch it. But in that case, it's like, I think people have enough knowledge of what Pac-Man is that we can take some risks."

The episode, titled 'Circle', follows The Swordsman who is a creature trapped in a labyrinth. He has no memories of who he was before and his only interaction is with a small floating sphere that in🦹for📖ms him that the only way to escape is to grow stronger by eating – or he will be eaten.

Wilson said they were pitched a lot of ideas for the Pac-Man episode, but there was one that really stood out. "We got a lot of great ideas, but some of them were exactly what you would think a Pac-Man episode would be, and we kept feeling like we're not pushing the limits of what this is," he continues, explaining 🐠that it was JT Petty who eventually came up with the unique concept, inspired by his love of horror.

"He came back with that script, and I remember reading it clearly being like, 'I'm not fully sure I get this one, but I'm likꦺe, I shouldn't get every episode. It's not all for me, it's an anthology,'" he grins. "And I will say, the script was great, but when we gave it to Victor [Maldonado] and Alfredo [Torres], the directing team called Headless, their pitch was inc🌃redible."

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Speaking to , Linke said that while 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Arcane season 3 was never conside🐎red, there is still interest in check🅰ing back in with familiar faces from the Arcane-verse in future.

"Not season 3 so much, but individual stories of certain characters that are in Arcanꦏe, in both seasons," 😼Linke said.

He added, "[There] definitely are like, 'Hey, ✨let's continue their stories in their own kind of franchises and stories.' So definitely, Arcane is just the first. We want to continue telling stories."

Linke had previously mentioned early development had begun on a new show – something that was 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:later clarified by Riot Games co-creator Marc Merrill as one series exploring three regions instead of beinꩵg three🔯 separate projects.

In our ow🦩n interview with Linke, the showrunner wouldn't rule out anything – including a movie.

"Yeah, they take time. What I said [in the Twitch interview] was we're exploring these regions – Noxus, Ionia – and we always focus on characters, you know?" Linke 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:told GamesRadar+.

"When we think about stories we are exploring, it's always about a specific champion or specific character – which I can't name yet, because there are several." Linke continued. "But, yeah, it takes t🦩ime – depending on if it's a series or a movie. We're exploring both in many, many directions. A lot of it comes down to finding the right people, the right vision, the right idea, the right story. That'll take years and once we have confidence that something's happening, we'll talk more about it."

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"I hope not!" says Wong when I ask about the chances that the first season is all we get. In fact, she practically shouts it at me while laughing. Without spoiling anything specific, the first season concludes in a fairly definitive way while꧟ still technically leaving the door open for more, so the runway certainly seems clear for something further while also technically not requiring it. Wu echoes Wong's sentiment in the interview before offering a more serious answer.

"We definitely would love to continue to play in this world," she says. "And there's some thoughts about where to take Jentry, especially because she changes her hair♏ and, like, becomes a whole new person at the end. And I think that's always a… a fun next chapter is like post high school, what to do from there."

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