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– Surprising no one, Warner Bros has announced that Ben Affleck will, officially, be directing, starring in, and possibly writing/co-writing a Batman solo film. Despite all the vitriol tossed at Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, very few folks had any issue with Affleck’s performance. From where I’m sitting, a DC film without Zack Snyder involved can’t hurt right now.
– The first poster for Doctor Strange has been unveiled, and it is just as oblique and beautiful as you’d hope a Doctor Strange poster would be. I keep forgetting that film will be here in November of this year.
– Robbie Amell, who played Ronnie Raymond on The Flash (and who is Stephen “Arrow” Amell’s cousin), wants to be play Batman on The Flash, too. How would he do that, you ask, as both the Earth One and Earth Two Firestorms are dead, and we haven’t seen a Bat on the show yet? The answer is both shockingly great and totally unresearched: Earth Three Batman! If only Amell knew that he’d be Owlman and be evil…
– Rumor has it that Vulture will be a (if not the) villain in the new Spider-Man film, rumored to be called Spider-Man: Homecoming.
– Despite both being announced earlier, Archie has set release dates for “Life With Kevin” (June) and “Betty and Veronica” (July), and confirmed the creative teams: Adam Hughes writing and illustrating the latter, with Dan Parent writing/illustrating “Life With Kevin,” inked by J. Bone.
– Who’d have thunk that a director who enjoys Deadpool would also enjoy Lobo?
– And, finally, Chester Brown has a new Drawn and Quarterly book about prostitution in the Bible. Sure, why not?
