Solar Flare: Science Fiction News

Five comics up for review this week and the Marvel bias remains. I actually do want to review some of the Vertigo titles (specifically Fables and Y The Last Man to begin with) but in order to give them a fair review I need to read a decent run of those comics as they are very much…

Information is slowly filtering out about the sequel to Batman Begins, which is now titled The Dark Knight. Despite what you may have read on various sites, it seems that not much is fixed at this point as far as casting is concerned.

In fact the only casting that Batman Begins producer Charles Roven could confirm was that Christian Bale will return as Bruce Wayne/Batman and that Heath Ledger will…

This is a big year for DC Comics. Last year they had a successful Batman movie and this year they have a hit Superman movie. For the first time in a very long time, DC Comics is seeing some mainstream attention. To capitalize on that they released the heavily promoted (it seems like it started 2 years ago) Infinite Crisis mini-series which spun off to affect pretty much the entire…

Rumors continue to swirl about the sequel to Batman Begins (which still doesn’t have an official title). Its important to emphasize that these are most definitely rumors and are completely unconfirmed.

I previously reported talk that Bob Hoskins might be up for the role of The Penguin, but now there is a new rumor that Hoskins is actually up for mob boss Sal Maroni. And speaking of The Penguin it…

A few days ago I posted about the rumor that a new villain might appear in the sequel to Batman Begins (Batman Begins 2, Batman Continues or whatever they finally decide to call it). That villain was the classic Batman villain The Penguin.

Well now there’s a new rumor circulating. Again this is all unconfirmed. No one has even confirmed that the Penguin will actually appear in the Batman Begins sequel…