Flash Frames

Still from Creature Commandos There always is some standard with James Gunn now. Maybe it’s because of the quality, mainly because he’s made the Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy, but even his DC work in The Suicide Squad (and its Peacemaker spin-off series) has shown that there’s a big audience for his work. I’m certainly in that audience, and I’m personally very excited for his Superman movie. However, it’s well known now that he’s the current co-head of DC Studios, with Peter Safran. Creature Commandos , an animated series that’s wrapped up its first season on Max this week, is the soft launch of the DCU, the new established canon. The reset button has been hit. That being said, there’s some things carrying over. Gunn’s previous DC entries are canon, with events from both The Suicide Squad and Peacemaker being implied to have happened here. That being said, I’m still stuck on why this is the beginning of this new canon. Was there something important here that we have to know? The...

I admittedly do not know much about the Fallout franchise, but the most exposure I have to it is the overall tone of the last few games franchise, along with playing a little bit past the opening of Fallout 4 . However, it’s been pretty clear for the past few years that adaptations of video games into movies or shows are getting a lot better now. Sure, there’s the oddball one that’s pretty bad like the Halo show on Paramount+, but adaptations like Halo used to be the norm. The Last of Us seems to be the biggest example for shows, becoming a flagship HBO Sunday night series, and whether or not you liked it, The Super Mario Bros. Movie was one of the highest-grossing movies of 2023. There also seems to be some common threads that separates a Halo or an Assassin’s Creed from a Last of Us or Mario : involvement of the creators and overall respect of the source material. The writers and showrunners of Halo just tossed away the games and are doing their own thing, and look at what ha...