From X-Men to Time Lords, check out the cosplay action from ICON Durban 2018, KwaZulu-Natal's ever-growing gaming and pop culture convention.

With a more adult-focused imprint to tell grittier stories in and with Geoff Johns back as a writer, Batman’s greatest nemesis (or trio of them), are getting unwrapped and revealed at long last. Don’t expect the answer to be based on time travel or magic, as The Three Jokers is very much based on the idea that three men have been tormenting the caped crusader for years, evolving to become more dangerous according to the needs of the era that they operated in.

There’s something magical about being drawn to a comic book, and with the market bursting at the seams lately thanks to a deluge of talent, every comic book has to pull out all the visual stops if it wants to stand at the top of the pile. Comic books like the following entries below, whose covers are pure art and available for a fraction of the price that infamously corrupt art institutions would charge you for.

Well here’s some bad news to start the week off with. Comic Con Africa has a ton of guests who’ll be making the trip down to sunny South Africa and the Kyalami International Convention Center, but one name on the list who won’t be seen that weekend? Aquaman himself, Jason Momoa.

Comic books! Get yer comic books! Hot off the press, right here! But which one to buy? They say that you can’t judge a book by its cover, but does that rule apply to comic books? Yes and no I reckon. While plenty of comic books use variant covers to sell their contents, you can at least be assured that what you see on the cover is an idea of what is inside the new collection of printed pages with the prettiest of pictures.

Trained by the evil Darth Sidious, the formidable warrior Darth Maul wield an intimidating double-bladed lightsaber and fought with a menacing ferocity. Though he was being defeated by Obi-Wan Kenobi during the Battle of Naboo, the Zabrak from Dathomir would prove to be much harder to destroy than originally believed.

What a weekend it was! Disney shot themselves in the foot when they fired a beloved director after being spurred on by a Nazi, the Arrowverse grew even wackier than ever and DC had trailers aplenty as they began to refocus their efforts not only on making movies, but making films that actually look good. In case you missed it, here’s a handy round-up of all the content that was pumped out.

Announced at San Diego Comic Con, The Worlds of DC signifies the end of an era and the start of a far more focused one. Does that mean that the cinematic universe of director Zack Snyder’s darker vision for the DCEU is dead? Not exactly, but the idea here is that The Worlds of DC can support multiple films and ideas.