COVER TO COVER: HARD-HITTING HALLOWEEN HORRORS!

Devil's Night gives way to Halloween and yet another year of monsters, maniacs, and menaces who prowl in the shadows! Only the bravest heroes can fight against the horrors that prey upon the human psyche. This edition of Cover to Cover will provide you safe passage to some of the most chilling and macabre battles recorded in the annals of The Comic Book Fight Club!

Beware as you confront the terrors of: Mephisto, Morbius The Living Vampire, Scarecrow, Solomon Grundy, Etrigan The Demon, Mister Hyde, The Grim Reaper, The Demons Three, ghosts, vampires, werewolves, demons, zombies, slashers, and those possessed by the darkest evils! Aiding you on your journey are the bravest and most bold: Hulk, Spider-man, Batman, Wonder Woman, Doctor Strange, Punisher, Daredevil, Hellboy, Hawkman, Ghost Rider, Wolverine, Thing, and many more!

Still seeking more thrills and chills? Dive into the Secret Issue Index to discover hundreds of battles from the dark side and beyond! Like & share daily links on Facebook and Twitter to spread the blood amongst your friends! Happy Halloween from Secret Wars on Infinite Earths!

HERO OF THE WEEK: PUNISHER (Marvel)
Real Name: Frank Castle
First Appearance: Amazing Spider-man #129 (February, 1974)
Fight Club Ranking: #66

Featured Fights:
- vs DAREDEVIL: Daredevil #257 (Aug 1988)
- vs X-MEN: What If...? #24 (Apr 1991)
- vs TOMBSTONE: Cage #3 (Jun 1992)
- vs CAPTAIN AMERICA: What If...? #51 (Jul 1993)
- vs DAREDEVIL: Daredevil #65 (Nov 2004)
- vs RHINO: Punisher War Journal #3 (Mar 2007)
- vs DEADPOOL: Deadpool: Suicide Kings #2 (Jul 2009)
- vs THE HOOD'S SYNDICATE: Punisher #5 (Jul 2009)

I was pretty disappointed when War Machine became the latest casualty of a Marvel event. It seemed like a gratuitous, cynical response to the creation of Ironheart, potentially without consideration for the long term relevance of the character in the Marvel Entertainment pantheon.

Yet, if you're anything like me, you also enjoy the way The Punisher occasionally picks up weapons and tools from other characters when he's allowed to operate in the Marvel Universe. So news that Frank Castle will soon be wearing the War Machine armor as part of Marvel Legacy is kinda neat.

Stories like this can always be divisive, but I kinda get a kick out of the way it revisits a personal favourite issue of What If...?In Volume 2 #29; Captain America is thawed into a modern world populated by familiar characters in unfamiliar guises. Red Skull masquerades as President Steve Rogers, commanding an oppressive military force equipped with suits of armor by Tony Stark. Star Iron Man is Frank Castle, wearing a War Machine-esque greyscale version of the suit. He eventually does the right thing, joining a weird What if version of the Avengers that includes a Wendigo Wolverine and Giant-Man Sam Wilson.

Punisher is, of course, also starring in the live-action Netflix series spinning out of Daredevil, ready to binge next month. Which is more than enough reason to make Frank Castle our Hero of the Week!

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HERO OF THE WEEK: GENERAL ZOD (DC)
Real Name: Dru-Zod
First Appearance: Adventure Comics #283 (April, 1961)
Fight Club Ranking: #196

Featured Fights:
- vs SUPERMAN: Action Comics #846 (Feb 2007)

What do you do about a menace like General Zod?

Once upon a time this guy was more famous for his absence than any present-day threat he posed to Superman! How he became Hollywood's impression of the ultimate nemesis of The Man of Steel is a little bit baffling, but I can't say I'm opposed to comics following suit! He's one of the better vessels for exploring the persistent idea of a Superman gone bad, and recent results have been pretty fun!

Around this time last year Zod was a surprising arrival in the pages of Suicide Squad, where he lingered for a while. Earlier this year, he joined the ranks of The Superman Revenge Squad. Next he's heading for a showdown with the willpower of space cop Green Lantern!

CBR featured a preview for the 2018 story, which will reportedly see General Zod take over a small planet -- drawing the attention of the Green Lantern Corps! "The Power of Zod" begins in January's Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps #37, which seems like a fun editorial swap given Sinestro was causing trouble for Superman just last month!

Like other recent Heroes of the Week, it feels like this is another step in the direction of fun, character focused comics. The fact that General Zod hasn't been a definitive part of the past few decades gives him extra leeway, but what's been done so far is a lot of fun. Tracking his movements feels akin to stories we talked about in last week's HOTW for Juggernaut, albeit in tighter succession.

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HERO OF THE WEEK: JUGGERNAUT (Marvel)
Real Name: Cain Marko
First Appearance: X-Men #12 (July, 1965)
Fight Club Ranking: #43

Featured Fights:
- vs SPIDER-MAN: Amazing Spider-man #230 (Jul 1982)
- vs SPIDER-MAN: Amazing Spider-man #230 (Jul 1982)
- vs COLOSSUS: Uncanny X-Men #183 (Jul 1984)
- vs NIMROD: Uncanny X-Men #194 (Jun 1985)
- vs CAPTAIN BRITAIN: Excalibur #3 (Dec 1988)
- vs DEADPOOL & SIRYN: Deadpool: Sins of the Past #2 (Sep 1994)
- vs SUPERMAN: DC versus Marvel #1 (Mar 1996)
- vs SPIDER-MAN & WONDER WOMAN: Unlimited Access #1 (Dec 1997)
- vs TEEN TITANS: Unlimited Access #3 (Feb 1998)
- vs HULK & DOCTOR STRANGE: Marvel Adventures #14 (May 1998)
- vs AVENGERS: Thunderbolts #150 (Jan 2011)

Last year on Secret Wars on Infinite Earths we set about filling in gaps from the iconic fighting career of Juggernaut.

The X-Men villain with an occasional heart-of-gold used to be a bit of an attraction, stomping through the Marvel Universe with a relatively well maintained path of destruction. Guest appearances by Juggernaut were usually worth paying attention to, infrequent enough to keep his movements fairly consistent, even as he faced a list of increasingly diversified opponents!

The eighties were a particularly fun decade to track Juggernaut's movements, told through memorable sequential appearances in a variety of series. We added a small sampling of some of them, with loosely related fights from Amazing Spider-man #230, Uncanny X-Men #183, and Excalibur #3.

These relatively simple to read issues were always fun, and it looks like Marvel thinks so to, announcing a classic style Juggernaut return coming in Uncanny Avengers #29!

It's a reference to classics that feels in-step with Sabretooth's return to the pages of Iron Fist, and Cyborg Superman getting up to no good in Action Comics. I'm getting a real kick out of seeing more of these character-driven, stand-alone issues and I hope everyone else will too!

Sometimes it's just nice to grab an issue off the shelf and enjoy the ride with one of your old favourite characters. It may not be as absent from the modern line-up as it seems, but it feels like the kind of approach we're overdue seeing more of. There's still Secret Empire fall-out in this one, and I'm not the biggest fan of the blending line-ups (of Avengers/X-Men), but hey. Issues like this can always win you over. It's sure made Juggernaut our Hero of the Week!

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HERO OF THE WEEK: RORSCHACH (DC)
Real Name: Walter Kovacs
First Appearance: Watchmen #1 (Sep, 1986)
Fight Club Ranking: #278

Featured Fights:
- vs MOLOCH: Watchmen #2 (Oct 1986)

It's been over a year since it became apparent that the world of Watchmen was on a collision course with the Rebirth DC Universe. Doctor Manhattan's blue glow was projected onto a variety of events, including The Button, which put Batman, Flash, and Professor Zoom on the trail of the pastiche universe. This inevitably led to months of false-positives as looming stories were falsely attributed to a controversial crossover. With the impending arrival of Doomsday Clock - it's finally time.

We still know so very little about what the series really will be. There's an ever-ominous feeling in the air. It's been easy to hypothesize DC Comics is headed for another drastic restructuring, a concrete reversion, perhaps, to restore the iconic reality lost to The New 52. This expectation of upheaval prepares us to expect the unexpected, but seeing Rorschach is still a surprise.

CBR has featured a black & white preview for the series, which raises more questions than it answers. Everyone knows Rorschach died at the end of the revered twelve issue maxi-series, but with his face enshrouded in an ever-changing mask, can anyone really be sure Walter Kovacs is alive?

The quantum possibilities of Doctor Manhattan open many doors, but as with all things Watchmen, one wonders if any should be opened. If it borders on sacrilege to open the file closed by Alan Moore, what would it mean to undo his work? Such an act would once seem inconceivable, but there aren't many sacred cows in today's pop culture landscape, and Geoff Johns' role in The New 52 and DC movies has drastically changed impressions of his creative voice.

The Johns of old was wonderful at capturing the classic spirit of characters and renewing them for a modern take. One wonders if DC wouldn't be better leaving their beloved deviant text alone, to focus attention on the neglected inspirations for its characters. It feels as if its been so long since The Question walked the streets of the DC Universe. Perhaps we'll see he and his Charlton fellows soon.

Even as a relative skeptic about the reverence of Watchmen, I start to feel a little queasy about where things are headed. The meta narrative of the post-Crisis DCU sharing DNA with 1986's Watchmen has a certain appeal, but this decade has been so destructive, it's hard to walk with any faith.

The return of Rorschach is enough to make him the Hero of the Week, but it remains to be seen if Doomsday Clock will be a daring risk -- or just another tale of DC devouring itself.

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HERO OF THE WEEK: CATWOMAN (DC)
Real Name: Selina Kyle
First Appearance: Batman #1 (June, 1940)
Fight Club Ranking: #34

Featured Fights:
- vs ELEKTRA: Marvel versus DC #3 (Apr 1996)
- vs ABOMINATION: DC versus Marvel #4 (Apr 1996)
- vs POISON IVY: Batman #611 (Mar 2003)
- vs HARLEY QUINN: Batman #613 (May 2003)
- vs BATMAN: Solo #1 (Dec 2004)
- vs CHEETAH: Catwoman: When In Rome #4 (Mar 2005)
- vs BATMAN: JLA #118 (Nov 2005)
- vs BATMAN: Batman: The Mad Monk #1 (Oct 2006)
- vs TRIPLE THREAT: Catwoman #63 (Mar 2007)
- vs CHEETAH: Catwoman #78 (Jun 2008)
- vs JASON TODD: Batman: Battle for the Cowl #2 (Jun 2009)

As a general rule of thumb: I don't like hard reboots.

Movies, video games, comics... Contemporary culture is rife with do-overs and remakes, ranging from the utterly ill conceived -- to the passable, but largely unnecessary.

You have to make a real mess to actually need a hard reboot in serial fiction. It's almost by definition a submission of total and utter failure, and is best thought of in those terms. That was basically the case in 2005 with Batman Begins: a justifiable revival of Batman on the big screen, eight years after Batman & Robin rendered the idea unpalatable, if not unprofitable.

Christopher Nolan's new entry into an already fractured adaptation process was actually sold within the framework of a contemporary trend of prequels. It offered the untold story of Batman's origin. Its Joker epilogue was even discussed as a plausible allusion to Tim Burton's 1989 Batman, as much as teasing a prospective sequel. It wasn't necessarily designed to be the template for a generation of ill conceived imitators and an eroding, colourless cultural apocalypse. It just worked out that way.

I'm drawing a long bow in today's Hero of the Week, even if it's revisiting common themes persisting on the blog. How this relates to Catwoman is in the big questions raised by news Selina Kyle has recently become engaged to be married to Batman in DC Comics.

This won't be the first time Batman and Catwoman have said "I do".

The pair were hitched in the reality of Earth-Two in the late 1970s. It was the culmination of their relationship in almost forty years of publishing: part of an aging counterpart continuum to the modern Silver Age, designed to maintain and advance the Golden Age heroes on their own Earth.

The Bat & Cat spawned a precursor to today's Huntress: a vigilante daughter named Helena Wayne. She took up the costumed fight for a new generation when her mother was murdered by a former associate. Eventually all of this was undone by the hard reboot of Crisis on Infinite Earths.

Earth-Two had its fans and Crisis created many headaches in the decades that followed, but it was always somewhat justifiable for advancing the mission to create a definitive DC Universe. After all, the DCU as we know it wasn't planned. Many characters joined through corporate acquisitions, and were created completely disparate from one another, without a plan to be everlasting cultural icons.

Crisis brought it all together in one place, at a time when refining the definitive vision of characters was still a work in progress. Much of what was done in the eighties is still underlying in modern incarnations. Minor adjustments along the way restored and refined elements decided upon in the eighties, to create what I would argue was close to a definitive DCU in the 2000s.

Then came the much maligned New 52 and a reprisal of the line-wide reboot with no real purpose, and few benefits. A self-made problem, an arbitrary breaking of the chain, now half-heartedly being addressed with the current Rebirth initiative. Results have still been very mixed, and Batman's proposal is one of the elements that raised a lot of questions about Rebirth's actual intent.

Eighty years of publishing tells us DC Comics is at its best when their heroes are iconic and instantly recognizable. Changes may occur over time, but the framework for advancement is limited within a clearly understood centre of the characters. Efforts to challenge this only divide the audience, create repetitive storytelling, and produce ever diminishing returns. Verisimilitude fading.

So, can Batman and Catwoman be married without plunging the DC Universe towards another unwanted wiping of the board?

Doomsday Clock and the expected intrusion of the Watchmen universe is keeping an apocalyptic feeling about DC Comics, who've spent far too long selling the world on the concept of their own death. One hopes Geoff Johns is returning to his best to create a way forward that is iconic and positive, but will he need to break everything to do that? Can another break really make things stronger?

The Batman/Catwoman romance has been enjoyable in the past, but it raises some big questions about the future of DC Comics as we know it. Maybe they won't really get married. Maybe it's just a passing story. Or maybe it's another cheque written that can't be cashed. A foolhardy decision that can only end in the kind of total and utter failure that leads a company to need a hard reboot.

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HERO OF THE WEEK: SILVER SURFER (Marvel)
Real Name: Norrin Radd
First Appearance: Fantastic Four #48 (March, 1966)
Fight Club Ranking: #33

Featured Fights:
- vs RONAN THE ACCUSER: Silver Surfer #13 (Jul 1988)
- vs NEBULA: Secret Defenders #10 (Dec 1993)
- vs DOCTOR DOOM: Silver Surfer #107 (Aug 1995)
- vs GREEN LANTERN: Marvel versus DC #3 (Apr 1996)
- vs THANOS & DARKSEID: DC versus Marvel #4 (Apr 1996)
- vs SUPER-SKRULL: Fantastic Four #6 (Apr 1997)
- vs ZOMBIES: Marvel Zombies #3 (Apr 2006)
- vs HULK: Incredible Hulk #95 (Jul 2006)
- vs BETA RAY BILL: Beta Ray Bill: Godhunter #2 (Sep 2009)

Typically Hero of the Week is reserved for the big stories, or topical curios of the moment. I could try to connect Silver Surfer to the conclusion of Dan Slott and Mike Allred's impressive Marvel Comics run -- but that isn't really what's been on my mind.

Every now and then HOTW is a purely self-indulgent exercise, and I'm putting on my tin foil hat to speculate whether the impossible might actually be plausible! It's been a simmering thought for a while, but now seems like the time to lay it down.

I was recently reading Jim Starlin's space epic The Infinity Gauntlet and thinking about how it relates to Marvel Entertainment's hugely anticipated 2018 sequel: Avengers: Infinity War.

The big appeal of the movie is its gathering of characters and plot threads from the last ten years of successful Marvel movies. Thanos first threatened movie-goers after the credits of 2012's Avengers, and he's expected to take possession of gems scattered throughout the various films before, and after, to create a version of The Infinity Gauntlet story.

One of the most important heroes throughout the comic book is the Silver Surfer. He crashes into Doctor Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum to announce the threat to the heroes of Earth -- and he stands solemnly with Adam Warlock when they make their final stand against Thanos in space.

Admittedly, there are other characters who could stand-in for The Surfer, but he's the new addition I'd most like to see. A more integral inclusion, I would argue, than Spider-man was in the 2016 big screen retelling of Civil War. The only problem is: Silver Surfer's film rights are presumably still tied up with 20th Century Fox, who made 2007's disappointing Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.

It's popularly understood that Disney have mandated a cold shoulder approach toward the X-Men and Fantastic Four properties held by FOX. The FF have implausibly been out of print since 2015, and in most merchandise and media, the characters have been an expressed no-go zone for licensers.

Yet, if I didn't know better, I'd say Marvel was starting to warm up to both franchises! We've already seen the confirmed return of a Thing & Human Torch led Marvel Two-In-One, which may or may not return the Fantastic Four to Marvel Comics. The X-Men are also slowly repopulating across multiple major and publicized series, including a Sabretooth crossover covered a few months back.

There's also the unlikely confirmation that The Skrulls will play a major role in Marvel Entertainment's 2019 Captain Marvel movie.

The Skrulls are inseparable from the Fantastic Four, which suggests at least some sort of deal between the two major studios. Rights to Ego The Living Planet were relinquished by FOX in exchange for permissions to change the powers of Negasonic Teenage Warhead in last year's Deadpool.

A partnership like the one forged with Sony seems unlikely, but a broader deal to revert the Fantastic Four and related properties back to Marvel doesn't sound quite so strange. FOX's efforts with the FF have been mediocre to downright disappointing. Maintaining the rights may prove to be more trouble than its worth, especially if Disney is willing to offer monetary compensation!

Most other heroes involved in The Infinity Gauntlet are already under the Marvel umbrella, with Sub-Mariner reportedly reverted back to Marvel from Universal Pictures. Wolverine and Cyclops could be missing from the action, although Hugh Jackman did make it known the one thing that could bring him back to the role he retired earlier this year is an Avengers team-up.

The one I'd really like to see is Silver Surfer, and dare I say, I'm not ruling out the possibility!

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COVER TO COVER: BATMAN DAY 2017!

The Comic Book Fight Club has been in heavy backlog mode of late, but we couldn't let the annual festivities of Batman Day go uncelebrated! The second last Saturday in September is all about DC Comics' Dark Knight Detective -- and as the #1 ranked combatant: he's played a big part on Secret Wars on Infinite Earths! That's why this edition of Cover To Cover has been super-sized to spotlight some of the best -- and most interesting -- Batman battles in history!

By clicking cover to cover below, you'll open the case files of The Caped Crusader's classic Bat-battles against: The Joker, Harley Quinn, Darkseid, Two-Face, Bane, Scarecrow, Killer Croc, Deadshot, Mongul, Gorilla Grodd, Amazo, The Injustice League, The Society and even Marvel's Captain America and Scorpion! With such a dastardly line-up of rogues, it's a good thing Batman is joined by his friends: The Justice League, Nightwing, Robin, Catwoman, Red Hood, Superman, Wonder Woman, Black Canary, The Flash, and more!

Still not enough Batman to satisfy your Batman Day needs? You can always dive into the Secret Issue Index to discover even more famous face-offs starring Batman and his friends!

HERO OF THE WEEK: HELLBOY (Dark Horse)
Real Name: Anung un Rama
First Appearance: San Diego Comic Con Comics #2 (August, 1993)
Fight Club Ranking: #221

Featured Fights:
- vs GROM: Hellboy: The Corpse and the Iron Shoes (Jan 1996)

There was a bittersweet sense of excitement when a new Hellboy movie was announced to the world earlier this year. The obvious downside was a confirmed closing of the door to the live-action series begun by Guillermo del Toro in 2004.

Star Ron Perlman had done a good job of waving the flag for a trilogy finale, but for one reason or another -- probably budget -- the movie proved a tough sell. Enter Stranger Things hot commodity David Harbour and promotional posters by Mike Mignola for what was then being called Rise of the Blood Queen.

It seemed like a particularly exciting first step for fans who found del Toro's vision typically lacking in the atmospheric, shadow-laden quiet created by Mignola's comics. A commitment to the comic book page is exactly what would get me excited about a new film version. Until last week, when the first look at Harbour as Hellboy threw a right hand of doom at those hopeful expectations.

The prosthetic suit is quite clearly a continuation of what was established by del Toro and Ron Perlman. If you didn't know better, you may actually mistake it for a promotional image of Perlman suiting up for a sequel to The Golden Army.

Distributor Lionsgate may very well be counting on the conceivable confusion, preying on what ever built-in audience remains, despite the film's status as a confirmed hard "reboot".

There's still plenty of time for the movie to reveal hidden strengths, but short of getting it completely wrong, this was one of the most unflattering first impression they could've made.

Big screen monster fights are a standard of Hellboy comics, but the thing that could get me most excited about a new film is the quiet, damp world that exists in parallel to our own.

Del Toro favoured a Hollywood-friendly adaptation that created fairytale romantic sub-plots between main characters, and contrived a public face for the secretive Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense (BPRD). The comics I've enjoyed never really showed any concern for the outside world. These were strange characters involving themselves in strange goings on. Any human characters encountered were already initiated in the strange, and often isolated by their supernatural experience.

The world of Hellboy and the BPRD stands tall as one of the great independent dynasties in comic book history, and one of the finest contributions to come from the 1990s. I'm always going to be interested in a movie adaptation and that's enough to make a Hero of the Week. I just hope there'll be a movie worth watching when it finally arrives in theatres.

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HERO OF THE WEEK: SINESTRO (DC)
Real Name: Thaal Sinestro
First Appearance: Green Lantern #7 (August, 1961)
Fight Club Ranking: #102

Featured Fights:
- vs GREEN LANTERN & GREEN ARROW: Green Lantern: Rebirth #4 (Mar 2005)
- vs FREEDOM FIGHTERS: Infinite Crisis #1 (Dec 2005)
- vs GREEN LANTERN & GREEN LANTERN: Green Lantern #25 (Jan 2008)

Earlier in the year Action Comics inspired a closer look at the return of Cyborg Superman and some of the classic villains joining his Superman Revenge Squad. Now the latest issue of Superman is pitting The Man of Steel against an atypical threat that challenges the power of his hope: Sinestro!

CBR featured the issue last week, with writer Jim Johnson speculating about the future rivalry that may emerged from this clash between Superman and Sinestro.

That's the more attractive aspect of the story, which sees the fear entity Parallax briefly possessing a compromised Superman. A little too easy-breezy for my tastes, given the weight of past possessions, most notably Hal Jordan's lengthy fall from grace. The rainbow array of entities and power rings live and die by the key concepts that keep them different. Grafting Parallax to heroes this easily runs the risk of really diminishing the impact of the concept.

Superman's had to weather a rough run in recent years, compromising the bold heroism and hope the character should stand for. Fear eats away at hope, and pitting Sinestro's yellow light against Superman could be a great way of restoring Superman's strength as an inspirational hero!

Sinestro has been much bigger than a mere Green Lantern villain for a long time now, so I think this is one case of cross-pollination that could really give both characters something more.

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HERO OF THE WEEK: BLACK MANTA (DC)
Real Name: David Hyde
First Appearance: Aquaman #35 (September, 1967)
Fight Club Ranking: #DNR

Featured Fights:
- Yet To Be Featured on Secret Wars on Infinite Earths.

With so many battles, yet so little time; there are still a few major characters who haven't quite found their way into the Secret Wars on Infinite Earths fight club rankings! Which was one of the reasons Hero of the Week comes in handy, because there are a lot of awesome characters worth noting!

Black Manta originally appeared in Injustice 2 as an interactive background threat in Aquaman's Atlantis stage, but in a very rare case of exquisite taste; players demanded full control of the underwater villain as a playable character. Developers heard fans' cries and last week released the first trailer for their latest downloadable addition!

I love the sheer absurdity of Black Manta's classic bug-eyed helmet, and I love that NetherRealm Studios haven't tried to fix what isn't broken! There's the usual textured irrelevant in the body, but for the most part this is the Black Manta we all know and love!

With the DC fighting game roster climbing deep into the thirties (and beyond), a good visual is all the more important. It looks like he plays pretty well. Special moves include a lot of tech-suit based missiles and flight. Eye-beam lasers will be a favourite. He has a pretty neat harpoon, too.

Aquaman is heading to the big screen in a few months in Justice League, but in 2018 he'll star in his own solo film adventure! As one of the Atlantean's deadliest enemies, I'll be hoping Black Manta not only makes it to the big screen -- but also retains his look as gloriously as he has in Injustice 2.

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