Melted Faces + Multiverse Babies

First day back after Labor Day and I'm still operating on "vacation brain". Celebrated Monday by rewatching all of Babylon 5 season 3 and eating cereal with a fork because all my spoons were dirty and washing them felt like accepting capitalism. My Funko Pop collection stared at me with judgment. Or maybe pride. Hard to tell with those soulless black eyes.

IN THIS ISSUE:

Set photos from DC's Clayface movie leaked. They're filming in Liverpool under the codename "Corinthians" which sounds like a Bible study group but okay.

September 11, 2026 release. Budget's $40 million which in Marvel terms is what they spend on craft services. R-rated body horror about an actor who gets his face rearranged by gangsters then turns to clay science. Normal career trajectory stuff.

Mike Flanagan wrote it before handing it to James Watkins who made Speak No Evil which I haven't seen but people keep telling me about it like it's their personality now. There's graffiti referencing "The Jokers" plural because DC can't just have one of anything anymore.

The scientist is described as "fringe" which means she probably has a lab in a warehouse and drinks coffee from beakers.

Chris Evans and Hayley Atwell are filming at Steve and Peggy's Endgame house for Avengers: Doomsday because apparently going back in time to bang your dead girlfriend's niece's aunt wasn't complicated enough.

Now they have kids. And Steve "created the Incursions" by living in the past. So Doom wants him dead. This is what happens when you let time travel into your franchise. It's like letting a toddler near your laptop. Everything's sticky and nothing works right anymore.

Tom Hiddleston filmed a scene there too. Having a conversation. About what? Probably "hey remember when our movies made sense?"

Meanwhile Chloe Bennett confirmed at Dragon Con that Agents of SHIELD still isn't canon which is like your parents finally admitting the dog didn't go to a farm upstate. We knew. We all knew. But hearing it still stings.

Bloody-Disgusting reports Lady Gaga plays Rosaline Rotwood, an "enigmatic teacher."

Enigmatic. That's entertainment journalism for "we don't know s**t but it sounds mysterious." Part 2 drops TODAY. Gwendoline Christie's coming back as Principal Weems who definitely died but death is optional in Netflix shows now.

Wednesday has to navigate "family, friends and old adversaries" while solving a "bone-chilling supernatural mystery" which is just college but with more budget.

The Eternals director casually mentioned to the LA Times she wrapped filming a Buffy pilot set 25 years after the original.

Twenty-five years later means everyone's old now. Buffy's probably got a mortgage and lower back pain. The real horror.

New TV spot dropped with the tagline "Military A.I. is the future."

Because that's never gone wrong in any movie ever. Elizabeth Bowen from Resident Alien shows up which is random but everything's random now. We're just throwing actors at walls and seeing what sticks.