Author: Graeme McMillan

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The team has been assembled, but that doesn’t mean that Marvel and Disney are done announcing voice talent for the upcoming Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy animated series. After all, what space opera doesn’t need a telepathic former cosmonaut dog, voiced by a Star Wars veteran? Yes, you read that right.

James Arnold Taylor will play two recurring roles on the animated spinoff from James Gunn’s successful summer blockbuster of last year, voicing both Yondu, the leader of the space mercenaries called the Smugglers (and Star-Lord’s surrogate father), played in the movie by Michael Rooker, and Cosmo, a character familiar only to the comic book crowd — though he did have a blink-and-you’ll-miss-him cameo as part of the Collector’s menagerie in the film.

Cosmo, in many ways, takes the Rocket Raccoon formula even further. It’s one thing to suggest that maybe an entire alien race just so happens to look like raccoons on Earth, but in comic book continuity, Cosmo is literally a dog sent into space as part of the Russian space program that gained telepathic powers as a result and is now a strategic genius and security chief on an alien space station. Suddenly, gun-toting space raccoons seem that little bit more normal, right?

Guardians will be the latest addition to an already packed résumé for Taylor, who is likely best known for voicing Obi-Wan Kenobi on the Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars: Rebels series, as well as holding multiple roles on Batman: The Brave and The Bold, Johnny Test and Marvel’s Hulk and the Agents of SMASH.

He’ll join the already announced lineup of Kevin Michael Richardson, Trevor Devall, David Sobolov, Will Friedle and Vanessa Marshall in the show, which will launch into orbit and onto screens later in 2015.

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And Gamora makes five. Vanessa Marshall will provide the voice of the estranged assassin daughter of Thanos in the animated spin-off of last summer’s blockbuster Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, it was announced this morning.

Guardians will continue a lengthy superhero career for Marshall, who has already taken on roles in Marvel’s Avengers AssembleAvengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, Black Panther and The Spectacular Spider-Man previously, in addition to roles in Green Lantern: The Animated Series, Young Justice, Justice League and Ben 10. She also voices Hera Syndulla on the current Disney XD series Star Wars: Rebels.

With the addition of Gamora, the voice cast for the movie line-up of the Guardians has been completed. Marshall will join Kevin Michael Richardson’s Groot, Trevor Devall’s Rocket Raccoon, David Sobolov’s Drax and Will Friedle’s Star-Lord on the series, which will premiere on Disney XD later this year.

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This summer, the Doctors are in — three of them, in fact.

Titan Comics revealed to The Hollywood Reporter that this summer will see a comic book storyline bringing together the Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors from the long-running BBC science fiction series Doctor Who for the first time, written by longtime Whovian Paul Cornell.

The five-part storyline will replace the regular Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor, Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor and Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor comic series, and run weekly from mid-August through the end of September.

Details about the storyline — and the identity of the artist for the event — are being kept under wraps for now, but the presence of Cornell as writer is something that is sure to appeal to many Who fans by itself; in addition to having written for the show since its 2005 revival (Both the first season’s “Father’s Day” and the “Human Nature”/“Family of Blood” two-parter in season three were his work), Cornell has also written for the franchise in both prose and comic book spin-offs, including the Hugo Award-nominated The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who. Most recently, his work appeared in Marvel Entertainment’s Wolverine series, setting up last year’s “Death of Wolverine” event.

The Tenth and Eleventh Doctors, as played by David Tennant and Matt Smith respectively, have previously met in 2013’s 50th Anniversary Special episode of the television series, but neither has encountered Peter Capaldi‘s incarnation of the character before now. (Capaldi — or, at least, his eyebrows — made a cameo appearance in the episode, months ahead of his “official” debut in the series.) According to Titan, the companions in the crossover event will be drawn from the current comic book series for each Doctor, meaning comic book originals Gabriella Gonzalez and Alice Obiefune in addition to the Twelfth Doctor’s current traveling partner Clara Oswald.

The special crossover event launches Aug. 12, ahead of this year’s Doctor Who Comics Day on Aug. 15.

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