Happy Marvel Comics New Year! That’s right, Marvel’s January 2022 solicitations have arrived, and the publisher is celebrating with a host of new series and the continuation of Kingpin’s latest bid to seize power, Devil’s Reign, that includes new tie-ins starring the Winter Soldier, Villains for Hire starring the latest …
Read More »Why Marvel has a Captain Marvel but DC has a Captain Marvel called Shazam
Captain Marvel – while something of a B-list Marvel character for most of the history of the women and men who have held the title – has been elevated to A-list over the last few years takes to some yeoman’s work of several comic book creators, along with the character’s …
Read More »Is the original Captain Marvel being resurrected? Marvel is still making us guess
Marvel has been playing around with the idea of a return of Mar-Vell, the original Captain Marvel in the upcoming ‘The Last of the Marvels,’ the latest story arc in writer Kelly Thompson’s Captain Marvel series starring Carol Danvers… And they’re still playing around with it. The publisher continues to …
Read More »Captain Marvel critics call out “terrific buddy-movie chemistry” but some missed potential too
Captain Marvel is hitting screens this week, and the standalone debut of the most powerful hero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe has critics everywhere furiously typing. As both the last Marvel movie to hit screens before Avengers 4 (opens in new tab): Endgame and the first film to really introduce …
Read More »Captain Marvels Brie Larson on female (super) power and female directors
After months of fevered anticipation, Captain Marvel (opens in new tab) is finally out in movie theatres next week. Our sister publication, SFX magazine (opens in new tab), sat down with the Captain herself, Brie Larson, to find out more about launching a new superhero in 2019. “We definitely needed …
Read More »Surprise! There’s new Captain Marvel footage – and the Skrulls take centre stage
Captain Marvel (opens in new tab) is sure to kick off what should be a rollercoaster of a 2019 for Marvel Studios. But there have been doubts about Carol Danvers’ on-screen debut. Can Brie Larson carry the MCU on her shoulders? Will it be a bland origin story? How well …
Read More »“We may quietly kill you” – Jude Law reveals whether Harry Potter or Marvel care more about spoilers
It’s not always easy being an A-list actor. One word: spoilers. No one knows that quite as well as Jude Law, fresh off of filming both Captain Marvel (opens in new tab) and upcoming movie (opens in new tab) Fantastic Beasts sequel, The Crimes of Grindelwald. The English actor reveals …
Read More »When is the Captain Marvel trailer coming out?
Ant-Man and the Wasp (opens in new tab) may be the next film on Marvel Studio’s docket, but it’s the movie after that, Captain Marvel, which has fans experiencing an oh-so familiar blend of curiosity and excitement. We want to see the character kicking butt! We want promo art and …
Read More »Meet Captain Marvels directors: 5 things you need to know about Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden
Marvel are nothing if not brave with their director choices. Having plucked Taika Waititi and the (at the time) little-known director James Gunn to deliver their own unique brand on MCU mayhem on the big screen, it’s now the turn of Captain Marvel to be helmed by two obscure but …
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