Echo made her debut in Disney Plus’ Hawkeye streaming series, turning Alaqua Cox into a lead actor almost from the word go. Now, she’s taking her breakout popularity into her own show, with Marvel Studios having just released the first image from the production. A comparatively new character that the …
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Wanda Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch, has been built up as a key figure in the MCU over the last few years, and the currently in theaters Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness shows exactly how she fits into the overall scheme of things. But her current MCU journey somewhat …
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – heroes on the half-shell! Turtle power! If you’re a fan of a certain age, you read those words with a very specific cadence and rhythm in your mind, from the iconic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon theme song of the late ’80s and early ’90s. …
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is now streaming on Disney Plus, meaning a whole new audience is meeting Gargantos, the cyclopean, tentacled monster attacking New York City in one of the film’s early action scenes. “Who the heck is Gargantos?” you may be asking, as all appearances seem …
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Moon Knight episode 5 has premiered on Disney Plus, and it brings more answers about Marc Spector and Steven Grant’s past while keeping his heroic identity waiting in the wings, with nary a sign this episode of the possible third personality that’s been hinted at in earlier episodes. Moon Knight, …
Read More »Everything we know about DCs Death of the Justice League and Dark Crisis
The Justice League is going to die (well, most of them anyway) and lead to a Dark Crisis. And no, not in an Elseworlds title or Injustice game. Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, and more are really going to perish in the DC continuity. Though there is a matter of when …
Read More »Moon Knight – the enigmatic Marvel history of Khonshu, the ever-changing Egyptian moon god
After hearing his voice and getting some glimpses of him in previous episodes, Moon Knight episode 3 brings Khonshu himself fully into the show as a kind of unorthodox supporting character who also constitutes one of the many voices in Marc Spector’s head. Viewers spent time in episode 1 meeting …
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Everyone loves a superhero origin story… Good thing too because movie and TV studios are banking on it – there’ll be lots of them on the big and small screens in 2022 alone. In fact, two of them are arriving just this week, with Moon Knight premiering on Disney Plus …
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What the heck is “legacy numbering” in comic books? You might have noticed something big happened in the world of Spider-Man in March 30’s Amazing Spider-Man #93 (opens in new tab), the issue in which Peter Parker’s clone, Ben Reilly, became a supervillain (get all the details on how that …
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In all of DC history, few characters have gone from obscure to A-list faster than the Human Target. Christopher Chance’s Black Label 12-Book whodunit adventure is drawn and colored by Greg Smallwood and written by Tom King, who’d be the first person to tell you Smallwood’s name should go first. …
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