Starting the first week of March, audiences everywhere will meet Matt Reeves’ version of one of Batman’s most infamous foes, the Riddler, in the new film The Batman. Played by Paul Dano with an aesthetic apparently based on the unidentified real world serial killer known as the Zodiac, the new …
Read More »The new Iron Fist is just who we thought – but the mystery of his powers continues in Iron Fist #2
Update: February 16’s Iron Fist #1 (opens in new tab) confirmed once and for all that the new Iron Fist is in fact who everyone (including Newsarama, as you can read below) predicted: Lin Lie, the former Sword Master, whose namesake weapon was recently shattered (again, more on that if …
Read More »Death in superhero comics is meaningless – its about the stories that surround it
Death is the ultimate finale in superhero comics… but it is often also the implicit precursor (or promise, even) of an inevitable return. We sometimes trick ourselves to get lost in the moment (or lost in that cycle), but it’s true. As comics fans, we understand that any death in …
Read More »Free Comic Book Day 2022 – the full list of DC, Marvel, Image, and other free comics and how to get them
Someone tell Hallmark to make a card because there’s a big holiday coming up – Free Comic Book Day. The annual event celebrated at most every comic shop around the world returns on May 7, providing – you guessed it! – free comic books for pretty much anyone who shows …
Read More »If Dark Crisis affects the ongoing series, heres who can fill Batman, Wonder Woman, and Supermans shoes
The DC Universe will have a big issue to deal with. And DC the comic book publisher might as well. In April’s ‘Death of the Justice League’ in Justice League #75, eight or nine Justice Leaguers – including Wonder Woman, Batman, Superman, Aquaman, Green Lantern (John Stewart), and the Flash …
Read More »The most important and impactful DC Comics events of all time
This year, DC is marking the 30th anniversary of one of the publisher’s biggest comic book events of all time, 1992’s ‘Death of Superman (opens in new tab)‘ – and they’re doing it by upping the ante much higher than it’s ever been for the Man of Steel and his …
Read More »With a new Dark Crisis looming, heres very DC Crisis event ever, ranked!
There’s a Dark Crisis on the horizon. That’s right, DC’s big summer event for 2022 will be a dark version of their classic Crisis formula that dates back to the ’70s, and which was made immortal with 1984’s Crisis on Infinite Earths. Thanks to stories such as that classic tale, …
Read More »Thor – How Marvel turned a stuffy mythological god into one of the most unique superheroes ever
When you talk about how long most iconic comic book characters have endured, it’s a matter of decades. Thor? Try centuries. Thor the comic book character is, of course, based on Thor the mythological Norse god. Records of the name being used by Germanic peoples date back to the 7th …
Read More »The Scarlet Witch Wanda Maximoff has a brand new Marvel comic book status quo
Wanda Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch, is a rising star in the Marvel Cinematic Universe thanks to her hit Disney Plus streaming series WandaVision and an appearance in the upcoming movie sequel Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. And as complex as Wanda’s MCU history is, with reality-warping experiments, Infinity …
Read More »How a classic 70s story set Sam Wilson on the path to becoming Captain America … again
Sam Wilson is Captain America … again. After reclaiming the mantle in 2021’s The United States of Captain America (opens in new tab) limited series, Marvel Comics recently announced that beginning in April, Sam Wilson AKA The Falcon would once become the star of a Captain America title for a …
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