As far as everyone on Earth-Zero is concerned, the Justice League is dead – but in reality, Pariah has used the team’s essences to start creating a brand new multiverse. Each of these worlds is based on an individual hero, and for some, it feels like absolute heaven – at …
Read More »America Chavez – the Marvel history of Doctor Strange 2s powerful new teen hero
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is now streaming on Disney Plus, and new viewers of the horror-tinged superhero film are getting to know America Chavez, one of the MCU’s most potentially powerful young heroes – and a teen hero who already has her super-strong bona fides in the …
Read More »Clea – the Marvel history of Charlize Therons new MCU character explained
Now that Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness is streaming on Disney Plus, new audiences are meeting Clea, the current Sorcerer Supreme in comic books and Strange’s ex-wife, played by none other than Charlize Theron in one of the film’s two post-credits stinger scenes (the one that’s not a …
Read More »The comic book status quos of all the original MCU Avengers
The current phase of the MCU has unsurprisingly focused steadily on replacing the original MCU Avengers – Steve Rogers Captain America, Tony Stark Iron Man, Bruce Banner Hulk, Thor Odinson, Clint Barton Hawkeye, and Natasha Romanov Black Widow – with younger counterparts that embody their legacies while also introducing totally …
Read More »Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – Meet the bizarre villain The Spot
As fans of Miles Morales prepare to go Across the Spider-Verse for Sony’s new animated Spider-Man sequel, one of the villains of the two-part Across the Spider-Verse has been revealed as the Spot, one of Spidey’s weirdest cult villains, who is voiced by Jason Schwartzman in the movie. (Image credit: …
Read More »All four major X-Men mutant classifications explained
Mutant classification is a longrunning idea in Marvel Comics, going back in some form another almost as far back as the idea of mutants themselves. And with that much history, all wrapped up in the complications of a decades-long sequential narrative, there’s a whole complicated theory of comic book science …
Read More »Moira, Chasm, and Titan lead the new wave of Marvel heroes becoming villains
Marvel Comics is about to spend the summer capitalizing on its longstanding trend of having its heroes come to blows in fights and conflicts that have lasting impacts on the Marvel Universe with AXE: Judgment Day, which puts the Avengers, X-Men, and Eternals in a three-way superhero conflict. But Marvel …
Read More »Black Adam writer Christopher Priest hopes readers give the series a fair shot
Depending on who you ask, Black Adam of the Shazam family of powers is either an anti-hero or a downright villain. The character is slated to make his big-screen debut this year, played by Dwayne Johnson, but before that happens, he’ll star in a new ongoing series written by Christopher …
Read More »The best female superheroes
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness may focus on the titular Sorcerer Supreme, but it also spotlights several women in the Marvel Universe, all of whom have unique comic origin stories and one of who is among Newsarama’s selections of the best female superheroes of all time. The movie …
Read More »Captain Carter confirms What If…? was a Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness prequel
Disney Plus’s What If…? completed its first season last year but interest in the Marvel Studios streaming series may get revived with more new evidence it could be required viewing for May 6’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. It’s certainly looking more and more like the MCU’s first …
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