After a three-year hiatus, Gotham Academy is back in session – but only for a brief moment (for now, at least). January 4’s Batman #119 will contain a surprise backup story featuring the Gotham Academy franchise’s Mia ‘Maps’ Mizoguchi back up to what we’ve come to love her for – …
Read More »Bendis on DCs flagship Batman title? A small meme leads to some big speculation
When DC signed Brian Michael Bendis to a “multi-faceted” exclusive creator deal in 2017, one of the most obvious potential assignments for the accomplished noir/superhero writer was one of the publisher’s two main Batman titles – Detective Comics or Batman. In the three years and change since then, that speculation/hope …
Read More »General Forteans secrets are revealed in Gamma Flight #4 preview
As Al Ewing’s Immortal Hulk races toward its finale, spin-off limited series Gamma Flight also heads toward its conclusion, with Marvel Comics releasing a preview of Gamma Flight #4, the penultimate issue. (Image credit: Marvel Comics) (opens in new tab) Written by Ewing and Crystal Frasier with art from Lan …
Read More »Human Torch goes haywire in Fantastic Four #36 preview
Fantastic Four #36 continues Johnny Storm’s cosmic evolution into what Doctor Doom called a “true Human Torch” when he shot Johnny with a raygun that made his flaming powers go totally haywire back in FF #34 (opens in new tab). (Image credit: Marvel Comics) (opens in new tab) Unable to …
Read More »Sabretooth, Fantastic Four, and Villains for Hire get new Marvel titles in January
Marvel Comics has just dropped five full weeks of December 2021 solicitations, and if that’s not enough, the publisher is also offering up a brief preview of some titles coming on January 5, including Sabretooth #1, Devil’s Reign: Villains for Hire #1, and Fantastic Four: Reckoning War Alpha #1. Though …
Read More »December 2021 Marvel Comics revealed
Marvel Comics is setting up a winter wonderland of superhero goodness in its December 2021 solicitations, with five full weeks of comics planned for release in the final month of the year. Those five weeks include five full-length issues of Amazing Spider-Man in the weekly ‘Spider-Man Beyond era,’ as well …
Read More »Kit Harington reveals he turned down a superhero role while appearing in Game of Thrones
Kit Harington will next appear in Eternals, the upcoming Marvel movie in which the actor plays one of the few human characters, Dane Whitman, known in the comics as the Black Knight. However, things may have been very different had Harington accepted an offer to play a superhero a few …
Read More »Shang-Chi actor confirms deleted scenes, including a new Wenwu scene
Shang-Chi actor Florian Munteanu, who plays villain Razor Fist in the action-packed Marvel movie, has detailed some of the deleted scenes that should be present in the upcoming home release. “We had that big end battle, and you [originally] would have seen a bit more there from Razor Fist,” Munteanu …
Read More »Rethinking the Scarlet Witch as the likely next Sorcerer Supreme … again
Doctor Strange is going to die… We have no doubts about that. Such are the lives (and often the many deaths) and careers of Marvel and DC superheroes and villains, where being dead is often a temporary inconvenience. Only the exact nature and ultimate duration of his death remains to …
Read More »Fantastic Four: The oral history of the iconic run by Mark Waid and Mike Wieringo
From 2002 to 2005, writer Mark Waid and the late artist Mike Wieringo, alongside inker Karl Kesel and an editorial team led by Tom Brevoort, embarked on a 35-issue run as the creative force behind the Marvel Comics’ Fantastic Four (opens in new tab) title. Waid’s involvement was somewhat ironic, …
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