Captain America 4 has a director: the Nigerian-American filmmaker Julius Onah, perhaps best-known for helming the 2018 sci-fi thriller The Cloverfield Paradox. The fourth installment in the MCU’s Captain America film saga follows Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson from the Disney Plus series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. As …
Read More »The best Marvel characters in the publishers history
Narrowing down a list of the best Marvel characters ever from the comic book publisher’s always expanding universe of over 8,000 unique characters is a tough job. And though such a list may always come down to a matter of opinion, perhaps the toughest part of ranking the best Marvel …
Read More »Skrulls take over for Iron Man, Venom, Hulk, and more in Marvels May variant covers
The Skrulls are back in a big way in the Marvel Universe – and not so coincidently, also the Marvel Cinematic Universe, in 2022. As a companion to a Secret Invasion follow-up in May by writer Ryan North and artist Francesco Mobili starring Nick Fury and Maria Hill, Marvel is …
Read More »Captain America and the Avengers face off with the Eternals ahead of Marvels Judgment Day
Marvel Comics’ upcoming summer event Judgment Day is being teased as a showdown between the Avengers, the X-Men, and the Eternals – and just-released information/art from April’s Eternals #11 shows what could be the first shot in this three-way war. Esad Ribić’s Eternals #11 cover features the Avengers’ Captain America …
Read More »Kang saves the Marvel Universe and sets up a host of 2022 stories in Timeless #1
December 29’s Timeless #1 (opens in new tab) from writer Jed MacKay, artists Kev Walker, Greg Land, Jay Leisten, Mark Bagley, Andrew Hennessey, Marte Gracia, and letterer Ariana Maher lays out a series of teases for future Marvel Comics stories coming in 2022, including some concepts that have been previously …
Read More »Marvel March 2022 solicitations
In the real world, the northern hemisphere just marked the Winter Solstice, but in the Marvel Universe, it’s almost spring – at least in terms of the publisher’s full advance solicitations for March 2022, which offer up a glimpse of what’s to come as the so-called ‘world outside your window’ …
Read More »Marvel pays homage to 10 of its own classic covers
Another comic book publisher is paying homage to iconic Todd McFarlane Spider-Man covers. Fresh off the heels of DC’s playful and surprising nod to 1990’s Spider-Man #1 for a December Batman #118 variant cover, Marvel is paying homage to its own Amazing Spider-Man #300 (opens in new tab) cover by …
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 »Captain America and Spider-Man pay tribute to the victims of September 11 attacks on its 20th anniversary
Several of this week’s Marvel Comics carries a surprise eight-page backup story commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Soon after, Marvel made it available for free on Marvel Unlimited, Marvel.com (opens in new tab), and other major digital platforms. ‘The Four Fives’ centers on …
Read More »Red Skull and Captain America break bread before they break each other in Ta-Nehisi Coates #30 finale
After three years and 30 issues, Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Captain America run all comes down to this – a dinner between Steve Rogers and his arch-nemesis the Red Skull. “…Dinner?” you may be asking yourself. That’s right. Coates and artist Leonard Kirk are bringing it home with July 7’s Captain America …
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