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Marvel announces scripted podcasts featuring Wolverine, Hawkeye, Black Widow and Star-Lord

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Following on from the successful Wolverine: The Long Night, Marvel has announced that it is getting back into the scripted podcast business, teaming with SiriusXM to produce new audio dramas featuring Wolverine, Hawkeye, Black Widow and Star-Lord, along with a fifth team-up series. “Powerful stories are read, seen, and heard – and we believe audio […]

Conan goes up against Mephisto in Marvel’s Conan: Battle for the Serpent Crown

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Marvel has announced that Conan is set to venture further into the Marvel Universe than ever before with the upcoming limited series Conan: Battle for the Serpent Crown, which will pit Robert E. Howard’s barbarian against the iconic Marvel villain Mephisto. “Getting to write Conan the Barbarian taking on the Marvel Universe is a high-octane, widescreen […]

Comic Book Preview – Journey to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – Allegiance #4

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Marvel Comics releases Journey to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – Allegiance #4 this coming Wednesday, and you can take a look at a preview of the issue here… THE DECADES-SPANNING SKYWALKER SAGA NEARS ITS CLIMACTIC CONCLUSION! Before the exciting events of Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker! Hounded by the FIRST ORDER across […]

Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger cancelled by Freeform

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This probably won’t come as too much of a surprise given there’s been radio silence since its season two finale back in May, but Freeform has announced that it has opted against renewing its Marvel series Cloak & Dagger. “We are so proud of Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger and the trailblazing stories this series told,” read […]

Comic Book Preview – Marvel Zombies: Resurrection #1

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Marvel launches its Zombies reboot this coming Wednesday with the release of Marvel Zombies: Resurrection #1; check out a preview of the issue here… THE HORROR SMASH-HIT LIVES AGAIN! When Galactus’ corpse appears at the edge of Earth’s solar system, the Avengers, X-Men, and Fantastic Four investigate. Too late, they discover that Galactus’ body is […]

Ken Loach joins the chorus of superhero movie critics

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As the debate surrounding the cinematic quality (or lack thereof) of Marvel movies continues, acclaimed British director Ken Loach (Kes, I, Daniel Blake) has become the latest filmmaker to join the chorus of criticism, slamming superhero films as “a cynical exercise” that “has nothing to do with the art of cinema”. “I find them boring,” […]

Ben Solo and Luke Skywalker battle the Knights of Ren on cover to Marvel’s Kylo Ren comic

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It remains to be seen how much we’ll learn about the Knights of Ren in December’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, but it seems that Marvel will be fleshing out their past in its upcoming Star Wars: The Rise of Kylo Ren comic series, with the cover to January’s second issue showing Ben Solo […]

Taika Waititi says Thor: Love and Thunder will be “bigger and louder and more bombastic”

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In 2017, director Taika Waititi reinvented the Thor franchise with Thor: Ragnarok by infusing the instalment with more comedy than previously seen from this sub-series. Now, in an interview with Wired, Waititi confirmed Thor: Love and Thunder will double down on how nuts the previous instalment was. “It’s going to be bigger and louder and more bombastic,” Waititi revealed. “It’s only […]

New Daily Bugle series to spin out of Amazing Spider-Man

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Marvel Comics has announced that the Marvel Universe’s chief newspaper will be headlining its very own limited series with the launch of Amazing Spider-Man: Daily Bugle from Mat Johnson and Mack Chater, which will follow the Bugle’s Robbie Robertson as he follows a lead into Spider-Man and Kingpin’s past and discovers a secret that will […]