Before the superheroes, monsters ruled the Marvel Universe. Well, sort of. While Marvel’s forerunner Timely Comics published stories about Captain America and Namor the Sub-Mariner in the 1940s, the superhero bubble burst after World War II and capes disappeared from magazine racks. Timely morphed into Atlas Comics, where writer Stan Lee teamed up with artists …
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In the new Disney+ series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, starring Tatiana Malsany (Orphan Black, Perry Mason) and Jameela Jamil (The Good Place), the origin of lawyer Jen Walters’s superhero code-name is the subject of legal dispute, but in real life, She-Hulk came into existence precisely to avoid such squabbles. Like Spider-Woman before her, She-Hulk was the idea …
After years of development, the long-awaited adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman finally comes to screens. The Netflix series stars Tom Sturridge as Dream aka Morpheus aka Sandman, ruler of the Dreaming and master of Dreams. The series picks up as a something of a hybrid between a mad scientist and a petty magician named Burgess (Charles …
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Thor’s come a long way, and I don’t just mean to Earth from Asgard, the realm of the Norse gods. When the God of Thunder made his big-screen debut in 2011, he was an arrogant jerk who loved war, too self-serious to be taken seriously at all. But as Thor made more movie appearances, and …
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Even twenty years ago, few would have expected Doctor Strange to be the focus of a highly-anticipated blockbuster film starring an actor of Benedict Cumberbatch’s caliber. Although the character had been the focus of several solo comic series and even starred in a made-for-tv movie in 1978, the Master of Mystic Arts usually enjoyed little …
Who will be the next Captain America? That question has been dangling in the minds of Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) fans since the end of 2019’s Avengers: Endgame, in which an elderly Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) handed off his shield to a reluctant Sam Wilson aka the Falcon (Anthony Mackie), while his best friend Bucky aka the Winter …
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