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Goodness gracious, has it really been five years already?The year 2018 was a busy one for superhero movies, with game-changers like Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War and delightful surprises in Deadpool 2 and the Teen Titans Go! movie. In this mix, no one really knew what to make of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Not only was it the first animated Spider-Man movie, it also served as the first big push for Miles Morales, who took over the role of Spider-Man in the Ultimate Universe back in 2011 and entered…

Image: Marco Checchetto/Marvel ComicsThe original incarnation of Marvel Comics’ Ultimate Universe lived (and basically died) on Ultimate Spider-Man. Brian Michael Bendis’ run on that book with a number of artists including Mark Bagley, Sara Pichelli and plenty more was so consistent that it remained a bright spot among the larger messiness of its home universe. And in the same way that much of the Avengers draws on the Ultimates incarnation from by Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch, the same is true for the webhead: pretty much…

Captain Marvel was dead, to begin with. More than one Captain Marvel, if we want to be perfectly accurate about it. By 2012, the Marvel Comics hero that bore the company name had been relaunched in no fewer than six different series, and seen a total of three separate characters take on the name. More than three decades in, it seemed increasingly that Captain Marvel was the flagship character who just couldn’t manage to hoist a flag—and the Marvel powers that be were determined to change things once and for all.What…

Since his debut, Miles Morales has been an odd character. Though he was far from the first non-Peter Parker person to take on the Spider-Man mantle, his lead writer Brian Michael Bendis hoped he’d be a big deal and represent a community that was otherwise primarily underserved in Big Two comics at the time. And though it took some time for Miles to really get there, it eventually happened, thanks largely to 2018's Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. io9 Interview: Oscar Isaac Was 'All In' on Moon KnightSpider-Verse’s…

Image: Marvel StudiosWith a full month to go before Secret Invasion, it’s about that time for Marvel to start stepping up its promo game. Disney’s put out a new commercial for the upcoming miniseries that offers a deeper look at the espionage at play by the Skrulls and Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson). Unlike the last couple of alien invasions, he doesn’t feel the need to call in the Avengers to help with this—as he gravely intones, he has to be the one to handle this. (Which he apparently can’t do without his…

Image: Clover Press | Marvel (Illustration by David Mack)Marvel and Clover Press are collaborating to support the crowdfunding efforts of The Marvel Art Of... books. Artists David Mack and Alex Maleev will be the first two comic artists to have a collectible edition that celebrates their time drawing for Marvel. Mack is well known for his work on Brian Michael Bendis’ run of Jessica Jones and Maleev famously worked on Bendis’ Daredevil runs.Addressing The MCU’s TaboosBoth the standard edition and exclusive gilt-edged…

Nick Fury hasn’t been seen in the MCU in a hot minute, and even longer when you remember that his last live-action appearance technically wasn’t even him. With Secret Invasion, the former SHIELD director is back on Earth to get to the bottom of something that’s been quietly going on in the background of various multiversal calamities and wars between secret cities.Is AI Moving Too Fast? | Future TechWith the other MCU heroes caught up in their own problems, it falls to Fury and his longtime right hand Maria Hill (Cobie…

Image: Marvel StudiosEarlier in the week, Marvel finally pulled back the curtain on Secret Invasion, one of the many Disney+ shows they’ve still got in the pipeline. Based on a 2008 comic book event from Brian Michael Bendis and Lenil Francis Yu, the series will see a returning Nick Fury discover that the Skrulls from Captain Marvel have been putting themselves in powerful positions all over the world. Meaning we’re once again in the paranoid espionage thriller space, something the MCU hasn’t done in a couple of years,…

What happened to the Skrulls after Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) promised that they would be able to find a new home in Captain Marvel? According to a new article in Vanity Fair, a whole lot and, strangely, not much.She-Hulk: Attorney at Law Episode 9 Finale Review As Fury leveraged the Skrulls’ shapeshifting powers to build a network of spies (much like Hydra infiltrated high-level political networks), in upcoming Disney+ Marvel series Secret Invasion, he discovers some of them have become angry and frustrated by the…

Image: Warner Bros./DC ComicsWhile Warner Bros. has spent the last decade plus trying to whip DC Comics movies into some form of coherence in live action, its animated movie output has generally remained consistent. The 2010s saw over a dozen movies based on or inspired by the New 52 line of comics, and later rebooted into a new series of films beginning with 2020's Superman: Man of Tomorrow and Batman: The Long Halloween. Next year’s Legion of Super-Heroes continues the now five-film franchise by using Superman and…