Mythology

For nearly a year Marvel has been teasing a mysterious new comics project from writer Jonathan Hickman and artist Valerio Schiti. Today the publisher at long last revealed details for the highly anticipated project, as this fall Hickman, Schiti, and colorist Marte Gracia will embark on their most daring project with G.O.D.S. Here’s how Marvel describes the project: Meet Wyn, a mysterious player in a war that exists outside of the orders we know and a vital member of an eons-old hierarchy that includes the omnipotent…

Image: DecalExorcisms are a favorite topic in horror movies for obvious reasons; succinctly, demons are scary. But while we’ve seen a lot of films tackle possession and evil spirits through a Catholic lens, it’s rarer to see other religions brought into the story. That’s a big way that The Offering, about a Hasidic family facing a violent intrusion, stands out.Really, only the patriarch, Saul (Allan Corduner), and his business partner/best friend, Heimish (Paul Kaye), are religious, running Saul’s funeral parlor in…

Spoilers ahead for God of War and God of War Ragnarok"Baldur is blessed with invulnerability to all threats, physical or magical," Mimir explains to Kratos and his son Atreus in 2018's God of War. Yet as soon as Sindri, the dwarven blacksmith, gave a bundle of mistletoe arrows to the young god, I knew Baldur's fate was sealed.I'm not an expert on Norse mythology, but the fables of Odin, Thor, the giants, and Vanir are something I've had an interest in for a number of years now. I know the broad strokes…

It comes as a surprise to absolutely no one that director James Cameron pores over every detail of his movies. The degree to which he does so, however, is still surprising, especially in Avatar: The Way of Water. Screenwriters Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver recently spoke to Variety about the insane dedication Cameron had to the mythology of the film. The two married screenwriters were tapped back in 2013 after they helped reboot both the Planet of the Apes and Jurassic World franchises. They revealed that for the first…

Age of Mythology is finally getting its very own Definitive Edition with Age of Mythology Retold, Xbox has announced in today's 25th Anniversary broadcast. Released in 2002, Age of Mythology brought a fantastical take to the classic Age of Empires formula, with playable cultures based off Greek, Egyptian, and Norse mythology. Players could create mythical units by spending a new resource called 'favor,' which was earned by praying to or honoring a god of choice. New cultures Atlanteans and Chinese were…

https://madcavestudios.com/By Zach Rabiroff The first thing to understand about Christopher Priest’s run on Black Adam is this: he doesn’t like him very much, either. On a broad societal level, there is nothing surprising about this. After all, for most of the character’s eight-decade history, Black Adam wasn’t much of a character at all — a second-tier villain of a second-tier Superman, shunted between publishing companies like an unwanted stepchild. Nevertheless, there is a polite dance that creators and artists do…

Bruce Banner plays a big role on She-Hulk.Image: Marvel StudiosThree years ago this week, Marvel announced that it was making a series based on the popular character She-Hulk. The wait has been long, but now that show is finally here. Episode one of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law is finally on Disney+; it introduces Jennifer Walters (Tatiana Maslany), a Los Angeles lawyer on the rise who, at the start of the show, can already turn into a massively powerful green Hulk.The show knows that revelation seems very out of place…

Next month Image Comics will release Beware the Eye of Odin #1, the new series from writer Doug Wagner, artist Tim Odland, colorist Michelle Madsen, and letterer Ed Dukeshire. The series follows a young Viking prince and his compatriots on a quest to return the lost eye of Odin to its rightful owner. Beware the Eye of Odin is the first collaboration for Wagner and Odland, and the latest Image Comics series from Wagner, whose other credits with the publisher include Plastic, Vinyl, and The Ride. The Beat chatted with…