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Image: Alex Ross/Marvel ComicsIt’s never a boring day in the world of Marvel Comics. As the publisher’s solicitations for the winter draw closer, they’ve already revealed some of the events in store for their various heroes in a couple of months. And for both the Fantastic Four and Iron Man specifically, they’re going in some interesting directions as new creative teams are brought on to their respective comics. First up is the Fantastic Four, whose new run will begin in November. Taking over from Dan Slott and a…

Image: WB AnimationThe big movie of the weekend is the CG animated film DC’s League of Super Pets, which famously stars a range of established actors, headlined by Kevin Hart and eventual Black Adam Dwayne Johnson. Super Pets joins Disney’s Lightyear from earlier this month, along with the now finally released Paws of Fury, in being animated films whose cast is made up of big name actors rather than voice actors. And in recent months, the shine around this trend has started to fade, if not dim out completely.Celebrity-led…

Screengrab via Disney Plus Now that Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is streaming on Disney Plus, Marvel fans have been given the go-ahead to criticize anything and everything about John Krasinski’s Reed Richards, who appears briefly at the midway point. After Doctor Strange and America Chavez are captured by the Illuminati, Chavez is kept in an unbreakable containment cube while Strange is marched down to the Illuminati court wherein its founding members decide on Strange’s fate for causing a…

What is it like to sift through the archives of a cultural icon? That’s a question Don Fleming knows the answer to on a deep level. “There were all of these boxes in storage and nobody really knew what was in them,” Fleming says of his wide-eyed wonder. “So we’d go from box to box, all being opened for the first time in years. Some were not that interesting. Others were mind-blowing.”Thus began seven years of work constructing the expansive exhibit that would eventually become Lou Reed: Caught Between the Stars. Launched…

Lou Reed’s earliest versions of some of the Velvet Underground’s greatest songs, including I’m Waiting for the Man and Heroin, have been unearthed and will be released in August.The US record label Light in the Attic, in partnership with Reed’s widow Laurie Anderson, will release Words & Music, May 1965 as the first album in a new archival series.It features demos of songs that Reed recorded with future Velvet Underground bandmate John Cale, and mailed to himself in a notarised package as a way of securing copyright…

Hayden Panettiere to reprise role as Kirby Reed in next ‘Scream’ film(Photo Credit: IANS) Actress Hayden Panettiere will reprise her ‘Scream 4’ role of Kirby Reed for the next instalment in the franchise. She’s set to star alongside Melissa Barrera, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Mason Gooding and Jenna Ortega, who toplined the recent reboot of the franchise from directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (aka Radio Silence), report a variety. The next ‘Scream’ film will pick up with Sam (Barrera), Mindy…

With all magical possibility at its doorstep, it’s no surprise that Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness has some tricks up its sleeve. But the biggest and baddest of them all has got to be the appearance of the Illuminati, one of Marvel Comics’ most intimidating super-teams. On top of that, nearly every member of Multiverse of Madness’ Illuminati is an Easter egg for longtime fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe or comics. Who are the Illuminati in Multiverse of Madness? Who were they in Marvel Comics? And…