Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Masks have always been considered a semi-obligatory part of superheroing; you can skip the whole “secret identity” thing if you want, but everyone’s gonna think you’re a jerk (or worse, Aquaman). With the exception of Superman, who hides behind a hair curl and a lack of glasses, almost every major comic book hero has a…
We finally have our new, Marvel-Cinematic-Universe-approved Spider-Man. But aside from the obvious benefits of having Marvel’s most popular (and most lucrative) hero join their cinematic fold, there’s a far more crucial aspect of Spider-Man that the MCU needs right now: his ability to tie this ever-expanding universe together. The Age of SHIELD is Over While…
Dave M. Benett/Getty Images Start Article Post Content Marvel and Sony have found their Peter Parker.“The Impossible” actor Tom Holland is set to play the web-slinging superhero in the next “Spider-Man” franchise. Jon Watts will direct the film. The actor is first expected to make an appearance in “Captain America: Civil War” in order to…
Just days after a leaked email revealed that Sony would never make Spider-Man anyone other than white, straight Peter Parker unless Marvel Comics did it first, Marvel has done it first. Over the weekend, comics fans learned that Miles Morales would officially replace Peter Parker as Spider-Man in the main timeline of the Marvel universe, which will be rebooted this…
Kamala Khan is unstoppable! The popular new Marvel heroine will be one of several heroes joining Earth’s Mightiest Heroes in the third season of Disney XD’s Avengers Assemble cartoon, titled Ultron Revolution, including her namesake Captain Marvel, Black Panther, and more. The reason the new Ms. Marvel gets top-billing over my beloved Carol Danvers in…
Franklin Richards, the son of the Fantastic four’s Reed Richards and Sue Storm, isn’t just a young hero-in-training, but one of the most powerful characters in the Marvel universe. And chief among those powers is being completely insane, as these facts will prove. Franklin is 47 years old. Not in actual years, of course. But…
We’ve already had some teasers about what’s to come for Marvel Comics after its Secret Wars event, but now we have the full details: The Marvel Comics Universe is getting a major shakeup this September, with new characters, new series, and big changes for some long-running heroes. The announcement, unveiled through Mashable and USA Today,…
The Agents of SHIELD take on a new mission—shilling Coca-Cola—in these delightfully surreal Chinese commercials. I have absolutely zero idea what’s going on in them. All I know is that if Agent Ward doesn’t take orders from a polar bear in season 3 I’m gonna be seriously disappointed. Here’s a slightly less wacky but still…
Photo: Marvel Comics A reboot is a delicate thing. When a once-profitable franchise of characters becomes stale, outdated, or overly complex, there will always be voices calling for the slate to be wiped clean: to take the characters back to their basics, retell their origin stories, make them contemporary. But all too often, those rebooting…
Consider this a capital “R” rumor for the time being, but it is a juicy one; we already know that Sony and Marvel Studios are circling several young actors for the role of Spider-Man for the upcoming reboot, with Ender’s Game star Asa Butterfield apparently at the very top of that list. But now we’ve…