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The Box Office: X-Men: Apocalypse opens overseas starting May 18th before its American debut on May 27th. Like two of the highest grossing previous X-Men pictures, it has a prime Memorial Day slot that should point towards a big opening but also a brief theatrical lifespan. The X-Men movies have never been terribly leggy, and this shouldn’t be an exception with competition like Teenage…
Back Issues discusses a major comic of the past, reevaluating its strengths and weaknesses while exploring the cultural context of its creation and how it has impacted the future of the comic-book medium and industry. This week: Civil War, Mark Millar and Steve McNiven’s explosive event series that pitted Captain America against Iron Man…
We got a glimpse of the new generation of X-Men’s comic-inspired costumes thanks to Empire Magazine recently, but a new image of the mutant team reveals their uniforms from top to bottom, and they look wonderfully colorful and silly in just the right way. http://io9.gizmodo.com/x-men-apocalyp… The photo, which emerged on Reddit this morning, isn’t of…
This article contains spoilers for comics in the Civil War arc of Captain America, so if you haven’t read that arc and you want to remain potentially unspoiled for the upcoming film, maybe don’t read this one! We talk a lot about what’s expected of girls, right from the time they’re born. We give them…
Jack Kirby Doctor Doom is one of the most iconic villains in comic book history, dating back over fifty years, and the subject of countless classic stories by the likes of John Byrne, Jonathan Hickman, and of course Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Created in the pages of Fantastic Four, Victor Von Doom has remained…
Friends, we’ve finally made it: The hellishly wearisome event that is April Fool’s Day is basically at its end. We at io9 despise this black day, but even our curmudgeonly souls got a smile out of this “prank” by the Canadian Library and Archives, which claimed to have dug up Wolverine’s military records from its…
Now that Marvel and Sony have joined forces to make the next Spider-Man movie, expectations for the film among fans are impossibly high. This possible title for the film should temper those expectations a bit. Sony has registered the URL Spidermanhomecomingthemovie.com (you’ll notice it redirects to Sony Pictures), which does seem to indicate that Sony…
And punching. The road to Civil War also involves a great deal of punching. If you’ve shared some of our concerns that sometimes it feels like Marvel is escalating to its ginormous comic book storyline (and sort of hot mess) that is Civil War in its Marvel Cinematic Universe a bit too quickly, then this…
Paul Rudd in Marvel’s “Ant-Man.” (Zade Rosenthal/Marvel/Walt Disney handout) Another industry is warning Georgia’s governor not to sign a religious-liberty bill into law — the latest to suggest that the state risks losing business over the measure. Actors, writers, producers, directors, movie studios and whole entertainment companies have weighed in on the debate, many calling the bill discriminatory…
Read “Follow-up Notes” END “Follow-up Notes” What is Daredevil, really? Is it a superhero show? Is it bloody torture porn? Is it a complex metaphor about religious guilt, Catholicism, and the impulse to “save” others by persuading them of their inner morality? Is it a lesser entry in the Marvel franchise weighed down by thudding…