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Ellie Evangelista loves dressing up as her favorite superhero, Spider-Man. View Full Caption Courtesy of Margaret Ryan HUDSON HEIGHTS — She’s just your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. Like many 4-year-olds, Hudson Heights resident Ellie Evangelista loves to dress up like her favorite superhero and act out scenes of Spider-Man’s death-defying bravery. Then some boys…
Oh my god. Today’s issue of Star Wars #6, written by Jason Aaron, contains a surprise that changes one of the series’ main characters completely — a change that, thanks to the new Disney mandate that everything is 100% official, is now Star Wars canon. Get ready to have your mind blown. **** **** Ready?…
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…
Wonder Woman is getting her own movie but for the last few days the press has been breathless over her MAN. Rumors are swirling that Chris Pine will be joining the cast as Steve Trevor. On one hand that makes sense – Steve Trevor is part of her mythos and was, for almost 30 plus…
On the heels of The Wicked + The Divine comic by Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie and Matt Wilson landing three Eisner Award nominations, including best new series, the breakout books are headed to TV. Universal Television has optioned the rights to the property for Matt Fraction and Kelly Sue DeConnick’s Milkfed Criminal Masterminds; they will produce…
SPOILER WARNING: The following article discusses events from “Convergence” #8, written by Jeff King and Scott Lobdell and featuring numerous artists, on sale now. While many fans expected the end result of DC Comics‘ just-concluded “Convergence” event to be a streamlined, non-multiversal DC Universe, the events of Issue #8, which arrived in stores today, have…
A-Force, Spider-Gwen, Ms. Marvel, Captain Marvel, Thor: There’s never been a better time for female superheroes and fans. Longer than a New York City block and bigger around than a California redwood, the shark bursts skyward from a turquoise whirlpool, jaws gnashing, purple energy beams flying from its mouth. “It’s a Megalodon!” shouts Captain Marvel,…
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…
The pilot for this fall’s Supergirl TV series has appeared online, and here’s our spoiler-free review! If you were put off by the show’s six-minute preview from last week, I can assure you the show is significantly better than that. It still some of the same issues, but it’s far more charming than problematic. Honestly,…
The 5 Most Insulting Defenses of Nerd Racism News has broken that Michael B. Jordan (Chronicle) is being considered to play Johnny Storm (The Human Torch) in the upcoming Fantastic Four reboot. Naturally, comic book fans across the Internet are furious, because they’ve had it with all the reboots and just want to preserve the…