Briefly, Black Widow

It’s taken eleven years, eight MCU appearances, one pandemic and the death of the character, but Black Widow is finally getting her own solo film! Even better/sadder, Black Widow also represents the first MCU film entirely directed by a woman, Cate Shortland (Anna Boden previously co-directed Captain Marvel with Ryan Fleck). Thanks to her long…

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Chrises On Infinite Earths: The Below is Apes (Marvel Apes)

Christi and Chris take a fun detour to the Marvel Apes universe: Baboon Reed Richards, Vampire Captain America, and more primate puns than we can stand. Support The Chrises Patreon Kofii Contact The Chrises Twitter: @ChrisesPod Facebook: @ChrisesPod chrisesoninfiniteearths@gmail.com Music Credits  “Evening Melodrama” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/…

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Where Does Marvel Voices: Pride Succeed? And Where Does It Fail?

This week, Marvel Comics is releasing the next in their series of Marvel Voices anthologies, designed to give exposure and voice to to a more demographically diverse segment of creators and characters. And since this is June, Pride Month, Marvel’s special is focusing on LGBTQA+ representation. Marvel Voices: Pride features stories from Luciano Vecchio, Mike…

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The Slimy End is Here in Venom #200

The End Is Here. Venom #200 Penciled by Ryan Stegman, Kev Walker, Danilo S. Beyruth, Ron Lim, Guiu Vilanova, Gerardo Sandoval, and Mark Bagley, Colored by Frank Martin, Chris O’Halloran, Jim Campbell, Matt Milla, Alex Sinclair, Chris Sotomayor and Richard Isanove, Lettered by Clayton Cowles. Forrest Hollingsworth: It’s here. The finale of Donny Cates and Ryan…

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Looking Up Loki

Explore the history of Marvel’s mischievous trickster god in honor of his Disney+ debut!  From stalwart super-villain of the Silver Age to one of Marvel’s first gender-fluid characters (depending on whom you ask, and when), Loki has amassed a large & complex history in both comics and via his appearances in the Marvel Cinematic Universe,…

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Born Anew and Veiled in Slime. King in Black Wraps and Leaves Us With Some Ghosts

Endings and new beginnings across Venom #34 by Donny Cates, Iban Coello, and Jesus Aburtov and King in Black #5 by Donny Cates, Ryan Stegman, and Frank Martin and Jason Keith, letters by Clayton Cowles Forrest Hollingsworth: It’s here. The months-in-the-making finale of King in Black and the penultimate issue of Donny Cates and Ryan…

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