Steven Asarch    New York Comic Con has been taking over the Javitts Center since , and I’ve attended each and every one. Over the past years, the con transformed from a splattering of comic fandoms celebrating the medium into the largest gathering of nerds in the tri state area. Television and movie stars...

Gavia Baker-Whitelaw    Analysis Superhero cinema is in its multiverse era, with both the MCU and the DCEU embracing multi timeline crossover events. Compared to the Spider Verse movies, however, both franchises are hopelessly outgunned. The gulf in quality between Across the Spider Verse and something like Ant Man and...

Gavia Baker-Whitelaw    Marvel Entertainment chairman Ike Perlmutter was laid off by Disney on Wednesday, marking the end of a three decade tenure as one of Marvel’s top dogs. The year old businessman oversaw the launch of Marvel Studios, but was a divisive figure due to his notoriously frugal management style, his...

Gavia Baker-Whitelaw    The Sandman comics are closer to an anthology than a traditional, protagonist focused narrative, meandering through a sequence of vaguely related vignettes. As such, the volume series is notoriously difficult to adapt for the screen. And while TV is a better format than film something Warner...

Gavia Baker-Whitelaw    Mary Catherine Starr’s Momlife comics belong to a familiar category of Instagram mom content, sharing complaints about housework and motherhood. Critiquing the unbalanced workload in a straight marriage, Momlife portrays Mom as perpetually overwhelmed by chores while Dad is a clueless layabout....

Gavia Baker-Whitelaw    One of Thor: Love and Thunder’s most frustrating problems is its lack of thematic coherency. Yes, even by the often underwhelming standards of the MCU. Taika Waititi brought a welcome sense of individuality to Thor: Ragnarok, helming a zany SF F romp that recontextualized Thor’s backstory,...

Gavia Baker-Whitelaw    Marvel’s What If... comics explore standalone stories that experiment with Marvel canon. The recent issue What if... Miles Morales Became Thor is a typical concept for the series but this new story came under fire last week, criticized for its tone deaf depiction of Afro Latino superhero...

Gavia Baker-Whitelaw    MCU fans are typically very forgiving of the franchise’s flaws, which makes the reaction to the new She Hulk trailer all the more surprising. People really do not seem impressed. She Hulk: Attorney At Law will be the eighth MCU show on Disney , starring Tatiana Maslany as Jennifer Walters, a...

Gavia Baker-Whitelaw    This post includes spoilers for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Doctor Strange ’s post credits scene teases future MCU storylines by introducing Clea Charlize Theron , a recurring figure in Doctor Strange canon. But if you really want to explore the film’s comicbook origins, you...

Gavia Baker-Whitelaw    This post includes spoilers for Moon Knight episode . Disney ’s Moon Knight gets off to a strong start, departing from the Batman style grittiness of the comics. Instead of focusing on Moon Knight’s main alter ego Marc Spector a mercenary vigilante , Oscar Isaac is introduced as Steven Grant, a...