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Ever since three of its key members died or retired in Avengers: Endgame, MCU fans have all had the same question: who even are the Avengers anymore? MCU chief Kevin Feige has been pretty tight-lipped about when we’ll see the next lineup or who’s in consideration, but a mainstay of the comic book team will

This article contains spoilers for She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. There’s a terrific little scene at the end of Episode 3 of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law when Jennifer Walters, aka She-Hulk (Tatiana Maslany), is walking through a deserted parking lot at night and is suddenly attacked by a quartet of extremely rough-looking customers. It’s a scenario

This article contains spoilers for episode one of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. She-Hulk, aka Jennifer Walters, made her entrance in the pages of Marvel Comics in February 1980, when her debut book, The Savage She-Hulk, hit the stands. In the book, Walters is a criminal defense attorney who runs afoul of a crime boss with

This post contains spoilers for The Sandman season one and beyond. “Ideas in abundance.” Believe it or not, that’s a curse pronounced by Morpheus in “Calliope,” one of the best stories in The Sandman. “Ideas in abundance” sounds like a particularly strange curse for The Sandman, the seminal Neil Gaiman comic book series so rich

Some 42 years after she made her debut in the pages of Marvel Comics, She-Hulk has arrived in the MCU. The latest Disney+ series from Marvel Studios, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, stars Tatiana Maslany as Jennifer Walters, an ambitious young attorney and single woman whose career and life take a turn for the strange when

The Riddler is truly having a moment. One could argue that the character hasn’t truly held the imagination of the public since 1966, when the first season of the Batman TV series premiered, and the nation was gripped by a wave of what was dubbed “Batmania.” A character who had, to that point, only appeared

This post contains light spoilers for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Loki season one. After much speculation, we finally know the name of the next two Avengers movies! Scheduled for release in 2025, Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and Avengers: Secret Wars will cap off Phase Six of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which

This article CONTAINS SPOILERS for the end of The Sandman season 1 and the comic.  The first season of the Netflix adaptation of The Sandman, arguably one of the greatest and most important comics of all time, is complete, and can be considered a rousing success. But it leaves several questions open when it ended,

This The Sandman review contains NO SPOILERS and is based on all 10 episodes of the first season of the show. After decades of failed or blocked film adaptations of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman, Netflix has finally broken through with a new 10-episode series, released on Aug. 5. And it was all worth the wait.

The Netflix adaptation of The Sandman has been long anticipated both by early fans of the DC comic and by those who have come to enjoy the many wonderful Neil Gaiman televised offerings, from Good Omens to American Gods. But even with the inherent appeal of the classic comic and its creator, there’s something thrilling

This article is presented by: Lucifer Morningstar is a frequent dark guest of Western culture, with depictions of the fallen angel stretching back to Biblical times and even before that in elemental forms. In Neil Gaiman’s hallowed comic The Sandman, however, Lucifer is a little different from his usual representation. The Sandman‘s Lucifer is bored

This article is presented by: Understandably for a show called The Sandman, much of Netflix‘s series adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s comic is concerned with the journey of Lord of Dreams, himself. And yet, both Gaiman’s comic and Netflix’s show still have six other members of “The Endless” to portray. Among the most interesting of The

The death of Superman continues to loom large over the DC Universe, just as the actual, legendary tale, “The Death of Superman,” looms large over popular culture. It shouldn’t be surprising that one of the most creatively abundant periods in Superman history yielded one story that continues to cast such a long shadow, and yet

This article is presented by: Netflix “Tug of Love Baby Eaten By Cows.” That is the headline of the September 14, 1988 issue of The Sun newspaper in The Sandman story “Preludes and Nocturnes.” The headline is a portent, one of many, hinting that Morpheus, the King of Dreams, has escaped his imprisonment. The headline

This Harley Quinn article contains spoilers. Harley Quinn has long been the silliest of meta-superhero shows. In the show’s triumphant season three premiere, it takes its self-referential humor to the next level. “Harlivy” introduces director James Gunn playing himself. While Harley and Ivy are coming to terms with their new relationship status, we find Clayface

This Paper Girls review contains no spoilers. The main thing working against Paper Girls — Amazon’s mostly excellent TV adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang’s multiple Eisner-winning Image Comics series — is Stranger Things. Seeing how both chronicle the adventures of 1980s pre-teens who are unwittingly thrust into supernatural conflicts in which the

“Batman and Robin will never die!” Those triumphant words, spoken in 2008’s Batman #676 by Grant Morrison and Tony S. Daniel, may have occurred in the comics, but they could apply to the movies as well. Case in point, despite numerous claims that he’s done with playing Batman after a cameo in The Flash, a

In May of 2019, David S. Goyer made my deepest, wildest fanboy dream come true by asking if I wanted to adapt Neil Gaiman’s award-winning, best-selling The Sandman into a streaming series. Naturally, I said no. That’s not entirely true. First, I said, “May I have 24 hours to re-read the books?” Then, after re-reading,