At this point, in the year of our gourd 2025, if Phil Lord and Chris Miller are selling, I’m buying. The pair of producers (and writers and directors) have given us some of the most […]
Before Byron Allen became a media mogul, he was one of those comedians whose life was changed by Johnny Carson. Growing up, Allen would accompany his mother to the NBC lot in Burbank, where she […]
The second and final season of Netflix’s The Sandman opens with Destiny (Adrian Lester), the eldest of the Endless, calling a family meeting. It’s a messy affair that involves a lot of the immortal siblings […]
Although Marvel Studios did not make a presentation in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con this year, Gallery Books held a presentation of Super Visible: The Story of the Women of Marvel Comics Sunday afternoon […]
In The Fantastic Four: First Steps, several villains from the pages of Marvel Comics are mentioned, but never seen. However, we do finally see them in animated form in the post-credits scene in this Fantastic […]
One of the key plot elements of James Gunn’s Superman is Lex Luthor’s so-called “pocket universe.” In the film, it’s an artificially created dimension that the evil genius made by creating his own mini Big […]
Of all the elements of Superman lore that have existed since 1938, the toughest for modern audiences to swallow has been the notion that a simple pair of glasses hides Clark Kent’s secret identity. Christopher […]
In retrospect, the 2020 Netflix action movie The Old Guard gave itself away with its very premise. Millennia-old warrior Andy (Charlize Theron) leads a group of near-immortals who attempt to protect and preserve humanity. They […]
Neil Gaiman’s comic book series The Sandman alternates between focusing on Morpheus, the immortal Lord of Dreams, and on humans who encounter him or his immortal siblings. The first season of Netflix’s highly faithful adaptation […]
Ironheart on Disney+ has introduced some Marvel Comics characters that, in the grand scheme of things, are relatively recent. One of them is the Hood, a villain who first appeared in 2002. The other is […]
Nearly three years after her MCU debut in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Riri “Ironheart” Williams’ story continues in her own Disney+ series. Ironheart takes the teenage genius (played by Dominique Thorne) back to her hometown […]
We haven’t seen the android Avenger known as the Vision, played by Paul Bettany, since the end of WandaVision in 2021. Now, the iconic MCU hero will return in a new series on Disney+. And […]
The original Thunderbolts comic book from Marvel had a very different premise, and team roster, than the MCU Thunderbolts* film. In Kurt Busiek and Mark Bagley’s original series, the first issue ended with the surprise […]
Since the start of the MCU with Iron Man back in 2008, the universe we saw on the big screen was very different from the one in the pages of Marvel Comics that inspired it. […]
Going into Daredevil: Born Again, there was one thing we knew for sure: It would not be based on the actual comic called Daredevil: Born Again. That classic of Daredevil history had, in fact, been […]
We won’t know what The Fantastic Four: First Steps is really about until it hits theaters this July. Or… won’t we? I’m Polygon’s resident comic book expert, and I’m ready to place some bets. I […]
In the Marvel universe, few heroes have as high a body count as Matt Murdock a.k.a. Daredevil. (And we don’t mean people he’s killed here, folks). Matt Murdock, Attorney-at-Law, has seemingly dated every woman in […]
Today, Marvel is one of the world’s biggest entertainment brands with a cinematic universe that has grossed approximately 31 billion dollars since Iron Man in 2008. But it wasn’t always this way. For a variety […]
Unlike a few years ago when Marvel Studios was making like 16 different TV shows at once, now the small-screen branch of the entertainment giant is pulling back on even its longest-gestating projects. We discussed […]
Few Marvel Comics villains live-action debuts have been teased as long as the Leader. The Hulk’s brilliant adversary was first introduced in his pre-villain form in 2008’s The Incredible Hulk, played by Tim Blake Nelson. […]