Paper Girls brought a mix of ‘80s nostalgia and time-traveling to life in its first season. Many fans praised the show for staying true to the comics’ aesthetics and overall narrative. And the strong performances […]
Netflix’s fantasy series The Sandman opens with a small chunk of exposition explaining its protagonist Morpheus, the King of Dreams — which is much more than comics readers got when Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series launched […]
This story contains spoilers for “Paper Girls” on Prime Video. “Paper Girls” features time travel, opposing future factions in a secret time war, mysterious technology and even giant robot battles, but at its core it […]
Since she debuted in 2014, Kamala Khan has been explicitly Muslim, and one who incorporates Islam into her heroism. Right after she underwent Terrigenesis and received her polymorphic powers in her second-ever issue, she recites […]
It is inarguable that the “healing factor” is one of the more impactful superpowers out there, and yet it raises many questions once you think about it for more than a second. How do people […]
After decades of developmental back and forth, the screen adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s iconic comic-book series “The Sandman” is finally arriving on Netflix on Aug. 5. The fantasy series follows Morpheus, aka Dream, a powerful […]
[Ed. note: This piece contains spoilers for Ms. Marvel episode 4.] As Kamala Khan will tell you in her very own comic series, Jersey City, New Jersey, isn’t exactly chockablock with superheroes. If she wants […]
Like many fans, the first time Iman Vellani encountered Marvel superhero Kamala Khan was on the cover of a comic book. With a comic book shop right across from her high school, Vellani — a […]
The final page of this week’s Catwoman held a big surprise for fans of Batman: The Animated Series: the first appearance of Red Claw in DC Comics continuity. What, you don’t remember Red Claw, the […]
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness isn’t just about Stephen Strange and his personal problems — the Sam Raimi movie also introduces a brand new superheroine to the Marvel Cinematic Universe: The star-spangled America […]
More than a decade after his death, it’s not uncommon to see clips from George Carlin’s stand-up sets circulating. Carlin was an irreverent, searing, and deeply funny comic. Over the course of his decades-long career, […]
The Riddler has gotten a fashion refresh in Detective Comics, and I couldn’t be happier for him. It can be tricky to iterate on the Riddler. Many writers and artists have attempted to modernize the […]
One would expect that Moon Knight, the Disney Plus series, would have many connections to Moon Knight, the Marvel Comics superhero that it’s based on. But Marvel Entertainment and Marvel Comics have taken things a […]
A super-rare edition of Marvel Comics #1, the first Marvel book to ever be printed, just sold at auction for a whopping $2.4 million, a slight increase in value from its original sale price in […]
DMZ bears the unfortunate distinction of suffering from one of the most severe pandemic disruptions on a show that’s made it to air. Originally planned as a proper ongoing series for HBO Max, the series […]
Shared from nerdist.com Black creativity and content is a glorious and continuously flowing well. Contrary to some social media complainers’ beliefs that there just isn’t enough TV shows, films, and other entertainment with Black people […]