Spider-Man Won’t Get a Multiplayer Game, and That’s Just Fine

Spider-Man is one of the most popular superheroes ever, and for many, he’s at his most exciting when he’s hanging around with other Spider-heroes. The success of the Spider-Verse movies and Spider-Man: No Way Home proves this more than most, but that wave has yet to really hit games beyond the two-hero exploits of the … Read more

Robert Kirkman Seemingly Kills Dreams Of an Invincible/Spider-Man Team-Up

Image: Cory Walker/Marvel Comics There are a lot of superheroes in Prime Video’s adaptation of Invincible. Within the show’s first season (and half of its second), Mark Grayson has brushed shoulders with Robert Kirkman, Ryan Ottley and Cory Walker’s spins on classic heroes like Superman and Batman. Depending on who you ask, though, he might … Read more

Spider-Verse and Blue Eye Samurai Clean Up at Annie Awards

It’s the awards season time of year, and last night was the 2024 Annie Awards. And one of the big winners at the animation-focused ceremony was Sony’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. io9 Interview: Oscar Isaac Was ‘All In’ on Moon Knight The 2023 sequel took home seven awards, including Best Picture, Best FX, Best Music, … Read more

Sony’s Spider-Man Shows Spin Up Some Interesting Developments

Image: Marvel Comics/Sony Animation Sony’s non-Spider-Man efforts to build its own Marvel universe have been all over the place, but one of the more intriguing additions were individual TV shows for Spider-Man Noir and relative newcomer Silk. While they’re both still a ways off, the two shows may be on opposite ends of the development … Read more

Wait, Madame Web Is a Period Piece?

Image: Sony Pictures/Marvel Ever since Sony revealed it was working on a solo movie for Madame Web, folks have had questions. Why her? How is this going to connect to whichever Spider-Man is swinging around now? io9 Interview: Oscar Isaac Was ‘All In’ on Moon Knight If you’ve watched the trailer, one of the questions … Read more

Ultimate Spider-Man’s Relaunch Heralds a New Age of Heroes

When the Ultimate Marvel line launched 24 years ago, it wanted to bring Marvel’s heroes back to their roots, a modern world for modern titans to shape. In the last two and a half decades it lived, thrived, died, and was quietly reborn—but only now is Marvel taking the reigns on what shaping that rebirth … Read more

Midnight Suns Is Marvel Messiness Worth Coming Back To

Firaxis and 2K’s Marvel’s Midnight Suns was one of my favorite games of 2022, but it ended up falling by the wayside in 2023. Amid a deluge of great games and an busy year, it was hard to carve time out for the tactical RPG. But as 2023 wound down and with 2024 just days … Read more

Into the Spider-Verse Remains Spider-Man’s Most Impactful Story

Goodness gracious, has it really been five years already? The year 2018 was a busy one for superhero movies, with game-changers like Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War and delightful surprises in Deadpool 2 and the Teen Titans Go! movie. In this mix, no one really knew what to make of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. … Read more

Sony/Marvel Show to Resume Writers Room in January

Image: Helen Chen/Marvel Comics All the way back in 2020, it was reported that Sony and Marvel were teaming up to create a TV show for Silk, one of the more recent heroes to spin from Spider-Man’s (Peter Parker’s) supporting cast. In the years since, news on the show has been hard to come by: … Read more

Marvel 97 Variant Covers Coming in 2024 to Celebrate X-Men 97

Image: Marvel Comics The ‘90s are about to become hot again, both on the small screen and in your comic book shop. Though there is not yet a release date, Disney+ is gearing up to release X-Men ‘97 the long-awaited and highly anticipated follow-up to everyone’s favorite retro animated series, X-Men: The Animated Series, which … Read more