Last night, Deadline reported that Aaron Pierre (The Underground Railroad, Krypton) has joined the cast of Blade. Although the role is still unknown, the trade reported that it had been a “highly coveted” part for almost half a year, with the studio meeting “dozens of up-and-coming actors” for the role. After the news broke, fan theories immediately went wild. The first
Read MoreLast night, a new Ms Marvel rumor came to the Twitterverse via @MsMarvelNews. Apparently, they’ve heard that Fawad Khan and Mehwish Hayat are playing “Hasan” and “Aisha”, Kamala Khan’s great-grandparents, in the upcoming Ms. Marvel show. While this isn’t officially confirmed and we’re calling it a rumor (for now), this Twitter account has had good information in the past, and so
Read MoreLittle is known about the actual plot of Thor: Love and Thunder, but based on new toy images from the S.H. Figuarts line, we may have some exciting speculation about The Mighty Thor and her new hammer! While discussing the new action figure images yesterday with the rest of the Cosmic Circus team, it was pointed out by Alex Perez and
Read MoreHi! Welcome back to the Moon Knight comics reading guide! Last time I wrote about the original Moon Knight comics before the year 2000. Those are great for a history of the character and tracking his development over time, but if you want to dive right into stories with Mr. Knight and the modern Moon Knight, the simplest and most satisfying
Read MoreHi! Welcome to the Moon Knight comics reading guide! If you want a quick deep dive into the history of Moon Knight, the essentials are: Moon Knight Omnibus Vol. 1 Moon Knight Omnibus Vol. 2 And that’s it! The two collections cover Moon Knight’s first appearances, Moon Knight (1980) #1-38, and Moon Knight (1985) #1-6. These 50-ish issues will give you a
Read MoreJemaine Clement, the Emmy-nominated, Grammy-winning, writer/actor/musician multihyphenate comedian extraordinaire, may have just boarded his next acting gig. Continuing his string of smash-hit projects (What We Do in the Shadows, Moana, The Lego Batman Movie), I have heard that Clement may be joining the cast of Harold and the Purple Crayon in a major role. We are currently treating this as a
Read MoreThe road to Marvel Studios’ Ms. Marvel has been a long, hard journey. Announced in August 2019, with the first footage in December 2020 (see below), a number of potential changes, and then a major one-year delay: Life hasn’t been easy for Kamala Khan fans. But thankfully today I can share a glimmer of light from the end of the tunnel.
Read MorePeter Parker is a character defined by his relationships. But at the end of Spider-Man: No Way Home, Tom Holland’s Peter has been stripped of everything and everyone. “Who is Peter Parker in a vacuum?”* is the main question posed at the end of this movie. I am so excited to see the answer, even if I am a little nervous.
Read MoreSpider-Man: No Way Home is a great movie and I had a blast with it. But I also had some issues, which I talked about briefly in my spoiler review last week. One of the issues that really stuck with me was how few women are in the movie, and whether or not the filmmakers did justice to those characters. It rubs
Read MoreSpider-Man: No Way Home is great. It’s magical. It’s complicated. It’s messy. Don’t think about it. It’s amazing. You’re amazing. Help me with my back? I had a blast. I was screaming, I was gasping, I was pointing at the screen and shaking the person who came with me. It was so much fun. An unforgettable, surreal, magical experience. The last
Read MoreWhile working on my recent piece comparing X-Men ’97 to the original X-Men ’92 designs, there was one huge difference I couldn’t overlook: Charles Xavier was nowhere to be seen. And on a deeper look, Xavier’s voice actor Cedric Smith is the only living actor from the main cast of X-Men who is not returning for X-Men ’97 without comment. (The
Read MoreUPDATE (NOVEMBER 25, 2021): In a new interview with the Play Comics podcast, X-Men ’97 consultant Eric Lewald has clarified that “the show’s not going to come out for another 18-20 months, you know, mid-to-late 2023.” This gives us a sharper timeframe of when ’97 is being projected to release, which also matches a past Marvel pattern. 18 to 20 months
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