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Captain Marvel, Reborn: How Carol Danvers Became Marvel Comics’ Flagship Hero
Captain Marvel was dead, to begin with. More than one Captain Marvel, if we want to be perfectly accurate about it. By 2012, the Marvel Comics hero that bore the company name had been relaunched in no fewer than six different series, and seen a total of three separate characters take on the name. More…
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New Marvel Book Designates MCU as Earth-616, Creating More Multiversal Headaches
There are a lot of Earths in the vast, varied, and occasionally blown-up Marvel multiverse—realities that have now grown to encompass the alternate universes not just in comics, but games, cartoons, live action TV, and yes, movies. But now Marvel is set to draw the ire of very specific nerds, and also presumably The Marvels…
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DC’s Elseworlds Imprint is Making a Multiversal Comeback
In the same way that Marvel Comics has imprints for stories featuring alternate universe versions of its characters, DC Comics has that in Elseworlds. But that line disappeared after 2010, and was semi-replaced with similar enough imprints like Earth One (which was similarly short-lived), the Black Label, and the young adult graphic novel line. At…
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Yes, Marvel Really Is Revisiting the Spider-Man Story About Radioactive Semen
The House of Ideas’ latest is something that indeed could diplomatically be described as an “idea:” Marvel has confirmed after a brief period of teasing that Spider-Man hasn’t gotten enough attention for all the wrong reasons lately. After releasing a shadowed teaser image earlier this week ominously heralding the return of “The Most Notorious Spider-Man…