The top movie over the weekend at Vudu was Marvel and Walt Disney’sDIS +0.3% Thor: Love and Thunder, with ParamountPARA -2.4% and Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick placing second. The size of Top Gun 2’s haul ($705 million domestic and $1.453 billion thus far) has put the MCU on the defensive despite objectively high earnings for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ($955 million) and Thor: Love and Thunder ($750 million).

Ever since Phase 3, Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has been witnessing a severe decline in quality, with several movies such as Captain Marvel and Black Panther focusing more and more on identity politics and feminism. Nonetheless, we also got some of the finest of MCU in Phase 3, such as Captain America: Civil War, Thor: Ragnarok, Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. It is only from MCU Phase 4 that Marvel movies have truly become sub-par in every single aspect. Why is it so?

Working with Marvel may not be so super. A visual effects artist who worked on the final two “Avengers” films slammed Marvel on Tuesday, claiming that the franchise overworked the team, while another artist alleged that the production company is the “worst” in the industry.

Spider-Man fandom is in Tyler Scott Hoover's blood — but not because he was bitten by an irradiated arachnid. His father had collected Marvel comic books featuring the character since the 1970s.

While loading tens of thousands of comic book covers to PriceCharting’s new online comics price guide , we noticed something interesting

Marvel and DC have both been laser focused on live-action, but animation could lead them into the future of their franchises.

Bridges recalls the “confusion” around the 2008 film, where the script was famously thrown out on day one of shooting.

Without a shadow of a doubt, the best thing about Thor: Love and Thunder is its villain: Gorr the God Butcher (Christian Bale). It’s a great name. A butcher isn’t just a killer, he doesn’t just end a life and move on. He repurposes and reconfigures his victims, hacking at hunks of their meat with a cleaver. The name brings to mind flesh and metal and thwacks against a divine cutting board.

The plot of the upcoming two-part Stranger Things finale remains a great mystery. Netflix isn’t giving away a single detail; nor, for that matter, are the cast, production team or publicity department. But nature abhors a vacuum so, in lieu of any official details, I will tell you what I want from the season finale. And what I want is a bloodbath.

The company has signed a deal to use his likeness for the next 20 years. Maybe it’s better to let him rest.

The ‘Game of Thrones’ creator sits down with Kevin E G Perry at the Santa Fe Literary Festival to discuss toxic fans, the enduring influence of Marvel’s Stan Lee, and the new HBO series ‘House of the Dragon’

As Doctor Strange and The Flash enter the multiverse, scientists question what it means for the future of their study. In 1961, DC Comics published the 123rd issue of The Flash. In its pages was the story “Flash of Two Worlds,” where creator and writer Gardner Fox staged the historic meeting of two superheroes from parallel worlds.

Nicolas Cage doesn’t see eye to eye with his uncle, Francis Ford Coppola. After Coppola again slammed comic book films as “one prototype movie that is made over and over and over and over and over again to look different,” Cage revealed in a March GQ interview that he doesn’t “understand the conflict” between Marvel and independent cinema. “Yeah, why do they do that?” Cage posited to GQ regarding directors like Coppola and Scorsese bashing comic book films. “I don’t understand the conflict. I don’t agree with them on that perception or opinion.”

Since their initial popularity during World War II, comic books have always been a medium for American counterculture and for nativism and empire. 

A cartoonist discusses his new show about the development of an American art form.

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While comic book fans obviously know DC Comics and Marvel, there are legions of other comics universes worth collecting.

A teenager who “stands for the oppressed, and the forgotten” is to become the first LGBTQ+ character to take on the mantle of Captain America. Marvel Comics is celebrating the 80th anniversary of the US hero with the launch of a new series, The United States of Captain America, in which the incumbent Steve Rogers will team up with former Captain Americas when his shield goes missing.

io9's got an exclusive look at Campaigns & Companions: The Complete Role-Playing Guide for Pets--an adorable, D&D-inspired book for fans of pets and RPGs from comics creators Andi Ewington, Rhianna Pratchett, Alex de Campi, and Calum Alexander Watt.

All too often forgotten in dusty attics today, for centuries, lacework was all about how you flaunted your individuality. Lace helped you tell a story by weaving a veritable comic book strip of characters on the cuff of your sleeve.