If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. With the buzz surrounding the upcoming Spider-Man: A Brand New Day movie set to be released in July 2026, and a swarm of acclaimed MCU shows streaming on …
Read More »'Kraven the Hunter' Is Its Own Self-Inflicted Killshot
A PSA for folks who don’t have 60-plus years of Spider-Man comic-book history at their immediate beck and call: Kraven the Hunter was one of the webslinger’s earliest supervillains, having made his first appearance in The Amazing Spider-Man #15. Created by Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko, he’s a big-game …
Read More »'Agatha All Along' Broke the Spell of MCU Misses
This post contains spoilers for the finale of Agatha All Along, now streaming on Disney+. For a show where the power of witches’ circles was so prominent, Agatha All Along felt like an appropriately full-circle moment for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It was a direct sequel to the very first …
Read More »The Secret Life of Steve Ditko: Spider-Man Co-Creator's Family Opens Up
E very year, when Uncle Steve went back home to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, from New York City, there was a strict rule: No one talks to him about work. He’s not here on business, his brother, Patrick, would tell the kids. The adults, at least, knew about his profession as a …
Read More »Tom Hardy Releases the Beast in 'Venom: The Last Dance' Trailer
Tom Hardy and Venom have paired up for one final waltz around the big screen. Venom: The Last Dance marks the actor’s third and final outing as the titular Marvel Comics character and will arrive in theaters Oct. 25 via Sony Pictures. In the action-packed first trailer for the film, …
Read More »Marvel Studios' Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year
Oh, how the folks behind Earth’s Mightiest Heroes have fallen. Going into 2023, Marvel Studios was still busy licking their wounds from the previous year. Recent big-screen entries in the Marvel Cinematic Universe had underwhelmed, notably Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Thor: Love and Thunder (despite the …
Read More »How a Mar-a-Lago Lunch Birthed the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Lunchtime, early 2003: Donald Trump was one year away from starring in The Apprentice and fourteen years away from being sworn in as the forty-fifth president of the United States. He owned a share of the Miss Universe beauty pageant, some Atlantic City casinos on the verge of bankruptcy, and …
Read More »'Stan Lee': Disney Doc on the Marvel Legend Is a Lame Infomercial
In the span of four years, comic book writer/editor Stan Lee would create — or co-create; put an asterisk by this verb! — the Fantastic Four, the Amazing Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk, the Uncanny X-Men, the Mighty Thor, the Astonishing Iron Man, and both a master of the mystic arts …
Read More »'Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse' Is Pure Superhero-Movie Bliss
Every world gets the Spider-Man it deserves. And here on Earth-1610, our webslinger is one Miles Morales: a half-Black, half-Puerto Rican teen who loves graffiti, Air Jordans, and quantum physics. Like most Spider-Folk, he was bit by a radioactive arachnid, developed the ability to crawl up walls and sense oncoming …
Read More »'Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania' Feels Like the MCU Has Lost Its Way
You guys remember the Quantum Realm, right? Of course you do! That’s the universe right beneath our own, which you can only get to by going “subatomic” and shrinking down to beyond-microscopic size. The same one that Scott Lang (Paul Rudd), better known as Ant-Man, found himself floating through after …
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