Spider-Man Archives : The Shared Universe

Hulk Snap: Worse Than Thanos Snap?

Jesse Russell — Thu, 09 May 2019 02:00:00 +0000

It probably doesn’t need to be said but this article has significant spoilers for Avengers: Endgame. If you’re okay with spoilers jump past this picture of the Hulk and keep going. If you aren’t? Well, stop right here or Hulk smash. If you spend way too much time thinking about Avengers: Endgame you’ll start to realize […]

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Endgame Plus Dark Phoenix Equals A Secret Wars Film

Jesse Russell — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 02:18:09 +0000

We can preserve the X-Men and Avengers Universes while still bringing all of the heroes together. The stingers for Avengers: Endgame and X-Men: Dark Phoenix should start setting up a Secret Wars film. Here’s how… Disney has acquired Fox and with it comes the Marvel’s X-Men and all of the related properties. We don’t know when we’ll start seeing mutants […]

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What is Zendaya reading in the Spider-Man: Homecoming trailer?

Jesse Russell — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 15:34:13 +0000

Since it was announced Zendaya was cast in Spider-Man: Homecoming there’s been a big question mark around her character. Early rumors that she’d been cast as Mary Jane Watson were quashed by the star in a November interview with ET Online. She verified her character is named “Michelle.” Last night we saw the first trailer for the […]

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Bay Area Bugle: Bay Area Comic News Round-Up – October 26, 2016

Jesse Russell — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 14:01:03 +0000

Comics in the Bay Did you know Spider-Man is currently in San Francisco? Apparently, he’s been operating in our backyard with a whole host of Spider-Folk for at the least a year. I haven’t been spending much time in the Marvel Universe so this fact managed to fly under my radar. Anyway, he’s here and […]

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Sorry, Cracked, but superhero movies haven’t ruined comic books

Jesse Russell — Sun, 22 May 2016 17:26:41 +0000

This post is in response to Jason Iannone’s Cracked article “6 Specific Reasons Why Superhero Movies Ruined Comics.” In his post, Iannone builds a starting point for the greater discussion of how the mainstreaming of popular superheroes through film is impacting the medium where they were first created. He makes some interesting observations but ties […]

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The case against a shared Spideyverse / X-Men / MCU Universe, part two

Jesse Russell — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 15:02:51 +0000

Contrary to the possible misrepresentation of Sony Co-Chair Amy Pascal’s comments, an expanding Universe based solely around Spider-Man has a great deal of potential. Yes, there is a risk of Spideyverse exhaustion (although the reboot being so successful in spite of it being less than five years after the Raimi trilogy suggests otherwise), but I […]

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The case against a shared Spider-Man / X-Men / MCU Universe, part one

Jesse Russell — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 15:00:04 +0000

My life’s been better since I learned to stop worrying and accept the Marvel films rights status quo. If all of the heroes were under the Disney/Marvel roof it’d be unlikely we’d see as many Marvel heroes on the big screen in a single year as we do now. Theoretically, if Disney/Marvel had X-Men, Fantastic […]

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Superior Spider-Man: Do we need Peter Parker?

Jesse Russell — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 19:25:33 +0000

My willingness to see flagship characters die and “remain dead” likely comes from growing up as a Green Lantern fan and being forced to accept the death of Hal Jordan. While 1993 saw headlines trumpeting the death of Superman it was insignificant when held up to the eventual fallout of Superman’s return. The original Superman […]

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Daredevil will return to San Francisco! Let’s hope it goes better than last time.

Jesse Russell — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 15:46:24 +0000

In March, Mark Waid and Chris Samnee will move Daredevil from New York City to start a new life in San Francisco. This will be Daredevil’s second attempt at adapting to life in the Bay Area. He last moved to San Francisco in 1972 while somewhat obsessively crushing on Black Widow. They lived together in […]

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Superior Spider-Man is better than you

Jesse Russell — Sat, 31 Aug 2013 16:47:23 +0000

This post originally appeared on my personal blog on April 8, 2013. If I were to rely solely on the comments sections of comic book industry news sites I’d be led to believe that Superior Spider-Man is the worst thing to happen to Marvel – ever. In truth, it’s one of the best titles the […]

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