Ready For The Disney Meet-and-Groot?
We’ve known for a couple of months that Disney Parks and Resorts were planning a “Summer of Heroes” at California Adventure. It’s largely to launch […]
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Damage Control In The Marvel Cinematic Universe
Back in early 2015, Marvel fans got excited when ABC announced that they planned to develop a comedy set in the Marvel Universe: Damage Control. Based […]
‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Official Trailer
“Can’t you be a friendly neighborhood Spider-Man?” Despite the presence of Iron Man (thank you, Robert Downey, Jr.), it does look like Spider-Man: Homecoming is giving […]
Homework Can Wait. The City Can’t.
The superhero movie hype wars continue! Warner Brothers teases us with Justice League posters, Marvel Studios and Sony team for a counter-move — the ultimate Spider-Man Homecoming […]
Fanboy Planet Podcast Episode 466: The Sounding
An interview from Cinequest and the rest of the comics, movies and TV news…
The Next Generation Fights Marvel’s ‘Secret Empire’
In a nutshell, this is what’s right and wrong with Marvel (and DC). There’s probably not a thing in this tie-in that couldn’t be covered […]
Marvel Teases ‘Generations’
We have not even gotten to Secret Empire and… well, at least it has Alex Ross art and the various Marvels front and center. Eventually, Marvel will […]
Fanboy Planet Podcast Episode 464: Springtime for Hydra
It’s time to celebrate the first day of filming for Avengers: Infinity War, and then talk about comics, TV, and the certain uncertainty of The Justice League movie…
Day One On ‘Avengers: Infinity War’
Marvel released this teaser today — and it’s a pretty good one. As it plays out, this wasn’t just a tease with Robert Downey, Jr., […]
The Secret Empire Stands United
This looks more clearly like a spin out of Steve Rogers, Captain America. (You may remember the controversy that his memories and/or his sense of reality […]
He’s Back! The Original Human Rocket In ‘Nova’ #1!
I can remember walking into a 7-11 and picking up The Man Called Nova #12, because I had just really gotten into Spider-Man, and there […]
Unleash The Next Marvel Crossover!
I don’t know if Marvel will be fitting this into regular continuity — but this has to be more likely than Tsum Tsums, and Marvel […]
Fanboy Planet Podcast Episode 451: Back to 7 Stars!
The Fanboys record live at 7 Stars, the Silicon Valley’s preeminent Star Wars bar, with the fannish news you can use!
Comic-Con 2016: A Quick Interview With Ethan Castillo
We met Ethan three years ago at Big Wow! Comics Fest, and the then-8-year-old artist already wowed us – Ric, Nate, and myself. My son […]
Comic-Con 2016: Marvel Reveals Secrets Of ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’
If you had doubts about the future of Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Marvel Studios panel put them to rest. Maybe. Because the […]
Comic-Con 2016: Things To Do With Hot Wheels
Mattel caught my attention this year with a few things — not just their full-sized (and they claim actually working) “carship” based on a Star Wars […]
Comic-Con 2016: The Captain America Statue (And Tie-in Comic Book)
One of the sweetest most human moments in Captain America: Civil War was the exchange of New York bona fides between Captain America and Spider-Man. That […]
Marvel Introduces New ‘Champions’
On last week’s podcast, I mentioned that Marvel had released an image of young superheroes with a sign saying “I quit.” I speculated then that […]
Review: ‘Captain America: Civil War’
If you’re going to delay the entrance of a new Spider-Man in your movie, you’d better frontload it with gripping action and a plot that […]
Spider-Man vs. Winter Soldier In New ‘Civil War’ Teaser
Now that we’ve had three cinematic Spider-Men, it occurs to me: with a voice so consistently high tenor, how do people not know Spider-Man is a […]