The Marvel Movies From Worst to Best—and Where to Stream Them
[ad_1] In May 2008, the recently formed Marvel Studios released its first film—and changed the face of modern cinema. Iron Man wasn’t even the highest-grossing superhero film of the year…
Review: ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Not Your Typical Marvel Movie
[ad_1] The release of Black Panther was like nothing before it. The impact, immediate and abiding, was cosmic. That the film premiered during the Trump years, a dystopian period in…
DC Has a Chance to Save Superman. Here’s What It Needs to Do
[ad_1] Supes has been in a slump. Not personally, mind you, but following the drab affair that was 2017’s Justice League, the future of Superman on the silver screen has…
What the Creator of ‘Watchmen’ Gets Right About Superhero Fans
[ad_1] The tragedy of Alan Moore, if there is one, is that his 1980s comics work—Watchmen, V for Vendetta—has been perpetually misunderstood by an audience too eager to learn the…
After ‘Andor,’ Read These 5 Comics
[ad_1] In some respects, Andor is a new frontier: a series spinning off from not only the Skywalker Saga but specifically one of the two Star Wars Story films (in…
‘The People’s Joker’: A New Take on the Batverse You May Never See
[ad_1] The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. Throughout history, there has been no…
Kate Beaton on Creating the Best Graphic Novel of 2022
[ad_1] The book was in the works since 2016, I pitched it to Drawn and Quarterly in the summer of 2016. I took a year to write it. I took…
‘Best of 2000 AD’ Proves Why the Comics Are Classic
[ad_1] At first glance, even the name feels ambitious: Best of 2000 AD. How can anything, even a six-volume collection of anthologies running more than 200 pages each, live up…
Director Owen Kline Calls ‘Funny Pages’ His ‘Self-Critical’ Debut
[ad_1] On a recent weekday afternoon in Manhattan, the director Owen Kline, 30, sat on a glass-doored conference-room couch. He wore a blue velour fleece adorned with a shiny brooch…
‘The Sandman’ Review: Netflix’s Adaptation Is Almost Too Faithful to Its Source Material
[ad_1] There’s a point midway through the sixth episode of Netflix’s The Sandman—the most successful episode of the first season by some distance—where Tom Sturridge’s Dream is talking to his…
After ‘She-Hulk: Attorney at Law,’ Read These 5 Comics
[ad_1] Jennifer Walters might not seem like an obvious choice for the next generation of Marvel superheroes—in fact, as trailers for She-Hulk: Attorney at Law demonstrate, she’s not even interested…
The Endless Afterlife of ‘The Sandman’
[ad_1] For faithful readers, Neil Gaiman’s Sandman saga came to an end more than a quarter century ago. It happened in 1996, when DC Comics published The Sandman #75, the…
‘Ms. Marvel’ Ended Up Being the Best Thing on Disney+ This Year
[ad_1] Last week, without much fanfare (or at least not as much as one would hope), the best Marvel show of the year ended its run on Disney+. It featured,…