As we learned last week, in a most striking move writer Cavan Scott (Star Wars: The High Republic) and artist Stefano Nesi are bringing Gwen Stacy back from the grave. Yes, Peter Parker’s Gwen Stacy, whose tragic death echoes through all of comic book-dom. However, the heartbreak lingering from that first neck-breaking moment to today […]
Madame Web’s Love Language Is Hitting People With Cars
The season of love is in the air once more, but a different anniversary is joining it this year: it’s been one year to the day since Madame Web‘s web dared to connect us all, often in spite of itself. In the last 12 months I have found myself embracing the camp period movie vibe that Madame […]
Marvel Wants to Dig Up Gwen Stacy’s Corpse (Again)
Death, metatextually or otherwise, has long been something of a revolving door in superhero comics. Not even the most famous deaths have ever really stayed truly permanent–but at Marvel if there’s one that’s stayed pretty close, and stands among a rarefied group at the publisher, it’s Gwen Stacy’s. Gwen’s legacy at this point, even as […]
Marvel Finally Gives Its New Spider-Man Cartoon Some Promo
In a few days, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man finally hits Disney+. You might not know it, though, because the marketing for this has come fairly late in the game, and we’re only recently getting an idea of what to expect from the show. Earlier in the week, Marvel put out a pair of videos for Friendly Neighborhood. While […]