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Denzel Washington has already revealed that he is involved with Black Panther 3 . Marvel has announced most of its new X-Men cast. Magneto remains conspicuously absent. So what if those two things are connected? Adam theorizes that Marvel could introduce a new version of Magneto through Wakanda by shifting his genocide-survivor history to Rwanda, preserving the foundation of his worldview while…
D23 2026 delivered far more Marvel news than expected. Adam breaks down the newly completed X-Men cast, including India Navarrette as Rogue, Maya Boyd as Storm, Christopher Abbott as Professor X and Adam Driver as Mister Sinister. Plus, a new Avengers: Doomsday trailer gives Doctor Doom a much clearer role, while Vision Quest offers a new look at Vision’s identity crisis and the possibility of…
On the latest Countdown to Doomsday, Adam revisits Avengers: Infinity War and examines how Marvel introduced an enormous cast, preserved the individual voices of franchises like Guardians of the Galaxy , Thor and Black Panther , and made Thanos the central character holding the entire crossover together. Plus, did the MCU do enough to justify Peter Quill's disastrous reaction to Gamora's death,…
The MWPNews Best of the Year Tournament has a new frontrunner. Adam ranks July’s three contenders— Obsession , Spider-Man: Brand New Day and The Odyssey —and decides which one receives the month’s automatic bid. Along the way, he examines the devastating consequences hiding beneath Obsession ’s supernatural ending, the lived-in street-level MCU of Brand New Day , and Christopher Nolan’s…
The countdown reaches the film that earned Marvel its first Best Picture nomination. Adam makes the case that Black Panther is elevated above nearly every other MCU entry by a villain the audience is meant to agree with, Killmonger, whose indictment of Wakanda's isolationism is correct even when his methods are monstrous. Why the hero loses the argument and adopts it, how the film works as a…
The countdown reaches the film that rescued Thor. Adam makes the case that Thor: Ragnarok is a joyous, gorgeous reinvention, Taika Waititi handed a failing franchise and remaking it in his own voice, and also the film whose relentless comedy comes at a real cost. Why Hela is one of Marvel's most wasted great villains, how the movie laughs its way past Asgard's destruction and Odin's death, and why…
Marvel returned to Hall H, and Adam breaks it down live. Ryan Gosling as Ghost Rider, Black Panther 3 dated for December 2028 with a new T'Challa, and the Avengers assembling for Doomsday , but the real story is what the panel signals. Why the missing X-Men reveal is strategic, what Kevin Feige means when he says the MCU is now "streamlined," and why the post- Secret Wars slate points to a…
The first full Avengers: Doomsday trailer finally dropped, and Adam argues the timing says more than the footage. Why Marvel sat on a strong trailer until the last possible moment, what that hesitation says about the December collision with Dune: Part Three , and why "Dunesday" is not the Barbenheimer repeat everyone's calling it. Plus the real question hanging over the film: were Infinity War and…
Five movies, the most June had to offer all year, ranked worst to best for a spot in the best-of-the-year tournament. Adam runs them down: a film that's ashamed of itself to an ending that's so deflating the movie is completely forgotten. Which one takes the automatic bid, and where the halfway-point board stands. Please note we repeatedly say that The Devil Wears Prada 2 won the automatic bid…
The countdown reaches Spider-Man's MCU debut and the first film of the Sony-Marvel deal. Adam digs into why Michael Keaton's Vulture is one of Marvel's best and most sympathetic villains, why that homecoming car ride is one of the great scenes in the Infinity Saga, and the problem underneath it all: Peter Parker never gets to be the hero of his own movie because Tony Stark's shadow swallows the…
