Even after the negative critical reception of Batman v Superman, fans continue to discuss and argue over Ben Affleck‘s interpretation of Batman, and it seems like many fans agree that the actor delivered a great performance as the caped crusader. That discussion will likely jump into fifth gear in November, when Justice League finally lands in theatres, and fans are given a new look at Affleck as the iconic character.
Ahead of Justice League, and Affleck‘s second (not counting Suicide Squad) outing as Batman, the actor spoke to Geek Magazine and stated that playing the character in Justice League is a “dream come true.” The actor also says that standing next to the other Justice League cast members in costume mad him realise how important the role is.
See what Ben Affleck said below:
Playing Batman was a boyhood dream come true for me, so playing Batman alongside the Justice League? I mean, what can you say? The first time we all stood on set in costume, we just looked around at each other and you could tell it was a big moment for each one of us.
Since the release of Batman v Superman fans have wondered if Ben Affleck is still interested in playing the character in the solo Batman movie. After his comments at comic-con and what he’s now saying to Geek Magazine, it sure looks like the actor is excited about the character and his future in the DC Film Universe.
Fueled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman’s (Henry Cavill) selfless act, Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck) enlists newfound ally Diana Prince to face an even greater threat. Together, Batman and Wonder Woman work quickly to recruit a team to stand against this newly awakened enemy. Despite the formation of an unprecedented league of heroes — Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Cyborg and the Flash — it may be too late to save the planet from an assault of catastrophic proportions.
DC Comics held its annual ‘DC Spotlight on Batman’ panel Saturday afternoon at New York Comic Con. Follow our live blog below.
About the panel: The family of Batman comics couldn’t be any hotter! Join the best talent behind your favorite Dark Knight tales for an exclusive look at what’s in store for the World’s Greatest Detective! With Marguerite Bennett (Batwoman), Cully Hamner (Batman: The Signal), Tom King (Batman), Sean Gordon Murphy (Batman: White Knight), Tony Patrick (Batman: The Signal), Scott Snyder (All-Star Batman), James Tynion IV (Detective Comics) and others, this is the best time to explore Gotham City!
Live Blog
Batman panel underway
The panel features Sean Murphy, Marguerite Bennett, Tony Patrick, James Tynion IV, Tom King, Scott Snyder, and Cully Hamner.
Hamner talks about the new design for Duke as “The Signal” in Batman and the Signal #1 by Snyder and Patrick. He wanted to “slick up” Duke’s look and make it look young and play with the idea of daytime Gotham. “I’ve done a lot of these costume designs, and this one excited me.”
They have a cosplayer in a Duke costume run up and do some poses onstage.
They ask Patrick if writing the book with Snyder is intimidating. He says he came out of the talent workshop and compared months of training with Snyder to months of training with Batman. “Lots and lots of notes. That’s still happening today.” (People laugh)
Snyder is asked how much the book will tie back into the Dark Days one-shots.
Snyder starts out thanking the fans.
Says that with Duke, they didn’t want to give him a mantle of Nightwing or Robin because it’s been done.
They wanted to do something organic and give him a personality.
So they gave him Gotham by day, which felt like what he did with We Are Robin.
Basically, Batman wants him to be “his guy” in Gotham by day because there are parts of Gotham that Duke knows better than he does.
Snyder says it was “so much fun” to create a whole new neighborhood in Gotham with Bruce’s project to extend buildings up and give people places to live, and to also have a cop character who works with Duke who quit the night shift to work by day.
Snyder again thanks, everyone and says the support for these new characters says to DC and says to retailers that people want that fertile creative ground and new ideas.
Hamner talks about how much he loves working on the book with Snyder and Patrick.
By a show of hands, all members on panel respond to whether they’ve been called by Scott Snyder about a Batman story.
Murphy says he stopped telling Snyder his plans because every time he suggested something, Snyder had done it already. He also said that his wife told him not to answer calls from Snyder after 11 anymore.
Next, they ask Tom King about War of Jokes and Riddles and the Catwoman proposal.
They ask if King knew from Day 1 what Catwoman’s answer would be. He says “Hell Yes.”
He wants to do 100 issues, and that relationship will be central to his story.
Jokes that it’s all pleasant from here on out. “77 issues of flowers and roses.” We’ll see Batman wearing a Superman apron. “It’s really degrading.”
Talks about how many pitches he had made over the years that annoyed editors for Batman that were rejected. War of Jokes and Riddles started as one of those.
Talks about upcoming “Rules of Engagement” arc.
Art and cover by Joëlle Jones
King apologizes for fake preview story titled “The Way We Were”
He says it’s an exploration of a new status quo with Batman engaged.
Says he envisioned Catwoman and Talia al Ghul in a sword fight in the desert. We’re getting that.
He says Jones “draws violence like a dance.”
Batman goes into the desert in this arc to solve a mystery about 237 murders, finds Talia, and “it gets awkward.”
King is asked about Damian’s reaction.
Jokes that Damian is cool and collected and everything’s fine, obviously.
“I’m finally in a functional family. My stepmom’s a known criminal, and my mom cloned me to kill me.”
Next up, Murphy’s Batman: White Knight is discussed.
Where did the idea of making Joker a good guy come from?
Murphy says he was a big Batman Animated Series fan and his basis in Batman came from that cartoon and Tim Burton’s movies.
Says he always thought Joker would be less of a villain if cured of his insanity. He’d be a smooth, Don Draper type and would go after Batman in legal ways.
Wanted to dissect what it would mean for society, and teases there will be a lot of Batmobiles in the story. But no Jokermobile!
An “amazing design” of Nightwing and Batgirl is teased.
Murphy says his Nightwing is angry and young and Batman is trying to ground him.
Does White Knight have a definite conclusion?
Murphy says he does have an idea for a sequel and is already talking to DC about it.
And the sales and support have been good.
Tynion is asked about Batman/TMNT II series.
He says he still can’t believe this is a real thing.
“I grew up with the Turtles and with Batman…but being able in the first volume to bring the Turtles into Gotham City and unleashing them and the Shredder and the Foot Clan was a lot of fun.”
The second volume will bring Gotham City to the Turtles.
Batman, Robin, and Bane arrive in the Turtles’ NYC amid a civil war in the Foot Clan.
Bane is aiming to take them over and inject them all with venom chemicals and take over the city.
He also said Bebop and Rocksteady will be in this, and they’ll also get venom.
“It’s a story about family and the real meaning of strength” because all stories in both sets of characters are ultimately really about family.
Says they’re both silly, but they have incredible, emotionally driven stories.
“Gotham City is ludicrous and it’s amazing, but so is the Turtles’ New York City.”
Murphy asks if there’s a face-off between Raphael and Batman.
There is.
He’s also asked if the Turtle Blimp is in the series. “Now they’re much higher!”
Next, Tynion is asked about Detective Comics.
Tim Drake escapes from Mr. Oz’s death prison. What is it like working knee-deep in DC Rebirth’s mystery?
Tynion says it’s been an honor.
Geoff came to him and said Tim Drake was going to be taken off the table and tied to the Rebirth mystery.
Says Detective usually sits off in its own corner and tells smaller stories, but it needed to be something different. They did a team book that was “basically X-Men starring the Bat Family.” He says this has been his dream book, and he said to Geoff that he was so happy to do it, but he wanted to be the one who wrote the story where Drake comes back — “A Lonely Place of Living.”
It ties into why Drake is Tynion’s favorite character and that he wanted to start by reaffirming his classic origin from “A Lonely Place of Dying.”
He says people have been asking him where Connor Kent is, and that question will be raised in coming issues. Check out 966.
Bennett is asked about Batwoman next.
She’s asked what makes Batwoman distinct. She jokes “Because she’s a screw-up.”
She says with the animated series; she liked Catwoman and Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy because they felt like they got to be flawed and human. That’s what attracted her to Batwoman, too.
She says she chose Scarecrow in the recent arc because he’s a villain who, by virtue of the fear toxin, there’s nothing you can hold back or secret you can keep that won’t be dredged to the top. It cuts to the core of that idea of Batwoman being flawed and human.
“The places she’s built her armor were not places that were built for people like him.”
She says the core concept is you have to own your damage and what you’ve done to others, and if you don’t, it’ll rot and eat you alive.
She says she can’t say who else she is trying to bring in as villains.
Next up, Snyder talks about All-Star Batman.
He says it was a series he wanted to do to take a break from the mainstream Batman.
Says the health of the line is often judged by the performance of the main book and it’s a lot of pressure to keep topping yourself.
King jokes that he’s incredibly stressed now after hearing that.
But Snyder says he wanted to do so many villains across the whole mythos from different directions with different artists who would challenge him in new ways.
“I never expected it to be anything that sold the way it did.”
Thanks fans again for buying it and keeping it up there.
Says he loved the last arc and that it’s gonna keep going, with him working on a new book with Murphy called “Last Knight.”
Says it’ll be his last Batman story for a long time.
He was teasing King last night that it’s like your ex-girlfriend is dating your friend (with the ex-gf being Batman) but he’s treating her well, and so on.
Snyder’s story with Murphy imagines a future 25 years from now where Batman suddenly wakes up and he’s young, and he sees a destroyed Gotham with
Joker’s still-living head chained to his belt and Deathstroke birds and old warrior Wonder Woman and baby Superman and so on.
It’s his “Lone Wolf and Cub” of Batman.
Snyder says he’s doing some stuff with Morrison that he can’t announce.
He says he was really scared when he started Batman. It was terrifying. But Grant told him he had to make him a birth and a death, and once he did that, he’d own his run with the character.
So he did his version of the origin in New 52, and his story with Murphy is his death — his closing story for now.
There’s a joke about him making Superman a baby. He says making Darkseid a baby was his favorite. (Though I think technically Geoff Johns made
Darkseid the baby in Darkseid War? Maybe he’s referring to using Baby Darkseid in Metal.)
Metal is about showing there’s so much about the DC Universe beyond what fans know, just like the real universe is to people. You don’t really know what’s ultimately out there. But that’s the approach to storytelling for them overall, beyond just Metal.
Fan question time.
Before that, Tynion talks about how he was initially taught in college by Snyder and still gets advice on stories from him.
The first Batman?TMNT had some of Snyder’s influence as far as where things were escalated and the Arkham inmates getting mutagen, etc.
The panel is also asked if they can share some tiny spoilers.
King talks about Batman/Elmer Fudd one-shot. He’s getting back together with the artist for Batman Annual #1 with the story of Batman and Catwoman’s first kiss and last kiss.
Fan question: Bennett is asked about how every Detective Comics character is damaged and troubled. Would she like to do a book for any of them in the future? Or a Sirens book?
She says absolutely.
Fan question: Will we see Cassandra Kane become part of Bat Family again?
Tynion says she’s one of his favorite characters and that’s why he fought to bring her back in Batman & Robin Eternal.
He wants to rebuild those classic bonds with new twists and turns, and he wants her to feel as important to the universe as she does to many fans.
Fan question: Are there plans for more characters beyond Azrael, etc who Tynion wants to bring into Detective.
He says “Yes.” From the beginning, he wanted to focus on characters not appearing in multiple comics at the time so he could really own what was going on with them.
The core Robins and Batgirl are cores to the Batman mythos, and they’ll be in a more significant role in the next few Detective arcs.
Patrick is asked what trait will set Duke apart from the Robins, and King is asked about a nerd fight he started in the summer.
Patrick says there’s a real opportunity to explore Duke’s angst with finding his own place in the Bat Family. But he’s also a potential metahuman, so there’s an opportunity to explore what it’s like for Batman to get in on the ground floor and train a potential metahuman.
Says Duke isn’t a Robin and doesn’t think he ever will be. He’s on his own trajectory and has more of a mentorship relationship with Bruce than the father-son relationship the Robins have.
King says the origin of his “Who would win” Batman nerd fight was during a Batman retreat.
Ultimately, Snyder said everyone who would win at the top of the pyramid would be Batman peeling off his mask and revealing himself.
Fan asks if there’s been any discussion about a benefit book or a commentary on gun control in the wake of Vegas massacre.
Snyder says that kind of stuff is ultimately really up to DC. “It gets politicized in ways that become uncomfortable” because Batman hates guns and doesn’t use guns.
He says the creators’ personal passions are things they express in social media, and that can be done in stories sometimes, but it’s an awkward spot. Says the Colorado theater shooting happened while he was writing the Joker and you have to be sure not to give characters elasticity where they can be co-opted by (in the case of the Joker) negative things.
Tynion answers a question about whether there are aspects of villains’ personalities that can still be explored.
He says yes, and notes how Clayface became Detective’s, emotional heart.
The annual coming up will take the best pieces of Clayface’s many origins from many eras and make a new origin.
The Justice League Twitter account has revealed the exact time for tomorrow’s trailer drop. Get ready to set your alarm clocks, because the video is getting published online pretty early.
“Get ready for the all new #JusticeLeague trailer this Sunday at 9AM ET / 6AM PT.”
To me, this trailer is a massive moment for the Justice League marketing campaign. The decision to show, or not show, Superman presents a pivotal question that I’m excited to see Warner Bros. tackle.
What do you think will be in the trailer? Make your predictions in the comments below, or talk with us on social media!
DC Comics released the first 6-pages of Doomsday Clock at New York Comic Con Friday afternoon. The publisher went one step further giving NYCC fans Ashcan editions of the preview.
“Everything you read in this first six pages, you’re going to have a hundred questions, but they will all be answered. There will even be answers to questions you didn’t know you had,” said Geoff Johns, the writer of Doomsday Clock, according to SYFY Wire.
This 12-issue mini-series will bring the DC Universe into the Watchmen universe.
Check the first 6-pages below:
“In 2016, November the election happened in the U.S. and a lot of other things happened in the world, I was looking at everything, and I reread Watchmen, and suddenly one day the story was in my head,” said Johns.
The twelve issue series is written by Geoff Johns with art by Gary Frank, with colors by Brad Anderson. DOOMSDAY CLOCK #1 costs $4.99 and will hits shelves November 22, 2017.
Are you excited for the Watchmen entering the DC Multiverse? Comment below.
Reviewer’s Note: This issue of Wonder Woman was first released September 27th, 2017.
In the months before the DC Rebirth relaunch, Wonder Woman and the Justice League were in The Darkseid War. During that war, she learned a truth from a dying Amazon, who coincidentally was there the day Diana was born.
Diana learned she wasn’t the only child born of Queen Hippolyta, but that she had a twin brother who was exiled from Paradise Island due to his gender. Since the conclusion of The Darkseid War storyline, that revelation has been pushed aside to allow the Rebirth relaunch to thrive… Until now. With a new creative team on the Wonder Woman book, we will finally learn of her brother…and the dark forces hunting him down.
**SOME SPOILERS BELOW**
Story:
Despite the title of the book being called Wonder Woman, the titular character isn’t in the issue for long. This issue is meant more to set up the antagonist, her goals, and the action that brings our heroine into the picture.
For this opening chapter, we have Grail, the daughter of Darkseid, hunting down the children of Zeus. Her most recent prey comes in the form of the legendary Hercules who isn’t going down without a fight. This leads to an amazing battle between the two demigods. And, without giving too much away, that’s basically what happens in this issue.
In terms of story, this doesn’t provide much in the terms of explanation. Only a person who has read Darkseid War is going to understand who this villain is. Even then, some might be confused as the character’s motivation has made so many changes that it’s a complete reversal of where she started.
The only actual part with Wonder Woman can be summed up with her punching out a bad guy then talking to a lawyer. This isn’t exaggeration either. Granted, this lawyer is a bridging device that will bring Wonder Woman into the plot, but in a book titled Wonder Woman, one would expect to her to be the focus of the story. She could have stumbled upon the battle and tried to help Hercules, only to swear to avenge him when Grail gets away. Anything would have been better than the story we were told.
Art:
Frankly, the art saved the issue even if it also had some flaws.
The pencils make the characters look fantastic, especially Hercules. I can tell Carlo Paguluyan did his homework when he drew the look of Hercules. His look is a recreation of the Hercules Unbound series of the 70’s. Grail also benefits from this art, making her look as terrifying and beautiful as ever. The colors of the issue are extremely effective in showing off the characters and their powers. It truly makes them pop off the page.
Left: Hercules of 2017 Right: Hercules of 1975
The real downside to the art is that there were some inconsistencies from panel to panel. It’s nothing that breaks the art as a whole, but small hiccups that build up over time. For example, Grail getting her ears pierced between panels. Another is Steve Trevor growing a five o’clock shadow, losing it, then grows it back in the span of three panels. This isn’t in separate pages either, its all on the same page.
Conclusion:
While I am still excited for this storyline, this was not the best first step. The chapter was set up with barely any Wonder Woman. The art, while decent overall, has a bunch of hiccups that stop it from being truly fantastic. If you’re looking forward to this storyline, you could push your way through it to the next chapter. If you aren’t, I suggest skipping this one.
Issue Description: “Children of the Gods” part one! Spinning out of the pages of DC UNIVERSE REBIRTH and JUSTICE LEAGUE: DARKSEID WAR, legendary writer James Robinson (JSA: THE GOLDEN AGE, STARMAN) comes on board to answer one of the biggest questions of the year: Who is Wonder Woman’s brother? Taken away from Themyscira in the dead of night, the mysterious Jason has been hidden somewhere far from the sight of gods and men…but his life and Wonder Woman’s are about to intersect in a terrifying way, bringing them face to face with a cosmic threat they never imagined! Don’t miss the start of the next great Wonder Woman epic!
DC Comic held its Dark Nights: Metal/New Age of Heroes panel at New York Comic Con Friday afternoon and the publisher changed the status quo with a very quick speedster announcement.
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Joshua Williamson and Howard Porter will handle the project.
“Let’s see who’s the best Flash: is it Barry, or is it, Wally? In January, we have an annual coming out that’s a prelude to ‘Flash War,’ but starting in Flash 46, we go into ‘Flash War.'” said Williamson at the panel.
Williamson did an amazing job with Batman: The Red Death, as we here at Monkeys Fighting Robots consider the book one of the best tie-in titles ever.
Created by Robert Kanigher and Carmine Infantino, Barry Allen was introduced in Showcase #4 from 1956. In 1985, Barry is killed off during the events of Crisis on Infinite Earths. In 2008, Barry returns in Final Crisis. In 2011, Barry causes Flashpoint and retcons the DC Universe.
Kanigher and Infantino also created Wally West, Kid Flash’s first appearance was in Flash #110 from 1959. Wally became the Flash after Barry died in Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985). In 2011, after Flashpoint and New 52, Wally is written out of continuity as if he never existed. In 2016, Wally breaks out of the speed force that has had him imprisoned for the past ten years.
The Flash character whether it has been Barry or Wally never leads a boring existence.
Geoff Johns loves his Barry Allen. Do you think Wally West stands a chance? Comment below.
In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Idris Elba discusses his desire to play a more important character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Elba was introduced as Heimdall in Thor (2011) and has since appeared in several Marvel projects, including Joss Whedon’s Avengers: Age of Ultron.
The actor also states that he didn’t enjoy his time filming the first two Thor movies, but working with Taika Waititi on Thor: Ragnarok made him want a larger role in the MCU.
I like that I have a little part in Thor. I’m neither movie star or day player. It allows me to do other things I love. The last one [Ragnarok] was fun. The others weren’t fun. They’re work. But on this one, Taika [Waititi, the director] was great. I wish I was more present in the Marvel family. I like what I have, but I also wish that I had a bigger character in the Marvel universe… It’s been great, but I kinda think I need a bit more. I want to be a superhero. I like the idea of that.
EW has also released a new look at Heimdall in Thor: Ragnarok. We’ve only briefly seen the character in trailers and posters, but it’s clear that this is a very different version of the character, who may or may not hold the final Infinity Stone, according to fan speculation.
Check out the image below:
Marvel Studios via EW
Imprisoned on the other side of the universe, the mighty Thor finds himself in a deadly gladiatorial contest that pits him against the Hulk, his former ally and fellow Avenger. Thor’s quest for survival leads him in a race against time to prevent the all-powerful Hela from destroying his home world and the Asgardian civilization.
The first official teaser for Runaways, the first collaboration between Marvel and Hulu, has been released. Check it out below!
Based on the comic created by Brian K. Vaughn and Adrian Alphona, the official TV synopsis reads:
After discovering their parents are super-villains in disguise, a group of teenagers band together to run away from their homes in order to atone for their parents’ actions and to discover the secrets of their origins
What do you guys think? The comic book was great and it’s actually a perfect property for a TV show. Comment and discuss below! And keep coming back to Monkeys Fighting Robots for all your NYCC news!
Marvel Comics held its annual Spider-Man panel at New York Comic-Con Friday afternoon. Peter Parker is in a post-Legacy world and that means he’s about to lose his company, wealth, and go back to being our loveable loser.
Live Blog
Nick Lowe starts off panel asking everyone to sing the Spider-Man song.
Assistant Editor Allison Stock, Associate Editor Devon Lewis, Falcon writer Rodney Barnes, Will Sliney of Ben Reilly: Scarlet Spider, and Dan Slott are on the panel.
Chip Zdarsky, the writer of Spectacular Spider-Man, is also here.
Lowe asks if he can tell us about the “Most Wanted” arc.
It’s about Peter having to escape his apartment without SHIELD and SWAT guys discovering he’s Spider-Man.
Issue 6 also has a really tense dinner with Spider-Man and JJJ.
Black Panther is appearing in the book as of issue 298.
This all spins out of the initial story arc where Theresa is in trouble with the feds over leaked SHIELD data on tech-based superheroes.
Zdarksy is also doing Marvel Two-In-One with Ben Grimm and Johnny Storm.
He gets to use all the FF villains and supporting cast.
Falcon has a new book coming out October 11.
Rodney Barnes says Nick Spencer left almost nothing to do with Falcon after his Captain America and Secret Empire run, but Falcon is going to be fighting Blackheart, son of Mephisto.
Slott talks “Fall of Parker” arc in Amazing
Slott: “We did something with Peter Parker you should never, ever do. We gave him tons of money and lots of toys and isn’t life great?” But now they’re taking them all away because Peter can’t have nice things.
Pete is going to find a way back to the Daily Bugle in a new way
“Stuff” will also happen because Peter promised Johnny Storm he’d watch after the Baxter Building, but he lost it, too.
Peter is also going to have a romance going on with Mockingbird.
They talk Venom next.
The book is “kicking ass and taking names” Lowe says, before correcting to “butt”
Lewis talks about Venom’s Legacy arc, “Lethal Protector,” in which he’ll fight Kraven the Hunter
Kraven goes after the underground community of dinosaur people Stegron created, and Venom has to protect them. Shriek will also be involved.
Next, “Venom Inc”: A crossover between Amazing and Venom
Slott says the story will please people who like both Eddie and Flash, and there will also be extra Venom-y characters we haven’t seen in a while.
Slott and Costa are co-writing the bookend issues, as well as their individual issues of Amazing and Venom.
Venom will also be appearing in an X-Men Blue story arc.
It will involve young Cyclops getting Venom involved in a dispute involving Corsair on the Klyntar symbiote homeworld.
Switches over to Spider-Gwen, with Jason LaTour talking about “Gwenom” arc.
Says the difference with Gwen is she’s constantly trying to live up to and validate herself in the shadow of her dad’s legacy.
Next arc will have Gwen vs Matt Murdock, who they’ve been working on making her arch-nemesis for the past 3 years.
In Spider-Man (Miles Morales’ title), a new Sinister Six will be debuting.
It will feature a new Iron Spider, but the person in the costume isn’t revealed yet.
(I’m kinda willing to bet it’s maybe the 616 version of Miles)
Ben Reilly: The Scarlet Spider will feature an arc titled “The Slingers Return”
Allison Stock talks about that.
Discusses how Ben’s efforts in Clone Conspiracy didn’t work out well and he’s been trying to come to terms with his identity and whether he’s good or bad.
Will Sliney talks about his approach on this book following his stint on Spidey 2099 with Peter David.
Also coming soon is a new Black Panther digital comic called “Long Live the King”
Spider-Man/Deadpool is getting a new creative team with Robbie Thompson and Chris Bachalo.
The book is picking up after the events of Secret Empire, with Deadpool being a wanted man for killing Coulson and Spider-Man deciding it’s time for Wade to go to jail.
Deadpool is an arms dealer in a post-SHIELD world.
The Chameleon’s return is briefly teased by Lowe.
He flashed a cover on the screen too quick to snap a photo of.
Fan questions start.
Fan asks about writing Spider-Man jokes
Zdarsky says you can’t think about them too much. Slott says it’s also important for all the characters around him to comment how not funny they are.
Slott adds that the jokes aren’t for the people around him, though, they’re for Peter himself
Slott says he thinks of Peter’s humor as a Swiss Army Knife, differing based on whether he’s fighting a villain, trying to psych himself up, etc.
Fan asks Slott if he’d like to apologize for saying last year that Ben Reilly coming back was impossible. Slott apologizes that the person fell for his lies!
Fan asks about MJ being placed in an Iron Man book and wants to know when she’ll be back.
Lowe says fans who want Peter and MJ should check out Renew Your Vows
Renew Your Vows is jumping 8 years into the future.
All new stories!
Fan wants to know if the street vendor from ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ would be included in the comics….because the fan asking was the guy who played him!
Slott says the street vendor is MJ’s new love interest, Lowe says Bendis already has plans for him in Iron Man, and Slott says “I believe you’re half-owned by Sony!”
Another fan asks about spinning off characters into their own series, and Lowe says you have to get your friends really into it and spread the word because they like making money.
Fan asks if there will be more between Miles and Spider-Gwen.
LaTour says there’s a whole potential alternate reality in the future where they have a family and are like the Fantastic Four in that timeline, and the door has been left open purposely for future writers.
Fan asks if we get a Scarlet Spider/Venom rematch.
He’s told to keep waiting because there’s a lot of “tricks up their sleeves” with Legacy.
Fan asks about the Toxin symbiote.
He’s told Toxin’s story came to a close at the end of the Carnage solo series by Gerry Conway, but you never know with symbiotes.
Fan asks if we’ll see more of Peter Porker: Spider-Ham.
Yes. Yes, we will.
Fan asks what’s up with Norman Osborn right now.
Norman can’t be affected by the Goblin formula anymore because of what Spider-Man and Doc Ock did to him at the end of Superior. But his quest to become the Goblin again will continue.
Fan also asks about Black Cat. She’ll be part of Venom Inc and will be interacting with the Defenders.
Fan asks about 2099.
Spidey 2099 is back in the future and was told he can’t go back without screwing up the timeline. But there’s a possibility we’ll see him again.
Panel’s over
Did any Spider-Man news surprise you? Comment below.
Issue #20 of BOOM! Studios Power Rangers will break ground like never seen before. Writer Kyle Higgins and Artist Daniele Di Nicuolo are not only introducing a new team but for the first time in Rangers history, the team will include a male Pink Ranger and a female Black Ranger. Speaking with IGN, Higgins said the issue will answer the questions “Who were the Power Rangers of 1969? What happened to them? And how do they fit into our current story?”. As pictured below this throwback group of Rangers is led by Grace Sterling who was revealed as the original Red Ranger in issue #19.
According to the synopsis, Zordon recruits this team to “Battle a foe who is downright…psycho”. Seeing as how this issue takes place during the Cold War era which includes the space race and judging by the book’s cover, could Higgins be setting up the possible return of the Psycho Rangers? Issue #20 of Power Rangers will be released on October 25th.
