Marvel Matters
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Inside Spider-Man’s ‘Brand New Day’: The bold creative gamble that reinvented the Marvel flagship character
Faced with falling sales and a fractured lineup, Marvel bet big on a radical idea — one book, three times a month, and a whole team of storytellers shaping Peter Parker’s world together.
November 12, 2025
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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Oral History: The story behind Spider-Man’s Brand New Day and Marvel’s radical Amazing Spider-Man overhaul
In 2008, Marvel turned its flagship book Amazing Spider-Man into a TV-style experiment, with rotating writers, weekly issues, and the creative chaos that defined a new era of Marvel storytelling
November 11, 2025
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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Daredevil, Punisher, Spider-Man, Marvel Zombies, and all-new Avengers: The future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe looks like this [Marvel Matters]
There's more Marvel coming your way in the next couple of years than you might have thought, and it's all leading up to the return of Robert Downey Jr. to the MCU
September 16, 2025
Graeme McMillan
Features
Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld has been trying to tell his definitive Cable story for the past 35 years, but he and Marvel keep breaking up [Marvel Matters]
Rob Liefeld broke into the mainstream with Cable - but he's never been able to tell the solo story burning in his brain for the past 35 years. He's gotten close though, twice... then it all falls down.
September 09, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Marvel is giving France, China, Russia, and the United Kingdom their own Captain America [Marvel Matters]
Now is the time for Captains of all countries, not just the United States.
September 02, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
The biggest Marvel Comics characters not in Marvel Studios' MCU (yet) [Marvel Matters]
Hey Kevin Feige, here are the biggest Marvel characters you haven't brought into the MCU yet (but could, and should!).
August 20, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Chris Claremont isn't sharing his X-Men: From the Ashes pitch because he still has hopes to do it someday (and some way)
Although Marvel turned down Chris Claremont's recent X-Men relaunch pitch after the Krakoan Age, he still hopes to write it someday
August 06, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Arthur Adams reflects on his influential career, missed Marvel projects, and why fans keep asking for Rogue [Marvel Matters]
Longshot co-creator Arthur Adams talks in this week's Marvel Matters.
August 05, 2025
Dave Buesing
Guides
The 5 most popular Marvel characters, including in the MCU and the original comics [Marvel Matters]
Spider-Man, Wolverine, and more make the list of the most popular characters Marvel has right now.
July 22, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Iconic Marvel writer Chris Claremont dishes his vision for the X-Men, Marvel Rivals, & his unmade Gambit movie with Channing Tatum [Marvel Matters]
Chris Claremont has ideas and opinions on the X-Men - and after creating so many of them, we want to hear it.
July 08, 2025
Dave Buesing
Features
The great Marvel Swap: Why the MCU’s Next Captain America, Iron Man, and Avengers are the biggest gamble since Phase One [Marvel Matters]
Can the MCU survive its own legacy? Inside Marvel Studios' quiet revamp of Iron Man, Captain America, and the Avengers
June 24, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Meet Eric Pearson: Marvel Studios' unheralded fixer that helps save movies like Avengers: Endgame, Ant-Man, Fantastic Four, and Blade [Marvel Matters]
Some call Eric Pearson the MCU script doctor, the Marvel Studios closer. But for Marvel Studios, they just call him... frequently.
June 17, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Why Doctor Doom isn't going to be in The Fantastic Four: First Steps, and why its the right move again for Marvel Studios [Marvel Matters]
Marvel Studios' The Fantastic Four: First Steps will be the first FF movie with no Doctor Doom, and the studio & the director have a good reason for that (but also a loophole).
June 10, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Marvel Matters: The MCU has grown from movies to TV series & cartoons - but MCU comics? It's tougher than you think
The idea of MCU comics is as old as the MCU itself, but despite owning a comics company Marvel Studios hasn't been able to make it work (although they've tried).
May 20, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Marvel Matters: What Thunderbolts* says about the MCU
How Marvel Studios' Beef-ed up the MCU Phase 5 with Thunderbolts* and what it means for the new Avengers movies to come.
May 06, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Marvel Studios needs to create an evil Avengers for RDJ's Doctor Doom to match all those heroes of Doomsday (and he has a gameplan already in comics with the Cabal) [Marvel Matters]
MCU fans have spent all this time speculating on the next Avengers, but we need to think about the villains creating their own Avengers.
April 29, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Marvel Matters: The cursed chalice of Marvel Studios' success, and the broken cinematic universe dreams it gave Hollywood
The Icarus effect of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and how cost Warner Bros., Sony, Universal Pictures and more billions of dollars.
April 22, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Marvel Matters: What to read ahead of (and after) Marvel Studios' Thunderbolts*
Get justice (and a little bit of lightning) with these five best Thunderbolts comics recs ahead of Marvel Studios' Thunderbolts*.
April 15, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Marvel Matters: The MCU's Loki series is a meta take on all of Marvel Studios' troubles over the past 10 years, with Kevin Feige at the center of it (and its hopeful success)
Kevin Feige is Loki - but he's not the god of mischief, he's Marvel's god of MCU stories (just like in the comics).
April 08, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Follow along live to the official Marvel Matters panel with Declan Shalvey, Chris Condon, Mark Morales, and Jeffrey Brown from Chicago's C2E2 2025
The creators behind Mystique, Ultimate Wolverine, New Avengers, and X-Men: Days of Future Fun come to talk comics in C2E2's Marvel Matters panel.
April 07, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
News
The big Marvel panel at Chicago's C2E2 2025 is Popverse's Marvel Matters with Declan Shalvey, Chris Condon, Mark Morales, and Jeffrey Brown
The creators behind Ultimate Wolverine, Mystique, Moon Knight, New Avengers, Weapon X-Men, and X-Men: Days of Future Fun chop it up in a live edition of Marvel Matters.
April 07, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Marvel and DC have rediscovered the most important word in superhero movies: ‘No.’ [Marvel Matters]
Or how to kill your fandom darlings before they go wild (or go dead).
March 25, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Stop asking Daredevil: Born Again to rebuild Marvel's Netflix universe [Marvel Matters]
Just because Netflix's Daredevil started a family of TV shows, it's unfair to expect Daredevil: Born Again to do the same
March 18, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
I made Kingpin's omelette for Daredevil: Born Again, and somehow learned something about Wilson Fisk [Marvel Matters]
It's not about the ingredients, its about the process and the intention - when it comes to Kingpin in life (and omelettes).
March 04, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
I'm Catholic, and Daredevil understands my faith better than almost any superhero story [Marvel Matters]
Daredevil & Me: How Marvel's Matt Murdock has helped me make sense of my own life as a Catholic.
February 25, 2025
Jim McDermott
Features
Daredevil: Born Again restored Matt Murdock's family so it can tear it apart [Marvel Matters]
I have a very bad feeling about a potential plot development in Daredevil: Born Again, and I hope I'm just being paranoid
February 18, 2025
Graeme McMillan
Features
I'm British, I've cosplayed Captain America for years, and Anthony Mackie was right: Cap is for everyone. [Marvel Matters]
What cosplaying Captain America in the UK taught me about why the Marvel hero belongs to everyone.
February 11, 2025
Trent Cannon
Features
The Spider-Man movies makes the Avengers movies look too expensive. [Marvel Matters]
Spider-Man isn't just Marvel's biggest hero... the numbers say he's the MCU's best investment.
February 04, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man might secretly be Marvel's Iron Man moment for an entire animated MCU [Marvel Matters]
Marvel's new Spider-Man cartoon isn't just another show.it could be the beginning of a second MCU.
January 28, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
The MCU's X-Men need to feel different. Bringing back Anya Taylor-Joy's Magik would be a great start [Marvel Matters]
Anya Taylor-Joy's Magik was too good for The New Mutants — Marvel should bring her back for the MCU.
January 21, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Elon Musk helped inspire Iron Man. These days, he might be better inspiration for Doctor Doom for Robert Downey Jr. [Marvel Matters]
Robert Downey Jr. looked to Elon Musk when creating Iron Man — 17 years later, the comparison hits very differently
January 14, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Superhero movies have discovered a revolutionary storytelling technique: Assuming you've seen a superhero movie before [Marvel Matters]
Superman and Fantastic Four finally killing one of superhero movies' most exhausted traditions: The origin story
January 07, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
The MCU's best movies aren't superhero movies — and that's the secret to Marvel's success [Marvel Matters]
The MCU became the biggest franchise in Hollywood by not making superhero movies.
December 30, 2024
Chris Arrant
Features
What If...? was Marvel Studios' secret testing ground for an MCU that can survive without its original stars [Marvel Matters]
Marvel's What If...? wasn't really about the Multiverse — it was practice for the MCU's next 50 years.
December 23, 2024
Chris Arrant
Features
Sony has reportedly discovered the secret ingredient missing from its Spider-Man universe: Spider-Man [Marvel Matters]
It's time Sony get versed on the Spider-Verse
December 16, 2024
Chris Arrant
Features
Kraven the Hunter could save Sony's Spider-Man universe — but maybe not by succeeding [Marvel Matters]
The sixth installment in Sony's troubled Spider-Man villain shared universe is in theaters this weekend, but could it be the latest box office failure for the studio?
December 09, 2024
Graeme McMillan
Features
With Daredevil, and spinoffs from Black Panther, What If, and more, Marvel Studios' 2025 Disney+ slate is bigger than ever, and that might be a big deal for the future
2025 could be a year that changes how Marvel moves forward on the small screen - and maybe the big screen, as well
December 02, 2024
Graeme McMillan
Features
Marvel may have spent two seasons of Loki secretly creating its Avengers: Secret Wars Beyonder [Marvel Matters]
All we're saying is, it almost makes sense to let Tom Hiddleston's MCU alter-ego go... Beyond
November 25, 2024
Graeme McMillan
Features
What Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige is saying (and not saying) about the MCU X-Men franchise says a lot about the future of the Mutant Saga
Is Kevin Feige telling us something about Marvel Studios' plans for the X-Men and every other mutant in the MCU without saying it explicitly?
November 18, 2024
Graeme McMillan
Features
Marvel’s Multiverse has quietly turned Blade, X-Men, and Spider-Man into the MCU’s Phase Zero [Marvel Matters]
The MCU started in 2008. Except now it kind of started in 1998.
November 11, 2024
Chris Arrant
Features
Marvel Studios swapping out Doctor Doom for Kang offers the chance to jettison the Multiverse Saga
The villain has changed, but has the storyline of Marvel's big Phase 6 finale also undergone significant upheaval?
November 04, 2024
Graeme McMillan
Features
The Fantastic Four: First Steps lets Marvel make a visual makeover, courtesy of the man who defined the look of Blade Runner and more
Next year's big movie will break with the visual tradition of Marvel Studios, according to those involved
October 28, 2024
Graeme McMillan
Features
Saving the universe was nice, but Marvel's stars would really like to talk about your credit card [Marvel Matters]
Marvel Studios are showing what's in their wallet: commercials money
October 21, 2024
Chris Arrant
Features
Donald Trump has secretly been Marvel Comics'landlord in NYC for years, but their strange relationship goes back decades
Donald Trump made his Marvel debut in the 1980s as Iron Man's former landlord. Now he's really Marvel Entertainment's landlord.
October 14, 2024
Chris Arrant
Features
Marvel's Doctor Doom is evidence that Robert Downey Jr.'s villain era is real
The MCU's biggest hero is about to become the MCU's biggest villain - and its a path RDJ has been charting for years
October 07, 2024
Chris Arrant
Features
I think we've all been expecting the wrong Secret Wars movie [Marvel Matters}
Joe Russo made reference to reading Secret Wars when he was younger... so is the movie based off the 1984 comic?
September 30, 2024
Graeme McMillan
Features
How Captain America: Brave New World finally paid off a joke Kevin Feige made 12 years prior [Marvel Matters]
It's taken a decade, but the Serpent Society finally made it into the MCU
September 23, 2024
Graeme McMillan
Features
If Robert Downey Jr. gets another chance, so should Clark Gregg [Marvel Matters]
Phil Coulson is the heart of the MCU (and it's time it starts beating again)
September 16, 2024
Chris Arrant
Features
Remember when everyone thought Kang was the next Thanos? About that... [Marvel Matters]
The Avengers' biggest threat that never was had a full story told in the MCU after all
September 09, 2024
Graeme McMillan
Features
Marvel Studios' Fantastic Four: First Steps promises no Doctor Doom in the movie - and it's a bold choice [Marvel Matters]
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Chris Arrant
Features
Marvel Matters: How variants make the MCU more trivial and more navel-gazing
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Chris Arrant
Features
Marvel Matters; Captain France
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Chris Arrant
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Marvel Matters; Captain France
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Chris Arrant
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Marvel Matters; Captain France
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Chris Arrant
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Marvel Matters; Captain France
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Chris Arrant
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Marvel Matters: Best Avengers comics
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Chris Arrant