Across the Omniverse

Marvel's presentation at this year's San Diego Comic-Con gave us two big pieces of news about the studio's post-Secret Wars plans, and we now know the two movies coming in 2028 - Ghost Rider starring Ryan Gosling and Black Panther III with David Jonsson stepping into the role of T'Challa Jr. Plus: a surprise appearance by Ryan Reynolds!

We're back to our regularly scheduled shenanigans after this!

With San Diego Comic-Con happening we can expect some news to be hitting our feeds, and if that news is big enough we'll put out an emergency pod to talk about it! Today we have the trailer for HBO's Lanterns, the Green Lantern TV show set in James Gunn's DCU. Is this trailer an improvement on what came before? And what might the show do that will make Derek quit it immediately? Listen to find out!

Polaris gets canned from X-Factor and comes to hang out with the X-Men, where Professor Xavier is not squashing the rumors that he was straight up in love with Magneto. When the Danger Room becomes sentient - and a slinky lady robot! - the next phase of Xavier's dream for mutantkind is born, and it involves operating an LLC.

Before that: a ton of news. A bunch of trailers, including Resident Evil, The Other Mommy, The End of Oak Street and Clayface. Casting news, including Kenneth Branagh playing a goblin. And scuttlebutt and rumors coming from the...

One of the most anticipated trailers of the year has hit and it's... okay? We talk about the two and a half minutes of Avengers: Doomsday Marvel has shown us, and we discuss the fact that Marvel is actually pretty good as sleight of hand when it comes to making us think some things in a trailer are real when they are in fact cunningly edited or even CGIed out. And: is anyone else sick of the Fox X-Men?

Our regular show will return Thursday!

How violent should a superhero cartoon be, and does this episode of X-Men '97 cross that line? Wolverine and Morph team up with enemies and expendable characters from the 90s to break into Weapon X and shut it down for good, but what they find inside is bad, bad news. Plus, the Morph loves Wolverine story hits a big turning point.

Before that: it's a newsy-ass week. First look at The Batman Part II! An R-rated X-Files movie! Danny McBride is becoming a Real American Hero! More trailers than you can shake a stick at! Plus: I...

Don't try to change the past! You only end up making the future you're trying to change come true! Nobody told this to Magneto and Professor X, though, and they their darndest to stop Apocalypse from becoming Apocalypse. Guess how well that goes. This episode has a doozy of an ending - and a mid-credits scene!

Before that: Do we have a Gorilla Grodd cast, and is he the one who spray painted all the dicks? Is Fast Forever actually happening? And what's the worst place your humble hosts have ever lived? All this and...

It's time to dive back into the 1990s as the second season of X-Men '97 kicks off with a three parter picking up after last season's time-traveling cliffhanger. Some of the X-Men are in a distant future where Apocalypse has taken over the world, some are in the distant past where Apocalypse is having his origin, and some of them are in the present and getting grim n' gritty with Apocalypse's horsemen. Can this season match the excellence of the first, especially with one of the main creatives gone?

Before that: Werwulf trailer, <...

This week we wrap up the two-parter that seemed so promising when we chose it. After all, Telly Savalas built a robot of Isaac the bartender in order to pull off a robbery. This should be a good story! What the heck happened with this episode? We have our own answers. 

Before that: The Dynamic Duo plot is revealed! A first look at Tombstone in Spider-Man: Brand New Day! I answer whether or not Jesus Christ had to pee, and I reveal my own Christ-adjacent urination spot! This one has it all. If y...

Late in The Love Boat's run the show fell out of step with the culture, but it tried to stay relevant and exciting by taking on-location foreign cruises that were sort of like travelogues. Remember, this was an era when the cast of a sitcom shooting an episode in Hawaii was a major event. This week's episode - which is the first half of a 2-hour TV movie mercilessly chopped with no consideration - brings a great guest cast that includes Telly Savales, Janet Jackson, Susannah York and Jack Klugman, but forgets to actually have anything...

It gets better! The back half of the first (only?) season of Amazon's Spider-Noir is a marked improvement over the first half, which is a great relief to us. We are left with some questions, chief of which is: is Ben Reilly a really shitty human being? All signs point to yes, unfortunately. 

Before that: leaked Spider-Man trailer! 24 Jump Street! Two guys who don't much enjoy Oz Perkins movies! And much more! If you don't care about any of that, skip right to 56:15.

After this we have a couple o...

Spinning out of the blockbuster classic animated movie Into the Spider-Verse comes Spider-Noir, a live action series featuring Nicolas Cage in his first TV role. He's Ben Reilly, a Depression era PI who used to be The Spider, a web-slinging superhero. But when mob boss Silvermane starts stirring up trouble Ben is forced to go back to the swinging lifestyle and deal with a new wave of super powered weirdos. The thing is... should Spider-Man be this old? And can a show be well shot, well written and overall well cast but then dragged down...

Welcome to the calm before the Spider-Noir storm, a calm we're filling with another episode of The Love Boat! This one has multiple stories of people using very immoral deception to find love, Don Knotts being pursued by Julie Newmar, and Isaac the bartender acting like he had a traumatic brain injury before boarding the boat. 

Before that: tons of trailers! Some thoughts on the upcoming Primetime, where Robert Pattinson plays Chris Hansen! Early word on Disclosure Day! And so much more. If you don't care about any of t...

Not subscribed to the Patreon at the $7 and above levels? That means you're missing out on Watch Men, our monthly deep dive podcast that usually focuses on superhero movies - although we're widening the remit, and that's why this month we're covering The Mandalorian and Grogu. This episode is running in lieu of our weekly Bad Batch, where we usually do our Star Wars chatter, although that show will return next week. In the meantime we're giving you a lengthy preview of the episode - a whole half hour! Don't worry, there's...

One of the most prophetic shows to ever air on television has come to an end. The Boys, which seemed to be somehow parodying the Trump administration in real time, finished up with an episode bookended by funerals and featuring some significant deaths... and the upsetting reappearance of Frenchie, TV's most irritating character. Did the satirical superhero show stick the landing? Did they spend all of the budget elsewhere? Has any onscreen couple had less chemistry than Jack Quaid and Erin Moriarty? We discuss all this and more. 

Before that: tons of news! Supergirl