King Ghidorah Wants The ThroneEarly on in the trailer, we see a cave painting depicting Ghidorah (a throwback to 2016’s Kong: Skull Island post-credits with Monarch and images of the Titans), and around the 2:00 mark, the payoff comes as we see a silhouette of the three-headed dragon-esque being. It’s a haunting tease but one that we don’t mind being kept secret, for now. Monarch has classified Ghidorah, found in slumber in Antarctica, as “Monster Zero,” hinting their tests might date it as the oldest of the Titans. Their files also indicate once it takes flight, electric storms, gravitational shifts and seismic activity will rock the globe, as it’s a conductor capable of carrying immense bioelectrical currents throughout its body; capable of causing worldwide catastrophe as seen in the trailer, from storms to tidal waves to cyclones. RELATED: Godzilla Sequel Wraps Production, Teases Monstrous Co-Sta

Marvel’s recent teaser for X-Men Black didn’t provide a whole lot of information, but the biggest takeaway was that whatever it was, Magneto would likely be front and center. Now, Marvel has officially announced that the Master of Magnetism will headline a one-shot under the X-Men Black banner, written by acclaimed X-Men scribe Chris Claremont and drawn by Dalibor Talajic. The announcement was made during Marvel’s X-Men panel at Comic-Con International in San Diego, along with the following other villain-focused one-shots: Mojo #1 – Scott Auckerman / Nick Bradshaw Mystique #1 – Seanan McGuire / Marco Failla Juggernaut #1 – Robbie Thompson / Shawn Crystal Emma Frost #1 – Leah Williams / Chris Bachalo RELATED: X-Men Blue Finally Returns Magneto to His Bloodthirsty Roots At the panel, Marvel revealed that X-Men Black is actually an entire line of one-shot

Ghost Rider and Death of the Inhumans writer Donny Cates made a statement regarding Marvel Comics’ upcoming Infinity Wars event at the publisher’s Next Big Thing panel Saturday at Comic-Con International in San Diego. Despite not writing the series, Cates promised the event will have definitive ramifications for the Marvel Universe in its aftermath. The series, written by Gerry Duggan and illustrated by Mike Deodato Jr. and Frank Martin, is Marvel’s next crossover event. “Gerry’s intention for this story will be immediately apparent,” Cates said. “It’s been extremely shrouded for right now and there’s good reason for that. We don’t lightly call a book ‘Infinity Wars.’ This is a big, big event. So far as ramifications are concerned, hang on.” Even though Duggan nor Deodato appeared on the panel, Marvel appears to have another must-read event planned for readers this f

DC Comics co-publisher Dan DiDio announced at Comic-Con International that he has big plans in store for Sideways, which include bringing on Grant Morrison as a co-writer for the Sideways Annual and introducing Silver Age concepts and characters that have been corrupted by the Dark Multiverse. “I’m about to push Sideways into the Dark Multiverse,” DiDio revealed during the New Age of DC Heroes panel. “This book has lots of ties to Metal, so we slide into the Dark Multiverse…in Sideways we’re going to see the dark version of Superman characters. What’s the dark version of Porcupine Jimmy Olson or Lori Lemaris?” RELATED: Grant Morrison (and the New 52 Superman?) Join DC’s Sideways In October Alternate versions and doppelgangers of heroes which are villains have been a staple at both DC and Marvel for decades — most famously embodied in DC’s Crime Syndicate from Earth 3 and their

The world of Robert Kirkman may still be ruled by the zombies of The Walking Dead. But the main writer behind Skybound Entertainment came into Comic-Con International with new projects on tap and new ideas to share. That was where the Robert Kirkman Spotlight panel started Thursday afternoon in San Diego, and the conversation stayed focused on his creative life. “When I haven’t come up with a new idea or worked on a new book in a while, I get kind of itchy,” he said. “But when I work on something like Die! Die! Die! then come back to The Walking Dead, I’m able to see it with fresher eyes.” RELATED: Die!Die!Die! is a Surprise Attack on the Senses from Kirkman & Burnham The Walking Dead did come into the spotlight as Kirkman spoke about Maggie’s long-running pregnancy, joking, “The farm Maggie is from is on the site of a crashed alien spaceship…and the side effect is that the women from the v

DC recently launched new imprints of their graphic novels: DC Ink, for young adult readers, and DC Zoom, for middle grade readers. Therefore, there was a lot for the creative team and talent to share at Comic-Con International’s DC Young Readers panel. On hand to discuss the latest in DC Super Hero Girls, as well as upcoming titles from DC Ink and DC Zoom, were Dustin Nguyen (Batman: Streets of Gotham), Art Baltazar and Franco (Tiny Titans), Danielle Paige (Mera), Sarah Kuhn (Shadow of the Batgirl), Michele Wells (DC VP Content Strategy), Agnes Garbowska (DC Super Hero Girls), Monica Kubina (DC Super Hero Girls) and DC Group Editor Marie Javins. Moderator Ashley Eckstein (DC Super Hero Girls) began the conversation with Michele Wells, who introduced the new titles. Announced earlier this year, Michele described DC Zoom (ages 8-12) and DC Ink (13-up) as having “out of continuity stories. They’re full books… set to the continuity

When it was teased last week, fans understandably assumed X-Men Black was a new series starring Magneto. After all, Marvel is currently publishing three color-themed X-titles (though X-Men Blue and Gold are nearing their final issues), so the idea that a new team led by the Mutant Master of Magnetism just made sense. This… was not the case. At its X-Men panel at San Diego’s Comic-Con International, Marvel revealed that X-Men Black is actually an entire line of one-shot comics, rather than a single series, with each title headlined by a major mutant villain; each issue will feature back up stories focusing on Apocalypse written by Lonnie Nadler and Zac Thompson. RELATED: Extermination Teaser Promises the X-Men Will ‘Set It Right’ The line-up for X-Men Black consists of the following titles and creative teams: Magneto #1 – Chris Claremont / Dalibor Talajic Mojo #1 – Scott Auckerman / Nick Bradshaw Mystique #1 &nd

At Marvel Comics’ panel presentation for its X-Men line at Comic-Con International in San Diego, the publisher dropped a tease for the return of the Uncanny X-Men title at the panel. RELATED: O Canada: 3 Prime Ministers Who Made Comic Book Appearances Titled simply X-Men until the ’70s revamp under the likes of Chris Claremont, Dave Cockrum, Bob McLeod, Tom Orzechowski, Phil Rachelson and Len Wein, Uncanny X-Men’s staggering 545-issue run concluded several years ago, and was followed up with shorter-length volumes from 2012-2016. Since then, there hasn’t been a single Uncanny X-Men title published from Marvel — and that streak will seem to end in November. No creative team has been announced for the title. RELATED: Mutants In Space: Every X-Men Cosmic Event, Officially Ranked Check back with CBR in the days and weeks ahead for more information, interviews and art for Uncanny X-Men as further details are revealed.

Writer/director James Gunn has been fired from Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 after offensive, years-old comments he made about pedophilia and rape were unearthed by right-wing detractors. “The offensive attitudes and statements discovered on James’ Twitter feed are indefensible and inconsistent with our studio’s values, and we have severed our business relationship with him,”  Walt Disney Studios Chairman Alan Horn in a statement provided to The Hollywood Reporter. RELATED: Infinity War Collides With Trump-Putin Summit in Meme Shared By James Gunn Gunn’s comments were uncovered by supporters of President Trump, who took aim Thursday at the outspoken liberal filmmaker. Their cause was quickly picked up by alt-right provocateur and conspiracy theorist Mike Cernovich, who viewed them as confirmation of  belief that there is a “pedo network operating in Hollywood.” “Disney is for an i

Though the level of success Guardians of the Galaxy experienced when it debuted in 2014 was a surprise, there’s no question writer/director James Gunn has since gone on to help shape and define the Marvel Cinematic Universe in its current form. But while Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige previously indicated the director might have a bigger role in the MCU following Avengers 4, Gunn has found himself fired following the resurfacing of offensive jokes and comments he made in the past on pedophilia and rape. It’s too soon to tell exactly how Gunn’s firing will affect the MCU, but there are a lot of possibilities to think about when considering how the move might alter the blockbuster film universe’s future. RELATED: Guardians of the Galaxy Star Dave Bautista Defends James Gunn, Denounces Disney Firing What Will Happen to the Guardians of the Galaxy? In 2017, Gunn noted the three Guardians

The repercussions from DC Comics’ Dark Nights: Metal event are leaving a lasting impact on many of the publisher’s titles, with the Source Wall’s destruction unleashing new forces in the DC Universe. Writer Scott Snyder, who also penned Metal, is continuing many of those plot points in Justice League, with Aquaman‘s incoming writer Kelly Sue DeConnick doing the same when she begins on the title. Snyder revealed his next Justice League arc in Issue #10 with artist Francis Manapul, titled “Drowned Earth,” will be Aquaman-focused and bring in the Sea Gods that will come to play a part in DeConnick’s run on Aquaman’s solo series. RELATED: Kelly Sue DeConnick, Robson Rocha To Take Over Aquaman The news came during DC’s Justice League panel at Comic-Con International in San Diego. The official numbering and publication dates fo

Sony Pictures gave spider-fans an inside look at the upcoming Into the Spider-Verse animated movie during their Hall H presentation Friday at Comic-Con International in San Diego. One unique aspect of the film is its take on the character at the center of the Spider-Verse itself, which will feature an older, wearier Peter Parker inside the Spider-Man costume. Voice actor Jake Johnson, who plays Peter in the film, gave his account of the character’s nature. “This is Peter Parker at 40,” Johnson said. “This is Peter with a bad back who doesn’t know if he wants to be Spider-Man anymore, and then he meets Miles who needs a mentor and Peter doesn’t really want to be a mentor but he sees something really special in this guy.” RELATED: SDCC Live: Venom and Into the Spider-Verse Swing into Hall H Johnson’s explanation of his incarnation of Peter is significantly different from the younger, more jovial version

Last week, a number of years-old comments made by James Gunn, in which the writer/director made off-color jokes about topics including rape and pedophilia, surfaced online. Though Gunn apologized for his comments, it was announced the next day that Disney had severed all business ties with him, including his current job writing and directing Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. While Gunn subsequently released a statement in which he took full responsibility for his comments, and that he accepted and understood Disney’s actions, one of his GotG stars has a different stance. Dave Bautista, who portrays Drax in the popular Marvel franchise, released a brief statement on Twitter last night in support of his friend and director. What’s more, he blatantly condemns the decision to fire him. RELATED: James Gunn Apologizes For Old, Offensive Jokes About Rape & Pedophilia “I will have more to say but for right now all I will say i

Spider-Man has become more than a single character in the age of Marvel’s media dominance, and Marvel Comics has taken that idea to heart in its current run of Spider comics. Friday at Comic-Con International in San Diego, the publisher beat the drum for its core Spider-Man titles as well as the many alternate universe spinoffs on the way this fall. Marvel editors Nick Lowe and Devin Lewis joined writers Nick Spencer and Donny Cates to talk all-things web slinger. Spencer hyped the crowd for the second issue of the new Amazing Spider-Man, part of the series’ twice-monthly shipping schedule that will carry the line and dictate the course of Peter Parker’s life. The writer said he wrote every issue of every main Spider-Man series in history to prep for this gig, though Cates joked, “Do you read any Venom? I hear the new stuff is pretty good!” RELATED: Marvel Reveals Spider-Geddon Creative Team, Teases Multiple Deaths The writ

Whether or not Batman’s most prolific villain, The Joker, should have a definitive origin story has been the subject of debate amongst comic book fans for nearly 80 years. However, in Scott Snyder and Jorge Jimenez’s Justice League #6… well, we won’t exactly see the Clown Prince of Crime’s origin, but we will get a rare glimpse into his childhood. During DC Comics’ Justice League panel at Comic-Con International in San Diego, a page of Jimenez’s artwork from the upcoming issue was revealed, and in it, we get four glimpses into The Joker’s past. The first is a look at Joker as the leader of the Red Hood gang; the second, a failed comedian, a la The Killing Joke. However, in the bottom two panels, we get to see The Joker as a child, at which time he was already unhinged and apparently cooking whole birds in ovens after school. JUSTICE LEAGUE #6 shines a spotlight on the Joker!

“I say ‘Spoil everything,’ don’t you agree?” joked DC Comics Publisher Dan DiDio as fans assembled for the company’s New Age of Heroes panel Saturday at Comic-Con International in San Diego. Focusing on the new series of characters who debuted in the DC line this year, the conversation was led by Senior Editor Marie Javins and featured DiDio, writers James Tynion IV, Robert Venditti and Steve Orlando as well as artist Ryan Benjamin. Venditti spoke to the challenge of doing Damage – a series that has massive, back-breaking action sequences in every issue. “It’s nothing I’ve ever done before,” he said. “Doing something so action intensive and so widescreen and bombastic…to cut loose like that is enjoyable, but it’s a challenge in many ways when you’re doing characters moments.” In upcoming issues, the brutish hero will team up with a more familiar from the cla

C.B. Cebulski, Margaret Stohl, Donny Cates, Devin Lewis, and Nick Lowe took the stage for Marvel to tease upcoming projects, characters and line. Infinity Wars Prime was the first focus, despite Duggan and Deodato not being at the convention. Cebulski teased the “summer of secrets — we’ve been able to get things in and let things slide right up until release, and the next big secret, the next big surprise, will be in Infinity Wars Prime.” Cebulski then teased the Infinity Wars event which will “change the status quo of the Marvel Universe.” Donny Cates then stepped up to say that “Infinity Wars Prime is game changing.” Cebulski then put the “Infinity Warps” amalgam characters spiraling out of Infinity Wars, “We spent almost a full day at the creative summit coming up with the most ridiculous combinations.” Donny Cates picked up that they invented a character that didn’t mak

The panel featured C.B. Cebulski in conversation with fan-favorite creator Skottie Young. “This is my first panel as Editor-in-Chief of Marvel Comics,” Cebulski said in opening, while kicking things off. Young then joked, “We don’t have any note, we don’t have any talking points, we’re just going to do this podcast style.” Young kicked things off officially by prompting Cebulski into an anecdote about his first experience with comics as a very young child. Not to be out done, Young jumped in to relate his own childhood anecdotes, shouting out old issues of Mad Magazine and and a specific issue of Daredevil during Ann Nocenti’s run where Typhoid Mary nearly killed Matt Murdock by pushing him off a bridge. “That’s when I first realized that these stories were part of something bigger,” Young said. The panel continued on with both Young and Cebulski relating their inside jokes and childhoo

DC Comics co-publisher Dan DiDio dropped a bit of a bombshell on fans during the company’s New Age of Heroes panel Saturday at Comic-Con International in San Diego. The publisher’s new line of comics will add Sideways Annual #1 to its repertoire this fall, with the issue to be written by series scribe DiDio along with Multiversity creator Grant Morrison. Perhaps more notably, the annual will send the series protagonist into DC’s Dark Multiverse and will feature a very familiar looking “New 52” character from Morrison’s run on Action Comics. An image shared Saturday on DC’s Twitter account shows the character of Sideways fighting alongside a tee-shirt and blue jeans-clad Superman, drawn by Andy Kubert. Morrison’s run on Action Comics featured Superman adorned in a very similar outfit. During the panel, DiDio wouldn’t confirm whether the version of Superman to be featured in the annual is the

Marvel Comics’ Infinity Warps mashups have already drawn a great deal of attention for their unique character fusions, but not all the splices were ready for the big time. Writer Donny Cates today revealed one Infinity Warp that won’t be making it into the upcoming miniseries. Cates revealed the canned mashup today during CBR’s coverage of Marvel’s Next Big Thing panel at Comic-Con International: San Diego. That mashup’s name is Deadbolt, an amalgamation of Deadpool and Black Bolt. The problem with that Infinity Warp is likely apparent to anyone who knows about these two characters. Black Bolt is the King of the Inhumans whose Terrigenesis transformation rendered his voice a deadly weapon — even a slight utterance is powerful enough to kill. RELATED: A Thanos-Style Finger Snap May Lead to Marvel’s Infinity Warps Mash-Ups Meanwhile, Deadpool is the Merc with a Mouth, a loud- and foul-mouthed mercenary made more