Comic Books
Vox’s coverage of all things comics, from comic books themselves to movies based on them.


On Wednesday night, the trailer to Avengers: Age of Ultron, the highly anticipated sequel to the 2012 blockbuster, leaked online — one week earlier than it was officially supposed to debut.


Look alive, people. There is talk of Ryan Gosling becoming an Avenger.


Gail Simone went from ‘Women in Refrigerators’ to the first lady of DC Comics


On Wednesday, Warner Bros. and DC Comics dropped some absolutely monumental movie news: Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Shazam, Cyborg, and Green Lantern are all getting movies in the next six years.


The company has commissioned Margaret Stohl, one of the co-authors of the Beautiful Creatures series, to write a Black Widow young adult novel out due out next Fall.


On Monday night, Variety announced that Robert Downey Jr. is in the final steps of negotiating his next Marvel movie, and it isn’t an Iron Man or Avengers film.


“No one gets to make you feel less than,” said Marvel’s Kelly Sue DeConnick.


Wonder Woman is going to be challenged, and it will only make the character stronger.


Please don’t read further if you don’t like spoilers.


When superheroes are at their best, they have the ability to make us feel empowered while having fun at the same time. That spirit is alive in The Flash.


DC says it’s about empowering boys and girls. Its merchandise says different.


On Tuesday, the company announced that it had canceled two covers that Milo Manara, the artist responsible for the sexualized Spider-Woman, was slated to draw.


There’s so much that’s promising about this new drama — but there are some really clumsy things as well.


In less than a month, Marvel will put one of its favorite heroes to sleep. Wolverine, the hairy, Canadian bundle of muscle with the claws, will die on October 8, when the comic book The Death of Wolverine wraps up.


The comics giant’s Multiversity — a comic eight years in the making, that’s as much superhero action as it is quantum theory — is, according to critics, easily one of the best stories to come out of comics in the past year.


The company is issuing variant covers in October to celebrate National Bullying Prevention Month.


Summer is when everyone’s supposed to go see the movies. But that didn’t happen this year.


These seven sequences from this summer’s movies show how blockbusters’ visuals are getting more and more impressive.


In order to restore faith in the franchise, prove First Class wasn’t a fluke and, at the same time, right Brett Ratner’s wrongs, Fox turned to Bryan Singer.


After a wave of criticism, Marvel, the artist who drew the cover, and the comic’s writer have finally responded. And not all of them seem to be on the same page.


Our Summer Movie Week begins with a consideration of a common ailment for many modern blockbusters.


In addition to the obviously problematic sexualization of a female superhero, the drawings of Spider-Woman aren’t even anatomically correct.

