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One of Spidey and His Amazing Friends Short moat mischievous characters will be getting his own origin story in the pages of Marvel Comics.

His name is Symbie, and he’s a cute little glob of symbiote terror. Following in the footsteps of smash sensation the similarly chibi Jeff the Landshark, Symbie debuted on Marvel’s Spidey and his Amazing Friends show, because the world loves cute cartoon characters.

I’ve talked quite a bit about patriot-heroes before. Between seeing how they stack up against Captain America and diving deep into some of the odderheroes to defend American values during World War II, I thought I’d gained a certain measure of immunity against how bonkers these characters could be. Well, you can guess the punchline…

We finally know what those mysterious portals are in Lanterns, and it makes a disturbing amount of sense. Lanterns is an unusual TV show, with every episode reinterpreting everything that went before it. Lanterns episode 3 was John Stewart’s origin story, and it radically changed our understanding of the character. John has been groomed to…

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A major story point in HBO’s Lanterns that has already sent ripples through the DCU because of its implications is that Kyle Chandler’s version of Hal Jordan has already been the hero and has been wearing the ring for decades when the series begins. It’s proven to be a smart choice, not only because the…

Venom creators past and present will revisit Eddie Brock’s origin story from his point-of-view this winter, in Venom: POV, a five-issue series written by Ryan Stegman (the 2018-21 Venom run), with art by Carlos Gomez (All-New Venom). The book will revisit Eddie Brock’s early, villainous life, when the disgraced reporter joined forces with the symbiote…

Twenty-five years after pulling back the curtain on James Howlett’s secret childhood in 2001’s Origin, writer Paul Jenkins is returning to tell another chapter in the early years of the best there is at what he does.

Wolverine: Origin III: The Dark Age by Paul Jenkins and Cafu from Marvel Comics in December 2026

Logan, disassembled! This December, Wolverine will descend once more down a path that ends in tragedy, terror, and heartbreak in WOLVERINE: ORIGIN III – THE DARK AGE #1.