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Following a short hiccup in 2018, director James Gunn is now a high profile personality in the two biggest superhero franchises. He has completed filming on 2021’s The Suicide Squad for the DCEU, and he will be making a glorious return to Marvel Studios with both the Disney+ Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special in 2022 and Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3 in 2023. Both of his on-screen teams are filled with some of the wackiest personalities in comics lore....

The brotherly dynamic between Chris Hemsworth’s Thor and Tom Hiddleston’s Loki has been at the crux of the God of Thunder’s solo franchise since the beginning. But after several fake deaths, Loki tragically met his demise at the hands of Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War, and while his adventures continue in another universe on Disney+, the God of Mischief remains dead in the MCU. In the wake of Loki’s death, Thor: Love and Thunder will be the first in the franchise not to feature Hiddleston, a detail that has left many worried for the film....

Spider-Man: No Way Home brought together three generations of moviegoers for an Avengers-level cinematic event that also marked the dramatic end of the Homecoming trilogy. However, the record-breaking release is far from the end for the MCU’s Spider-Man as a second trilogy - starring Tom Holland in the titular role - is seemingly in the works. After three films, Tom Holland’s Spider-Man has already gone toe-to-toe with the Vulture, taken on Mysterio’s illusion in a globe-trotting adventure, had his identity exposed to the world, and most recently fought five villains from across the Multiverse....

Marvel Studios’ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever sports a massive cast of characters. One of the new personalities on that list, someone audiences haven’t yet met, is Dominque Thorne’s Riri Williams. Not only will she be new to the scene, but she’ll pick up the habit that Robert Downey Jr. left behind in Avengers: Endgame - making high-tech super suits.Fans have already seen two different designs for suits she’ll be sporting in Wakanda Forever, and set images from her series, Ironheart, show off a third model....

Michael B. Jordan has finally spoken out about his surprise return to the MCU as Killmonger in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.The villain became an instant classic when he debuted in 2018, and his death didn’t keep people from hoping he’d somehow play a role in this year’s sequel. In fact, many had theorized he could be back from the dead and go through a redemptive arc, all leading to him taking in the mantle of Black Panther....

Ms. Marvel is poised to introduce another charming hero into the Marvel Cinematic Universe with Iman Vellani’s Kamala Khan. In the upcoming Disney+ series, the character will be portrayed as a huge Avengers fan, with a specific passion for Brie Larson’s Captain Marvel. The first official synopsis also confirmed that Kamala is a fan-fic writer, with the trailer already showing glimpses of her superhero-centric hobby. Although Captain Marvel is at the front and center of Kamala’s favorites, it seems that the young hero is an Avengers fan in general....

Sooty mold appropriately and exactly describes the disease, as it looks just like chimney soot. Ascomycete fungi, which includes many genera, commonly Cladosporium and Alternaria are usually the offending fungal organisms. Although unsightly, it seldom damages the tree but it can look nasty in the landscape. The pathogens are dark fungi growing either on the “honeydew” excreted by sucking insects or on exuded sap material coming from leaves of certain trees....

With Iman Vellani’s Ms. Marvel now concluded, it’s time to turn the attention towards the next MCU hero to be introduced: Tatiana Maslany’s Jennifer Walters, aka, She-Hulk. The character is the cousin of the famous Bruce Banner, who happens to be a lawyer on top of maintaining her new superhero persona. Sadly, the first trailer for the project didn’t quite hit all the right notes with audiences. The VFX for her was not amazing and left many fans wanting more—though the subpar detailing could have simply been the victim of YouTube compression, as called out by Corridor Crew....

With Marvel’s first three Disney+ shows, Marvel’s fourth phase of storytelling has gotten off to a crazy start. With WandaVision potentially being the catalyst for the multiverse, right behind the happenings in Loki, the future of the MCU looks to be going in a crazy direction.Case in point: Spider-Man: No Way Home. A film that is easily one of the most anticipated for many fans and whose hype for the inevitable trailer is close to reaching that of Avengers: Endgame’s....

While Warner Bros. works hard to figure out where its future is going with the extended DC Universe, the studio can still celebrate the efforts of The Batman after its release in March 2022. This epic outing brought Robert Pattinson’s new Caped Crusader and a handful of epic villains into the mix, even offering a tease for this universe’s Joker, played by Barry Keoghan.This became Keoghan’s second superhero movie role to premiere in a six-month span after also having starred as Druig for Marvel Studios in Eternals, with this one giving him a chance to play the most iconic Batman villain ever....

Halloween is a strange holiday. Frivolous and playful, yet it’s a day driven by a dark spirit — the time to embrace all things eerie and supernatural, haunted and creepy. Death and its minions are no stranger to Oct. 31. Most commonly linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain, which occurs on the last day of fall, the celebration was originally meant to put summer to sleep and prepare for the bleak months ahead....

Paula Melton writes an important article, and raises some serious questions about our beloved mass timber construction. We have said before that we should be thinking about embodied carbon in everything that we build or buy. Over at BuildingGreen, Paula Melton writes an important post about The Urgency of Embodied Carbon and What You Can Do about It. Melton defines embodied carbon as the carbon dioxide greenhouse gases released when we construct our buildings in the first place, noting that the manufacture of building materials makes up 11% of total global greenhouse gas emissions....

In March 2021, an audition tape was posted online for what appeared to be Marvel Studios’ She-Hulk: Attorney at Law titled “Tom Archdeacon - Marvel Villain.” The dialogue in the tape heavily suggested that this “villain” would be the Great Lake Avenger, Mr. Immortal.This week’s episode of She-Hulk, “Just Jen,” confirmed David Pasquesi as Craig Hollis, aka Mr. Immortal. In the comics, Hollis is the leader of the Great Lakes Avengers, who crave recognition as a legitimate superhero group....

There are few things in life happier than a happy dog. It doesn’t matter if it’s because they hear you pull into the driveway after work or if they find something particularly smelly to roll around on in the backyard; if a dog is happy you are going to know about it. You can see them just vibrate with pure unfiltered joy, as if they can’t believe that life can be this good....

While the first film for Disney’s Star Wars sequel trilogy - The Force Awakens - was relatively well-received by the fans, that all changed upon the releases of The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker. Still, amidst all the fan division and frustration surrounding the now-infamous trilogy, the one thing the Star Wars fan base could agree upon was Adam Driver’s portrayal of Kylo Ren, the son of Han Solo and grandson of Darth Vader....

Avengers: The Kang Dynasty might be years away, but the hype surrounding the film has been sky-high ever since it was announced at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. The upcoming Avengers movie is one of the two projects that will cap off Phase 6, serving as the endgame of the Multiverse Saga. At this stage, it is unknown which of the Earth’s Mightiest Heroes will assemble in The Kang Dynasty, but the latest hiring of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton likely indicates that Simu Liu’s titular hero will appear alongside other MCU heroes in the movie to go up against Jonathan Majors’ Kang the Conqueror....

It’s Jennifer Walters’ time to shine with the forthcoming release of Marvel Studios’ She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. Actress Tatiana Maslany will take on the role of Bruce Banner’s cousin who receives a gamma-infused blood transfusion which grants her Hulk-like powers. Judging by the new trailer, the Disney+ series will have a lighthearted, humorous tone. If rumors are to be trusted, it will also be host to cameos and special appearances from a wide variety of Marvel characters....

Overseeing Disney’s vast entertainment empire is Bob Chapek, who assumed the title of CEO mere weeks before the outbreak of the pandemic. Even though the company weathered the global shutdown and is thriving once more, Chapek has seemingly made one blunder after another, such as in the lawsuit feud with Scarlett Johanssen, to his focus on cutting costs, to referring to Marvel Studios’ Shang-Chi as an “interesting experiment.“The CEO also experienced backlash from within the company and via Marvel Boss Victoria Alonso in the wake of Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill....

One of the key initiatives of Phase 4 of the MCU has been the introduction of new heroes. Beginning in 2021, Disney and Marvel Studios has introduced a number of new headline heroes on the big screen in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Eternals, and even Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. In 2022, the MCU has continued the trend on Disney+; and for the second time ever, a brand-new hero is getting her own series with Ms....

After years of building up Disney+ on the back of names like Marvel and Star Wars, the streaming service is now starting to venture creatively, taking on other well-known IPs. Amongst these projects are the Percy Jackson & The Olympians series (an adaption of the beloved young adult books by author Rick Riordan) and The Spiderwick Chronicles. The latter will adapt the early 2000’s children’s book series into a show for Disney+, following the Grace children as they discover a magical world of fairies, sprites, and monsters after moving into a mysterious home known as the Spiderwick Estate....