We're dropping a bonus episode in the feed this week to cover all of the news coming out of D23 over the weekend. This episode is a crossover between two of our podcasts, The Bad Batch - about Star Wars TV shows - and Marvelvision (whose feed this is). Since there wasn't a ton of Star Wars news but there was a ton of Marvel stuff that would feel old by the time we recorded our next Marvelvision, we jammed both shows together. And now you get this! We go over almost everything that was revealed a...
Sep 12, 2022•1 hr 37 min
Well well well, if it isn't the absolute best episode of this show yet. A very funny, very fun She-Hulk finds Shulkie dealing with a douchebag magician and an angry Wong... and a delightful Madisynn. Also this episode: I have a pretty major scoop about Black Adam and the future of the DC movie universe, and it's so major I'm not sure if it' a spoiler, so if you' don't want to hear the scoop, skip to 23:16. If you like this, check out our monthly superhero deep dive podcast, Watch Men. It's avail...
Sep 10, 2022•1 hr 19 min•Season 10Ep. 4
Can you believe She-Hulk TWERKED??? This is the meteor that has crashed into online discourse this week, and it's the dumbest thing ever. It's a mid-credits joke! And a funny one! In a very funny episode! In fact this week's She-Hulk feels like the show finding its footing as a lawyer/superhero comedy, and it's jam-packed with jokes and MCU references. In fact, this episode feels like the first one where the show is doing what we wanted this show to do from the beginning, and it's pretty great t...
Sep 04, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 10Ep. 3
This episode we get spicy. It's been a minute since we've had an argument where I come off like a real dick, but I went above and beyond this week. It's such an argument that the intro stretches on for AN HOUR, so if you don't want to hear two grown men bicker about studio politics feel free to skip to 58:23. Warning: you will miss me simping hard for Kevin Feige. If you skip to there you'll get our discussion about the second episode of She-Hulk: Attorney-at-Law , or what was really originally ...
Aug 27, 2022•1 hr 38 min•Season 10Ep. 2
It's a new show! We're here to talk about the first episode of She-Hulk: Attorney-at-Law, billed as the first sitcom in the MCU. But is it all that much funnier than a normal MCU thing? Based on a character who was invented just to avoid someone else having rights to a female Hulk, a character who has become one of the most interesting and fourth-wall breaking characters in Marvel Comics, She-Hulk: Attorney-at-Law certainly has a lot of potential. Does the first episode live up to it or leave us...
Aug 21, 2022•1 hr 28 min•Season 10Ep. 1
This week we're talking about Netflix's 10 episode adaptation of the DC/Vertigo comic book series Sandman , by Neil Gaiman and a variety of artists (co-created by Sam Keith). This series is sometimes stunningly faithful to the comic, but there are some changes - some subtle, some aesthetic - that stick in our craws. We also talk about my tragic history of shoplifting, some comic book movie news and whether or not Derek wants a pet. The main discussion begins at 23:07. You may have noticed this e...
Aug 13, 2022•1 hr 52 min•Season 9Ep. 9
This week we go a little long. First we talk about what's happening at Warner Bros Discovery, and in the process almost certainly show how little we know about business. We are not business men! We talk about the cancelation of Batgirl , the plan to have a ten year plan for DC movies, and more. Then we do an hour on The Boys, Amazon Prime's superhero show. I was resistant to watching, but Derek was in from day one. It's a spoiler-filled discussion, so if you haven't watched the show, you might w...
Aug 05, 2022•2 hr 29 min•Season 9Ep. 8
Marvel and DC came to SDCC and gave us a bounty of new information... well, Marvel did anyway. Things are a little less fulsome on the DC side, but does that mean an unannounced Fandome is in our future? Marvel gave us all of Phase Five, a look at the cornerstones of Phase Six AND the name of this three Phase cycle: The Multiverse Saga. We go long on all of these movies, what they could be, what it could all mean, and what we're most excited about. For me it's definitely Namor. Plus: I share the...
Jul 25, 2022•2 hr 2 min•Season 9Ep. 7
With all the 'end of the world' stakes behind us, Ms. Marvel closes out its season with something much more personal. This week we get some information that presages a HUGE change in the MCU, we get a cameo we all expected, and we get some very sweet and emotional moments with the Khan family. Before we talk about that we discuss all kinds of news and stuff, but you can jump to 31:10 if you just don't care to hear us give our bad-brained takes on what's happening in the worlds of superhero cinem...
Jul 15, 2022•1 hr 50 min•Season 9Ep. 6
This week we go really off topic in the intro, talking about everything from haunted houses on TikTok to a lengthy discussion of Amazon Prime's The Boys , as well as a whole bunch of superhero TV and movie news. If none of that interests you, jump right to 37:45 to get to the meat of the episode. This week Kamala continues her time travel as we get to know her great-grandparents and the show throws some structural curveballs at us. Plus: are there more hints of Inhumans? This weekend Thor: Love ...
Jul 08, 2022•1 hr 25 min
COVID can't keep a good podcast down, and it can't keep this one down either! This week's Ms. Marvel takes a field trip to Pakistan, introduces a new ancient secret society... and possibly leave the door for Ms. Marvel to be an Inhuman after all? But what about the costume? Is it taking too long to come together, or is the build-up right? And is the prison breakout as bad as we think it is? We will return next week with episode 5! And we will also be back soon on Watch Men with an episode about ...
Jul 01, 2022•1 hr 19 min•Season 9Ep. 4
This is a crummy day. I feel dumb even uploading this episode today, it's such a crummy day. But the show must go on, and while I hope that you are getting ready for the long fight ahead of us to reclaim bodily autonomy for women, I suspect everybody could use a little distraction from the pain for a bit. Hopefully this episode of Marvelvision can be that for you. This week we talk about the latest episode of Ms. Marvel, where Kamala learns some secrets about her history, we get a canon-crammed ...
Jun 24, 2022•1 hr 45 min•Season 9Ep. 3
Is it possible that Ms. Marvel is the best MCU TV show? Two episodes in and the answer so far is yes - but can it keep it up once the plot kicks in? This week we talk about the episode where Kamala Khan takes her first major step as a superhero, a step clearly influenced by the 1978 Superman . This is the kind of heroism that the MCU has been sorely missing, and it's great to see it here. We also talk a lot about news this week, and get a little offtopic as we argue about whether or not it matte...
Jun 17, 2022•2 hr 8 min•Season 9Ep. 2
If you listen to our other weekly podcast, The Bad Batch, you know we've been having a hard time with Obi-Wan Kenobi . It's not very good! Which makes the debut of Ms. Marvel all the more wonderful for us - finally something to enjoy on Wednesdays! This show explodes the "Marvel style" and feels fresh, unique and fun. We love the first episode and have high hopes for what's to come. Plus this episode: COVID hits home! A lengthy digression into what a cool movie the life of Mohammed would make. T...
Jun 13, 2022•1 hr 50 min•Season 9Ep. 1
Before Affleck. Before Cox. There was... Rex Smith! Broadway legend, singing star, four times wed, and the first person to play a live action Daredevil. And his suit is pretty much the same bad one as the first season Netflix suit! David Bruce Banner has been on the run for eleven years, and in this 1989 TV movie he comes to The City, where he gets mixed up in the battle between Daredevil and Wilson Fisk, who is never called Kingpin and who is played by John Rhys-Davies dressed like an evil reco...
Jun 07, 2022•1 hr 57 min•Season 5Ep. 9
It's the second of the two 1979 DC superheroes live action specials and this one is... better? Less painful? At least that's what Devin feels - Derek found this one sapping his very will to live. In a premise as nonsensical as the jokes, The Roast h as Ed McMahan presiding over a roast of the Superfriends - a roast that includes their greatest villains, who show up to do stuff like play doctor and perform song and dance numbers. Plus: Ghetto Man shows up, a concept just as racist as you suspect ...
May 21, 2022•1 hr 48 min•Season 9Ep. 2
With no new Marvel shows this week we have pivoted to covering other live action superhero stuff, and for some ungodly reason we chose Legends of the Superheroes , two live action DC Comics specials from network TV in 1979. Featuring the return of Adam West, Burt Ward and Frank Gorshin to their Batman roles, this first special, The Challenge , is a stunningly inane and unfunny hour that also happens to have some of the most comic-accurate versions of the DC characters ever put on film. Therein l...
May 14, 2022•1 hr 53 min•Season 9Ep. 1
The finale is here! Does Moon Knight make it all work? Is there room for a second season? Did they introduce a new superhero who can show up in team-ups instead of Oscar Isaac? Plus: Marvel news! The usual digressions! Skip to 27:24 if you don't care about that stuff. But if you do: we love you. This show will NOT be going dark until Ms. Marvel . We're gonna talk about some stuff that's slightly outside of the remit of the program, just to keep the fun going, but we'll be staying in the live act...
May 07, 2022•1 hr 33 min•Season 8Ep. 6
This week Moon Knight heads into the endgame with a... clip show?!? Well, not a clip show but a solidly surreal flashback episode that fills in a lot of the gaps in Moon Knight's history and the origin of Marc Spector's split personality. First we have a bunch of news to go through, including the sad loss of the great Neal Adams. While discussing this we recount an Adams story but get the specifics wrong - it's not Green Arrow who is weirdly racist... it's The Flash! Here's a link to the true ve...
Apr 30, 2022•1 hr 40 min•Season 8Ep. 5
Are ya ready to bust some tombs? This episode of Moon Knight takes us deep into adventure archeology, one of the great genres and one we see all too rarely. Then it takes a hard left in the final minutes, giving us some surreality we were not expecting. And all of this without a single appearance of Moon Knight! In the intro we hit the latest comic book movie news, including the continued plight of Ezra Miller, the new Thor: Love and Thunder trailer and more. If that stuff doesn't interest you, ...
Apr 22, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Season 8Ep. 4
This week we have some questions, including why is that guy tugging on Moon Knight's cape and why is Marc Spector asking rando guys in the street about the location of a sarcophagus? And isn't there a website that will let you look at what the stars were like in the past? But don't take these questions for complaints; Moon Knight episode three continues the show's streak of feeling a lot like a comic book, complete with things happening because they're cool as opposed to logical. And we love tha...
Apr 15, 2022•1 hr 42 min•Season 8Ep. 3
This week we summon the soup as we continue our adventure in the world of Moon Knight , the new MCU show currently on Disney+. Moon Knight so far has been pretty darn cool, and it feels very unlike other previous Marvel stuff. This episode in particular leans into some cool horror stuff... that, weirdly enough, echoes imagery seen in this weekend's latest Marvel masterpiece (please read the sarcasm), Morbius . In this episode of Marvelvision we talk about Marc Spector's different identities and ...
Apr 08, 2022•1 hr 21 min•Season 8Ep. 2
Hey, remember us? It's the Marvelvision boys, and we're back with a new Marvel show! We did a little diversion into Peacemaker and then took a few weeks off, but we have returned and we are ensconced in the old MCU again. Or are we? .This is one of the subjects tackled in this week's Marvelvision, about the first episode of Moon Knight . The showrunners have said that they disconnected this show from the larger Marvel Universe, so we shouldn't expect a lot of connections, nods or cameos. That sa...
Apr 01, 2022•1 hr 55 min•Season 8Ep. 1
It's a 50th episode extravaganza! It's the finale of season one of Peacemaker ! It's a floor wax! It's a dessert topping! Season one of Peacemaker comes to a bloody end as the 11th Street Kids confront the cow. We talk about the surprising cameo at the end, how James Gunn is seemingly leading the DCEU now, and whether or not the new Flash movie is going to be any good. We'll be taking a short hiatus after this episode, but we will return for Moon Knight in a month! Don't unsubscribe! We'll be ba...
Feb 21, 2022•1 hr 39 min•Season 7Ep. 6
This episode of our show is a whopper! It's got a pretty long intro - we talk about the Amazon Lord of the Rings show trailer and also about the death of Ivan Reitman, which we learned about as we were recording. As a result we may have said a dumb thing or two about his career, for which we hope you will forgive us. If you don't want to hear us talk about those things or about the Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness or Moon Knight trailers, skip to 56:40 to get to the main meat of the e...
Feb 14, 2022•2 hr 3 min•Season 7Ep. 5
As Peacemaker heads into the end game the show takes a slower episode - by Peacemaker standards - to move pieces into place and to establish some emotional moments that will likely pay off in a big way in upcoming episodes. And it's also great, just like every episode of this show has been. We have about 25 minutes of news and updates up front, including discussion of how the Flash is an unbearable d-bag. Later on in the show we discuss why Derek cannot remember the name of the television progra...
Feb 07, 2022•1 hr 35 min•Season 7Ep. 4
Look, if your superhero show has the heroes fighting an ape, we are there for it. This week we come to the team bonding episode of Peacemaker , where James Gunn weaves the same magic he used to make us love a raccoon and a tree and believe they're best friends forever. It's a gory good time, but with a Gunn story you know that means all the emotional gut punches are just around the corner. We have a long intro this time, and we touch on Maus and the omnipresence of book banning, and we talk abou...
Jan 31, 2022•1 hr 43 min•Season 7Ep. 3
This is the episode of Marvelvision that has it all: a live, on-air COVID test, Derek shitting on Point Break , a detour into the world of Impact! Comics, middle aged men Googling Sgt. Gorilla and more. Peacemaker just keeps doing it, giving us great episode after great episode, and The Choad Less Traveled , a Vigilante-heavy ep, is no different. It's the show that is redefining the DCEU, and it's making Matter-Eater Lad canon... which of course leads to a discussion about whether or not the Leg...
Jan 23, 2022•1 hr 45 min•Season 7Ep. 2
Marvelvision has become DistinguishedCompetitionvision this week as we pivot to covering Peacemaker , the new DCEU show on HBOMax. A sequel to The Suicide Squad , Marvel refugee James Gunn has created the show and written and directed the first three episodes. Before we get there we have some news, as well as a lengthy argument about whether or not John Krasinski - long rumored to play Mr. Fantastic in the upcoming Fantastic Four movie - is a conservative or not, and whether or not A Quiet Place...
Jan 17, 2022•2 hr 13 min•Season 7Ep. 1
This week we're taking a look back at the year that was, and what Marvel's 2021 was all about. It turns out this was the biggest MCU year of all, with more hours of Marvel available than anybody could have imagined back when Robert Downey Jr first said "I am Iron Man." With four films and five TV series, the MCU exploded outwards in 2021. New doors were opened, new characters introduced and new directions were explored. What worked? What didn't? And did DC even remotely try to keep up? All of th...
Jan 11, 2022•1 hr 44 min•Season 5Ep. 7
