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While most people might think that the Joker is a purely evil character, I honestly believe he isn't only a complex character, but also someone who deeply wants to be a hero. Lots of comic-book villains are complex characters with deep motivations and reasons for their worldviews. There are also many comic characters who are simply evil and want to cause death for the sake of it. But what if the Joker isn't like that at all?

The Joker has caused an unbelievable amount of pain and suffering in the DC Universe, killing thousands and wounding Batman's friends, leaving them with life-long injuries and trauma. It's very easy to see why most readers write the Joker off as unspeakably and irredeemably evil. I don't blame them for making this assumption, but as someone who has read a lot of Joker appearances over the years - like the Bizarro Joker from...

Venom started as just a costume change for Spider-Man but evolved into a popular hero and villain. Venom's humble beginnings as a black suit led to his transformation into a key part of Spider-Man's history. Eddie Brock's journey from villain to anti-hero to hero showcases Venom's evolution and redemption in the Marvel Universe.

While Venom started out as just another Spider-Man villain, he ended up becoming so much more. What started out as just a costume change for one of Marvel's heroes, eventually transformed into a brand-new character who has been both hero and villain.

Venom would eventually become an unbelievably popular character with a film trilogy to his name, his beginnings are actually surprisingly humble. Venom didn't start out as the terrifying symbiote that everyone knows today. Instead, Venom started out as a black suit for Spider-Man, with even its writers unaware of the story about to unfold.

X-Men '97 is finally serving as a modern continuation and revival of the hit 1992 cartoon, X-Men: The Animated Series. The classic animated mutants are returning to screens and continuing their service to their species and the wider world. This time, however, they are officially affiliated with the highly successful Marvel Studios.

Many of the acclaimed mutants, including Cyclops, Wolverine, and Storm, are returning to their roles within the team. Others, like Sunspot, will be appearing as major team members for the first time. Their inclusion will represent a more in-depth exploration of mutant life. Still, some Marvel characters need a chance to cameo in X-Men '97.

Betsy Braddock Represents Another Side of Mutant Life

First Comic Appearance

Captain Britain #8

Created by

Chris Claremont, Herb Trimpe, Fred Kida, G. Roussos, and Irving Watanabe

Appeared in X-Men: Tas?

Yes

While she did appear in the original X-Men: The Animated Series, a return...

X-Men '97 is finally serving as a modern continuation and revival of the hit 1992 cartoon, X-Men: The Animated Series. The classic animated mutants are returning to screens and continuing their service to their species and the wider world. This time, however, they are officially affiliated with the highly successful Marvel Studios.

Many of the acclaimed mutants, including Cyclops, Wolverine, and Storm, are returning to their roles within the team. Others, like Sunspot, will be appearing as major team members for the first time. Their inclusion will represent a more in-depth exploration of mutant life. Still, some Marvel characters need a chance to cameo in X-Men '97.

Betsy Braddock Represents Another Side of Mutant Life

First Comic Appearance

Captain Britain #8

Created by

Chris Claremont, Herb Trimpe, Fred Kida, G. Roussos, and Irving Watanabe

Appeared in X-Men: Tas?

Yes

While she did appear in the original X-Men: The Animated Series, a return...

Quick Links Who are the New Mutants? How X-Men '97 is Introducing the New Mutants Why The New Mutants Are Important to X-Men '97

The following contains spoilers for X-Men '97 Season 1, Episode 1 "To Me, My X-Men," and Episode 2 "Mutant Liberation Begins," which are now streaming on Disney+.

The X-Men are back and the iconic animated series has finally returned to fans everywhere. Not only is X-Men '97 picking up where the original animated series left off, it is creating a new future for the series and Marvel Animation. With X-Men '97 already having two more seasons in production, the series has so much potential for more Marvel teams and characters. Season 1, Episode 1 "To Me, My X-Men," has already begun setting up a new mutant team that will help to expand X-Men '97 beyond even its predecessor's success.

X-Men '97 opens in an extremely similar way to the original series.

Moira MacTaggert's evolution from a human ally to a mutant with reincarnation powers has made her pivotal to X-Men lore across successive era, under significantly different circumstances. Her complex relationships with characters, like her adopted daughter Wolfsbane, and her mutant son Proteus, highlight her positive impact on mutantkind, as well the increasingly morally complex nature of her character as time went on. Moira's reinventing during the Krakoan Era of X-Men storytelling has thrust her into a central role in the franchise, but she was always one of it's most essential characters, in her role as mutantkind's most vital human ally.

Moira MacTaggert is one of the Marvel Universe's pivotal mutant characters – but for yeas before she was revealed to possess an active X-gene, Moira was one of the X-Men's most integral human allies. Featuring in many iconic storylines in X-history, the original human version of Moira shaped the lives of mutants,...

In celebration of Skybound Entertainment acquiring the G.I. Joe license, the publisher will be re-releasing the first issue of the classic '80s series. This time, however, that historic issue will be published with Larry Hama’s original, unedited dialogue for the very first time. Skybound surprised the comics world earlier this summer when it announced that it had acquired the Hasbro properties Transformers and G.I. Joe, which will be relaunched in an all-new shared continuity dubbed the Energon Universe. In addition, Skybound will also be picking up the baton from previous publisher Idw for Larry Hama’s G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero continuation of the classic Marvel series, which ended on a cliffhanger with the 300th issue last year.

If that wasn't enough, Skybound will be re-issuing a special edition of the very first issue from 1982, presenting a version of the classic comic that fans have never seen before.

Warning: Spoilers for Deadly Neighborhood Spider-Man #2Now that he's moved to Los Angeles for work, Spider-Man is both out of his elements geographically and physically as he fights a dangerous foe of X-Men affiliate team, the New Mutants.

Spider-Man has relocated to Los Angeles to work alongside a scientist as they conduct experiments. During this time in a city in which he feels lost and uneasy, Spider-Man is haunted by strange visions and hallucinations. He's even having nightmares of various creatures coming after him. They are so vivid at times that Peter Parker doesn't even know if he's sleeping or awake.

Related: Spider-Man Considers An Avengers Ally One of His Worst Villains (Really)

In Deadly Neighborhood Spider-Man #2 by Taboo, B. Earl, and Juan Ferreyra, this terrifying situation that Spider-Man has found himself in manifests in the form of a classic villain. During an experiment, a doorway is opened...

Warning! This post contains Spoilers for Edge of Spider-Verse #5

Existing as the most brutal Spider-Verse hero yet, the new hybrid between Kraven the Hunter and Spider-Man is an incredibly dark anti-hero. Known as the Hunter-Spider, this alternate version of Sergei Kravinoff from Earth-31 receives a truly disturbing origin story in the latest issue of Marvel's Edge of the Spider-Verse. However, it makes him the perfect recruit for the upcoming war in the upcoming End of the Spider-Verse crossover event.

As seen in the short story "Predator or Prey" by Dan Slott, J.M. DeMatteis, and Bob McLeod, Sergei Kravinoff intended to hunt a lion he'd been tracking for quite some time. However, he discovers that the apex predator had been killed by something much larger and far more deadly. Coming face to face with a massive spider-monster of myth and legend, Kraven gets infected with its venom. However, the impressive hunter decides to literally bite back,...

The final installment of the astonishingly inconsistent X-Men film franchise has traveled a long and circuitous route to its eventual premiere this Spring. Based on the 1982 X-Men spinoff comic created by Chris Claremont and Bob McLeod, The New Mutants actually completed principle photography back in September of 2017, shortly before Deadpool 2 wrapped filming, with director Josh Boone delivering a cut of the pic that tested as well with audiences as early screenings of the first Deadpool had.

Speaking with IGN at that time, Boone explained that the movie was based largely on Bill Sienkiewicz’s run on the comic, particularly the Demon Bear story beginning with issue #18, drawing “on movies like One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Stephen King stuff and even Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors” for the film’s aesthetic, with the first trailer also borrowing from Alfred Hitchcock’s seminal 1960 horror movie Psycho.

The parallels...

After literally years of waiting, 20th Century Fox has revealed a new trailer for The New Mutants. This is the latest movie to feature mutants from the world of Marvel Comics and serves as a spin-off of Fox's main X-Men franchise. Originally, it was supposed to come out nearly two years ago, but production delays, creative differences and the Disney/Fox merger complicated things. Now, however, we have a fresh look at the horror-centric flick that will finally be making its way to theaters this year. Barring another, unpredictable setback, that is.

Believe it or not, the first New Mutants trailer arrived online way back in October 2017. At that point, it was supposed to arrive in April 2018 and was intended to possibly launch a new solo franchise within the larger X-Men universe for Fox. Director Josh Boone, who was coming fresh off of his big Ya hit The Fault in Our Stars,...

Last week we were hit with the new trailer for director Simon Kinberg's X-Men: Dark Phoenix. The movie is all set to be Fox's final X-Men motion picture, but we shouldn't forget that there is still director Josh Boone's The New Mutants in the works. The film has a sorted history to be sure with it originally set to hit a theater near you way back in April of 2018. But then the movie was delayed almost a full year to February 2019, and then it was pushed back even further to its current August 2, 2019 release date. Will the movie hit this new date? Who knows, as today we've learned that the planned reshoots we've heard so much about over the past year or more - get this - haven't even taken place yet. Oh, boy. And the movie might eventually get a release on Disney's upcoming streaming platform Disney+.

Marvel Comics’ X-Men further their founder’s dream of peaceful co-existence between man and mutant by fighting to protect a world that fears and hates them. That fight pits them against a number of threats, some grounded in super science and technology, and others more supernatural in nature. Many X-Men have experience with the former, but when it comes to battling the latter, none of them are as qualified as the former members of the New Mutants, the team of X-Men in training first brought together back in Chris Claremont and Bob McLeod’s 1982 graphic novel.

Even though many enduring elements that we now associate with Superman were products of the Silver Age or the 1940’s radio drama, it’s important that we never forget the contributions that Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster made to comic books – and pop culture as a whole – when they created the Man of Steel for Action Comics #1 back in 1938. After all, that served as the very blueprint for the superhero genre as we know it today.

With that, one could say that the character’s 80th anniversary being celebrated by the release of the one-thousandth issue of Action is a bit too poetic. And appropriately enough, DC is complementing the periodical release of said issue with a commemorative hardcover titled Action Comics #1000: 80 Years of Superman. Suffice it to say, this is shaping up to be a must-own for any fan of Big Blue.

Understandably, many of you reading this...

The New Mutants co-writer and director Josh Boone claims the upcoming X-Men spinoff will be “hardest” PG-13 movie ever made. An adaptation of the superhero team of the same name, created by Chris Claremont and Bob McLeod, has been in the works for several years now. The project first entered development in 2014 with The Fault in Our Stars‘ Boone taking the lead, and it finally went into production in early 2017.

Although he's on horror fans' radars right now for his in-the-works film adaptations of Stephen King's The Stand, Revival, and King and Peter Straub's The Talisman (as well as a TV series adaptation of Clive Barker's The Great and Secret Show), filmmaker Josh Boone's next big screen story comes from the land of Marvel Comics, and although it features future superheroes, the poster for the movie (much like its trailer) promises strong ties to horror.

You can check out the new poster below, which was unveiled on the film's official Facebook page (with the caption "the only thing you have to fear... is yourself") and pays tribute to A Nightmare on Elm Street with the imagery of faces coming through the wall.

In a previous interview with EW, Boone said that The New Mutants movie will be "a full-fledged horror movie set within the X-Men universe.

There’s Something New to Fear.

Celebrate Friday the 13th with the official trailer for The New Mutants.

The New Mutants are a group of teenaged mutant superheroes-in-training appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. They have been the main characters of three successive comic book series, which were spin-offs of the X-Men franchise.

The first team of New Mutants characters was created by Chris Claremont and artist Bob McLeod. They first appeared in 1982’s Marvel Graphic Novel #4 and are subsequently featured in their own title from 1983 until 1991. Like its parent title, The New Mutants highlighted interpersonal and group conflict as well as action and adventure, and featured a large ensemble cast. With the end of the first series, the characters were relaunched as X-Force in a new, eponymous series.

The second New Mutants series, launched in 2003, featured a new group of teenage mutants. Unlike the original New Mutants,...

The next era of the X-Men are here (well, cinematically that is) with director Josh Boone's New Mutants. Created by X-Men writer extraordinairre Chris Claremont and artist Bob McLeod back in 1982 the teenaged mutant branch of the X-Men universe has gone through a few iterations over the years, including a run from Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld that started in '89. Liefeld also created the character of Cable in the pages of New Mutants, who will feature prominantly in next year's Deadpool... Read More...

Although he's on horror fans' radars right now for his in-the-works film adaptations of Stephen King's The Stand, Revival, and King and Peter Straub's The Talisman (as well as a TV series adaptation of Clive Barker's The Great and Secret Show), filmmaker Josh Boone's next big screen story comes from the land of Marvel Comics. Part superhero story and part horror film, the first trailer for The New Mutants has arrived.

In a previous interview with EW, Boone said that The New Mutants movie will be "a full-fledged horror movie set within the X-Men universe. There are no costumes. There are no supervillains. We’re trying to do something very, very different."

For those unfamiliar, The New Mutants debuted in 1982 before their own comic book series premiered in 1983. Brought to life on the paneled page by Chris Claremont and Bob McLeod, The New Mutants followed teenage...

The New Mutants trailer is here sooner than anyone expected. Have you ever wondered what it might be like if someone made a horror movie with a bunch of mutant superheroes in it? Wonder no longer, because director Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars) has done exactly that with the X-Men spin-off The New Mutants. Now, we have the very first teaser trailer for the movie, which promises something the likes of which we've never seen in the X-Men universe before. Or really in a superhero movie in general, for that matter.

Josh Boone promised yesterday that the New Mutants teaser trailer would debut at 12:01 a.m. and it was delivered as promised. As New Mutants has been teased as the first ever Marvel horror movie, the director and Fox appear to be leaning pretty heavily into that angle, as they decided to release the trailer on Friday the 13th.

Fox has just released the first trailer for Josh Boone’s “X-Men” spinoff “New Mutants,” the ensemble, young adult superhero movie. “New Mutants” will be released in theaters on April 13, 2018. “New Mutants” was created by Chris Claremont and Bob McLeod in the early 1980s and was the first “X-“Men comic spinoff. Also Read: 'X-Men' Spinoff 'New Mutants' Promises 'Familiar Faces,' Producer Simon Kinberg Says “New Mutants” focuses on the angst-driven adventures of a diverse group of teens that include Native American Danielle Moonstar, Scots girl Wolfsbane, Brazilian ladies man Sunspot, a Kentuckian code-named Cannonball, and Russian teen Magik.

It's time to meet the New Mutants.

Fox has shared the first trailer for the X-Men spinoff, which stars Split's Anya Taylor-Joy, Game of Thrones' Maisie Williams and Stranger Things' Charlie Heaton. It's appropriate that the trailer dropped on Friday the 13th, as the studio is taking a horror-thriller approach for the film.

Josh Boone directs the movie, which draws on the 1980s comic books of Chris Claremont, Bob McLeod and Bill Sienkiewicz to tell the story of five teens coping with their mutant powers.

New Mutants opens April 13, 2018 — the first of three X-Men films set for that year, also including Deadpool 2...

Just a month after Rosario Dawson entered talks to play Dr. Celia Reyes in 20th Century Fox's The New Mutants, the actress has backed out of the role, with Alice Braga stepping in to replace her. No reason for Rosario Dawson's departure was given, but with production slated to begin next month in Boston, it's easy to see why a replacement was found so quickly. It hasn't been confirmed how many other roles still need to be filled as we get closer and closer to production getting under way.

The Hollywood Reporter broke the news on this casting update, with Alice Braga joining an ensemble that already includes a talented cast of youngsters. Game of Thrones star Maisie Williams plays Wolfsbane, with Split star Anya Taylor-Joy as Magik, 13 Reasons Why star Henry Zaga as Sunspot, Stranger Things star Charlie Heaton as Cannonball and The Originals star Blu Hunt as Mirage.

Filmmaker Josh Boone is staying busy these days with plenty of projects. In addition to developing film adaptations of the Stephen King novels The Stand and Revival, Boone is also teaming up with Owen King to work on a TV series adaptation of Clive Barker's The Great and Secret Show, and now he's stepping into Marvel land to for the X-Men spinoff film The New Mutants, which was the focus of the filmmaker's recent chat with EW.

Speaking with EW, Boone said that The New Mutants movie will be "a full-fledged horror movie set within the X-Men universe. There are no costumes. There are no supervillains. We’re trying to do something very, very different."

For those unfamiliar, The New Mutants debuted in 1982 before their own comic book series premiered in 1983. Brought to life on the paneled page by Chris Claremont and Bob McLeod, The New Mutants followed teenage...

2017-05-12T05:21:55-07:00'New Mutants' Film Gets Big-Name Additions to Its Cast

Fox’s long-awaited X-Men spinoff X-Men: New Mutants is finally getting casting up.

Anya Taylor-Joy, the star of The Witch and Split, and Game of Thrones' Maisie Williams have signed on to star in the project, the ensemble young adult super hero movie being directed by Josh Boone.

The movie is headed towards an early July start and is armed with a script by Boone and his writing partner, Knate Gwaltney. Simon Kinberg and Karen Rosenfelt are producing.

New Mutants, created by Chris Claremont and Bob McLeod, was the first X-Men comic spinoff, launched in the early 1980s as the franchise began two decades of dominating the comic book industry.

Read the rest of this article at The Hollywood Reporter.

The previous film in the franchise was X-Men: Apocalypse.

It was previously rumored that Game of Thrones star Maisie Williams and Split star Anya Taylor-Joy were in talks to join director Josh Boone's feature film adaptation of New Mutants. Well, today it was made official! 

The movie will focus on the angst-driven adventures of a diverse group of teens that include Native American Danielle Moonstar, Scots girl Wolfsbane, Brazilian ladies man Sunspot, a Kentuckian code-named Cannonball, and Russian teen Magik. Also in the mix will be an alien named Warlock.

According to THR, Taylor-Joy will play the character Magik, "a girl who has learned sorcery and uses teleportation discs to travel. She is also the sister of Colossus, an X-Man who appeared in Deadpool." Williams will take on the role of Wolfsbane, "a girl struggling to reconcile her religious beliefs with her power to turn into a wolf."

These are both very talented young actresses that will be...

Anya Taylor-Joy (“The Witch,” “Split”) and “Game of Thrones” Maisie Williams have signed on to star in “X-Men” spinoff “New Mutants,” the ensemble, young adult, super hero movie, TheWrap has learned. Josh Boone is directing “New Mutants” which is headed toward an early July start with a script by Boone and his writing partner, Knate Gwaltney. Simon Kinberg and Karen Rosenfelt are producing. Read More See Anya Taylor-Joy's latest Power Move. PowerRank: 2240 “New Mutants” was created by Chris Claremont and Bob McLeod in the early 1980s and was...

Fox’s long-awaited X-Men spinoff New Mutants is finally casting up.

Anya Taylor-Joy, the star of The Witch and Split, and Game of Thrones' Maisie Williams have signed on to star in the ensemble young adult superhero movie being directed by Josh Boone.

The movie is headed towards an early July start with a script by Boone and his writing partner, Knate Lee. Simon Kinberg and Karen Rosenfelt are producing.

New Mutants, created by Chris Claremont and Bob McLeod, was the first X-Men comic spinoff, launched in the early 1980s as the franchise began two decades of dominating the comic book...

From the ashes of Inhumans vs. X-Men, an all-new team will rise to make Charles Xavier’s dream become a reality! Today, Marvel is pleased to present your new look inside X-men Gold #1 – the hotly anticipated debut issue, coming to comic shops everywhere on April 5th. Brought to you by the all-star creative team of Marc Guggenheim (X-Men, television’s Arrow) and Ardian Syaf (Superman/Batman), a new day is dawning for the Children of the Atom – one that is sure to please fans old and new!

Kitty Pryde has returned to Earth to find the X-Men in shambles. Now, the student will become the teacher as Kitty takes the reigns to assemble a team of the brightest, the toughest and the heaviest hitters in the X-Men’s vast roster. Storm, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Old Man Logan and Rachel Grey. They are the X-Men, and they’re here to take mutantkind into the future!

Here’s a fresh look inside X-Men Gold #1, the hotly anticipated debut issue from the creative team of Marc Guggenheim (X-Men, television’s Arrow) and Ardian Syaf (Superman/Batman).

Kitty Pryde has returned to Earth to find the X-Men in shambles. Now, the student will become the teacher as Kitty takes the reigns to assemble a team of the brightest, the toughest and the heaviest hitters in the X-Men’s vast roster. Storm, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Old Man Logan and Rachel Grey. They are the X-Men, and they’re here to take mutantkind into the future! Be there as they embark on their first adventure in X-men Gold #1 – available wherever comics are sold on April 5th!

X-men Gold #1 (FEB170777)

Written by Marc Guggenheim

Art & Cover by Ardian Syaf

Variant Covers by David Marquez (FEB170782), Billy Martin (FEB170781), Skottie Young (FEB170783) and Bob McLeod (FEB170779)

Hip-Hop Variant by Andre Leroy Davis (FEB...

We live in a time when each day we are both blessed and cursed by instant feedback and judgment on everything we do. We’re hammered by harsh evaluations of our work and even our future-plans. Professional sports are dissected during postgame broadcasts and call-in shows. Feedback based on casting details or plot rumors now begins long before any creative project is released. In the comic industry, fans render judgments based on teased details long before anyone reads a single page.

Businesses are encouraged to hear and respond to every complaint and critique from customers. Hey, even I have led a seminar at ComicsPRO where the central theme was that retailers should “Grow Big Ears.”

But there are times when you have to ignore the voices. Sometimes you just know what has to be done and have to do it.

Exhibit #A is Joey Gates. Joey is a local Finger...

Many fans have wondered how The New Mutants will connect to the X-Men franchise. And today, we have our answer. It has been confirmed by actress Anya Taylor-Joy that James McAvoy will reprise his role as Professor X in the movie.

Anya Taylor-Joy has been rumored to play Magik, the younger sister of the Russian X-Man Colossus who last appeared in Deadpool. Though, that hasn't been confirmed by 20th Century Fox. But it certainly sounds like the road upon which this next installment in the X-Men franchise is headed.

Coming Soon brings this news direct from the Split junket. Cs were also the first to reveal that the villain in New Mutants would be Demon Bear. They spoke with The Witch actress about her co-starring turn opposite James McAvoy in Split, where she also not only seemingly confirmed his return as Professor Charles Xavier, but also revealed that she's seen...

It’s one of those movie projects that always seems to be wistfully mentioned, without any real progress ever being seen – but writer-director Josh Boone has now given an update on his New Mutants movie, and it seems that the whole thing is about to crank into high-gear. The film is based around the New Mutants story arc, which is spun off from the X-Men comic book series – with the team first appearing in 1982, in Marvel Graphic Novel #4, created by Chris Claremont and Bob McLeod.

The premise is that the characters in the story are mutant superheroes in training, and are variously mentored by Magneto, Professor X and Cable. The original team, in the source material, consisted of Sunspot (who appeared in X-Men: Days Of Future Past, and draws superhuman strength from the sun), Karma (who can mentally possess others), Cannonball (who becomes invulnerable when flying through the air), Mirage...