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Yahoo
28-04-2025
- Entertainment
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Doctor Doom, Loki, & More Marvel Villains Team With Mephisto in Bring on the Bad Guys
is famed for having some of the greatest villains in modern mythology. Usually, it is their lot to play a supporting role. For the most part, they exist only to make the good guys look good. This summer, however, the bad guys will be given the spotlight rather than stealing it, in . Bring on the Bad Guys is the brainchild of Emmy Award winning writer Marc Guggenheim. The story finds Mephisto, the Lord of Lies, enacting a scheme to increase his power. This leads him to recruit some wicked souls to do his dirty work. However, when those wicked souls include former enemies like Doctor Doom and Loki, the devil may not get his due. The first chapter of Bring on the Bad Guys centers around Mephisto's recruitment of Doctor Doom. This promises to be quite the caper, given Doom's many battles with Mephisto to free his mother's soul from Hell. It will be written by Marc Guggenheim, with art by Steafno Raffaele. Subsequent chapters will center around Green Goblin, Abomination, Loki, Red Skull and Dormammu. The final chapter, which will also be written by Guggenheim, will reveal Mephisto's grand design and the final fruition of his scheming. The Green Goblin chapter of Bring on the Bad Guys will be written by Ethan Parker and Griffin Sheridan. The art will be provided by Matteo Della Fonte. It will reveal a previously unknown chapter of Norman Osborn's history and his connection to Mephisto. The Abomination chapter will be handled by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Sergio Dávila, with the Hulk villain being sent to recover a soul. Finally, the Loki story by Anthony Oliveira will find the God of Mischief sent to get the better of an agent of Khonshu. Sign-up today for access to Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ Learn More Sign-ups support Superhero Hypevia affiliate commission 'Marvel broke the mold with supervillains,' noted editor Mark Paniccia. He went on to note that Marvel's villains are altogether different, 'morally gray but still to be feared' despite their humanizing qualities. 'Each of these one-shots are an opportunity for fans to see what makes these villains some of the most dangerous characters in the Marvel Universe.' The first four Bring on the Bad Guys covers by Lee Bermejo may be viewed below. Bring on the Bad Guys: Doom #1 arrives in comic shops everywhere on June 18, 2025. Subsequent issues will be released every two weeks afterward.
Yahoo
03-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Magic: The Gathering's Spider-Man Cards Look Cool But Prices Have Gotten Out Of Control
Magic: the Gathering recently revealed some of the cards coming to its comic-book-inspired Marvel's Spider-Man set, including Venom, Green Goblin, Doc Ock, and of course the webbed wall-crawler himself. The cards look cool and seem like they'd be fun to play. They're also very expensive, continuing a recent trend of Wizards of the Coast's trading card game charging fans a ton for crossover sets, even before they sell out and get flipped for unconscionable sums by scalpers on eBay and elsewhere. In addition to teasing the first six cards in the upcoming set, slated to arrive in the second half of 2025, Wizards of the Coast parent company Hasbro also recently confirmed the Marvel's Spider-Man set is a booster-based expansion, meaning no pre-constructed Commander decks. But even without the recent 40-percent markup on those hot-ticket items, the set's baseline booster packs will still be $7 each, and a whopping $38 for the Collector packs sporting special card designs. That's in-line with the recently revealed Final Fantasy set for Magic: the Gathering, whose prices similarly shocked long-time fans. 'Play booster boxes are $200, Collector boxes are $455, the decks and bundles are $70, this is actually ridiculous,' an MTG player wrote last month about the Square Enix collaboration. 'I get this is Universes Beyond and all that but this is absurd.' The discourse around the new Spider-Man set has echoed similar sentiments. Two points often brought up by players are that these crossovers remain legal in the Standard Format, so dedicated players who want to remain competitive and not miss out still need to partake. Also, the cards themselves haven't changed. It's the same machines printing designs on the same cardboard as in-universe sets which retail for $5.50, just with extra licensing fees attached. MTG lead designer Mark Rosewater recently confirmed the resulting $1.50 mark-up for Universes Beyond sets will be standard moving forward. And it's easy to see why when the cards still immediately sell out after becoming available for pre-order. Collector Booster boxes for Spider-Man retailing at a whopping $455 are already out of stock on Amazon, as was immediately the case with the Final Fantasy set once it was revealed as well. Pre-orders for Final Fantasy collector boxes are now listed for around $650 on eBay, while the Spider-Man ones are upwards of $700. It's a bummer that MTG prices are spiking at the exact moment when Universes Beyond crossovers might bring in new or returning players. Some of my friends are lapsed fans and I lobbied them to go in on a play booster box of Final Fantasy for a chill draft when the set drops in June. The universal response upon sharing a screenshot of the BestBuy pre-order page prices in the group chat was 'hell no.' I imagine it's even tougher for any kids without tons of pocket change or who aren't secretly playing MTG like a stock market in their spare time. . For the latest news, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
