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We're back on the Road to Avengers: Doomsday, and we've finally reached Avengers: Endgame. But this isn't another traditional Endgame review. Endgame gave Tony Stark, Natasha Romanoff, Steve Rogers, and the original Avengers an incredible ending. Now, with Endgame: Encore, Marvel is reopening that story to set up Doomsday. We're discussing Loki's visit to Steve and Peggy, Docto...

DC's got a lot happening this week, starting with a new Constantine movie in development and James Gunn's latest comments about casting Batman for the DCU. We're discussing Francis Galluppi's Constantine project, the Glen Powell speculation, and why DC should lean further into supernatural horror. Then we're getting into The Batman Part II and the possible Court of Owls, Victor...

VisionQuest Episode 7 might be the strongest episode of the season so far. We're talking about Vision finally embracing his identity, the emotional payoff with Tommy, and Paul Bettany's performances as Vision, Phineas Horton, and Jim Hammond, the original Human Torch. We also get into Jocasta's memories, Ultron's actions, the mysterious Client's connection to James Spader, and...

We're back on the Road to Avengers: Doomsday, and this time we're revisiting Avengers: Infinity War. From Thor's arrival in Wakanda and Doctor Strange fighting Thanos to the Snap and the Avengers' devastating loss, we're talking about why this crossover still works so well. We also discuss Marvel's handling of Hulk, the missing Smart Hulk payoff, and what Doctor Doom needs...

VisionQuest Episodes 5 and 6 give us more Ultron and Jocasta, a return to Madripoor, and some major developments for Vision and Tommy. Episode 5 was great, with some of the strongest character interactions and visuals of the season. Episode 6 brought more action and revelations, but we're still waiting for the larger mystery to come together. We discuss Ultron and Jocasta's relationship, V...

DC and Marvel have plenty to talk about this week! In Nerd News #2, we're discussing Clayface's opening weekend and what it could mean for DC's horror future, including Scarecrow, Poison Ivy and Swamp Thing. We also get into the reported Bane and Deathstroke project, Alan Ritchson's possible DCU roles, and Matthew Lillard joining Man of Tomorrow. On the Marvel side, Jonathan Hickma...

Marvel's VisionQuest is finally starting to win me over! Episodes 3 and 4 deliver two very different experiences. Episode 3 gives us some of the best character work of the series so far, especially through Vision and Tommy's growing relationship. Episode 4 shifts into a detective mystery involving Jocasta and ends with a major Ultron development. In this episode of Our Opinions Matter, I&#...

Welcome to the first episode of OOM Nerd News , a new series from Our Opinions Matter covering the biggest DC, Marvel, comics, movie, and television announcements worth discussing. We're kicking things off with a packed week of DC news! The Batman Part II has an unexpected production update, with Steven Soderbergh stepping in to help Matt Reeves finish principal photography. We discuss why the...

Marvel's VisionQuest has officially kicked off, and the first two episodes have given us a lot to talk about. Paul Bettany is back as White Vision, James Spader is having a blast as Ultron, and the series is already exploring some pretty interesting questions about identity, family, memory, and what it actually means to be human. But are we completely hooked yet? Not quite. In this spoiler-fil...

The Avengers made Marvel's biggest experiment work: take a group of people who don't particularly like each other and somehow convince us they belong together. Fourteen years later, Avengers: Doomsday has the same problem on a ridiculous scale. This time we're not just dealing with Iron Man arguing with Thor or Steve Rogers trying to keep six Avengers focused. We've got Avengers, N...

We're finally jumping into Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics—and somehow we picked one of the strangest possible starting points. TMNT: Black, White & Green isn't one continuous story. It's four issues filled with short stories from completely different creative teams, all telling their own version of the Turtles using only black, white and green. Which makes this thing almost im...

John Stewart is finally Green Lantern. So why didn't it completely feel like it? The Lanterns Season 1 finale answers the murder mystery, reveals what really happened to Hal Jordan, gives us Noah's Manhunter truth, closes the book on Hal and John in a surprisingly emotional way, and finally puts Hal's ring in John's hands. And a lot of it works. Noah and John becoming two sides of...

Steve Rogers already got one of the most complete endings in the MCU—so why are we going all the way back to Captain America: The First Avenger before Avengers: Doomsday? After this rewatch, I think I finally get it. The First Avenger isn't really about Steve Rogers becoming Captain America. It's about proving that he already was. Before the serum, the shield or the costume, Steve was the...

Rewatching X2 changed how we're looking at the returning X-Men in Avengers: Doomsday—and it has surprisingly little to do with William Stryker or a bunch of Easter eggs from 2003. X2 gives us a much better look at Professor X, Magneto, Cyclops, Mystique and Nightcrawler, but more importantly, it shows what happens when characters with fundamentally different beliefs are forced onto the same si...

Lanterns Episode 7, “The Jordan Boys' Legacy,” finally pulls back the curtain on Hal Jordan — and somehow makes his greatest strength and his biggest flaw feel like the exact same thing. Miguel breaks down Hal's relationship with his father Martin, the meaning behind the baseball and Hal's inability to let go, the Jordan family's generational trauma, and why the episode completely...

Did Tom King ruin Adam Strange — or did Strange Adventures make him more interesting by tearing down the mythology surrounding him? Miguel and Chris dive into Strange Adventures by Tom King, Mitch Gerads and Evan “Doc” Shaner , the DC Black Label series that transforms Adam Strange's heroic reputation into a mystery about war, truth, deception and the stories we choose to believe. We discuss w...

Ten years after Rushville, John Stewart has built an entirely new life. Hal Jordan spent that decade paying for what happened. And now Hal is dead. We're breaking down Lanterns Episode 6, “Bad Optics,” including John's return to Rushville, Hal's suspicious murder, his warning that nobody should know he met with John, the mysterious Green Lantern vault, Sinestro's escape from the Sc...

Marvel officially put X-Men (2000) on its Countdown to Avengers: Doomsday watchlist — so we're going back to where the modern superhero movie era, and Kevin Feige's Marvel career, really started. Welcome to Road to Doomsday . Instead of simply reviewing movies we've already seen, we're working through Marvel's Doomsday watchlist and asking why each movie or show might matter no...

John Stewart finally gets the Green Lantern ring he's spent his entire life chasing—and almost immediately realizes he doesn't want it. Lanterns Episode 5, “Lights Out,” is our favorite episode of the season so far and our first 10/10. We're getting into Hal and John's brutal fight over the ring, Zoe's Manhunter endgame, Rushville being destroyed, John's sniper moment, the...

Lanterns Episode 4 finally reveals the Manhunter—but the bigger story might be what that reveal does to Hal Jordan and John Stewart. We get into Zoe's secret, Sinestro manipulating Hal, the Guardians manipulating John, Hector Hammond's fake-out, John's increasingly comic-accurate constructs, and why Hal and John's completely different ways of thinking actually make them a great tea...

Lanterns Episode 3 completely reframes John Stewart by revealing just how much of his life was engineered around becoming a Green Lantern. We break down Bernadette's decision to raise John without fear, his military history with Hal Jordan, why the Guardians want him to replace Hal, Birdie, his comic-accurate construct precision, and whether becoming the “perfect” Green Lantern was worth what...

Lanterns Episode 2 just gave us a LOT more to think about. This week on Our Opinions Matter , we break down Episode 2, “Trust Fall,” as the mystery in Rushville gets even stranger. John Stewart discovers a bizarre new ability, the Manhunters officially enter the story, Hal Jordan continues being the world's most questionable Green Lantern mentor, and one of the biggest characters in Green Lant...

My Adventures With Superman Season 3 is officially over, and this might be the messiest season of the series while also delivering some of its best Superman moments. We're breaking down the complete season—from Clark and Lois dealing with their future, Jimmy and Kara's relationship, Superboy and the future timeline, to Cyborg Superman, Lex Luthor, Eradicator, Krypto and a finale that remin...

Lanterns is finally here, and Episode 1 gives Hal Jordan and John Stewart a surprisingly grounded DCU detective mystery without losing the Green Lantern mythology that makes these characters interesting. We break down Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre's chemistry, the premiere's slow-burn approach, its comic connections, and the theories we're already tracking for the rest of the season....

X-Men ’97 Season 2 is finally over—but did the Apocalypse storyline actually deliver on everything Season 1 promised? Miguel breaks down the full season, including Apocalypse, Rogue and Gambit, Nightcrawler, Wolverine, X-Factor and X-Force, the animation and voice acting, and why an enjoyable season ultimately left him wanting more from its finale. Full spoilers ahead. Was Season 2 better than Sea...