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X-Men ‘97: Season 2 part 2 with Ethan Gould

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“Danger says I learned this programming from watching YOU, Professor! I learned it from watching you!” Ethan Gould—artist and RPG designer—returns to cover the X-Men ’97 season 2 episodes 6-10.

We discuss the later half of this season of the Disney+ animated series, featuring: messy Southern Gothic, flying buttresses calling X-Factor “race traitors”, The World’s Most Powerful Speak-And-Spell and of course, dinosaurs and 90s aesthetics.

Ethan Gould is the creator of The Sometimes Kingdom RPG, a tabletop game exploring what labor means as an adventurer in a modernizing high fantasy world, out now from Stillfeet Studio. You can find him online and soon on Patreon under the handle @Spectralhouse. https://stillfleet.com/collections/the-sometimes-kingdom 

Listen to our episode on Season 2 part 1

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And catch up on a historic Graphic Policy episode: Martin Luther King, X-Men and Magneto Roundtable (classic podcast episode)

NYCC 2026: Marvel Studios teases Zodiac and More Marvel Zombies

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New York Comic Con isn’t usually known for movie and television announcements from Marvel but Marvel Studios dropped some fun reveals of what’s coming in the next years.

Zodiac will be coming to Disney+ in 2028. While there’s not a ton known about it, the show clearly has something to do with SHIELD based on the logo. In the comics, Zodiac was a criminal cartel featuring Nick Fury’s brother as a member. The show is described as a “spy thriller.”

Logo for Marvel Television's Zodiac featuring stylized letters on a black background.

Marvel Zombies returns with three new releases in 2027, 2028, 2029. Coming soon are Marvel Zombies: The Winter Soldier, Marvel Zombies: The Fist of Khonshu, and Marvel Zombies: The Last Guardian, all being released for Halloween.

Logo for 'Marvel Zombies: The Winter Soldier' featuring a dark background with stylized text.
Logo for Marvel Zombies: The Fist of Khonshu, featuring stylized text on a black background.
Title screen for Marvel Zombies: The Last Guardian, featuring the title in purple and gold text against a black background.

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man‘s second season got a focus as well with a release date of January 13, 2027 on Disney+.

Promotional poster for the animated series 'Marvel Animation: Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Season 2', featuring Spider-Man in a dynamic pose against a stylized background with a black and white design. Includes release date of January 13 and Disney+ logo.

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man sets the Stage for Season Two of the Disney+ Series

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Marvel Animation’s Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man swings back onto Disney+ early next year, and this December, fans can get ready for what’s to come with an all-new comic book series set between seasons!

Superstar writer Christos Gage and acclaimed artist Eric Gapstur reunite following their work on the 2024 Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man prequel comic for an all-new four issue series that sets the stage for the show’s highly anticipated second season, including the official debut of iconic Spidey supervillains!

Your favorite web-slinger is back!

Peter Parker is ready to save the world thwip by thwip! But things aren’t perfect. He’s been drifting away from his friends. And Norman Osborn may be out of the spider business, but Harry doesn’t think things are over just yet. Something’s happening at Oscorp, and Spidey and his friends need to figure out what it is!

Marvel Animation’s Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man follows Peter Parker on his journey to becoming a hero, putting a fresh spin on the iconic character’s foundational stories with a style that celebrates the character’s early comic book roots. Stay tuned for more news about the new season!

Check out Leonardo Romero’s main cover along with a variant cover by Luciano Vecchio and preorder Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #1 at your local comic shop today!

Comic cover for 'Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Season 2' featuring Spider-Man swinging through a cityscape with a reflection of himself in a building window.
Cover art for 'Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Season 2' featuring Spider-Man in action with a city backdrop and a young boy smiling in the background. The design incorporates comic-style elements and text highlighting the show's title.

Marvel Television’s VisionQuest gets its First Trailer

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A first look at Marvel Television‘s VisionQuest was revealed at D23.

Loading….Marvel Television’s VisionQuest, arriving October 14 only on Disney+.

VisionQuest concludes the epic trilogy that began with 2021’s groundbreaking, award-winning WandaVision and 2024’s acclaimed Agatha All Along. Vision, rebooted and having escaped from those who sought to weaponize him, has been in hiding. Searching for new meaning, he consults the AI personas embedded in his programming, including F.R.I.D.A.Y., E.D.I.T.H., J.A.R.V.I.S., and the infamous Ultron. His discreet existence ends when a bounty placed on his head thrusts him on the run with Thomas Shepard, a mysterious boy who may be Vision’s son, reincarnate. As Vision evades capture, he must confront his nature, resist Ultron’s influence, and unravel the enigma that is his young companion if he’s to survive.

VisionQuest stars Paul Bettany, James Spader, Ruaridh Mollica, Todd Stashwick, T’Nia Miller, Lauren Morais, Orla Brady, Diane Morgan, Polly Frame, Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, with Emily Hampshire, and James D’Arcy. The series is directed by Christopher J. Byrne, Gandja Monteiro, Vincenzo Natali, Terry Matalas, and written by Terry Matalas, Cindy Appel, Christopher Monfette, Nicole Falsetti, and Matthew Okumura.

VisionQuest is created for television by Terry Matalas, based on the Marvel Comics. The executive producers are Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito, Brad Winderbaum, Mary Livanos, Terry Matalas, Jac Schaeffer, and Christopher J. Byrne, and the producer is Roopesh Parekh.

Vision Quest

Disney and TikTok cut a Short-Form Content-Sharing Deal

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Disney has been on a roll with cutting deals with terrible technology. In late 2025 the House of Mouse cut a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI. That deal lasted about 6 months as OpenAI shut down Sora and with it Disney’s investment in May 2026.

Now, Disney has a new collaborator in TikTok, the tech platform that was formally owned by a Chinese company but Donald Trump couldn’t have that and forced its sale to his buddies, including Larry Ellison who is currently helping fund the purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery by his son David and Paramount.

The Disney/TikTok deal will pilot in the US in the coming months and “will bring an expansive collection of thoughtfully curated Disney-centric fan-created content from TikTok to the Disney+ app.”

Participating creators who opt-in will see the content they create live on TikTok and in Verts on Disney+. They can feature characters and stories across Disney’s brands including Pixar, Marvel, Star Ears, and more.

TikTok will provide creators access to assets related to hundreds of films and series from Disney’s library.

Mentioned in the announcement is the ability to “unlock special rewards” as well as increase the visibility of creators. It also will feature exclusive events and “career development pathways.”

The deal, which the press announcement calls a “first-of-its-kind global deal” sounds similar to Disney’s deal with OpenAI which would have provided access to Disney IP while bringing the AI creations to Disney+.

Afterlife With Archie ordered for Disney+ with a Halloween 2027 Premiere

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Afterlife With Archie #1

Afterlife With Archie is getting a new life as an hourlong drama series airing on Disney+. The series is based on the unfinished series by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Francesco Francavilla. It will debut Halloween 2027 and comes nine months after the series received a script-to-series commitment.

In Afterlife With Archie, a spell backfires unleashing the undead upon Riverdale forcing Archie and his friends to fight to stay alive along with the Riverdale drama.

The series debuted in 2013 and ran for ten issues. The series was never completed with the final issue having been released in August 2016. The series was expected to run for twelve issues but Aguirre-Sacasa has said in October 2025 that that issues #11 and #12 have been written and issue #13 was being plotted. No issues have been released since then with no announcements made by Archie as far as the future of the series.

A series, Archie in Hell, has been revealed as part of Oni Press’ new initiative with Archie Comics. It’s unknown if Afterlife With Archie will ever continue or be completed or the impact of the new Oni deal regarding that. The publisher is also dealing with legal woes regarding loans and other media deals making it a very strange future for the company.

Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord with Prof. Holly Schaeffer-Raymond

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“To what extent can you throw a person away?” – Dr. Holly Schaeffer-Raymond on Darth Maul. 

Maul – Shadow Lord, the latest Star Wars animated series on Disney+ is stunning. It hits topics like raising kids amidst fascism, cycles of abuse, and it’s even got Weird Little Guys. Resident Star Wars expert Holly Schaeffer-Raymond returns to the podcast. She’s a writer and professor at Temple University. She’s the author of Mall is Lost (2018) and Maul is Lost (2023) and featured in the Lambda nominated We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetic.

Visit   hollyraymond.carrd.co for more. 

Hear our Bad Batch Season 3 episode https://bit.ly/BadB3

Spoilers for the Darth Maul TV series begins around minute 13. 

Daredevil Born Again Season 2 with cartoonist and organizer John Leavitt

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“ It’s not so much that Mayor Fisk is like [Former NYC Mayor] Eric Adams, it’s that Eric Adams is a comic book character,” — John Leavitt is a writer and cartoonist who works with the DSA Upper-Manhattan Bronx chapter and a published Marvel author with Strange Tales Volume One. 

I’ve been involved in New York politics for over 20 years and I’m a lifelong Daredevil reader so I was thrilled to geek out about this Disney + season him. 

Listen to Graphic Policy’s episode on Daredevil Born Again Season 1.
Checkout John Leavitt’s work at leavittalone.com/
Follow John on Bluesky: leavittalone.bsky.social
Follow me: levin.bsky.social 
Join DSA (which is a more effective means of winning social change than fighting ninjas)

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