Mark Millar’s limited series Wanted, loosely adapted in 2008 into an atrocious movie, imagined a dystopian world where all the superheroes are dead and the supervillains have won. That’s kind of how ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dani Di Placido covers film, television, and internet culture. Venom and the Joker are intimately connected to their archrivals, ...

This weekend, for example, marks the theatrical return of Venom, the erstwhile Spider-Man arch-nemesis, again divorced of any relationship to Marvel’s friendly neighborhood web-slinger. Venom: The ...