Women of Marvel

Oh, the horror! With Halloween nigh, we’ve summoned associate editor Sarah Brunstad and assistant editor Lauren Amaro for a bone-chilling broadcast. Join Ellie and our guest editors for a dissection of what goes into making a macabre Marvel comic, featuring frightening favorites like Werewolf by Night and Immortal Hulk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Phoenix Carnevale delivers an impressive one-two punch: she can spar like a real-life Super Hero AND she’s a massive Marvel fan. Guest co-host Jamie Frevele (Editor, marvel.com) has a deep conversation with Phoenix about her philosophy as a trainer, actor, and fight commentator. A lifelong comic book reader, Phoenix shares how characters like Daredevil, Wolverine, and Storm have inspired her both personally and professionally. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Avengers Assemble!…for fifth period. In the high-spirited middle-grade novel Avengers Assembly, Marvel’s youngest characters find themselves in an after-school program for Super Heroes, where they must fend off every threat from super villains to peer pressure. Guest host and Marvel.com editor Christine Dinh caught up with author Preeti Chhibber to discuss what it was like to write Miles Morales, Kamala Khan, and Doreen Green, as well as what it would be like to have Quicksilver as your vice principal and Ant-Man as your teacher.Notebooks open, pencils ready! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What does it take to be an Avenger? Answer: mocap suits, very heavy helmet-cameras, and lots of talent. Angélique caught up with some of the actors behind earth’s mightiest heroes in Marvel’s Avengers video game, including Laura Bailey (Black Widow), Sandra Saad (Ms. Marvel), and Jolene Andersen (Monica Rappaccini). With as much chemistry in real-life as in the game, the group talked about everything from the unique performance capture process to favorite stories from the set! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Choose your own adventure? How about choose your own…Avenger? The time has finally come: Marvel’s Avengers is being released on all platforms tomorrow, September 4! In this highly-anticipated new game, you can assemble your own roster of Avengers and play as the hero of your choice. In the first of two episodes celebrating the arrival of Marvel’s Avengers, Ellie and Angélique share what they're most looking forward to about the game. Then, Ellie chats with three people who worked on the game’s development: Hannah MacLeod (Narrative Designer), Rose Hunt (Senior Producer), and Magali Stretton (Senior Game Designer). They share some of their favorite stories from putting the game together, as well as advice for people just getting started in the industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

She-Hulk is one of Marvel’s strongest, smartest, and funniest characters, so Ellie called up She-Hulk expert Lorraine Cink, one of Marvel’s strongest, smartest, and funniest real-life women. Lorraine enlightens Ellie about She-Hulk’s storied history with the Fantastic Four, Avengers, and as a headliner of her own books. Plus, she dishes about what you can expect from the green bombshell in the explosive comics event, Empyre! Be sure to catch Lorraine on This Week In Marvel and Earth’s Mightiest Show! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Author Sam Maggs is, much like the title character of her book The Unstoppable Wasp: Built On Hope, unstoppable. A Star Wars geek with a master’s degree and a passion for women in STEM, Maggs has written characters from Spider-Man to Captain Marvel and, today, she tells Ellie what it was like to get acquainted with the young hero Nadia Van Dyne! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is now in its seventh and final season, rounding out an epic seven-year run. The whole season is full of surprises, but the latest episode is an especially big moment for Elizabeth Henstridge, who plays Agent Jemma Simmons: it’s her directorial debut! In this on-set interview with Judy, Elizabeth talks about what it was like to direct for the first time, how she built up her directing skills for an extra-challenging episode, and how it feels to look back at seven seasons of S.H.I.E.L.D. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Characters like Misty Knight and Captain Marvel have an additional, perhaps under-appreciated super power in the iconography of their hair. Who could speak to this better than Misty Knight herself, Marvel’s Luke Cage actor Simone Missick? We’re throwing it back to our 2018 conversation with Missick and Angélique (before she was a host!), in which they discussed the influential cultural role hair plays on and off the screen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Last year, in celebration of Pride Month and in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, Judy and Sana spoke to writers Vita Ayala, Tini Howard, and Leah Williams about everything from breakthrough moments in their careers to Queer representation in comics. It’s Pride month once again, and we are physically isolated but hardly alone. Now joined by Ellie, the hosts continue to celebrate LGBTQ+ pride by listening back to this personality-packed interview. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices