Another week, another brand new episode of The Flickcast. In case you’re wondering, this makes an unbroken streak of six episodes in a row for the new year. High five!

On this week’s show, Chris and Joe talk about a whole bunch of stuff including the news that Spider-Man is making a return to the cinematic Marvel U, the return of The Walking Dead, the Agent Carter series, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., origin stories and reboots, the seriousness of Star Wars fans, Jon Stewart leaving The Daily Show, the awesomeness of the beeper and a whole lot more.

Picks this week include Chris’ pick of the David Mamet film Redbelt and Joe’s pick of the man himself, Jon Stewart.

As always, if you have comments, questions, critiques, offers of sponsorship, or whatever, feel free to hit us up in the comments, on Twitter, at Facebook, Google+ or via email.

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Superheroes are more popular than ever on the big and small screen and in the pages of comics. But often the stories just feature a bunch of super-dudes running around doing super-dude things. Where are the super-women? Don’t worry, there’s at least one in the form of Marvel’s Spider-Gwen, who’s about to debut her own brand new solo series.

Here’s all the scoop from Marvel’s official press release:

“She’s Gwen Stacy. She’s smart, tough, and charming. She drums in a punk rock band and goes to high school just like you. Only she can lift a car and has spider powers! Just don’t tell her father, NYPD Police Chief George Stacy!

But you knew all that already! What you don’t know is Gwen is back home following the events of Spider-Verse and you won’t believe what she’s got waiting for her!

Now is your chance to get on board with the breakout character of the year as she makes her bombastic debut into her very own ongoing series.”

Check out the preview pages after the break. Look for Spider-Gwen #1, written by Jason Latour with art by Robbi Rodriguez, to arrive in comic book stores and via digital on February 25.

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The funny thing is that movie games have a pretty terrible reputation in the gaming world. Most are quickly put together knock-offs of what could be considered a full game that depend upon riding on the fame of the established franchise. But back in 2004, Spider-Man 2 based off the Sami Rami take on the franchise changed all that.

Without reliance upon the movie, Spider-Man 2 as a game was just good. It was a great movie game, a great super hero game and most importantly a great Spider-Man game (considered the best of the character up to this point). But ten years later, the game and movie franchises have both gotten a reboot and that’s not always a good thing.

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First let’s talk about the story of The Amazing Spider-Man 2. While I applaud the writers trying to separate themselves from the movie slightly be adding in a whole new subplot connecting the scenes between the movie as previous games often do, the beats in this one just feel off. The early beat that introduces the game’s main antagonist also directly messes with the whole Uncle Ben story and what happens to Ben’s killer. It feels about as accurate to the character as Superman killing in Man of Steel.

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One day we’ll see Spider-Man where he really belongs: in a big budget movie with the rest of The Avengers. Until then, we’ll just have to content ourselves with enjoying his adventures in comics (or, those other movies). And that’s okay, especially when the comics are this cool.

Here’s all you need to know about Inhumanity: Superior Spider-Man, directly from Marvel:

The Inhuman city of Attilan has detonated and crashed from the skies, leaving dangerous wreckage and equally dangerous Inhuman technology all over Manhattan. It’s up to the Superior Spider-Man to stop the chaos. But he’s not alone. And he’s about to learn that super powers aren’t all it takes to be superior – and heroes can come from anywhere.

Check out the preview pages for the comic, written by Christos Gage with art by Stephanie Hans, after the break. Look for Inhumanity: Superior Spider-Man to hit stores on January 15.

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One of our favorite writers is the very talented Matt Fraction. We always try to follow his work and with his new comic, Inhumanity, he looks to be continuing his trend of excellence.

Obviously, Marvel thinks so too because they’ve gone ahead and made an Inhumanity trailer. No, they don’t do that for every new series. This one is special.

Here’s more, directly from Marvel:

They have existed for centuries. Hidden from the world, they have evolved in seclusion. Now the strange race of genetically enhanced beings known has the Inhumans have been thrust to the forefront of the Marvel Universe. The cataclysmic events of INFINITY have left the Inhuman city of Attilan in ruins. It’s king – the mighty Black Bolt is missing, believed dead. Attilan’s destruction has unleashed the catalytic Terrigen Mists upon the planet Earth.

Countless thousands across the globe have powered up as new Inhumans leaving Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, Hulk, Spider-Man, Wolverine, and the rest of the Marvel Universe to react to this strange new race of super-powerful beings!

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Even though we not-so-secretly wish Spider-Man would become part of Marvel/Disney again so we could see him as a member of The Avengers, we’re not unhappy he still gets solo movies either. Next up for the web crawler is The Amazing Spider-Man 2, the sequel to the reboot from two years ago.

Sony has released the first trailer for, the film and we’ve got it for you, just like everyone else. Still, that doesn’t make it any less cool.

The sequel brings back Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker/Spider-Man and Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy. This time around, your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man goes up against a cadre of villains including Jamie Foxx‘s Electro, Chris Cooper’s Green Goblin and Paul Giamatti’s Rhino. Dane DeHaan, Sally Field and Denis Leary also star in the Marc Webb-directed movie.

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 debuts in the U.S. on May 2, 2014. Trailer is after the break.

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Since The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is headed to theaters in spring of 2014, it isn’t much of a shock that its gaming counterpart will be coming out around the same time as well. From what we’ve heard so far from the folks at Beenox and Activision who revealed the trailer at New York Comic Con is that it will release for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, XBox One, XBox 360, PC, Wii U and Nintendo 3DS.

As you’ll see in the press release attached below, there isn’t mention on a split development between the current gen and next gen systems which leads one to believe that the PlayStation 4 and XBox One versions may be just slightly better graphics but with no real change in the gameplay.

In the trailer, you’ll also notice a new villain that doesn’t match up to any characters yet announced in the movie. Half way through, you’ll see a very light skinned character, similar to that of a gang member. with tattoos on his body and his face wrapped in a scarf of some sort.

You then see a second similar gang member attack another character who is holding a kukri style machete. These may be just some gangs that Spider-Man encounters in the game, or this scarved character may be one of The Amazing Spider-Man movie style analogs of an existing character like Carrion.

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Spider-Man is one of Marvel’s most enduring characters. His popularity never seems to fall and he’s constantly the subject of movies, television shows and, of course, comics. On such TV show is Ultimate Spider-Man, currently running on Disney’s XD Chanel.

Now it ins second season, the series is about to debut its 13th episode of season two and we’ve got a preview of it for you. Here’s what you nee to know, directly from Marvel:

Ultimate Heroes. Ultimate Villains. Ultimate Responsibility.

Don’t miss the next amazing episode of ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN debuts this Sunday at 11a/10c inside Marvel Universe on Disney XD.

Click though to watch the preview.

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With E3 just around the corner, the news cycle doesn’t start a few days early as publishers and developers look to get their smaller bytes out just before the flood gates open. It starts a week out. And with that first wave comes a look at LEGO Marvel Super Heroes. In the horde of stories coming out in the E3 before the next generation of console launches, Traveller’s Tales and WB Games were smart to get us these screens early.

The latest shots from LEGO Marvel Super Heroes shows some characters we already knew were coming to the game like Captain America, Wolverine, Iron Man and Thor in the staple of Marvel locales New York City and the newly announced Asgard. The crazy thing is Asgard and especially its rainbow bridge look pretty darn beautiful in LEGO. But with all the new visual glory coming soon from the PS4 and XBox One, it’s probably for the best we see these graphics now rather than after the Microsoft and Sony press conferences.

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Back in January we reported on the breaking news that LEGO Marvel Super Heroes was coming. Yes, we know it was kind of a no brainer but it was great to see it was actually happening! Now we are proud to bring the first official trailer to the Flickcast faithful.

In the trailer below, check out the first official look at LEGO Spider-Man, Thor, Wolverine, Hulk, Iron Man, Deadpool and Black Widow who will be amongst the “more than 100 memorable characters to choose from, each with their own unique powers and abilities, players are in for a brick-smashing adventure”. Those actual gameplay isn’t shown, one can assume it will probably be similar in style to that of LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes. The trailer also gives a pretty good indicator who one of the game’s big bads is going to be.

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