NEW DC Jokers Confirmed! Doomsday Poster CONFIRMS X-Men Roster! Hulk in X-Men Reboot?!

Four Jokers, seven mutants, three Earths, and one Hulk rumour that lost its most important word somewhere between a podcast and your timeline. This week's Marvel and DC news roundup starts with new Avengers: Doomsday international posters surfacing in Japan, including the first X-Men poster the film has ever put out. We break down the stained-glass team logos, the full X-Men roster with Patrick Stewart's Xavier, Ian McKellen's Magneto, James Marsden's Cyclops, Kelsey Grammer's Beast, Alan Cumming's Nightcrawler, Rebecca Romijn's Mystique and Channing Tatum's Gambit, Andy Park's official concept art showing how the team functions, the three big names missing from this timeline, and what the coverage is getting wrong about what the artwork actually proves. Then it's over to DC, where a new Joker has arrived in Batman: Caped Crusader with a take from Matthew Needham unlike anything you've seen, plus the three more Jokers lined up behind him across The Batman Part II, Absolute Batman and Joker: Laugh Riot. We also cover Shailene Woodley finally explaining what happened to her Mary Jane in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, the Mark Ruffalo Hulk and X-Men reboot rumour and the two words Jeff Sneider said that everyone stripped out, Daniel Richtman's Doomsday reshoot claims, Lanterns episode 3 and its Sinestro and Hal Jordan lore drop, and the Paramount–Warner Bros Discovery merger that's frozen by twelve state attorneys general and costing millions a day. If you follow MCU news, DCU news, Avengers Doomsday leaks, Secret Wars rumours or comic book movie news, this is the one where we check the headlines against what was actually said. Half of this week's biggest stories fall apart on a second look. Stick around to find out which ones survive.