User blog:ARTaylor/A Look Back at 2018

Well my fellow true believers, the year is coming to a close and another is just around the corner. It's that time when we look back over what happened over the last twelve months as we move forward.

Funko released several more of their Marvel shorts including Submarine Showdown, Big Robot, Little Problem, and Rooftop Rock.

Marvel's latest Spider-Man series got renewed for a second season.

Avengers Assemble began its latest season being titled Panther's Quest in order to tie-in with the highly acclaimed Marvel Studios film.

Big Hero 6, the televised follow-up to the Oscar-winning film, began airing.

Marvel Entertainment released the Marvel Rising line, which includes the series Initiation and direct-to-television Secret Warriors. The purpose of the project is to appeal to young girls and is accompanied by a toy line, similar to DC Super Hero Girls. Two more installments were announced including Chasing Ghosts, following Ghost-Spider, and Heart of Iron, introducing Ironheart.

A series based on Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur was announced to be produced by Laurence Fishburne from The Matrix and Helen Sugland of black-ish.

Mark Hamill got a star on the famous Hollywood Walk of Fame. Stan Lee was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.

We saw the ten-year anniversary of The Spectacular Spider-Man and twenty-year anniversary of Silver Surfer.

FXX officially cancelled Donald Glover's Deadpool series.

The Walt Disney Company was officially approved to purchase 20th Century Fox, meaning that now Marvel Studios has rights access to the entirety of the X-Men and Fantastic Four characters. They share the rights to Spider-Man with Sony and Hulk with Universal, meaning that they do not have access only to Namor.

Sony Pictures Animation released Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. The is highly acclaimed, one of the highest rated of the year and currently tied with Black Panther and The Incredibles as the highest scoring superhero movies ever. It is a box office and critical smash, having already won numerous Best Animated Film and even one Best Picture awards.

The Marvel Animated Universe Wiki, the site you are currently reading, turned ten years old.

We lost many people including Chuck McCann, Dean Stefan, Joseph Campanella, Harlan Ellison, Denis Akiyama, Steve Ditko, Russ Heath, Gary Friedrich, Marie Severin, Robert J. Walsh, and, perhaps most tragically to Marvel fans, Stan Lee.