Is Spider-Man red or blue?
[GASPING]
Hi I'm Nebula's first implant.
I'm Lorraine.
I'm always hanging out until Proxima Midnight.
I'm Langston.
And this is Earth's Mightiest Show.
Where we talk about all the mightiest
stuff in the Marvel universe.
Including the news, so let's get into it.
First up, fire up your calendars because the red carpet world
premiere of the new film X-Men Dark Phoenix
is this Tuesday, June 4.
I'll be there with my pal, Agent M,
as we bring you all of the glitz, glamour, and Mutant
action straight from Hollywood.
You can watch it all happen live this Tuesday on Marvel.com.
This next one is so cool.
We've got it right here--
The Road To Avengers: End Game is a new hardcover book that
shows you how the design of the MCU
evolves throughout the filmmaking process,
taking 2D paintings or sketches and then just turning them
into real props and costumes and settings,
in the lead up to the biggest film ever.
You better believe it.
Yes, we asked you all on social what you would like to know
more about the MCU, about the sets, costumes and props,
and you had a lot to say, and we have a lot to talk about.
So, Lorraine, let's talk about it.
First up, I think we should talk
about "The Children of Thanos."
Yeah.
I mean, their design is sick.
Literally, they make me ill because they
hurt so many people.
Their skin is kind of weird and gross.
I love Proxima Midnight, her eye pieces and the eye makeup.
Just seeing all the really small changes
they made to get it just right, so that you get the best
version of these characters.
Oh, but how about the Iron Man armors?
Oh, what are you talking about?
I love Iron Man.
I'm Team Iron Man, as you know, so seeing
all the different Iron Man iterations
of the nanotech armor, it's--
I love it.
Make your own hall of armor--
- Yeah, please do. - --at home.
There you go.
I also love the Storm Breaker design.
You don't need to get a dwarf from Nidavellir.
You can just check out this book,
because the design is awesome.
Also it's a real long way to travel to the forge.
Hey, speaking of long ways to travel, the Quantum Realm
is pretty awesome, because, oh, it's just a visual feast
of weird stuff and water bears.
It's great.
Well, it's crazy to think, too, that that whole--
you know, that Quantum Realm is completely
created by the MCU and all of the artists behind it.
It's so cool.
There's a lot of cool stuff.
Oh, how about this though?
Yggdrasil, the World Tree.
I love this book because even down to these teeny,
tiny details, it's just a carving from Asgard,
and it's gorgeous.
And it outlines the entire connection of the nine realms,
between Earth and Asgard and Nidavellir
and all those other places.
All your favorites.
And hey, looks great on your wall.
Looks-- really looks terrific on your wall.
Yeah, get to carving, y'all.
All right, you guys look out for The Road
To Avengers: End Game wherever books are sold, and, of course,
go see Marvel Studios Avengers: End Game in theaters now.
See it again. That's what I did.
This has me thinking, Lorraine,
about all of these realms in the Marvel universe.
Yes?
OK.
Any reason, or just you like to think.
No, no!
Of course, no, I have a reason, because I got to catch it
with podcaster turned to Marvel writer Travis McElroy
to talk all about his journey into mystery.
Oh, mystery.
Check it out.
Hey everyone.
I am here with amazing performer and podcast
extraordinaire, Travis McElroy.
Welcome to the Marvel HQ.
How are you?
- I'm doing great. - Good.
Thank you for having me.
I'm glad to be amongst this-- this is a beautiful set.
Well designed.
We've got stuff on the shelves.
- We've got tons of stuff. - It's great.
I like it.
Now, do you still read comics?
I do.
Yes.
You know, I'm spoiler-- a nerd.
I don't know how you have time to read comics,
because you host and are on a million podcasts.
My Brother, My Brother, And Me, The Adventure Zone, Shmanners,
with your wife.
Yeah.
How do you balance your personal
and professional nerddom?
Well, luckily, I've somehow manipulated my career
so that the spheres overlap.
My Brother, My Brother, and Me, it's just
all references to everything.
Like, we have whole episodes where
our intro will be about movie's coming out,
and we call them Watches.
So we've done multiple Thor watches at this point.
Since you talked about My Brother, My Brother, And Me,
if you had to swap out your your co-hosts
and add two Marvel characters, who would you--
who would it be?
That's such a good question.
Especially with the style of show
we do, I think it'd be really fun to bring in Captain
America, because I don't think he would get half the jokes we
make, and that'd be really fun.
Why is that funny?
And then probably Star-Lord.
Star-Lord would actually probably fit
the humor very well, I think.
Yeah, he has a buoyant and bouncy
kind of podcast personality.
Yeah, and very, ascerbic but a little
still like a positive kind of sensing humor.
What do you think the podcast game in the Marvel universe
is like in general?
There's probably a lot of missed episodes,
because they're like, well, we were going to record,
but the bridge was destroyed, and so I wasn't
able to get the studio today.
I bet true crime is huge in the Marvel universe.
Like, the level of weirdness you would reach in true crime.
Like, and then the whole city disappeared,
and no one knows why.
You mentioned you and your brothers
are writing a story for the War of the Realms event.
Massive.
Tell us about that.
So my brothers and my dad are writing Journey Into Mystery,
which we have nicknamed Babysitters' Club,
because basically Balder the Brave, the god,
has been tasked with putting together a team to protect
Thor's new baby sister, Laussa.
He's trying to recruit these people,
but he's kind of been out of the game for a while.
So he goes to recruit Hawkeye, and it's Kate Bishop.
He goes to recruit Spider-Man, and it's Miles Morales.
They're all rolling around in an RV,
just going across the American southwest just trying to keep
the baby out of harm's way.
And then they keep finding themselves
in sticky situations.
[INAUDIBLE] like that.
Since we have you here, on My Brother, My Brother, and Me,
you take audiences' questions and you quote, "Turn them,
alchemy like, into wisdom."
So we thought we'd take advantage of that perfect brain
of yours-- - Thank you, thank you.
Yes.
And help settle some Marvel debates.
Can you help us out with that? - Of course.
Awesome.
OK, so first up, Wolverine or Cyclops?
My first impulse is Wolverine.
Like, I've got to go with Wolverine.
As far as like interesting.
Scott's not interesting.
Scott's always [INAUDIBLE]
Yes, he is.
What?
No.
He's designed to be the less interesting
option to Wolverine.
Is Spider-Man red or blue?
[GASPING]
Red?
I think red.
Because what I picture when I think of Spider-Man
is the white eyes, web mask face.
Cap's shield, or Iron Man's suit?
Cap's shield.
The amount of armor he has, you're
gonna sweat your face off.
True.
OK, so you're collecting the Infinity Stones.
Which stone do you get first?
I feel like the Time one, because then
that's going to clean up a lot of messes we make later.
Better helmet, Thor or Loki?
Aesthetically, Loki, but going through doors,
going through any kind of brush, there's
tree branches and stuff, that thing's
getting caught left and right.
I'm going to say Thor's is a lot more ergonomically designed.
That's nice ya.
Better Marvel pet, Lockjaw for Lockheed?
I'm a big dog fan.
And he teleports, too, so--
Yeah, right?
Well, and it's also just like, I get dogs.
I don't know what my chemistry is with a dragon.
I don't know.
Are they like cats?
Like, I don't know.
And they like snakes?
I'm not saying snakes are bad, but a snake and I
just never clicked.
What do you think Cable keeps in all of those pockets?
Probably just dumb, loose candy, bits of wire he's found.
What are your general thoughts on Fin Fang Foom?
You know, I love it.
I like the purple shorts.
I like an onomatopoetic name.
It sounds like he couldn't decide what his name was,
and he had three different options,
and he would ask someone, like, what
do you think of Fin Fang Foom?
And they'd say, like, just all three?
And he'd be like oh, yeah.
Travis, you've solved all of our debate.
- Yeah. - Thank you.
- Just go ahead and burn those. - I have to.
Just throw them right in the fire.
Thank you so much for hanging out with us.
And you all, please, go to McElroy.family
to find out all the goings on of the McElroy clique.
Yeah, we've got podcasts there,
video stuff, the stuff we've written,
upcoming live shows, all that stuff.
Yeah, and you gotta check out War
of the Realms Journey Into Mystery
written by the McElroys.
And you can remember it's JIM.
That's how I remember Journey Into Mystery, JIM.
Oh, I love that he calls his book "Jim."
That's what I call all my books.
Really?
I'm like, hey Jim, hey Jim, hey Jim.
Because I have a lot of books.
Don't they get confused?
Ah, it's fine, Alyssa.
Listen, the first three issues of War of the Realms
are out now, with two more to go.
Yeah, War of the Realms, if you guys don't know yet,
is a big old comic event by Jason Aaron, Russell Dauterman,
and Matthew Wilson, which kicked off in April,
but it's continuing through June.
Yes, and also if you don't know,
this story depicts Malekith who is
now waging a war on Midgard--
that's Earth.
And he has conquered the rest of the nine realms,
and using their forces, he's going to try
to take out our Marvel heroes.
But it's not going to happen.
Heck, no. OK.
Some really good moments.
We don't want to spoil anything, but what have been-- maybe
we want to share your favorite moments.
Well, like we were talking about,
I love seeing the Marvel superheroes jump into action.
They have to, because the story opens with a bunch of frost
giants and monsters and stuff coming
to essentially just Manhattan.
It's the worst you can ever imagine.
And Malekith riding a winged tiger.
It's nuts!
Holy smo- I forgot about that.
It's so rock and roll.
There's a tiger YEAH There's a tiger with wings in this.
Are you kidding me?
Yeah, what about you?
I that Thorry talks.
Thorry of course is Thor's big old dog who talks,
but talks like a dog would.
So he's like, "I want to bite.
Can I bite man?"
Like, living for it.
Also, I love when all of the Valkyries ride in,
the entire valkyrie on all of their pegasus
just being bad asses.
I'm-- it's-- I want it tattooed on my soul.
It's how I feel.
We know.
Sometimes you can get confused.
It's confusing, the reading order of these big events.
So we are linking a War of the Realms reading list
so you don't miss an issue of the action.
Yeah, and then tell us your favorite Thor villain,
and use the hashtag #EarthsMightiestShow,
and tune in for the red carpet world premiere of X-Men
Dark Phoenix on Tuesday, June 4, on Marvel.com/DarkPhoenixLive.
- We'll see you next time. - I'm Lorraine.
And I'm Langston.
And this is Marvel.
Your universe.
Yeah.