Spider-Man, The Incredibles, and more: The A.V. Club's best stories of the week

Monday

• Happy Labor Day from The A.V. Club
  
• A history professor is haunted by a dark past in Walter Mosley’s John Woman
  
• The first biography of Fred Rogers is touching, but treats its subject with kid gloves
  

Tuesday

• Mayans, Maniac, Murphy Brown and all the new shows to watch in September
  
• Reporting from the set of The Purge with reality knocking on the door
  
• My Struggle comes to an end, and 4 other books to read in September
  
• Life sucks and then you fight a supervillain in the new Arkham-indebted Spider-Man game
  

Wednesday

• Game of Game Of Thrones thrones: 43 big upcoming fantasy and sci-fi shows
  
• Red Dead, Tomb Raider, and Smash Bros.: Here are the games to play this fall
  
• The battle for baby-boomer relevance pits Paul against Paul
  

Thursday

• The Predator leads a Shane Black monster squad, plus 22 other movies coming this September
  
• Spider-Man’s J. Jonah Jameson finds his true calling as a blustering right-wing podcaster
  

Friday

• The Incredibles didn’t need comic-book source material (or origin stories) to do superheroes right
  
• Spiritualized’s grand goodbye, Joey Purp’s live-wire mixtape, and more new music reviews
  
• Toronto opens with the unofficial Braveheart sequel/rebuttal that no one needed
  
• Who deserves to win an Emmy this year?
  
• War hasn’t changed much in the Battlefield V beta
  
• Ghosts of the past make The Immortal Hulk a riveting superhero horror story