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Hench-Sized Comic Book Reviews – 11/4/23
We’re less than a week away from The Marvels and excitement is in the dumpster! What has become of the MCU? I know I’m still going to see the film opening night and hopefully enjoy myself. Until then, how about some comics? Like Avengers and Batman!
Comic Book of the Week goes to Scarlet Witch #10 for a fun, if slightly anticlimactic finale to probably my favorite comic of the year.
Meanwhile, I’m planning to finish off the Spider-Man 2 game this weekend. It’s been a blast, though perhaps not as powerful a blast as the first two games. Still fun, and I hope we get plenty more in this series. Honestly, they should just keep the graphics/gameplay the same and just keep putting out DLC chapters every few years. I’d be happy with just that.
Comic Reviews: Avengers #7, Batman/Catwoman: The Gotham War: Scorched Earth #1, and Scarlet Witch #10.
Read the rest of this entryWe’re Going Back to Echo
Back before Marvel Studios was having all these woes, they greenlit and filmed a new TV show about the character of Echo, who was a villain in the Hawkeye show. She’s a C-or-so-list character in the comics, and was a pretty solid part of Hawkeye, but did she need her own show? I guess we’ll find out in January!
I’m not opposed to Echo getting a show. But this feels like Marvel counting their chickens before they’re hatched. I loved the Hawkeye show, but she was hardly the most memorable part. And they don’t have the Midas Touch anymore. But the trailer looks cool, and more Kingpin and Daredevil is always welcome. So we’ll just how to see how this plays out.
Echo comes to Disney+ and I think Hulu on January 10.
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We’re Going Back to the Planet of the Apes
I was a big fan of that recent Planet of the Apes trilogy, with the realistic-looking apes. It was very well made, very dramatic, and just very damn cool. Well Hollywood never let a good franchise die, so we’re going back to that world with a fourth film, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. These titles just keep getting crazier.
I think it looks cool! The same tone, same feel and same everything seems to be in place. The new film is set several generations after the first trilogy, so there won’t be any immediate character continuations. And we’re probably even getting closer in the timeline to the original Planet of the Apes. I think that would be pretty neat if this movie series comes full circle and does a remake of the original movie in this style.
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes comes to theaters Memorial Day Weekend next year.
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6 Costumes I Want in the New Spider-Man Games
I am currently swinging my way through the new Spider-Man 2 video game on Playstation 5, having a grand old time fighting bad guys, thwipping webs and fighting Venoms. When I beat the game, I’ll do a round-up List of Six (maybe next week?), but today I wanted to touch upon a specific aspect of the game series: the costumes! I love alternate costumes, even if I don’t use them very often, and even after three games in this series, there are more I want to see.
I’m a sucker for maintaining story accurate costumes in these games. No matter how well these alternate costumes are incorporated into the animation and gameplay, I’m still usually wearing Peter or Miles’s game canon costume for the story missions. I can’t help myself. But I’ve loved having the alternate costume option since all the way back to the Spider-Man Playstation 1 games. Spidey has so many costumes, it’s a hoot to have them available. And I definitely indulge when it comes to side quests or mini-games, or just swinging around the city in new duds.
So when we get some DLC or even Spider-Man 3 or Spider-Man: Miles Morales 2, these are the costumes I still want to see in this game series.
Read the rest of this entryGood Burger 2 is Real, It’s Happening
The Kel Mitchell comeback is real, it’s happening. And I’m here for it. I loved All That and Kenan & Kel back in the day, and I’m all too happy to watch them revive this old, silly movie. Here’s a trailer to prove all of it.
Looks silly, looks dumb, looks exactly like something on Paramount+ should look. This is what streaming was made for! Made-for-TV movies, but with enough money to tie them into things we like. Why not fund an All That reunion movie? What about a Pete & Pete movie?! But I’ll gladly settle for Good Burger 2, for now.
Good Burger 2 comes to Paramount+ on Nov. 22.
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