Category Archives: Marvel
Daredevil Season 2 Arrives Today!
I know what I’ll be doing this weekend.
As far as I’ve seen, all early reviews are very positive! It looks like the quality of Season 1 is going to carry over, and we’re all going to have a great time! Just gotta get through work first…
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New X-Men Apocalypse Trailer Goes Epic
Did you know there’s a new X-Men movie out this year? Yeah, they’re tucking it down in there behind all the hype for Captain America: Civil War and Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice. It’s called X-Men: Apocalypse, and they are really trying.
I’m probably being a bit harsh on this movie. Not sure why. The X-Men movies have always been fine. But this franchise feels played out. So many better and more nuanced superhero movies and franchises have come along. Do the X-Men really mean anything anymore? They haven’t had a consistent team lineup for several movies.
I dunno, I’m just griping. The trailer was pretty epic and exciting. I just don’t know if the franchise has any more gas in the tank.
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A New Comic Book Cartoon Youtube Show Enters Our Lives
Behold the work of Noah Sterling, a comics fan who has taken to animation and Youtube to explain complex and awesome comic book stories in simple form! He’s funny and the work is quality. Here’s his take on Civil War.
Unfortunately, according to his Youtube channel, his videos have been taken down — so watch that one while you can. Sterling explains in a short bit that he works for Marvel, but the videos were his own little project. The popularity of his Civil War video outed his project to Marvel, and they asked him to take down the unlicensed work. Makes sense. But he says he’s going to do some other comics, so we’ll see where things go. Still, fun video.
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Hench-Sized Comic Book Reviews – 3/12/16
Is anybody else excited for March? By this time next week, we’ll all be buried in the second season of Daredevil! That is beyond exciting! And by this time in two weeks, we’ll all have seen Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice! For some reason, March 2016 is a good month in geekiness.
So it’s good that we have good comics, too! This week delivered more solid goodness from Wolverine, Doctor Strange, Ms. Marvel, Starfire and more. They were so good, I kind of think I should start reviewing other comics, because I praise these too much.
Comic Book of the Week goes to Mighty Thor #5, as Jason Aaron delivers more than a few showstoppers!
Feels like somebody is missing…
Speaking of good comics, remember to mark your calendars for April 2, when the new Kickstarter for Gamer Girl & Vixen launches! In fact, I think I’ll have some even bigger news about my comic tomorrow! So come back then!
Comic Book Reviews: All-New Wolverine #6, Doctor Strange #6, Mighty Thor #5, Ms. Marvel #5 and Starfire 10.
Spider-Man Has Arrived in the New Captain America: Civil War Trailer!
And the trailer itself is pretty awesome too!
I was personally hoping that Marvel wouldn’t reveal the new Spider-Man ahead of Captain America: Civil War, but they had to do something to take attention away from the Batman Battle movie. And this is a fun way to do it! The trailer itself is all about the movie, laying out the stakes as plainly and as cleanly as possible. Nobody should be confused as to what this ‘civil war’ is about. Then throwing Spider-Man into a post-trailer teaser is just a neat little way. Marvel knows the baggage that a movie Spider-Man has, and hopefully this will be the start of cleaning him up.
Movie looks great! Bring it on, already!
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