Category Archives: Marvel
Let’s Take A Good Look at the Spider-Man 2 Video Game
Another Comic-Con trailer we got last week was a story trailer for the upcoming Spider-Man 2 video game. This is going to be one heck of a game and I’m very excited to dive in. The first game and the Miles Morales games were perfect, and I have no doubt that this game will be great too.
And it all looks great! The story looks like a classic Peter in the black suit story, with all sorts of added elements. And Venom looks great. We still don’t know if we’ll get to play as Venom, but surely that will be an option, right? Even if it’s only temporary? We’ll find out.
Also, that bear-dressed Kraven henchman has to be Grizzly, right? He’s clearly more than just a standard goon. He seems to me to be Kraven’s lieutenant. And if Kraven’s lieutenant is gonna wear a prominent bear costume…he damn well better be name-checked as Grizzly! Again, we’ll find out.
Spider-Man 2 comes to Playstation 5 — which I do now own! — on Oct. 20.
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Hench-Sized Comic Book Reviews – 7/22/23
The weekend is upon us! It’s Comic-Con weekend and so much great news is coming out. Fun trailers, new comic announcements; life is good when you’re gorging on Comic-Con news. And the comics were pretty fun this week as well.
Comic Book of the Week goes to Void Rivals #2 for a strong second issue to this new Energon Universe.
Meanwhile, I conquered Barbenheimer last night and it was a hoot! Both Barbie and Oppenheimer were phenomenal films, in their own right. Also, this might be the weekend I finally finish off The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. I’ve put this ending off long enough, and I’ve got Baldur’s Gate 3 I can transition to in a couple weeks.
Comic Reviews: Black Panther #2, Hawkgirl #1 and Void Rivals #2.
Read the rest of this entryThe Marvels Looks Super Fun!
Comic-Con has delivered a ton of fun trailers so far, and the first one I’m going to post is the new trailer for The Marvels, the next big MCU movie. This is the sequel to Captain Marvel, and it teams her up with Monica Rambeau from Wandavision and Kamala Khan from Ms. Marvel. That’s a lot of TV show connection, but considering I have seen all of these movies and shows, I’m excited.
I think this trailer looks super fun. The energy is good, the color palette looks really nice, and the characters are definitely the strongest part. Iman Vellani is gonna kill it as Kamala on the big screen. To say nothing of Teyonah Parris and Brie Larson, who also look great in this trailer. The whole thing looks fun and I’m definitely looking forward to this one.
The Marvels comes to theaters on Nov. 10.
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Ms. Marvel is For Sure Coming Back as a Mutant
Comics are weird. I’m not the first to say it, and I won’t be the last. But the latest weirdness is the decision by Marvel Comics to, first, kill Ms. Marvel in a random, supporting role in Amazing Spider-Man. Then, second, to have a one-shot comic that came out last week that portrayed her funeral. And now, third, have her come back a few months later as a mutant.
Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant will be coming out at the end of August, a 4-issue mini-series co-written by the Ms. Marvel actor, Iman Vellani, and one of the TV show’s writers, Sabir Pirzada.
Sounds like Kamala Khan is going to be resurrected as a mutant at the upcoming Hellfire Gala. So she’ll be part Inhuman and part mutant.
You can read more about the whole thing at Marvel.com.
Personally, I think this whole thing is a little silly. Ms. Marvel is a super fun character. She should be in an ongoing series at all time. But she hasn’t had one of those in a while. Why? She’s got a TV show, which they’re going to air on network TV soon ahead of The Marvels movie. She’s popular. Can they really not find a creative team with some good ideas for a Ms. Marvel ongoing?
And look, I realize she was introduced as an Inhuman in that really weird time period when Ike Perlmutter was pushing the Inhumans, but this feels like an insane overcorrection. Kill this lovable, awesome teenage character, have an issue dedicated to her freakin’ funeral, and then bring her back to life only a month or so later and tack on being a mutant too? Do they really want to overcomplicate her that much?
Just feels silly to me.
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Hench-Sized Comic Book Reviews – 7/15/23
I’m afraid I don’t have much to review this weekend, everybody! It was a very hectic week for me for various reasons, so I didn’t have much time to read a lot of comics. And most of the stuff that came out wasn’t on my list anyway. I’m not interested in DC’s nightmare event, and I wasn’t going to waste time with that Ms. Marvel funeral issue since they’ve already announced her return.
Comic Book of the Week goes to Scarlet Witch #6 because this is still a fun comic, even if it’s the only one I read this week.
Meanwhile, I’m getting nearer and nearer the end of Tears of the Kingdom. I’d say getting two months out of a video game is pretty solid! Whereas Diablo 4 I can’t wait to finish, but I also can’t handle too much of that game in one sitting. Oh well. Beyond those two games, not much else going on to talk about nerdwise. Next week is Comic-Con, but I won’t be there, again.
Comic Reviews: Scarlet Witch #6.
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