Tag: marvel
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Marvel Joins Amazon Prime Reading
Just a head’s up for anybody who likes to get their money’s worth out of their Amazon Prime subscription, Marvel is now partnered with Amazon to have their comics show up there (as well as some selections in Kindle Unlimited and Comixology Unlimited).  Those are cool if you already pay the extra subscription fee for either…
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Marvel’s Biggest Missed Opportunity
It’s kind of shocking how quickly the tables have turned on the big two in the comics industry. Â Just a few years ago, while DC was languishing under the “New 52”, Marvel was having a creative boom. Â Whether it was Matt Fraction and David Aja bringing a fresh take to Hawkeye, their first headlining Muslim…
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TV Review – Iron Fist
I finished Marvel’s latest Netflix series, Iron Fist over the weekend, and I have a lot of mixed feelings. Â I became a fan of Danny Rand fairly late, having read the Brubaker/Fraction/Swierczynski/Foreman Immortal Iron Fist series after loving Fraction/Aja’s Hawkeye and Brubaker’s Cap run. Â That series pushed a lot of my buttons, since I loved…
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Movie Review – Doctor Strange
I saw the Scott Derrickson-directed Doctor Strange over the weekend, and enjoyed it a lot. Â It’s not going to unseat any of my favorite MCU movies (currently Iron Man, Winter Soldier, Guardians and Civil War) but it was a fun if familiar tale. Â I’ll get all the non-spoiler notes out of the way first: Â the…
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Comics Twitter is a JERK!
Subtitled “Ask me about MY feminist agenda”. The thing about this whole mess I don’t get is, why do the misogynist man-babies get so wound up about a book they didn’t read? Â They are gleefully vile in attacking Chelsea Cain after the cancellation of the Mockingbird series, and the preview of Joelle Jones’s cover to…
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Book Review – Black Widow: Forever Red
Before you start this book, know that while it’s got Black Widow in the name, it’s both about her, and not exactly about her. Â If it might bother you to discover the story is told mostly through the viewpoint of a teenaged girl that has an…interesting connection to Natasha, as some other reviewers seem to,…
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Help Me Fix Agents of SHIELD
This is mostly in response to the article over at Heroic Hollywood, Is Marvel’s ‘Agents of SHIELD’ Really Any Good? so maybe check that first. There was no one more excited by the concept of Agents of SHIELD than me, when it was first announced. Â A Whedon-adjacent look at the more mundane aspects of the…
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Comic Book Review – The Vision #8
Creative Team: Writer: Â Tom King Art: Â Gabriel Hernandez Walta Colors: Â Jordie Bellaire Letters: Â Clayton Cowles Last month, the cover shown for this issue (shown in part above) seemed to indicate the arrival of the Avengers and the beginning of the final battle. Â Well, as usual expectations are twisted. Â There IS a new arrival, but it’s…
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Captain America’s “Hail Hydra” Is Not A Stunt But A Story
You may have heard a little something about the recent Steve Rogers: Captain America #1. Â I’m assuming if you are reading this you aren’t worried about spoilers, by the way. Â So yeah, Cap was hailing HYDRA. Â As soon as I saw the panel, I (unlike a lot of people, apparently) thought back to what Steve…
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What’s New on Marvel Unlimited – May 22 to May 28, 2016
Every week, Marvel adds new comics to their Marvel Unlimited service. Sometimes it’s new stuff – most series they publish get issues added about 6 months after they are released in shops – and others it’s older comics. But there’s always something interesting and I will point them out weekly. Starting thing this week is…
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What’s New on Marvel Unlimited – May 11, 2016
Every week, Marvel adds new comics to their Marvel Unlimited service.  Sometimes it’s new stuff – most series they publish get issues added about 6 months after they are released in shops – and others it’s older comics.  But there’s always something interesting and I will point them out weekly. First thing to check out…
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Comic Book Review – Black Panther #2
Creative Team: Writer: Â Ta-Nehisi Coates Art: Â Brian Stelfreeze Colors: Â Laura Martin Letters: Â Joe Sabino Black Panther #2 continues to juggle the various stories established in the first issue, and does it well. Â We get a bit more information in each, developing the various threats facing T’Challa and Wakanda while deepening a few of the mysteries.…