The life of a superhero gets pretty strange. You deal with a lot of things the “normal” population never even have to think about. Barry deals with a lot of elements of the strange and wonderful on what’s supposed to be a happy day. There are surprise guests, both welcome and unwelcome, in The Flash’s…
Gambit: Wanted #1 kicked off the new mini-series by acclaimed X-Men writer, Chris Claremont. A revisit into Remy’s past, it explores the time period in New Orleans right before he joined the X-Men. The highlight of the issue is Gambit’s physical and philosophical battle against Bullseye, who is contracted to take down Gambit and his junior thief, Elodie.
I’ve seen Jon Bernthal in several things: The Walking Dead, Fury, The Accountant, Baby Driver. But in my personal opinion, he shines amazingly as the Punisher.
As you are probably aware, Marvel has released a trailer, not just a tease, for Avengers: Doomsday. It’s an amazing bit of promotion with some really cool things in it, and I’m going to touch on a few of my favorites and share a theory or two. Hey, if I’m wrong, y’all get to come back and mock me later.
I’ve almost come to the end of the first season of Wonder Man, although it’s one of the few MCU shows that has a confirmed second season. It’s been interesting watching this version of Simon Williams develop, and his scenes with Trevor have been great. Ben Kingsley and Yahya Abdul-Mateen have done fantastic jobs. Now that they both have roles in the movie they were going for, things seem to be finally falling in to place. So you know that can’t last, as we see as the guys are confronted by “Kathy Friedman.”
The chaotic Doom Patrol series is careening towards their end, and this final season is just crazy as the rest of their adventures have been. A major enemy is lurking in the shadows, and striking at them seemingly at will. Now that they’ve apparently lost the special magic that kept them young, they are beset by a new series of problems. Attempts to deal with that go awry, to no surprise at all, in “Youth Patrol.”
Now we see how Trevor and Simon do with their chance to impress the rather eccentric director in an episode called, appropriately enough, “Callback.”
There have been many different versions of Supergirl over the years. Throw in Power Girl, who is a Supergirl variant, and there are even more. So, as a comic reader of many decades, I’d argue there is no “real” version of Supergirl. The new Supergirl movie, continuing James Gunn’s vision of the DC Universe, takes Kara Zor-El’s story forward, based largely on the “Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow” arc from the comics.
the story of Brother Blood develops further while the team is going through some changes and a lot of strain.
There are some rough and violent strikes in the battle between Wolverine and Adamantine. However, the art isn’t gritty enough for me. I think Humberto Ramos’ run in volume 3 is one of the artistic peaks of the Wolverine franchise. In large, it’s because the art matches both the raw, violent nature of the story and Logan’s internal strife. Even when it’s drawn in a more cartoony manner, I felt the art never lost its edge.
Does Star Wars need saving? I think so. What’s your take?
I often have issues when they take a character who I know and like and turn them into something wholly different for an adaptation. Usually I say the more seemingly random changes they make, the worse the adaptation is. The MCU has managed to exempt themselves from this rule of mine a few times (really, it makes a lot more sense that techno-genius Tony Stark made Ultron than bio-chemist Hank Pym). They are doing so again with their take on Wonder Man, who has very little in common with his comic book counterpart, but they are telling a great story here, which continues in “Found Footage.”
The animated Harley Quinn series is back for a fourth season. In an interesting media crossover, some of what happened between seasons three and four was covered in a comic book limited series, “Legion of Bats.” But now the show is back, with, among other things, Harley and Ivy trying to find a new balance in their lives, since Harley is working with the Bat-family in Batman’s absence, and Ivy is running the Legion of Doom. Talk about a mixed marriage.
Just a few quick thoughts on The Mandalorian and Grogu… I liked it? I guess that’s true. But it was kind of dumb. It felt like they turned season 4 of the show into a movie and put it behind an even bigger pay wall than Disney Plus. It’s very easy to see where each…
Doorman, in the comics, is a minor character, part of a group of lesser-known, mostly used as joke characters called the Great Lakes Avengers. He’s actually not the first of the GLA to show up in the MCU, since a version of Immortal Man popped up in the She-Hulk series. He’s been referenced several times so far during Wonder Man. Now, we finally get to see what happened that led to the “Doorman clause” that prohibits superhumans from working in Hollywood movies. Probably tv shows, too, but that hasn’t really been spelled out yet. They use black and white to emphasize that almost the entire episode is a flashback, as we get the story behind “Doorman.”
