Review and analysis of Gail Simone’s The Uncanny X-Men #34. Discussing and analyzing the parallels between new character Howler with Monet St. Croix, Wolverine, and Nightcrawler, along with Rogue and Gambit’s quest to exorcise Gambit of the demon Wyvern.
Native representation has been fairly lacking in the various comic book worlds. While I’m more of a DC guy than Marvel, at least as far as the comics go, I have to say there are far more Native characters in Marvel Comics than DC (don’t get me started on “Apache Chief”). Marvel’s best known Native…
Twenty-five years after Fight Club, people still quote Tyler Durden, still dress like him, still argue about whether he was right about anything. That’s a strange amount of staying power for a character who, depending on how you watch the movie, might not even be real. Played by Brad Pitt, Tyler didn’t just become a…
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve seen someone call the Wonder Woman costume “just a swimsuit with stars on it.” It used to bug me more than it probably should have. Then again, they’re not entirely wrong about where it started. The Original Bustier-and-Tiara Look Diana debuted in All Star Comics #8 back…
Since 1940, DC Comics has had some version of a character called Green Lantern. Ok, technically, it wasn’t even DC at that point, but that’s another story/bit of comics trivia that probably no one cares about. The best known Green Lantern is a toss up between Hal Jordan, who was the first modern era GL,…
Marvel Comics has been around in one form or another since 1939. The MCU has been weaving together a huge narrative of heroes ranging from Daredevil and the Punisher up to the likes of Thor, Hulk, and Captain Marvel since 2008. Their cast has grown incredibly large, and they’ve definitely used some characters who are…
Love it or hate it, the MCU isn’t going anywhere any time soon. Me, being a big time hero geek, I’m quite happy about it. Spider-Man: Brand New Day is the 38th movie in the ongoing juggernaut, and puts Spider-Man in rare company. Only Thor has had four movies (I don’t really count the fourth…
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.
