Agent Carter’s miniseries continues with “Time and Tide.” Like in the first few episodes, they manage a nice blend of humor, action, and period appropriate references and scenery. I like the research they did and the feeling that this is, indeed, very early in the Cinematic Marvel Universe. There were fewer references to the other Marvel projects (I can only think of one, if you don’t count Howard Stark himself), but I think that worked quite nicely.
Last year, it was announced that the Expanded Universe of Star Wars, the decades worth of novels that many fans have been enjoying, was going to be retconned away, after Disney bought Star Wars from creator George Lucas and announced new movies on the horizon. Many fans, me among them, were very annoyed. If you haven’t read the EU books, there are some great characters and storylines there, and they’d gone far enough past the movies that some of the main characters were the next generation of heroes. Oh well. Comic book companies do it to us all the time. It’s something sci-fi and fantasy fans need to deal with.
ABC is filling in some of Agents of SHIELD winter hiatus with a limited series. Agent Carter, the titular character, was a supporting character in Captain America: The First Avenger with a few additional scenes in the Agents of SHIELD show. They reinforce the connection with a few flashback scenes from the movie, as Peggy remembers the last few minutes before Captain America’s crash. They showed the pilot and next episode back to back on the first night, The pilot, not originally, is called “Pilot,” and the next episode was “Bridge and Tunnel.” Oddly, the pilot in some places is also listed as “Now is Not the End.”
Welcome back to Comic Book Classics Revisited! As week #2 begins, we’re still in the early stages of Marvel’s mega-event, Secret Wars. So let’s crack open issue #3 and start the annotations of this classic…
Welcome back to Comic Book Classics Revisited! Today, we’re looking at the second issue of the event that basically started all others, Secret Wars. Let’s jump right in, shall we?
To get us started, as 2015 gets started as well, I figured it would only be fair to look back at the event that has inspired Marvel Comics’ upcoming mega event that may (or may not) lead to major shakeups in their publishing line. Yes, I’m talking about 1984’s mega-hit, Secret Wars, or if we were to call it by its actual publication name – Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars.
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