Tag: Captain America
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Marvel’s Avengers – Missed Opportunities
I’m enjoying Marvel’s Avengers. It’s not a bad game. It’s decent. Everything about it is decent. Decent animations, skins, story, and so on. What’s weird and off-putting is wrapping all of that around a live-service engine.
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Rest in Peace, Stan Lee
I think most of us know that Stan Lee’s legacy at Marvel for comics is fraught. Who truly created what, who deserves credit. That’s covered elsewhere, like the obituary/profile linked above. I’d like to talk about Stan’s place in my life, as a budding geek who wasn’t sure of his place in the world. Millenials, for…
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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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Movie Review – Captain America: Civil War
note: Â some spoilers There’s a huge reason Captain America: Civil War works and Batman v Superman doesn’t, and that’s emotional investment. Â I know Zack Snyder and DC/WB wanted to do thing their own way and not ape Marvel’s so far successful approach, but when you are rebooting two legendary characters and making significant changes, you…
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Stop making Batman v Superman about Marvel versus DC
If there’s a thing in comics fandom I hate right now it’s this adversarial tone a lot of the chatter takes on nowadays. Â A spirited debate is fun, no doubt, but this isn’t that, it’s just angry people shouting at each other. Â It’s there in sports now, video games, even politics. Â There are certain groups…
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Mobile Game Review – Marvel’s Avengers Academy
Marvel’s latest mobile game is Avengers Academy, which is one of those thing where they reimagine existing characters (hero and villain) as teenagers. Â It works well here, as it seems like there’s some time travel-type shenanigans hinted at as far as the story goes. Â It’s by TinyCo, and if you’ve played one of their other…
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Should I Read It? – Marvel’s Civil War
This is the first in a recurring series where I look at an older set of comics (either an event or a series) and decide whether it’s worth tracking down. Mentioning the Civil War comics among comics fans is sure to elicit a strong response – usually negative. Having heard of that for years, when…
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The “For Boys” Problem
This is my daughter, Mattie (and the back of my other daughter, Eva). Â The girls have taken on my love of comics, mostly due to the show Earth’s Mightiest Heroes and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Â M is wearing her new Captain America hoodie which may be her new favorite possession. Â Upon seeing it in the…
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Movie Review – Captain America: The Winter Soldier
I’ve been a Marvel guy since I first read my brother’s few remaining comics (the ones my Mom hadn’t tossed, that old story), but Captain America never appealed to me. Â The costume seemed like a bit much, and he just didn’t seem to be as much fun as Iron Man or Spidey, and didn’t have…
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The Top 10 Superhero Movies Of All Time
I got to thinking about this thanks to a forum post at one of the sites I frequent. Someone said there hadn’t BEEN ten good ones, which just seemed silly, so I quickly banged out my list. But there are so many more movies, I know you guys will differ! So I present to you,…
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Movie Review – The Avengers
Be warned: Spoilers, I have them. I’ve been struggling with how to approach reviewing The Avengers. I mean, I’m a comic guy from way back, but not an obsessive one. Iron Man is one of my favorites, and I’m not sure I can be entirely impartial.  Had I stayed up last night (got home at 1:30am)…
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Movie Review – Captain America: The First Avenger
I went to see Captain America: The First Avenger this weekend, and I have to say, it was a TON of fun. It comes close, to me, to the first Iron Man as far as quality of the movie. It does lack some small bit of the emotional impact I felt with Iron Man, but…