Tag: comic book
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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.…
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Comic Book Review – The Vision #7
Creative Team: Writer: Â Tom King Art: Â Michael Walsh Colors: Â Jordie Bellaire Letters: Â Clayton Cowles The Vision #7, as usual, plays with expectations. Â You might think, considering the big tease at the end of the last issue, with Agatha Harkness warning a bunch of heroes about the Visions going off the rails, that you’d see some…
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What’s New on Marvel Unlimited – May 4, 2016
Every week, Marvel adds new comics to their Marvel Unlimited service. Â 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. Â But there’s always something interesting and I will point them out weekly. First up is Marvel Spotlight…
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Comic Book Review – I Hate Fairyland Volume 1
Creative Team: Writer: Skottie Young Art: Skottie Young Colors: Jean-Francois Beaulieu Letters: Nate Piekos What would happen if Dorothy never left Oz? Â If she was looking for those damn ruby slippers for the rest of her life? Â That’s the premise of Skottie Young’s I Hate Fairyland, which follows Gert, and young girl who makes a…
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Do Your Homework – Doctor Strange: Season One
Marvel recently released the first teaser trailer for Doctor Strange, the movie which comes out this November. Â Unlike Captain America: Civil War which is filled with recognizable characters for the most part, Doctor Strange is a relative unknown to the average movie-goer. Â If you’ve watched the teaser, you’ll already know that things are…well, stranger than…
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Comic Book Review – The Vision #6
Creative Team: Writer: Â Tom King Art: Â Gabriel Hernandez Walta Colors: Â Jordie Bellaire Letters: Â Clayton Cowles Much of the unease and tension in The Vision thus far has come from what we haven’t seen as much as what we have. Â Tom King and company pulls that trick again here in The Vision #6. Â Again, we get…
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Comic Book Review – Black Panther #1
Creative Team: Writer: Â Ta-Nehisi Coates Art: Â Brian Stelfreeze Colors: Â Laura Martin Letters: Â Joe Sabino Over the years with my sporadic obsession with comics, I mostly missed comics featuring Black Panther. Â It was the same way with a lot of important characters – I think they only exposure to Hank Pym was in his ‘Dr. Pym’…
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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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Comic Book Review – The Vision #5
There was a discussion on Twitter the other day by some comic creators, about how the phrase that got them to ignore a review the quickest was “nothing happened”. Â I would not be surprised if some of those comments were made about this issue of The Vision…but they’d be completely wrong. Now, there’s little action,…