A Comic Book Reading Order Guide For Beginners & Fans
Hot on the heels of Black Widow, Loki’s first season concludes with a riveting sixth episode, as the MCU’s Phase 4 truly heats up and sets the stage for the next several years. Much like our review of Loki episode one, I’m joined by Loki expert Reagan Anick to talk about the season as a whole and where we go from here!
This review of Loki will include spoilers, and assumes you’ve watched the full series! [Read more…] about LOKI Season One Disney Plus Full Review!
Following up on the hype-machine success of WandaVision, and the muddled reactions to SamCap and the Winter Soldier, Marvel’s Disney+ TV continues with 2021’s Loki, starring Tom Hiddleston. Loki picks up directly after 2012-Loki uses the cosmic cube in Avengers: Endgame, and escapes during the Avengers Time-Heist.
There’s a fair amount riding on Loki, as the MCU tries to cement their place as the essential big and small screen pop culture experience. We dig into the first episode of the six episode series, and talk all things gods of mischief, Time Variance Authority, and what the role of Loki might be in the MCU from here! [Read more…] about Loki on Disney Plus: Episode One Review & Theories!
I know The Walking Dead has its fans, but for my money, there is no better supersized run of Robert Kirkman comics than Invincible
Ritesh Babu: So, Jupiter’s Legacy, the first of the upcoming wave of Millarworld media works. The big launch of an IP-farm that Netflix spent 50 million on and bought, only to have Millar helm it and run it for them on top of that. This is his self-proclaimed masterpiece. His apparent magnum opus
*Spoilers for Jupiter’s Legacy Season One Follow!* [Content Warning: Discussion Of Sexual Assault]
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In the build to Falcon and the Winter Soldier, I talked a lot about the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s uncanny ability to merge influences. How – with the primary exception of Captain America: Winter Soldier – films are rarely a direct adaptation of one thing, and instead a merger of ideas, ultimately synthesizing to something new.
The end result is that I’ve rarely watched the MCU thinking too heavily about how “the comics did it better,” or falling back on the cliched evergreen truth: the book’s better than the movie. Mostly this is a testament to very strong storytelling, a remarkable blend of focus and quality control, and again, just enough remixing comic book influences to feel fresh on screen.
Falcon and The Winter Soldier is the most heavily I’ve felt the distractions of the source material. There are three distinct Marvel stories the TV series very openly pillages, and the one largely unique storyline – the post “blip” rise of the Flagsmashers – is so egregiously porous, that everything suffers. [Read more…] about Falcon and the Winter Soldier Review!