The Power of a Skeptical Captain America by Sophie Gilbert

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From the first episode, in which Sam’s bank manager tried to place where he knew this telegenic Black man from (“Did you used to play for LSU?”), to the end, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier has wrestled with an idea: Who are superheroes for? And can a nationalist symbol be reclaimed ( Read more... )

 This one hits so fucking hard.

To know he did BP and other films while undergoing treatment for Stage 3 cancer. He knew what his work meant to us.

BP2 was still being written and wasn't going to be shot until next year. I had heard that BP3 was going to center around Shuri so I wonder if they'll move that up. I also spent an excess amount of time ( Read more... )

 It took two months to get through 13 episodes. A lot of the writing is repetitive and sloppy, like they knew they didn't have enough actual plot and so decided to make up for it with lots of characters repeating conversations to other characters, or having flashbacks to scenes we already knew about. That said, the final two episodes did a lot of ( Read more... )

I'm guaranteed to get in trouble for this, but like--I've gotten to the point where I genuinely believe that someone complaining about the Black Panther movie is a bad human.

It's bad enough to have a kung fu show with a superwhite white boy, but the level of BORIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING is inexcusable. At this point I bring something to read and make fun of it while Scott watches it. (Scott has patience. And is maybe a masochist.) 

WTH were Matt and Foggy doing during the Battle of NYC?

So Marvel has an anti-bullying campaign and as such is creating variant covers for the cause.

This one is my favorite:


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Real Life Proves Why Luke Cage Endures

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Luke Cage was created in 1972 ( Read more... )

Okay, so I was one of the people deeply dubious of James Gunn directing because of his problematic history with women characters. I sort of imagined that Joss Whedon had a sit down with him beforehand and was like, "Strong women or bust, minion!" and Gunn was all "Aye aye, sir!" In short, you know how women in the Marvel!verse tend to be awesome? ( Read more... )