Short, non-spoiler version: I enjoyed it! Funny, entertaining, and I thought it handled Loki well, a more emotionally complex role than in Avengers but without brushing any of his actions under the rug. All in all, a very fun film and a good follow-up to the first Thor movie.

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Today I went to see the Thor movie, which marks my first comic book movie where I've actually read the source material first. While I was in town, I also stopped by the library to exchange a bunch of Marvel TPBs for some other ones, visited the comic shop to dig through the back issues for a specific Fantastic Four special, and bought a DVD of the ( Read more... )

Hello, LJ world. I am still alive, but I've been lurking in Marvel comics fandom lately, a lot of which is located in places other than livejournal.

So, in the (possibly over-optimistic) spirit of 'if you built it, they will come', I've finally got around to setting up a Doctor Doom fan community at doomfans. I've posted a master list of all the Doom ( Read more... )

So, what was I doing fandom-wise all last year? Well, mostly reading Marvel comics. I now seem to have moved on from following one or two characters on a casual basis to attempting to consume the entire history of the Marvel-verse. (Yes, I know this is not really technically feasible. And yet, here I still am.) I'm pretty sure I crossed some ( Read more... )

So, lately, I seem to be having a major resurgence of interest in the Marvel comicverse. Since I am broke like a broken thing, this mostly takes the shape of picking through the very, very random selection of trades available in my local library, then filling the gaps via intermittent train trips to the town half an hour away that has the Awesome ( Read more... )