Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
For many fans, Marvel’s “All New, All Different” relaunch has already been soured by controversy. The All New, All Different Marvel Comics universe will begin with a rollout of around 60 new titles starting in October. The plan is to revitalize old favorites while making the Marvel universe more accessible to new readers, including some…
Watching Fox’s Fantastic Four feels like taking a cheese grater to your soul. Why would you want to take something beautiful and precious and grind it up into flaccid, soggy pulp? It’s impossible to explain. ######## BEGIN SNIPPET ######## Maybe we should ask the people who made this dumpster fire dressed as a movie. That…
Based upon Marvel Comics’ most unconventional anti-hero, DEADPOOL tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts…
As marketing buzz grows about Ryan Reynolds’ upcoming Deadpool film, I’ve felt a perplexing mixture of excitement and dread. As any long-time fan of the Merc with a Mouth knows, adaptations of this unlikely hero have ranged wildly in quality. I happen to like his 2011 appearance in Marvel vs. Capcom 3, although I have to admit…
Ant-Man is, in almost every way, an oddity in the Marvel Studios canon. It’s the most standalone film Marvel has made since 2011’s first Captain America movie, not particularly concerned with how its characters fit into the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe (though it does tie in here and there). Unfortunately, it’s felled by almost all…
Marvel’s latest superhero movie, Ant-Man, is very well made. It has some good action and a few really clever bits. There are some funny parts, along with some not-that-funny parts. This movie pretty much gets the job done. But it’s not particularly memorable, or especially amazing. Minor spoilers ahead… In a sense, Ant-Man shows how…
Comic-Con may be over, but the superhero news keeps rolling in. EW has unveiled our first look at some of the characters in the upcoming X-Men: Apocalypse and, um, well they’re going with some really interesting looks here. OK, let’s break this down character by character. Oscar Isaac as Apocalypse What, just what? Who is that giant…
As San Diego Comic-Con begins, we also get our first superhero movie casting. First up, Marisa Tomei has been cast as Spider-Man’s new aunt, filling the role once held by Sally Field and Rosemary Harris. Um, does anyone see a pattern here? Marisa Tomei is currently 50. Sally Field was 66 when she played Aunt…
Whoa. We’ve been getting dribs and drabs of reveals for Marvel’s upcoming universal reboot over the past week, but it looks like the jackpot has just hit: Comics retailers across the world have received previews for 45(!) of Marvel’s new series, and it sounds like it’s a whole lot of crazy. The previews book leaked…
Marvel’s current mega-crossover has put one of its biggest villains in charge of everything. And the law enforcement officers making sure that Doctor Doom’s will gets obeyed are all Thor. All of them Thor; all of them cops. Thors #1—by Jason Aaron and Chris Sprouse—is a comic that digs deeper into one of Secret Wars’…