Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
There are so many damn superhero movies out there that it’s easy to feel like any movie pitch based on a comic book is automatically greenlit into a trilogy and corresponding spinoffs. However, that’s not actually the case — for every Spider-Man reboot, there are countless comic book adaptation projects that never made it past…
Spoiler alert: it’s a rom-com! “For Black Widow, falling in love can be hard, but it can also be … INCREDIBLE!” Cardigan-clad Scarlett Johansson, last night’s Saturday Night Live host, is a true hero for participating in this (probably depressingly accurate) sketch. [Via] core-decorated SNL Hilariously Skewers Marvel’s Idea Of “A Girl Superhero Movie”.
So Joss Whedon, TV cult hero and creator of the Buffyverse, has spent most of the last five years engaged in immensely lucrative struggle with a Marvel Comics mashup franchise. Toward what end, I am genuinely not sure. I have tried to take the question seriously: I went back and watched “The Avengers” again, and…
New Avengers currently has lots of neat stuff going on as part of the big “8 months later” gimmick Jonathan Hickman’s been working into his books, but ever since things kicked off, I’ve been distracted by something else. New Avengers #24 showed Namor thinking back to how he and his Cabal (which includes Thanos) wiped…
by Alex Zalben 4/21/2015There aren’t that many homosexual comic book characters. In fact, the dedicated Wikipedia page only lists 99 superheroes, from any publisher… That’s in comparison to Marvel Comics’ purported 5,000+ characters the publisher touted when they were bought by Disney back in 2009. And when you get to name brand, easily recognizable (read:…
Over the years, there’s been a steady rise of out gay superheroes in both Marvel and DC’s rosters — and now that number has grown a little larger, with the revelation in tomorrow’s All-New X-Men #40 that one of the founding members of the X-Men is gay. Spoilers, of course, for All-New X-Men #40 below!…
New details become known for the planned ABC Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. spinoff. Deadline reports the recent Season 2 cast additions of Adrianne Palicki and Nick Blood are finalizing deals to star in the new series. Blood and Palicki play the former husband and wife duo of Lance Hunter and Barbara “Bobbi” Morse, aka Mockingbird….
On Friday, Marvel released the first for four collaborations with Netflix, “Daredevil,” which follows the trials of a blind lawyer who fights for the rights of the downtrodden in courtrooms by day and back alleys by night. The series superficially resembles Christopher Nolan’s “Batman” trilogy, in that it presents a view of urban life whose…
When Captain America: The Winter Soldier came out, it seemed pretty obvious where its sequel was going: Steve Rogers would track down the Winter Soldier, A.K.A. Bucky Barnes. This would wrap up the arc of the trilogy, leaving things open for Barnes or Sam Wilson to take over as Captain America once Chris Evans’ six-movie…
In March, ComiXology had a buy one, get one free sale on Marvel titles, where you could literally buy any of the Marvel issues in their store. This morning they announced that, during that sale, seven out of the top ten comics sold were books with female heroes. Titles that did well include Thor, Silk, and Ms. Marvel….