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Marvel recently released the newest trailer to the upcoming Marvel movie, Avengers: Infinity War. The highly anticipated movie has fans wanting to know what will happen in this movie but it was said in this article from Screenrant that it will not follow the story that was in the original comics. Cast members of the […]
Comic books are not just around for entertainment. Most typically have their own type of political agenda as well. Back in the 1940’s, super hero comics showed the nazis and the Japanese as the villains. This is when Captain America was created. They used captain america as a way to gain support for the war […]
Before I begin, I think it’s worth acknowledging that disliking Black Panther (2018) lends me to a very unpopular opinion. Black Panther (2018) currently stands as Rotten Tomatoes’ best reviewed of all time, which makes any dissenting views quite the minority. That all being said, I stand by my opinion that Black Panther (2018) while […]
Which came first, Books or Movies? Stories have been told as long as language has been spoken. Tales have been shown first through reenactments and then later told through written means. However, the stories told through the reenactments were continuously lost or changed, it was not till writing, that the sorties remained the same, so […]
Introduction So, Black Panther, the lastest Marvel installment has been out for just around a month. It already has stellar reviews by fans and critics alike and has just recently reached over a billion dollars in box office. I’ve already outlined why marvel movies are inherently great but now I want to figure out why Black […]
My grandson, PJ is brilliant! There is no doubt about that. All someone has to do is spend some time with him and they can see how fantastic he is. Although he primarily likes to keep to himself – do his own thing – he has some favorite people and things that he loves, and […]
Modern comic books have been around since the 1930s. At first reprints of newspaper comic strips in book form, they became popular just before and during World War II with stories of superheroes with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men, and again in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Since the 1980s, […]
This would give me life. I grew up religiously watching The Golden Girls with my mom. Now I simply play it in the background of my life. It’s always on, putting some joy in my stressful college days. So, when I ran across this random article that talked about making The Golden Girls into a […]
Bitch Planet is a comic created by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro that follows the lives of female prisoners in a futuristic dystopia of sexism and oppression taken to the extreme. The ads within it parody 1950’s style, satirizing modern day sexism and reflecting the values and norms of the Bitch Planet universe […]